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[00:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03b [2121] (Score:2) 02Re:Does Not Sound Promising - 06Lack of Plasmodium Surface-Protein Blocks Mosquito Infection - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:50] <exec> 08└─P. falciparum and P. vivax only infect humans.
[00:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:04] <exec> 08└─We already KNEW that plants absorb CO2. We can conclude that healthy plant life will absorb a lot of CO2, and unhealthy plant life will not. More, it's easy to conclude from already known and pretty obvious facts that REFORESTATION would go a long, long, LONG way toward wiping CO2 out of the atmosph...
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[00:45:23] <exec> 08└─He's an "Openly Gay Olympic Fencer" Apparently that's an insult
[00:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''disposable test'' - 06Scientists Have Developed a Type of HIV Test On a USB Stick - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:10] <exec> 08└─Important datapoints missing from TFA: "Disposable test" implies single-use. First, what is the projected unit cost? Secondly, does it unrecoverably set the circuitry to "Used up" after 1 use? Next, can the device be chemically sterilized and reused? FTFA: the technology tested 991 blood samples wit...
[00:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe turn it into an income stream? - 06The Dutch Prison Crisis: a Shortage of Prisoners - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:41] <exec> 08└─First - define "slavery". No, this is NOT slavery. This is more like bond servitude. Bond servitude and slavery are remotely related, for sure, in that a person is deprived of some freedoms in either case. But, a bond servant has a lot more freedoms than either a slave, OR a person in prison. A bond...
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[00:49:54] <exec> 08└─I know plenty about Europe. I just disagree with your "Everything is on Merkel" myopic viewpoint. I guess you just have an affinity for certain portions of German history that share your xenophobic views and despise Merkel for not seeing things your way.
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[01:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02never again... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:40] <exec> 08└─They ditch android updates after only a few months of the Moto-E 4G, so a pox on their house. I jumped to a nexus. Of course, now I need to jump to a pixel. I'd get a fruity handset but I'm a penguinista and tools such as Kdeconnect are simply too useful! How hard can it be to recompile new code? Pe...
[01:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Positioning - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:41] <exec> 08└─As explained by Ries and Trout [quickmba.com] decades ago. "Lenovo" means PCs and server computing, so it will be hard for consumers to associate that name with phones. Yes Apple had a hit product with the Mac and ipod, but they really were a consumer focused company before the first iPhone was rele...
[01:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Does Not Sound Promising - 06Lack of Plasmodium Surface-Protein Blocks Mosquito Infection - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:51] <exec> 08└─No, they'd just need to inoculate enough of them. It's like all vaccines, you don't need 100% coverage, just *enough*. With enough coverage the cycle of transmission is broken. Of course, it's still a horrendous job.
[01:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''REFORESTATION'' - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:02] <exec> 08└─ISTM that life is incredibly opportunistic and, if forests -could- grow in the "empty" places, that would already be happening. If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say that the limiting factor in most places is availability of fresh water. ...and can the planting even keep up with the burning of rainfor...
[01:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''REFORESTATION'' - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:04] <exec> 08└─Mangroves? i've read a number of articles over the years, bemoaning the disappearance of mangrove swamplands along the coasts. Seesm that the lack of mangroves has made the death tolls from tsunamis higher than they would have been in the past. But, I think that man tends to cut down the mangroves,...
[01:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:06] <exec> 08└─We already KNEW that plants absorb CO2. We can conclude that healthy plant life will absorb a lot of CO2, and unhealthy plant life will not. More, it's easy to conclude from already known and pretty obvious facts that REFORESTATION would go a long, long, LONG way toward wiping CO2 out of the atmosph...
[01:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow - 06Exotic Property of Salty Solutions Discovered - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm out of juice.
[01:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SeaSalts - 06Exotic Property of Salty Solutions Discovered - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:17] <exec> 08└─Magnesium Sulphate: wasn't that what we used to put in the tractor tires for more traction? Or was that calcium sulfate? Epsom's Salts? What kind of Trump voters do they have on these moons, anyway?
[01:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:42] <exec> 08└─Scouting was banned under the Nazis. [blogspot.com]
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[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:never again... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─That's a great idea, actually. Also, yes, KDEConnect is awesome.
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:never again... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:48] <exec> 08└─My 2014 Moto G went from KitKat to Marshmellow, not bad for a mid-range. Oh and also CyanogenMod nightlies are already on Nougat 7.1.
[02:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:never again... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:50] <exec> 08└─They ditch android updates after only a few months of the Moto-E 4G, so a pox on their house.
[02:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:never again... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:52] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be to recompile new code?
[02:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just the *Evidence*, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:11] <exec> 08└─For someone who claims to care about facts, you seem remarkably obsessed with what some straw man version of me is going to say rather than what your alleged facts are. These findings don't really say much, these plants will release the absorbed CO2 once they die and decay, so at best its only a CO2...
[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Just the Facts, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:12] <exec> 08└─Also, look at where it was published, a pay-to-publish journal that looks like it's trying to piggyback its name off Nature...
[02:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:SeaSalts - 06Exotic Property of Salty Solutions Discovered - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:27] <exec> 08└─Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate.
