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[00:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:00:43] <exec> 08└─It isn't fake. If you go to http://www.webmd.com [webmd.com] and look under the "WebMD Network" section, there's a link to the BootsWebMD site.
[00:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:00:44] <exec> 08└─Here are links to the abstract of the scientific paper. https://dx.doi.org [doi.org] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[00:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not enough background research - 06Learning Makes Animals Intelligent - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:28] <exec> 08└─pdfpls? 1930 so not like copyright should matter.
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[00:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:30] <exec> 08└─Space is really freakishly hard. Those launches should be routine, those guys are some of the most experienced on the planet launching highly proven systems. And still they fail, every now and then. Gravity's a bitch. Beating gravity requires skimping on ("optimizing") redundancy, strength and shiel...
[00:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:32] <exec> 08└─Beating gravity requires...
[00:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:34] <exec> 08└─Even good people come up with bad ideas, or subscribe to them. I wish the retarded idea of the space elevator would die already.
[00:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Why do the Russians suck recently? - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:36] <exec> 08└─They used to be pretty reliable, strategy being cheap brute force over expensive tech. Over the last couple years seems their reliability has taken a serious hit. Anyone know why? CSB In the mid 90's I worked for Globalstar (satellite cell phones, no local cell tower needed). We were launching the f...
[00:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:windows version - - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:11] <exec> 08└─Depending on where you buy it you can get it pretty much any way you like. With or without crap. If you want 0 crap. Go for a business line sort of computer.
[00:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Important omission - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:17] <exec> 08└─Glossy allegedly allows deeper blacks than matte, which smears ambient light all over the display.
[00:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02CPU Fan - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:31] <exec> 08└─Do fans on laptops still suck? I haven't updated my laptop in years, but the one thing I remember above all is the annoyingly loud fan needed to cool the CPU. These things are tiny and normally suck air from the bottom of the device (thus suck up any carpet lint or dirt and then get clogged) Plus, t...
[00:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Freedom - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:32] <exec> 08└─A laptop that respects your freedoms. [fsf.org] Since many companies are enemies of freedom, finding a powerful laptop that respects user freedoms is going to be nigh impossible, so you have to make do with laptops that aren't very powerful but at least allow you to have your freedoms. There aren't...
[00:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Thailand's New King Crowned - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:56:27] <exec> 08└─Sure! Black horse fly, lemonade Jar on the red ant hill Garden worm, cigarette Ash on the window sill Hundred years, hundred more Someday we may see A woman king, sword in hand Swing at some evil and bleed
[00:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crown Prince - 06Thailand's New King Crowned - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:56:40] <exec> 08└─It's worse. He's going to be king of Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (Bangkok)
[00:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:1) 02Re:Originality isn't valuable per se. - 06Fallout 1.5: Resurrection. A Fan-Created Take-off on the Franchise - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:03] <exec> 08└─man, i gotta start posting more.
[00:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:You should NOT listen to these people! - 06Over 500 MIT Faculty Sign Statement Opposing Trump Cabinet Picks - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:04] <exec> 08└─Sidestepping the issue of whether or not the MIT staff are qualified, another issue is that they're just another bunch of obnoxious academics speaking from their ivory tower and out of touch with commoners. Anyway, just because somebody's good at being an academic doesn't mean they're any good at no...
[01:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:00] <exec> 08└─And I'm pretty sure they'll eventually be able to regrow a crushed and amputated arm or leg. I probably won't live to see it. Medical science advances really fast, though. I never thought my 20/400 eyes would ever be fixed, that I'd always need glasses, but now after surgery in 2006 when I had a Cry...
[01:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:amputate the head - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:13] <exec> 08└─I 100% AC - someone upvote parent please, those are golden links
[01:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:cuz then "off with their heads" - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:16] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if I were the victim I'd prefer it to an axe, or a jehadist's knife.
[01:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:energetics... - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:23] <exec> 08└─It's "build the new leg in the lab, then surgically attach" really.
[01:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so many reasons I'd like you to reconsider, geb! - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:27] <exec> 08└─> Many whales have about the same size of genome as humans. And they are -extremely- intelligent, and certainly some species not only have language but have oral traditions. > size has nothing to do with complexity Size has to do with complexity of regrowth actually. The larger the organism the larg...
[01:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stem cells? - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:35] <exec> 08└─> I'm pretty sure most stem cells are also pretty localized Yeah, no. Turns out they can be extremely mobile, it's just very uncommon. IIRC this was done with mitochrondial swaps in local pluripotents, later found in pluripotents (and downstream) across the organism. I forget the location and model...
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[01:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02The Proof of the Pudding - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:30] <exec> 08└─"No Change in Flavor" I'll believe it when I taste it. I can't recall any product over the years that replaced sugar that didn't turn out to change the taste experience. Our culture is so inundated with artificial flavours, fillers, and ersatz substitutions for real ingredients that many people have...
[01:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Proof of the Pudding - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:32] <exec> 08└─On top of that all of these 'new' items still do not taste the same. For me almost have a fairly nasty aftertaste. I rather do without than that nasty taste.
[01:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 1797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:34] <exec> 08└─Well, Nestle chocolate is already fake-tasting crap (even by American standards, which admittedly are pretty bad), so making it slightly more healthy would be a good improvement. Although I love their Butterfinger bars, the only candy bar worthy of Bart Simpson's endorsement. [youtube.com] It even h...
[01:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:36] <exec> 08└─* Oh, my apologies, in my haste I forgot to clarify the asterisk: gibs-me-dats
[01:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:47] <exec> 08└─Space elevators will need to be developed and deployed if we ever want a long term sustainable solution for the species not dying on this rock.
[01:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:48] <exec> 08└─It's not as retarded as a way to send stuff out of the moon, courtesy of no atmosphere and lower gravity and space junk. Any good reference having already done the math on how long the cable would have to be, given the different gravity vs rotation ratio?
[01:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good Ol' Al & Cu - 06Bumpy Surfaces, Graphene Beat the Heat in Devices - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:58] <exec> 08└─It sure beats putting ice packs around the case air inlets on an overclocked seti@home PC. Yes, I actually did that in the early days.
[01:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Light and zippy, no dGPU needed - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:21] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I am a Dell Fanboy. The feature is probably not unique to Dell Laptops, but my Latitude D600 (which I bought refurbished back in 2006 and is still alive and kicking like a champ) has both the trackpad and the clit mouse in the middle of the keyboard. Good redundancy since as a guy who o...
[01:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Panasonic Toughbook - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:49] <exec> 08└─The Panasonic Toughbook CF-54E9716KM hits all of those except VGA, plus it has a DVD drive as well. It's a bit heavy for a 14" laptop, but it has a carry handle which makes it easier to tote. Also it's a Toughbook. You can beat the crap out of it and it'll keep working. On the other hand, it's almos...
[01:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Great example - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:09] <exec> 08└─I'm with you right up to the "fighters would be on them in seconds..." Our fighter bases are actually spread fairly thin, sometimes they would have to respond over 300 miles or more, which they can do in about 20 minutes, but only after they get airborne which can take another 5 to 10 sometimes. Eve...
[02:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The need a new filter on reviews - 06Amazon Imposes Limit on Reviews - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:54] <exec> 08└─Amazon has recently forbidden those kinds of reviews unless they got the product through Amazon's vine program. So, its a big improvement, but not 100% PS, the reason they had that standard line about how they got but are impartial it is because that disclosure was the rule (from amazon or maybe the...
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[02:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Remix Culture - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:32] <exec> 08└─Eh, it doesn't bother me. Once I got used to eating food from different cultures, I realized my preconceptions about what food should taste (and look) like were fairly arbitrary. I'm not a big fan of nutritionalism, but even if this does taste different from full-sugar chocolate that doesn't mean it...
[02:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The Proof of the Pudding - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:33] <exec> 08└─As long as they keep it to changing their sugar shape, we're probably better off than with the artificial substitutes, as pointed out in TFS. Faced with a can of $brand and a can of diet $brand, an old friend always asks people whether they prefer diabetes or neurotoxins. If I'm not gonna drink wate...
[02:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:37] <exec> 08└─homemade canned green-beans and whipped-up hamburger-helper
[02:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Minor caveat... - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:40] <exec> 08└─May induce explosive diarrhea.
[02:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Not surprising - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:42] <exec> 08└─Their chocolate tastes like crap. I imagine they can do quite a lot with it and it will still taste like crap.
[02:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Definitions - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:21] <exec> 08└─A straight face.
[02:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:my minimum specs - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:50] <exec> 08└─The bad news is that you can't find anything like that on the market. The good news is that you can build it on a breadboard.
[02:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CPU Fan - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:55] <exec> 08└─some tablets do have fans. but it seems most people are willing to accept a fan to have the fastest cpus
[02:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Thailand's New King Crowned - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:59] <exec> 08└─Instead of immediately killing or imprisoning someone, the US government prefers more secretive methods of destroying those who challenge it: Suicide letters (e.g. MLK), blackmail, parallel construction, no-fly lists, agent provocateurs, etc. The best I can say is that we're better than North Korea...
