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[00:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... the ocean... - 06Mysterious Source of Greenhouse Gas Methane in Ocean Explained - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:49] <exec> 08└─And so research shows that the ocean, FARTS.
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02la mer c degeulasse, les poissons baisent dedans - 06Mysterious Source of Greenhouse Gas Methane in Ocean Explained - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:51] <exec> 08└─Research sponsored by people who really don't want to you to smoke anywhere. Go ahead, light up that fag and try to throw the butt overboard, see what happens with all the carbohydrates...
[00:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You know what? - 06Mysterious Source of Greenhouse Gas Methane in Ocean Explained - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:53] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a whole bunch of WHOI...
[00:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soylentils are to blame - 06Mysterious Source of Greenhouse Gas Methane in Ocean Explained - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Nigger Commander and The Niggery Buzzard went for a gay yachting trip and streamed their penetration party live to the Fucking@Home channel for every Soylentil to pay per view.
[00:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Put Sarah Palin in charge of NOAA - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:06] <exec> 08└─Amazing how something that a candidate did not say will stay with her forever
[00:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keyboards? - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─Everything is touchscreens. Nobody uses keyboards. You elderly old idiot.
[00:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Consumer PI has nothing to with income - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:53] <exec> 08└─> sees GGP's stlouisfed link's chart axis in terms of CPI adjusted dollars. > points out that CPI methodology was significantly altered in 2015. > gets told that apparently CPI has nothing to do with income or wages. > gets really confused.
[00:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Consumer PI has nothing to with income - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:54] <exec> 08└─Same AC here. Just wanted to mention that I didn't vote for Trump, assclown. You might be new here, but not every argument you'll come across on the internet is a tribal "Pepsi vs Coke" issue, brah.
[00:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My wish - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:15] <exec> 08└─A good paying job
[00:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:44] <exec> 08└─Several decades ago, I was driving two friends down a dark country road when we came to an essentially blind intersection. I had a fair idea of what "should" be on the other side of the intersection based on the general pattern of the roads in the area, but I didn't actually know for a fact what lay...
[00:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Can't he just pardon himself''? - 06Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Case for $25M - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:39] <exec> 08└─N.B. No USA President has ever had the chutzpah to grant *himself* a pardon.
[00:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''not the only one'' - 06Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Case for $25M - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:42] <exec> 08└─True, but Lichtman has a long record for analytical accuracy. That's why I mentioned him specifically. Pence as president {Shudder} Yeah, there's definitely a downside to dumping Trump. ...though, seeing The Donald's appointments, it is hard to imagine *worse*. Still hoping he ends up ripping the pa...
[00:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the plaintiffs get... - 06Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Case for $25M - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:55] <exec> 08└─Here's an interesting strategic question. Obviously the media is now impotent, and even outright shilling for Clinton and lying about Trump she still lost. So... if the press is dead, abstracting from this specific story, if Trump did something wrong, how would/could it be reported? Certainly not hi...
[00:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Dreamwidth - 06Ask Soylent: I Need Something Better Than Blogger for a Small Blog With Comments - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:12] <exec> 08└─And Lvejournal's spinoff, Dreamwidth, which is to Livejournal as Soylent News is to Slashdot.
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[01:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why not dead beef - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:46] <exec> 08└─Super gay duo Ryan and Jeremy should have died.
[01:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─Last December the Washington Post had news about "Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point." [washingtonpost.com] In January 2014 it was "North Pole invades U.S.: 10 bitter, bone-chilling visuals". [washingtonpost.com] In March 2013, the alarm was over "Climate change w...
[01:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keyboards? - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:35] <exec> 08└─Hey! That's mean. How do I make an ASCII frowny face again?
[01:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Underestimating - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:39] <exec> 08└─Not to mention proof of the use of illegal substances. I've thought of a pretty evil invention, so don't steal my idea - a urinal or toilet which has a mechanism to instantly scan the sample for metabolites of illegal drugs. A camera at face-level snaps a picture if a positive result is detected, pe...
[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─I just bottled 5.5 gallons of non-carbonated mead (well, stuck it in half-gallon jars). I was looking for ideas for the next one and this seems to foot the bill. It also uses 5 lbs less honey. Thanks.
[01:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy Nothing Day - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:42] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was going to post. Consumerism comes at the cost of actual culture.
[01:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Logical Fallacy - 06Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:08] <exec> 08└─You could even double one of the dudes up as a 'maintenance' guy. When the machines go sideways you just take him off the job to fix it. Then when fixed he continues where he was. He was standing around anyway more than likely.
[01:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeahhh idk. - 06Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Brains, For Better And Worse - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:52:09] <exec> 08└─I let my son (8) play video games on the weekends. He also goes outside and plays and sometimes has friends in to play with him. Most of the games he plays are games that we play together, cooperatively. I'm not sitting him down in front of a babysitter. He's at his computer and I am at mine and we...
[01:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''What comment system doesn't use JavaScript?'' - 06Ask Soylent: I Need Something Better Than Blogger for a Small Blog With Comments - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:11] <exec> 08└─Rehash. (My favorite.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[02:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:54] <exec> 08└─Having a profession that had me working with electrical/electronic devices daily for a lifetime, when I hear "electrocuted", I naturally add "to death". These guys were merely "zapped". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 2308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I like to use the term "bitten," but all the same. I am also a lifelong electronics technician and was expecting a live kill, something that would be posted on LiveLeak. When I first went to the article I thought that they were being rather light-hearted about 2 people dying horrifically in pu...
[02:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02umm no. - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:58] <exec> 08└─"electrocute - to kill (a person or animal) by electric shock". They got the piss shocked out of them.
[02:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:feedback loop - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:27] <exec> 08└─With all the hot air from US election, I'd have thought this wouldn't even be considered "news".
[02:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Underestimating - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:52] <exec> 08└─Using illegal drugs isn't illegal. Possession and sale of them is though. Which is why no one ever gets arrested for testing positive for drug use, just denied employment.
[02:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Underestimating - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:53] <exec> 08└─Being denied employment could be worse than being arrested if you're hurtin' for money -- especially if you're denied further employment at a place you're already working. That's one of the reasons why I chose electronics/computer science as a career -- If I fuck up, I don't have to worry about losi...
[02:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FWIW - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:04] <exec> 08└─rogue modder.
[02:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:14] <exec> 08└─I posted this in the other cranberry discussion, but tart sweetened cranberry juice + sparkling water makes a great soda. A word of warning to those who try to drink pure unadulterated cranberry juice - it will give you an unpleasant stomach pain similar to the rotgut caused by shooting vodka on an...
[02:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:16] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of seeking out real cranberry juice. Guess I'll stick to the fake shit.
[02:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Could deal without the closing propaganda - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─That note was added because sex sells, and the things from which piss emerges are usually the sexual organs. Actually, I don't consider that propaganda at all. I was expecting to hear some wheatgrass treehugger bullshit about negative impact on the environment, demonizing my favorite fruit like they...
[02:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Militarized - 06Research Team Creates Pill That Unfolds in the Stomach - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:46] <exec> 08└─I was thinking it would be really nice to get a hand on some capsules and have a 10 day E high
[02:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dec 26th. - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:14] <exec> 08└─I ended up buying one of the last MBs to have XP drivers (yeah yeah yeah- XP is a modern day Rosetta Stone for legacy software) for essentially the same reasons. Noted Amazon will drop prices through x-mas day to get rid of inventory. If your interests intersect, you can pickup some items at a subst...
[02:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Amazon - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:48] <exec> 08└─Everyone in my family has complained at least twice that they have no idea what to get me for Christmas or my birthday. So I made it easy on 'em. Seeing as I'm Amazon's bitch anyway, I just told 'em all a couple of years ago to get me Amazon gift cards. Problem solved. They're happy, I'm happy.
[02:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Logical Fallacy - 06Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:05] <exec> 08└─From the outside looking in, I'd say that the Democrats running a non-likeable right winger was as much a reason for Trump, who is pretty left, or at least pretends to be, when it comes to the truly left things like decent jobs for the common person.
[02:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''What comment system doesn't use JavaScript?'' - 06Ask Soylent: I Need Something Better Than Blogger for a Small Blog With Comments - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:38] <exec> 08└─the moment soylent requires TypeScript, this AC is gone forever...
[02:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dreamwidth - 06Ask Soylent: I Need Something Better Than Blogger for a Small Blog With Comments - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:51] <exec> 08└─*cough* deadjournal *cough*
[02:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:Cry me a f*cking river - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:49] <exec> 08└─A trivial google search for turns up nothing except nutcase rightwing websites and an idiot Congressman making the claim. Polifact rated the claim as false. You're the one who made the claim that she literally said it. Maybe English isn't your forte, "literally" means "those exact words", so those w...
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[03:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:00] <exec> 08└─I was so excited when Obama first ran for office. His rhetoric and positions all sounded so good... then he came into office and it turned out to be a lie. Thanks for making me a cynical bastard you lying fuck.
[03:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:01] <exec> 08└─This actually makes me happy. Perhaps the next administration is as much empty bluster. Hooray for ineffectiveness!
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:04] <exec> 08└─Obama made you cynical? Aren't you a lucky sack of shit. Bush era FBI put me on a terrorist watch list. America earned an enemy for life that day. Obama is just more of the same evil. FUCK AMERICA
[03:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:06] <exec> 08└─Trump hasn't done shit yet, but fuck him in advance. FUCK TRUMP
[03:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:08] <exec> 08└─When Bush was elected, my friends and I joked about which country he would invade.
[03:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:10] <exec> 08└─I told my friends Bush did 9/11 and then suddenly I had no friends.
[03:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:12] <exec> 08└─Face it! You didn't need friends like that!
[03:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:14] <exec> 08└─I don't need friends at all! Haven't made friends since. You can eat shit and die too.
[03:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:17] <exec> 08└─I was so excited when Obama first ran for office. His rhetoric and positions all sounded so good
[03:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:19] <exec> 08└─Close Gitmo.
[03:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:21] <exec> 08└─He promised the most transparent administration in history. [washingtonpost.com]
[03:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:23] <exec> 08└─No the OP but I'll take a stab: I voted O in '08 to end the wars in Asia and to hold the big banks and big corps accountable (and hopefully break them up).
[03:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:25] <exec> 08└─I voted for Obama's first term. Of course, I was also a pro-Israel liberal Democrat back then. Even 5 years ago if you had asked me if I would ever, or have ever, voted Republican; my answer would have been a resounding, "Hell no!" When Obama came up for reelection, I voted for Johnson. When Hillary...
[03:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:27] <exec> 08└─Were you in Michael Moore's movie?
[03:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:30] <exec> 08└─No, I was considered to be, but my comment about "Jews and Arabs needing to be nuked from the face of the Earth" was a liability to their operation.
[03:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:4, Informative) 02Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:32] <exec> 08└─"Obama replied: "I can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something that I would comment on at this point."" Not just a lie, but a horribly obvious lie. He can't seriously think anyone believed him? https://en.wikipedia.org
[03:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:34] <exec> 08└─Waiting for "pffft- anyone can edit wiki" and rattle off a list of unsubstantiated reasons why Obama is correct.
[03:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:36] <exec> 08└─He was a Constitutional lawyer! There's no way he could be wrong about the Constitution, right? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Justice Department requires that anyone requesting a pardon wait five years after conviction or release prior to receiving a pardon....
[03:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:38] <exec> 08└─OHMIGOD! It's like you don't know any child can alter a wiki article. Or the Russians. I bet the Russians have hacked wiki and altered all of the articles. Can't you use a reputable source, like somebody's blog or something? Waddya mean it isn't Facebook approved?
[03:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:40] <exec> 08└─https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
[03:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:43] <exec> 08└─Didn't Ford pardon Nixon beforehand? Given how in tatters the Obama legacy is at the moment (history might view him with a kinder eye, but I doubt it), this might be the last act he has to salvage any redemption for his presidency. Much like everything else he's done, I imagine his heart is in the r...
[03:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:45] <exec> 08└─Trump said that Snowden is a traitor and implied that the death penalty is warranted by precedent. What does that make Trump in your opinion?
[03:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:47] <exec> 08└─The opposite of Obama?
[03:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:49] <exec> 08└─Someone I didn't for? At the time Obama was elected (also didn't vote for him), the country was at a crossroads, and at least it seemed he was the best and brightest to lead the country out of the mess that was Bush (although after he voted for the Teleco Immunity Act, I had already assumed he was a...
[03:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obama Says... - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:51] <exec> 08└─"You can keep your doctor, you can keep your healthcare, Obamacare will be affordable for everyone." We all know how that went down. Lies to get into office, lies during office, lies on the way out. And people wonder why Hellary didn't get elected?
