#comments | Logs for 2017-01-05

« return
[00:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[00:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449582
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Classified? - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─Are we allowed to talk about it? Is it Top Secret?
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─More like old fashioned police work, incarceration for crimes and then deportation at the end of the sentence. Have the spies dig up info on refugees to try and screen them. Disperse the refugees so they aren't living in a big cultural group. Educational programs designed to help them assimilate bet...
[00:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─Bacon eating contest ... you eat bacon you can stay because a rather flexible interpretation of dietary laws implies you're not a complete fanatic. If you are a fanatic, well, see ya, better off without. Its a very old problem in human history, what do you do when all the problems come from a small...
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─If you don't like those options feel free to attempt to propose an option #3, but you will fail since it will be obviously silly.
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Timing means nothing - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─This line in the summary (and article?) bothered me: However, the recent terror attack, the most serious in Germany in over 35 years, did not prompt de Maiziere's considerations, it simply gave him a reason to group them together into a kind of list of demands. The interior minister writes that he...
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not everything you need - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:32] <exec> 08└─Only in a completely consumer-mindset society could this be considered something special. Buy a farm today! Now YOU can be a farmer, just buy this. See! Now your a farmer!
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the beef? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─> a whole two-acre farm capable of feeding 150 people I had a good chuckle at that.
[00:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:is it news? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:48] <exec> 08└─That's legal in Alaska.
[00:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Funny) 02GECK: Garden of Creation Kit... - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:50] <exec> 08└─I think I've seen this before...
[00:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02Re:Where? - 06The Moving Sofa Problem - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:18] <exec> 08└─It makes way more sense when you show it in action. https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[00:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:33] <exec> 08└─"The smart people turn down assistance?" Have you visited the ghettos? Have you been in the housing projects? What you will find there, is not "assisstance", but a "way of life". Street gangs, and baby mamas, all living off of government largesse and illicit drug money.
[00:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─I said "darkies" and I've said worse. Often when referring to you, Aristarchus!
[00:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:54] <exec> 08└─Economic stimulus increases the flow of money, increasing wealth for many people
[00:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong questions lead to wrong answers - 06Opinion: Should Algorithms Be Regulated? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:03] <exec> 08└─What does "regulating algorithms" even mean?
[00:31:59] <exec> count new = 12
[00:31:59] <exec> count top = 2
[00:31:59] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[01:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[01:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449596
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02A rose by any other name.... - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─Okay, so the mesentery has changed from a structure to an organ as viewed in anatomy. Structure, matrix, or organ, without it our guts would be disorganized and shifty.
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The new organ... - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─The new organ is my fat fucking dick!
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─You really think Germany is going to become a Nazi state again if they centralize their police/military force? It will never happen again, one nuke would wipe them out. Let them reorganize if it'll help fight terrorism.
[01:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:20] <exec> 08└─+1000. A TV should be just a dumb monitor to which you connect whatever smart stuff you want...if for no other reason than the fact that a good TV will outlast the technology by a decade, I'm still using a 1080i Hitachi rear projection TV that looks as beautiful as it did when I bought it 13 years a...
[01:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:45] <exec> 08└─Sure, but you still have to INSTALL the widget, so it's still going to cost you 110% more unless you can somehow install it yourself. That kills the service industry, which is pretty much ALL labor costs, and is also where the labor costs will increase the most. And that's where most of the jobs hav...
[01:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─Allow me to introduce you to the concept of investment. Without investment, you would have to save up the entire cost for a home/car/small business before you ever got one. Maybe it's just me but that doesn't sound like money sitting idle. It in fact sounds like money being in motion and benefiting...
[01:32:06] <exec> count new = 6
[01:32:06] <exec> count top = 0
[01:32:06] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[02:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[02:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449606
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:22] <exec> 08└─The Romans poured concrete that still exists today. What's more, they poured concred sea breaks that are still in place today. Concrete, in sea water. That's just about the harshest environment on earth, and their concrete still exists. And, we have fly-by-night companies in the US whose concrete do...