[02:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not very accurate - 06Scientists Have Developed a Type of HIV Test On a USB Stick - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:26] <exec> 08└─From TFA: In the latest research, the technology tested 991 blood samples with 95 per cent accuracy. The average time to produce a result was 20.8 minutes.
[02:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Smart - 06General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Michigan - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─It's OK, Fuehrer Trump will reverse all this when he comes into power.
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:necessity - 06General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Michigan - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:02] <exec> 08└─Millions managed to immigrate to the United States, when they were allowed to. Indeed, millions have immigrated there in spite of it being forbidden.
[02:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear Leader - 06General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Michigan - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─This just sounds like GM being slightly smart for a change. Note that they are reducing the plants from 3 shifts to 2 shifts, not closing them down. Given the thousands of GM cars (and trucks) parked in the back of a nearby mall and other places around here, it's about time that GM started cutting b...
[02:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong? - 06Regulation of the Internet of Things - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:54] <exec> 08└─Oh that is all true. HOWEVER, my point was do not put too much stock into stickers that say 'gov approved'. Like a gallon of milk they eventually expire. They will get old and out of date very quickly. The market (legal, grey, and illegal) will take care of that. Not in a good way either. Take for e...
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[03:44:46] <exec> 08└─...as evidenced by Trump water, Trump vodka, Trump wine, Trump Steaks, Trump University and Trump Air?
[03:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:10] <exec> 08└─Actually.... http://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[03:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:SeaSalts - 06Exotic Property of Salty Solutions Discovered - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:21] <exec> 08└─Calcium sulphate in the tractor tires, and Epsom Salts are magnesium sulfate.
[03:50:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Cautious optimism called for here - 06The Dutch Prison Crisis: a Shortage of Prisoners - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:05] <exec> 08└─This was a story in the media so there is propaganda involved. They weasel around coming out and admitting a big driver in falling crime rates is a police dept too overstressed to even take a report in many cases. And I'm sure they are getting their share of Mad Merkel's new 'Europeans' who will be...
[03:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Cautious optimism called for here - 06The Dutch Prison Crisis: a Shortage of Prisoners - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:08] <exec> 08└─> The level of trust in the mass media has been declining toward the basement with Congresscritters WTF does that even mean. Stop with the nonsense and speak fucking English, motherfucker. This is not a game. If you can't be honest with yourself, how can I expect to have dialogue with you? > They ar...
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[03:50:11] <exec> 08└─First and foremost: If you are a racist, then yeah, Shut The Fuck Up. Hate to break it to you, but If you align with Trump's movement then you are a racist by association. If that doesn't make sense to you, god help us all. >rioting, looting and pillaging. That is of course deemed 'legitimate expres...
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[04:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Just the Facts, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:31] <exec> 08└─Don't shoot the messenger.
[04:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:37] <exec> 08└─"Reforest the Sahara, and billions of plants will work round the clock to clean our air. All we need are a few nuke plants to generate electricity to purify seawater, then pump that seawater into the interior of the continent." Or just wait. It only takes a few degrees increase in global temperature...
[04:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:39] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't bamboo be best? Grows a lot faster and would replace a lot demand for trees.
[04:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow - 06Exotic Property of Salty Solutions Discovered - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:49] <exec> 08└─They had a lot of solution to test with after Trump grabbed it from Hillary's salty pussy.
[04:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Grammar - 06The Status of Linux Kernel Hardening - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:29] <exec> 08└─"applications run"
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[05:44:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we need a proper law stating that hardware must be maintained indefintely, when the source code is not published.
[05:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe turn it into an income stream? - 06The Dutch Prison Crisis: a Shortage of Prisoners - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:50:19] <exec> 08└─Community service is generally not free; there is a fee or per-hour charge, and it can be fairly stiff, several hundred dollars if not more.
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[06:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just the *Evidence*, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:25] <exec> 08└─Hey look, right on time with his callow sophistry and zero citations for his 'facts.'
[06:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just the Facts, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:29] <exec> 08└─> Also, look at where it was published, a pay-to-publish journal that looks like it's trying to piggyback its name off Nature... Its not just "piggybacking" it is a digital-only, open-access spin-off of Nature. According to Wired, its top quality. [wired.co.uk] Third highest rated behind only Nature...
[06:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:"It will bring great disruption to our economy. - 06Lisbon's Web Summit: AI Not Without a Dark Side - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:06] <exec> 08└─If you thought poor migrants were a problem: just wait until the (now) automated jobs don't materialize after president Trump closes the borders.
[06:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Government regulation is the only way - 06Regulation of the Internet of Things - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:35] <exec> 08└─I think many hear make the mistake that "regulation" would entail laws dictating coding practices and hardware design. That is not needed.
[06:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the CPU? - 06Regulation of the Internet of Things - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:54] <exec> 08└─The code still has to be bug-free: even with read-only memory. Computer Scientists Take Over [ucsd.edu] Electronic Voting Machine with New Programming Technique TL;DR: They invent an new programming technique called "return oriented programming". The use the tail-ends of subroutines to built up a tu...
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[07:45:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, OK, so it's not one of Springer's shovelware publications. It's always a bit hard to tell what you're getting there...