[03:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:54] <exec> 08└─" Will the NSA's spying and Snowden's actions come to define Obama's legacy? "
[03:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Nigger's Revenge on Snow White Man - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:56] <exec> 08└─Reparations!!!!
[03:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nigger's Revenge on Snow White Man - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:58] <exec> 08└─Niggers
[03:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02FUCK OBAMA - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:00] <exec> 08└─Obama Presidency [wikipedia.org] 2009: Courage, a 45-pound turkey provided by the National Turkey Federation, and alternate bird Carolina, raised in North Carolina.2010: Apple, a 45-pound turkey from Foster Farms in Modesto, California; and alternate bird Cider. Both had died of natural causes by Th...
[03:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FUCK OBAMA - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:02] <exec> 08└─Pardon Snowden, then Slaughter Snowden, then EAT SNOWDEN.
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:14] <exec> 08└─You ain't a real electronics guy if you haven't felt the juice ... 120, 240, 380, ringing voltage, -72DC, pick your favorite. I started early by putting a 240V extension cord in my mouth. But my best spark was the output stage of a -48V DC supply (with the coke-can caps), which melted half of my mul...
[03:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:16] <exec> 08└─You ain't a real electronics guy if you haven't felt the juice ... 120, 240, 380, ringing voltage, -72DC, pick your favorite.
[03:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:18] <exec> 08└─Damn, typo. 20kV to 30kV.
[03:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02Re:Put Sarah Palin in charge of NOAA - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:40] <exec> 08└─Amazing how something that a candidate did not say will stay with her forever
[03:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:52] <exec> 08└─Klink, let me remind me that there are two fronts in this war, and you can be moved to the other one...
[03:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:34] <exec> 08└─You're welcome. I must say I find it amusing that my recipe is modded to 1, but your thanks is modded to 2. I guess that means SN really values politeness. If I'm right this should get modded to 3.
[03:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:1) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:35] <exec> 08└─Anonymous users start out at 0, logged-in users start at 1, and logged-in users choosing to use a karma bonus get a 2. Comment score values range from -1 to 5, although logged-in users can add their own modifiers here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] (such as adding -6 to +6 to...
[03:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:32] <exec> 08└─> It just doesn't make sense economically to sit on something that isn't accumulating value very fast. It's been there for a few million years, during most of which it had no value. Must you really rush to possess it, just to protect yourself against the eventuality that it might not be quite as val...
[03:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:33] <exec> 08└─For example, there are tens to hundreds of thousands of wells drilled throughout the US west, but invariably, they are surrounded by normal vegetation. Whatever ecological harm they cause is not visible to the human eye.
[03:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Logical Fallacy - 06Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:51:29] <exec> 08└─Honestly, what made Trump win could be called as anything that would have swayed enough votes the other way. Not being assholes would have done it, not running Hillary, even just telling her to stop smirking every time he spoke in the debates might have done it. Not calling half the nation racist, m...
[03:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reasonable? - 06With Trump in the White House, Hearing Protection Act Looks Good for 2017 - 2046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:02] <exec> 08└─Assuming the units on those numbers are dB, it sounds as if you'd still want ear defenders for anything other than very occasional use if you didn't want to damage your ears. You may not realize it, however, you've inadvertently made a powerful argument in favor of silencers being safety devices. Ev...
[03:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03modecx [1925] (Score:1) 02Re:Pardon me, but... - 06With Trump in the White House, Hearing Protection Act Looks Good for 2017 - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:27] <exec> 08└─I'd support this for gun ranges alone. In my area, so many outdoor ranges have been shut down because of urban sprawl, due solely to noise complaints, and not safety issues; we're talking ranges with full bullet containment designs. It's impossible to find an outdoor range to shoot at without drivin...
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[04:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:04] <exec> 08└─So you just discovered what politicians do for a living? Just wait until you discover what getting married and having children is like! :D
[04:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:05] <exec> 08└─I was disappointed when "clean coal" turned out to be coal! http://www.sourcewatch.org [sourcewatch.org]
[04:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:07] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about being cynical about the system. The system was only put in place to hide the awful truth that rulers are parasites, not servants. Seeing through it enables you to become one of the growing handful of people thinking about a genuinely positive future for humanity instead of being st...
[04:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:15] <exec> 08└─His first act upon assuming office was to grant his predecessor “a full, free, and absolute pardon.”
[04:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:21] <exec> 08└─I voted for Obama twice and agree with him on a lot of things, including TPP and Snowden. But of course, it's politically incorrect to say that here. And we mustn't be politically incorrect on SN. TPP is a play against China, trying to strengthen our ties to the Pacific Rim so they don't dominate it...
[04:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:23] <exec> 08└─Your opinion is trash. No mod points need to be wasted on it.
[04:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not just the woorking poor - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:27] <exec> 08└─I get to deal with a pretty broad cross-section regarding their healthcare, and no body, NO BODY, has any kind things to say about the ACA. If it's not premiums going up four-fold, it's less selection from their job sponsored plans.
[04:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:29] <exec> 08└─The ruinous race-relations are an entirely different beast. pot calling the kettle black
[04:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Yes he can! - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:35] <exec> 08└─But first he has to take care of Hillary [freep.com]
[04:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Hillary - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:37] <exec> 08└─Well then, I guess that settles it - He can't pardon Hillary. I'm guessing that there is a 99% chance that there will be an investigation into some combination of HRC, Secret Documents, Pay-to-Play, and the Clinton Foundation. Possibly by an independent prosecutor, possibly by the Trump (Sessions?)...
[04:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:40] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. Comey didn't press charges against HRC cuz he didn't want to influence the election process. Never mind he did by not prosecuting. But Comey laid out a pretty devastating case against HRC which, if Trump wants to pursue, will let us all see how well she can dance. Me? I can ha...
[04:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0213 Republicans and 9 Democrats to you... - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:42] <exec> 08└─...15 philanderers, 13 drug users, 12 tax dodgers, 8 homos, 5 drunks, a cross-dresser and a pedo, to the intelligence community.
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:13 Republicans and 9 Democrats to you... - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:44] <exec> 08└─...and a partridge in a pear tree!
[04:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obviously. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:46] <exec> 08└─The only pardon Snowden will receive is going to be from the end of a gun to the back of his head. I assume Assange already got his pardon. He'll never need to go to court either, just like Snowden.
[04:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:59] <exec> 08└─And such is the crux of the details of electronics braggarts: Voltage as a dick size is meaningless if type and current are not specified. bob_super was discussing DC voltage with an absolute value of lower than 120, but those power supplies are driving mad amperage, enough to kill. I guess that the...
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how to enter a locked building - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─1. Ascertain that building is in New Zealand. 2. Wait for massive earthquake. 3. Carefully walk in.
[04:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Put Sarah Palin in charge of NOAA - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:24] <exec> 08└─And they say snopes has a left-wing bias...
[04:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:38] <exec> 08└─A warm front and a cold front?
[04:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunscreen and bugspray - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:53] <exec> 08└─Obviously not an Aussie or a redhead.
[04:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:17] <exec> 08└─Just an aside about the salt - I recall reading a while back that the combination of salt and sugar together acts to sensitize the taste buds in much the same way as MSG does. Basically it's not enhancing the flavor, it's enhancing your ability to taste it.
[04:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kenny Blankenship [5712] (Score:1) 021980s diet pills - 06Research Team Creates Pill That Unfolds in the Stomach - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:00] <exec> 08└─Does anyone remember a commercial from between 1985 and 1995 with a pill that expands to fill your whole stomach? It seemed like a great idea, and the fact that it disappeared means something went horribly wrong - like Opti-Grab (The Jerk).
[04:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Can't he just pardon himself''? - 06Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Case for $25M - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:25] <exec> 08└─If Trump pardons himself, he had better leave the country because his every move after that will be under a microscope looking for something to bust him on.
[04:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money supply is not infinite - 06Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:45] <exec> 08└─> Look, I realize you think you're saying something relevant. Hello, mcfly? Are you looking in a mirror when you write that? Of course I didn't say anything relevant, I just flamed your ass for a reductively meaningless criticism. Seriously, is this some sort of "I'm rubber and you're glue" defense?...
[04:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BASIC INCOME NOW - 06Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Brains, For Better And Worse - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:44] <exec> 08└─You wrote this playfully, but the attitude of "if I wait long enough, the game will tell me where to go, my exp and gold will go up if I just spend time at it (or even if I just wait a bit maybe)" is frightening and real.
[04:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds made up. - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:45] <exec> 08└─> I just did a google search by date and I can't find any mention of Theil's homosexuality prior to the gawker article. You seem to be confused about the meaning of "flaunt." Here's something to try, google marc andreessen for any mention of his heterosexuality. Also, why don't you go actually read...
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[05:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Using a pencil - 06History of Computer Hardware - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:49] <exec> 08└─In high school, I was filling in the cards with a pencil.
[05:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Using a pencil - 06History of Computer Hardware - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:50] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, my mother worked for a guy who had been a computer programmer in the punch card days. He had boxes and boxes of old programs and he used the cards as scratch paper or gave them to me to draw on when I visited. He told me what they were, but I couldn't fathom it until I was much old...
[05:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:03] <exec> 08└─The TPP is apparently dead in the water, so that's pretty good. Full Disclosure: I voted Stein, but I'm happy as a clam to see that Trump has managed to gut the GOP and the DNC.
[05:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:09] <exec> 08└─Let us not forget that Gore ran as more hawkish than GWB, picked that mother fucking asshole neocon Lieberman as his running mate, and was a total corporatist tool. Sure, he did a lot of work to rehab his image in the 00s, but you never know, he may have been even more of a warmonger than GWB ("make...
[05:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I sat that election out (the libertarian candidate wasn't any great shakes and Nader was meh). But the absolute worst aspect of Gore? Tipper! No way in hell would I tolerate her turning the White House into a sorority. The only good thing she did was get Zappa to testify before the senate.
[05:45:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 943 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:23] <exec> 08└─He was a Constitutional lawyer! There's no way he could be wrong about the Constitution, right? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Justice Department requires that anyone requesting a pardon wait five years after conviction or release prior to receiving a pardon....
[05:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:27] <exec> 08└─OBAMA FUCKING STRAIGHT UP LIED. What did you expect from the founder of ISIS?
[05:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:36] <exec> 08└─June 18, 2013: All I can say is that if I were President, Snowden would have already been returned to the U.S. (by their fastest jet) and with an apology!
[05:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:43] <exec> 08└─In 2008 you could have voted for Mitt Romney, who had implemented similar policies--devised by the Heritage Foundation--in Massachusetts. When Democrats adopted the idea, the Heritage Foundation opposed it: Obamacare must be stopped, according to Heritage, because it’s expensive, imposes new taxe...
[05:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ftfy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─> ...and a pear shaped pedo in a tree! ftfy
[05:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:08] <exec> 08└─In that case, don't go anywhere near the battery string for a datacenter UPS. Tools don't get scars, they explode.
[05:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Lesbian - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:54] <exec> 08└─The true test of whether a communication platform is successful or not, is given by testing the quality of the trolls. I think we can do better. I know we can do better.
[05:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:35] <exec> 08└─Ethanol is a wuss. Shooting 2oz of cranberry is much softer than doing a shot of vodka, both on the way down and in the gut. If you have an ulcer you probably shouldn't do either of course. Most people who drink the real stuff either -water it down anywhere from 1:2 to 2:1 with good water (it's sour...
[05:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Poor debunking - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 2197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:40] <exec> 08└─I do recall an article debunking the UTI bit a while back, but I also know many people, myself included, who swear by cranberry juice to drastically shorten UTI durations. Now you've got me curious, and so I went looking for info on the study, and found a recent one in about the right time frame, bu...
[05:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor debunking - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:42] <exec> 08└─Now there's nothing inherently wrong with that study
[05:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Material vs Meaningful - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:31] <exec> 08└─I hear you, but there is at least some choice to be had. My watch word is simplicity - most of the fancy features seem to be primarily designed to look good in the ads/on the box, and usually disappoint in practice while adding new and exciting ways your appliance can fail. Not to mention On the toa...
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[06:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02It's 640k, not 64k. - 06History of Computer Hardware - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:03] <exec> 08└─And Bill Gates denies (quite convincingly) ever saying it in the first place.
[06:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's 640k, not 64k. - 06History of Computer Hardware - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:05] <exec> 08└─Just let Gack have his meme moment.
