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[00:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:America the Great! - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 3952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:06] <exec> 08└─At least they didn't bring out the mace: WASHINGTON, July 29— It was a far, far cry from the controlled mayhem of Robert's Rules of Order. The fracas started when passions were stirred in the House Banking Committee's Whitewater hearings. Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, stoo...
[00:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Capitalism not at work? - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:08] <exec> 08└─Why don't the original ticket sellers just put up the prices? The middlemen run the bots because they know people will pay more the the "face" price. Why not simply increase the face price?
[00:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Qh6+! - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link, the end of the article really helps visualize the final move to someone not familiar with competitive chess.
[00:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Qh6+! - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:20] <exec> 08└─I am only a dabbler at chess, but I know enough to see how really splendid that move is. And of course I would never have seen or used it myself.
[00:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:46] <exec> 08└─Actually systemd does allow other init systems just fine. Even a lot of the stuff in the systemd repository will run fine without systemd being PID1! See syatemd-udev, which is actually used in devuan. But systemd-init offers a service by managing cgroups and other unrelated software depends on that...
[00:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:52] <exec> 08└─Really, systemd is optional in Debian? Then there is no reason to have Devuan.
[00:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:03] <exec> 08└─I don't remember. The mailinglist is fairly high-volume, often I just browse it. I think in june 2016 it was "concernedfossdev". This is a link to a link to a discussion of mikeeusa: https://lists.dyne.org [dyne.org] I'm glad he was banned, nobody else...
[00:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shameless Devuan advertisement - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:09] <exec> 08└─Actually you do: Udev is still used in devuan (the one from systemd, too). Udev will potentially run a lot of stuff. Do you want all that in /? Someone might want to run /use from NFS, somebody else might want to use crypto, somebody else might want to amb-mount /usr, or use ceph or whatever new net...
[00:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:21] <exec> 08└─No. Area 51 is a cover for the real location: Area 52. The reason no one has ever seen Area 52 is because it is carefully concealed by a Somebody Else's Problem field. Though, if you work in IT long enough, you can develop your own SEP, and it might be possible to detect Area 52.
[00:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, like Crackberries. That went so well for them.
[00:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Foxconn? - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sincerely hoping that the Jolla crew will find their way back onboard Nokia - and make a good Linux-Android hybrid OS that actually works well on both sides (Linux apps/app development tools and the Android app collection.)
[00:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Foxconn? - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:35] <exec> 08└─Sad, but I suspect MS (even an arm's length involvement) won't allow "another" OS, and android without Google apps is not going to appeal to the majority of buyers (unless google play is "allowed" on a phone a hybrid OS - which is not very likely.)
[00:29:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 663 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:58] <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 "...
[00:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:30:05] <exec> 08└─System designer here. Public key server or possibly a public block-chain (depending on merits of centralized vs decentralized) is the right answer. Don't let MDs decide technical issues outside their field of expertise is another correct answer.
[00:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:30:08] <exec> 08└─The most critical messages should be encrypted using symmetric cryptography. The passkey would be stored in software and carried by the patient in his/her wallet or house key ring. They would also be registered with the patient's health care provider(s). Of course critical messages would include cha...
[00:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Are they a public company? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:36] <exec> 08└─Probably not, since The Economist doesn't give a stock symbol, but I'd buy 10 shares for my play trading account.
[00:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Tesla's charitable release of their design docs - 06Arizona Gains New Electric Vehicle Plant as Lucid Motors Announces Manufacturing - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:32:07] <exec> 08└─As far as I understand there are two standards. Tesla and the whole rest of the world. Seems rather like SAE and Metric.
[00:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"parts being supplied from across the border" - 06Arizona Gains New Electric Vehicle Plant as Lucid Motors Announces Manufacturing - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:09] <exec> 08└─That's some great timing. Maybe they can make a deal with the presumptive president-elect, like United Technologies just made. Or maybe not: he owns stock in United Technologies.
[00:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's easy: - 066,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Desert was Tropical—What Happened? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:32:25] <exec> 08└─Goats and camels... The two animals most closely associated with Muslims. Coincidence that the Sahara was turned into a wasteland? Ecological terrorism more like it.
[00:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignored - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:33:10] <exec> 08└─Also ignored were the recommendations from the Nature Chemistry online poll about a name for element 113. https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
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[01:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02the best as i have seen... - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:03] <exec> 08└─...are the people who had parents and older siblings in higher education. cant beat that wwith hard work. then there were those who were part of demo teams for the amiga and early pc. they were amongs the brightest people i have ever met. you need a good tutor, or have to find the right context that...
[01:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalism not at work? - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:15] <exec> 08└─Because they'll just tack on even more, no matter what the face value is. In 1979 I bought concert tickets for an all day mega concert at San Diego stadium (BOC, Cheap Trick, Pat Travers, more) for $10 each directly from the ticket office, in 1982 The Who Farewell Tour was $13 each. The last time I...
[01:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Auction - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:16] <exec> 08└─Just put up all the tickets for auction. This part I don't understand, they are greedy basters, so why not auction them all for even more $$$$ of profits instead of letting the middle man take all the profits?
[01:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Software purchases to then sell back to the market - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:18] <exec> 08└─Great, this means they are going to go after Wall Street's stock market behaviors and punish the high speed traders that use software to snap up and dump shares faster than people that do regular jobs and are stuck at work saving for retirement can realize that they need to reorganize the 401k plan...
[01:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chess: yet another thing that humans are best at! - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:30] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Magnus Carlsen, for putting the robots and computers in their place!
[01:28:46] <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 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:46] <exec> 08└─If you have a valid key, you can download ISOs from Microsoft. That way the only spyware and viruses that come with it are from Microsoft.
[01:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything factually wrong about your post, however WRT tutorials directed at complete novices.
[01:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:57] <exec> 08└─A better car analogy would be something like you bring it in for a trailer hitch to be attached and some goofball insists that the 12V negative ground DC electrical system has to be replaced by 6.3 volt AC electrical system and then massive handwaving begins with "that's what tow trucks need in 2016...
[01:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 2446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:03] <exec> 08└─The thing is, systemD isn't an init system, despite the frequently repeated statement to that effect. It's a monolithic replacement of everything from init through to just-below-the-desktop-UI. These days I believe it's even more monolithic than Windows, on which AFAIU it was modelled in the first p...
[01:29:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 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)
[01:29:15] <exec> 08└─Congratulations to MikeeUSA and team to the new Beta release!
[01:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple taking the lead. - 06Apple to Use Drones and Interior Mapping to Challenge Google Maps - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:01] <exec> 08└─There is, but all the drivers I have talked to that has one still does not work better then the freebie online maps. And these units go for $300 to $500 and still come up short.
[01:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Compared to the alternatives, not that bad - 06Inventor of McDonalds' Iconic Big Mac Dies - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:10] <exec> 08└─One Big Mac: a couple of protein+fat beef product patties, protein+fat dairy products in the cheese and sauce, carbohydrates in the bun, and a serving of vegetables that for many consumers may be their only source all day. And lots of salt. One can do worse. One could wash it down with lots of proce...
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[02:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:the best as i have seen... - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:14] <exec> 08└─Or you can just have that sort of a brain. Like martyb's brain just spits out absurd ways to treat my wonderfully crafted code that no sane person would even think of. It bothers me a little when he has a low success rate. Means he's been reawakening my inner blackhat or the bugs he's looking for wo...
[02:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Node.js - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:15] <exec> 08└─Wen devving is applied applied math++ plus u can mak BEEEEEELLLLIONS doing it.
[02:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Graph theory - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:17] <exec> 08└─Math major here. Graph theory is one of the few things I learned that turned out to be useful. Wasn't even that hard a class.
[02:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Capitalism not at work? - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:29] <exec> 08└─I never understood why Ticketmaster doesn't use dynamic pricing like airlines based on demand and seats remaining. It seems very 20th Century to just have one set face value regardless of demand for those seats.