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Classified? - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not worried about people talking about it. I'm more concerned that the upgrade is going to cost us more. Is congress going to pass a mesentery tax, or something? Are the insurance companies going to write mesentery policies? Where does an extra organ lead to in our society? Maybe we can get the...
[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─refugees
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─I guess we found the limit of the First Amendment. Quakers? Aww, geez, ok they're all right after all. Catholics? Aww, geez, ok they're all right after all. Amish? Aww, geez, ok they're all right after all and keep to themselves anyway. Mormons? Aww, geez, ok they're all right after all. Evolution?...
[02:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe useful - 06UCLA Mathematicians Bring Ocean to Life for Disney's ‘Moana’ - 2574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is possible for people born past a certain point to really understand Star Wars. To fully understand Star Wars, you needed to grow up in a certain kind of world: Your first experience of science fiction should have been 20+ year old Buck Rogers serials viewed in black and white on a...
[02:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure... - 06Opinion: Should Algorithms Be Regulated? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:27] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry Dave, you ran an unauthorized QuickSort. ~Hal
[02:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Regulating algorithms - 06Opinion: Should Algorithms Be Regulated? - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:57] <exec> 08└─However, a new category of manslaughter is actually a trickier problem and more likely for the algorithms to encounter. The case where you truly don't want to kill at all but no matter what you do, someone is likely to die. Our laws don't really cover that. What is the legally correct decision. Take...
[02:31:48] <exec> count new = 7
[02:31:48] <exec> count top = 0
[02:31:48] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[03:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[03:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449614
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─We can and do make the same stuff today. It is just a mater of cost. It has more to do with the 'cement' part. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] As the usage of coal changes you may see a shift back to the other...
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. You can make near-indestructible concrete if you don't care what it costs. Near where I live there are long-buried Victorian seawalls that are an absolute bastard to remove because they didn't know the correct ratios to use in the mix at the time they were built and so overdid things...
[03:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─A major source of concrete problems today are also a result of the iron reinforcement. The rebar expands as it rusts/corrodes, breaking the concrete from the inside.
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Futher work in progress - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─The Rice lab of materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari performed an atom-level computer analysis of tobermorite
[03:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─You betray your own savagery.
[03:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─The FBI admits to ongoing investigations of potential terror suspects in all fifty states. Muslims are currently about 0.9% of the population and already account for essentially all domestic terror type attacks. The only reason they aren't killing more is the intelligence services are already well o...
[03:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:19] <exec> 08└─Right, Dylann Roof & Dylan Kiebold are known muslims attacking churches & schools... Damn mohammedans. What? WASP kids? Nah, they are muslims I tell you Dylan [wikipedia.org] Dylann [foxnews.com] Count the dead and see who's killing who, white killing black; white killing white.
[03:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Googling for Vizio smart TV - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─That's the warm-boot reset, which doesn't actually do a full reset. There's also a cold-boot reset, and what the OP needed, which was the full reinstall-from-backup-tapes reset, which isn't as easy to find details on. Even then, I'm not sure there won't be traces of the previous bits and pieces left...
[03:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:38] <exec> 08└─I remember Dad in the back of one of those tube TVs when it crapped out with a screw driver, shorting out this and that, resulting in loud, satisfying cracks. When all was safe, we removed the tubes, packed them in a cigar box, and headed to the nearest drug store to test them on the tube tester. I...
[03:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I suck at going to sleep - 06How Can I Help My Child to Fall Asleep and Stay Asleep? - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:09] <exec> 08└─Me too. Right now, 1,5 hours of trying to sleep. I think my personal best is falling a sleep after about 7 hours of trying to sleep. I pretty much have all the things that makes falling a sleep difficult: very sensitive to light and sound, exploding head, flashes of light, feeling of falling (forgot...
[03:31:20] <exec> count new = 10
[03:31:20] <exec> count top = 0
[03:31:20] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[04:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[04:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449626
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─I think the hipsters have too much discretionary spending.
[04:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:31] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't be saying that if you were pressing the vinyl and selling that hot crude oil to hipsters.