[03:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not enough background research - 06Learning Makes Animals Intelligent - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:11] <exec> 08└─It should be free at that link (you need to enable js to see it though...) It isn't for you?
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[04:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 026000 Years, when a myriad was the largest number. - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:55] <exec> 08└─Two possibilities: One: It was Tropical because God had not yet divided the light from the dark, on the first Day, which was already quite light or he couldn't have seen what he was doing . . .(actually, that explains a lot, even jmorris!). This is the Young Earth Moron explanation. (Did you just se...
[04:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:57] <exec> 08└─That's easy: goats. Next question?
[04:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Ignored - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:05] <exec> 08└─Hrumph. I see they ignored my suggestion of "Derpium". From the pattern, I should have gone with "Derpon". Derpon little pegasus, derpon.
[04:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignored - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:07] <exec> 08└─Trumpium
[04:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:09] <exec> 08└─When they manage to find an isotope out there on the periodic table that lasts a few seconds, call me. Just not seeing any possibility of a practical application until that happens. Can't really even study the stuff to see if anything interesting could be made from it, they have to outrageously chea...
[04:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:11] <exec> 08└─Just not seeing any possibility of a practical application until that happens.
[04:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Proof of the Pudding - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:22] <exec> 08└─> As long as they keep it to changing their sugar shape, we're probably better off than with the artificial substitutes "Shape" at the molecular level can make a big difference. For example, chirality affects digestability.
[04:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:25] <exec> 08└─'Cause everyone knows white trash doesn't use welfare. Ha!
[04:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nestle business plan - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:31] <exec> 08└─1) reduce sugar by 40% 2) reduce other ingredients by 40% 3) don't reduce price 4) profit!!!!
[04:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Nestle chocolate is crap - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:33] <exec> 08└─Over the years, I've come to really appreciate dark chocolate. I allow myself an ounce or two every day, but it's gotta be at least 72% cocoa for me to enjoy it. I've come to appreciate some of the best chocolates in the world, and Nestle is crapola. Get yourself some good South American or Mexican...
[04:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02My new word for the day: phonon - 06Bumpy Surfaces, Graphene Beat the Heat in Devices - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:55] <exec> 08└─MIT News: [mit.edu] ...heat — as well as sound — is actually the motion or vibration of atoms and molecules: Low-frequency vibrations correspond to sound, while higher frequencies correspond to heat. At each frequency, quantum mechanics principles dictate that the vibrational energy must be a m...
[04:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:my minimum specs - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:44] <exec> 08└─The bad news is that you can't find anything like that on the market.
[04:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Squidious [4327] (Score:2) 02Disposable! - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:51] <exec> 08└─Number one requirement for me is disposably cheap - less then $70 a unit. I buy used business laptops in lots and outfit my crew with identical equipment with multiple spares on the shelf already configured. All important data is backed up on servers. Somebody sloshes a soda or drops one on the tile...
[04:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Centered Keyboard - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:54] <exec> 08└─How about a centered keyboard and trackpad. None of this cancerous off-center usability disaster because the manufacturer put a fucking NUMBER PAD on a 15" laptop. Anything more, like a classic layout, is wishful thinking A non 16:9 display ratio would be nice too. Maybe even 3:2.
[04:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Great example - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:14] <exec> 08└─I was assuming that there would at least be security alerts when the thieves went in. But you're right, likely they might be able to escape if they planned it perfectly, though I presume security would be designed to give some delay. They always use tight security right? lawl
[04:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear option - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:22] <exec> 08└─"I just want to know what to pack." All you need to know is do not forget your towel.
[04:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02YES your system can be owned - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:47] <exec> 08└─FTFA: "Even though there is currently, to the best of our knowledge, no similar exploit for OS X or Linux users available, the underlying bug affects those platforms as well." ie. it's not being exploited *widely* but it sure as hell is being exploited now, the cat's out of this bag.
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[05:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:6000 Years, when a myriad was the largest numbe - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:02] <exec> 08└─Because nobody makes an ass of themselves like you do. Perhaps a step in the right direction would be for you to actually read the comments you respond to like most other folks on this site do.
[05:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Niggers - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:04] <exec> 08└─&nigger;
[05:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:15] <exec> 08└─Just because you don't understand what jmorris was getting at, doesn't mean he was wrong. Bottom line here is that these are atoms that are unstable and aren't going to be useful for anything other than testing theory for the time being. Eventually, they may make them last long enough to do actual c...
[05:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The Proof of the Pudding - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:28] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with health. I will bet my right testicle that the new substance is cheaper than both real sugar and any fake substitute. They just don't give a fuck about anything but profits. I don't eat anything they make knowingly anyway (though sicne they own like 90% of the food chain i...
[05:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minor caveat... - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:35] <exec> 08└─"May"? I like those odds ...
[05:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle chocolate is crap - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:40] <exec> 08└─How about Taza?
[05:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Oaxaca or Tabasco - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:42] <exec> 08└─I have a good friend who just brought me some real, honest chocolate from Oaxaca... Doesn't taste like anything in America or Europe, not even Belgian which I consider superior to Italian... If you can, get some real chocolate from Oaxaca or Tabasco (southern Mexico), no sugar, no shit, just pure ch...
[05:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:55] <exec> 08└─Because the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, its synchronous "orbit" is at the Lagrange points L1 or L2. That's quite a bit farther than the Earth's synchronous orbital altitude. However, because the Moon is much less massive than the Earth, the elevator wouldn't have to be as strong. Unfortunat...
[05:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do the Russians suck recently? - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:58] <exec> 08└─Musky fired an e-beam at the Progress.
[05:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Definitions - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:27] <exec> 08└─Anything made by Apple.
[05:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Requirements - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:30] <exec> 08└─We are still talking screen sizes, right? Right?
[05:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rev_irreverence [144] (Score:1) 02Re:What is the current best linux laptop? - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:49] <exec> 08└─I have a Lenovo X1 carbon running Fedora 25 and Windows 10 inside a VM. Everything pretty much worked out of the box and has been rock solid stable ever since.
[05:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Shills... - 06Amazon Imposes Limit on Reviews - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:34:51] <exec> 08└─The problem with your entire line of reasoning, one which I would argue makes it entirely moot, is thus...since Amazon opened up their market to third party resellers even products sold on amazon may not be the real thing so simply saying "it was bought here" doesn't mean shit anymore. I have seen C...
[05:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 2125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:35:31] <exec> 08└─I had my first go-around with insurance about ten years ago. I had a terrible misunderstanding of the word "covered". The first thing my dentist did was give me an estimate of dental work, then when I questioned why the bill was so high when I supposedly was "covered" by insurance, I was told that...
[05:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:35:37] <exec> 08└─Hi Aristarchus, I see you're posting this BS as though you're being insightful. Ask just about any dentist out there, you lose teeth because the jaw and connective tissues can no longer support the tooth. Some people will lose teeth due to severe decay and injury, but that's less common. You don't t...
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[06:28:01] <exec> 08└─The only employable people today are black female lesbian veterans of recent wars. If you didn't volunteer to serve Bushbama, you're fucked. If you didn't even vote for Bushbama, you're doubly fucked. If you protested Bushbama's Wars, you might as well fucking kill yourself.
[06:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:6000 Years, when a myriad was the largest numbe - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:10] <exec> 08└─Umm. Frost Piss? There were no comments to respond to! What are you talking about? I would really like to understand you, AC, but you are making it most difficult. All I can say now is that I hope a male camel finds your mother in a compromised position.
[06:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02How do you get weather from the Holocene? - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:14] <exec> 08└─The two researchers have looked into precipitation patterns of the Holocene era
[06:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:16] <exec> 08└─How the hell, OK, I am not really surprised, did I get an "overrated" mod, when the only other mod was "troll"? Should I be getting a message?
[06:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:28] <exec> 08└─Just because you don't understand what jmorris was getting at, doesn't mean he was wrong.
[06:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:49] <exec> 08└─Their chocolate tastes like crap. Combined with the post immediately above yours [soylentnews.org], this paints a very disturbing picture.
[06:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Oaxaca or Tabasco - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:55] <exec> 08└─If you can, get some real chocolate from Oaxaca or Tabasco (southern Mexico), no sugar, no shit, just pure chocolate.
[06:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:windows version - - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe one day they make the trialware completely delete itself if its not purchased. If using the software without paying for it is considered theft, then how about unwanted software squatting in precious memory real estate without paying rent?
[06:30:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Celestial [4891] 02Re:System76 - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:05] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it's actually the case, but I've been told that System76 is basically your standard Sager/Clevo notebook reseller. Those you can get cheaper at a lot of places. With System76, you're paying for Ubuntu support. Now, that may be important and useful to you. It may not be. Just somethin...