[02:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism not at work? - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:31] <exec> 08└─And reverse bulk pricing. Want 20? ok - extra 100% markup. 100? - 300% extra markup. Or just limit bulk buys. The number of times you decide to treat 100 of your best friends to an event are few and far between. But I suspect that if you track it down, you will find that the venue or the operators h...
[02:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Auction - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:34] <exec> 08└─Well, I can think of a couple of plausible reasons. One is that not all profits come from concerts, that concerts are also part of the promotion for other sources of revenue - twitter/facebook paid endorsements, swag sales, and of course sales of the actual music. If the fans feel like the performer...
[02:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software purchases to then sell back to the mar - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:37] <exec> 08└─This is different from high-frequency trading. These aren't stocks being traded, they're tickets.
[02:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software purchases to then sell back to the mar - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:39] <exec> 08└─The flash crash trader [wallstreetonparade.com] has been caught and punished.
[02:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Computers are the world chess champs now - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:52] <exec> 08└─Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in the late 90s. The next couple of champs scraped some draws against the computers. Hardware has only gotten faster in the near 20 years since, making those world champ beating machines even stronger. The top human players don't even try to beat the computers any more. Th...
[02:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not the best ever - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:54] <exec> 08└─Bobby Fischer in his brief prime would have beaten either one of these guys with ease.
[02:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:33] <exec> 08└─Well, it'd be Debian then, wouldn't it?
[02:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02The Article's Author Doesn't Seem Well-Informed - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:46] <exec> 08└─The article at the Register depicts Devuan as having been started by a bunch of old crackpots who think Linux has become too desktop-friendly. Legitimate concerns over systemd are dismissed with a "chicken-little" reference. Overall the author seems to be parroting the dismissive tone of systemd adv...
[02:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, a physician. Hey listen, doc. I got this weird itch...
[02:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:32] <exec> 08└─If it's disabled by default how do you enable it? Get the pulse rate up to 120, down to 90, up to 100, within 5 minutes?
[02:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02What could possibly go worng? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, I dunno . . . perhaps a string of runaway multi-mulit-ton cars hurtling down an 8% grade with no way to stop (regenerative braking or otherwise) due to the inevitable electro-mechanical failure / human error / malicious intent. Of course, they'd probably gain enough velocity to jump the tracks h...
[02:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:10] <exec> 08└─I did the math once a few years ago. I wanted to store two days worth of solar generated electricity for my house. It came out to a block of concrete the size of a two-car garage being hoisted 40 feet, if I recall correctly. I also read somewhere that a single AA battery contains enough energy to li...
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[03:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Those who do not remember history... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:09] <exec> 08└─...are doomed to repeat it.
[03:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Those who do not remember history... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:10] <exec> 08└─I see that they do not want to "honor" someone who was pro-slavery, but it really sounds like a version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02most PC name - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:12] <exec> 08└─I suggest [chicagotribune.com] calling it [breitbart.com] Trump Tower [independent.co.uk].
[03:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:14] <exec> 08└─You cannot just revile everyone who grew up in different cultures than you do. There is not a single historical figure, their is not a single other culture past or present, that does not appear evil by our cultural standards. Hating someone because they where born into the wrong culture is almost as...
[03:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:16] <exec> 08└─It's not a fucking culture, it's slavery. To say it's a cultural issue is to vastly understate the evils of slavery. I guess WWII and fighting the Nazi's was about a cultural difference? We shouldn't have reviled them killing millions of Jews, because that would have been a cultural judgement on our...
[03:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coon College - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:19] <exec> 08└─Rename it Coon College. For the same reason Gropecunt Lane was renamed Grape Lane.
[03:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just stop - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:21] <exec> 08└─If you're going to be like this, just stop naming buildings after people and stop building statues of people. Even a fictional character might be looked down upon in the future. For all we know, veganism might be insanely popular in several decades and people then will look back at people in the pas...
[03:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:America the Great! - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:41] <exec> 08└─"One doesn't know whether to pity America because it puts so much effort into trifles, or envy America because it can." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 18xx.
[03:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, you can only fall out of a plane and accelerate at any appreciable rate for about 1000 feet; then you're within spitting distance of terminal velocity.
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[04:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Those who do not remember history... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:09] <exec> 08└─We can start by renaming Washington DC. I can think of a few more descriptive names.
[04:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:13] <exec> 08└─It's not a fucking culture, it's slavery. To say it's a cultural issue is to vastly understate the evils of slavery.
[04:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:15] <exec> 08└─On the last day of the presidency, Jackson admitted that he had but two regrets, that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun."
[04:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:17] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, you have some practices from the past that are so heinous (owning slaves, sex with children, doing the Macarena, etc) that maybe we don't want to be celebrating people who performed them, even if under the cultural norms of the time, by naming buildings after them. On the other hand...
[04:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Just stop - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:22] <exec> 08└─Society's morals change over time, and sometimes in ways we can't predict.
[04:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SJW's... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:24] <exec> 08└─Just won't stop until everything is renamed to some limp-wristed neutral name that won't offend anyone on the planet. Enough is enough, get over it and STFU.
[04:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJW's... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:26] <exec> 08└─Dude, rename SoylentNews to PeopleNews because soylent has dystopian vibes, bro.
[04:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJW's... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:28] <exec> 08└─SJWs never stop. They'll be back. They will just keep coming until . . . they will never stop!!
[04:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02FDR - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:30] <exec> 08└─Great, maybe while we are at it we can rename all of those Roosevelts too, the whole Jesse Owens thing http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk] I would say the schools could just claim it was Teddy, but the whole...
[04:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Stupid, for a number of reason - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:32] <exec> 08└─1) Censorship doesn't destroy bad ideas, it merely drives them underground 2) How will people know what they're being "protected" from if they aren't told it? 3) This reduces Calhoun down to a single issue, a caricature. I'd probably have hated his guts, but can at least acknowledge that he was a fu...
[04:29:31] <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 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:31] <exec> 08└─It's not a matter of "bother looking". In several years of looking I have found one professional grade CAM system that runs on something other than Windows and it would cost about $40k to switch over, discarding my current $20k software. 20 to 30 years ago most ran on Unix, but not so much any more....
[04:29:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 2446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:46] <exec> 08└─The thing is, systemD isn't an init system, despite the frequently repeated statement to that effect. It's a monolithic replacement of everything from init through to just-below-the-desktop-UI. These days I believe it's even more monolithic than Windows, on which AFAIU it was modelled in the first p...
[04:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Systemd - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:09] <exec> 08└─Systemd is an ill conceived, poorly designed, incompetently programmed attempt at an OS that sits atop of the Linux kernel. There's a whole heap of absolute crap on top of Linux these days: systemd. Network manager. Udev. Dbus. No. Dbus is not the right design. It began as a hack, and now, some real...
[04:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality vs size - 06Netflix Lets Users Watch Videos Offline -- No DVDs Required - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:11] <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.
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[05:28:01] <exec> 08└─And this right here is probably going to be the most bitter aspect of a Trump presidency. Civil rights are going to nosedive, and with the expanded power of government may never recover. And unfortunately what should have been an easy coalition is now confounded by the deep divides in the country, a...
[05:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Peace - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:03] <exec> 08└─And this right here is probably going to be the most bitter aspect of a Trump presidency. Civil rights are going to nosedive, and with the expanded power of government may never recover.
[05:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Peace - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:05] <exec> 08└─And apparently you missed Steven Pinker's work that this is largely the most free, non-violent period in human history, even with Stalin and Hitler. The arc of liberation has generally moved forward, which will make it even more devastating when it falters, and I'm not willing to sacrifice that unle...
