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[00:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Human Nature - 06Losing the War on Science - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:00] <exec> 08└─Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying...
[00:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:03] <exec> 08└─Einstein did not build the bomb. He signed a letter, against his pacificts principles, and he later regretted it. So the characters are the ignorant, and that scene is not a mischaracterization but a damn lie. As false as saying Hitler was black or some other nonsense.
[00:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:05] <exec> 08└─Meh, Hitler was irrelevant after the UN un-Nazied the world.
[00:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Alt-right nonsense - 06Losing the War on Science - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:10] <exec> 08└─>learning way more by the time they leave high school That did make me chuckle a bit. Those that are inclined have the option to learn way more than I could at their age, but it really seems that most aren't. That said, my dad sold college textbooks when I was a kid, so we had a basement full of kno...
[00:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Something I've wondered for a while - 06Losing the War on Science - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:17] <exec> 08└─You run into problems because humans only have so much attention they can give. Probably an international body of scientists who can report objectively (as much as possible) would be required. More likely we just need a better education system that doesn't produce so many burn-outs and rote-memoriza...
[00:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NHST isnt science - 06Losing the War on Science - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting had not heard that before. Another thing is 'science' as presented to people has to be sensationalist. People like 'the silver bullet' as it were for fixing things. You get studies where 'cancer is cured'. Then you dig into it and they cured 3 mice out of 1000. So when people come lookin...
[00:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The reason we have an Electoral College - 06Losing the War on Science - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:25] <exec> 08└─in the first place was because the founders of our country didn't trust the citizenry to rise above demagoguery and tribalism. And the drafting of the US Constitution actually predated the fall of the Bastille and all the rest of the French Revolution, so they were fairly prescient. The electors wer...
[00:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The purpose of a free press in a democracy... - 06Losing the War on Science - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:27] <exec> 08└─This would assume either actually existed at this time.
[00:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:The purpose of a free press in a democracy... - 06Losing the War on Science - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:29] <exec> 08└─Even better, it assumes Democracy is a good thing, something every one of our Founding Fathers believed to be false. If one is looking for their defective premise we can stop our search right there if we like. So much wrong with the article it would be like seriously critiquing the athletics at the...
[00:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02friendly reminder - 06Losing the War on Science - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:31] <exec> 08└─That, in hindsight, luddites were basically correct. Science has never been a problem. Its application, always.
[00:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is it? - 06Losing the War on Science - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:33] <exec> 08└─>>The purpose of a free press in a democracy is to hold the powerful accountable to the evidence I thought the purpose of a free press is to report news and let me decide what I want to think about it. Journalists who appoint themselves activists are as big of a problem as the elites they report on.
[00:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:29] <exec> 08└─>several orders of magnitude better than [literally] being owned Damn straight. >you are free to quit at any time Technically, yes. Practically? Different story. When the kids are hungry you go the fuck to work. For most low income people you can't quit just because you are treated like dirt. That i...
[00:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:40] <exec> 08└─yeah, but... wasn't it more often than not, that a 'tribe'/city/state was ruled by a person claiming divine right of some sort, if not a literal god/demi-god ? ? ? um, doesn't that make their wars -whether for wheat or booty or conversions or land or whatever- based on a gigantic lie of divine right...
[00:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Recovered boosters - 06SpaceX Delays Launches to January - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the recovered boosters are a useful resource for resolving this issue. Perhaps looking inside a recovered tank will provide a clue. Perhaps they could use one of the boosters as a test unit for multiple fuel and de-fuel cycles.
[00:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:56:40] <exec> 08└─The First Amendment doesn't make that distinction. I find it a bit ironic that one of the other repliers tried to be sarcastic by saying "Because freedom of speech!" But the First Amendment grants in addition to the right of freedom of speech, the right to petition for redress of grievances and it d...
[00:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:just to the city, SF especially - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:15] <exec> 08└─Good idea! For round 2, you can do Seattle. Also, up the ante with wolverines. Lots and lots of wolverines. They're cuddly! They just want a hug. Send Junior out to give the ol' wolverine a big ol' hug of suburban love! Now you're winning with Mother Nature!
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[01:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumbass forgs - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:49] <exec> 08└─It's all your "clean diesel" passenger cars.
[01:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Windsor Canada too - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:51] <exec> 08└─The City of Windsor did this too back in 2003 [citywindsor.ca] when the pollution count got too high. Transit experienced increases of up to 50 percent on smog advisory days when service was free, but the program was cancelled because of a lack of funding. [citywindsor.ca]
[01:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:11] <exec> 08└─The UN is all for Nazifying the world, just with a different kind of Nazi - Islamic immigrants.
[01:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:12] <exec> 08└─Usually its the mid-high intelligence types who fall back on cliches like "kill the dumbshits".
[01:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 1949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:20] <exec> 08└─Whether or not you love or hate Donald Trump, media outlets like Wired and ArsTechica etc. are only shooting themselves in the foot by gratuitously bringing Trump's name into every article ranging from GPU stats to sno-cone making. Not only does it make them look whiny and petulant, but it puts off...
[01:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:New Save - 06Losing the War on Science - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, common-core horrifies the hell out of me too. It's not a bad idea in principle (industry standards and all) but in (deliberate) practice it's not only horrendous but creepy. Only a handful of years ago did I consider home-schooling parents lunatics...now, it would be what I would do if I had a...
[01:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The purpose of a free press in a democracy... - 06Losing the War on Science - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:34] <exec> 08└─Power corrupts. One of the worst things about progressives being in their debauched state is that there isn't even the loyal opposition to point out rampant stupidity (not that the right has done such a good job since the 80's, but at least aspects of the Tea Party made an attempt) on the right. Wha...
[01:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Split? - 06Losing the War on Science - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:38] <exec> 08└─The culture war is deepening. I've spent a lot of time in online political debates, and nobody is going to change their mind. They view climate change as a gov't-backed conspiracy. The collected data is allegedly from tainted instruments and processed in tainted computers to produce tainted reports....
[01:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Split? - 06Losing the War on Science - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:40] <exec> 08└─Honestly, that's a copout. There really hasn't been a period in the country's history that hasn't been contentious. It has always been bitter compromises all the way through. Fuck, even the constitution was a compromise. At some point both the left and the right will have to take inventory of what r...
[01:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pot meet kettle - 06Losing the War on Science - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:42] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here [twitter.com]
[01:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Imma upgrade, ma boxes - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:01] <exec> 08└─Finally, there is a reason to upgrade boxes.
[01:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Good times to short Intel. - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:02] <exec> 08└─Intel will get hit all over during 2017: Low end: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Windows+is+Coming+Back+to+ARM%2C+This+Time+With+32-Bit+x86+Compatibility [soylentnews.org] Middle end: Zen. High end: Zen and Power. And that's what we know for sure regarding due dat...
[01:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:42] <exec> 08└─Current "wage slavery" is, indeed, several orders of magnitude better than being owned by a man who can do as he wishes to you, your family and children.
[01:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:45] <exec> 08└─Here in the usual business environment, workers get out wages for what they put in. They are paid for work done and they can choose to terminate their employment contracts at any time. And this is what makes "wage slavery" such a bullshit term. It is not even remotely like slavery.
[01:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:55] <exec> 08└─Julius Caesar definitely wasn't claiming anything resembling divine right of kings, more like "I'm the boss, I'm paying the bills here, how would you guys like a raise?" He'd served as a priest a couple of times, but most politicians did that at some point or another. The divine descent thing was mo...
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[02:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Dumbass forgs - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:51] <exec> 08└─That is a "cover" reason but not the real reason. The real reason is to expose more French citizens to the knife and bomb attacks of "youths," aka 32 year-old Islamic Jihadis with troubled pasts and predispositions to violence. They each paid 6000 Euros for the boat ride over, wearing designer jacke...
[02:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Dumbass forgs - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:53] <exec> 08└─You are losing your touch, that's just boring button mashings... Please play again!
[02:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Obvi - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:56] <exec> 08└─I lived in a town in the Rockies where you get temperature inversions. Warm air gets trapped in valleys closed off on all sides by cold air settling on top. Like those methane lakes been in the news recently. When there's an inversion it's very illegal to burn wood fires and public transpo goes free...
[02:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02boffins - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:04] <exec> 08└─Many boffins died to bring us this information.
[02:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And that secondary processor... - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:06] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if it had a government sponsored backdoor in it, so 'all your keys belong to us', now wouldn't it? That dystopian nightmare some of us feared is already here. The rest of you just won't realize it under long after it's been far too late to stop.
[02:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02*Sigh* - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:08] <exec> 08└─Boffins only exist in Britain, in Germany they're called Wissenschaftler, and sane, non-silly English speaking people call them "scientists". And that stupid Register is a joke site, folks! How about some REAL sites, like Hacker's News [ycombinator.com] or threatpost? [threatpost.com] What, you're g...
[02:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice, but I fear its more... - 06Losing the War on Science - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:19] <exec> 08└─Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full...
[02:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Alt-right nonsense - 06Losing the War on Science - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I cocked my head at that one. If I had wrote it, it would have said "reading (note that isn't nearly as productive an endeavor as it was generations ago) way more by the time they leave high school". For most values of Facebook, Facebook != learning.
[02:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:36] <exec> 08└─> Anyway, whiny Jew-run media outlets, Just fuck off already you shitheel.
[02:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:39] <exec> 08└─You're almost as bad as a grammar-nazi. " You said 'it's' instead of 'its,' therefore, your word is null and void. And the color of your tie sucks, too. "
[02:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More partisan bullshit - 06Losing the War on Science - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:48] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't modern-day Greece have great men like the three you mentioned, Socrates, Aristarchus, and Preposterous?
[02:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it? - 06Losing the War on Science - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:58] <exec> 08└─The proper phrase would be, "The value of a free press in a democracy is to hold the powerful accountable to the evidence."
[02:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Split? - 06Losing the War on Science - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:02] <exec> 08└─Should the Northeast succession be called YankExit or YankYank?
[02:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hope - Nietzsche - 06Losing the War on Science - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:05] <exec> 08└─Pandora brought the box of ills and opened it. It was the gift of the gods to men, outwardly a beautiful and seductive gift, and called the Casket of Happiness. Out of it flew all the evils, living winged creatures, thence they now circulate and do men injury day and night. One single evil had not y...
[02:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:06] <exec> 08└─It's one massive system of collusion and duress that makes it anything but as free as yourself and that utter piece of shit, Kallow, allege.
[02:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:23] <exec> 08└─You're comparing steel beams to charcoal briquettes? If we know nothing of physics, you have even less of a grasp on Chemistry.....
[02:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''expected[...]to hit them in the Philippines'' - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:33] <exec> 08└─the US [...] expected the Japanese to hit them in the Philippines first You left out the good part: (Later that day). [wikipedia.org] As dawn moved westward across the Pacific (and the International Date Line), daylight airstrikes followed [...] on Wake Island, [...] on Guam, [...] on Davao [in the...
[02:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that the primary reason why it's so easy to believe that our leaders betrayed us, and those soldiers, is hindsight. From the Tuskegee experiments and onward, there have been many reasons for us to distrust the U.S military command's commitment to the troops. Those troops were expendable...
[02:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I really can't see a business case for this - 06NASA to Use Robotic Spacecraft to Refuel a Satellite by 2020 - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how you build a business doing this, unless that business was basically propped up by the government. Who is the customer? Nothing flying has anything like a universal fueling port to hook up to. It makes for a neat tech demo, but you're not going to be self-sustainable with that. Your...
[02:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: nothing new here, keep moving please - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:17] <exec> 08└─Because TP and cracks just go together.
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[03:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TFA is all marketing fluff - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:52] <exec> 08└─In the first few episodes Elliot is in the data center trying to clear the virus before the servers reboot. Look at the diagram of the network, as the servers slowly connect to each other giving just enough time for our hero to peck away at the keyboard and save the day! (Yeah, as if.)
[03:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Linux FTW! - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:54] <exec> 08└─and they use linux! Something like: "Hey, you use linux! Gnome desktop! I use KDE.... hold over from old times" But then, it seems to have gone into "The hacker is just plain nuts" now (or last i saw). They need to hold the line against the man and keep kicking him!
[03:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pjbgravely [1681] (Score:1) 02Nothing will change - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:56] <exec> 08└─The misconceptions and falsehoods about computers presented as fact by Hollywood will not change. The fact that Hollywood and the media use the term Hacker to define a criminal will never change. I know Indie producers are to blame too, but it probably because they grew up watching Hollywood product...
[03:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing will change - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:58] <exec> 08└─I thought hackers were to blame for the sprinklers going off.
[03:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvi - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:10] <exec> 08└─So, I think that cold air up top is actually the normal condition. But, yeah, similar things happen over Houston once in awhile, you can feel the burn in your lungs. http://earthscience.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com...
[03:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mexico City - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:11] <exec> 08└─I visited Mexico City in the mid or late 1980s. There was an alternate-day driving restriction at that time (even/odd days for even/odd plate numbers). I think it was partly for air quality (few or none of the cars were emission controlled) and partly for congestion. At any rate, the locals told us...
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And that secondary processor... - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:22] <exec> 08└─You're worried about government sponsored backdoors in hardware for public shared infrastructure services (clouds)? There are so many points of entry available that don't involve in-flight attacks against running VMs.
[03:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:*Sigh* - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:25] <exec> 08└─They have original reporting. They have exclusive interviews. They have fresh analysis. They have their own podcast and they also fly balloons into the stratosphere [theregister.co.uk]. They are not the National Enquirer or this month's new flavor, known as "fake news". Your opinion is baseless and...