[06:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:System76 - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:06] <exec> 08└─I've had success with (slightly used) HP, Toshiba, Samsung and Dell laptops - Win7 era up to Win8/8.1. Take it home, pop a Linux distro disc in, 30 minutes, problems all solved. Caveats are that some HP dv6's have overheating problems and Dells sometimes have wierd wi-fi chippery.
[06:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CPU Fan - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:19] <exec> 08└─"Do fans on laptops still suck?" I'd think so, the intake is on the bottom and there's not enough vertical space to turn them sideways so they could blow instead. ... what?
[06:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crown Prince - 06Thailand's New King Crowned - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:31] <exec> 08└─He's going to be king of Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (Bangkok)
[06:32:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:You should NOT listen to these people! - 06Over 500 MIT Faculty Sign Statement Opposing Trump Cabinet Picks - 971 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:32:24] <exec> 08└─Believe me, Uzzard, when I call you "a special kind of stupid," this is not an insult so much as a fair description backed up by a couple years' observation. Stick to coding; you're useless at everything else. You're deflecting here, thinking your tone-policing bullshit is going to shut me down--and...
[06:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The irony, it burns, it burns. - 06Over 500 MIT Faculty Sign Statement Opposing Trump Cabinet Picks - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:33:04] <exec> 08└─There is some stiff competition for that title, but Buz is in the running.
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[07:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:04] <exec> 08└─is probably far from the worst thing on the menu nutrition-wise, especially if you ask them to hold the French dressing. The fries, soaked in fat and covered with salt, and the soft drinks (whether sugared or diet) are much worse. And nobody seems to know, or is willing to talk about what goes into...
[07:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:26] <exec> 08└─Can you ever GET a -1/Overrated without first getting positive modification? Something's whacky here...
[07:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02new novel idea .. as in book - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:27] <exec> 08└─maybe imagine a oil guzzeling society that needs fuel to fertilize crops, build housing, transport, build places of worship, cook food and then they also use the same fuel for housing and tools. now replace above "oil" with "wood" and imagine how the lush sahara forests were bleed dry and then how t...
[07:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new novel idea .. as in book - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:29] <exec> 08└─hey! maybe we can get kevin costner from rapa-nui to play a a agyptian aristocrat-philosopher that sees the warning signs when the desert starts to encroach on his egypten summer retreat far from the london-smog-like cairo? maybe we can make a popular multi-part plot were he then is reborn in china...
[07:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, yeah - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:31] <exec> 08└─According to a close reading of the Bible, the earth is 6000 years old. And it started with two humans living in a tropical paradise; it seems they mucked things up. Really, you could've gotten this info from Sarah Palin.
[07:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:44] <exec> 08└─He's not entirely wrong, in the sense that there are only so many resources going around and we really really REALLY need to be focusing on sustainability and population control at this point. Of course he's gone on a foaming, wild-eyed, spittle-flecked rant about K-type and r-type strategies, durin...
[07:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 2129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:45] <exec> 08└─Resources are not infinite. That is the primary difference that seems to split the right and left, we realize that (K selection) and Proggies (r selected) don't. It is doubtful all this atom smashing and cutting edge gear capable of confirming a few atoms of a new element existed for a hard to imagi...
[07:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:47] <exec> 08└─Wow, somebody modded jmorris flamebait! ~ But it in this case is hardly deserved. The right-wing troll tries to make a point! Resources are not infinite. That is the primary difference that seems to split the right and left, we realize that (K selection) and Proggies (r selected) don't.
[07:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My "Soylent Fiction" entry - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:50] <exec> 08└─When they manage to find an isotope out there on the periodic table that lasts a few seconds, call me. Scene: 35 years in the future, a research laboratory deep under Swiss Alps, scientist runs to the department head's office and bursts in without even knocking... Scientist: Chief! The experiments h...
[07:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure he's more than casually trolling with the racist bullshit honestly. I really cannot tell whether he actually believes it, is doing it for the shock value (much like a toddler deliberately exposing himself in public) or some combination of both. Regardless, his journal entries are a hoot...
[07:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Thailand's New King Crowned - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:37] <exec> 08└─Take the children and yourself And hide out in the cellar By now the fighting will be close at hand Don't believe the church and state And everything they tell you Believe in me, I'm with the high command There's a gun and ammunition Just inside the doorway Use it only in emergency Better you should...
[07:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You should NOT listen to these people! - 06Over 500 MIT Faculty Sign Statement Opposing Trump Cabinet Picks - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:03] <exec> 08└─You fool. VW's are diesels!!
[07:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:You should NOT listen to these people! - 06Over 500 MIT Faculty Sign Statement Opposing Trump Cabinet Picks - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:04] <exec> 08└─You even more phool! VW was supposed to have the "Clean Diesel" tech that allowed them to meet emission regs. They lied. Part of what made people suspicious was that that VW did not use the "Blue" tech that other manufacturers were using, which involved injecting urea (this is where the "piss" comes...
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[08:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:03] <exec> 08└─This video [youtube.com] explains the whole process of making Chicken McNuggets. They use only all white meat chicken. Ok, so it doesn't sound too bad. What I can't wrap my head around is why they would start with perfectly good white breast meat and grind it up and shape it into an odd looking nugg...
[08:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:05] <exec> 08└─Consistency. McD's actually did sell chicken strips for quite a while - strips of chicken breast, battered and fried - but the irregularity of the pieces made them more difficult to work with in assembly-line cooking. Mechanically pressed nuggets are all the same. Me, I miss the dark meat nuggets -...
[08:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No inventor - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:07] <exec> 08└─Big Mac is straight copy of Bob's Big Boy burger.
[08:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:24] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Goats. And camels. They don't just eat the grass - they pull up the roots to make sure it won't grow back.
[08:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:29] <exec> 08└─My point exactly. Am I being paranoid? I have been being paranoid, lately. But I thought that SoylentNews was a safe zone of support and fluffies. I could be wrong.
[08:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Because - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:34] <exec> 08└─The world was warmer 6000 years ago. Warmer worlds have more rainfall, and it just so happened that the extra rain that fell on the Sahara was more important than the extra evaporation. It's cooler now and it has dried up. I don't know why it hit the Sahara so hard; climate is very complicated. No,...
[08:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:48] <exec> 08└─Look at what a couple of sacks of shit you two are. Can't have a conversation about anything without fuckwits inserting their politics into it. It's even better when it's fuckwits that just lost a historic election that was supposed to be a landslide in their favor. Do you two peacocks enjoy your vi...
[08:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Science not Politics please - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:50] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with you. A number of interesting scientific stories have degenerated into yet another mudslinging political 'debate'. Can we discuss the science and not personal grievances or triumphalism over the recent election?
[08:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:52] <exec> 08└─Oh who knows. These elements might not be good for anything but improving our understanding of the nuclear forces. And who knows what a better understanding of these fundamental interactions of nature might lead to? Practical fusion maybe? Better materials? Only if we actually do this sort of resear...
[08:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:13] <exec> 08└─way too much salt and chemicals.
[08:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:37] <exec> 08└─The space elevator idea seems to have hinged strongly on using carbon nanotubes, but unless the nanotubes are produced perfectly (not to mention in staggeringly great numbers), the strength is very greatly reduced [newscientist.com]. The results suggest just one misplaced atom is enough to weaken an...
[08:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Richard Feynman was killed - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:40] <exec> 08└─when he was struck by debris from another failed Russian spacecraft while he was a tourist in Tuva. I read that on Facebook.
[08:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Developer Backstory - 06Fallout 1.5: Resurrection. A Fan-Created Take-off on the Franchise - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:33] <exec> 08└─So how popular is Black Mesa [blackmesasource.com]? I know I am not going to pay again to play a game I have already played to death. Please, everyone talking about this mod, always mention one word to make your post credible - RPG. RPG modding is about suspending real life concerns and enjoying wha...
[08:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You should NOT listen to these people! - 06Over 500 MIT Faculty Sign Statement Opposing Trump Cabinet Picks - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:33:10] <exec> 08└─Trump has no chance to win the primary. Trump has no chance to win the election. Trump is going to lose to Hillary in a landslide. Trump is going to cause a stock market crash when he wins. Don't you arrogant fucking losers ever get tired of being wrong? Ever?
[08:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:keep propaganda out - 06Meet Gaza's Female Geeks - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:34:11] <exec> 08└─it makes me feel like I am stoned
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:keep propaganda out - 06Meet Gaza's Female Geeks - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:34:15] <exec> 08└─And my Bow! (Oh, crap, does this mean I have to be Legolas? Why can't I be Aragon? Or at least Golem/jmorris?
[08:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:36:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, Francis, are you suggesting you actually know what you are talking about? This is a vast improvement. Keep it up. Tooths recalcify? I did not know that! Wow. Metal screw? Implants? Not. You almost pulled it off, Francis. But your post here reveals your ignorance even further. I will not point i...
[08:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta say it - 06Why Can’t Humans Regenerate Body Parts? We’ve Got the Genes - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:36:32] <exec> 08└─I have better then 20/20 in that eye.