[05:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hindsight - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe you MummyGuv lovers shouldn't have pushed so hard and so hard to "give" said powers to said government. You got all worked up over the idea of clubbing your opponents in the face with "your" new bat - but someone else up and took the bat away from you. If the whole situation wasn't so stupid a...
[05:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Let's be honest - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:09] <exec> 08└─If it were a democratic controlled congress the same bill would sail right through. The Powers That Be want more power, the rights of us low lives really don't matter.
[05:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Partisian hack.... - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:11] <exec> 08└─"Police state surveillance is only bad when the other party does it." No, it was very firmly not OK then also. You know where you can shove your innuendo also...
[05:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid, for a number of reason - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a spot to teach why he was wrong. If you follow populism history you get what you deserve. A view of history that is just as distorted (if not more so) as the one you are trying to replace. To whitewash your history means you do not actually care about the actual issue and think sti...
[05:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When the cops stop shooting blacks - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:36] <exec> 08└─Only rename it after your cops have long stopped shooting blacks for bad reasons. Till then it should serve as a reminder of the country the US still _is_.
[05:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When the cops stop shooting blacks - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:39] <exec> 08└─Except the rhetoric doesn't support the evidence. http://www.dailywire.com [dailywire.com]
[05:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:50] <exec> 08└─Seeking suggestions for online math classes like described in the fine article: linear algebra, multivariable calc, differential equations. I haven't found anything online yet that looks good; for example, I'm surprised Coursera [coursera.org] is sparse on more serious math. I'm a long time programm...
[05:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:53] <exec> 08└─Linear algebra is dirt simple. Can you add 3 lines of 3 numbers in your head? Can you add 5 lines of 5 numbers in your head? If yes, Linera algebra is a sinch. Diffy Q's were a bitch, but when I got to the math classes after them they were pretty easy. I majored in math because by the 3rd semester w...
[05:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02less math trivia, more math understanding - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:55] <exec> 08└─I got a lot of math in my education. Calculus in high school. But I didn't feel that I really understood calculus and opted to take the college level calculus classes, even though I had earned a B in Calculus I with my AP exam score. I thought they might be better taught at the college level. Nope!...
[05:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:America the Great! - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:06] <exec> 08└─Yep the congress can only do one thing at a time. That thing is whatever you decide it should be.
[05:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Great News - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:16] <exec> 08└─I'm all for this. I stopped going to concerts years ago, but the same thing applies to comic book, science-fiction, and gaming conventions. Tickets for PAX East for example literally sell out within five minutes. I'm not about to buy 'em through some scalper.
[05:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great News - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:18] <exec> 08└─Try getting tickets to Comic-Con. I gave up after trying for 10 years, it's a clusterfuck process.
[05:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:00] <exec> 08└─except where it improves is largely in the realm of "nobody cares" (boot time? When was the last time you rebooted your Linux system?)
[05:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Foxconn? - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:51] <exec> 08└─IDK the extent of residual MS involvement... you're right, anything past about 1% "control" of the new entity is virtually guaranteed to doom it.
[05:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Can someone do the calculations? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:48] <exec> 08└─Or we could have just read the article...
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[06:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Yeah, right! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:05] <exec> 08└─But he's one of those fundy Xians. What could he possibly know about science? Probably thinks Tesla Coils powered Noah's Ark.
[06:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, right! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:07] <exec> 08└─Some people have no taste for satire.
[06:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02OOhhh, Yeah, baby! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:09] <exec> 08└─I have got to get me one of those!
[06:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Peace - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:20] <exec> 08└─Anarchy? When? When has the government not violated our fundamental liberties and the Constitution? They violated our rights in different ways over the course of history, but never did they stop violating our rights.
[06:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hindsight - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:23] <exec> 08└─Who are you talking to? Are you sure the guy you're replying to ever advocated for unconstitutional surveillance?
[06:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Partisian hack.... - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:27] <exec> 08└─No, it was very firmly not OK then also.
[06:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What makes it even worse - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:30] <exec> 08└─It's a dup [soylentnews.org]
[06:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What makes it even worse - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:32] <exec> 08└─Just keeping in the proud tradition of the Green! New editors, new mistakes, and countless opportunities to regale our favorite stories from the past week! Why didn't you apply for editor?
[06:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My Experience - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:12] <exec> 08└─This guide might have been useful for me, but I did pretty well stumbling around on my own. Almost everything I studied has been useful at one time or another, professionally but also because I like to dabble in a bunch of fields. The top five most useful subjects have been: single/multi variable ca...
[06:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Qh6+! - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:46] <exec> 08└─That knockout combination reminds me of two famous games from the 19th century won by Adolf Anderssen, the Immortal Game and the Evergreen Game. You might want to look them up; each has multiple presentations online.
[06:29:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with it - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 956 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:58] <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...
[06:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:32] <exec> 08└─Debian is basically Devuan + systemd support ;-)
[06:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:34] <exec> 08└─Seems like something like an induction-coil coupler would be appropriate, so one would have to have the communication coil right over the skin under which the other coil resides. If one has intent to do another in, its probably gonna happen anyway... whether it be done by clever technical means, che...
[06:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh - 06IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 - 1978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:35:15] <exec> 08└─Ok, lets look at your examples. The laser was invented in the 1950s and practical applications appeared almost instantly. By the 1980s lasers were in consumer products, the Compact Disc and Laserdisc being notable examples. The auto was an obvious success with the model T in 1908 and was one of the...
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[07:28:03] <exec> 08└─Live by the hack, die by the hack.
[07:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hollywood Hacking - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:05] <exec> 08└─lolololololololol mess best die rest crash burn burp derpy derp mod me up cuz hackers is an old movie dude bro like whoa
[07:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02first the Terry Childs fiasco, now this - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:07] <exec> 08└─The S.F. city government seems to be cognitively challenged when it comes to computers.
[07:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah, right! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:17] <exec> 08└─Some people fall on the wrong side of Poe's Law when they attempt satire.
[07:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, right! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:19] <exec> 08└─Does seem to be a thing. http://www.patheos.com [patheos.com] Darn those Christians! Bless their hearts, and throw them to the large carnivores.
[07:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02the same - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:38] <exec> 08└─As always happens, the Republicans will take more power and authority. Then the Dems will just come in and set it in stone. Another day, another freedom lost. Silly to think this same thing would not have happened with Clinton. Although I suppose it would have been to track down the violent alt-righ...
[07:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:18] <exec> 08└─thanks :-) I'm at the awkward stage of not knowing what I don't know.
[07:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Experience - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:21] <exec> 08└─You're not a normal person; your experience of life is not applicable to most others.
[07:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:20] <exec> 08└─Gee..I sure don't need anymore of those.
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[08:28:03] <exec> 08└─derp derp drop yer firewall sose i can hack ya lol ping ::1 oh snap i is l3333t
[08:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:first the Terry Childs fiasco, now this - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:06] <exec> 08└─IT guys get no respect, because they live in the really real world where barely functional infrastructure is made from unreliable immature technology, but they have to work in the delusional fantasy world of social bullshit where nothing should ever break down.
[08:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:first the Terry Childs fiasco, now this - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:08] <exec> 08└─Turns out social bullshit is how you get the yacht and get to spend all your time in Ibiza partying. Time to reroll this character.
[08:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:first the Terry Childs fiasco, now this - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:10] <exec> 08└─Yachting around with a bunch of vacuous superficial dullards is not my idea of a good time. It would be nice if there were a middle ground between dirt poor and filthy rich, and we could call it the middle class, you know what disappeared during your great recession, mister gatsby. Are we going to n...
[08:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah, right! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:21] <exec> 08└─Well yes, he is a Christian. He's also, literally, a rocket scientist.
[08:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OOhhh, Yeah, baby! - 06Handheld Tesla Coil Gun at 28,000fps [Video - Smarter Every Day] - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:23] <exec> 08└─I felt your smarter-ness just increase.