[03:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New clipper chip - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:27] <exec> 08└─"...AMD added a coprocessor to SEV-enabled CPUs ... This coprocessor handles key management and is responsible for the initial encryption of the guest."
[03:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:43] <exec> 08└─The UN isn't for or against anything, its member states have their own agendas. The fact that it is headquartered in New York and has a few permanent members of the security council does give some sense of who carries more weight in its decisions, but, all in all, its decisions do reflect the will o...
[03:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Alt-right nonsense - 06Losing the War on Science - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:50] <exec> 08└─The world of knowledge has transformed more dramatically in the last 20 years than anytime since the advent of written language. Even in 1990, we had "the computer" and networked indexing of knowledge, but when I did research for my Masters' thesis, I would find snippets and crumbs of things I was i...
[03:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:53] <exec> 08└─The whole thing is as silly as the "war on Christmas". There is no damned war, on Christmas or on science. What there is and has always been is a disdain by normal people of people with high intelligence. That's why terms like nerd, geek, egghead (and in the UK, "boffin"), and so forth were coined o...
[03:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:00] <exec> 08└─Since you're counting on no one seeing his actual comment because he's AC, I'll point out that the anonymous gentleman... er, person (not gentlemanly language) is most likely Jewish and highly offended at your anti-Semetic "whiny Jew-run media outlets", you stupid racist. Yes, we know why you voted...
[03:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Something I've wondered for a while - 06Losing the War on Science - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe we need all STEM types to get some basic marketing communications training... I see you've never had ass burgers and tried to be normal...
[03:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:The reason we have an Electoral College - 06Losing the War on Science - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:15] <exec> 08└─Today's Illinois Times had a very pertinent Tom Tomorrow cartoon I fear is not on the internet, so no link. But in the cartoon, as President Trump learns that the government has a time machine (top secret, of course) he goes back in time to meet the founding fathers, who write the electoral college...
[03:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Pot meet kettle - 06Losing the War on Science - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:26] <exec> 08└─OMG
[03:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Pot meet kettle - 06Losing the War on Science - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:28] <exec> 08└─Yup, that is the "Science" Wired is desperate to save from the wicked, ignorant and evil Trump. The whole edifice need to be burned down and rebuilt from scratch. To allow that sort of thing to exist for decades damns them all. So look well upon it and know despair for we proclaim idiocy to be wisdo...
[03:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gang of Four - 06Losing the War on Science - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:31] <exec> 08└─The current attack on science could be a whole lot worse, or maybe there is worse to come in the USA? Remember that the last gasp of the Maoists was the Cultural Revolution and the Gang of Four, when universities were destroyed and the college educated were sent to work in rice paddies. We don't hav...
[03:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:45] <exec> 08└─Marks my age? I remember when Hercules was a thing :)
[03:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:36] <exec> 08└─gracious would you like a cigarette now? but in all honesty ed, i fink i wuv uuuuuuuuuuu!!!! so my little petite chou and just outta in'erest, what is it you propose? serious question.
[03:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:51] <exec> 08└─Either way, wearing a pair of those glasses at night, or even during the day, is going to be an experience I'd love to have.
[03:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Foobar Bazbot [37] (Score:2) 02Re:If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:53] <exec> 08└─That was me; accidentally ACed it.
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[04:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Ugh - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:54] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's not like he wasn't at life expectancy, but I'm so sick of 2016.
[04:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:3, Insightful) 02sad day, indeed - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:55] <exec> 08└─What a day it's been. First, I learn that Greg Lake of "Emerson Lake and Palmer" passed away [theguardian.com] and now John Glenn, too? I guess I could take some comfort int he fact that their passing is significant because of their huge contributions and the impact it has had on me. My life is be...
[04:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score:1) 02Never forgotten. - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:57] <exec> 08└─History will remember him as the pioneer that he is. Most could only wish to have lived a life like has was able to.
[04:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cause of Death - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:59] <exec> 08└─Cause of death was complications from a stroke.
[04:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The ultimate hacker... - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:10] <exec> 08└─Max Headroom. Still waiting for someone to create a Max computer virus.
[04:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Or at least slightly evolved it... - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:11] <exec> 08└─In the first scene of the first episode he's apparently hacking an implied TOR setup by sniffing a local network. Yeah... why didn't anybody think of that... For those not in the know all he would see in that case would be an encrypted connection between a computer on that network and a TOR entry no...
[04:55:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:01] <exec> 08└─I am glad that someone is "Losing the war on science." I would love for the war on science to be lost. Science should win. The war on science should be lost. That is all.
[04:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:03] <exec> 08└─There is a "war" on science. OK, "war" isn't exactly the right word. Neither is "science". There is, however, a concerted effort in the US to do away with the concept of objectively provable truth. And the reason for this is that the objectively provable truth is bad news for those with money and po...
[04:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:11] <exec> 08└─No. I'm actually muslim. Fucktards like ethan are the enemy of all decent people, regardless of culture.
[04:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Save - 06Losing the War on Science - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:16] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking that the only way forward is to hit WW3 in a major way. Cleanse the world with fire. Let people be horrified at the power man commands when left on its own to carelessly turn to destruction. In the confusion may come cooperation, united by rebuilding.
[04:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More partisan bullshit - 06Losing the War on Science - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:25] <exec> 08└─Some one was asking about the identity politics attack on science? United Science States of America. This is a nation of people, not of science.
[04:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable - 06Losing the War on Science - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:35] <exec> 08└─> I thought the purpose of a free press is to report news and let me decide what I want to think about it. That's like saying the job of a scientist is to report raw data and leave it up to you to come a conclusions. The job of the press is, like any other expert, to figure out what is important and...
[04:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:21] <exec> 08└─"Battleships weren't obsolete..." Is probably one of the most significant understatements of this thread. The very fact that something like that needs to be said here shows many people are arguing from complete ignorance of what naval tactics were like and the relative perceived value of ships in 19...
[04:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not how corruption in DC works. - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:58] <exec> 08└─They don't donate for quid pro quo because not only is that explicitly illegal
[04:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:02] <exec> 08└─So you think this issue is just about directly giving someone money and nothing else? Look at Citizens United again, because there was a speech element involved. There are things like campaign advertisements paid for by corporations, which is definitely speech. They don't say that you have the righ...
[04:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:05] <exec> 08└─Not even a small amount of corruption. They contribute so much to all of these people--especially Clinton--and expect nothing in return.
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[05:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Pollution levels won't improve - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:30] <exec> 08└─The odd-even rule has been tried in Delhi and while it sounds good ultimately it hassles everyone and doesn't effect pollution either - http://www.ndtv.com [ndtv.com] Journal: http://tripp.iitd.ernet.in
[05:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Leftist Cognitive Dissonance - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:31] <exec> 08└─We're overpopulated yet we need more migrants.
[05:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:03] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Truly intelligent people realise we need dumbfucks to drive the garbage trucks or take our burrito orders.
[05:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:19] <exec> 08└─Hurray for virtue signaling! Do you get extra beans in your soup at the group home now?
[05:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Save - 06Losing the War on Science - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:22] <exec> 08└─common-core is one of the reasons why I changed my mind about breeding
[05:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More partisan bullshit - 06Losing the War on Science - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:33] <exec> 08└─War on science. Preposterous.
[05:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:03] <exec> 08└─A guy who worked for me previously worked for ABC News. He built their video archival system. He had the raw footage of cameras pointing at the world trade center and at street level in DC that they would typically use for those weather or traffic cutaway shots. The WTC stuff didn't have anything th...
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[06:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:sad day, indeed - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry to hear. This one's for you: ELP - Watching Over You 1977 [youtube.com]
[06:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:TFA is all marketing fluff - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:11] <exec> 08└─But that's just the equivalent other movies where the bad guys always are sufficiently bad at shooting that the hero always survives even when essentially unprotected under heavy fire.
[06:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Racist Cognitive Dissonance - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:32] <exec> 08└─Pushing your own agenda on completely unrelated events.
[06:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Paris metro is already cheap - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:34] <exec> 08└─Compared to most first world metro prices, Paris is very cheap. One way is 1,80EUR, and can be cheaper when purchased in bulk or weekly passes. I doubt price is a major concern when choosing to drive instead of ride.
[06:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:06] <exec> 08└─Truly intelligent people realise we need dumbfucks to drive the garbage trucks or take our burrito orders.
[06:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Alt-right nonsense - 06Losing the War on Science - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:12] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how much more accessible info has become. Want to read the papers of Euler, a famous 18th century mathematician? In 1990, it was hard. You'd probably need special permission-- the keepers of the documents would want to be sure you weren't a psycho out to destroy precious originals at th...
[06:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02virtue signaling - 06Losing the War on Science - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:25] <exec> 08└─The only one virtue signaling here is ethan. All that narcissist ever does is wave his credentials for the biggest audience he can get. The fact that his virtue is of the cesspool makes no difference.
[06:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:26] <exec> 08└─Why is it the only people who say "virtue signalling" are the ones who have no virtues to begin with? Back to the depths of hell with you.
[06:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:New Save - 06Losing the War on Science - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:31] <exec> 08└─Modded +1 Funny because we've not got a "+1 Feckin' Savage, M8" mod yet :D
[06:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More partisan bullshit - 06Losing the War on Science - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:42] <exec> 08└─Ctrl-Left
[06:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:21] <exec> 08└─coupled with proper lack of regulation
[06:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:57:10] <exec> 08└─Then you might want to read what happens to load bearing steel beams holding up a few hundred tons of concrete and steel when they are subject to intense heat. Hint: they don't need to melt, just heat up enough to soften, then the weight from above will cause catastrophic failure.
[06:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:skip the porn - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:36] <exec> 08└─The animals they do that to all die form self-neglect. There are a few people who get orgasms when they do some odd thing. They're all unhealthy too. An example is the lady who orgasms from eating chocolate. She's super fat, unemployed, and on disability. Another example is runners (runner's high)....
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[06:59:54] <exec> 08└─That already exists, it's called a button. If you still need manual targeting, release a new CAPTCH that tells people to click on the images with a person. I'm sure some sites are popular enough that you can get a near real-time feed going. I know I've assassinated may innocent signs in my lifetime,...
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[07:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oblig - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:49] <exec> 08└─lol !! so lame cuz I uze adblock and noscript !!eleven
[07:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:oblig - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:51] <exec> 08└─I support the sites I love by allowing any and all drive-by installations of malware.
[07:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:oblig - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:53] <exec> 08└─Always bend over for well hung niggers. I loves me an assful of cum.
[07:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux FTW! - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:20] <exec> 08└─Elliot's tenuous grasp on reality makes it slightly difficult to believe that he could remain lucid enough to do the research to accomplish his hacking feats, cover his tracks after the fact, or ever succeed at social engineering. I suppose it's possible that he crammed the necessary knowledge befor...
[07:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or at least slightly evolved it... - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:25] <exec> 08└─Why don't you watch that scene again, because you obviously didn't understand it. I know you run a website called Plato's Boys. You're using Tor networking to keep the servers anonymous. You made it really hard for anyone to see it. But I saw it. The onion routing protocol, it's not as anonymous as...
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[08:53:57] <exec> 08└─You just don't have legs.
[08:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:04] <exec> 08└─So do we have any cannibals in Korea that can put this in context? I'm only vaguely familiar with the politics of Korea (and that is usually after it is analyzed in history books).
[08:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:06] <exec> 08└─Koreans are brave enough to impeach a woman, unlike Americans who are not brave enough to elect a woman.
[08:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:09] <exec> 08└─About 51 % of Americans voted for a woman president
[08:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:11] <exec> 08└─I make it to be 20.1%: 64,156,255 voted for Ms. Clinton and 1,207,141 for Ms. Stein out of a total population of 324,954,000. sources: http://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] http://heavy.com
[08:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kunasou [4148] (Score:2) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:13] <exec> 08└─> Vote me because I'm a woman. In my country we have/had really bad presidents but at least they tried to lie better.
[08:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:15] <exec> 08└─I think hillary clinton is a woman. she may be lying about everything else, I've no idea...
[08:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:17] <exec> 08└─That's more to do with American inability to conceive of being fucked by a woman. I mean how does that even work? Is there lube involved? Do I bend over? How dirty will I feel after the fact? I mean sure, it's theoretically possible, but the logistics?
[08:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh Nork He Didn't! - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:19] <exec> 08└─Haha stupid Norks, always lying, can't do shit. Wait, this bad news is about the good Korea? Well fuck me, now I don't know what to think.
[08:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02North Korea - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:21] <exec> 08└─Best Korea.
[08:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Another nail in the coffin - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:33] <exec> 08└─Service active (script) content from third-party servers, gee, what could go wrong? Ads should never have been allowed to run scripts in the first place. Idiots. And, of course, it's Flash again. Flash is a swamp of vulnerabilities. Why is it still around? Another nail in the coffin of ad-funded con...
[08:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry, people, but the real problem is, as stated: "Victims who surfed various news outlets using Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash which did not have recent patches applied" Stop it. That said, if I was a large company and wanted to push adverts, I'd want a panel where *I* can approve eve...
[08:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nuclear reactors - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:43] <exec> 08└─Nuclear reactors: The most expensive way ever devised to boil water. ...even when they're working to spec. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nuclear reactors - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:45] <exec> 08└─I guess we better hope they boil a lot of water then.