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[09:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02140 chars - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:05] <exec> 08└─Can you say that again and how it will bring jobs to rural America in less than 140 chars? Because I know someone who will veto it.
[09:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:140 chars - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─It won't create jobs for Americans when the mining robots are made in China and coded by Indians.
[09:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02It is still important though - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 2284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:09] <exec> 08└─Can I explain this in less that 140 chars? Certainly not. However, those precious metals are not just precious because they can be used for jewelry or extravagant decoration. They have important uses in electronics and many other everyday items that we almost take for granted. How does this help cre...
[09:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It is still important though - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:11] <exec> 08└─Obsessed with dolphin poop SAD. #JobsForAmericanMiners #DrillBabyDrill
[09:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Company Towns - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:13] <exec> 08└─No problem. Build mining towns under-the-sea so the miners can live and work in the mines under-the-sea where no one will have to look at them. Populate the mining towns with the unwanted unemployed undesirables for whom there are no jobs on land. By which I mean white men.
[09:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No inventor - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:24] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get the memo. Marketing is innovation by creating demand.
[09:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:No inventor - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:25] <exec> 08└─What I thought was so clever was the concept of making the burger look bigger by filling it with yet more bun. Or the ones who show a picture of their burger as served in a saucer. Kinda neat to watch the surprised customer when he receives his order. The ones who top that are the department-store...
[09:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:45] <exec> 08└─Overgrazing by cattle could even be a valid reason why this changed. It is even a process that is currently going on (the Sahara is still increasing its size). It is a gradual effect where soils become dryer (less absorption of rain water), less plants that transport water from the soil into the air...
[09:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle business plan - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:38] <exec> 08└─3.5) Be eviiiiiiil.
[09:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'sustainable' - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:52] <exec> 08└─> But about the clear-cutting: sounds like the environmental subsidies should be paid after 20 years. > First year: cut some Slovenian forest down. Profit!!!!1! register with EU for subsidy. > Year 20: EU pays out subsidy, *if* it looks like the forest is again full of mature trees. Otherwise: oh it...
[09:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Developer Backstory - 06Fallout 1.5: Resurrection. A Fan-Created Take-off on the Franchise - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:58] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true. Being creative in itself can be enthralling — where money comes in is motivating people past the point where the hard, dull work of refining the creation until it's really high quality (hundreds of hours of work) comes in. It's still a creative endeavor, but it's not the thrilli...
[09:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please stop - 06Meet Gaza's Female Geeks - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:55] <exec> 08└─Accuse somebody of being a propaganda machine and then link to state.gov? (=US of fucking A) Pot meet kettle...
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[10:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It is still important though - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:09] <exec> 08└─a quick and dirty method of collecting precious metals that helps destroy our most important asset - the planet itself - is only going to make a handful of people rich
[10:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Company Towns - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:11] <exec> 08└─Then when the operation becomes unprofitable they can just open a hatch and kill off all those looking to get paid, and run laughing back to clinton foundation to launder the money. Write it off as an industrial accident which the foundation decided to help.
[10:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Free market! - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:13] <exec> 08└─the free market will sort it out. Somehow. Apparently. People like cheap things. Unless government regulation forces environmental protections, miners will cut corners or just dig big holes, AND cut corners.. http://10mosttoday.com osttoday.com] and http://www....
[10:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Also given... - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:26] <exec> 08└─Just how he made it that far, given his fondness for the lard-laden double-decker, is anyone's guess.
[10:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Messiah or mass-murderer? - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:27] <exec> 08└─Really? So someone makes an unhealthy food that becomes beloved by millions and you view them as a murderer? That's really sad.
[10:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Messiah or mass-murderer? - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:29] <exec> 08└─I think they mean all the extra weight gained by hambeasts scoffing those beloved morsels. On the plus side, all that retained mass makes Americans into an excellent carbon sink.
[10:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:35] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, the IUPAC official chemical name for dihydrogen monoxide is oxidane. This chemical is quite commonly used as the major constituent of automobile engine coolant. Its also frequently used in the toilet. Its CAS number is 7732-18-5, and as little as a few ounces of the stuff in the wron...
[10:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle business plan - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:43] <exec> 08└─Ahhh yes... diet food. I remember some interviewer asking a young kid if he knew what diet food was... He knew. "That's food made without any ingredients!"
[10:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do the Russians suck recently? - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:04] <exec> 08└─Corruption. More than usual, I mean.
[10:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Kaby Lake? Zen is a must have for budget - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:31] <exec> 08└─VGA port... good luck with that.
[10:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Developer Backstory - 06Fallout 1.5: Resurrection. A Fan-Created Take-off on the Franchise - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:05] <exec> 08└─It's the same reason children focus their pretend–play on the stories, videos, or games they like: the urge to continue experiencing the worlds/characters when away from (or finished with) the original creation. It's also just a natural stage of creativity — most successful authors, game produce...
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[11:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02My concerns - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:06] <exec> 08└─My concerns is if it is something like an MP4 that will play on anything, or is it some proprietary format that must be played on some proprietary player software. Once I use proprietary software, I am also forced to accept whatever snags that software has in it, while being legally required to hold...
[11:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Messiah or mass-murderer? - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:37] <exec> 08└─Worm food too... packaged in time-delay capsules for long term release.
[11:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Tesla's charitable release of their design docs... - 06Arizona Gains New Electric Vehicle Plant as Lucid Motors Announces Manufacturing - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:46] <exec> 08└─Anybody have any info on whether or not this company utilized them? If they utilized the supercharging stations that Tesla has in place it would make them much more competitive, I imagine. I do not want car charging ports to go the way of electronics ports. "We need ONE unified standard." [Insert XK...
[11:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, cattle - but the people who live in and around the sahara are traditionally sheep and goat herders. For the most part, at least. And, camel jockeys. You don't find a lot of cowboys around the Sahara. Here in the US, overgrazing by cattle has happened, but our dust bowl is attributed to farmer's...
[11:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you get weather from the Holocene? - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah - that's what I was thinking too. I really think that a lot of our so-called experts are goofy bastards who sit around trying to imagine stuff while getting paid. After a lifetime of applying for grants, new people think the old bastard is an expert, so they believe the silly shit he spouts.
[11:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're paranoid. And, yes, we are all out to get you. I don't know anything about those fucking fluffies you're talking about. Someone around here probably killed them and ate them. If you want support, there's a group that meets here alongside AA and NA after we all go home. Paranoids Anonymo...
[11:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:new novel idea .. as in book - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:12] <exec> 08└─I've always blamed the Ethiopians, but, at this point, what difference does it make?
[11:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Muslims moved in - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:16] <exec> 08└─QED
[11:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:re Oaxaca or Tabasco - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:30:07] <exec> 08└─All of them have sugar in them.
[11:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nestle deprives Africans of water - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:08] <exec> 08└─I've heard from an insider friend that Nestle is buying as many wells in Africa as it can get it hands on, usually bribing corupt local officials. Then they are selling plastic-bottled water. Their business plan is to have monopoly on clean water in Africa (similar shit like what still goes on in Fl...
[11:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They still pay for halal certification - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:10] <exec> 08└─For as long as nestle funds islam I will not buy their products
[11:30:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Kaby Lake? Zen is a must have for budget - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 3033 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:50] <exec> 08└─Agreed on the touchscreen. Forget the touchscreen unless you are getting a 2-in-1.I prefer a 15.6" laptop to sit on the desk most of the time, and an 11.6" for portability. The 11.6" screen is easier to read than you might think. However, 13" is a perfectly valid choice.VGA port... good luck with th...
[11:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:System76 - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:31:27] <exec> 08└─this is why I got a generic Dell - (K)ubuntu works pretty much. I'm a complete Penguinista, but we all know laptops are a special breed of corporate-anitconsumerism... I like the idea of Linux branded laptops, but think it's a bit like Branded Music.... Not going to be great , just ok. I must say, t...
[11:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear option - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:13] <exec> 08└─The thing is that nuclear reactions are so much more energetic than chemical reactions that "not sustainable" means we will run out in millennia if not millions of years. Our society does not have the capacity to plan that far ahead.
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[12:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02when drones are shot down - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:02] <exec> 08└─When drones are shot down, and they will be shot down, determine the last known position of the downed drone, and then build a wall around the area, to keep the rednecks inside.
[12:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Less work - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:03] <exec> 08└─"Apple Maps will also feature interior mapping of certain buildings, such as airports:" For the terrorists to do won't even have to scope it out themselves, will no one think of the children...
[12:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:My concerns - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─I assume it will have some DRM built in, and yes you can only watch it with the proprietary app... like anything on Netflix. The file format is irrelevant.
[12:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:My concerns - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:14] <exec> 08└─this. Netflix has made convenience sufficient, the community doesn't feel the need to crack it. We all know their catalogue ebbs and flows...so we've come to terms with what we need to acquire elsewhere.... This is neat for flying though - they make their own stuff, which for an 2x4 hour flight is p...