[06:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's 640k, not 64k. - 06History of Computer Hardware - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:07] <exec> 08└─Besides, Bill Gates also said that man would never fly, and that women were incapable of voting, and that man would never land on the moon! Now that Trump is elected, looks like our man Gates was right on all counts! Semper coitus Trumpam, Dudes!
[06:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:43] <exec> 08└─…the Office of the Pardon Attorney will consider only petitions from persons who have completed their sentences…
[06:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:45] <exec> 08└─Well, this site [usconstitution.net] is not a Wiki. (Note that in that page, the link "Article 2, Section 2" actually links to Article 1, Section 2 instead; however it is not hard to navigate to the correct article/section from there.)
[06:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama Says... - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:55] <exec> 08└─And people wonder why Hellary didn't get elected?
[06:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hillary - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:08] <exec> 08└─Too bad Trump already backed out of the idea of prosecuting Hillary [redstate.com], saying the Clintons are "good people" and that he "doesn't want to hurt them".
[06:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:10] <exec> 08└─But Comey laid out a pretty devastating case against HRC
[06:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:25] <exec> 08└─A colleague at a former workplace told a tale of a spanner being pretty much vaporized when accidentally dropped on the 48V (or 72V?) bus-bar and shorting with the rack, before the whole telco DC went dark. Fortunately he managed to avoid the splash of molten metal, no idea how - it sounded very vio...
[06:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Poor debunking - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:58] <exec> 08└─No, it's potentially quite valid, for the very limited thing that it tested. It's only one experiment with no independent replication, but I'd be wiling to accept that their specific formulation of cranberry concentrate capsules don't prevent UTIs. The bunk comes from trying to extrapolate from...
[06:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick google will verify this. - 06With Trump in the White House, Hearing Protection Act Looks Good for 2017 - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:09] <exec> 08└─As someone who only dabbled with archery as a child, I would imagine the arrow shattering issues are largely a matter of tradeoff - all that extra power obviously lets you shoot further and flatter, and hit your target harder, but puts a lot more demand on the arrow. If you're content instead with t...
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[07:44:50] <exec> 08└─216.146.35.35 resolver1.dyndnsinternetguide.com 216.146.36.36 resolver2.dyndnsinternetguide.com Okey dokey I'll spam some video streams through Dyn public DNS resolvers at my earliest convenience.
[07:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02i am hikki - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:57] <exec> 08└─I slept through earthquake.
[07:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Some more information - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:59] <exec> 08└─A-yup, that's the one I felt this morning just as I went to sleep. My thoughts were, "oh crap, not now, I'm too tired to evacuate"... Went back to sleep as soon as it subsided. I'm too used to this shit :/ I'm in Tokyo, so it wasn't that strong. Nothing fell of the shelves, which is my reference poi...
[07:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Some more information - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:01] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add, here [jma.go.jp] is the first tsunami advisory after the earthquake (also with a map). If you keep clicking on "next information" you can see how it was changing in the following hours. The whole tsunami information timeline with links is here [jma.go.jp].
[07:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some more information - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:04] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20161122071213/http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20161122060518495-220559.html [archive.org] https://web.archive.org [archive.org] https://web.archive.org
[07:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's 640k, not 64k. - 06History of Computer Hardware - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:15] <exec> 08└─Trump delenda est.
[07:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's 640k, not 64k. - 06History of Computer Hardware - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:17] <exec> 08└─I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
[07:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hardware is Irrelevant - 06History of Computer Hardware - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:19] <exec> 08└─All is Cloud
[07:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardware is Irrelevant - 06History of Computer Hardware - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:21] <exec> 08└─All is Cloud
[07:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:50] <exec> 08└─I was so excited when Obama first ran for office. His rhetoric and positions all sounded so good... then he came into office and it turned out to be a lie.
[07:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:59] <exec> 08└─…the Office of the Pardon Attorney will consider only petitions from persons who have completed their sentences…
[07:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:14] <exec> 08└─pot calling the kettle African-American FTFY.
[07:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:37] <exec> 08└─Batteries certainly command a new respect after seeing something like that. Fortunately, I have never had a first hand experience.
[07:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:post your cranberry sauce recipe - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:04] <exec> 08└─one, of course, can be as good as lingonberries, but good luck finding a good source of *those*.
[07:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yikes - 06Research Team Creates Pill That Unfolds in the Stomach - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:27] <exec> 08└─Or we could just admit that the bacteria theory is so hopelessly wrong that it needs to be scrapped.
[07:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:50:05] <exec> 08└─I see the place has three refineries. And being California where something like a refinery couldn't be built in the last three or so decades, it means that they're all old. Also, it's located in Central Valley and downwind from Los Angeles, meaning even if there was no human settlement there, it wou...
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[08:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lamestream Media was harping on the tsunami - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:59] <exec> 08└─With a magnitude of 7.4, they were thinking there might be a 10-foot tidal wave. It didn't turn out like that. The biggest thing they saw was 4.6 feet. [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hmmm - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:00] <exec> 08└─I just noticed that my submission has been included in the summary (though there was no indication of that on the front page and the submission itself was marked Rejected). Roseanne Roseannadanna mode: Nevermind -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:02] <exec> 08└─It wasn't merged in before the first submission was turned into a story, so I added it in and deleted the submission. If I wanted to give you 3 karma I could have posted the submission and then deep-six it by setting the date to 1970. But you don't have an account so that doesn't matter. There is no...
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Cassette Tape Drive - 06History of Computer Hardware - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─The TI994A had a similar problem trying to read what it wrote. I later figured out that there was an inverse correlation with drive audio quality; cheap mono drives worked reasonably well. Good quality stereo drives with lots of dynamic range were almost unusable. That problem alone stunted my compu...
[08:45:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:50] <exec> 08└─"Obama replied: "I can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something that I would comment on at this point."" Not just a lie, but a horribly obvious lie. He can't seriously think anyone believed him? https://en.wikipedia.org
[08:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Duh law - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─I voted for Obama twice and agree with him on a lot of things, including TPP and Snowden. But of course, it's politically incorrect to say that here. And we mustn't be politically incorrect on SN.
[08:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:35] <exec> 08└─The laser comments are vaguely reminiscent of working with high explosives for the first time. Adrenaline rush.
[08:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:09] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is why should we do that? By definition, you don't know enough about a "blind hill" to know whether it is important to avoid or not. Usually, you don't even know it is there. I'll just note here that even if we consider anthropogenic global warming to be a blind hill, so would c...
[08:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The obvious rebuttal - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:20] <exec> 08└─Or, since we don't have a good method we should just motor on ahead until we do have better information?
[08:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Logical Fallacy - 06Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:08] <exec> 08└─I bet the US Army has a lower suicide rate.
[08:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Money supply is not infinite - 06Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:23] <exec> 08└─a reductively meaningless criticism
[08:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, yes. - 06Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Brains, For Better And Worse - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:28] <exec> 08└─> Why is current humanity inherently superior to a humanity with "deadened brains", [...] > It is subjective. Indeed it is subjective! And yet when an addict is reduced to mental mush, although it's their choice to do so, most persons see that change as a loss. So, it's subjective, like preferring t...
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[09:44:56] <exec> 08└─Over 900 queries per second! What DNS software are they running to handle that load?! "unbound 1.4.12" Yeah that explains it.
[09:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:51] <exec> 08└─I really liked how he was against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [wikipedia.org] (actually a modification of FISA which protected telecom companies from liability for working with US intelligence) until he locked up the Democrat party nomination in 2008, then suddenly he was for it. That...
[09:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:17] <exec> 08└─Obama is an excellent geopolitical strategic thinker, probably the best in the WH since Richard Nixon.
[09:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:25] <exec> 08└─pot calling the kettle black
[09:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:29] <exec> 08└─We saw what federal subsidizing did to once-affordable college tuition
[09:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:how to enter a locked building - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:49] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that, there were engineers checking the building the talk was being held in for earthquake damage while the talks were going on. There'd been a quake two days beforehand (the initial checks were OK, these were follow-up checks for lesser damage). Oh, and there was flooding a...
[09:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Politics of Extinction - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:15] <exec> 08└─The "Medieval Warm Period" was probably limited to just Europe. It was not global.
[09:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Thanks Trump! - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:21] <exec> 08└─I guess Trump visited his Fortress of Solitude.
[09:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''grassy knoll'' - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:26] <exec> 08└─After the Nashville-based band BR5-49 broke up, one of the guys put together a new band. That's called Chuck Mead and The Grassy Knoll Boys. If you like Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, that sort of thing, give them a listen. "Tell Me Momma" (a fav) is included on this page of downloadable stuff. [ar...
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[10:44:48] <exec> 08└─I don't get the point of this article? Musings of Torvalds, as they go through a pretty normal release process - am I missing something?
[10:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''240 words in story'' - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:16] <exec> 08└─Ah. Yes. I must be sundowning. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[10:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Cassette Tape Drive - 06History of Computer Hardware - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:34] <exec> 08└─I too remember that - cheap and mono, but also anything that had chrome or metal tape settings was right out. This was for the BBC micro in my case, but any cassette-based system had essentially the same issue. However I also remember it being common knowledge at the time (early 80s), that might hav...
[10:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:15] <exec> 08└─Snowden caused attack on Assange. Assange caused attack on Hillary. You will get a pardon from Democrats' cold dead hands. And now that Obama has said this, as a general rule, no one will pardon Snowden. He is too small a fish.
[10:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:18] <exec> 08└─... actually links to ... If only that page were a Wiki, so someone could fix the mistake.
[10:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:20] <exec> 08└─Democrats believed him.
[10:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soylentils are to blame - 06Mysterious Source of Greenhouse Gas Methane in Ocean Explained - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:11] <exec> 08└─Is there an appy app appers can aptly app for this?
[10:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yikes - 06Research Team Creates Pill That Unfolds in the Stomach - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:48] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know what else the pigs were fed along with those pills. My concern is if vegetable or similar fibres get tangled up in that star.
[10:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:My memory is fuzzy.... - 06Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Case for $25M - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:51:59] <exec> 08└─They did, just not the financial fraud part. Probably out of fear of pot calling kettle black. So they chose muhsogannyy and racism. Trump countered it with getting legal immigrant votes from Indians (the real ones) and Chinese. Muhsogannyy was never going to a good card to play anyway, since in rea...
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[11:44:52] <exec> 08└─It's. Linux.
[11:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Um...this is news? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:53] <exec> 08└─BURN THE HERETIC!!!
[11:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um...this is news? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:55] <exec> 08└─Still feeling that religious fervor even though Linux is installed on billions of mobile phones? World domination, you have it already.
[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Um...this is news? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:57] <exec> 08└─The thing is that in these days of extremism "post truth" and "fake news", someone publishing a balanced commentary providing good reasons why things might get better or might get worse and in the end not really having an opinion on it, is very very odd. It sticks out in the newsfeed like a diamond...
[11:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Touché) 02Calm? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:59] <exec> 08└─Calm? For this guy, this response is positively catatonic.
[11:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:07] <exec> 08└─so: London had lots of pollution (coal burning power stations?), so smelly fog was normal, and/or, the fog contained lots of deadly-but-odourless chemicals. 12,000 deaths in four days is about the same death rate as China now (1.6 million per annum https://en.wikipedia.org [w...
[11:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02GCHQ did it - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:10] <exec> 08└─Obviously the fog was a test run of internet surveillance, because reasons.
[11:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:12] <exec> 08└─Yet another reason to avoid cities. Light and noise pollution are bad enough, now it's revealed that you can't even trust the air you breath.
[11:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Damage Minor? - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:34] <exec> 08└─So who was the minor that got damaged?
[11:46:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:44] <exec> 08└─June 18, 2013: All I can say is that if I were President, Snowden would have already been returned to the U.S. (by their fastest jet) and with an apology!
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[12:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02smartphone - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:50] <exec> 08└─
[12:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Answer - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:51] <exec> 08└─Are smartphones and tablets killing eBook readers?
[12:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tablet, sorry - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:54] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago I was in the same quest, I needed a device to read scientific papers. I was interested in a 10'' Kindle, but the main problem with e-ink readers (at that time) was that they couldn't render complex graphics correctly, or took a long time to display them. Several papers I have t...
[12:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Suggestions - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 1954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, eReaders are very niche now. For the general populace, phablets and tablets are good enough. But, there are still some good eReaders out there, you just have to look. However, no eReader is going to match your requirements. PDF support on eReaders, even a 7.8" one, is abysmal. Just do...
[12:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02This ought to do it... - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:58] <exec> 08└─Now: http://ereader-store.de [ereader-store.de] Soon: https://www.indiegogo.com [indiegogo.com] A couple of google searches landed me this. Too rich for my blood but you didn't specify a price so...