[08:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:54] <exec> 08└─I look at all these old/dead people and can't imagine their disapointment in the world today. There's that other story about various antiscience movements, and to me it seems like human society is, on the whole, dumber today than it was ten years ago. I'm an asshole for making this about "myself", b...
[08:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ultimate hacker... - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:55:12] <exec> 08└─Max Headroom was brain uploading. Not a virus. Max was a full-brain clone of Edison Carter. It was mentioned often enough, Network 23 owned one of the few computers with enough processing power to run an entire brain upload.
[08:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Getta Life - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:15] <exec> 08└─Not once have I come across an animated singing virus You need to get out more!
[08:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:56:05] <exec> 08└─But no matter what you decide in the end, people cannot remain humans without psychological comfort of being needed, wanted, useful.
[08:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:57:47] <exec> 08└─However, in the end, you have to work for one of them, more or less on their terms, if you don't want to live in a slum, if you do want some form of medical care for you or your family, if you are not one of the fortunate few who have enough resources to forgo a paycheck for an extended period of ti...
[08:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:09] <exec> 08└─Why is it that the gift of money to a campaign is considered "speech"?
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[09:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's sexist? - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:51] <exec> 08└─Abstract: The virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift induces motion sickness and is sexist in its effects.
[09:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:02] <exec> 08└─thanks for the numbers, but I think you should have compared the votes to the total number of eligible voters, not total population. (i.e. don't count those under 18). That will probably raise the percentage to something like 30.
[09:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And as I like to constantly remind people: - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:04] <exec> 08└─*NEITHER* first party candidate won the election with even a greater than 50 percent VOTER MAJORITY. We're supposed to trust someone who had a less than 50 percent acceptance rate to act as mostly-figurehead for 100 percent of the populace? And that is really the cornerstone of what is wrong with Am...
[09:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:08] <exec> 08└─She's a reptilian.
[09:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not if you imagine... - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:11] <exec> 08└─Being fucked by a woman with a huge strap-on. It also lets them avoid the majority of STDs and fuck you longer and harder without the lack of lube affecting their senses. I mean hey, if you're trying to rape someone it works much better if it hurts them without hurting you, right?
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[09:54:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've always been a bit askance at the whole strap-on/pegging bit. I mean unless there are sensors that connect directly to a neural pathway, it's just a piece of plastic. More like factory work really; Put it in, pull it out, put it in, pull it out. You ever hear of someone fantasizing about w...
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[09:54:15] <exec> 08└─My favorite politician is a woman (Margaret Thatcher) and I would never have voted for Clinton.
[09:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:17] <exec> 08└─Oh come on! You know she doesn't count. Privileged white lady who hit the glass ceiling of being ruler of one of the most powerful nations on earth. If it wasn't for all the sexism she endured, she would have risen to the level of Galactic Master, where the real power resides. Without affirmative ac...
[09:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fault - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:31] <exec> 08└─The news sites are not at direct fault as they displayed the advertising
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[09:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Cause of Death - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:52] <exec> 08└─Cause of death was 'old'. Really, no more detail than that is needed.
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[09:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:Linux FTW! - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:04] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the point that sometimes he's Elliot and sometimes he is Mr Robot. If you watch back both series (Especially the first) Look for the scenes where Mr Robot is with Elliot and the crew. Notice who people are looking at when Mr Robot is talking: Elliot. Its like fight club. Brad Pitt...
[09:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Getta Life - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:12] <exec> 08└─Those moving and singing things you see there are not viruses, they are called birds. And beware, if you continue to call them viruses, they might very soon be angry birds!
[09:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pollution levels won't improve - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:28] <exec> 08└─and doesn't effect pollution either
[09:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Pollution levels won't improve - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:29] <exec> 08└─Yep.
[09:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:06] <exec> 08└─Even in an age of 3D printing and the like, there is still a demand for handmade items, several of which command a better price than the best of the best from automation. Those jobs, although limited, are never going away. In fact (or at least as the theory goes), those very same people should have...
[09:56:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03xpda [5991] 02Trust the Government - 06Losing the War on Science - 1100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:35] <exec> 08└─It would be no wonder the U.S. did fall behind the rest of the world in science. When the U.S. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology feeds us blatant lies about global warming, there is something seriously wrong; a disconnect with reality. Congress can lie about science, but science does not c...
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[10:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tiny cities - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:52] <exec> 08└─Eindhoven 34.31 sq mi Helmond 21.14 sq mi That's all? I've seen bigger American tits.
[10:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:01] <exec> 08└─Do women tend to suffer more motion sickness in cars/planes than men?
[10:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My PSVR experience - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:03] <exec> 08└─I have a PSVR and found I get sick really easily. It's full on travel sickness like I used to get in the back of cars as a child and on ferry journeys, combined with headache and profound discombobulation which can last all day. Some things which help: * Smoking weed before a VR session * Chewing gi...
[10:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Word choice - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:27] <exec> 08└─choosing top government officials to her wardrobe
[10:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:39] <exec> 08└─Javascript? Not a chance. No active content.
[10:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing will change - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:15] <exec> 08└─it's also about the medium. I watched "chappie" a couple of nights ago. Extremely naive, but for some reason I liked it. Anyway. They have a bit of computer stuff in there, and I think it's actually reasonable. Fundamentally unlike reality, but close enough to make some sense, and it doesn't kill th...
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[11:53:56] <exec> 08└─A bigger worry are the psychopaths who target children. Once this new Internet of Things "toy" gets hacked and rented out to just anyone, child abductors have a surveillance tool that's far-reaching and informative. It would make scanning for victims exponentially easier.
[11:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Correction, largest bus fleet on batteries. - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:04] <exec> 08└─There have been much larger electric fleets for many years, but those don't run on batteries https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]. It seems to me that these buses need to be charged multiple times a day, so only part of them will be operational at the same time.
[11:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:15] <exec> 08└─Women are bad drivers, irrational, hysterical, should stay in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. Does that about cover it? .... no, one more thing. Cumdumpsters.
[11:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Happens to me - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:17] <exec> 08└─I used to fly aerobatics with no motion sickness problems, but 5 minutes in an Oculus Rift had me pulling off the headset to avoid throwing up. The human brain uses a large number of visual clues to build a 3D map of the surroundings. These include focal depth (your lens is constantly flexing slight...
[11:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02HTC Vive high frame rate low sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:19] <exec> 08└─I have been using an HTC Vive for a while now and apart from the "roller coaster" and "on-rails" experiences I do not get sick. And that is a big deal fro me because I get sick within a few minutes of being in car and not being able to see out the front clearly. I did try some Unity 3D work for th...
[11:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02South Korea - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:43] <exec> 08└─Worst Korea.
[11:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Word choice - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:45] <exec> 08└─Well, this is interesting. Could be a translation error. It is perfectly possible that someone helped her with her wardrobe, but that would hardly be news (lots of VIPs have someone for that).
[11:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:58] <exec> 08└─For the pittance that Internet advertising brings in
[11:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux FTW! - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:34] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia [wikipedia.org] and acute psychosis are actually depicted fairly realistically in the show. At least as close as you can get with a dramatic representation. Males typically have their first episode sometime along the way into young adulthood. It's entirely...
[11:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02It's Just A Show - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:44] <exec> 08└─Remember, the same entertainment machine brings us Doctor Who and MST3K.
[11:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:49] <exec> 08└─sooo... a war on reality then? Sounds exactly right, actually.
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[12:53:54] <exec> 08└─It helps if you realise that the Mirror is not only a tabloid, but one aimed at the less educated end of the UK tabloid market. They're going to latch onto the things appropriate for their audience and skip over the big words and details - I read once that they - and others in this market segment -...
[12:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:55] <exec> 08└─"Smart" everything is a privacy nightmare. TV, light bulb, and yes of course your "smart" phone. "Smart" devices are for dumb people, especially when (as is usually the case) you are not in control of the device. Has everyone forgotten that the world worked just fine before we spy-enabled every last...
[12:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, scrap smart dolls, get your kid a RealDoll instead! Those will protect their privacy, not compromise it!
[12:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:00] <exec> 08└─Please report for re-education asap. If you do not we will post that one photo you took while drunk to your facebook account then lock you out of it. Thank You Your Neighborhood Employment Center Brought to you by MegaCorp Worldwide where we own you
[12:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Could be Exploited? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:02] <exec> 08└─Let's see .. how many small children tell their "secrets" to their dolls? And by "secrets" I mean "wants and desires that advertisers are lining up to buy". Why not just call this the "Tell Me What You Want Doll So I Can Send You Advertisements For It Doll". Oooh, and let's make sure these companies...
[12:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:tiny cities - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:11] <exec> 08└─I live in Eindhoven. It's certainly no metropolis, but there are 220k people living here. Population density is relatively high in Dutch cities.
[12:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score:3, Informative) 02"All 43" probably incorrect - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:14] <exec> 08└─I live in Eindhoven. There is no way the entire bus service can be run with just 43 buses. In the Dutch version [transdev.nl] of the news the same number of 43 electric buses is mentioned, but it is stated that long term all buses will be electric, so not right now.
[12:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:16] <exec> 08└─I don't mind the green-credentials, but it gets me that someone calls these zero-emission transport. The individual vehicles - yes, zero emission. But to claim there are no emissions CAUSED by their usage is wrong. It's like my car being called a "zero-fracking car". Sure, the car does no fracking a...
[12:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02That's a joke, Son, I say a joke! - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:19] <exec> 08└─Aren't buses always electric? [Eds Comment: Nope, probably a few tens of thousands of these around the UK. London Bus Image [freefoto.com] ]
[12:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What About VR To Counter Motion Sickness? - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:32] <exec> 08└─What about using VR technology to "lie" to the brain to help alleviate or counter motion sickness?
[12:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Word choice - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps that shadowy confidante who is advising her is a faun named "Mr Tumnus" who she found after going through a wardrobe?
[12:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02guilty from the get go - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:00] <exec> 08└─well corruption flourishes in a overly bureaucratic system. who wouldn't take a short cut if going through the official channels seems to take forever? also, having a excessive bureaucracy helps to keep control by extra-legal means because it forces people/companies to take a short cut which puts th...
[12:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:15] <exec> 08└─if I was a large company and wanted to push adverts, I'd want a panel where *I* can approve every advert before it shows on the website.
[12:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Fault - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:17] <exec> 08└─I cannot agree more. If you make a mistake once, then that is bad. However, the companies have made the same mistake many times. Both the ad-networks *and* the main sites are responsible. They all act like Typhoid Mary [wikipedia.org] and should all be treated as such. Quarantine the bastards on eit...
[12:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear reactors - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:27] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you see it (I will now assume light water power-reactors): * Cost per kWh - one of the cheapest (about the same as well-sited hydro) * Unit cost - most expensive * With sane safety - about as expensive as coal to build (but cheaper to operate) * With current safety - most expensive to...
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[13:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:57] <exec> 08└─Teen vaping rates have gone up (like 3 mil now), tobacco use has gone down (lowest rate ever). Putting aside the health concerns, giving us another "gateway" drug argument gives away the mindset. This is yet again more prohibition with a "think of the children" twist. You can't have "an emerging pub...
[13:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Vaping.... - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:58] <exec> 08└─http://imgur.com/gallery/gZMbe [imgur.com]
[13:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02More fud to ban/tax vaping - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, teenage vaping has probably gone up. What the guy fails to address is by how much teenage smoking has come down. Also... No consensus on the risks or advantages of vaping? Excuse me? There is an overwhelming consensus on vaping being at least 95% safer than smoking among health professionals. A...
[13:54:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:11] <exec> 08└─"Smart" everything is a privacy nightmare. TV, light bulb, and yes of course your "smart" phone. "Smart" devices are for dumb people, especially when (as is usually the case) you are not in control of the device. Has everyone forgotten that the world worked just fine before we spy-enabled every last...
[13:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Relative definition - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:16] <exec> 08└─They call the dolls "smart" not to call the buyers "idiots".
[13:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:28] <exec> 08└─it gets me that someone calls these zero-emission transport.
[13:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:40] <exec> 08└─I was wondering the same thing. Seasickness is related to the body's physiologic response to poison (uncertain sense of balance, then vomit to get rid of the poison causing it). Women are supposedly more sensitive to the smells of poison or spoilage (and it increases when pregnant), so it may make s...
[13:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Happens to me - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:44] <exec> 08└─> VR is a fad. Incremental improvements of the current tech will never give something that works well. I suspect history will prove you wrong on this one. People love escaping from reality, and we'll keep on plugging away on this tech bit by bit until it's as immersive as the "real world" we know to...
[13:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Context - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:08] <exec> 08└─Since all the soybeans are too busy masturbating to this story instead of understanding it, here's the blog post that first really explained WTF is going on with Park to the english-speaking world: The Irrational Downfall of Park Geun-hye [blogspot.ca]
[13:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the "gravitational pasture" department - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:15] <exec> 08└─ok, this summary is now going on my list of things that I love and hate about English. as far as I can tell, the summary can be interpreted as "the confidante helped with everything from choosing ministers to choosing dresses, ...", or indeed there may be a translation error. but this is the new yor...
[13:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Remarkable Progress as a Democracy - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:19] <exec> 08└─In the 70's and 80's South Korea was ruled by autocrats. There were constant mass protests from students and workers. It was recent that they broke away from that and became a real democracy. Now they've impeached the president for corruption. It's astonishing for a country where the chaebol still c...