[12:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:17] <exec> 08└─So... For those people with phones and tablets that don't allow sd cards and have limited space, will there be offline video with sufficient quality to make it worthwhile? On my laptop I'd rather pirate stuff to watch offline anyway, fuck messing around with user agents and plugins to watch stuff on...
[12:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:19] <exec> 08└─A one hour TV show sans-commercials ends up as a 350mb download on pirate pay. It's not 720p, but you're not watching it in a home theater, either. I'd definitely do this and download 10 episodes at 3.5GB onto a tablet (for plane/car trips). It's not like I use the space for much of anything else.
[12:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Download? - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:21] <exec> 08└─Can I really download or is that a glorified buffering in a DRM wrapping?
[12:29:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 1006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:41] <exec> 08└─Oh who knows. These elements might not be good for anything but improving our understanding of the nuclear forces. And who knows what a better understanding of these fundamental interactions of nature might lead to? Practical fusion maybe? Better materials? Only if we actually do this sort of resear...
[12:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:45] <exec> 08└─"Energy will solve itself." "We will take the profits of your petty and meagre merchantile activities, and turn them to the greater good of humanity." This is some serious LARPing! I am impressed!
[12:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:47] <exec> 08└─"knowledge is its own reward" And knowledge is limitless, while money is not. I'm sure you defend the ongoing F-35 project tooth and nail, right?
[12:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:resolution and more - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:18] <exec> 08└─1080p minimum is a good idea. Let's kill 768p resolution already.
[12:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear option (Thorium) - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:32:23] <exec> 08└─Current reactor designs are designed for bomb making, not efficiency.
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[13:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Less work - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:11] <exec> 08└─I thought the lazy terrorists were doing DDoS attacks now, and the lazy morons at Dyn still aren't throttling DNS queries because they didn't learn fucking shit from the recent attacks on their servers.
[13:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Less work - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:12] <exec> 08└─OMG! Apple will have interior maps of airports, and Google already has street view inside some places like the white house. Better put the surveillance state into red alert - The terrorists are are coming! The terrorists are coming!
[13:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No inventor - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:53] <exec> 08└─What I thought was so clever was the concept of making the burger look bigger by filling it with yet more bun.
[13:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lettuce has no place in a big mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:58] <exec> 08└─And less can be said for tomatoes on similar fast food style 'burger'. Love l&t on a real burger tho, as long as there is beetroot, bacon egg and cheese plus onions, pickle/pineapple welcome but optional. Damn gonna have to go to the shop tomorrow get me some burger makin's
[13:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:21] <exec> 08└─Nodded down by the uninformed assuming I was trolling?? It's well understood that overgrazing played the largest part in the desertification of the Sahara, so whoever modded me down... now would be the time for some self-realization [i.e. that you're a fucking idiot]. ;)
[13:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nestle business plan - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:26] <exec> 08└─You're mixing up Nestle with Kraft/Mondelēz [bbc.com] ;)
[13:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Bulk? - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:34] <exec> 08└─Considering that sugar makes up a non-trivial part of the bulk just how does this affect it? Will it be the same volume but less weight? (and wouldn't that also reduce the "sugar per unit of weight"-gain quite a bit? and will it be more prone to crumble?) Will it be replaced with something else? And...
[13:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Re:Richard Feynman was killed - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:54] <exec> 08└─What were his last words? AAAAhaaahaaaAAAhh-yat-kha [wikipedia.org]?
[13:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ComaVN [3722] (Score:1) 02Re:Important omission - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:47] <exec> 08└─Who cares about deeper blacks while seeing their own contorted face while looking at, um, stuff?
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[14:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score:1) 02Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:14] <exec> 08└─Ok, energy storage by moving mass uphill on a track. The article says 8% incline over 9km. That is quite a hill. Can someone please calculate how much energy can actually be stored by moving the equivalent of a freight train up, say, 500m? I do see the advantage over flywheels: when the train has mo...
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Pahrump can use it - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─Business has been slow there since the Chicken Ranch lost its airstrip.
[14:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Less work - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:27] <exec> 08└─um, hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but we is all terrorists now, pogo... (amazingly enough, it is Empire that is not terrorist in the least ! ! ! This meme brought to you by Ass Unstein's Keyboard Kommandos)
[14:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Messiah or mass-murderer? - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:12] <exec> 08└─'unhealthy'... not even sure what that means anymore... confession time: sure, i can bash mickey d's with the best of them, but you know what, i eat there about 4 days out of the work week... it is a half mile away, reasonable price ($5.62 for my salad, which is all i get), not crowded if i drive-th...
[14:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Messiah or mass-murderer? - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:14] <exec> 08└─It's right there in the summary: "contributed to unknown quantities of myocardial infarctions" Throwing in the bit about rainforests and heart attacks at the end of the obituary made me laugh.
[14:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:6000 Years, when a myriad was the largest numbe - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 2720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, I was told that the deser itself intelligently created, and was located between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, because the chimeric (I'm trying to tie in the Capricorn here without getting goofy with astrology to explain the latter) dinosaur overlords (whose rule ended about 6001 years ago...
[14:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nestle Chocolate - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:36] <exec> 08└─While on the subject of chemical free [smbc-comics.com]
[14:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about user control over the machine? - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:32:08] <exec> 08└─You will not find a cpu on the consumer market without a built in backdoor subsystem like Intel ME
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[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─Energy gained would depend on the mass of the train: Potential Energy = mgh So if an 8% grade translates to 4.6 degrees, then sin4.5 = h/9,000m, and sin4.5 * 9,000 m gives about a 700 m change in elevation Let's say they're moving 5,000,000 kg over that distance: PE = (5e6 kg)*(9.8 m/s^2)*(700 m) =...
[15:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:05] <exec> 08└─If I'm not mistaken, the chicken McNuggets were originally a mix of lots of different chicken parts ground up and formed into nuggets. When people found out what was in them, they changed to all white meat only. I do remember the original ones tasting different and slightly different texture.
[15:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:06] <exec> 08└─Approximately 10 years ago, I gave up eating McDonalds for good. For my birthday, my employer gave me a McDonalds gift certificate and so I purchased McDonald's early on by birthday, before the fun. Later, the McDonalds I ate caused me to shit myself in public, on my birthday. I have never eaten McD...
[15:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:49] <exec> 08└─Are "fluffies" a naughtier version of "furries?"
[15:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:3, Interesting) 02history tells us.... - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:57] <exec> 08└─This is nothing mind-blowing. As an anthropologist I can answer you definitively: people. People caused this and people will make more deserts. If you follow the history of people our oldest civilizations are all in what were lush forests and what are now deserts. From Egypt and Mesopotamia to Lesvo...
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[16:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:08] <exec> 08└─Of course for most of these you have to be in physical contact with the patient. The "wireless" attack has a range of 2-5 meters, but very few defibrillators/pacemakers have that feature turned on. The others you need to be in skin contact with the person. Well if you can get that close, a knife cou...
[16:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:10] <exec> 08└─Notably, Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney had high-profile issues [sophos.com] with potential threats to his pacemaker.
[16:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02soo - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:12] <exec> 08└─Are they going to publish them as metasploit modules anytime soon? Also, wouldn't increasing transmit power increase the range, as some people did aeons ago with bluetooth "sniper rifle"?
[16:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03effbee [902] (Score:1) 02Syphilis train set - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:27] <exec> 08└─That's how I first read it. Thought that won't be very popular this holiday season.
[16:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keeping themselves relevant - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:28] <exec> 08└─Good for Thomas! Its a shifting economy and I'm glad to see someone as old as Thomas able to pick up a different career. Seems a bit mindless, but in these uncertain times you gotta accept what's available.
[16:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Mainstream Media Coverage - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:28] <exec> 08└─His death was covered by mainstream media, but not much was said about how appetizing or healthy the Big Mac is, (not very in my opinion). Mostly they focused on how the world has lost the innovative entrepreneurial creator of a such an iconic piece of "Americana". And now for this word from our spo...
[16:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:54] <exec> 08└─To be fair your answer was short and comical sounding. Undoubtedly more than goats happened, I thought it was understood that over farming is what happened? (includes goats)
[16:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:03] <exec> 08└─Do you ever get tired of being an asshole? Don't worry, rhetorical question.
[16:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:05] <exec> 08└─I had something weird like that happen when I modded someone else, it didn't appear to change but still said I had modded the comment :/
[16:30:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02history tells us.... - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 677 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:13] <exec> 08└─This is nothing mind-blowing. As an anthropologist I can answer you definitively: people. People caused this and people will make more deserts. If you follow the history of people our oldest civilizations are all in what were lush forests and what are now deserts. From Egypt and Mesopotamia to Lesvo...
[16:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:34] <exec> 08└─Once you are taking the taxpayer’s money then yes, we taxpayers get a say in what we want used for.
[16:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle deprives Africans of water - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:13] <exec> 08└─Nestle is evil on a scale we as humans are not prepared to understand. And have been for 100 years...