[07:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Imperfect isn't false - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:40] <exec> 08└─They don't know what's going on, and most of their predictions are just educated guesses. Everytime a guess proves to be inaccurate, they are left grasping at straws to explain WHY.
[07:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:26] <exec> 08└─That's because scouts come from Christian families from backgrounds ranging from middle-class suburban to wealthy. Of course they're gonna have good mental health, they don't have to worry about how much longer their family can afford that apartment or being beaten up at school or on the streets for...
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[08:44:31] <exec> 08└─HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome One is a virus, the other a syndrome. Of course HIV virus would be saying Human Immunodeficiency Virus Virus. Anyhow, this mildly annoys me sometimes.
[08:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Open the code or suffer standard product liabil - 06Regulation of the Internet of Things - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:47] <exec> 08└─I agree entirely that a standard that requires best security practices is required, complete with sanctions when breached. Bugs happen, so the vendor should have a chance to make good through a firmware update, product recall, etc., but the possibility of fines and having all products banned from th...
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[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─Waiting is rather irresponsible when the Sahara is expanding, largely due to destructive agricultural practices. Starting on a plan of reforestation with both passive (air wells, gabions, wind abatement etc.) and active systems (desalination, importing organic material etc.) is the quickest, smartes...
[09:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Yours is a Short-Sighted View - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 2100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:33] <exec> 08└─EF - if you look closely, you'll see that the study was conducted in the UK. Scouting has been far more ethnically/racially diverse in the UK than it appears, according to your statements, to have been in the US. So your claim that it is because of a 'Christian' background is bullshit in this parti...
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[09:47:43] <exec> 08└─Well, we can start with the TN visas which are not reciprocal as far as I know http://www.visalawyerblog.com [visalawyerblog.com] and maquiladoras, which essentially give companies with large capital the benefits of US society without bearing much of the co...
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[09:50:09] <exec> 08└─I thought the Z80 was a Von Neumann chip. From your link: “We overwrote the computer’s memory and state so it does what we want it to do, but if you shut off the machine and reboot from ROM, the exploit is gone and the machine returns to its original behavior,” explained Checkoway. This would...
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[10:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just the *Evidence*, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:53] <exec> 08└─Hey look, right on time with his callow sophistry and zero citations for his 'facts.'
[10:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:07] <exec> 08└─That would be nice for the short term... but have you ever planted bamboo in your garden... I guess not, else you would know that it would become an invasive species. Bamboo is hard to get rid of afterwards.
[10:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:09] <exec> 08└─Let's plant trees, people. Let's plant grasses and bushes. Reforest the Sahara, and billions of plants will work round the clock to clean our air. All we need are a few nuke plants to generate electricity to purify seawater, then pump that seawater into the interior of the continent.
[10:46:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Duh - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:43] <exec> 08└─That's because scouts come from Christian families from backgrounds ranging from middle-class suburban to wealthy. Of course they're gonna have good mental health, they don't have to worry about how much longer their family can afford that apartment or being beaten up at school or on the streets for...
[10:48:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02Re:Good luck. - 06The Status of Linux Kernel Hardening - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:56] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, man. You'll have zero users, and you'll deserve to have zero users.
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[11:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fake - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:36] <exec> 08└─Soros is trying to create trouble because his cronies were replaced with a bunch of other cronies.
[11:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:37] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Canada needs to build a wall to keep out waves of illegal immigrants trying to escape their dysfunctional government to seek a better life in the North.
[11:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:40] <exec> 08└─http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/bricking-it-for-canada-1.3479184 [www.cbc.ca]
[11:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:42] <exec> 08└─It would probably be cheaper for Canada to invade the US, depose the ruling class and annex the country. That would also make the southern wall obsolete.
[11:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Positioning - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:27] <exec> 08└─...as evidenced by Trump water, Trump vodka, Trump wine, Trump Steaks, Trump University and Trump Air?
[11:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Just the *Evidence*, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:49] <exec> 08└─Why assume without evidence that the additional disappearing CO2 will only move into buffers not into these existing sinks?
[11:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Just the Facts, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:53] <exec> 08└─Don't shoot the messenger.
[11:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ocean ph - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:58] <exec> 08└─this attempt to make is seem as if anthropogenic co2 isn't a problem is disheartening.
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[12:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:47] <exec> 08└─Canada to invade the US, depose the ruling class and annex the country That's called "spreading democracy". Democracy is usually spread on countries that have oil - and the US has a lot of it. Also, Canada could come up with a pretty convincing file on US WMDs at the United Nations. So yeah, I'd say...
[12:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02It's always the same - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:49] <exec> 08└─At each election, there's a bunch of vocal people who threaten to leave the US. Then there's a spike of visitors to various countries' immigration websites around or immediately after the election results, indicating that a whole lot of people are thinking of leaving the US. But in the end, it's all...
[12:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:51] <exec> 08└─so sick of chickenshit, chicken littles who cry the sky is falling when their sparkle pony poops... to all the celebutards who 'promised' to leave the country if t-rump won, PLEASE do so, i will not miss your misguided, authoritarian identity politics one whit... the wailing, gnashing of teeth and -...