[13:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remarkable Progress as a Democracy - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:21] <exec> 08└─The only reason they impeached her was because this corruption wasn't run of the mill corruption. It differed not in scale but in kind. Park's corruption was more like nancy reagan using an astrologer amped up by a million.
[13:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pie in the sky - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:47] <exec> 08└─duckduckgo sayz: Japan: Population, total Data as of Dec 31, 2014 127.13 million -0.16% 199'000'000'000 $ / 127'130'000 ~ 1'565 $ https://www.ovoenergy.com [ovoenergy.com] thinks 1 kwh cost 25 cents in japan (4 kwh = 1 dollar) 1'565 dollars is...
[13:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Dispose of the water the way the Navy does - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:49] <exec> 08└─radioactive water is stored in tanks that are leaking. Why don't they dispose of it the way the US nuclear Navy does? They make concrete out of it, then bury the concrete as well as the mixer at hanford.
[13:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:32] <exec> 08└─So many big ships clustered together except the aircraft carriers. They were vital to the war effort against Japan except not even one was in Pearl Harbor. Too much to be coincidence.
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[14:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:06] <exec> 08└─Pretty much what I had to say. FFS, just let people do what they want to do UNLESS there is a PROVEN risk to public health. Funny that the government spends so much time trying to ban stuff that Average Joe wants to do - but they're in bed with the pharmaceuticals and GMO food coroporations - not to...
[14:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:07] <exec> 08└─let people do what they want
[14:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:09] <exec> 08└─Does not apply to minors.
[14:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:11] <exec> 08└─Does not apply to minors.
[14:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:More fud to ban/tax vaping - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─There is an overwhelming consensus on vaping being at least 95% safer than smoking among health professionals.
[14:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:More fud to ban/tax vaping - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─I suppose the issue is kids who pick up vaping that wouldn't have taken up smoking. Vaping is seen as safer than smoking and perhaps more fun and enjoyable considering all the different flavors out there. Therefore there would be less hesitation to try them. I've never touched cigarettes, and as an...
[14:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Lies - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:20] <exec> 08└─While not all contain nicotine, Murthy's report says e-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco-related product among youth.
[14:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─How about we do the non-overreactive thing for a change and ban the sale of nicotine-containing liquids to minors instead of banning the hardware and liquids that contain no nicotine whatsoever? If they're not harming themselves, the busybodies around the nation really need to fuck right off out of...
[14:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Naughty words are the least of my concern... - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:33] <exec> 08└─Also, if they hack the dolls, they might use them to direct the kid to where they want to have it. For example, the doll says "I'd like to have some fresh air", and then when the kid is outside, "oh, what an interesting bush over there, can I see that a bit closer?" You get the idea.
[14:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:38] <exec> 08└─"Smart" devices are for dumb people, especially when (as is usually the case) you are not in control of the device.
[14:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Could be Exploited? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:41] <exec> 08└─pretty easy to imagine. edward snowden, 5 years from now, is married and has a 3 year old around the house. the 3 year old comes from the school christmas party very excited, because santa gave it a doll that can speak. I think the spooks would do it if only to fuck with him... (you do NOT want to b...
[14:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Idiot parents! - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:44] <exec> 08└─WTF kind of moron would even buy their child such a thing? It's bad enough that adults trade their own privacy for silly little conveniences. In this case, they are trading away their child's privacy - for what, exactly? If they really want a "smart" doll, just get it with an UNCONNECTED computer br...
[14:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noldir [1216] (Score:1) 02Re:"All 43" probably incorrect - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:55] <exec> 08└─As a fellow Eindhovenaar I agree. Also wonder if they include the busses that move between Eindhoven and the surrounding villages?
[14:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:32] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell from the 2009 documentary V, the lizard people have 3 genders, but only two are required for reproduction unlike that one species in ST:ENT that required all 3. Hillary is a queen, and typically queens are only capable of laying one other queen egg (Chelsea in this case—I have...
[14:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fault - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:06] <exec> 08└─And in the end -they- are the ones that decide to use those specific ad networks to generate revenue. That's about as directly responsible as they can be. If they used a competent ad network (I don't think any exist yet however as damned near EVERY ad network has cut enough corners to make a buck an...
[14:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:27] <exec> 08└─No worries! We're gonna make America great again! It's a bunch of politically correct bullshit that this leftist "science" crap got us to the moon!
[14:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Cause of Death - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:56:33] <exec> 08└─Cause of death was Life. Just teaching y'all to be SCIENTIFIC.
[14:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:57:48] <exec> 08└─The UN was created to install the New World Order. It is against nationalism. They allow you to call yourself 'nationalist' as long as it is functionally the same as 'globalist'. You get immigrants all over the place who are forced out of their homes by Khazar vermin. The Khazars then use the MSM to...
[14:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─//No. I'm actually muslim. But you are functionally equivalent to a jew. Friends of jews are also unwanted outsiders. It can only be a one-way friendship. You may call a jew a 'friend' and mean it, but he will call you a 'friend' only so he can take advantage of you and stab you in the back. Never u...
[14:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:16] <exec> 08└─Why is it that you find it important to attack people whom you know nothing about? Would you like to elaborate on your statement? How do you know that "all" people who ever said "virtue signalling" are without virtues themselves. Making a positive statement to increase goodwill and understanding is...
[14:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:18] <exec> 08└─Not calling them Jew-run media outlets will not make them non-Jewish. Jew-run media is the problem the world needs to solve. If it wasn't for the Jew-run media, world opinions would be different from what they are now. There would be more science and technology and no war. And "Jew" should not be an...
[14:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:39] <exec> 08└─Or choose some other employment option like self-employment, investment, or starting a business. There is a bit of tunnel vision here.
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[15:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02Terra / Wortmann.de - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─My current laptop is from the german supplier Wortmann.de (aka Terra computers). Being a GNU/Linux user I didn't want to send any money to Redmont, so I opted for "no operating system". The laptop came preloaded with FreeDOS and OpenGEM, which reminded me of olden Atari ST times - I didn't even know...
[15:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Terra / Wortmann.de - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:12] <exec> 08└─Laptop? Way too big a machine for a lightweight OS like this! You should be sticking it on your smartwatch or smartpen (I assume there's such a thing). How does FreeDOS, and the apps it supports, handle the huge amounts of memory in modern systems. Can I write code that does calloc(60000, 60000)? ca...
[15:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As someone who ran it on a REAL vintage system... - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:15] <exec> 08└─In the past 6 months, thank you Jim Hall, Tim Norman, Pat Villani and all other assorted FreeDOS contributors, your work is still useful today, provides a comprehensive set of features allowing all sorts of fun computing, networking, and retrogaming, and helped me fire up and diagnose issues with BB...
[15:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02freedos saved my life - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:17] <exec> 08└─I had this acer laptop whose firmware would not let me run 64 bit linux (nasty overheat and shutdown if I did) Went to acer, got updated firmware, but alas, it required windows. The first thing I had done upon buying the laptop was getting rid of its vista which I would have never used. So I crossed...
[15:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02USB boot, not just install from USB? - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:19] <exec> 08└─Long time ago I made a bootable flash drive with FreeDOS 1.0. But I didn't record exactly how I did it, and had forgotten how when FreeDOS 1.1 came out. Thought it would be easy to figure out again. Nope! FreeDOS wasn't the best way to play classic games on modern computers. The problem is that hard...
[15:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:31] <exec> 08└─However when you literally condemning a billion people to death...
[15:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:32] <exec> 08└─How disingenuous of you. If the regulations were only to ban sale to minors (which has already happened at the state level, so completely unnecessary), there wouldn't be any argument except for why is this needed at the federal level? But that's not what the regulations say. You're even quoting the...
[15:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:35] <exec> 08└─The fuck it doesn't.
[15:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:37] <exec> 08└─Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration issued new rules that, for the first time, will require makers of nicotine-emitting devices to begin submitting their ingredients for regulators to review
[15:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:40] <exec> 08└─The constitution is the highest law of the land, not the only law of the land.
[15:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:42] <exec> 08└─My employer, Boston Dynamics, has the same mindset. If you want to smoke cigarettes on campus, you must do so only at the handful of designated smoking areas on campus. But if you vape, you can do it anywhere as long as you are not within 20 feet of any building entrance. At a previous employer I kn...
[15:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:44] <exec> 08└─Vaping is a substantially different issue than marijuana, because the effects are different. Marijuana is, as best as anyone can tell, not physically addictive, and relatively harmless, doing less harm than either tobacco or alcohol. It is, like a lot of things, psychologically addictive, so there p...
[15:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:46] <exec> 08└─Problem- there are various nicotine replacement regimens available to help people quit smoking (effectiveness of about 1%). How can you argue in good faith about the ill effects of nicotine and outlawing one form over another when these products are around? And comprehension fail- the issue isn't th...
[15:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:54] <exec> 08└─How about we do the non-overreactive thing for a change and ban the sale of nicotine-containing liquids to minors...
[15:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:56] <exec> 08└─We also have a history of the educated and wealthy looking down on the habits and favored vices of the lower classes, and passing laws to match.
[15:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Snuff it! - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:58] <exec> 08└─If that guy starts fighting vaping, he can happily go and snuff it [youtube.com] for all I care. (Trigger warning: the linked video is a snuff video. Don't watch if you can't take it.) I was into snuff when I was 13 because I wasn't aware of the negative health-impact. Recently my son started to sho...
[15:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"But but vaping is better than cigarettes" - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─The question is not whether or not vaping is better or worse than smoking 'regular' cigarettes. The question is whether or not vaping is bad for you. Similarly, getting kneecapped is less bad than getting hit by a train, but that doesn't mean we should applaud kneecappers...
[15:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Scanning for Victims - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─When you say "It would make scanning for victims exponentially easier.", am I supposed to hear dark the dark tones of a political opponent advertisement, or the light jingle of a "just in time for the psychopath on your Christmas list" ad?
[15:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:17] <exec> 08└─Everything old is new again, it's not "smart" that's necesarily the problem, it's "features for the sake of features". http://classic-web.archive.org Furby a threat to national security? January 13, 1999 ...
[15:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot parents! - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─Peoples is dumb. My wife and i were standing in a checkout queue one day when my daughter was around 5 years old, and we heard a lady in front of us say to her kid, "No! You haven't been behaving today... you can't have 2 toys, you can only have one." So, kids are smarter than their parents in waaaa...
[15:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Funny) 02real dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:25] <exec> 08└─Just imagine the privacy concerns when you tell your sex doll all your secrets... and it is Alexa/Cortana/Siri/DanielUK enabled.
[15:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's sexist? - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:48] <exec> 08└─Bleh. Skimmed right over that part but there it is. And yep, that's the death knell for VR. Can't upset pwecious women. Damn.
[15:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Happens to me - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:55] <exec> 08└─VR is a fad. Incremental improvements of the current tech will never give something that works well.
[15:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Known for Quite a While - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:59] <exec> 08└─Nausea due to VR is nothing new. When I was in university in the early 90's and taking my computer graphics courses, we were just then at the transition point where computers were getting fast enough that you could have VR without motion sickness. Prior to that, nausea was a given. And keep in mind,...
[15:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:And as I like to constantly remind people: - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:14] <exec> 08└─Australia has compulsory voting for everybody, but that causes other problems. They do have a "None of the Above" option, though.
[15:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:24] <exec> 08└─being ruler of one of the most powerful nations
[15:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:26] <exec> 08└─We the Queen can send troops, talk to me.
[15:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Word choice - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:36] <exec> 08└─I skimmed through that bit and I thought the meaning was that the spiritual adviser told her what to wear as well as who to extort. Oops.
[15:57:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02sad day, indeed - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:16] <exec> 08└─What a day it's been. First, I learn that Greg Lake of "Emerson Lake and Palmer" passed away [theguardian.com] and now John Glenn, too? I guess I could take some comfort int he fact that their passing is significant because of their huge contributions and the impact it has had on me. My life is be...
[15:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Paris metro is already cheap - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:05] <exec> 08└─True, especially considering the fact that employers typically have to pay or contribute to a chunk of employees' bus/metro passes. In the suburbs, if you are close to a train, you'll be okay usually. Other than that, it can be a very long commute. Not that it's shorter in the car, but you'r guarant...
[15:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:*Sigh* - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:18] <exec> 08└─Shockingly, the submitter actually forgot to say "this came from 'El Reg.'"
[15:58:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:52] <exec> 08└─There is a "war" on science. OK, "war" isn't exactly the right word. Neither is "science". There is, however, a concerted effort in the US to do away with the concept of objectively provable truth. And the reason for this is that the objectively provable truth is bad news for those with money and po...
[15:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Philosophers are armchair scientists - 06Losing the War on Science - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:56] <exec> 08└─I've never seen a coherent philosophical argument that wasn't obvious. Most are just a bunch of words that barely hang together. If the question is currently answerable, it has become a part of established science. Otherwise it's garbled thought (philosophy) or a research subject.
[15:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:59] <exec> 08└─nothing in the conception of climate change denotes what is the best course of action (if any) to take. While there is a presumption that science=cap and trade or whatever, that is simply something science isn't qualified to answer.
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[16:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:57] <exec> 08└─This is couch change.
[16:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:59] <exec> 08└─What they should do is jack up the prices for all drugs 1,000,000% for Africa and the Middle East, and lower the prices for everybody else. Win-win, we get cheaper drugs and more planetary dead-weight dies off.
[16:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:01] <exec> 08└─Instead of the "Supply and demand" business model, it's the "How much money you got?" business model. Just like a crooked mechanic in a one light town.