[08:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Peace - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:35] <exec> 08└─When you GOT rights in the 1st place maybe? I know it says they're "God given" or "self evident" but... lolz
[08:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Partisian hack.... - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:41] <exec> 08└─In your country. Other places in the world are a little less ignorant...
[08:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:00] <exec> 08└─What nonsense. Check https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and then ask to rename all streets, universities and hospitals that bear the name of these people. Some of them are on Your banknotes. To revile a historic man for things that...
[08:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:My Experience - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:29] <exec> 08└─Well, you'll find with enough experience that a normal person isn't and life experiences even from the weirdest people are applicable everywhere.
[08:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software purchases to then sell back to the mar - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:51] <exec> 08└─Serves him right. Damn upstart thinking he can trade like he's in the old boys club.
[08:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:42] <exec> 08└─There were few facts in your post and there is no point to argue about personal beliefs. Systemd is indeed more than an init: It is a project that wants to do the building blocks for an Linux-kernel based OS. There are lots of bits and pieces that can be used separately or together. There is no Linu...
[08:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:50] <exec> 08└─Sure. Sysv-init/sysv-rc is a great combo. That is probably why literally every Linux distribution is dumping that for systemd, OpenRC, epoch, and lots of other replacements. Even in devuan there is lots of talk about replacing sysv-rc eventually.
[08:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:04] <exec> 08└─You probably confuse "updates provided by Devuan" (that are taken from Debian) with "packages people in Devuan have worked on".
[08:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Denial of life - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:55] <exec> 08└─You have to hit it with a defibrillator to flip the switch.
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[09:28:06] <exec> 08└─
[09:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fo shizzle ma nizzle - 06Language Analysis Reveals Word Popularity Oscillates Over 14-Year Period - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─Has it been 14 years yet? I'll get back in my capsule.
[09:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02identity - 06Language Analysis Reveals Word Popularity Oscillates Over 14-Year Period - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:10] <exec> 08└─groovy! My theory is that the use of new idioms is a way to build group identity among teenagers, to distinguish from the elders and the younger. Some of these idioms get popular, the next generation needs to find others. 14 years is the time for a thing to be popular among your older brothers, dads...
[09:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What makes it even worse - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:55] <exec> 08└─Why didn't you apply for editor?
[09:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Accept - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:58] <exec> 08└─You have to accept that a majority of voters WANT to monitor everyone and WANT to nuke the mid-East and WANT see poor people without healthcare. With that voter base, it's coming, probably quite soon now - but if not soon then later.
[09:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:15] <exec> 08└─It's not a fucking culture, it's slavery. To say it's a cultural issue is to vastly understate the evils of slavery.
[09:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:16] <exec> 08└─By the way, just note that I AM aware that Calhoun was also not technically "forced to choose a side" in the Civil War, because he died before it began. My point was that he lived into the era of sectionalism in the U.S. where it became about "choosing sides," and indeed he was one of the main insti...
[09:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:19] <exec> 08└─Tell one jewish nigger joke and you're ethanol fueled forever.
[09:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid, for a number of reason - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a spot to teach why he was wrong.
[09:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:07] <exec> 08└─Really, systemd is optional in Debian? Then there is no reason to have Devuan.
[09:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:15] <exec> 08└─Actually with devuan you can install any init system and you get a second rate experience with all of them. Upstream projects do use systemd to improve security, features or convenience and that then gets removed by devuan. Systemd does play nice with a lot of developers and helps them solve problem...
[09:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Assuming of course... - 06A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─That the nodules aren't like Coral Beds, and are actually a foundation of the ecosystem itself, which is very likely given that mineral deposition like that is often the foundation of undersea communities, whether through thermal vents, mineral buildup, or biological growth and accumulation.
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[10:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02O-E Converter - 06The Future of Electronics is Light - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:04] <exec> 08└─Every fucking time this comes up I have to put my dick in the mashed potatoes and bring up the latency of the O-E converter man. The fucking O-E converter. Just who are you optical computing charlatans trying to sell this fucking idea to?
[10:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:identity - 06Language Analysis Reveals Word Popularity Oscillates Over 14-Year Period - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:14] <exec> 08└─14 years is the time for a thing to be popular among your older brothers, dads, which makes it autouncool.
[10:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Compromised The Email Account? - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:29] <exec> 08└─So some researcher compromised one of the yandex.com email accounts of the ransomware extortion recipient? I guess that means the other people who got hit by the ransomware he was involved in distributing were no longer able to contact him to get the bitcion wallet to send the ransom to? I guess tha...
[10:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compromised The Email Account? - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:30] <exec> 08└─Black hatter is an asshole. White hatter is an asshole. It's assholes all the way down.
[10:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well of course they are God given and self-evident - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:55] <exec> 08└─God literally says we're all slaves, but only to him, and we should murder and raze those who would enslave us or beholden us to a false god. So basically our rights are self evident: We have no rights other than those God gives us, so if Trump is taking them away from us, and God hasn't told us to...
[10:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well of course they are God given and self-evid - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:57] <exec> 08└─You're probably more wanted in the Handheld Tesla Coil Gun thread where you can thump your chest at your accomplishments at what you choose not to believe, and how superior you are especially in relation to a rocket scientist taking the time to educate people. Given a choice between that or you, I'l...
[10:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Hindsight - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:01] <exec> 08└─Stay salty, insignificant country. USA is the king of the world, and will continue to be for some time. USA! USA! USA!
[10:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accept - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:12] <exec> 08└─I think it's more voters don't want to be horrified at beheading videos and that shitstorm in the Middle East bleeding over here like it has in France. If it could be assured that dropping a billion lollipops over their would end this, people would opt for that in a heartbeat. As it is, this will ta...
[10:29:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:23] <exec> 08└─You cannot just revile everyone who grew up in different cultures than you do. There is not a single historical figure, their is not a single other culture past or present, that does not appear evil by our cultural standards. Hating someone because they where born into the wrong culture is almost as...
[10:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:27] <exec> 08└─So you're saying the culture of the time didn't influence people's perceptions of the holocaust? What nonsense. I do think it's okay to revile them for having a bad culture, but removing statues and renaming buildings isn't going to change anything and is just silly.
[10:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:29] <exec> 08└─Exactly. History is history, and even bad history should be remembered. Besides, Hitler was a good man who cared about his people. And the "holocaust" was overstated bullshit.
[10:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Coon College - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:38] <exec> 08└─I thought they were renaming Pennsylvania Acenue to Gropecunt lane.
[10:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid, for a number of reason - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:49] <exec> 08└─1) Removing someone's name from a building is not censorship. If at some point those who own the building feel the honor is no longer worth bestowing on the individual then shouldn't they have the right to name it whatever they want? 2) No one is suggesting that anyone be removed from the history bo...
[10:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rename all the pyramids! - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:53] <exec> 08└─All those Pharaohs were using slaves to build them...
[10:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Comic Con - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:35] <exec> 08└─I got in by showing up one year. If you show up when they still have tickets/cancels, you can get them (I had to wait an hour or two!) and then you will be priority registered for tickets the following year. As a result I went two years in a row, the first by myself, the second with my dad. Interest...
[10:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ran into this the other day... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:26] <exec> 08└─Xorg requires +s/suid on systems where either init is used or the systemd configuration is broken (mine is the latter, since it was an older system upgraded from init, apparently without distro provisions to handle that migration outside of an upgrade cd/program instead of a package manager.) The in...
[10:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, debian forced a SCHISM. - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:33] <exec> 08└─The entire point of devuan was that the leadership of debian voted down attempts to keep systemd optional and provide alternatives to systemd because 'too many other packages rely on it.' As a result of that schism a number of dissenters were forced out/quit and spun off devuan instead. Personally I...
[10:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:39] <exec> 08└─Considering that very a third of the members of the Debian technical committee work on Ubuntu, I dare say that ubuntu had its fair share of influence on Debian's decision.