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[12:44:59] <exec> 08└─... to genetically engineered sharks with lasers...
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[13:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:41] <exec> 08└─Per the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography the majority of the child pornography produced is by the US government. It's not like tactics changed with a new medium. And so we are left with the government doing some skeezy things to catch skeezy people, the government focusing more on...
[13:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:42] <exec> 08└─Merely looking at or possessing something--regardless of what it is--should not be a crime. For one thing, laws that punish people who possess something make it far too easy to frame them (cops sometimes plant drugs, for example), and this is especially true when it comes to data on easily-exploitab...
[13:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:It's always the same - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:56] <exec> 08└─The funny part is the folks threatening to leave have a major policy goal of increasing illegal immigration... if you're consistent enough to leave, they should be illegals in Canada, just sneak across the border...
[13:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:58] <exec> 08└─How come these fuckers have no interest in going to Mexico? Their dollars would stretch much further. But no, Mexicans are brown. Let's go to the white country.
[13:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coral reefs do not believe you :) - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:19] <exec> 08└─http://phys.org/news/2015-11-acidity-coral-reefs.html [phys.org]
[13:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Yours is a Short-Sighted View - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:14] <exec> 08└─gave them an opportunity to take part in activities that they would not have otherwise been able to do
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[14:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:44] <exec> 08└─Is this why Sarah Butts hasn't been arrested yet?
[14:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:57] <exec> 08└─They need to build a Maginot Line. Fleeing to Canada make as much sense as fleeing to France before WW2.
[14:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:01] <exec> 08└─Go fuck yourself.
[14:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:03] <exec> 08└─There is so much intentional misspelling here I don't even know if I should make a poe joke or not.
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02undeterred - 06Computers Made of Genetic Material? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─There are already computers made of genetic material, meatbags, those are your brains. Now, keep in mind that some million of brains decided that the #1 superpower should be ruled by either Trump or Hillary. It is apparent some structural problems are to be addressed before attempting to copy nature...
[14:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just the *Evidence*, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:14] <exec> 08└─Because, our dear and fluffy khallow, you did not provide any citations of any scientific studies that would suggest any such thing.
[14:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:13] <exec> 08└─So you admit to having small hands.
[14:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C !=C - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─Looks like you're not wary enough about the social sciences. For one thing, this is but one study; it hasn't been significantly replicated and there's no real scientific consensus about this matter. Secondly, studying subjective things like "mental health" is extremely prone to error and bias, and t...
[14:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Camping, hiking, outdoor stuff - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:33] <exec> 08└─Will a canoeing merit badge count in my favor when I emigrate to Canada?
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[15:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:53] <exec> 08└─For a long time the official line was homosexuals were also pedophiles. Now that we know that being gay can't "be cured" when are we going to shift from uselessly locking these men in cages and focus on harm minimization? Isn't pedophilia just another orientation?
[15:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:54] <exec> 08└─Per the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography the majority of the child pornography produced is by the US government.
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:09] <exec> 08└─With what? Threaten them we'll have our CF-18s fly over there and lose parts over the country?
[15:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:18] <exec> 08└─They just want donuts.
[15:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:20] <exec> 08└─Can you even comprehend the raw size of Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve? They'll be the world empire after Trumpageddon.
[15:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Yours is a Short-Sighted View - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:33] <exec> 08└─Very true, I certainly don't think that youth organisations can fix all of the problems. Equally, we haven't got solutions for many of the problems that exist among adults today, in which case it is unlikely that we can do much to address them in earlier years.
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[16:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:51] <exec> 08└─As anonymity and encryption techniques get better and better, going after mere viewers of child porn will become increasingly expensive and fruitless.
[16:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:53] <exec> 08└─That's because it's easier to throw "nobody"* pedophiles at the mob to satisfy their anger than to actually stop "real" crimes (e.g. arrest the people who actually raped those kids or took advantage of them, or actually fix major issues with the country). Normal folk masturbating to normal porn seem...
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─It is produced by the government? Not just distributed? I doubt that.
[16:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:58] <exec> 08└─Per the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography the majority of the child pornography produced is by the US government.
[16:45:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] 02i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 1029 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:15] <exec> 08└─so sick of chickenshit, chicken littles who cry the sky is falling when their sparkle pony poops... to all the celebutards who 'promised' to leave the country if t-rump won, PLEASE do so, i will not miss your misguided, authoritarian identity politics one whit... the wailing, gnashing of teeth and -...
[16:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:22] <exec> 08└─If you really think the main difference between Canada and Mexico is skin colour, there may be a place for you in the Trump administration. Among the immigrants to Mexico, more come from the United States than from any other country. More Americans live in Mexico than in any other country outside th...
[16:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why can't I just buy... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:10] <exec> 08└─a handheld standardized wintel or winarm PC with Linux, a removable cellular and wifi modem and a VoIP client?
[16:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Life lessons from Scouts - 06Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─It varies widely depending on who your scoutmaster is. The first i had took us camping and taught us those outdoor skills i retain to this day. The second was a woman who wanted us to do arts & crafts and bake. I lasted four weeks with her before i walked away.