[16:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:03] <exec> 08└─How about doubling that fine, each day that the prices remain that high? The fine gets reduced by however much they reduce the prices. FFS, governments need to tame big business. I don't mean sleep with big business, but TAME big business.
[16:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:05] <exec> 08└─The EU has been pretty consistent about doing exactly that to keep corporations in line. I don't know if post-brexit, tory-controlled UK will do the same, but they're not as far gone with free-market obsessed lunatics as the American republicans.
[16:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:07] <exec> 08└─You're mean. exponential on one side, simple subtraction on the other. ;-) The fine should be big, but I sometimes wonder if the government loves this scenario. Government is basically a third wheel in this transaction but it makes a tidy profit by fining the gouger. Next, the fines aren't typically...
[16:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Drug Pricing Interest Conflicts - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:10] <exec> 08└─Are these fines big enough to actually do anything? After all, if you make $1B profit, and get hit with a $100M file, you're still $900M ahead - hell, if it's not actually against the *law*, you could argue that the corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to do it, to deliver as much value to t...
[16:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Wrong mental model - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:12] <exec> 08└─One thing I wonder about such fines is whether they can possibly be effective. Even if they manage to hurt a pharmaceutical company's bottom line in the UK a bit, without some sort of international standard regulation of drug pricing, won't they just pass any costs of litigation onto consumers in th...
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Re:As someone who ran it on a REAL vintage system. - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─Consider - FreeDOS, and Lotus 1-2-3. This is (at least in theory) going to fit in the L2 cache of a modern CPU. And Lotus 1-2-3 could handle some pretty damned big spreadsheets, especially with XMS/EMS support. Delays? What delays? Of course, I doubt you could get a modern machine to actually boot d...
[16:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As someone who ran it on a REAL vintage system. - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─Of course, I doubt you could get a modern machine to actually boot directly into FreeDOS. Still....
[16:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Jim, et al, Thank you! - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:29] <exec> 08└─FreeDOS is life saver. I recently had to replace a failed hard disk in a glove box that is DOS controlled. The system, a P3, ran windows 98 but booted to a DOS prompt via the autoexec.bat. I installed a compact flash to IDE adapter, 8GB industrial CF card and installed freeDOS and a backup of the gl...
[16:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Other uses... - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:31] <exec> 08└─Really useful for embedded systems. You can write software in C that is fast and with fixed latency. Very close to a real time system there. I used to use it a lot for this, but things like the raspberry pi finished that (You can't get FreeDOS for rasbpi, and the x86 embedded systems are too expensi...
[16:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:46] <exec> 08└─Why is what needed at the federal level? Did he say, "I'm going to start passing federal laws."? No, the article says, Murthy's report calls on parents and health workers to make concerns about e-cigarettes clear to young people. He said local officials should take action, too, such as including e-...
[16:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:47] <exec> 08└─Apparently you missed that teens still smoke. If tobacco were outlawed, but vaping legal, how would the health effect compare to having tobacco legal and vaping outlawed? Wait, we already know the answer: The United Nations’ World Health Organization projects that a billion people will die prematu...
[16:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:50] <exec> 08└─Except if you had bothered to do any research, you'd see vaping has been around since the early 2000s. Still no deaths. Shall we wait 100 years before deciding what to do then?
[16:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing that out. You do understand that the law is unconstitutional after it has been tested.
[16:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:07] <exec> 08└─Dude, please, this has nothing to do with class but everything to do with fucktards who think that everything that isn't prohibited should be mandatory; and those come from all walks of life.
[16:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Snuff it! - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─snuff video
[16:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Snuff it! - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:12] <exec> 08└─Or you try to adjust your pun-sensor :-) The misconception was intended. And for those to anxious to try: The video is really actually about sniffing snuff tobacco. BTW: Just to clarify: Of course I do not endorse my son to use nicotine, or any other drugs for that matter. I advise him most clearly...
[16:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Naughty words are the least of my concern... - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:30] <exec> 08└─Well, let's consider the case of V-Tech around this time last year. Apparently, some of the V-Tech toys actually allows kids to upload their own photos! Young kids - and one of the common cliches of really young kids? Running around naked - ooops! Does V-Tech possess the third largest child porn col...
[16:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What Could be Exploited? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:38] <exec> 08└─So put the doll in a microwave for 10-15 seconds, and job done. The 3 year old will talk and play with it whether it talks back or not.
[16:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Re:Correction, largest bus fleet on batteries. - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:54] <exec> 08└─Some modern trolleybuses even have traction batteries. It makes a lot easier to route them around obstacles or service some "wireless" streets.
[16:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction, largest bus fleet on batteries. - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how the Dutch fleet operates, but a compromise is to locate chargers along the route at stops. These are designed to charge for minutes at a time so the route pacing is not interrupted. The fleet is utilized more than taking buses out of service for charging, and the batteries on the bu...
[16:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:"All 43" probably incorrect - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─Goeie genade, hoeveel (ex-)Brabo's zijn er eigenlijk hier op SoylentNews??
[16:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Happens to me - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:20] <exec> 08└─I used to get sick playing DOOM in the 90's. The more I did it though the less it would affect me. Improved graphics in more recent games seems to help as well, so I expect that as resolution, framerate, and response speed improve with future headsets this issue will diminish.
[16:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Known for Quite a While - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:24] <exec> 08└─You don't even need goggles, first-person games on a big enough screen can do it for some people. There was an arcade I used to go to (kids: ask your parents what an "arcade" was) that had a 4-player Quake machine where each player had a chair with a trackball for looking around on one arm and move...
[16:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:51] <exec> 08└─Or maybe Americans are smart enough to nip things in the bud. You know, Palin, Hillary -- neither should be near power and their anatomy has no bearing on that fact.
[16:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:54] <exec> 08└─This should be in the summary. I saw the protests were occurring on account of corruption, but the backstory was not clear to me. The illogical corruption argument reminds me of rationalism in economic theory. You can predict people's actions when they act rationally, so if your president is acting...
[16:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:2) 02Re:Cause of Death - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:49] <exec> 08└─Correlation is not causation!
[16:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The man I want to be - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:51] <exec> 08└─Usually when I'm asked, "If you could be anyone else, who would you be?" I honestly say nobody because I like who I am. But.... I think I'd make an exception if I could have been John Glenn. Now soaring higher than ever. Rest in peace.
[16:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:26] <exec> 08└─Uh, not exactly. Can the scientist answer what will be the total effects from pursuing regulation (economically, developmentally, and cost of enforcing regulation)? Can the economist make even a slightly convincing argument that cap and trade will reduce emissions (CO2 is way more prevalent than SO2...
[17:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02While I hope this sells well.. - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:09] <exec> 08└─I really see no reason to upgrade from my FX-8320E as its already insane overkill. I mean I already get between 75-110FPS and that is while recording my gameplay, blow through video transcodes and complex multitrack DSP renders like they were nothing,seriously how much more power can I possibly use?...
[17:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:01] <exec> 08└─Take a realistic look at median income households. Now take a realistic look at the startup cost of self-employment, investment, or business income as a household income strategy. What do you, realistically, think the success rate of these endeavors would be at meeting basic income needs - not repla...
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[17:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:12] <exec> 08└─Don't forget all those dirty gandhis, gooks and white niggers in russia. That whole african-asiatic area is a fucking toilet in need of a flushing.
[17:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:14] <exec> 08└─And you are contributing to humanity oh so greatly, aren't you. Piss off.
[17:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:20] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where the UK government actually provides healthcare to the Queen's subjects? And the healthy subjects provide the tax which pays for the government. So the government isn't a random third party, it's got a vested interest.
[17:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Goose and Gander...level playing field - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:24] <exec> 08└─The corporations feel free to pick and choose which nations to store their profits and hide from taxes, how about we the people feel free to pick and choose from where we buy the goods and services we want and choose the market with the 'best' price. If the big pharma companies can choose what is in...
[17:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freedos saved my life - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:37] <exec> 08└─I think most people would be surprised as to how many of the different utilities use FreeDOS, especially when they require a reboot to work. For example, every firmware and BIOS installer for my laptop embeds FreeDOS, the disk checking utility that came with my HDD has an option to scan on reboot, w...
[17:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Other uses... - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─The fun days when you could wire wrap an ISA card with a few logic chips and light up some LED's, control relays and whatnot with a few in/out instructions. Even the parallel port was just a buffered/latched interface right to the ISA bus. I'd go as far to say that it is easier than most of the comp...
[17:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other uses... - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:43] <exec> 08└─You can't get FreeDOS for rasbpi...
[17:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 2040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:07] <exec> 08└─"Does not apply to minors." WTF not? Since when did government displace parents? If parents permit the kid to (fill in space) then it's none of government's BUSINESS!!! Only an authoritarian believes that government trumps parental rights. "Putting aside the health concerns This is about health conc...
[17:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:10] <exec> 08└─This is yet again more prohibition with a "think of the children" twist.
[17:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google Doll? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:48] <exec> 08└─The "My Friend Cayla" doll uses voice recognition to hear what a child says and connects to the internet to find suitable responses.
[17:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Happens to me - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 3257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, pretty much all your objections already have potential solutions being worked on, they just haven't been integrated into first-generation systems. Light-field displays *do* display depth of field and require focal adjustments to bring near/far objects into focus. Pupil tracking offers more...
[17:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tyler [6335] (Score:1) 02This makes me sad - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:56] <exec> 08└─This makes me sad. Not because a great man died, but because of the reaction. Think about how much coverage Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Ali got. I'm not even seeing this on the home pages of several major U.S. media outlets. He was a decorated combat pilot, astronaut, and Senator. The man...
[17:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:*Sigh* - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:53] <exec> 08└─True, but they also leave key facts out of an unsensational story to sensationalize it. Not really fake news, but damned close. It's simply an untrustworthy source.
[17:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:16] <exec> 08└─Ah [wikipedia.org].
[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:38] <exec> 08└─You're begging the question. GP stated that scientists had laid out the facts. They didn't pontificate about regulation. You're not only begging the question, but you're projecting. Blame the scientists for the broken political and economic solution proposed by our "owners." That way the owners get...
[18:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:While I hope this sells well.. - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:23] <exec> 08└─I think their sales will be good on release, but what to look for will be their success over the first year. I imagine many people are in my situation - with a 5+ year old machine that is showing its age, with retirement on the horizon due to 4k, VR, etc. and now we'll have a much easier time justif...
[18:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:39] <exec> 08└─Regulations are evil, didn't you get the memo? Under Obama, we often have a lack of proper regulations (or money to enforce proper regulations). Under Trump, we'll finally have a proper lack of regulation!
[18:01:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:09] <exec> 08└─Current "wage slavery" is, indeed, several orders of magnitude better than being owned by a man who can do as he wishes to you, your family and children.
[18:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 3294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─Self-employment / small to medium business bootstrap startup is not an option to ignore - it's good, we should have it. The problem I see with it as currently implemented in the economy is exactly the Dunkin Donuts franchise case (and so many more like it) - not because it's inherently evil to sell...
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:17] <exec> 08└─If you're happy that life sucks for the majority of people and that no matter how hard they try, only a small minority have a realistic chance of succeeding in significantly improving their position, that's your perspective. I think it's a clear failure of democracy that this condition has persisted...
[18:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:''why worker ownership''? - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─I worked for a worker-owned company once. Only employees (and retirees) were allowed to own the company stock. Know what happened? The employees held a democratic vote, and the majority decided to make the company public and offer an IPO. All private shares became public shares, a few people got ric...
[18:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:30] <exec> 08└─Everybody knows that beer ain't drinkin'.
[18:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:40] <exec> 08└─So it was "right over" a pickup truck... for some values of "right over."
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[18:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Portable OS/2 lives on! - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:01] <exec> 08└─Just checked the wikipedia article. NT was originally designed with Intel's 32/64 bit RISC processor, the i860. Since the i860 never took off, it was ported to run on i386, MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC. The interesting part of the NT arch is you only needed to change the HAL, which is the glue between t...
[18:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Windows + IoT = Insecure - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:04] <exec> 08└─There's no need to rebrand because it's a captive market. Conservative IT departments will continue buying it and forcing their users to use it (progressive ones will let users choose their preferred platform), while normal users looking at desktop/laptops in a typical store have a choice between Wi...
[18:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure it's as simple as that - for traditional laptops designs and usage, it almost certainly won't be a very popular feature - no more so than touch on a desktop, at least that's the impression I get from my friends and acquaintances. However, with all that Telemetry data they've been gat...
[18:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Could Go Wrong? - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:09] <exec> 08└─Just about everything.
[18:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:21] <exec> 08└─This one wasn't up to your usual standards, low as that bar is. It's not obvious you're trolling; now it just sounds like you're another refugee from /pol/. You may want to change up your material a bit.
[18:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:25] <exec> 08└─Why would you couch that in terms of free-market bashing when there is not any free market in the entire field of medicine? The free market in medicine has been outlawed entirely in the US, the EU, and the UK. Think you can start a company and make generic versions of drugs that have expired patents...
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:27] <exec> 08└─Just because it doesn't exist doesn't mean there aren't idiots making laws with the assumption that it does. Republicans are very dumb.
[18:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:31] <exec> 08└─Now what kinda pinko Commie lib'rul terr'ist atheist Mexican Muslim Jew hippie bullshit're YEW spoutin' boy?! Free market uber alles! Burdensome regulation! Job creators! The poor deserve their suffering! Wharrrgarbl! ...gee, it's almost like you're getting halfway reasonable in your old age. Watch...