[12:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:18] <exec> 08└─How do you figure that? China's death rate seems much lower in comparison. 12000 /4days /8Million people in London around that time. => 0.00375 1.6M / 365days / 1.4Billion in China now => 0.0000031 Taking only the chinese population categorized as urban population (about 56%): 1.6M / 365days / 0.78B...
[12:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:21] <exec> 08└─Enjoy poverty. If you want a high paying job, you have to run the corporate rat race. Telecommuting is not permitted, because attendance is mandatory to prove your loyalty.
[12:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:23] <exec> 08└─Use to live in a major metropolitan area. Couldn't justify nor afford housing, so moved out to the boonies. Bought a house, a ton of toys, and am set to retire 10 years early. It's not what you earn, but what you keep.
[12:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:25] <exec> 08└─I hear you got to keep your job because you were lucky not be replaced by an H1B. am set to retire 10 years early
[12:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sulfuric Fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:28] <exec> 08└─Chemical reaction can occur in smog to make airborne acid. Like whoa, dude bro.
[12:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:umm no. - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:29] <exec> 08└─Pick your dictionary. injure or kill (someone) by electric shock.
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[13:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:51] <exec> 08└─e-Ink display Text-to-speech
[13:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe he likes listening to it while driving?
[13:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:55] <exec> 08└─Its a punch list for features, old kindles had speech but they removed it. Supposedly it could sync the speech to the page, so you could listen to a chapter in your car, then read in the waiting room where the audio was paused. I'm not sure it got a lot of use.
[13:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IRex 1000S - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:57] <exec> 08└─If you can find one, that is what you want. !0", wireless, Wacom digitizer, e-Ink display. It was really slick. Tablets killed the market. You can still find them occasionally on eBay.
[13:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02my setup - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:59] <exec> 08└─on pc calibre book managment software. (you should look into this at least. calibre can manage/convert/download almost any ebook file you want. it does everything. which is confusing until you figure it out) tablet one - a wiped and offline only generation 1 kindle. (insane battery life, no use in t...
[13:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Derailment - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 2815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:01] <exec> 08└─Only a slight derailment of the topic, I find it very easy to buy eink displays on ebay and so forth but interfacing to the real world seems stuck in 2013 if not before. And its almost 2017... I was thinking of replicating this guys work: http://essentialscrap.com [essentialscrap.com] For almo...
[13:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Calm? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:14] <exec> 08└─No, this is quite typical for Linus. He does occasionally fly off the handle, but only when dealing with people who are being unreasonable.
[13:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:23] <exec> 08└─Back in ye olde days, coal was used for much more than just power stations. Many buildings, including homes, were coal heated. Coal was also used for cooking in coal stoves. So imagine tens of thousands of little dirty coal burners just everywhere you go.
[13:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:30] <exec> 08└─Envy and bitterness are terrible traits to nurture. Instead of being pleased at least someone managed to navigate the maze, you're having premature schadenfreude. Luckily didn't get into computers (more of a hobby), so not really concerned about H1B, and while it is possible, not very likely. Enjoy...
[13:47:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Obama Says... - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:06] <exec> 08└─And people wonder why Hellary didn't get elected?
[13:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legacy - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:13] <exec> 08└─damn straight. he's had 8 years to fix the race thing
[13:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Material vs Meaningful - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:05] <exec> 08└─I've bought some really good stuff at WalMart, but invariably, if I go back a few years later looking for a copy of the great thing I got there (shirt, tool, appliance, whatever), they'll have something with the same branding and appearance that has been "cost optimized" to a point that it no longer...
[13:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:17] <exec> 08└─A billion years of evolution brought us to this point, mostly moving slowly. Today we're moving much faster... continuing to accelerate at all the blind hills will eventually result in a nasty surprise on the other side. The best evidence shows a handful of major extinction events over the last bill...
[13:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The obvious rebuttal - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:29] <exec> 08└─While I agree that nuclear power could be better used world-wide (take France as an example) and that FUD is holding it back from its full potential, and the U.S. medical industry is twisted beyond anything Kafka ever imagined, not only by FUD but that's a component they use, all in all - FUD isn't...
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[14:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02This isn't news - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─Beer is the first written recipe in human history, brewing equipment is among the earliest bits of archaeology of civilized societies, and there's all sorts of evidence that beer was what powered the people building the ziggurats and pyramids of the earliest civilizations. So the idea that beer was...
[14:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tablet, sorry - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:12] <exec> 08└─In the end, I went for a Galaxy Tab, the one with a pen, so I could underline texts. It is still performing OK.
[14:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ramloss [1150] (Score:1) 02Re:Suggestions - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, the closest non-niche device that meets your requirements is a Kindle. You can buy the Paperwhite's "blind and visually impaired readers bundle" which includes the audio adapter and support for text-to-speech out of the box. Everything else, including shitty support for pdf is similar to your c...
[14:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score:1) 02Re:This ought to do it... - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─tempting but not recently updated, is it happening? "Once we hit $100,000 in funding we will upgrade Android from 4.0.4 to at least 5.1.1. ..." but their funding is around $250K according to the same page. I want something like that, but ...
[14:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─I tried using it for a little while. But I got sick of the robotic text to speech very quickly. I just stick with normal human voiced audiobooks. I suspect most others made the same decision
[14:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:25] <exec> 08└─Yep. IIRC, very few people used the text-to-speech feature so the few remaining eReader manufacturers (mostly Amazon and Kobo) decided that it wasn't worth it. That, and some conspiracy theorists speculate that audiobook publishers pressured eReader manufacturers to drop it, but erm... good luck pre...
[14:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Derailment - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:30] <exec> 08└─Good Display makes those: http://www.good-display.com [good-display.com] http://www.good-display.com [good-display.com] Look at my other comment for complete products using the 1600x1200 kit. You can find many of their kits in ali...
[14:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Derailment - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:32] <exec> 08└─To expand on that, their dev boards go up to 7.5-8" (http://www.good-display.com/products_detail/productId=327.html http://www.good-display.com) [good-display.com] depending on how you're going to drive them. For the 13.3" you're expected to do your own PMIC which...
[14:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02There's a couple of blogs to check - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:34] <exec> 08└─When I was searching for a new e-reader several years ago (then again last year), I discovered two blogs that are extremely useful for the hunt: http://the-digital-reader.com [the-digital-reader.com] http://www.the-ebook-reader.com [the-ebook-reader.com] You might also try asking over at the Mobil...
[14:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02tough requirements - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:37] <exec> 08└─Loading PDFs on a Kindle was a blow. However, newer iterations of the hardware probably do it a little faster, and I expect it will be improved again (along with storage and page flip times) if a color version is ever released by Amazon. Tablets definitely seem more useful for what you need, without...
[14:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02better yet - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:51] <exec> 08└─Soylent News 2016 Has 'Articles That Just Shouldn't Be Articles'. Or Might Not
[14:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─I have tried to test Linux 4.9 rc's on my debian testing machine, but I run into a showstopping problem: It doesn't recognize my sata devices. They are nothing special, onboard sata provided by an AMD SB950. But nothing, on RC1 to RC6, but the kernel failing to find the root filesystem and dropping...
[14:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Toxic Ownership Brands - 06Oracle Buys Dyn - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─The purchase of anything by either Symantec or Oracle immediately drops my respect and desire to use any products from the purchased company. Symantec had the LogMeIn of its day, pcAnywhere. They had Ghost, too, and let both products wither away and surrendered those markets, largely. Why would I us...
[14:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damage Minor? - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─Your waifu.
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─And he tried, but Congress wouldn't let him.
[14:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─Sound exactly like this other guy who just got elected...
[14:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:49] <exec> 08└─Does that mean Trump wants to return Snowden to the U.S. and pardon him and apologize to him? Or does that mean that Trump feels that Russia owes us an apology for sheltering Snowden from U.S. government wrath and wants him returned ASAP with an apology to the U.S. government from Russia?
[14:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 4257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:10] <exec> 08└─Lasers are pretty fun and I've done my fair share of work on pulsed Nd:YAG systems from JK, Trumpf and Raytheon. The old Raytheon laser is a big old analog monster. Phase fired SCR controls power going into the reservoir, a bank of about 50 400V 20,000uf capacitors in series parallel for upward of 2...
[14:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Put Sarah Palin in charge of NOAA - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:39] <exec> 08└─Past couple months you link anybody living in a truthy bubble to Snopes and they'll immediately say they're biased and deny deny deny. So I've been trying to figure this out. If Snopes debunks something [snopes.com] that would make a conservative look silly or stupid, does that mean it's actually tr...
[14:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks Trump! - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:49] <exec> 08└─Its fun to post "God Emperor of Dune" quotes in a Trump thread. It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
[14:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor debunking - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:54] <exec> 08└─I do recall an article debunking the UTI bit a while back, but I also know many people, myself included, who swear by cranberry juice to drastically shorten UTI durations.
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[15:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:56] <exec> 08└─I love this topic if for no other reason than every armchair physicist on the internet goes into a frenzy every time it comes up. Now excuse me, I need to go grab some popcorn.
[15:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Red + Green lines are bad - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:57] <exec> 08└─conceptual superposition of an impulsive thrust (red) and thermal drift (green) signal over an on/off power cycle on the torsion pendulum.
[15:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:59] <exec> 08└─There are a couple of grammar errors in the paper, but it is described as an "Article in Advance", and it's not December yet. This paper was leaked a while back, but this release should be official enough to address your basic concerns. This thread [nasaspaceflight.com] actually contains Paul March...
[15:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm fine with EM vehicles... - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─...so long as they're fitted with noise makers. This needs to be a law!
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Charley Mopps? - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─For songs, how about John Barleycorn [wikipedia.org] for starters? But if you want to go really old-school, you'd go with the Hymn to Ninkasi [beeradvocate.com]
[15:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Tablet, sorry - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:23] <exec> 08└─Describes my problem exactly. I would use my Kobo e-book reader (e-ink display) a lot more if it would display PDF files in a readable format. I've tried using Calibre [calibre-ebook.com] to convert PDF to ePub but the results weren't great. I love that I can upload PDF files to my Google Books acco...
[15:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:This ought to do it... - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah I wasn't sure about that very issue as well as the availability of a device tree so I put in SOON to be on the safe side. Looking at Good E-Reader's facebook page [facebook.com], they are already shipping [facebook.com]. Without a device tree, the Onyx Boox Max has a larger battery and more RAM...
[15:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:34] <exec> 08└─I had a similar experience a decade or two ago, I downloaded project gutenberg texts and tried to pipe them thru linux text to speech at the time, then play the mp3 files in my car, it was theoretically understandable but unusable for more than five minutes or so. I never used text to speech on kind...
[15:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:37] <exec> 08└─And yet Echo (Alexa) can read Amazon ebooks (not talking about audiobooks, actual T2S from Kindle books). She sounds weird reading technical books but it works. I hope they put it back in their readers at some point.
[15:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:39] <exec> 08└─Alexa does all her thinking back home in the cloud so the network costs, both financial and battery power, would be an issue for ebook readers. One interesting anecdote is according to marketing ebooks are only read by hot women at the beach where there's no or limited connectivity and power, althou...
[15:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:42] <exec> 08└─I meant that I hope they put the T2S feature back in their readers. They pulled it a while back not for technical reasons, but there were grumblings from authors and publishers over it not being licensed as audiobooks. Silly BS but still, if they feel like they can have Alexa do it, hopefully they c...
[15:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:44] <exec> 08└─TTS because I like to listen to books while I'm doing chores around the house and while eating meals. e-Ink because the reading experience is far better than LCD screens and I have DSPS (a sleep disorder) so night-time light levels are an important issue for me. I guess I might end up with separate...
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kobo Aura One - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:53] <exec> 08└─Just get it. Same size as an iPad mini, waterproof, includes things like redshift by default, fast processor. PDF viewing on an e-reader sucks. Get a Nexus 7 for that, and put the latest Cyanogenmod on it.
[15:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:55] <exec> 08└─it needs an e-Ink display
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um...this is news? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:07] <exec> 08└─It's like the daily newspapers used to run the results at the racetrack in the back of the sports page. It was there to give readers a sense of place, rather than something they would actually read.
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:better yet - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─"I'm not sure if we're quite there yet,"
[15:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:23] <exec> 08└─Not just power stations. Many homes were still being heated with coal back then. I remember cleaning the ashes out of my grandparents' furnace as a child, that would have been at least 1957.