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[16:49:02] <exec> 08└─Do not invoke "veteran's day" so self-sanctimoniously. What have you ever done? If you like veterans so much, tell me, how much do you give them when they are holding up their sign on the intersection? If we, as a nation, hold our veterans in such high regard, why do they even have to stand at the i...
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[17:44:43] <exec> 08└─No comment needed.
[17:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe articles full of formulas are not as well written and thus not as highly cited? Correlation =/= causation.
[17:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:47] <exec> 08└─The obvious thing to note here is that mathematics is far harder to read than normal written language. A math-dense paper takes longer and is less understood than a paper with significant prose portions to it. That's why most good math papers, no matter what field they come from, tend to a good most...
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[17:45:00] <exec> 08└─> The instrument reached its full field of 36 tesla Tuesday afternoon That's when I lost the keys of the car. Coincidence?
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─What i'm wondering is, how much money is the FBI making from running all these sights? Is it worth it for them to 'arrest the pedo's', or keep expanding the field to make more money? I'm all for keeping kids from getting hurt or abused: are they really shutting down pedos or is it a money maker? Ser...
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─You've never met our government.
[17:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:18] <exec> 08└─Without evidence to the contrary or supporting it, I imagine the law's definition of producing is the same today for making a digital copy and serving it to a client as it was decades ago for photocopying a picture and handing it to someone. By that definition viewing could be construed as producing...
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─News item: Canada has acquired a uranium-filled bomb "bigger than a king-size bed." Fear it! http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─With what?
[17:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's always the same - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:41] <exec> 08└─Actually, we're going to immigrate to Canada legally and then sneak back into the US just to screw with the illegal immigrant numbers.
[17:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping that if there is a 'mass immigration', that we get good people: yes, leave the 'celebutards' down there where they can play with all the money they've made and cry over Hillary losing. Send us your bright, your good, your huddled but great masses. Leave celebrities down there. Oh, and you...
[17:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:48] <exec> 08└─Where is the "-1 Opiated Ramblings" moderation when you need it?
[17:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Why can't I just buy... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:42] <exec> 08└─The PocketCHIP is an ARM-based hand-held computer running Linux, and it has a USB port. /article.pl?sid=16/09/01/0210202 [soylentnews.org] http://www.cnx-software.com [cnx-software.com] On another Web forum, people discussed using it i...
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956> We already KNEW that plants absorb CO2. Anonymous Coward> One, who is this "we" that Runaway keeps referring to? In the Wichita Falls (Texas) Independent School District, the topic is taught to fifth-grade students. http://www.wfisd.net
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─All we need are a few nuke plants to generate electricity to purify seawater, then pump that seawater into the interior of the continent.
[17:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:save - 06General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Michigan - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:37] <exec> 08└─The ones standing in the intersection holding signs that say "need money to feed my kids" are not veterans, but are professional beggars that drive new cars and own a house. Already proven by local news stations following them around with video cameras. I'm all for veterans getting better support th...
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[18:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gayniggers are the Master Race - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:37] <exec> 08└─Proven, dark skin is superior. Bend over and take the Holy Phallus!
[18:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gayniggers are the Master Race - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:39] <exec> 08└─It only works with a small amount of melanin because foam is racist.
[18:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe articles full of formulas are not as well written and thus not as highly cited?
[18:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:51] <exec> 08└─No, because he merely listed an alternative possibility to demonstrate a point. He didn't write a serious scientific paper and then reach a potentially faulty conclusion.
[18:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─agreed. And for those of us with fluid maths reading skill, finding mistakes first is the usual way of reading - Does the logical derivation fit "the rules". Then "do the assumptions apply". But it depends on the mathematics - derivations of number theory proofs take some concentration. Differential...
[18:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:56] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that the majority of physicists lack the math skills to understand their own field. Got it.
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:59] <exec> 08└─Well, programmers who write code similar to how math is usually written are called shitty programmers for producing nigh unreadable, difficult-to-maintain code. It's possible to understand it, but it's an unnecessary waste of time. It's laziness at its finest, but the tradition would be too hard to...
[18:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:01] <exec> 08└─Idiot: "Teacher! Will we ever use any of this algebra?" Teacher: "You won't, but one of the smart kids might." http://www.smbc-comics.com [smbc-comics.com]
[18:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02too many stories about U.S. election - 06Susceptibility to a Flu Determined by Your Very First Virus Encounter - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─But if you were first infected with a virus from the 'blue lollipop' group as kid, that won't protect you against this novel, 'orange' strain."
[18:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02If your first flu exposure is a vaccine... - 06Susceptibility to a Flu Determined by Your Very First Virus Encounter - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this means you have improved immunity to neither?
[18:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02huge room for improvement - 06National MagLab Racks Up New World Record With Hybrid Magnet - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─Continuous magnetic field strength is one of the hardest physical parameters to improve. It is sobering to realize that it is possible to buy in the mail a cheap permanent magnet with field strength at room temperature (~1.5 Tesla) which is roughly 25 times weaker than the best magnetic field streng...
[18:46:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02Re:never again... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:49] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be to recompile new code?