[18:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:33] <exec> 08└─Alright - free market. I'll go with that. Free market - no more patent and copyright encumbered monopolies for the pharmaceuticals. They make a new drug, and as fast as they can get it into production, THERE ARE GENERIC VERSIONS AVAILABLE!! Pharmaceuticals really don't want a free market, and we bot...
[18:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Drug Pricing Interest Conflicts - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:36] <exec> 08└─Businesses intentionally break the law all the time. If the gains are greater than the potential losses they have no reason not to. See VW for a recent but not unique example.- The law doesn't mean squat. As always, it's all about money.
[18:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Goose and Gander...level playing field - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:41] <exec> 08└─>... why can't the consumers do the same ? How is this different from USA residents buying drugs from Canada or Mexico? Of course our own FDA frowns on this and claims that it's illegal because drugs for sale in the USA have to pass their safety testing. Personally, I have the feeling that the FDA h...
[18:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Alternative? - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:43] <exec> 08└─CMA said that because epilepsy patients who are already taking phenytoin sodium capsules would not usually be switched to other products, including another manufacturer’s version of the product, the NHS had no alternative but to pay the increased prices for the drug.
[18:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:freedos saved my life - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:57] <exec> 08└─Freedos It saved your laptop's life, not yours. I had the same situation with a brand new Gigabyte Mother board. Came with buggy bios, and I had the option of sending it back (and waiting for a replacement) or installing the manufacturer's newly minted bios upgrade. That required Windows, or DOS. I...
[18:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wire wrap - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:02] <exec> 08└─> The fun days when you could wire wrap an ISA card "Fun" and "wire wrap" are two things that can never exist in a single sentence together in the real world.
[18:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Thank-you - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:06] <exec> 08└─Thank-you to those working on the FreeDOS project. Its the kind of unsung background work that can be a life-saver for people, and I am really happy that people volunteer their time and expertise for this sort of thing. It's not sexy and cool, it won't attract VC funding in the hope of making someon...
[18:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Industrial controls - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:08] <exec> 08└─For a while in the early days id replace hard to find/buy MSDOS on PC based embedded machine controllers. Worked better than the real thing and far cheaper and 'current'. I no longer work there so now its just a cool toy.
[18:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:34] <exec> 08└─And the crazy libertarian goes crazy. Who'd've guessed? It's not authoritarian to be concerned that products are being marketed and sold to minors, who we, as a society, generally recognize as not necessarily being capable of understanding the full ramifications of every choice they make. Particular...
[18:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:35] <exec> 08└─It IS authoritarian. First, the authoritarians redefined "minor" to suit their own opinions. Only two generations ago, a married couple were by definition, "adult". It didn't matter if they were 13 years old, and eloped to get married - they had a marriage license, they were adults. An adult could d...
[18:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It will be fixed under Trump's Surgeon General... - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:53] <exec> 08└─...Joe Camel. (stolen from yesterday's The Late Show)
[18:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:12] <exec> 08└─Smartphones at least have the advantage of being able to inform and entertain the user while out and about, although they do add quite a bit of information-leakage that you wouldn't have with an older, non-smart, phone. Personally, I especially like having a GPS unit with color screen and automatic...
[18:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiot parents! - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:19] <exec> 08└─WTF kind of moron would even buy their child such a thing?
[18:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same Kind of Moron as You - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:21] <exec> 08└─> WTF kind of moron would even buy their child such a thing? Same kind of moron that you are. That's not hyperbole. They don't know all the details of how these dolls work and the privacy implications. Just like you aren't fully aware of the operation details and implications of everything you use i...
[18:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Same Kind of Moron as You - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:23] <exec> 08└─"Same kind of moron that you are." Nope. Can't be. It's simply not possible. You see - the AVERAGE American parent spends tens of thousands of hours in front of the boob tube, the silver screen, or some other media, consuming whatever Hollyweird throws at them. They don't have time to educate themse...
[18:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:43] <exec> 08└─In the context of recent pollution reports in many major metro areas, zero local emissions of diesel exhaust is pretty good news. Coupled with the Dutch having a pretty good number of windmills (or the German with their solar panels, or the Norwegians Hydro, or the French nukes), it's definitely an...
[18:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a joke, Son, I say a joke! - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:46] <exec> 08└─I've just heard the whoosh!
[18:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:00] <exec> 08└─While I like the poison theory of motion sickness (as in, it is a good idea to vomit after accidentally eating that magic mushroom...), I don't think there is any proof that this is the only/correct explanation of the problem. I've been testing driving games (simulators) since the mid-1980's at gami...
[18:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:37] <exec> 08└─We[sic] the Queen can send troops, talk to me.
[18:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little help - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:38] <exec> 08└─> HM Queen is the ruler, No, the queen is the queen. In other countries queen might be synonymous with ruler, but not in the UK. Not any more. Yours is he worst kind of semantic hairsplitting, even if it were technically correct it would not reveal any new insight (<== which is par for semantic hair...
[18:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02using Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:12] <exec> 08└─Such people deserve all the malware they get. Too bad the rest of us have to pay for it as increased bank fees.
[18:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Dispose of the water the way the Navy does - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:24] <exec> 08└─When the Japanese mix that much concrete, it's typically to build useful infrastructure. Before Fukushima, they just didn't have a lot of spare useless land to store junk in. I'm still a proponent of burying nuclear waste in wells at the edge of subduction zones, and letting tectonic motion take car...
[18:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Cause of Death - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:42] <exec> 08└─I have an experiment in mind which would prove causation, do you volunteer for having your head chopped off?
[18:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cause of Death - 06RIP John Glenn (1921-2016) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─"Achievement Limit Reached. Legendary Status Unlocked. Congratulations, You Win. Game Over"
[18:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or at least slightly evolved it... - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:07] <exec> 08└─Again, that is completely nonsensical. The exit node in Tor is nothing unique. It can observe traffic and manipulate it, but it has no idea where it's coming from. In Tor each node, whether a regular relay node or the exit node knows only the previous node and the next node. Again, all you would see...
[19:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:07] <exec> 08└─Ahh, jew created wikipedia page to show how much he cares about jews.
[19:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The quote represents Idiocracy, not Einstein - 06Losing the War on Science - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, what a sad state of affairs when Anonymous Solylentils are arguing with characters in the movie "Idiocracy" as if "Idiocracy" was not fiction . . . Oh, crap! Be right back, I have to run down the street to see what the name of the burger place is. How long was I asleep?
[19:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─There's absolutely a war on Christmas. A defensive one. Christmas has already completely conquered everything after Thanksgiving, and is making inroads as far back as Halloween. Left unchecked, before long we'll be having to listen to Christmas carols and ramped-up consumerist advertising in July!
[19:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:42] <exec> 08└─Simple: the term "virtue signalling" has become, ironically, a signal beacon itself, same as the word "cuck." Its use nearly always identifies a certain ideology (fascism, of the neo-Nazi...excuse me, "alt-right" flavor) which itself can only take hold in people lacking the virtues of common humanit...
[19:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score:1) 02Re:How about power? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:39] <exec> 08└─From the BT5 FAQ: Bandwidth can be decreased to achieve up to 4x longer range while maintaining similar power requirements.
[19:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe you misread me - wage slavery is here, and it sucks. The average life of a wage slave may, indeed, be worse than the average life of a chattel slave.
[19:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:32] <exec> 08└─And there is no way that someone would ever use sub-standard steel in construction... I mean that is unheard of.
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[19:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Increased density isn't always a good thing - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:48] <exec> 08└─How many electrons are they down to on those multi-level floating gates?
[19:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:49] <exec> 08└─I mean how much do you need?
[19:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:51] <exec> 08└─16 TB, and additional 16 TB drives for RAID?
[19:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:53] <exec> 08└─Hell, 16 TB can't even hold the porn starring your mom.
[19:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:56] <exec> 08└─8K 3D porn does take a lot of space. I'm glad they're saving room by making easily-compressed audio.
[19:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02WD in the SSD market - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:58] <exec> 08└─Western Digital got into the SSD market late, by buying SiliconSystems for their first (largely ignored) offerings, and then buying SanDisk [anandtech.com] for this offering. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable investing that much money into a four bits per cell technology due to the performance and lon...
[19:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:WD in the SSD market - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:00] <exec> 08└─Toshiba and others are investing in QLC. Like with MLC/TLC, 3d/vertical NAND allows you to blow past the endurance issues like they are nothing (larger nm sizes, ability to scale by adding more layers, and massive overprovisioning). 3D/vertical NAND has saved the NAND industry and put it on a collis...
[19:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Portable OS/2 lives on! - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─It was supposed to be OS/2 3.0 -- called NT OS/2... but, they re-branded it as Windows NT after the joint project with IBM ended, and they did extensive re-writes to make the interface more like Windows. Yep... We had NT running on a DEC Alpha with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on PCs on our engineer...
[19:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows + IoT = Insecure - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:14] <exec> 08└─not only that, but if Microsoft were to change the brand name, that would open up the discussion of what to 'upgrade' to to include other products. "Well, Microsoft is ending Windows. What should we upgrade to? I've heard about something called Linux. Does anyone know anything about it?"
[19:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:20] <exec> 08└─Apple is falling into a similar trap, but with features rather than UI. A lot of desktop apps like Photos, Pages, Numbers, etc saw features stripped away to allow universal integration and parity with their newer iCloud and iOS versions. It's been an enormous frustration to see desktop apps crippled...
[19:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What Could Go Wrong? - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:23] <exec> 08└─If it actually works, maybe it would make Qualcomm the Intel of ARM CPUs.
[19:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Dear Microsoft, - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:25] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to make Windows on a phone happen. It's not going to happen.
[19:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Microsoft, - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:27] <exec> 08└─Windows on a phone won't happen. Windows on the tablet, however, may.
[19:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Alternative? - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:55] <exec> 08└─I think you are onto something with the last sentence. I would change it to: have the govt contract a production run (from a drug manufacturer) of X kg of a generic drug that has less than 3 committed suppliers on the commercial market.
[19:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02Big Deal. - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:56] <exec> 08└─Pfizer made more than 350 times that amount in the past three years, AFTER taxes.
[19:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:As someone who ran it on a REAL vintage system. - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:11] <exec> 08└─I doubt you could get a modern machine to actually boot directly into FreeDOS.
[19:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score:1) 02BIOS flashing, disk utilities, old DOS games - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:23] <exec> 08└─I recently had to flash a BIOS and the motherboard manufacturer (ASUS) has a BIOS flash utility that works under DOS. As others have said, there are some common issues where Windows won't run without a BIOS update first, and using FreeDOS is a good alternative. BIOS updates are possible to do under...
[19:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:51] <exec> 08└─Authoritarianism, for those who actually care, is defined as A form of government in which the governing body has absolute, or almost absolute, control. Typically this control is maintained by force, and little heed is paid to public opinion or the judicial system.
[19:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I have kids too.. - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:53] <exec> 08└─I have kids too, and one of the challenges of being a parent is to teach them that many things that are legal and "everyone else" does are sometimes a really bad idea. You know why this parental responsibility is necessary? Because no minor who has ever wanted to smoke cigs was ever more than MINORL...
[19:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Duh - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:03] <exec> 08└─> They call e-cigarettes "tobacco-related" products, even though they have no nicotine and no tobacco were used to create them Duh 95+% of vaping is about nicotine. The nicotine in vaping fluid is extracted from tobacco leaves. Describing vaping as tobacco-related is completely accurate. Sure there...
[19:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:05] <exec> 08└─[Electronic cigarettes] have no nicotine and no tobacco [is] used to create them.
[19:56:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:07] <exec> 08└─How about we do the non-overreactive thing for a change and ban the sale of nicotine-containing liquids to minors instead of banning the hardware and liquids that contain no nicotine whatsoever? If they're not harming themselves, the busybodies around the nation really need to fuck right off out of...
[19:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What Could be Exploited? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:38] <exec> 08└─Rather than put battery-powered stuff in the microwave, I prefer to forget where the battery charger is, where I stored new batteries, or how to fix the darn incompatibility between the toy and our WiFi encryption settings. But go ahead with the microwave; I'll subscribe to your Youtube channel.
[19:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google Doll? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:47] <exec> 08└─Stop giving them ideas!
[19:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is any proof that this is the only/correct explanation of the problem.
[19:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not if you imagine... - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:56] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why women wear strap-ons the way they do, and many versions include features designed for the wearer. Holding a dildo in your hand would otherwise provide better control for less effort.
[19:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Remarkable Progress as a Democracy - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:17] <exec> 08└─> The only reason they impeached her was because this corruption wasn't run of the mill corruption. > It differed not in scale but in kind. I was gonna say "she's not one of the boys", as we regularly see when women rise to the top in tech. But then again: > rose to power with strong support from th...
[19:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear reactors - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:46] <exec> 08└─* With sane safety - about as expensive as coal to build (but cheaper to operate) * With current safety - most expensive to build.
[19:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:TFA is all marketing fluff - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:20] <exec> 08└─I've tried to get the CD out of the drive before bios boots it. Does that count?
[20:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02The point - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:13] <exec> 08└─I think the main point of this is to protect your VM data from other VMs. Not protect a VM from the hypervisor. The hypervisor could just turn off memory encryption anyways.
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[20:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Increased density isn't always a good thing - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:16] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't work, then they can't sell it with a significant warranty. If it does work, they can. SSDs are nowhere near the limits. They could probably hit 5000 TB in 3.5" within the next 20 years.