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:31] <exec> 08└─If you want a high paying job, you have to run the corporate rat race.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03taylormc [5751] (Score:1) 02Re:Sulfuric Fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─Not as well understood 60 years ago. FWIW, I still suffer with the consequences.
[15:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some more information - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─"oh crap, not now, I'm too tired to evacuate"... Went back to sleep as soon as it subsided. I'm too used to this shit :/
[15:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Using a pencil - 06History of Computer Hardware - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:10] <exec> 08└─Hollerith cards make great bookmarks.
[15:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Growing up with computers - 06History of Computer Hardware - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─You young folks grew up with computers, but computers grew up with me. [mcgrewbooks.com]
[15:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02There is nothing new under the sun - 06History of Computer Hardware - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:22] <exec> 08└─I'm so old, I AM the history of computing. I started my career coding on punched cards in college. Today I'm writing mobile apps. It's a challenge keeping up with the technology. Nevertheless, the issues, the coding, and the constructs are much the same as they were 30 years ago. In a very real way,...
[15:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:52] <exec> 08└─a resounding, "Hell no!" Since you voted for Trump, shouldn't that be "Heil no" [washingtonpost.com]?
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:58] <exec> 08└─Nixon made me cynical. Now get off my lawn.
[15:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─The Simple English Wikipedia is also for people with different needs. Some examples of people who use Simple English Wikipedia: Students Children Adults who might find it hard to learn or read People who are learning English I think the fourth group a...
[15:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh law - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:21] <exec> 08└─Twenty people would have twenty different opinions, but the interpretation of the Constitution and laws is up to the courts. http://www.slate.com [slate.com] BTW once Trump appoints som...
[15:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh law - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:23] <exec> 08└─The courts may have the authority to rubberstamp the bullshit, but that doesn't mean they aren't wrong.
[15:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:26] <exec> 08└─"Politically correct" (as the alt-right, or more honestly, racists would put it) is just another way of saying politeness.
[15:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:47] <exec> 08└─I expected a Darwin Award caliber event.
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[16:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:01] <exec> 08└─Now excuse me, I need to go grab some popcorn.
[16:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:02] <exec> 08└─fuckin magnets how do they work
[16:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:04] <exec> 08└─Will this drive improve our understanding of physics? Or is the principle of its operation already well understood? In an earlier millennium there was this thing called "The Edison Effect". Where somehow current could flow from the filament of a light bulb to a plate within the same glass bulb. This...
[16:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Red + Green lines are bad - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─Only as long as it's pure red vs pure blue. My flavor of colorblindness can distinguish red, but it's vastly diminished. I struggle with some purples. Same deal with brown. Strangely, orange is generally safe though.
[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Red + Green lines are bad - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:10] <exec> 08└─Any line graph should be done in a way that you still can distinguish them on black/white prints. Usually for more than one curve, this means using dashed or dotted lines in addition to different colours. Quite obviously, this also helps with all sorts of altered colour perception.
[16:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:13] <exec> 08└─> even enabling terrestrial flight (Back to the Future II style). In that case the next NASA paper on the subject will be an investigation into the environmental / health effects of this thing. It's all very well up in space where there is very little to pollute, but I know I wouldn't want BTTF-styl...
[16:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:15] <exec> 08└─It is new so there is always some concern, but it is more like a weirdly shaped microwave oven. As long as it doesn't leak too much there shouldn't be a problem.
[16:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:17] <exec> 08└─And why would you want a NASA paper on it? Roger Shawyer is the one with the secret magic flying car sauce known as EmDrive 2.0, not NASA. And he has supposedly partnered with a previously unnamed UK aerospace company [ibtimes.co.uk], which is now said to be Gilo Industries Group [ibtimes.co.uk], th...
[16:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:I'm fine with EM vehicles... - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:20] <exec> 08└─In space, nobody can hear you drive.
[16:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm fine with EM vehicles... - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:22] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welc - THWOMP!
[16:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:24] <exec> 08└─This ALMOST but not quite sounds like something I could do in my basement. Weird as hell waveguide, essentially, check, got a full (small) metalworking shop A bit under the ham radio 2 GHz band, check. I think their work is below waveguide WR340 cutoff, I'll have to use WR430 size, I'm sure the simi...
[16:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:27] <exec> 08└─The thing is: if this pans out, optimization will "only" be a engineering problem. You just have to machine that waveguide to maximum the quantum effects. Consider any ground-breaking technology: a couple of orders of magnitude improvement in efficiency would be entirely normal. We could be living i...
[16:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:29] <exec> 08└─Here's some elaboration on how much the technology "could" be improved: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─Hmm tons of force that sounds a bit outlandish. Imagine a (formerly) hydraulic press powered by a COTS microwave magnetron instead. Something about that sounds wrong like someone would have noticed in an accident at a transmitter site in the past, oh whoops a bird landed on the feedhorn and the towe...
[16:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, better ramp that power up to about 5 kW. No vacuum needed!
[16:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:35] <exec> 08└─We've got the power source. [extremetech.com]
[16:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html [lockheedmartin.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.defensenews.com [defensenews.c...
[16:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02superconductor - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:40] <exec> 08└─optimal thrust was present if the system had a quality factor of at least several thousand
[16:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:42] <exec> 08└─Would this type of engine only work in space, or could you also use it on earth (e.g. on an aircraft or (hover)boat)?
[16:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:44] <exec> 08└─Short answer? Yes, but no. You could use it, but it's incredibly inefficient. The amount of thrust is INCREDIBLY small. The devices being tested have thrust measured around 0.001 Newton per kilowatt of power. That's about enough thrust to life a grain of rice off a table, for a kilowatt of input pow...
[16:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:46] <exec> 08└─Anywhere you can turn it on. But low thrust means space is likely where it would be useful.
[16:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:49] <exec> 08└─What about practical low thrust applications on Earth, such as keeping ghosts out of your house? (ducks, hides under desk)
[16:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:51] <exec> 08└─The version NASA is testing is comparable to an ion engine capable of making a sheet of paper flutter at best. Roger Shawyer claims that the second generation of emdrive would make a hovering electric vehicle possible: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk
[16:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Speaker not rocket - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:53] <exec> 08└─If I did my math right (LOL) and if you skip the idea of a rocket engine and go for sound speaker, and you make the construction extremely light, I think the forces would be measurable although inaudible to human ears in a top quality anechoic sound chamber at sane-ish power levels. Feed in an AM mo...
[16:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For once - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:55] <exec> 08└─Can we please have all the extremely vocal naysayers actually admit that they were narrow minded fools disregarding things they barely understood?? Of course not... denial seems to be intimately tied to the human condition.
[16:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02How big of solar panel is needed? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─Would you need a solar panel as large as a space sail? Nonetheless, it would be two orders of magnitude more efficient. According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] you get 1367 watts per square meter, in space, at 1 AU. (Earth-Sun distance.) Since that's just over 1...
[16:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:How big of solar panel is needed? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:00] <exec> 08└─> Since that's just over 1 KW, that gets you somewhere in that 3 to 6 micro newton thrust range. I realize I was using the wrong number here. That's the thrust of the competing technologies. (solar sales, etc) This is 1.2 milli-newton per KW. Wouldn't that be THREE orders of magnitude more thrust, o...
[16:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02More creepy or bad (or good?) news - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:02] <exec> 08└─I ran another creepy or bad or maybe good set of numbers and if you built a somewhat bigger version and bolted it to the ISS with a realistic amount of solar power, it would just be in the noise of accepted noise level of ISS orbital parameters. If you could get ten times the power out the panels wi...
[16:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This isn't news - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:11] <exec> 08└─But the result is still nice as it is not archaeological, but genetic evidence, thus giving us an independent confirmation.
[16:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't news - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:13] <exec> 08└─This article [zythophile.co.uk] makes the argument that fruit wines came before beer as they were much easier to make.
[16:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02A bit too specific in the headline - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:16] <exec> 08└─While barley is definitely used to make beer (famously, it's the ONLY grain permitted in Germany), it's not exclusively used to make beer. A better description would be that humans cultivated the strain best adapted for AGRICULTURE. In a setting where human farmers are actively irrigating and raisin...
[16:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Please, sir, i want more - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─In a strange omission, Charley Mopps was not cited in the paper.
[16:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:This ought to do it... - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:37] <exec> 08└─I don't trust Android for ereaders. I had the Nook which was Android 2.1 under the hood, and it would have parasitic power loss over long periods of time. After that broke I switched to Kobo and I never charge it. It is uncanny - I will charge it when I'm reading and see a usb cord in front of me, b...
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─It's my understanding that if you got your book from Amazon, and Amazon/Audible has a human-read audiobook of that book, and you're willing to pay extra for it, then Kindle lets you listen to it synced with the Kindle, so you can alternately read a passage and listen to a passage, and never lose you...
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─That, and some conspiracy theorists speculate that audiobook publishers pressured eReader manufacturers to drop it, but erm... good luck pressuring Amazon.
[16:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:00] <exec> 08└─and their display is a 640x480 from 2003 that flickers and is dark because the backlight is near dead
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─Has there ever been a 640x480 LCD screen?
[16:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Find a used replacement? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:04] <exec> 08└─Unless you're looking to upgrade, go with the status quo.
[16:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Um...this is news? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:14] <exec> 08└─But. Maybe. It's. Not. but maybe you're right, could be, but i wouldn't guarantee it. Yes, you're right, but well, who knows. It could be, but...
[16:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um...this is news? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:17] <exec> 08└─It's not just Linux, it's Linux 4.9!
[16:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Linus Torvalds Undecided! - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:28] <exec> 08└─So Mr Linux himself is kind-of-sort-of on the fence about the readiness of a release candidate that isn't quite ready yet. The fact that he isn't yelling, insulting people, and generally throwing a Torvalds tantrum should tell you that he doesn't have his nickers in a bunch yet about this release. I...
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─The grandparent post seems to be saying that nearly as many people were dying on each of those four days in London as die each day now from air pollution in all of China. That Wikipedia page has another estimate: A draft of a 2007 combined World Bank and SEPA report stated that up to 760,000 people...
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:GCHQ did it - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:44] <exec> 08└─Come on man, you can get waaay more tin foil hatty than that. How about early test for depopulation methods by the Illuminati? Or failed mind control/early chem trail experiments?
[16:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. Envy and bitterness are terrible traits to nurture.
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Sulfuric Fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─already well-known: SO2 + H2O = H2SO3 new (I'm guessing from "oxidation of SO2 by NO2"): SO2 + NO2 = SO3 + NO SO3 + H2O = H2SO4 H2SO4 (sulphuric acid) is more damaging than H2SO3 (sulphurous acid)
[16:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's 640k, not 64k. - 06History of Computer Hardware - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:37] <exec> 08└─It's probably like the Sarah Palin "I can see Russia from my house" quote. It was an IBM's executive caricature of what Gates actually said, but too good a line to forget.
[16:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Very early history - 06History of Computer Hardware - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─Neat article but it really only covers the early history and sums up 1960's to present day in a few short paragraphs. Somehow Steve Jobs merited a mention in there because of his NeXT machine. If anything the Motorola 68030 should have been talked about and Steve's name absent (a hyperlink to NeXT s...
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:59] <exec> 08└─Also grateful for the TPP apparently dying. Need more of this to happen to 'trade': give power back to the people... corporations have too much as it is.
[16:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:05] <exec> 08└─Wow... sounds like you need a friend. Just don't come to me looking for one: you'd choke on my shit.
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:34] <exec> 08└─BREAKING NEWS!!! OBAMA IS A LIAR! SKY IS BLUE! VIM BETTER THAN EMACS!
[16:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:35] <exec> 08└─wew lad
[16:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh law - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:50] <exec> 08└─"but the interpretation of the Constitution and laws is up to the courts." they are the final say as far as the government goes. the people are the final say period. the founders said that it was the duty of every citizen to fight against any law that was not constitutional and any law that was not...
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They'll need billions more - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:22] <exec> 08└─because your yankee ass will be moving down there hat in hand when your socialism has ruined your state's economy. just stay there and beg for your handouts.
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[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Pig fucking!!! - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:06] <exec> 08└─Pig fucking is amazing!!!
[17:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:21] <exec> 08└─Take apart a vibrator to find out.
[17:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:23] <exec> 08└─I didn't know that the physics of armchairs is such a popular topic. :-)
[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:31] <exec> 08└─The point is, it has effects that we cannot explain and didn't expect. So it also might have other effects we cannot explain and didn't expect. It's just like with the discovery of X rays. People didn't think of them as dangerous until people started getting cancer from it.