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[19:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:54] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that he put forth a completely unresearched, unsupported, and therefore not relevant point to try to discredit a properly researched and written paper. We could invalidate ANY scientific paper ever written if we want to accept that slipshod logic.
[19:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:00] <exec> 08└─So using math in a math-heavy field is lazy. Man, there are a ton of lazy fucks in the field of pure mathematics then. thanks for clearing that up.
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:03] <exec> 08└─Because God forbid we expose children to things that are difficult for them to learn.
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig quote - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have...
[19:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh. - 06Susceptibility to a Flu Determined by Your Very First Virus Encounter - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:15] <exec> 08└─Being ill as a child is necessary to not be ill later. News at 11, people.
[19:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Susceptibility to a Flu Determined by Your Very First Virus Encounter - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:17] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I let my kids play in the dirt, get sick from others, etc. It sounds like bad parenting, but it builds their immune system early in life. They very rarely get sick now that they're grown up, unlike other parents that keep their kids in a sterile environment and wonder why they get sick so o...
[19:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:43] <exec> 08└─"Produced" in the 70s sense would have been printing pictures/films as well as distribution. The report, theoretically, is still available, but keep in mind some people were prosecuted at the the time for having a copy (the history of that is interesting and worth reading).
[19:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Surprise! Canada enforces immigration laws - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─And unlike the US, if you want permanent residency you either have to be a legitimate political refugee, or else have skills and money to contribute to the society.
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Now a step closer... - 06First Random Laser Made of Paper-Based Ceramics - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─TFA describes a random laser - totally the wrong type of laser for sharks. I think you'll find that you need a frickin' laser for squaloid compatibility.
[19:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:47] <exec> 08└─Bamboo, hemp, uhhhh - what's that other plant they make paper from - dang it, there's a plantation not far from me, and I can't remember what the plant is. It's very much like bamboo. Not papyrus, I believe that requires a very wet environment, but that would work if we pumped enough water int...
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Imperfect isn't false - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:49] <exec> 08└─"predictions have been pretty accurate" Oh, that's right - the hocky puck chart. Yeah, to bad that New York city is now under six feet of water. Lucky for the natives that their dwellings were built more than six feet high.
[19:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Stating the obvious - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:53] <exec> 08└─Apparently, you're not even ten years old. The Sahara is almost all man made. We did that. We cut the trees down, we used extremely poor farming practices, we over grazed the land with sheeps and goats. Man did all of that. Just as man has begun to destroy the desert in Arizona with crap farming pra...
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[20:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Milk and Honey - 06Team Maps Genome of Black Blow Fly; May Benefit Human Health, Advance Pest Management - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:46] <exec> 08└─Further the holy cause of American torture! The intended victim was stripped naked and then firmly fastened within the interior space of two narrow rowing boats (or hollowed-out tree trunks) joined together one on top of the other with the head, hands and feet protruding. The condemned was forced to...
[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:07] <exec> 08└─He put forth a possible hypothesis, the basis of science. This isn't a scientifically rigorous blog and so everything is going to be OK. It's not going to be the end of the world. Do I need to tuck you in too?
[20:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─The general lack of numeracy , allows politicians to be hoodwinked by unknown statistics... On the contrary, they rely on the general public's innumeracy. Example: Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner's charge that "the average state worker makes $60,000 per year" whenhe was running for office. Accurate,...
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:15] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that the majority of physicists lack the math skills to understand their own field. Got it.
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:20] <exec> 08└─Studies show 5-12 y/o have very limited capacity to comprehend math. What they do well at those ages is rote memorization. As such, if one were to optimize the curriculum, those early years could be better spent learning an extra language or two, and maybe a musical instrument if they're so inclined...
[20:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig quote - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:23] <exec> 08└─And those who depend only on numbers for their reality miss a significant portion of the human existence. They don't even realize when their numbers are hindering themselves... Although hey, for hard sciences that quote holds up pretty well, but when you get far enough along it breaks down again...
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oblig quote - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:25] <exec> 08└─And those who depend only on numbers for their reality miss a significant portion of the human existence. They don't even realize when their numbers are hindering themselves...
[20:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reliance on Maths indicative of flawed science - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:27] <exec> 08└─For me, the problem is that very abstract maths is contrary to the reductionist approach that has been very successful in modern physics. Even the hardest theories, like general relativity and quantum field theory, only have a small dose of tensor algebra as the hardest thing. If a theory is highly...
[20:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:29] <exec> 08└─Not all of them. Isaac Asimov was a biochemist and wrote a book called "Asimov on Numbers". However, one chapter in that book showed WHY scientists fear math--even the best get it wrong. One chapter in Asimov's book, "A Piece of Pi" got the math right, but he treated a three dimentional object--a bi...
[20:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Physicist Barbie says - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:31] <exec> 08└─Math is hard
[20:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─Now there is a sticky issue. I would contend that pedophilia is the result of abuse or unnatural prohibition against sexual thoughts growing up. I've heard of gay animals, but I've never heard of pedophile animals... Seems more like a mental health issue and not a statistically low natural phenomeno...
[20:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:02] <exec> 08└─Our media pumps this shit out all the time. Every TV show with some form of law enforcement ALWAYS crosses the legal line to "save the day". There has been an uptick in torture, illegal search and seizure, and surveillance at least in the US media. The abuses (potential and real) of the criminal jus...