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Almost there... - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:33] <exec> 08└─You're not doing it right until you're playing vinyl via a single-tube amp driving paper-cone speakers. Really, nothing less than an early '30s radio will do for the purest hipness and highest fidelity.
[04:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Do you have citations for that? In my experience, it seems that rebar doesn't rust or corrode until/unless the concrete is first damaged, allowing moisture and oxygen to get to the rebar. I don't recall ever removing undamaged concrete, to find rusted rebar inside. Then again, maybe I w...
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall [wikipedia.org] http://www.hdb.gov.sg [hdb.gov.sg] https://failures.wikispaces.com [wikispaces.com] https://www.concretenetwork.co...
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─The Romans hadn't perfected free market economics: contract awarding to the lowest bidder, planned obsolescence, limited warranties and bankruptcy protection. Many of the problems in modern "things" are short-path traceable to the economic system that builds them.
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Classified? - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:59] <exec> 08└─Goddamitsomuch, my first thought as well. Well played sir, well played.
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score:1) 02Re:A rose by any other name.... - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─I don't like the click-bait headline. The reality is more like a promotion to "organ" status for a group of tissues that were already well known. Reminds me of the demotion of Pluto from "planet" status. Nothing really changed except the branding. Or maybe it's better to consider the other side of r...
[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Not covered by insurance - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─because it is a prior existing condition.
[04:23:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1997 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─Good call. Having some(admittedly old) experience with the W. German state security(individual, as in TFA), and the Stasi, given the choice between total anarchy(ala Mad Max) and the Stasi, I would choose anarchy, any day. Having been caught by W. German security forces[1] one errant night, and enco...
[04:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:29] <exec> 08└─How about you log in and use your account to post shit like that, you festering coward?
[04:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:33] <exec> 08└─Soooort of, yeah. Thing is, in the US we have our own Taliban; they just haven't finished undermining the Constitution yet. Look up who Rushdoony was and what Theonomy is, and prepare to soil yourself. These people have, thanks to the US being dumb enough to elect a Dire Oompa Loompa from Hell, sudd...
[04:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, those would be fundamentalists. In the USA the moderates would be the 'Cafeteria Catholics'. Your turn to research. When the Cafeteria Catholics start to sound like fundamentalists, I'll worry.
[04:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:37] <exec> 08└─VLM...seriously? Seriously? First of all, if you're going to be unreasonably xenophobic, do your research; these people could reasonably perform taqiyya if it's a life or death situation, you know. Your kind usually just loves to howl about the T-word. Step up your game!
[04:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:42] <exec> 08└─He's not entirely wrong, though. Yes, I modded him up; hell has frozen over. It's been a long-standing personal rule of mine that "when someone shows you who s/he is, believe him/her the first time." I don't understand this bizarre love affair so many leftists seem to have with Islam; the religion i...
[04:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:2) 02Re:GECK: Garden of Creation Kit... - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:41] <exec> 08└─Sulik says da spirits don't wanna talk right now.
[04:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Nukes! - 06The Beating Heart of Solar Energy - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:59] <exec> 08└─A cardiac electrophysiologist I work with told me about how older pacemakers had nuclear power sources. They'd last forever, erm, in terms of the human lifespan. Department of Defense wanted to be there when they were explanted.
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─I think it is more like outright banning things like alcohol and various other drugs that the wrong people use. Passing restrictions on speech and other forms of expression that is offensive to them such as anything sex related as well as preventing whole classes of people from owning weapons (certa...
[04:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:38] <exec> 08└─Nothing will cost you 110% more. The widget costs 10% more, and the installation costs twice as much. But if your widget needs installing, installation is almost certainly only a fraction of the cost of the widget itself, so the overall cost is still only increased by that fraction.
[04:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:54] <exec> 08└─Hey Uzzard, I don't *have* a "narrative" aside from "fuck the lying liars and the lies they tell." You can stop projecting now; just because you personally are as faith-based as any frothing Theonomist ("muh fwee markkit!") does not mean your opponents are. Incidentally, you are one of said lying li...