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─Color me underwhelmed. For starters, I'm not going to run out and open my wallet based upon their Figure 19. The best possible outcome, in my mind, for these guys, is that this attracts enough attention for it to be tested by people who know what they're doing. This paper still keeps it at the cold...
[17:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:44] <exec> 08└─"only" be a engineering problem
[17:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─That's about enough thrust to life a grain of rice off a table
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaker not rocket - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─I had read they are making microphone transducers out of graphene. Only a skip and a jump to speakers. Just insane having a near translucent cone that strong. Anyhoo, the transducer should be able to pickup even the slightest perturbation in the air. Even if not audible, it can be measured.
[17:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaker not rocket - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─Yup there you go. A graphene microphone and a graphene disk with the thruster attached as if a speaker cone. Maybe make the whole thruster out of graphene. Stuff like slow thermal expansion should average out if you feed an ultrasonic 100 KHZ AM modulation of microwave power into the thruster, and t...
[17:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02No. - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─Naysaying the thousands of weirdos on the internet with pet theories that contradict Newton or Einstein wasn't "narrow minded foolishness" before, and one of them turning out to have a point doesn't change that now.
[17:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:06] <exec> 08└─Ya about what I expected. The EM drive was much different from the thousands of weird pet theories on the net, people actually did experiments with positive results. Also, I wasn't talking to the skeptics who think it is unlikely but are interested to see what comes of it... I'm talking about the ra...
[17:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'd also note Amazon released the Kindle Fire in 2011, and the Fire HD in 2012. Note that the original Fire did NOT have TTS, but Amazon subsequently enabled it. Thus, it seems most likely that Amazon banked on the fact that those few users who wanted audio would buy their new product line (whic...
[17:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:54] <exec> 08└─> One interesting anecdote is according to marketing ebooks are only read by hot women at the beach "According to marketing" WTF?
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:07] <exec> 08└─Has there ever been a 640x480 LCD screen?
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:09] <exec> 08└─My first desktop LCD was about 1280x1024. They were smaller back in the day though, but you only mostly found them on laptops, for example: Thinkpad 800 series had a 640x480. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] My dad had a laptop that might have just been 320x200....
[17:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─I've noticed some people are really cheap and despite their livelihood depending on looking at screens and they might show off a $900 video card and $1000 CPU and a case with a minimum of 50 blue LEDS mounted inside so its not like they lack for money, but their chair will be a flipped over five gal...
[17:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:45] <exec> 08└─Almost every room in London had a coal fire in 1953. I remember in the winter of 1956, as a 7 year old, being able to stretch out my arm and not see my fist in the smog. The Clean Air Act of 1956 made it illegal to burn high sulphur coal. I have never heard of a "furnace" outside of industrial ma...
[17:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:55] <exec> 08└─They seem to have prepared me well for our upcoming administration's policies against everyone including the press.
[17:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2, Funny) 02It's not a problem - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:01] <exec> 08└─Clearly this isn't a problem, or Trump wouldn't be announcing that he's going to eviscerate environmental regulations and crank up coal and oil energy production. Right?
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Damage Minor? - 06Breaking News: Earthquake Off Japan, Damage Minor - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─Didn't get a name, but given the small tsunami, tentacles were clearly involved.
[17:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SIGH - 06History of Computer Hardware - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:52] <exec> 08└─Gates never said that, moron.
[17:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:15] <exec> 08└─Gore, remember the fundy mess his wife tried to make back in the 80's? For fans of the old Bloom County here's a reminder: http://www.gocomics.com [gocomics.com].
[17:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:26] <exec> 08└─Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Er, oops [time.com].
[17:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:49] <exec> 08└─$website_you_linked is a known biased source! It's been discredited! Only politically correct leftists would use $that_site! George Soros! Jews!
[17:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah. - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:05] <exec> 08└─You be the judge: “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” Trump said, Politico reported. “Well, you killed them, Donald,”...
[17:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:24] <exec> 08└─That -48V DC supply was for powering a telco shelf on the bench. Definitely north of 50A. I was told by the elders that it would keep providing stable DC until the 110V cord or wall outlet melted (before the 30A bench fuse, apparently).
[17:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Put Sarah Palin in charge of NOAA - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:59] <exec> 08└─Well, it's obvious that they are going to occasionally debunk something that will help conservatives, and likewise might also debunk something that was helping the left. That way useful idiots like yourself can make postings questioning whether they are really biased. Though at least with Snopes it'...
[17:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Politics of Extinction - 06North Pole is Much Warmer Than Usual - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:03] <exec> 08└─I think you're both right. But I'm not sure.
[17:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:13] <exec> 08└─It's been there for a few million years, during most of which it had no value. Must you really rush to possess it, just to protect yourself against the eventuality that it might not be quite as valuable later?
[17:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:15] <exec> 08└─I believe it will be of much higher value to the Roach civilization that follows ours, so who am I to decide to selfishly deprive them of it?
[17:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what? - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:25] <exec> 08└─A billion years of evolution brought us to this point, mostly moving slowly. Today we're moving much faster... continuing to accelerate at all the blind hills will eventually result in a nasty surprise on the other side.
[17:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The obvious rebuttal - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:37] <exec> 08└─mostly it's a slow rollout of new ideas.
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[18:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Streaming is pointless - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:12] <exec> 08└─Torrent/download not in real time. Watch when you want. You watch it in the evening, your kids the next afternoon. That way, as long as you are patient, you don't even need a particularly fast internet, Amazon don't need to invest in any infrastructure. Don't let content distributors force their sch...
[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Streaming is pointless - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you utterly fail to understand how streaming video works.
[18:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Streaming is pointless - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you fail to understand why media streams you! Copyright, artificial scarcity, per-view revenue. All restrictions on the intellectual and artistic heritage of humanity.
[18:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02SHUT UP AND TAKE MY CANADIAN PESOS! - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:18] <exec> 08└─I love the Top Gear crew so much. I can't wait to see them again. Now just hurry up and come to Canada.
[18:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New show - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─So I watched the new show. It was a fairly typical episode of theirs. However, it was clear they have a huge gap in their time lineup. Apparently the 'stars' part of their episode was a huge part of what they did. So we ended up with 2 very cringy staged things in the middle. Also the 'bet' they ma...
[18:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─Popcorn popping is beyond our primitive technology. It's clear evidence of ALIENS whom would have popped our corn for us. I believe this "microwave technology" was salvaged from the Roswell scout ship which no doubt used the technology frequently while the scout meditated on the foibles of primitive...
[18:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:36] <exec> 08└─But it must have seemed quite spooky at the time. In 1926, Hugo Gernsback called electricity the mysterious fluid. [mcgrewbooks.com]
[18:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─If you're gonna spend a quarter or a third of your life sitting on something, you should get familiar with it. An elder gentleman, when I was in college, pointed out that we spend more time holding a mouse, running our fingers on a keyboard, and staring at a screen than we do the same actions with o...
[18:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:50] <exec> 08└─> the thrust was some kind of crazy radiation that was extremely harmful to life, but if it is, it will probably be found out before it ever hits market or demo stage By the defunded EPA, the defunded OSHA, the defunded DOE, or the defunded NASA? Oh! I know, I know! Thanks to the negative studies an...
[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:52] <exec> 08└─You guys don't seem to understand this thing. You only get tiny amounts in thrust, but with no friction and only microgravity just a tiny bit of continuous thrust will get you moving really fast, but getting up to speed takes a while. You're not going to defeat gravity with one of these. And the onl...
[18:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:54] <exec> 08└─And the only environmental hazards would be your source of electricity, since this drive doesn't leak anything we know of.
[18:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:56] <exec> 08└─but I know I wouldn't want BTTF-style flying cars & hoverboards buzzing about over my head until I knew they weren't going to give me cancer or catastrophically poison the environment somehow.
[18:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:59] <exec> 08└─To me, EM drive isn't about competing with solar sails, EM drive is about utilizing a plutonium pile vs a dark-side radiator plate to generate electricity for thrust. If you're "headed into the dark" and don't want to radiate heat against your acceleration, radiate to the sides instead. Long ago, I...
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02+1 for Liquid Helium & LOL Re:superconductor - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:12] <exec> 08└─VLM, +1 for combining "liquid helium" and "LOL" in a single sentence. First time I recall seeing that :-) epic engineering challenge at liq He temps (LOL)
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but now you're talking about a completely different theoretical device. One of the things that has people so flummoxed about this device is that it appears to produce thrust with no exhaust. It appears to violate conservation of momentum. So, there's no "force" from the exhaust to use like thi...
[18:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:27] <exec> 08└─It's a question of pragmatism. You can safely ignore people whose theories violate the known laws of physics 99.9% of the time, and allocate the time you would've spent debunking it doing something else more productive. people actually did experiments with positive results
[18:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:For once - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:28] <exec> 08└─"Narrow minded fools" to believe the laws of physics, yes. How silly of us.
[18:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doh! - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:42] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be ironic if the birth of civilization was triggered by cavemen clamoring for more beer.
[18:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score:1) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─For me biggest killer feature of digital ink. Daylight viewable. That is you can take it to a park, and read there. Full sunlight directly on screen, still readable. Can't do that with standard displays.
[18:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:52] <exec> 08└─Patch for debian sid: linux$ git diff diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 80b8671..260ae76 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -619,6 +619,11 @@ ARCH_AFLAGS:= ARCH_CFLAGS := include arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-pic,) +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-op...
[18:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─Np pie? That's it, I am switching to *BSD. No one, but no one, gets in between me and pie. Mmmm, pie.
[18:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:07] <exec> 08└─My memory (back to the '60s, not the '50s) was that my parents' house had a coke-fired stove (not coal) for hot water. We had coal fireplaces in every room, but mostly used electric heaters in the rooms.
[18:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:11] <exec> 08└─Are you sure the stove wasn't burning coke? I remember my parents' house in the '60s used a coke stove to heat water. Other heating was sometimes coal fireplaces, but mostly electric heaters.
[18:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not a problem - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─Make London Great Again, complete with acid fog, plague optional. Make L.A. Great again, complete with smog. Make Cleveland Great Again, complete with flaming river. Make Chicago Great Again, complete with white gangsters and a giant fire. Make the midwest Great Again, complete with dustbowl Make Bu...
[18:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not a problem - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:28] <exec> 08└─It's not a problem in Chicago, or Detroit.
[18:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Toxic Ownership Brands - 06Oracle Buys Dyn - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─Looks like I need to find another registrar and dns provider. Suggestions?
[18:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Any good rumors - 06Oracle Buys Dyn - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:40] <exec> 08└─About the timing of the DDoS on Dyn, at a time when Oracle was negotiating to purchase the company? Disclaimer: I know nothing!
[18:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Very early history - 06History of Computer Hardware - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:23] <exec> 08└─In 1987 you could address as much ram with a consumer CPU as you could in 2000.
[18:49:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:34] <exec> 08└─I was so excited when Obama first ran for office. His rhetoric and positions all sounded so good... then he came into office and it turned out to be a lie. Thanks for making me a cynical bastard you lying fuck.
[18:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 1968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:48] <exec> 08└─The 2000 election, plus the 2008 election, should have taught Democrats a hard lesson about how not to run elections, and what does and doesn't work in getting Democrats elected to the White House (and also down-ticket races). In 2000, as you point out, Gore was a corporatist tool, hawkish, and pick...
[18:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:05] <exec> 08└─I disagree. You're right, the choices have never been all that great, at least in living memory. But to be honest, in 2008 Obama didn't seem that bad a choice, he was just an unknown in many ways because he didn't have much of a track record, but his rhetoric was nice and he was charismatic and repr...
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Yikes - 06Research Team Creates Pill That Unfolds in the Stomach - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─It's also important to note that according to the paper, the pill was actually delivered and retrieved by endoscope. So we have no idea yet about swallowing or passing it.
[18:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The obvious rebuttal - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:58] <exec> 08└─US Nuclear power isn't full stop - there have been developments in the industry, mostly centered on making 30 year design life plants last for 60 to 100, but also designs for micro-nuke generating stations, new full size plant designs with passive safety and other things that haven't quite turned th...
[18:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The obvious rebuttal - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:00] <exec> 08└─US Nuclear power isn't full stop - there have been developments in the industry, mostly centered on making 30 year design life plants last for 60 to 100, but also designs for micro-nuke generating stations, new full size plant designs with passive safety and other things that haven't quite turned th...
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[19:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Outlet ... - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:01] <exec> 08└─I see a major issue: If I cannot spew my anger and hatred at various customer support hotlines, it will keep bubbling inside me until I find a different outlet. When is the next election?
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Outlet ... - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:02] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I'm sure they will make a bot for that soon....