[10:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go worng? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, a rock spill, at speed, would not be a good thing. Far worse than a Wind-spill from those turbine thingys. But also not as bad as a petroleum spill, and certainly not as bad as uncontrolled release of radioactive material.
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[11:28:07] <exec> 08└─If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
[11:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:O-E Converter - 06The Future of Electronics is Light - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:08] <exec> 08└─if you shout hype loud enough, it overcomes the lack of reality - this is a well known law of physics.
[11:29:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:24] <exec> 08└─It's not a fucking culture, it's slavery. To say it's a cultural issue is to vastly understate the evils of slavery. I guess WWII and fighting the Nazi's was about a cultural difference? We shouldn't have reviled them killing millions of Jews, because that would have been a cultural judgement on our...
[11:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:33] <exec> 08└─To say it's a cultural issue is to vastly understate the evils of slavery.
[11:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Advocate of slavery? so what? - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:51] <exec> 08└─Modern debt, by global financial fraud, is slavery. Partial (or full time, depends) but totalitarian in its pervasiveness, so that people do not even feel the chains. "For you are like whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impu...
[11:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:30:06] <exec> 08└─If you are mentioning Khan Academy and Coursera in the same sentence as advanced math, then you are in for a world of hurt. Both of those services are shit. Let me give you a tip - Advanced math is all algebra. Symbolic manipulation, isolating variables. If you are comfortable with intermediate alge...
[11:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, debian forced a SCHISM. - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:31:32] <exec> 08└─As a result of that schism a number of dissenters were forced out/quit and spun off devuan instead.
[11:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:31:50] <exec> 08└─The Devuan devs have proven that, with only the effort of changing 7 packages, the yoke of systemd can be cast off.
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[12:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Infanticidal Chinks - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:04] <exec> 08└─Hah! You dumb Chinks have fucked yourselves in your own asses! Now you have to mate with your cousins, and produce inbred offspring! Chink Women: mate with Whites for genetic superiority., We hate White women, we will take you home and show you a better place!
[12:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02heaven or hell - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:17] <exec> 08└─well comrad trump will not be the prez for ever and sooner or later (probably sooner) he will miss the "direct action" world of business to the endless compromise, half-truths and negotiations of boletiks, predict. and now some one should remind him that any spying laws will also affect him after le...
[12:29:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Cultural Bubble - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:36] <exec> 08└─It's not a fucking culture, it's slavery. To say it's a cultural issue is to vastly understate the evils of slavery.
[12:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02easy - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:17] <exec> 08└─the best math classes are the ones in walking distance of a good cook and a soft bed ...
[12:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:50] <exec> 08└─NO. With Debian you can choose to add any init system you want to systemd, but there is no choice of having systemd or not. You must have it if you run Debian now.
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[13:28:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, of course optical computing researchers do this to make money. [smbc-comics.com] They didn't always. But that's modern publish or perish for you. [smbc-comics.com]
[13:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Peace - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:13] <exec> 08└─Yep We're pretty much self destructing as a civil society. sign of the times
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[14:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slow News Day - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:05] <exec> 08└─What a non-story. The summit spends more time with snow than without. 2 feet is more than it typically gets at any one time, but "a bigger snow storm than usual" barely rises to the level of something the local news would report.
[14:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:07] <exec> 08└─Snow is cold and watery when melting. This is the result of new research into the cognitive perception of snow and water, as it is moved through time and space with interactions of the fourth kind. It has not yet been determined if the perception changes while cognitively present at said event. Howe...
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Infanticidal Chinks - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─I wish you had something going on in your life.
[14:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be honest - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:24] <exec> 08└─It's not just the system, it's the people you voted for. Vote 'em all out? Replace 'em? Get rid of the corruption? Clean house? No. You voted more corruption in and now we get the dictatorship the rightwingnuts feared Clinton, then Obama, were to bring upon them. Wondering though how our new incomin...
[14:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score:1) 02Heads are going to explode - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:14] <exec> 08└─What are these snowflakes going to do when they get around to learning that Elihu Yale, the college's namesake, was an active slave trader. From his Wikipedia page: The records of this period mention a flourishing slave trade in Madras, a trade in which Yale participated. He enforced a law that at l...
[14:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02What's stopping me from running the bot offshore? - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:00] <exec> 08└─And how can you tell I'm a bot if I'm using a distributed network with multiple end points (different IPs)? I'm guessing this law got pushed through since all those ticket sales sites failed deploying anti-flooding \ DDOS measures because those very same techniques were used... The really sad part a...
[14:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good Idea - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:32:37] <exec> 08└─They actually have subtly different meanings. rugged - tough, strong, able to take a beating, etc ruggedized - made into something that is rugged.
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[15:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:15] <exec> 08└─ID checks out...
[15:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Death to imperial system! - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─$SUBJ.
[15:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:O-E Converter - 06The Future of Electronics is Light - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:35] <exec> 08└─Yes. Shoouting [gocomics.com] and other displays of strong emotions can be persuasive. The recent elections in the US, UK and Australia are an example.
[15:28:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:identity - 06Language Analysis Reveals Word Popularity Oscillates Over 14-Year Period - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:46] <exec> 08└─14 years is the time for a thing to be popular among your older brothers, dads, which makes it autouncool.
[15:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VitalMoss [3789] (Score:1) 02Re:Compromised The Email Account? - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:02] <exec> 08└─He compromised both the first yandex account, and the second one as well. In doing so he managed to get a decent amount of information on the hacker, it seems. It's a lot harder to pull off ransoms from inside supermax.
[15:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accept - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:45] <exec> 08└─Nope its not rhetoric. Even over here in California I've met people who think all Muslims are evil, etc. It is not a stretch to imagine a lot of the UD would actually be totally fine nuking the middle east. They will also let the surveillance happen out of fear and ignorance. If you don't have anyth...
[15:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heads are going to explode - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:27] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but it's not as if only whites owned slaves. Blacks owned slaves as well, and in fact the nature of slavery as an institution changed from predominately indentured servitude to the popular portrayal due to this man: https://en.wikipedia.org(colonist) [wikipedia.o...
[15:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:02] <exec> 08└─Even devuan uses part of systemd!
[15:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:11] <exec> 08└─I'm a long-term Debian user. When I upgraded from Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie, it installed systemd. Without asking, without even a mention in debconf, that I can recall. Then my system was fucked up. Then it took me more than a week to try to extricate all the packages that depended on packages...
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Denial of life? - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─At first I thought maybe they interfered with the device sensing thus preventing stimulation, but they're just tampering with shit. And pacemakers are not intended to shock, that's an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). So either this is an oversight by the author and editor or the device ma...
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go worng? - 06Sisyphus’s train set - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─So you are apparently unaware that heavy freight trains have been negotiating steep grades for over a century now? Perhaps someone has thought of these problems and come up with a solution? Like... (can you work it out before I tell you?) ... brakes!
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[16:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:05] <exec> 08└─Was it really such a problem thousands of years ago? Are ADHD affected people able to focus on stuff they find interesting e.g. play a video game?
[16:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Higher elevations - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:16] <exec> 08└─A mile up in the atmosphere isn't very much like sea level. Mauna Loa is 13,677 feet above sea level, a wee bit more than 2 1/2 miles up. 2 1/2 times as high as Denver, the famed "Mile High City". Yeah - blizzards, snow, ice, high winds should be almost common. Mountain men and women understand all...
[16:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Higher elevations - Amen - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:17] <exec> 08└─May in Hawaii, 80 degrees at the beach in swim suites, Decided to take convertible with top down and drive to the top of mountain to watch sunset. Oops - IT IS VERY COLD AT THE TOP about and the heater in the car could not keep up with the cold. Yup, forgot Hawaii can have year around skiing.