[04:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 1916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:57] <exec> 08└─I think the phasing from UBI net gain to net loss without disincentive is not so difficult as you imagine. It's true that as the incremental tax rate increases you take home less of each additional dollar you earn, but you're never in the position where earning an extra dollar actually costs you any...
[04:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, for during the test, there will of course be administrative headache and more byrocracy, but you have to be able to separate the stuff that is caused by the test and what is caused, because the of the system being tested.
[04:31:52] <exec> count new = 21
[04:31:53] <exec> count top = 1
[04:31:53] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[05:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[05:21:18] <exec> last cid = 449651
[05:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:34] <exec> 08└─Clearly I work in the wrong industry. Note to future self: if it's hip, sell it. If it's not, sell it for more so it becomes hip.
[05:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02US vinyl - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/12/07/vinyl-surpasses-digital-sales-in-some-music-markets-time-to-ask-santa-for-a-turntable [washingtonpost.com] From December 7, 2016 Vinyl sales have been growing by 10 percent a year, but they still occupy a niche. For the first half of 2016,...
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US vinyl - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─“A lot of people come in in groups and buy a record or two, and are clearly going back to listen to it together,” he said. “The act of buying a record is social.
[05:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:51] <exec> 08└─Two words: Road salt
[05:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:54] <exec> 08└─Or more likely, the only concrete to last to modern times was the good concrete. It'll be interesting to see how much modern times are lauded in the future for its durable materials just because that's what survives.
[05:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:43] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see all these angry Muslims out to kill people, though I have seen the clerics of hate spout their nonsense. Sure there are major pickets of nasty Islam and it currently ranks as the most oppressive religion I know of (on the extreme end). However, most of the people are just people tr...
[05:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:44] <exec> 08└─The middle-east is being depopulated to make way for the greater israel state. That is the reason. Israel goes, so do the refugees.
[05:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 1684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:30] <exec> 08└─The point is, far left and far right are both authoritarians and taken to extremes both with try to restrict freedoms in many horrible ways. Lately in the US it's been the left attacking free speech, going further trying to do that than I ever thought I would see happen. If you're looking at extreme...
[05:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, we are all well aware. But this is why you are banned from everywhere on the internets except here. You share this honor [sic] with Ethanol_fueled and MikeeUSA, an anti-semite and a pedophile. Does this not embarrass you? It is not that there is a difference of opinion here, you are just socia...
[05:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:44] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to do math? You may need some help. Widget costs $5. Assume (for the sake of argument), that to make it costs $4, and 10% is labor costs of $0.40. Installation is all labor, and that's $2.50 (pretty common, for something simple, labor is about 1/2 the cost of the part, on average, can...
[05:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FAA and physics - 06SpaceX to Hopefully Resume Launches This Sunday, January 8, 2017 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:17] <exec> 08└─The FAA can rubber stamp it. SpaceX have plenty of incentive to succeed, and any danger to the public is minimal.
[05:31:26] <exec> count new = 11
[05:31:26] <exec> count top = 0
[05:31:26] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[06:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[06:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449663
[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:26] <exec> 08└─Super Genius Brilliant NYT Economist Paul Krugman predicted "global recession with no end in sight" upon hearing of Trump's victory. Since that day, the stock market continued to rise to record heights. Beware of "experts".
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─, the stock market continued to rise to record heights.
[06:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The way we die - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:35] <exec> 08└─This is a good conversation to have. I've known two people in hospice care and I've been dismayed at the existence people are given once they can't take care of themselves anymore. We all deserve better.
[06:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:34] <exec> 08└─Said the useless anonymous dickweed. Why do so many Liberals have daddy/mommy issues and take it out on their race or their government? It's a massive inferiority complex for douchebags.
[06:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:41] <exec> 08└─Then by all means, lead the charge of not accepting them by refusing to partake in the causes of them migrating away from their once-great, now-shitty country. Stop buying cheap oil based products. Stop buying electronic devices filled with rare earth minerals dug up from those countries. Your gover...