[19:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Admiral Akbar Rolls in Grave - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone trust a bit from the same company?
[19:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Bot vs Bot - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:06] <exec> 08└─In the not too distance future those customer service reps will be replaced with software chat bots themselves, and this will turn into an interesting game of bot vs bot. But as long as it saves me the fraction of my lifespan required to do it myself, I'm OK with that.
[19:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Streaming is pointless - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:18] <exec> 08└─You completely miss the point of his post. He's saying what is *our* (the consumer) motivation to stream anything instead of downloading it? Yes, Captain Obvious, streaming and downloading are two different things. Although strictly speaking they both involve downloading bits from a server somewhere...
[19:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:34] <exec> 08└─fuckin microwaves [wikipedia.org] how do they work, and what's the connection between popcorn and VASIMR?!?11?
[19:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:36] <exec> 08└─Oily lube.
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:38] <exec> 08└─magnets how do they work
[19:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Red + Green lines are bad - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:48] <exec> 08└─The above post is my nomination for the EvilSS Golden Armchair award!
[19:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Red + Green lines are bad - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─I pick https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─It's energy thrust, not asbestos/dioxin/benzene spray. The only thing complicated about it is making more of it.
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe you haven't read around. The inventor is claiming to do just that - defeat gravity - with the second generation of emdrive. If one version of his devices produces anomalous thrust, the newer claims should at least be taken seriously. I'm still waiting for the paper that disproves the first ite...
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─radiate to the sides instead.
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─If you're headed "into the black" the back side would be solar heated, decreasing the efficiency of the radiator - lower temperature differential with the Plutonium pile means less useful energy captured.
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:In my infinite spare time - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:20] <exec> 08└─At the moment - assuming the effect is real - the device is at the stage of using a flame thrower to light a candle: lots of power for very little effect. My rough understanding of the device is that the geometry of the chamber is what causes the quantum effects. Assuming that this is the case, it m...
[19:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Earth-based use? - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the desk doesn't protect you from ghosts.
[19:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh! - 06Barley Dormancy Mutation Suggests Beer Motivated Early Farmers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:48] <exec> 08└─Considering that beer was historically the only safe liquid to drink, I imagine yes: cavemen clamoring for more beer was clamoring for not getting sick and dying.
[19:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Why both? - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:17] <exec> 08└─Presumably Amazon's lawyers must have determined they could have a legitimate legal claim for [the text-to-speech option..."creating a derivative work" which would be subject to separate copyright protection], or else Amazon wouldn't have backed down.
[19:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Simples - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─less <filename>
[19:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Another reason - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:30] <exec> 08└─Enjoy poverty. If you want a high paying job, you have to run the corporate rat race. Telecommuting is not permitted, because attendance is mandatory to prove your loyalty.
[19:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:10] <exec> 08└─the awful truth that rulers are parasites, not servants.
[19:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:14] <exec> 08└─But to be honest, in 2008 Obama didn't seem that bad a choice, he was just an unknown in many ways because he didn't have much of a track record, but his rhetoric was nice and he was charismatic and represented change. And the alternative was much worse (warhawk McCain & bimbo Palin).
[19:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:16] <exec> 08└─but his rhetoric was nice and he was charismatic and represented change.
[19:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama lies - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:31] <exec> 08└─Heathen. Nano is the One True Editor (TM). Vi[m] is an advanced form of cognitive torture and Emacs is...well, a nice text mode OS, but man does its text editor suck.
[19:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:55] <exec> 08└─since the voltage was high enough to spark over to a stray body part (usually a finger). The mind boggles at what other appendages you may have used!
[19:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The obvious rebuttal - 06USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:09] <exec> 08└─No new site construction is very different than "zero progress" - research continues, design and feasibility continue... I wish it were more, but to me "full stop" would be where Germany is headed right now: shutting down the existing plants. The US hasn't hit that level of FUD, yet.
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[20:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:05] <exec> 08└─I helped a major bank build software to sell mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps after the recession.
[20:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:06] <exec> 08└─Who cares what content is loaded onto a website you built? If you are writing code you are only building a mechanism. Guns don't kill people, people do. Code doesn't deceive, marketing weasels do.
[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:08] <exec> 08└─That's like saying a pork has no need for meat because it's not salivating. What nonsense.
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─An auto dealership once convinced me to trade my old explorer in rather than scrap it, a few months later I saw photos of it having been in a major accident caused by component wear and failure and included some injuries. Is it my fault for not scrapping it? No I just sold it to someone else. I do n...
[20:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:12] <exec> 08└─Right on time, and exactly on message. Dude, doesn't it bother you that a reasonably competent programmer could perfectly replicate your posting habits with a Markov generator and some parsing algorithms? :/
[20:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:15] <exec> 08└─True, it is people and not guns that kill. Yet, do you feel remorse for loading and servicing all the guns and giving them to the psychopath just before he goes on a murdering spree?
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─Engineers are licensed, liable for bad designs, and able to object to bad direction. Most of that does not apply to Devs.
[20:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Need health insurance bot - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:28] <exec> 08└─Do they have a version of this for health insurance?
[20:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Congratulations - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:30] <exec> 08└─Congratulations Soylent. By COPYING a submission that was on slashdot last week, you've now had this fake site phish information from Soylent readers too. There is no bot, just a stupid video and a link for "more information" which then harvests your personal data. Congrats, editors.
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Hold yer horses AC.... - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─Don't get your knickers in a twist. You are erroneously assuming we RTFA around these parts, and we don't. Hell's fire, if you bothered to read the comments, you would already know that. If you want to get feisty about it, we can just blame you for knowing about it a whole week without letting us kn...
[20:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03koreanbabykilla [968] (Score:1) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks, missed it on the green site. Also thanks for the warning its a scam
[20:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Streaming is pointless - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:46] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that Amazon Prime lets you literally download their Prime Video shows for offline viewing, so the line is even blurrier.
[20:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New show - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:49] <exec> 08└─The first episode was really bad, compared to the same trio in Top Gear. Hopefully they polish the show as they progress through the season. Speaking of Top Gear, they may as well cancel it as the new cast just don't work. They're just beating a dead horse trying to fill the shoes of the ones that m...
[20:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Amazon has all the pieces - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:51] <exec> 08└─Amazon has everything in place to release original content world-wide, and I hope they do it. Well I guess May's said they'll do it but it will be interesting to see the details. With Amazon controlling the content, the network, and the payments infrastructure, they could, sell it for a monthly flat...
[20:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 4151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─Well, according to what I read, we know that the wave-particle dualities are there. Every schoolboy has done the double-slit experiment to prove that light acts like a wave, even if it acts like a particle elsewhere. And we know that we don't yet have a conclusive interpretation of the quantum world...
[20:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─yeah. do you realize most people actually don't spend any time at all choosing their own children? this is a person who will live with you for 20 years, you will have to provide for all their wants and needs, and deal with all of their problems, but you spend zero amount of time choosing between the...
[20:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:17] <exec> 08└─I'm also gonna spend a lot less time deciding the color of the asteroid that will obliterate civilization than I did choosing today's socks. Thanks for false equivalences, but I don't live in a place where my spouse was chosen for me.
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─Roger Shawyer is teasing upgraded systems that supposedly put out an obscene amount of N/kW, even enabling terrestrial flight (Back to the Future II style)
[20:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─A lot of people seem to have forgotten that in the past many people discovered things/phenomena and worked out how to take advantage of them even though they didn't understand how they worked. I see many going "no it can't work _because_ the theory says it can't" or "it can't work because the claime...
[20:48:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Calm? - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:15] <exec> 08└─Calm? For this guy, this response is positively catatonic.
[20:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:38] <exec> 08└─Are you sure the stove wasn't burning coke? I remember my parents' house in the '60s used a coke stove to heat water. Other heating was sometimes coal fireplaces, but mostly electric heaters.
[20:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Toxic Ownership Brands - 06Oracle Buys Dyn - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:07] <exec> 08└─After seeing this news, I moved mine to NameCheap where I had a .email domain and certificate from. They've been good on that domain for about 1+ years, so I just moved my other 5 domains over yesterday.
[20:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:08] <exec> 08└─Yes! Exactly! TUCK FRUMP! ah.. TRUCK FUMP! ... FUCK BETA!
[20:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:36] <exec> 08└─You're going to have to explain why you think Obama is "evil" and Romney is somehow not as bad. From my perspective, they're both corporatist, establishment tools, but at least with Obama we were more likely to get things like gay marriage and no overturning of RvW, whereas with any establishment Re...
[20:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02False positives/frame jobs - 06Chemical Residue Left On Phones Tells Much About Owners - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:32] <exec> 08└─No doubt such a database will be built by law enforcement agencies allowing them to trace your movements without your assistance.
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[21:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:54] <exec> 08└─I helped a major bank build software to sell mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps after the recession.
[21:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:59] <exec> 08└─You are a good human being. Continue being alive!
[21:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:02] <exec> 08└─yeah, but, he also has a point... most of us are 'work for hire' types, and 1. HOW do we know our ultimate client is an upstanding and admirable person we are proud to be associated with ? ? ? i know i generally dont know shit about the clients for our work.. 2. am i remiss for not interviewing them...
[21:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:04] <exec> 08└─"I was just following orders"
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:07] <exec> 08└─giving them to the psychopath just before he goes on a murdering spree?
[21:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─You're not answering the question. There's a difference between a "spidey sense" of a nutjob buying a COTS legal tool, and a dedicated design tailored to the nutjob's dangerous specifications. > I would prefer to live in a high trust society instead of a police state. When is your flight?
[21:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─As an aside, licensing as an engineer is possible for CS and CE people, but it is still in the early stages. But I'm sure it's possible to get sued if you fuck up, and I know I can definitely object to bad direction.
[21:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:15] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's it. Plenty of people die or suffer from bad mechanical design/implementation and there are few if any repercussions to the engineers. Exploding phones, cheating exhaust tests, highly vulnerable IoT devices, airbags that are basically shotguns, and so on. Engineers aren't liable...
[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Someone else will do it anyway" - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:17] <exec> 08└─That's often the lame and stupid excuse used to justify doing the bad stuff yourself. But in the real world it often takes a while before that someone else does it. It's just like littering. Someone else will eventually throw trash on the street. But if enough people didn't the street will be cleane...
[21:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:"Someone else will do it anyway" - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:19] <exec> 08└─But it can hurt ones career to refuse to do dodgy tasks. You likely cannot use the company as a reference if skip such tasks, making getting your next gig more difficult or with lower pay. Things are even worse if your sector is in a slump. I agree one should start looking for a new gig if things ge...
[21:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Programmers? - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─Bah, what about all the dirt we Sys/Net OP's see/have/deal with/bury/etc. I drink Scotch to forget how fucking awful most of the people on our campus secretly are.
[21:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Programmers? - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:24] <exec> 08└─Since when was that a secret?
[21:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Project Plan - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:26] <exec> 08└─I was asked to produce a "project plan" to show to a major customer. It was supposed to show burn down for a few months of work. Of course, the company hadn't allocated any resources to the project, so it didn't show any burn down. After my fifth attempt at producing the plan (now done late at night...
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:28] <exec> 08└─Devs, Coders, Software Engineers, and every other permutation of the discipline could work transformative change, if they wanted to. I once gamed an algorithm to make sure an impoverished college student won a contest. I didn't know her. I will never meet her. But I made a difference in her life, be...
[21:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02statistical significance - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:30] <exec> 08└─"Get me those stars!" http://graphpad.com [graphpad.com]
[21:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Bot vs Bot - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─In the not too distance future those customer service reps will be replaced with software chat bots themselves, and this will turn into an interesting game of bot vs bot.
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need health insurance bot - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:44] <exec> 08└─Considering that they don't even have one for Comcast, I'm going with "no."
[21:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazon has all the pieces - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─There are still rights to consider - background music for example - which may cause issues on occasion. There's then countries that want to censor the broadcast (china perhaps), but in the whole yes, country based distribution should be going the way of the dinosaur.
[21:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02The grand tour - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:06] <exec> 08└─I watched and enjoyed the first episode quite a bit. Especially the so-called stars in cars entry points. It is obviously a web show with some faults to it but overall it was MUCH better than the replacement stars and I look forward to seeing more episodes. I also found the new live version pilot of...
[21:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New physics, interesting - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:52] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming the NASA isn't conducting a fraud so at worst there could be experimental errors.
[21:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IRex 1000S - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:55] <exec> 08└─It's not a 1000S, but I do have an Irex Iliad that I probably would be willing to part with if you are interested.