[20:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:21] <exec> 08└─You need at least 8K-16K res (4320p/8640p) to do an accurate characterization of the physics of cum droplets.
[20:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:23] <exec> 08└─And diagnose what those sores are. I once saw a porn with this woman who had open sores all around her pussy. So yea.
[20:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Go look on pornhub sometime. - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:25] <exec> 08└─You'd think they would at least airbrush over what I hope are pimples on a number of the women's buttocks/thighs. I mean who watches porn to be reminded of what actual sex with average people is like? :)
[20:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:27] <exec> 08└─Well in neuroimaging with functional analyses on large projects? Alot. My little projects with 200 subjects gets close to 3 Tb on its own. So for a server cluster hosting a whole department's analyses, for example, you might need 50Tb or more.
[20:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 028 TB (7680 GB) - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:32] <exec> 08└─8 TB (7680 GB) So which is it? In Base10 8TB would be 8 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes, or 8000 GB, or 8,000,000 MB, or 8,000,000,000 KB, or 8,000,000,000,000 Bytes In Base2 8TB would be 8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes, or 8,796,093,022,208 bytes If we assume that's 8,000,000,000,000 bytes, i...
[20:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:8 TB (7680 GB) - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:34] <exec> 08└─The way I wrote this is that the first number is the lie and the number in parentheses is the truth. The article headline refers to it as an 8 TB drive but it is in fact 7.68 TB.
[20:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: 8 TB (7680 GiB) - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:36] <exec> 08└─Remember your i next time takyon :)
[20:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Portable OS/2 lives on! - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:46] <exec> 08└─"Now if we could just get Linux to fully replace Windows and MacOS, that'd be great." Good luck with that too much new shinny to keep chasing. Breaking the old just working and of course everyone and his dog needs a distribution that does a couple of things different. Reminds me of the old Tower of...
[20:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02If you don't miss it you're probably a fool: - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:48] <exec> 08└─The reason to miss that 'wild wild west days' of computing as you put it is because that level of diversity was GOOD for you, both in availability of hardware/software, and in security through diversity. Today we have neither. Software has gotten exponentially more expensive despite in many cases ha...
[20:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:57] <exec> 08└─I still think their long term goal to to emulate iOS with a locked-down platform where they get to dictate what you can install and they get a cut of all sales. All the idiots throwing money at Apple to take their freedom away have made it 'palatable'.
[20:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:16] <exec> 08└─What part of supply and demand do you not understand? If I have the only supply, and you have an unavoidable demand, then "How much you got?" is *exactly* how the free market will price it.
[20:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps government-run power, water, health, etc, should set up some special pricing for employees of these companies. Just supply and demand.
[20:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Misquoted - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:35] <exec> 08└─The quote is actually "This is the highest fine the CMA has imposed and it sends out a clear message to the sector that we are determined to crack down on such behaviour." Source: the rest of the internet. Let's not misspell words in direct quotes please. It's a British story, with British spelling....
[20:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:30] <exec> 08└─Do you dispute that our government has "almost absolute control" over the drugs nicotine, alcohol, and most others except for caffeine? Do I not remember a man in New York City being choked to death for selling cigarettes for which he hadn't paid the tax man enough money? Is that not, by definition,...
[20:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:31] <exec> 08└─Yes I do dispute that. You're wrong. You're 100% wrong. You're arguing from example. The reality is that any drug which has passed safety inspections sufficient to be sold freely, can be examined, bought, and consumed from any number of privately run drug stores in the country, with non-government,...
[20:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Except - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 2243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:33] <exec> 08└─You've chosen one definition, as it applies to government, and that appeals to your own opinions. au·thor·i·tar·i·an əˌTHôrəˈterēən/ adjective adjective: authoritarian 1. favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at t...
[20:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:44] <exec> 08└─95+% of all statistics you see on the internet are made up.
[20:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02learn how to be a normal human being - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:45] <exec> 08└─Yay for autistic literalism. Its a representative number. If you have a well-researched number at hand, post it. Otherwise learn how to be a normal human being.
[20:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:47] <exec> 08└─As an FYI: There are more sources for nicotine than just tobacco. Some of the vape shops near me get the extracted nicotine for their e-juices from tomatoes to help avoid getting taxed/regulated under existing tobacco laws. It's just as effective. I did note most of the comments on this story are ca...
[20:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:55] <exec> 08└─I respectfully disagree. I don't believe I have ever met a truly poor person who cared enough to attempt to ban my vices. I have heard and read the words of many, many wealthy people who were absolutely concerned about my vices and were hellbent on making them illegal. Anecdotal evidence is anecdota...
[20:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:For Your Own Good - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:57] <exec> 08└─That would be your own good fortune then. Go to church. Any faith or denomination. You'll meet them by the millions. The religious right does indeed exist even if it's not taken seriously by the Republican party anymore. But I do agree that limousine liberals are quite keen to legislate approved beh...
[20:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:"But but vaping is better than cigarettes" - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:04] <exec> 08└─A bit too absolutist. What about sugar in drinks/snacks? A chemical/product should provably be at some level of harm before the government is triggered into action.
[20:57:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02Re:What Could be Exploited? - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:26] <exec> 08└─So put the doll in a microwave for 10-15 seconds, and job done. The 3 year old will talk and play with it whether it talks back or not.
[20:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a fool I was - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:34] <exec> 08└─> Nope. Can't be. It's simply not possible. When I started reading that I thought you were being ironically self-deprecating. Turned out is was just more superiority-signaling. What a fool I was to expect more.
[20:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:What a fool I was - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:36] <exec> 08└─Well, you don't have to remain a fool. Morons come in many types, shapes, sizes and styles. You need to learn some discrimination. Look carefully at me - I am an asshole. Morons are quite different. When you learn some discrimination, you'll be able to tell as asshole from a moron just as readily as...
[20:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:16] <exec> 08└─Well, what would be the evolutionary advantage of throwing up when you have conflicting motion cues? If it's not some more important (to survival) system triggering on bad sensory data, then what is causing it?
[20:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:18] <exec> 08└─If food poisoning caused middle ear infections it would totally be worth it. Going back to OPs original post WRT sailboating I've noticed no trend WRT male/female seasickness.
[20:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Devil is in the details - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:29] <exec> 08└─From conventional mediums (e.g. film, computer games) people can stomach content with viewer movement and cut scenes which is great for content producers because they open up a lot of tools to create interesting cinematography and gameplay. In VR, if you truly respect users health, you will use neit...
[20:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Word choice - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:08] <exec> 08└─It really is about wardrobe [bbc.com].
[20:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remarkable Progress as a Democracy - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:15] <exec> 08└─> I was gonna say "she's not one of the boys", as we regularly see when women rise to the top in tech. In politics, when a woman rises to the top, its usually because she is "one of the boys." That's because politics, especially outside of the first world, is insular. That's how near theocracies lik...
[20:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:29] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to disable fonts. Both Windows and Linux have had font vulnerabilities this year.
[20:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''185 sunny days'' - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─Now, try expanding your horizons. Japan is located on what is called The Ring of Fire. [google.com] Even the monkeys there [google.com] have figured out geothermal energy. They are also located on an ocean which has currents and tides whose energy can be harvested. You apparently think that a place...
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Dispose of the water the way the Navy does - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:52] <exec> 08└─When you raised the same question in a previous topic, there were responses. /comments.pl?sid=15254&cid=395113#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[21:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing will change - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:31] <exec> 08└─Oh God, not the hacker/cracker pedantic crap from 15 years ago! Here, let me make it simple. This is where things have settled: Hackers: People who break into computers to do unsavory things. Crackers: People who are the main base for Donald Trump's successful candidacy.
[21:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Getta Life - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:40] <exec> 08└─Back in the Netware days someone did make the Rabbit virus from Hackers. It spread from computer to computer using msg to synchronize the animation. The rabbit may have been displayed on only one comp at a time, however without knowing the physical location of each PC it rarely move from screen to s...
[21:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:*Sigh* - 06AMD Virtual Encryption Not Quite There, Claim Researchers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:17] <exec> 08└─The word sounds like a bird species. So when I hear the word boffin, I picture a puffin [wikipedia.org] in a lab coat.
[21:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Philosophers are armchair scientists - 06Losing the War on Science - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:02] <exec> 08└─I've never seen a coherent philosophical argument that wasn't obvious in hindsight.
[21:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:New Save - 06Losing the War on Science - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:24] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking that the only way forward is to hit WW3 in a major way.
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[21:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 024k just isn't that important - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:54] <exec> 08└─4K is great and all, but the reality is that it's just not that important. When we jumped from 480i to 720p and 1080p, yeah, the difference was very noticeable, but even then it wasn't THAT big of a deal. The amount of enjoyment one gets is from the quality of the programming, not the quality of the...
[21:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:4k just isn't that important - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:56] <exec> 08└─No ee didn't jump to 1080p, that's the problem. We jumped to 1080i, so we still had interlaced issues. 4K doesn't do interlace, it's 12gbit or bust. The extra resolution tends to be a bit by the by, but the increase in temporal resolution and in dynamic range makes a big difference. Broadcasters are...
[21:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:4k just isn't that important - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:58] <exec> 08└─480i to 720p and 1080p, yeah, the difference was very noticeable, but even then it wasn't THAT big of a deal.
[21:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02doubtful - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:00] <exec> 08└─So Ferrari red is impossible to represent in a 24 bit / 8 bit per channel RGB color space? What color space does 4k use?
[21:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:doubtful - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:02] <exec> 08└─Well the color bit depth is only useful if you are looking at a range of colors. For instrance a gradient would be less choppy. High bit depth recording is necessary to get the "HDR" effect. You couldnt convert an existing recording to it.
[21:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doubtful - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:04] <exec> 08└─So 4K is 10bit per channel, right? is 000, 000, 000 darker than 00, 00, 00, and is 3FF, 3FF, 3FF brighter than FF, FF, FF?
[21:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:23] <exec> 08└─I currently have about 35 TB in movies. (bluray/DVD) ~3k in ripped discs. That is 10 4TB HST drives. With about 4TB remaining in usable space. With the 8TB SSD I could have half that and 1/10th the power usage, one less synology box, and 1000x the performance. With the 14TB drives I could have 56TB...
[21:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Re:Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:48] <exec> 08└─Personally, with the exception of Keynote (I don't have sufficient experience with their multimedia apps to comment), the stuff they bundle in the OS were never really that good, IMO. Numbers is clunky and bizarre to use. Pages is... meh. The obfuscated directory file format apple uses is flat out i...
[21:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Microsoft, - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:55] <exec> 08└─Saying a lot when Windows 8 and 10 barely work on desktops
[21:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Regulation for smooth handoff - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:29] <exec> 08└─Regulations for selling off a prescription drug product line should cap the annual limit pricing (let's say 15 percent for each of the first three years), to allow a relatively smooth transition for patients, and the opportunity for other players to step into the market.
[21:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:"All 43" probably incorrect - 06Europe's Largest Electric Public Bus Fleet in Dutch Cities - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:43] <exec> 08└─No [transdev.nl], they'll use a set of 65 new buses compliant with Euro 6 [wikipedia.org] (or Euro VI, not clear to me) emission standard for servicing villages.
[21:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Old news, really, though this is peer-reviewed - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:17] <exec> 08└─http://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexist/ [qz.com] This article from 2014 details work started in 1997 that covers this issue - and identifies at least one cause of it ("shape-from-shading").
[21:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuclear reactors - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:34] <exec> 08└─Yes. Having more safety in the reactors themselves wouldn't have helped much, but having better mitigation systems (like filters for emergency venting - we installed that back in the 80s in sweden and finland [as a response to TMI]) would have reduced the release to being doubtful if it would have g...
[21:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Actual costs - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:35] <exec> 08└─I noticed that you didn't include INSURANCE costs. Oh, that's right. Governments have been giving them waivers for 7 decades. If these for-profit companies had been required to get insurance on the open market for these incredibly dangerous things, they never would have been built. Governments have...
[21:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''concrete'' - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:42] <exec> 08└─Making concrete is a very energy-intensive process. Now, multiply this by the 70,000 TONS of nuclear waste worldwide. Now, add in all the reactors/ancillary equipment/superstructure that has been irradiated. The scope gets very large, very fast. The decision to build lots of nuclear plants was typic...
[22:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Getta Life - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─i have seen a virus that played music in 1994! This company my mom worked at, was infected with http://virus.wikia.com [wikia.com] Virus made the currently edited document look like a pile of letters on the bottom of the screen. And then it played that awesome melody on PC speaker....
[22:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:35] <exec> 08└─i don't always agree with edcubed, but when i do, i really do... thanks for deserved slap down of the power elite toady... i would add that one of the 'benefits' is that Empire has plenty of IED fodder when the sheeple can't even get a shitty mcjob, and their ONLY recourse is to kill and die for Emp...
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[22:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Acidic lakes - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:54] <exec> 08└─It's really the fault of the EPA for failing to do it's job. Government incompetence all the way down. The coal mining company did it's job by digging the mine, stripping it bare of any value, taking profits and abandoning it. This let the toxic heavy metals leach into rain water that then accumulat...
[22:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Acidic lakes - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:55] <exec> 08└─Coal? In Butte? Clearly you do not know what you are talking about. Evel Knievel?