[06:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:42] <exec> 08└─You are not wrong and I hate the authoritarians on the left just as I hate them on the right. However rules and regulations are a part of government and the discussion should be more about which ones are worthwhile. Some things are necessary because we live in a society, this weird pure freedom idea...
[06:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:45] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of debating with the idiots of this site. It pains me because you're not actually an idiot, just stuck in a narrow minded belief system because you think you've "figured out" the world. The problem with all human "figuring out" is that we're pretty terrible at seeing our own presumptions,...
[06:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:47] <exec> 08└─It pains me because you're not actually an idiot, just stuck in a narrow minded belief system because you think you've "figured out" the world.
[06:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:58] <exec> 08└─Good! I kinda like the idea of people being paid fair wages and costs rising higher so that it becomes cost effective to fix things instead of buying new ones.
[06:30:59] <exec> count new = 9
[06:31:00] <exec> count top = 0
[06:31:00] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[07:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[07:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449677
[07:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─Right, right .... and then, post plunge, it will dribble along the bottom like a deflated basketball FOREVER. NO MERCY FOR CAPITALOFASCIST PIGDOGS!!! ... I mean, I'm sorry. That was not what I meant. Let me try this again. The Trump-driven nuclear winter will turn our global economy into a PERMANENT...
[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:28] <exec> 08└─Just in case you weren't joking: Probability(will plunge | was rising to record heights) != Probability(was rising to record heights | did plunge)
[07:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:30] <exec> 08└─The article is about the decline of consumer tech spending, not economies. Several consecutive years of revenue decline tend to support the expert opinions.
[07:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:32] <exec> 08└─All the cheap plastic crap I own right now does exactly what I want it to do. Am not planning to buy new crap unless something breaks. I spend most of my money on food these days.
[07:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tech World Domination Coming Soon - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, after Trump passes a law allowing him to appoint his successor as dictator for life, Zuckerberg will ascend to the throne.
[07:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02society is squeamish about death and sex - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 2922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:43] <exec> 08└─A contradiction often pointed out is that violent movies get rated R, a less restrictive rating than the X to XXX used for pornos, but that violence is darker, much darker than sex, so shouldn't it be the other way around? Another curiously contradictory thing about the depiction of violence is that...
[07:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─Aging and cancer are curable. Once that happens, hospice care and health insurance as you know them will be obsolete.
[07:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02How did they implement DRM for vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:58] <exec> 08└─Lameness filter encountered
[07:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02brand new? It didn't exist until we saw it? - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:25] <exec> 08└─I have a peeve about this kind of wording. The organ is definitely not brand new. It is newly discovered. The wording makes it sound like it was created just the other day. It's the same with Planet 9. New planet? No way! Newly hypothesized, yes, but definitely not new. Assuming it exists, it's very...
[07:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:The new organ... - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:29] <exec> 08└─The sex change was a success then?
[07:31:16] <exec> count new = 10
[07:31:16] <exec> count top = 0
[07:31:16] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[08:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[08:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449688
[08:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02666 - 06Nanowire 'Inks' Enable Paper-based Printable Electronics - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:29] <exec> 08└─Your mandatory Mark of the Beast will be printed from Thirty Pieces of Silver nanowire.
[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:society is squeamish about death and sex - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─Young people fucking cause more people, and people are fucking expensive. Young people killing themselves and killing each other, not a problem, funerals are cheap.
[08:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"rethought to enable acts of terrorism" - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:48] <exec> 08└─Also, "terrorism" is a bogeyman.
[08:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:53] <exec> 08└─Having some(admittedly old) experience with the W. German state security(individual, as in TFA), and the Stasi, given the choice between total anarchy(ala Mad Max) and the Stasi, I would choose anarchy, any day.
[08:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:56] <exec> 08└─One nuke might disable the state, but most certainly not wipe us out. Also, states have nukes in order *not* to use them. Planning on actually using them is more or less insane, and everyone but Trump knows that. To understand some of the concerns regarding security forces in Germany, it might be in...
[08:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:58] <exec> 08└─The terrorism kills so few people, that there isn't even any reaction needed at all.