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[17:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:26] <exec> 08└─The signals are not encrypted; there is no security to hack. This is a design decision. The manufacturers have some command protocol that they developed and use; while this may not be publicly documented, it is hardly secret: monitor the signals used, and you can figure it out. This doesn't take a "...
[17:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Ironic - 06ExoMars 2020 Lander Funded Despite Schiaparelli Failure - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:33] <exec> 08└─"Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) is dead:" Ironic, as that would have been a slam dunk. But then, they can already crash something, so now a challenge to keep something in one piece. Bert
[17:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Apple taking the lead. - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:56] <exec> 08└─Apple could take the lead from google if they did one thing, OCR all the signs and add that data to the mapping software. Like NO TRUCKS, LOW CLEARENCE 11.6, and so on. Every truck driver would love a mapping solution derived from that data. Also could read all the street signs and have a more updat...
[17:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Company Towns - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:22] <exec> 08└─Paranoid delusions much? Don't worry, this post is just an elaborate ploy from my employer in the MSM. But why would I tell you this? Why indeed...
[17:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:6000 Years, when a myriad was the largest numbe - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:07] <exec> 08└─and poops on her? :)
[17:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:12] <exec> 08└─No, goats do not pull up grass by the roots. I have a herd of 24 goats and there's plenty of grass in their pasture. Goats are browsers https://en.wikipedia.org(predation). [wikipedia.org] I think you're thinking of sheep.
[17:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:25] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of 'fluffer', lol.
[17:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:28] <exec> 08└─Probably because "rating" can refer to your posts current score, not only to the scores awarded by others? So, if your post is rated "0" someone could still consider this too high. (I don't know which exact post you are talking about, don't have any opinion on that, just commenting on the logic of t...
[17:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Precession? - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:37] <exec> 08└─Is it something that's not being considered? It's a process that takes thousands of years [wikipedia.org]: The gravitational force between the Sun and moon induces the precession in Earth's orbit, which is the major cause of the climate oscillation of Earth that has a period of 19,000 to 23,000 year...
[17:30:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:48] <exec> 08└─Just not seeing any possibility of a practical application until that happens.
[17:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:My "Soylent Fiction" entry - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:01] <exec> 08└─Scientist: We can't, sir. He vanished while exploring a dark corner of Europa when his stable-Tennessine-ion engine failed.
[17:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Important omission - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:53] <exec> 08└─The bad jokes write themselves...
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[18:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:26] <exec> 08└─The wireless is disabled by default. You have to enable it. This is per my experience as a physician and per TFA. So the Cheney story was probably just attention-seeking which is all well and good because secure devices are not a bad idea, but not exactly the truth either.
[18:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ethics of publishing the research - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:29] <exec> 08└─If someone is victimized using the methods described by this paper, it would be hard for the authors to claim that their work had nothing to do with the crime. Of course this issue comes up with other exploit publishing as well, but in this case the downside risk is unusually stark.
[18:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Buckets of Rocks - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:45] <exec> 08└─> Doesn't seem like a lot That's because, as TFA explains, the mass isn't in the train, its in the buckets of rocks the train hauls up and leaves suspended over the rail.
[18:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple taking the lead. - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:02] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure truck drivers already have something like that, but they probably pay a subscription for it. Maybe Apple should just buy it.
[18:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:14] <exec> 08└─With H265 a one hour show at 720p is normally below 350MB. Of course, H265 is patented out the wazoo, but if you're pirating anyway, this isn't going to matter.
[18:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Users with highly variable data costs - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:16] <exec> 08└─The latter. But some people are stuck on Internet plans costing $5 to $10 per GB with ways around it. For example, one may have satellite Internet that's $5 per GB for most of the day but unmetered from 1 AM to 5 AM local time. Or one may subscribe to a combination of cable and cellular Internet, wh...
[18:29:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02It is still important though - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 2284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:26] <exec> 08└─Can I explain this in less that 140 chars? Certainly not. However, those precious metals are not just precious because they can be used for jewelry or extravagant decoration. They have important uses in electronics and many other everyday items that we almost take for granted. How does this help cre...
[18:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:44] <exec> 08└─For me, I stopped eating frequently at McDonalds in the 1980s. But I stopped when McDs started doing hardcore portion control and getting things like really foamy ice cream and hamburgers without pickles. Occasionally, I'll be stuck going to a McDs, say if I'm with someone else who wants to go there...
[18:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:46] <exec> 08└─Most of the McDonald's I've been to recently have had crisp counter service and reasonably clean tables and restrooms. They do that part of the business better than many of their competitors.
[18:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:48] <exec> 08└─The fries, soaked in fat and covered with salt
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[18:29:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this whole discussion is going to devolve into the 22 year old 500 lb fat fucks with bad knees and trouble sleeping telling the world how everything "processed" is unhealthy and will kill you. Probably some anti GMO discussion as well. The top comment already goes out of its way to slam diet s...
[18:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:How do you get weather from the Holocene? - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:34] <exec> 08└─Rainfall for something that long ago has got to be guesswork?
[18:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:42] <exec> 08└─As somebody who have tasted quite a bit of chocolate from USA, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Japan, UK, I can say with confidence: American chocolate tastes like crap. I don't know how they have the nerve to sell it as "chocolate", nor why people buy it. Maybe taking shit out of their chocolate is the act...
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[19:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:11] <exec> 08└─When people think "Nokia" they think of ruggedized phones that could take a beating. If they were smart then they would make a significant effort to making ruggedized phones, maybe even with 3-letter agency-approved security options, for construction and battlefield use. They could be the "Toughbook...
[19:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:13] <exec> 08└─throw out the smartpwn, get a flip phone drug deals 4eva
[19:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:15] <exec> 08└─If they were smart then they would make a significant effort to making ruggedized phones,
[19:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02God of the Wind - 06Circular Temple to God of Wind Uncovered in Mexico City - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps not the most powerful god, or the most outgoing. From all indications this Ehecatl God just laid down and summoned all of its powers to bury itself. Probably in despair about having to watch over all those crazy humans running around.
[19:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─If you stab someone, it's obvious to them that you've attacked them and even more obvious on surveillance footage, plus you have a bloody murder weapon that's tied to the victim and it's pretty obvious that they were murdered. If you only need brief skin contact, then you can just brush past them an...
[19:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:38] <exec> 08└─How does that hospital get the private key required to talk to your pacemaker?
[19:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:56] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty dumb idea, really, if you consider the footprint vs energy. In the US SouthWest, where there are lots of space and hills, it might make sense. Elsewhere, not so much. The numbers are in TFA (sorry): This thing gets you peak 50MW for at most 15 minutes, using a 9km footprint and cable...
[19:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:My concerns - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:23] <exec> 08└─the community doesn't feel the need to crack it.
[19:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:27] <exec> 08└─That's about 4-5 years out of date; for a long time, scene releases were sized to fit neatly on CD-Rs, or for some standards, DVD-Rs, so you could fit 2x 350MB on a 700MB CD-R; 720p releases at that time were generally 1.1 GB to fit 4x in a single-layer DVD-R, or for cable shows (full hour, no ads)...
[19:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:29] <exec> 08└─That's what I was thinking. Why watch a movie on a 3"x5" screen? Unless you have perfect vision and even if you do, it's not the same experience as watching on a larger screen. Too much detail is lost unless you use a magnifying glass. I also don't get high resolution screens on small phones. What's...
[19:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kent_Diego [4929] (Score:1) 02A Special Time, A Special Sauce - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:15] <exec> 08└─I remember 1968 when the Big Mac was first rolled out. The local McDonalds had a huge posters in window. My first Big Mac was a magical experience I will never forget. Like first hearing the Beatles White Album. Guess they still taste the same but somehow I never seem interested in getting one anymo...
[19:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new novel idea .. as in book - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:01] <exec> 08└─Lol, no. The process of desertification started about 6000BC [sciencedaily.com]. The oldest signs of bronzemaking in the fertile crescent is about 4500BC and much later (3000BC) in Egypt. People without metal tools don't clear cut forests.
[19:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:58] <exec> 08└─Their chocolate tastes like crap. May induce explosive diarrhea. Yet another company adopts a peer-to-peer model?
[19:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:re Oaxaca or Tabasco - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:09] <exec> 08└─I've had Oaxaca chocolate in Oaxaca. Not all of it has sugar in it, but I do like it with a little sweetness. But no matter how you prefer it, Oaxaca chocolate will get you high. It's chocolate on an HNL (whole 'nother level).
[19:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:And the lesson is ... - 06Russian Space Agency Confirms Progress Cargo Spacecraft Burns up in Atmosphere - 2049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:26] <exec> 08└─Space Elevators would reduce the costs a lot more than any other approach, but there are lots of reasons why they aren't something reasonable for an early investment. It's probably a bit early for even a Pinwheel (heavy rotating mass in orbit with several flexible arms that reach a long way down int...