[21:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─Chairs are also like the boot story, where I can't afford to buy a $50 walmart chair every three months for my whole life, but I'm sitting in more than eleven year old Aeron and its still practically new... I'm due for buying a new one on the every decade plan but I just don't need one yet. It only...
[21:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:12] <exec> 08└─Hmm yes good point. My phone looks good in the shade but as you mention direct sunlight makes it hard to read.
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Ooh, pick me! - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:16] <exec> 08└─I'm in the market for a new eBook reader.
[21:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux 4.9-rcx - 06Linux 4.9 Has 'Issues That Just Shouldn't Be Issues'. Or Might Not - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:37] <exec> 08└─Used the stock /boot/config-4.8.0-1-amd64 as the initial config. M/B: Asus M5A99x SATA Drives: Intel SSD / HGST / Hitachi / Seagate / WD Red Running Linus tip: 3b404a519815b9820f73f1ecf404e5546c9270ba (post v4.9-rc6) No obvious issues here. Hope this helps.
[21:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Killer fog - 06Scientists Have Figured Out Why London Fog Killed 12,000 People - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:53] <exec> 08└─1990s (no longer East) Berlin and Potsdam had regular coal service to residences and businesses, great piles of the stuff waiting to be burned. About the same time, I encountered one of those acid clouds on the streets of Potsdam, nasty stuff.
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[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:49] <exec> 08└─What's the score on Obama? Also, his renegade on persecuting HRC, is that a thumbs up or down? Obviously, purely from a campaign promise its a thumbs down, but I personally dislike lynch mobs and witch hunts...
[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:51] <exec> 08└─The game already ended with the $25 million Trump U settlement. Trump effectively admitted fraud defrauding thousands of struggling middle class folks out of thousands USD each, with no plan going in to do otherwise. Then the next day, he starts talking about the 'Hamilton' cast, and so the press du...
[22:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:53] <exec> 08└─We will need trade agreements. I'm holding back my thumbs until I see what his administration wants to put in the next trade agreement.
[22:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─If anyone needed any reason to wonder why so many people voted for Trump, they could probably just start and finish at things like the TPP. A multinational trade deal, cooked up and pushed by special interest groups, negotiated in secret (because they KNEW that the content would be unpopular with 99...
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Some good news, at least - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─Certainly a good outcome for my country, we were really going to get screwed* by the US. But why is he getting rid of such a business friendly treaty? And which meaning of "fair, bilateral" is going to apply? *This would have been an own goal courtesy of the politicians here who who have turned b...
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Some good news, at least - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the *really*scary part is that this deal was probably better for the US than for any other country. As a Canadian, seeing the likelihood of it coming to pass dropping is a huge relief.
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─If he actually is a good trade negotiator we may be okay (later). HOWEVER, if he's a crank, we'll end up with higher priced goods imported into the US and fewer markets for our exports, and no net job gain.
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Hold your horses ... - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─Obama closed Gitmo on day 1... Remember? It is not impossible that someone might have noticed how the upcoming CEO of Trump Corp sat in on the president-elect's meeting with Abe-san. It is not impossible that people with vested interests will use the next two months to leverage any incentive they ha...
[22:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─Neither mortgage backed securities nor credit default swaps are inherently bad. They are tools.
[22:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:21] <exec> 08└─If they enabled something they didn't expect, certainly. On the other hand if you build someone a weapon knowing how they plan to abuse it, then you carry a share of the responsibility of that abuse. Similarly if you create a tool that you know can be easily abused for great gain - human nature bein...
[22:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:24] <exec> 08└─That's like saying a pork has no need for meat because it's not salivating.
[22:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:29] <exec> 08└─with a Markov generator and some parsing algorithms
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:34] <exec> 08└─Amazing. The Nazis who were "just following orders" would like you to take a time machine and preside over the Nuremberg trials.
[22:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:38] <exec> 08└─Traditional engineering is based on stable best practices. Those don't exist in software. The world would be a much better place if every use case really had a standard general-purpose language that worked efficiently, prevented stupid designs instead of encouraging them, and was open and free acros...
[22:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Programmers? - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:45] <exec> 08└─Its one thing to intellectually realize something, its quite another to have it slap you in the face.
[22:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Programmers? - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:47] <exec> 08└─Is this a "size matters" joke?
[22:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Project Plan - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:50] <exec> 08└─You can only get away with lies and spin so far.
[22:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─So... what happened to the person who deserved to win and didn't?
[22:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code, and Its Consequences - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:56] <exec> 08└─They said "doh" and went out to get a donut.
[22:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:statistical significance - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:59] <exec> 08└─How does that relate to the topic?
[22:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:statistical significance - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─Because they wanted me to manipulate the data (filter outliers, normalizing, transforming, etc) until a "discovery" occurred. IE torture the data so they can publish a paper claiming a drug did something.
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:statistical significance - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─Also filed under: things you could have added to the original submission :P
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sound [Re:I'm fine with EM vehicles...] - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:27] <exec> 08└─so long as they're fitted with noise makers.
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:thinking outside the box - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─A tenth of a percent of my salary every decade buys me a nice executive class throne to perch upon, one percent of my salary every couple years gets high quality if not top tier (at least for the time) monitors to look into
[22:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Onyx boox - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.onyxboox.com [onyxboox.com] I used to have this years ago, until I became a lazy iPad owner. Has e-ink and micro SD. It now runs Android, so there might be a TTS app somewhere out there (it used to have a custom firmeware interface)
[22:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Onyx boox - 06Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:51] <exec> 08└─Didn't read carefully, it actually says TTS in the specs. Currently sold out, I hope that's a good sign.
[22:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Electrocute'' - 06 Hackers Electrocute Selves in Quest to Turn Secure Doors from Outside - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:07] <exec> 08└─You mean 480?
[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Poor debunking - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:56] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's utterly unsuitable on the "pro" side as well. However, in this case the pro side also has an awful lot of anecdotal evidence supporting it, which despite your disparaging tone is a wellspring of informally accumulated wisdom, even if it is mixed in with a heaping triple helping of nonsens...
[22:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Material vs Meaningful - 06Tech-Related Wishlists and Deals for Black Friday and the Holidays - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:52] <exec> 08└─Wish I could disagree with you on that one. Seems like most everyone is racing to cash out on their good names.
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[23:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02basic income - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:50] <exec> 08└─The jobless masses take as much money as they need from the nearest cash point. And that's how basic income works.
[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02They're always new, aren't they? - 06Hackers Program Bank ATMs to Spew Cash - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─"had collected more than 83 million New Taiwan dollars" Seriously, I've never had an ATM give me old dollars. If not brand new and still stickiing to each other, the bills are at least still crisp and new looking. I think the older dollars would jam up in there, with all the wrinkles and tears. On t...
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─HRC persecution, or prosecution? I hope we all persecute HRC forever. She has no business in the adult world, and I hope all the kids throw rocks at her everytime she ventures out from under the porch. Now, prosecution? That's a different matter. I want to see it happen, but it never will.
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─HOw did the world survive before trade agreements? Have we had trade agreements favorable to American entertainment industries since the stone ages?
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:06] <exec> 08└─We might need decent trade agreements, but what we don't need are trade agreements negotiated in secret that are just thinly-veiled corporate supremacy treaties which force even more draconian copyright and patent rules down everyone's throats. Stop that sort of garbage and there won't be so much re...
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumbs up! - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─(... Do you remember how Obama was definitely going to close Gitmo?)
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Roulette - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:15] <exec> 08└─"higher priced goods imported into the US" That would be a "good thing". People looking for new clothes, kitchen utensils, auto parts, etc will purchase American goods, if those goods aren't priced three times higher than the competition. People start buying American goods, more Americans will go to...
[23:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes We Can Change - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:18] <exec> 08└─Obama changed the presidential skin color on day one. And kept the same color throughout his presidency. Most honest politician ever.
[23:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03muhgi [3651] (Score:1) 02Re:Hold your horses ... - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:20] <exec> 08└─As of this month, Gitmo is still open for business with 60 prisoners. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold your horses ... - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:22] <exec> 08└─But if we let the prisoners out of gitmo, they'll assrape all our virgin sons!
[23:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the Dow hit an all time high today - 06Donald Trump to Withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:24] <exec> 08└─It is hard to imagine that wall street would be celebrating this. And yet the Dow hit an all time high today. Something is fishy.
[23:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My worst point - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:35] <exec> 08└─We need to stop thinking of overcomplicated financial instruments as "tools". If it isn't dead obvious how much the asset is really worth, it's an avenue for corruption at best and economy-destroying fraud at worst. Viewing it as a "tool" is like viewing chemical weapons as "tools". It's technically...
[23:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a non-English phrase that doesn't translate well. If anyone recognizes it, would you mind sharing its meaning? Its strangeness suggests that it could be interesting.
[23:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Re:Code != Content - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─Seriously. It's like, sure he built a conveyor belt that carried people in extreme comfort towards the rotating knives. And the blood slurps down these chutes, while the mangled flesh.... okay bad example.
[23:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We're Not Engineers - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─That's one of the reasons I left IT/CS and went into real engineering. Was so tired of constantly chasing the bleeding edge and changing to the new-hotness framework every so many months. It's nice to be working with technology that matures slower and actually gets proven before mass roll-outs.
[23:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Project Plan - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:09] <exec> 08└─He's not in power yet...
[23:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02The Sell-Outs - 06Programmers Talk About the Unethical and Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do - 2426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─We programmers have sold out. It pays well. But most of the work we do? It helps the rich steal from the poor. And we get a cut. Every software-aided marketing campaign steals people's money and attention, in exchange for empty consumerism. Every software-aided data collection scheme destroys one mo...
[23:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bot vs Bot - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:30] <exec> 08└─In the not too distance future those customer service reps will be replaced with software chat bots themselves, and this will turn into an interesting game of bot vs bot.
[23:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score:1) 02Re:Hold yer horses AC.... - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:36] <exec> 08└─And you're assuming after that pathetic excuse for a video that we'd want more information. The process wasn't shown outside of the initial messages, which made for lackluster entertainment at best. I prefer the common approach of answering all of their questions before asked (especially tech suppor...
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:39] <exec> 08└─We are only as good as our submissions. If you have something you would like to read and talk about, please submit it and make our site better. That said, I did not install the chrome extension because I have no use for it, so perhaps I did fall down on that requirement.
[23:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proof? - 06Let This New Bot Negotiate With Online Chat Reps for a Lower Comcast Bill - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:41] <exec> 08└─> There is no bot, How do you know? Its definitely more than just a video, there is an actual extension. I don't have a comcast account, but I filled in bogus info and it proceeded to log into the comcast chat and start talking to their customer service person (or maybe their bot, online no one know...
[23:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazon has all the pieces - 06Amazon Show Grand Tour to Stream in 200 Countries Beginning in December - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─With Amazon controlling the content, the network, and the payments infrastructure, they could, sell it for a monthly flat fee, à la carte per episode, or whatever they want.
[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─Ack! You 'believe' in Hawking radiation, right? Produced by one of a pair of particles from a black hole escaping? What happens to the other particle left behind the event horizon? Cue: Unruh radiation. Unruly was not what you would call an armchair physicist
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Bring on the armchair physicists! - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:22] <exec> 08└─Well it is not understood by it's discoverer (not inventor) but it is well explaned (predicted even) in MiHsC.
[23:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia. microwave ovens were banned, or at least so said a young earth creationist with an interest in nutrition. Make of that what you will :-)
[23:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:41] <exec> 08└─It works by changing the inertial weight of in-flight photons. Thus the drive needs to move -thrust- for conservation of momentum. Basicly it is a giant Casimir effect. It should not be a problem. Nor do we have to imagine dark matter or dark energy anymore. This, MiHsC, explains all four effects.
[23:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:to infinity and beyond - 06It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EmDrive Paper Has Finally Been Published - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry but you appear to be in error. Consider the thrust produced by the Casimir effect. No radiation. The "EM" drive is a Hubble scale Casimir effect. It is relying on radiation (Unruh radiation) that is already there. What I like is what it does for Mach
[23:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Such a dissapointment - 06Obama Says He Can’t Pardon Snowden - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:51:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe they knew things the public didn't. <Conspiracy theory> Like when it was Obama vs. Hillary, they new they can get Obama to toe the line so went with the candidate with the best chance of winning, but not so with Bernie. </Conspiracy theory>
[23:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor debunking - 06Cranberries! The Benefits Of Being Bitter - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a scientifically minded individual prone to testing my assumptions and I can tell you with confidence that *in my case* urinary tract problems clear up in under half the time, on average, if I immediately start drinking cranberry juice in response.
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