[16:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score:2) 02Web Cams - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:19] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of web cams showing conditions on Mauna Kea (which, BTW means "White Mountain" in Hawai'ian). Google "mauna kea web cams".
[16:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:O-E Converter - 06The Future of Electronics is Light - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not defending the article, it is heavy on describing silicon transistors and light on optical details... I've never heard of the latency issue, but it sounds like a problem when interfacing standard electrical circuits to optical. If so, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be applications for optic...
[16:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well of course they are God given and self-evid - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:32] <exec> 08└─Believe what you want, no problem here. But please realize a not insignificant portion of Christians do go in for the doomsday / kill the heretics type stuff. If you can't see how religious institutions manipulate people into doing evil (historically, and not all of them) then you need to do some re...
[16:29:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Let's be honest - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:37] <exec> 08└─If it were a democratic controlled congress the same bill would sail right through. The Powers That Be want more power, the rights of us low lives really don't matter.
[16:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What makes it even worse - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:46] <exec> 08└─Well, it's an anti-Trump story so it bears repeating. HHHHHHHHiiiiiiiillllllllllllllaaaaarrrrrrryyyyyyy! Come Save Us!!!
[16:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02no political boundaries... - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:53] <exec> 08└─The political parties are just businesses with branding - they fight over the words. Ultimately no difference than Coke/Pepsi , especially since you have to drink soda that day /s. The purpose of government is to make more government. That's what the founders of the USA *knew* would happen which is...
[16:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no political boundaries... - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed (just "yes" isn't enough)
[16:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Those who do not remember history... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:08] <exec> 08└─Those who remember history are often forced to repeat it anyway ;)
[16:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:SJW's... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:29] <exec> 08└─(Score:-1, Troll) for the truth?
[16:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Read the fucking article - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:42] <exec> 08└─This is actually a well thought discussion that faculty committees are having. This isn't about students signing a petition cause their feelz... They aren't necessarily advocating for the name change, they are discussing the naming policies to make sure they uphold the universities values. But hey,...
[16:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Qh6+! - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:40] <exec> 08└─Like the article mentions, it's not even Qh6 that's the amazing move but Rc8+ several moves back. He had to foresee a variety of different defensive possibilities for black. Kh7 (which allows the Qh6+) was just one of them. Look at the position and if white doesn't immediately mate black in this pos...
[16:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay, seven updated packages in half a year! - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:49] <exec> 08└─Um.. Devuan sounds a bit pathetic, the way you put it across.. lemme try to express it a bit more positively. So you say Devuan forked Debian over *seven* packages?
[16:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dogeball [814] (Score:2) 02Re:These are not (necessarily) flaws - 06Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemakers Make for Denial of Life Attacks - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─Option 1) Tatoo the access code on the patient. Option 2) Interact using a manufacturer-signed device that is provided to paramedics (I assume non-hackers need a specific device or software to control the settings anyway) Option 3) Patient carries device or app paired to their pacemaker Option 4) Ho...
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[17:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─A thousand years ago people who couldn't cut it in society died. They starved because they didn't have a job, they died from now-curable diseases, etc.
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:13] <exec> 08└─A thousand years ago people who couldn't cut it in society died. They starved because they didn't have a job, they died from now-curable diseases, etc.
[17:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:15] <exec> 08└─Real scientists primarily care about causation. A large part of understanding the mechanics of something are understanding the cause and the effects of it. If you don't know what causes the effect, your ability to understand it in any sort of deep way is significantly reduced. Knowing that the hyper...
[17:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 2380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:18] <exec> 08└─That is an interesting question and as someone who knows about this intimately because I have it (for real and not just a pharma baby - I was not diagnosed until I was 40) I think I can answer that question. ADHD does not come with just disadvantages. It has a bunch of advantages as well including o...
[17:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:28] <exec> 08└─Snow is cold and watery when melting. This is the result of new research into the cognitive perception of snow and water, as it is moved through time and space with interactions of the fourth kind. It has not yet been determined if the perception changes while cognitively present at said event. Howe...
[17:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02snow line - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:35] <exec> 08└─snow line is the technical term for the altitude where permanent snow cover exists https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It comes up in daydreaming about scheduling amazing hiking vacations. Note that its like flood maps in that the exact definition is very open to manipulation and...
[17:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:O-E Converter - 06The Future of Electronics is Light - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:55] <exec> 08└─If the processing can be kept within light-based transistors, then there should be no conversion (and no conversion latency) until the output had to be handed off. At that point the heavy work is done, and if so, O/E conversion latency would be insignificant.
[17:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no political boundaries... - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:10] <exec> 08└─There is the sensibility that, especially at this juncture, we don't need government as much as administration. People by and large get on with their lives indifferent to government for the most part. In a sense this is the highest form of government in that it just works without being noticeable or...
[17:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Read the fucking article - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:57] <exec> 08└─They aren't necessarily advocating for the name change, they are discussing the naming policies to make sure they uphold the universities values.
[17:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:14] <exec> 08└─Linear algebra is dirt simple. Can you add 3 lines of 3 numbers in your head? Can you add 5 lines of 5 numbers in your head? If yes, Linera algebra is a sinch.
[17:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computers are the world chess champs now - 06Magnus Carlsen Remains World Chess Champion - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:01] <exec> 08└─A robot NFL team could literally crush its human opponents. But it won't happen because it won't make $$$$$$$.
[17:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:39] <exec> 08└─udev, a critical component
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[18:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Will this help explain Trump voters? - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:11] <exec> 08└─Provided they have brains...
[18:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:28] <exec> 08└─If you don't know what causes the effect, your ability to understand it in any sort of deep way is significantly reduced.
[18:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─In many instances there is NO practical experiment you can do to determine causation. This is especially so with psychology. So you have to do what you can. And many important breakthroughs have been discovered this way. What you don't do is just give up. It must be nice to live in your black and wh...
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─Not even a thousand years ago problem. My guess is the behavior is hugely advantageous for shepherds, mildly advantageous for hunters and craftsmen (flint knappers, weavers, smiths), probably doesn't matter for gatherers, and when chillin around the prehistoric campfire its a mild disadvantage depen...
[18:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─Well, a lot of founders of now-huge Silicon Valley outfits seem to have more than a whiff of ADHD.
[18:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:47] <exec> 08└─Perfectly normal to also have lake effect snow warnings this time of year downwind of any of the Great Lakes. For example, Erie is currently at 47degF. A south westerly wind could easily dump two feet on the eastern end--typically on the ridges and ski areas south of Buffalo.
[18:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Infanticidal Chinks - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:01] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, that was pretty good trolling, especially since it is actually on topic. First posts generally have to shoot for short and pithy since the window of opportunity is small.
[18:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Infanticidal Chinks - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:03] <exec> 08└─They make our iphones and other e-trash. Thankfully they also jump off buildings.
[18:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Need more data - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:05] <exec> 08└─From TFA: To supplement the qualitative data, the researchers then examined Chinese population data by cohort, and they compared number of children born in 1990 with the number of 20-year-old Chinese men and women in 2010. In that cohort, they discovered 4 million additional people, and of those th...
[18:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02What a bitchin' finding! - 06Language Analysis Reveals Word Popularity Oscillates Over 14-Year Period - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:28] <exec> 08└─On reflection, it's seventeen years since this video card [linustechtips.com] was advertised.
[18:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hollywood Hacking - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:39] <exec> 08└─Where did TFS say the counterhack used similar methods to the original hack? And where was that made a requirement?
[18:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compromised The Email Account? - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:47] <exec> 08└─Can you restate that using a car analogy?
[18:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compromised The Email Account? - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:50] <exec> 08└─He compromised both the first yandex account, and the second one as well.