[19:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Kaby Lake? Zen is a must have for budget - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:33:00] <exec> 08└─Unless it appears on a deals site like Slickdeals.net (or UK equivalent), I ain't buying it.
[19:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:resolution and more - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:33:17] <exec> 08└─Check ur industry.
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[20:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with it - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:06] <exec> 08└─systemd is a full-on assault on the UNIX design philosophy. Devuan is in protest and opposition to that. I run non-systemd Linux on several systems. My parents run non-systemd Linux on all of their computers (ironically, this essentially eliminated my family tech support burden). That sentence impli...
[20:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:16] <exec> 08└─They're taking over all the Nokia dumbphone models that already exist, of course, and will undoubtedly continue to update those with new models. But you're not going to cure the Nokia brand's slide into oblivion by inventing a shiny new dumbphone to go with all the current dumbphones -- Nokia at its...
[20:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:18] <exec> 08└─" I have a friend that works at a military facility where cameras are not allowed. "
[20:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:20] <exec> 08└─You're in the US, so of course that's what you think. Nokia was making smartphones before the iPhone, and was in fact the leading smartphone vendor everywhere except the US well after the iPhone. Some of their smartphones never had variants for US networks, but even if you knew about the ones that d...
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Private equity fund... licensing from Microsoft... - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:22] <exec> 08└─HMD global Limited... 5-10 years from now, someone will do a write-up on the Nokia/Microsoft tax avoidance scheme.
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Foxconn? - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─they won't be nokia phones. They wil be just another android phone from China with nostalgic branding. People who liked Nokia phones liked the form factor, the operating system, the long battery life, and the reliability. This applied to dumb phones, flip phones, slide phones or weird slide-and-twis...
[20:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:God of the Wind - 06Circular Temple to God of Wind Uncovered in Mexico City - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:33] <exec> 08└─I was reading the translator's note to Don Quixote earlier today, and he mentioned that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have existed more or less since the beginning of humanity. The idealist and the stubborn literalist who only sees what's in front of their eyes. Reading your comment, I just realized...
[20:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:47] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it is difficult to have enough precognition to determine where you will end up in an emergency (not to mention the staff's familiarity with whatever tech you happen to be using). Hospitals on divert can have you end up in the strangest places, including a hospital several hours away i...
[20:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:49] <exec> 08└─Using your private key, you log-in to the admin interface and install the hospital's public key for special and speicic operations
[20:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:51] <exec> 08└─MD here. Upvote parent, this is the correct answer.
[20:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:09] <exec> 08└─Or we could have just read the article... The hill ARES has chosen has a gradient of about 8%. The track itself is just under 9km (about 5½ miles) long. The company estimates that its proposed system will be able to store 12.5 MWh of energy, and deliver it back to the grid at a rate of up to 50MW.
[20:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─> Pumping water up (where you do have water) scales a whole lot better, and you occasionally get free energy There is no water in the desert. > I read somewhere about a much much better concept: Sounds conveniently undetailed.
[20:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:13] <exec> 08└─You can't condemn the concept by the limitations of the demonstrator project. They plan to elevate many more weights than would be used in a single downhill run, they warehouse these at the top, and move them to the downhill run as needed, potentially supplying a many hours of electricity generation...
[20:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:My concerns - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:41] <exec> 08└─ah ok. I hadn't been following because *mumble mumble* online sources....
[20:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Actually the Big Mac - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:18] <exec> 08└─Worm meat? Worms cost WAY more than chicken, per pound. Making McNuggets with worm meat would cost a fortune. Mechanically separated chicken looks pretty gross, though. And sure, tert-Butylhydroquinone causes cancer in rats. Well, it causes 'pretumors'. It's also one of the most common preservatives...
[20:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:02] <exec> 08└─That's the traditional answer, but the evidence is scant. Goats *do* tend to eat young trees, and thus kill off forests and scrub, but that doesn't hurt grass. And the time period doesn't match herds of goats being protected by humans, so one might ask why carnivores didn't keep them in check. It's...
[20:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you get weather from the Holocene? - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:07] <exec> 08└─One can also attend to the kinds of trees, and the thickness of their growth rings. It's not guesswork even if it's not perfect. (Silt deposits also have their non-weather based variations, but again it's largely weather. Etc.) And I'm sure there are other measures that I don't know about because I'...
[20:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not real sure, but I think the fluffies and bronies are related. I'm not part of the culture, so I get confused.
[20:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Bombing Alert!!!1 - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:19] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen of him, no, no he doesn't. And unlike any sane human being, who would stop and think "y'know if perfect strangers are calling me an asshole maybe I should reflect on my behavior," he'll simply take it as validation. Rebels-without-a-clue aren't funny or endearing after age 14 or...
[20:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:new novel idea .. as in book - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:27] <exec> 08└─No, but goats *do* kill forests by eating the young trees. However the summary said it was grassland, and that lets out the wood burning civilization theory as well as "the goats ate the forest".
[20:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Muslims moved in - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:32] <exec> 08└─Islam hasn't even been around 1500 years you complete dipshit.
[20:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Muslims moved in - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:34] <exec> 08└─Mudhammed wasn't even around 6000 years ago, dummy. Or Moohamed, or whatever the bastard's name is.
[20:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Precession? - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:38] <exec> 08└─I've referred to that a number of times, but never used it's proper name. The earth has naturally occurring ice ages, but everyone has forgotten that the earth is - right now - coming out of an ice age. Climate changes, over time. Mankind has seen and recorded a few thousand years of climate, and he...
[20:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:02] <exec> 08└─Just not seeing any possibility of a practical application until that happens. Nobody could see the practical advantages of coherent light when lasers were invented, either... at first. Nobody could see the practicality of automobiles in 1900. Nobody in 1970 thought that in 2016 they'd have a superc...
[20:32:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] 02Re:The Proof of the Pudding - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:16] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with health. I will bet my right testicle that the new substance is cheaper than both real sugar and any fake substitute. They just don't give a fuck about anything but profits. I don't eat anything they make knowingly anyway (though sicne they own like 90% of the food chain i...
[20:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nestle chocolate is crap - 06Nestle is Reducing Sugar in Chocolate by 40%, With No Change in Flavor - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:42] <exec> 08└─it's gotta be at least 72% cocoa [...] Get yourself some good South American or Mexican stuff
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:windows version - - 06What Are Must-Have Specs for a Laptop in 2017? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─It's not squating. The software paid to be there. They subsidised the cost of your laptop. In theory, the manufacturer passes on the savings to you. For people who don't know how to wipe the hard drive and install from scratch there should at least be the option to buy with and without bloatware (at...
[20:34:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:Great example - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─I checked the lavatory, but I couldn't find a leopard. Just some plans about a freeway bypass...
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[21:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:10] <exec> 08└─what if i am just a windows 7 user holding out until death? is this stuff easy to pick up on? be honest, i just expressed determination and perserverence despite all odds pointing against survival.
[21:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:11] <exec> 08└─Do yourself a favor and try Linux Mint. It's like a blazingly fast Windows 7 with an even better UI, updates, and no telemetry. Wine will run most common Windows applications at this point, Steam is there with a huge and growing gaming library. Not AAA titles but there's lifetimes of quality enterta...
[21:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:13] <exec> 08└─Will it run professional grade CADCAM?
[21:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:15] <exec> 08└─People have run AutoCAD under Wine, with varying results. https://appdb.winehq.org [winehq.org] https://www.techwalla.com [techwalla.com] http://www.architectafrica.com [architectafrica.com]
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─You could experiment with Linux by installing it in a virtual machine, or by finding a distribution that runs off a DVD or thumb drive. Here's a link to a list of distributions that are suitable for beginners. https://distrowatch.com [distrowatch.com]
[21:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDsu5QWhpo&list=RDigDsu5QWhpo#t=141 [youtube.com]
[21:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:22] <exec> 08└─...so long as it isn't systemd?
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:24] <exec> 08└─init-system-helpers [devuan.org] This package provides helpers for all init systems (except systemd because we've removed that for Devuan, because it doesn't allow other init systems
[21:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─are you seriously suggesting that the debian fork without systemd should waste development effort readding it?
[21:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02That reminds me - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─I need to resume work on SubLinux 3. Powered by Epoch [universe2.us] for the init system with a new package manager, packrat.
[21:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:41] <exec> 08└─It's not clear why this disconnect happened, and whether the poor availability and zero advertising was a cause or an effect of their unpopularity,
[21:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:42] <exec> 08└─Wow. First time I actually rated a post from you "Insightful", as far as I remember.
[21:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:44] <exec> 08└─Why "ruggedized," what's wrong with "rugged"?
[21:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Foxconn? - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:49] <exec> 08└─The last few Nokia phones before the Microsoft announcement weren't true Nokia phones either. The company had already outsourced to Asia and started closing down its European factories. Maybe in the era of Brexit, Trump, and failed FARC negotiations, national identity and pride will take precedence...