[20:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:06] <exec> 08└─I forget the book or the congressman (it was in the 80s. Give me a break), but he had served on a few committees before he left government in disgust. One of the things he had pointed out is that even if the CIA were completely defunded, they would still have enough revenues from their operations to...
[20:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─Canada to invade the US, depose the ruling class and annex the country That's called "spreading democracy". Democracy is usually spread on countries that have oil - and the US has a lot of it. Also, Canada could come up with a pretty convincing file on US WMDs at the United Nations. So yeah, I'd say...
[20:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─Careful; they are famous for burning down the White house. http://www.smithsonianmag.com [smithsonianmag.com]
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprise! Canada enforces immigration laws - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:45] <exec> 08└─if you want permanent residency you either have to be a legitimate political refugee
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Trump Train! - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─Choo! Choo!
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[21:44:41] <exec> 08└─Elementary, Watson. It was teatime, and probably chocolate was in short supply.
[21:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Milk and Honey - 06Team Maps Genome of Black Blow Fly; May Benefit Human Health, Advance Pest Management - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:42] <exec> 08└─Tell me more...
[21:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02My thoughts - 06Team Maps Genome of Black Blow Fly; May Benefit Human Health, Advance Pest Management - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:44] <exec> 08└─If I had to choose between having a psychiatrist treat me or maggots I swear to whatever I'd choose the maggots. No offense :)
[21:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Gayniggers are the Master Race - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's a bit harsh. The foam only voted for Trump because of his economic policies.
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that he put forth a completely unresearched, unsupported, and therefore not relevant point to try to discredit a properly researched and written paper. We could invalidate ANY scientific paper ever written if we want to accept that slipshod logic. You're telling me that's n...
[21:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that he put forth a completely unresearched, unsupported, and therefore not relevant point
[21:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─So using math in a math-heavy field is lazy. Man, there are a ton of lazy fucks in the field of pure mathematics then.
[21:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─So, in school, I spent about 10-20% of my time in math and math heavy coursework, learned some cool stuff, then graduated and went to work in bio-informatics analysis software development, which is more or less where I've been since 1990. In this relatively math-heavy line of work, I break out the h...
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:23] <exec> 08└─I reject your claim; it is usually the mathematics that clarifies the blathering prose.
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─Whether or not it's audible I'm not sure , but at a 44k sampling rate, a 17kHz tone has only three samples. With only three samples it's impossible to discern the difference between a sine wave and a saw tooth wave. I always propose getting a bunch of teenagers and use analog equipment to generate a...
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─What about a square wave?
[21:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:38] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. Nyqvist is all about sampling sine waves, so sawtooth/square waves are irrelevant in the context of digital sampling. The reconstruction filter is sinc (or approximating sinc), so you'll get a sine wave back out irrespective of what goes in. If you want to reconstruct or at least...
[21:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:40] <exec> 08└─Not all of them.
[21:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physicist Barbie says - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:43] <exec> 08└─So is Ken.
[21:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nb: this is hard - 06National MagLab Racks Up New World Record With Hybrid Magnet - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:01] <exec> 08└─Getting fields like this is really hard - requires huge advances in superconducting technology! But the High Temperature superconductors have potential to go even higher, like 100 T...
[21:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:38] <exec> 08└─In the UK, we might consider welcoming the US back into the commonwealth, if they were sufficiently apologetic for the interregnum.
[21:46:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:52] <exec> 08└─How come these fuckers have no interest in going to Mexico? Their dollars would stretch much further. But no, Mexicans are brown. Let's go to the white country.
[21:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02thanks - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─thanks for the reminder that lenovo bought motorola. now i can be sure and not buy one of those. fool me once...boycotted for life.
[21:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Loved my thinkpad - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:52] <exec> 08└─Loved my thinkpad... so so for my first lenovo... second lenovo needed to be replaced after two years.
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[22:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Ancylostoma duodenale - 06Ultrafast Slow-Motion Microscope Sees a Single Molecule Vibrate - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─The genome of Ancylostoma duodenale, the less common of two species of hookworms that infect humans, has also been fully sequenced. [nature.com] Hookworms and blowflies, anyone?
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ancylostoma duodenale - 06Team Maps Genome of Black Blow Fly; May Benefit Human Health, Advance Pest Management - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:03] <exec> 08└─The genome of Ancylostoma duodenale, the less common of two species of hookworms that infect humans, has also been fully sequenced. [nature.com] Hookworms and blowflies, anyone?
[22:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In China... - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:14] <exec> 08└─...they put melamine in milk, to make their people strong.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:38] <exec> 08└─If you worked for ID and you asked Carmack to explain his fast inverse square root [wikipedia.org] in his code comments, the whole shop would have laughed your ass right out the door. float Q_rsqrt( float number ) { long i; float x2, y; const float threehalfs = 1....
[22:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:42] <exec> 08└─You can reject whatever you'd like. I'll just note that I didn't say anything about excising math from a math paper, but merely talked about some techniques to make the paper more readable.