[18:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Those who do not remember history... - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if DC was named after THE Washington, but assuming it is, I'm not sure you're thinking about him in the correct light. George Washington was a murderous, whiskey-brewing, gun-running, freedom-loving, anti-government terrorist leader. The violence waged to birth this country - just like...
[18:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:43] <exec> 08└─Wasn't implying linear algebra was useless. Far from it, it's very useful. My point was that it's pretty simple to learn, usually involving nothing more than adding and/or multiplying numbers. Often lots and lots of numbers, but it's still just addition and multiplication.
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[18:32:56] <exec> 08└─That's totally fair, I was actually thinking more along the lines of GUI-related ignorance. I don't know GGP-AC's use cases, but he might be a point-and-clicker -- and they still get frustrated when switching user interfaces. There are a bunch of tutorials available for Ubuntu users who get stuck on...
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[18:32:59] <exec> 08└─Um.. should I propose the name "22817 Shankar" for the next Devuan version??
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[18:33:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think I said it wrong. From a wrong perspective. udev is not critical, in the sense that your server will boot fine without it, if you have a simple disk layout. If your root filesystem is an encrypted filesystem on an LVM2 logical volume on a RAID 5 array, then your initramfs has to do a lo...
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[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─I was never a DD; don't know about the others. I'm not sure you can generalize.
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bitshifter [2241] (Score:2) 02Don't expect too much - 06Nokia Smartphones to Return in 2017 - 3053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─I had a quick look at the website of HMD and found the following in the About us page, and found out that the majority of the management is ex-Microsoft - see excerpts from bio's below. What does this mean about the spirit of the new company? Florian Seiche - President - Former Co-Founder of HTC’s...
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[19:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02incremental speedup in fMRI - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:09] <exec> 08└─According to the abstract, formerly fMRI was limited to 0.2 Hz (5 seconds per cycle). With this improved system they are now at 0.75 Hz (or 1.33_ seconds per cycle). A useful improvement, but far from what is needed to produce the results they are claiming, imo. No way to be sure(grin), but I certai...
[19:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:28] <exec> 08└─In other words, you don't actually understand what those equations mean and are trying to bluff your way through it. Your second equation there is wrong. You're missing G as well as the units not coming out. Gravity is F=G(M1)(M2)/(r^2). Without that G, the units don't come out right. As for causati...
[19:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:31] <exec> 08└─think of the annoying kid interrupting and correcting the oral tradition elders all the time
[19:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:35] <exec> 08└─The startup environment would be the perfect place for someone like that...until it got boring.
[19:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:37] <exec> 08└─Several years ago I heard a doctor/scientist on NPR I think, explaining how ADD/ADHD were immensely positive traits for early humans and almost certainly predate humanity (IIRC, there was research on chimps I think showing the leaders and best hunters were predominantly ADD types). For hunting, defe...
[19:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02coverup - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:40] <exec> 08└─if the medical and pharmaceutical industries can convince everyone that this is nature gone awry (like every inconvenient illness according to them) then that allows them to ignore the cause(s) and focus on "treating" the exponentially increasing numbers of "naturally" borked human test tubes/slaves...
[19:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Snow News Day - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:49] <exec> 08└─FTFY
[19:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Need more data - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:10] <exec> 08└─By the way, this is not a new theory, and the implications of so-called "ghost children" have been long debated in China. See, for example, this extended piece [theglobeandmail.com] about them from last year. China has now officially allowed registration of "ghost children" [theglobeandmail.com], bu...
[19:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Need more data - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:11] <exec> 08└─Pretty simple to understand what is going on here. It is China. Of course they are lying. Because to admit the truth would destroy the country we might want to consider helping them cover this up while they try to find a way out of the problem they have made. Think about it. 118:100 means almost one...
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need more data - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:14] <exec> 08└─> Of course they are lying. Because to admit the truth would destroy the country we might want to consider helping them cover this up The problems with an unbalanced sex-ratio arent going to be mitigated by lying.
[19:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Peace - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:32] <exec> 08└─When will they start demanding crypto backdoors, like the clipper chip? The UK already has demanded it. People give up so much for conveniences, if not just out of ignorance. I keep hoping the zombie apocalypse is quick, yet I still feel the need to take precautions, even if zombies in jackboots sti...
[19:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just stop - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:20] <exec> 08└─This sort of controversy crops up a lot at liberal arts universities. I remember the brouhaha about university investments in corporations that did certain things back in my day. Looking from the outside, it seems overblown, maybe even silly, but folks at these schools consider it a matter of integr...
[19:31:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Stupid, for a number of reason - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 681 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:26] <exec> 08└─1) Censorship doesn't destroy bad ideas, it merely drives them underground 2) How will people know what they're being "protected" from if they aren't told it? 3) This reduces Calhoun down to a single issue, a caricature. I'd probably have hated his guts, but can at least acknowledge that he was a fu...
[19:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The plan will not work - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:26] <exec> 08└─Senators passed legislation by voice vote Wednesday that would make using the software an "unfair and deceptive practice" under the Federal Trade Commission Act and allow the FTC to pursue those cases.
[19:33:15] <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 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:33:15] <exec> 08└─Yes please! For us tube folks a 6.3 VAC filament supply would be a godsend.
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[20:28:33] <exec> 08└─The value of G depends on the units, it is usual to use units so that G=1. The dependent/independent variable stuff you mention is just begging the question. I dont care unless I am choosing which goes on which axis of a scatter plot, etc. If you care so much to design your research around such cons...
[20:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:54] <exec> 08└─So there's still hope for my dark snow hypothesis to explain what happens to snow by the side of the road by February?
[20:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:57] <exec> 08└─Zappa! [youtube.com] Greetings from wintery Sweden.
[20:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I smell bullshit - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:05] <exec> 08└─Not on the actual snow in this story. It seems that the media is pushing this story to make up more fake news about climate change to try and make energy even more expensive.
[20:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Auction - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:20] <exec> 08└─Also the 15$ half-shots of bottom shelf liquor and 10$ piss water and the food and of course the cut from the drugs being sold.
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─According to the Slackware Web site, they haven't dumped sysvinit. http://www.slackware.com [slackware.com]
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[21:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02京津冀 - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:10] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the article should note that 京 (jing) is Beijing, 津 (jin) is Tianjin and 冀 (ji) is Hebei Province.
[21:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:incremental speedup in fMRI - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:19] <exec> 08└─Hz is cycles per second - it doesn't really apply to reaction times, which are just a single measure of time. I assume 2Hz is meant to be 0.5s and 5Hz is meant to be 0.2s. I just tried an online reaction test and easily got 0.33s (3Hz, if you like). So 0.2s (your 5Hz) for someone who's triained for...
[21:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:46] <exec> 08└─I have heard that too. Unfortunately one cannot make it a statement of fact as there is no experimental data to prove this. Although if it is genetic and prevalent in human (and chimp) society then it is probably the case. There are potentially other mental "illnesses" that follow this pattern also...
[21:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I smell bullshit - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:09] <exec> 08└─Uh. no. They are pushing this story same as they do almost every year, "snow in hawaii? who knew!" 2015: https://weather.com [weather.com] 2014: http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] 2013: https://weather.com
[21:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:59] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, I expect it to hurt so good. Good to know on algebra, fwiw I do feel on solid ground there. r.e. advanced: hmmm, maybe for me change my description: s/advanced/next step/ for single-var calculus. r.e. Khan: I've been pretty impressed w/Khan Academy. They do an impressive job with drills and...
[21:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:less math trivia, more math understanding - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:04] <exec> 08└─agree r.e. understanding / depth of concept coverage. And yeah I've had TA's like you describe. I'm re-studying all the math I've forgotten. My first time around (pre-internet, yeah I'm that old :-) ) the drill was to hurry to keep up and cram for tests (being un-interesting was just icing on the ca...