[21:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02That's pretty accurate - 06Circular Temple to God of Wind Uncovered in Mexico City - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:58] <exec> 08└─built more than 650 years ago, researchers said Wednesday.
[21:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"will eventually be made accessible to the public" - 06Circular Temple to God of Wind Uncovered in Mexico City - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:00] <exec> 08└─I hope they let us climb it.
[21:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics of publishing the research - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:18] <exec> 08└─I thought the security through obscurity model was sufficiently out of vogue by now. While the notion of keeping people safe is laudable, there is also the not so small matter of determining whether a crime has been committed. If researchers can find the exploits, it is almost certain people with be...
[21:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keeping themselves relevant - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:42] <exec> 08└─Lol my joke about Thomas the train nodded I formative? Maybe the system is broken... As for taking whatever job you can, that is only sometimes true. Get a job below your level and it will be that much harder to climb back up. Its a stupid system really.
[21:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Users with highly variable data costs - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:16] <exec> 08└─But some people are stuck on Internet plans costing $5 to $10 per GB with ways around it. For example, one may have satellite Internet that's $5 per GB for most of the day but unmetered from 1 AM to 5 AM local time.
[21:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tesla's charitable release of their design docs - 06Arizona Gains New Electric Vehicle Plant as Lucid Motors Announces Manufacturing - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:10] <exec> 08└─That's a fairly good point that I don't really see brought up often. Can you imagine having to deal with a squid-cable like you have (had?) to do with cell phones? I really hope the car manufacturers get together on that. "Sorry, we only charge import cars here."
[21:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh: Double Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:17] <exec> 08└─I am not a liberal in the modern sense, and I lost all "tolerance" around about 9/11. Real evil exists in this world, and I will be damned if I don't at least stand up and point it out. My political views are closer to "left-libertarian" than anything, if you're wondering. Also? Your use of "virtue...
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[22:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02You scrub - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RHLtx9r2LA [youtube.com]
[22:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Qh6+! - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:11] <exec> 08└─Nice finish. Anyone who has spent time playing chess can appreciate Carlsen's winning move. [slate.com] It's debatable whether the move deserves two exclamations. Sure is pretty though.
[22:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:24] <exec> 08└─Wine will do a lot of stuff pretty well, and wine-based offerings like Crossover will give you confidence that your application will work (if it's on their list). Another option is running Linux Mint (or other Linux variant) as your OS and create a virtual machine running Windows 7 for those times y...
[22:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:26] <exec> 08└─Assuming you have your Windows install media, it's easy enough to install VirtualBox, and run pure Windows inside Linux. On any recent hardware it'll work fine, and avoid the quirks of Wine.
[22:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:29] <exec> 08└─Another option, if you have some older hardware lying around, is to use it to make that old Windows XP machine great again (Or at least usable). The wonderful thing about messing with old hardware like that is that there's no risk you'll ruin anything important, and you can learn a lot about how thi...
[22:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:31] <exec> 08└─Here's my argument for starting with Ubuntu: the sheer volume of tutorials directed at complete novices. If you go with Mint or Devuan you'll find less up-to-date information targeted at beginners than you will with Ubuntu. Ubuntu has a big community with a great newbie-helping culture. I view Ubunt...
[22:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:33] <exec> 08└─If you go with Ubuntu, install then login to gnome-flashback session. It's more like WinXP user interface than the Unity crap they now use as default.
[22:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:37] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, no distro can do everything. It's very difficult to balance user friendliness with other considerations, like security, stability, or freedom of choice. For example, you wouldn't want to use a distro with an emphasis on user friendliness on a mission critical server. Traditionally, wh...
[22:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:40] <exec> 08└─Yes. With the onset of systemd infecting Debian, last Deb release I ran was Wheezy. Went to FreeBSD as primary and Mint as alternate utility system for now. FreeBSD has a very nice and clean filesystem structure. No systemd here. Just easy to read and configure .conf files. Additionally it is much f...
[22:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:45] <exec> 08└─Well, it was actually suggested by someone on the mailinglist. But no, it was regarded as "we don't support systemd anymore" ;-)
[22:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if systemd can be installed or not, but without a doubt, Devuan comes with a better default init system. But systemd is all about eliminating choice anyways, so while there's an illusion of choice on Debian and other distros today, they are with no uncertainty marching to a world where...
[22:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:49] <exec> 08└─What about Upstart? Works pretty well in Ubuntu 14.04, although I see Canonical has since moved to systemd.
[22:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score:1) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu felt they more or less had to. They're downstream from Debian, and Debian had already decided to go systemd. They felt it would take too much effort to have to maintain the modifications it would take to keep all the downstream applications that had added systemd as a dependency running corre...
[22:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:53] <exec> 08└─Of course you can try to install systemd on your Devuan machine, nobody is stopping you doing whatever on your own machines. Whether it still works is your problem; you can download and study the systemd source. If you want to have systemd as init system, please consider Debian instead of Devuan. De...
[22:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:That reminds me - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:56] <exec> 08└─Do you have an overarching plan for which pieces of SubLinux you're eventually going to replace with tools you've written yourself, or are you just winging it as you go and adding the stuff you write and use? Somewhere in-between? Do you think the first public release of SubLinux will include all of...
[22:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:59] <exec> 08└─Congratulations to MikeeUSA and team to the new Beta release! With seven updated packages since the first Beta six months ago (according to ci.devuan.org), it looks like nothing can stop the success story here.
[22:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:01] <exec> 08└─Congratulations to MikeeUSA and team to the new Beta release!
[22:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:15] <exec> 08└─smartphones before the iPhone Imposibru!
[22:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:45] <exec> 08└─staff's familiarity with whatever tech you happen to be using
[22:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:49] <exec> 08└─A time limited travel-route \ country wide keyring while traveling would be a quick fix. Maybe a small bar-code on a necklace or bracelet that you get before heading out that has the time limited key on it it... People with chronic conditions (allergies, chronic heart, pancreatic, renal problems...)...
[22:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Another failure pre-programmed - 06ExoMars 2020 Lander Funded Despite Schiaparelli Failure - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:59] <exec> 08└─I recently talked to a person working at ESA and learned that a software error was the most likely cause of Schiaparelli failure. I was shocked to learn that the attitude was to blame it on the code reviewer and to shrug it off. Another sentiment was: things will behave differently in space and the...
[22:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:48] <exec> 08└─By messing around with user agents and plugins you mean "install Chrome", right? That's all you need for Netflix on Linux these days.
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[23:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02America the Great! - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:04] <exec> 08└─It's reassuring to know that the most powerful nation on the planet feels that protecting Justin Bieber fans is more important than trivia like appointing Supreme Court judges, fighting global warming, or ensuring their own citizens have health care.
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:America the Great! - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─^^ ticket bot operator
[23:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I gave the queen piece a nice forever home - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:16] <exec> 08└─in my rectum
[23:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:29] <exec> 08└─Agreed, sometimes you just run windows, even if it means running it in a virtual machine. Wine is Crossover based, not the other way around.
[23:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:43] <exec> 08└─Surely some people want to have the option of using systemd. Packages that support it along with other init systems could--politics permitting--be included in Debian, so they wouldn't have to be maintained separately.
[23:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:46] <exec> 08└─Debian already exist for those people.
[23:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:56] <exec> 08└─When contributing to Devuan did he use the handle "sgryphon"? https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[23:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:58] <exec> 08└─Heh, good point! They aren't rebuilding every piece of Debian here...
[23:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:00] <exec> 08└─I got well over half-a-dozen updates in the last week alone...
[23:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Moving Target - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:02] <exec> 08└─I'll be curious to see whether Devuan can produce a stable "Jessie" release before Stretch comes out. Their announced target was to have it ready about the time Jessie came out.
[23:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Shameless Devuan advertisement - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:04] <exec> 08└─I just read on the Devuan mailinglist about a systemd issue: > I still don't understand why you cannot mount /usr, just what do you > gain by doing it the systemd way ?? Well, To mount /usr, udev has to make it available first (via mddevice and lvm). But udev uses ps internal and ps is, in new debia...
[23:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Build Quality - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:24] <exec> 08└─I can only hope that they will have the build quality that the Nokia phones of old were famous for. I can still find the legendary Nokia 3310 still chugging along even today, sixteen years later.
[23:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:46] <exec> 08└─Five fingered death punch?
[23:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It is still important though - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:09] <exec> 08└─Should be easy to use a metal detector to find the metal nodules without disturbing the sea floor. Then the mining machine digs them up, one at a time, minimal disturbance. Might even take less power than tilling or plowing-up the whole sea bed? Also, by not disturbing the whole area, there is a bet...
[23:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:140 chars - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:10] <exec> 08└─I can do it in way less than 140 chars: Sell out future gen's environment and prosperity for more corporate profits today. But jobs!
[23:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Great example - 06Support Renewable Energy: Clearcut Forests - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:42] <exec> 08└─A standing forest is a giant pulse CO2 emission waiting to happen. Forests burn, it's actually natural and beneficial to many species of larger trees.
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