[22:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:45] <exec> 08└─That's really not true. Mathematics is much more precise when it comes to describing things than English is. What's more, since many people in physics are not native English speakers, using math is preferable as that's something that they've all got in common. If you want to describe the motion of p...
[22:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:50] <exec> 08└─I am now a math retard, but once upon a time I was 2 grades ahead in math and learning imaginary numbers -- and how those were taught remains to this day one of my largest pet-peeves. First of all, they're not "imaginary" because they're used every day (particularly where I work). Perhaps I'm biased...
[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with younger people is that they don't understand why learning that stuff is so important, and it is a tedious grind in the context of passing a math class. Sometimes people just have to wait until they're ready to learn on their own terms. It doesn't help that a lot of math teachers are...
[22:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliance on Maths indicative of flawed science - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:58] <exec> 08└─On the flipside, if you present things too simply, you're also probably wrong.
[22:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─The next harmonic for a square wave would be at 34 kHz. So if you can hear that high a frequency, you would hear some sort of difference. It's worth noting here that 17 kHz is near or past the edge of most normal human hearing.
[22:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Communication - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:09] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with mathematical equations. But the point of scientific research is to communicate ideas, and often a graph or other visualisation of an equation can greatly help understand what's going on in addition to equations. A paper which is nothing but dense equations is vastly less r...
[22:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Canada needs to build a wall to keep out waves of illegal immigrants trying to escape their dysfunctional government to seek a better life in the North.
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:17] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews comments are the opiate of the, . . . um, of the, . . . OK, I got nothing.
[22:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:18] <exec> 08└─Sad that this trash talk is modded so high, but ok. Canada is just nice, with a less densely population than the southern border and a lower crime rate than most alternatives in North America. Given the coming rise in global temperature (which some believe is true), it is also a wiser choice for...
[22:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:25] <exec> 08└─Because when it comes down to it, they understand why Trump wants a wall. The left concedes this fact in their virtue signaling without even realizing it. The left is also the biggest contributor to the drug empires crippling mexico and central america. They need to switch it around, legalize the ma...
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[23:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:39] <exec> 08└─I have no problems with them running their business the way they see fit, as long as the communication is above board. It's not like we have no alternative source for these items. I'm not a prime member - I always try to buy enough to qualify for free shipping, and then wait for it to arrive.
[23:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:41] <exec> 08└─It's just another game to play. Back in the day you'd look on Amazon for a Tommy Gunn Penis Extender [amazon.com] and the price would be 40 bucks. But if you continued looking, you could find the exact same product for 20. Now (according to that link) it's a little over ten, and well worth the inves...
[23:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:43] <exec> 08└─Prime 2-day shipping has always been to my door. Not the post office. And I question your appraisal of your SSD research as wasted. If you're in the market for an SSD then you research them no matter where you buy them from. With respect to "exclusive" items the market will respond to demand. If I h...
[23:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Nonsense. - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:45] <exec> 08└─The anonymous poster assumes that Amazon is the only place you can buy an SSD. Guess what? THEY AREN'T THE WORLD'S ONLY STORE. It makes me think of an illustrator I met at Worldcon who asked me to review a book he had illustrated at Amazon. It already had thirty reviews, so I went to B&N. Not a sing...
[23:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nonsense. - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:47] <exec> 08└─The anonymous poster assumes that Amazon is the only place you can buy an SSD from Amazon.
[23:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Please don't cry - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:49] <exec> 08└─What is your main gripe here? You can't use another free trial like in the AOL days? If you enjoyed the perks, maybe you should become a member. This is no different than Costco membership. Sorry but no one is compelled to sell you anything at a below margin price reserved to members.
[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Costco, Sam’s Club, Etc - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─This is just the same as any other member only business. If you don’t want to be a member shop at another store.
[23:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Pics or it didn't happen - 06Ultrafast Slow-Motion Microscope Sees a Single Molecule Vibrate - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:00] <exec> 08└─Did I miss them? Other than that render on the link.
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blow back fly! - 06Team Maps Genome of Black Blow Fly; May Benefit Human Health, Advance Pest Management - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─As Kermit said, "Time's fun when you're having flies!" Kermit the Frog, not Kermit Roosevelt, of the CIA, what overthrew an elected government. That fly really blew back! Hooo boy!
[23:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Gayniggers are the Master Race - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:23] <exec> 08└─Black people are physically superior to white people. It maybe racist, but it’s true. Genetics, deciding who’s better at what since before language or the concept of racism.
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02How do they get the pigment? - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:25] <exec> 08└─Do they distill afro-americans, or can they just scrape it if with a rasp?
[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─It would be a problem for a field like sociology where there's a less precise level of understanding available.
[23:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:10] <exec> 08└─Nyqvist is all about sampling sine waves You think that electric guitar played through a fuzzbox is a sine wave? It sure looked like a sawtooth on the oscilloscope in that physics class (regrettably decades before digital music). If nyquist was only sine waves, you'ld seldom hear Jimmy Page's guitar...
[23:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:24] <exec> 08└─When the U.S. sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing their problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some I assume are good people, but I speak to border guards and they tell us w...
[23:47:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ticho [89] 02Re:Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:29] <exec> 08└─They just want donuts.
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