[22:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The free market is more efficient'' - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:58] <exec> 08└─What is the goal of this "efficiency"? Clearly, that is maximizing short-term profits--and screw everything else. You haven't read enough Charles Dickens to find out what The Free Market actually looks like. get rid of the EPA We have here an example of what happens -with- a regulatory agency. Now,...
[22:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seduced by the zealot side he is - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:00] <exec> 08└─Reel it in dude. When you can no longer distinguish obvious parody in support of your own cause it means you've been seduced by the zealot side and are now doing more harm than good.
[22:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Acidic lakes - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:02] <exec> 08└─Whoever modded this comment "+1 Insightful" is clearly the subject of this limerick [xkcd.com].
[22:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Acidic lakes - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:04] <exec> 08└─Somehow you overlooked this happen on Obama's watch. I mean there's stupid, and then there's liberals.
[22:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Acidic lakes - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed, those idiots don't realize that those bad things will stop happening once and for all, as soon as we get rid of the government trying to prevent them.
[22:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:08] <exec> 08└─Scott Pruitt is the wrong choice...
[22:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:10] <exec> 08└─Its funny how you take complaints about basic competence of government officials and conflicts of interest and somehow spin it into a partisan debate. If anyone is the special little snowflake who's feelz are easily hurt its YOU jmorris. Even the slightest bit of criticism such as "Scott Pruitt is...
[22:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:13] <exec> 08└─Obama to GOP: 'I won' [politico.com] Please explain why our "swift one word answer" to every Democrat objection and attempt to get in the way with procedural tricks should not also be "No." You guys are probably so dimwitted / cocooned you really can't see the problem with that text you quoted. It i...
[22:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:15] <exec> 08└─> that one side's partisan policy positions are "best available science" It wouldn't be partisan if the other side wasn't so intent on denying the science. Kind of like that time when the church insisted that the sun actually circled the earth.
[22:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:17] <exec> 08└─I'm telling you folks, Hillary was so crooked that people voted for smog, leaded water and flaming rivers!
[22:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:19] <exec> 08└─smog, leaded water and flaming rivers!
[22:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:21] <exec> 08└─I'm telling you folks, Hillary was so crooked that people voted for smog, leaded water and flaming rivers!
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:23] <exec> 08└─That is totally correct!!! Once a president is anointed no one is allowed to criticise or comment on ANY of their decisions and should just lube up and bend over with cheeks spread. That is how American democracy is SUPPOSED to work. You get to vote for a team (or equally likely not bother) and then...
[22:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:25] <exec> 08└─Eh, doesn't matter. As if it were humanly possible, liberals are only building more animosity towards themselves as they cluck to themselves how wonderful they are. What matters more is laying the groundwork for the future of the Republican party since they CONTROL THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT. I mean what...
[22:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the first days of [Trump's] administration'' - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:27] <exec> 08└─It's called "advise and consent". (There's a cool book/movie about it which uses that title.) Presidential appointments require approval by the Senate. The Reds have a slim 52-48 majority in the Senate. We'll just see if 2 of The Reds don't balk at Donnie Tiny Hands' choices; pretty sure all The Blu...
[22:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:4, Funny) 02Disaster averted. Phew! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:30] <exec> 08└─Untold numbers of illegal geese entering our country with no vetting. Thank god for vigilant mining companies, or these foreigners would be taking our jobs and committing crimes as we speak. Fortunately Trump's wall will prevent this breach of national security in the future.
[22:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Capitalism run amok! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:32] <exec> 08└─There are some Montanans here on SoylentNews who can fill in the rest of us on the history that lead to the disaster of the Berkeley Pit. Robber Barons, Anaconda Mining Company, owned by John D. Rockefeller, mounds of mill tailings that still line the Clark's Fork of the Columbia, which used to run...
[22:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Re:4k just isn't that important - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:42] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah. From a technical perspective, 4K is obviously superior for a variety of reasons. What I'm saying is that it's not superior *enough* to interest the average person and have them think, "Holy crap, I need this!". They certainly arn't going to pay extra for the privilege.
[22:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:doubtful - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:48] <exec> 08└─It means you get more detail in the shadows as those extra bits are added to the dark end of the spectrum. And you get somewhat less rounding between values. The 4k that gets touted is more of less the last useful spec change in the standard.
[22:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:doubtful - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:50] <exec> 08└─BT.2020 allows encoding of more colors. https://www.cnet.com [cnet.com] Compare the color space on the wiki pages: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:07] <exec> 08└─I heard they compress the plot and the story line. You wouldn't believe how small it can get.
[22:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a lot of porn - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:09] <exec> 08└─You gotta feel bad for today's teenagers, in a sense. Old porn set up expectations at realistic-if-big sizes and 5-to-10-minutes romps in shaded areas, while newer porn mandates pro-grade stamina, skills, and aryan-dreams physical attributes. And looking good while doing it under bright lights neede...
[22:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score:2) 02Poor geek asking : - 06Western Digital Announces 12-14 TB Hard Drives and an 8 TB SSD - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:18] <exec> 08└─Any estimate of cost ? ...quickly googled the models ..no clue if if it is $10 or $10000.
[22:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows + IoT = Insecure - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:33] <exec> 08└─Because users found compatibility is more important than raw OS merit.
[22:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:41] <exec> 08└─Too bad it's the wrong company, but I can almost hear "you're holding it wrong" jokes about laptops.
[22:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:43] <exec> 08└─MirkwoodShaft keep sending very clear signals to their user base, home and corporate - "get the heck OFF of our sinking ship". But no, the luzers keep coming back for more. Things went from ok (XP) to a small wtf (Vista) to this is great (7). And then a large WTF (8 and 8.1). The final nail is 10 an...
[22:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear Microsoft, - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:50] <exec> 08└─Windows on the tablet, however, may [work]
[22:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Careful with your solution here - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:24] <exec> 08└─...without some sort of international standard regulation of drug pricing, won't they just pass any costs of litigation onto consumers in the U.S. or somewhere else by hiking the price on this or other drugs even more?
[22:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Terra / Wortmann.de - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:34] <exec> 08└─It is interesting that you are imagining a DOS program that needs 16 GB of memory to run. Just what are you thinking of doing? I thought the most they needed was 640k...
[22:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just dolls - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:06] <exec> 08└─Has everyone forgotten that the world worked just fine before we spy-enabled every last damn thing in sight!!!
[22:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a fool I was - 06"Smart" Dolls are Potential Privacy Nightmares - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:19] <exec> 08└─Look carefully at me - I am an asshole. Morons are quite different.
[22:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Sickness - 06Virtual Reality Raises Real Risk of Motion Sickness - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:02] <exec> 08└─> what would be the evolutionary advantage of throwing up Sorry, I guess mentioning the magic mushroom wasn't clear enough? If you eat something and start to hallucinate or otherwise have vision problems, then your optical sensation is not agreeing with vestibular and haptic/tactile senses -- and yo...
[22:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:South Korea - 06South Korean President Park Geun-hye Impeached - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─A Tale of Two Kimchis?
[23:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Another nail in the coffin - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:13] <exec> 08└─That nail though is going to heavily argued. Big advertising never takes responsibility.
[23:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06Masterful Malvertisers Hack Channel 9, Sky, MSN in Stealth Attacks - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:19] <exec> 08└─I realize it's complex, and that I'm on the outside looking in...but how can these companies keep track of each ad well enough to get paid for having posted it somewhere, but then shrug their shoulders about the exact content of those ads?
[23:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''185 sunny days'' - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:40] <exec> 08└─errr ... i don't get your reply. it wasn't meant as bashing solar. rather the opposite. the "useless" billions of dollars given away as 1.5 k dollars to EACH person for a PV system would be more productive. that was the point. clean-up or not, there's no method to reduce the half-life but only time....
[23:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''185 sunny days'' - 06Loan to Tepco for Fukushima Cleanup Costs Rises to 14 Trillion Yen - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:42] <exec> 08└─a-so i also forgot to mention: that four 1 GW capacity reactors running 24 hours per day would generate 4 GW x 24h = 96 GWh per day. that is less then ~158GWh/day that one-hundred-plus-plus million 0.5 kw PV systems would generate. now i don't know if building four 1 GW nuclear reactors would cost $...
[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey Cory! - 06Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:35] <exec> 08└─Next time it would have been a lot faster than writing all that in the article, you could have just called up the other six people who watch the show and just tell it to them.
[23:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Paris metro is already cheap - 06Paris Makes Public Transport Free to Battle Pollution Spike - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─...but cognitively, "FREE" sounds as if you are saving more than "1,80 € OFF," and people are more likely to take advantage of "substantial" perceived savings.
[23:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:53] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, reading through the archives of my local paper, I find the same complaints and prediction about the commercial Christmas season in editorials as far back as the early 1910s. Also, in reference to the general topic, the same papers also note the ignorance of "students today;" that they...
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[23:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02fusion is best served cold - 06It's Not Cold Fusion but It's Something - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:02] <exec> 08└─It's been known that the Navy has been researching LENRs in recent years. An interesting article, but don't count on the source to lend it cred: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
[23:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:24] <exec> 08└─I hope you die on fire, then spend an eternity it.
[23:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:25] <exec> 08└─I know you are but what am I??? You argue like a child. I never said Obama was good, and (I know I'm AC) I have often commented on how terrible he has been for the US. That's all you've got in response to this? "Your guy did it toooooo" when he's not even my guy... Its the most evasive defensive ins...
[23:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:29] <exec> 08└─smog, leaded water and flaming rivers!
[23:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Impeaching Trump... - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:31] <exec> 08└─Just results in Pence as President. Do you really think that will be an improvement before the next 4 years is up? America won't be great again until the top 1 percent, and the bottom 96 percent are both purged. And then China, Russia, Mexican Cartels, or Brazil will roll in and clean up what is lef...
[23:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wah! So #salty! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:36] <exec> 08└─Once a president is anointed no one is allowed to criticise or comment on ANY of their decisions and should just lube up and bend over with cheeks spread.
[23:54:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02Disaster averted. Phew! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:39] <exec> 08└─Untold numbers of illegal geese entering our country with no vetting. Thank god for vigilant mining companies, or these foreigners would be taking our jobs and committing crimes as we speak. Fortunately Trump's wall will prevent this breach of national security in the future.
[23:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Trump's wall will prevent this'' - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:42] <exec> 08└─Man, I'm usually the 1st to spot these stories. A **second** wall, on the northern border this time?? That should be awesome! Oh, wait. Who is he going to get to build it? Foreigners[1]? More Wetbacks? Snowbacks? If it's USAians, where is he going to get the money to pay them? Hmmm. Now I'm depresse...
[23:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Disaster averted. Phew! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:44] <exec> 08└─Fortunately Trump's wall will prevent this breach of national security in the future.
[23:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism run amok! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:47] <exec> 08└─Rockefeller makes Trump look like some two-bit slumlord.
[23:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalism run amok! - 06Open Pit Mine in Montana Kills Thousands of Migrating Snow Geese - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:49] <exec> 08└─Ha! Trump isn't even in the same league. The Rockefellers are the type of folks Trump tries so hard to be a part of. Sadly he's just a city bred redneck bigot who's such a loud mouth I doubt anyone wants him at their parties except to play the clown. It is even funnier when the clown takes himself 1...
[23:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doubtful - 06BBC Tests 4K Planet Earth II in HDR on IPlayer - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, thanks! This was also helpful for me: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:55:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:49] <exec> 08└─I interpreted that statement to mean Laptops would behave more like Windows phones, which means they are planning on letting their laptop marketshare evaporate like a puddle of water in the middle of the Sahara. I wish them good luck in this endeavour!
[23:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ballmer was right - 06Big Changes Planned by Microsoft - Windows 10 on ARM, Laptops to Behave More Like Phones - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:04] <exec> 08└─Trump was right
[23:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitch please! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:18] <exec> 08└─I agree. I usually envision him standing in full Nazi uniforms shouting with his fist held high. Today, it was as if he was in dirty underwear, on a couch, eating Cheetos, while just phoning it in. Like you, I demand my bigotry and fascism to have some panache ;)
[23:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:30] <exec> 08└─This is the stupidity of how the NHS has been carved up into discrete units, though; if the Department of Health rocked up to Pfizer or whoever and said "We need $BIGNUM of those and we'll pay a penny each, and if you don't play ball we'll piss off to India and ask one of their pharmaceutical compan...
[23:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:32] <exec> 08└─How about we don't fine the company at all, but fine every executive above a certain level 3% of yearly salary per day until the price changes? Make the executives and shareholders have to pay directly out of their own pockets as individuals. I would take it further too, like registering sex offende...
[23:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see more! - 06Britain Fines Pfizer Record £84.2m for 2600% Drug Price Hike - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:34] <exec> 08└─I would take it further too, like registering sex offenders.
[23:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:freedos saved my life - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:03] <exec> 08└─What? The Gigabyte boards I have dealt with recently had flashing built into the BIOS itself so as long as you could get the BIOS to start up you could invoke the flasher. Just put the file on a USB stick and go. Sad to hear they have lost functionality.
[23:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Other uses... - 06Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:10] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember seeing many very small, free real-time(-ish) kernels about a while ago. There was one called FreeRTOS IIRC. Was probably going to try it for an embedded project but left that company before we needed to try it.
[23:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06U.S. Surgeon General Decries Teenage Vaping - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:58] <exec> 08└─> There are more sources for nicotine than just tobacco. Yes. there is a minuscule amount of e-juice using non-tobacco nicotine derived from other members of the nightshade family. And I knew someone would bring it up because, here on retarded slashdot, the one thing you can count on is that somebo...