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Ran into this the other day... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 2714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─"The wrapper is loosely modelled after the existing Debian Xwrapper," says the Xorg commit log. https://github.com [github.com] Running a non-suid X server was not just possible, but was the default, with XFreee86 in 1999: https://groups...
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[22:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Wrightspeed - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:09] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but I wonder how the costs compare to Wrightspeed http://www.wrightspeed.com [wrightspeed.com] Regardless, happy there are more players in this sector.
[22:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Overly complicated? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:10] <exec> 08└─the range on these trucks may allow them to make it from on hydrogen refuelling station to next, but I still don't understand why diesel-electric hybrids aren't a better bet for the short-to-medium term. Especially for things like garbage trucks, with continuous start-stop, high-torque and plenty of...
[22:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Branding vs. Tesla - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:13] <exec> 08└─So the first name company and the last name company are in the same field, selling basically variations of electric vehicles. How isn't this a legal dispute already?
[22:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:incremental speedup in fMRI - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:29] <exec> 08└─I doubt those 5 Hz reactions are going through the brain proper. They're probably trained reflexes, going straight through the brain stem (disclaimer, I am not a neurologist). "Real" thought is slow, I think 1 Hz is generally good enough to recognize important stages of thought (again, armchair scie...
[22:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can I try this on my PHB - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:30] <exec> 08└─Still convinced that there is a vacuum between his ears.
[22:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well done but - 06Biologists Unlock 51.7-Million-Year-Old Genetic Secret to Landmark Darwin Theory - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─Does this really counts Lamarck out? ;)
[22:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:00] <exec> 08└─ADD is bullshit parents use to justify their kids' bad behavior. Yes, some kids are more restless than others. Yes, some people think faster than others. Yes, some peoples' minds gravitate to different thought processes more than others. Frankly it's fucking amazing that people are wearing their vic...
[22:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:01] <exec> 08└─Shaddup or I won't share my Adderall with you.
[22:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:03] <exec> 08└─They say my kid has it, but I know it's just a trendy misdiagnosis. I just beat him until he decides to behave.
[22:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:05] <exec> 08└─ADD people do tend to do very well with video games because they've designed to be constantly interesting and requiring input. There's few pauses when you just have to play the next turn or beat the level and boss. Parents like mine didn't understand this and saw me play for hours at a time, yet be...
[22:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vaxx - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:08] <exec> 08└─Don't get vaccinated, either! It's the GATEWAY poison!
[22:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:snow line - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:28] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid I loved family field trips on some of the mountain passes near the west side of the Tetons. Above the tree line and not quite to the snow line one could sometimes find snow in shaded areas. Snowball fights on the 4th of July. As a kid, lots of fun and at that time, sort of a traditi...
[22:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I smell bullshit - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:32] <exec> 08└─"Crap, Joe is out sick. Have we run the snow in Hawaii story yet? No? Ok, just throw one of those up, if we are lucky it will bait some climate change nuts."
[22:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Compromised The Email Account? - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, information like that the hacker uses multiple email accounts and bitcoin wallets, rotating them regularly. Also, the hacker has made a lot of money and he uses a number of pseudonyms. Maybe he's from Russia or the middle east. Fucking incredible, mark that as a victory for the good guys, am I...
[22:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That word - 06San Francisco Rail System Hacker Gets Hacked - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:32] <exec> 08└─“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Can we please stop misusing the term "hack"?!?
[22:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just stop - 06When to Rename a Building, and Why - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:54] <exec> 08└─This is the logical conclusion: In 2003, WHO officials coined SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) to describe a novel pneumonia spreading in Asia, partly to avoid a name like “Chinese flu.” SARS did not go down well in Hong Kong, however, which is officially known as Hong Kong SAR, for spec...
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:udev - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─If your root filesystem is an encrypted filesystem on an LVM2 logical volume on a RAID 5 array, then your initramfs has to do a lot of complicated stuff before the final root filesystem is available for booting from.
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[23:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02prove it - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:55] <exec> 08└─Oh so you read Hacker News like the trendy coders, do you? You're obviously lying, because I can tell just by looking at you, you're not a coder. Real coders don't have beards, and real coders don't have white skin. I'm not even going to look at your blog to see what you you copied and pasted from s...
[23:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02Re:Overly complicated? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:06] <exec> 08└─The garbage trucks in our area have a hydraulic press inside, so I tend to think the electric part of the diesel-electric would just become extra weight. This town also bought hybrid buses -they start/stop a lot too- and then it turned out you can't really turn off A/C for most of the year. I'm not...
[23:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Overly complicated? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:07] <exec> 08└─You're thinking myopically with your "use case" jargon. Think of the big picture -- the quicker we as a nation can wean ourselves from the oil, the quicker we can destroy Saudi Arabia. I'm getting a hard-on now just imagining the destruction of Saudi Arabia. By the time those goat-fuckers start flee...
[23:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02Re:Overly complicated? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:09] <exec> 08└─You as a nation - I assume you're American. I happen to live in a state with a border fence. However, my comment was about the diesel-electric option. It's great for trains for sure, but I doubt it would be so good for garbage trucks.
[23:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Branding vs. Tesla - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:12] <exec> 08└─Because, unlike the Beatles and Apple, [wikipedia.org] people in the automotive industry behave honorably and don't insult the intelligence of their users in knowing that those users can tell the difference between a sedan and a semi and a first name vs. last name.
[23:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Branding vs. Tesla - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:14] <exec> 08└─Tesla Motors doesn't sell semi-trailers, and Nikola, I gather, doesn't sell automobiles. However Tesla Motors has announced that it is "working on heavy-duty trucks and buses." https://www.trucks.com [trucks.com]
[23:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:18] <exec> 08└─It's very dangerous, less efficient (=more CO2) to produce than any common fuel, more expensive, hard to keep contained, and engines are harder to build and less reliable. Hating diesel has become like a religious belief for some people, but it is the best fuel for heavy vehicles, and it's not reall...
[23:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:19] <exec> 08└─This is true. Like many "green" feelgood magic bullets, this only shifts the problem downstream to the power-plants. And to address your point about diesel being nasty in urban centers, it's often due to the fact that that they're cargo endpoints (especially at coastal areas such as California's Lon...
[23:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:11] <exec> 08└─That is just BS. Speculation at best. A major problem with ADHD is that you CAN'T CONTROL your focus. So people are saying that ADHD gives you the ability to at an instant shift your focus like a laser onto some other thing that needs attention. No, that's not how it works. You can't control what ge...
[23:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:15] <exec> 08└─I am so glad you were the one to say it. When I wrote the above I was hoping that the person to say it would so obviously a complete cunt and lo and behold enter the biggest troll cunt on this forum: Ethanol-Fueled. So thank you, so very much you so obviously trolling alcoholic nutjob who thinks tha...
[23:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:17] <exec> 08└─Just because you don't consider yourself to have the "HD" component doesn't mean ADHD doesn't belong together with ADD. The origin of these psychiatric disorders is not that precisely known that we can get too picky about subdividing the diagnosis. That is also why they got rid of the Asperger's dia...
[23:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:20] <exec> 08└─"Just because you don't consider yourself to have the "HD" component doesn't mean ADHD doesn't belong together with ADD." That is not what I was saying at all but thanks for going off half cocked. Sometimes I need a reminder of the quality of internet forums...
[23:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be honest - 06FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:21] <exec> 08└─It's not just the system, it's the people you voted for.
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Isn't scalping illegal - 06Senate Takes Aim at 'Bots' that Snap Up Concert Tickets - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─in the U.S.? If so isn't this just a form of that, so why need new laws?
[23:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:With Devuan you can choose any init... - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─Ahh, I avoided systemd by doing a crapload of apt-get install systemd- foo bar baz (and apt-get --dry-run dist-upgrade to get a list of what was needed) until I got a clean enough apt-get upgrade (I'm in the habit of doing it that way since I've gotten my system hosed by bad libc [static linked dpkg...
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