[08:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─I grew up as one of those "cafeteria Catholics," thanks. Looking back on it, it was an insane mix of selfish compartmentalization and unthinking ignorance. Thing is, "moderates" legitimize the loony fringe. It's the same kind of false thinking, I believe the Fallacy of the Golden Mean, that has allo...
[08:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─Can we get "Insightless -1" mod-option, please?
[08:30:26] <exec> count new = 8
[08:30:27] <exec> count top = 0
[08:30:27] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[09:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[09:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449697
[09:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:52] <exec> 08└─Aging and cancer are curable.
[09:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:02] <exec> 08└─Actually its more likely those that don't want their music compressed to hell [wikipedia.org] which due to the nature of vinyl playback means they just can't crush the music like they do a CD. If I wanted music from one of the new mainstream artists? I'd want vinyl, but luckily for me I buy my music...
[09:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:50] <exec> 08└─There is no dilemma. The terrorism kills so few people, that there isn't even any reaction needed at all. Better let the terrorists kill a few people, than let the government terrorize all people.
[09:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:57] <exec> 08└─Several off-the-record informants for BKA, BND and MAD were paid handsomely by the different services, and it turned out that the NSU was funded in large parts by these payments, while the information gained was not used to solve their acts of murder.
[09:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:10] <exec> 08└─This sad viewpoint is trotted out all the time, yet it is very off base. There will always be a small group of extremists who promote violence, every world religion has/had them. There are Christians who quote the bible and attack abortion clinics and homosexuals. So knock off this cultural warfare...
[09:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:17] <exec> 08└─These people have, thanks to the US being dumb enough to elect a Dire Oompa Loompa from Hell, suddenly gotten their mephitic claws on all three branches of the government, and we may be about to see them ascendant. But as of this moment, they're mostly held back by the rule of law. Time will tell wh...
[09:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:26] <exec> 08└─We have now already millions of Muslims in Germany [wikipedia.org]. I fail to see the havoc they were supposed to cause. Yes, we did have an attack in Berlin (I live not far from Berlin and pass that general area nearly every day by train). We also had a Syrian wannabe-terrorist (who was captured an...
[09:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:31] <exec> 08└─Uncontrolled immigration is bad, but so is your argument against it. When it comes to diversity (the SJW definition), what matters is which people you are getting your diversity from. The Chinese who immigrate to Germany are the least criminal ethnic group in the German state, significantly outperfo...
[09:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:47] <exec> 08└─Mike Pence, is that you?
[09:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:58] <exec> 08└─Those LED filament bulbs are a bit less complex than their predecessors. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the beef? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:23] <exec> 08└─Seems like feeding 150 people from 2 acres is more than a little optimistic.
[09:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GECK: Garden of Creation Kit... - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:34] <exec> 08└─"E" is for "Eden."
[09:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the interest of redneck math conservation... - 06The Moving Sofa Problem - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:18] <exec> 08└─Last time I faced this problem, I used your hammer and saw idea and managed to get the whole sofa up the chimney except for the springs.
[09:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Use something presumably abundant on Mars? - 06NASA Might Build an Ice House on Mars - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:28] <exec> 08└─The article alludes to the transparency of ice in contrast to "dark, heavily shielded habitats" and explicitly mentions its ability to absorb (harmful) radiation. A possible limitation to the use of ice is that temperatures on the surface of Mars can exceed the melting point of water: A summer day...
[09:30:25] <exec> count new = 13
[09:30:25] <exec> count top = 1
[09:30:25] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[10:21:18] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[10:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449710
[10:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02honey pot - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─The database contains secret research on how to brick a human brain. It is safe to leave it lying around unprotected since anyone who reads it falls into a coma. All is according to plan.
[10:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:US vinyl - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:13] <exec> 08└─> Norton said the highest quality vinyl records sound better than digital music, Most peoples idea of "digital music" is 56kbit/s AAC, so it would not surprise me that Vinyl sounds better, very little could sound worse to be honest. We have regressed a lot in audio quality. There used to be competit...
[10:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Futher work in progress - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:32] <exec> 08└─amirite?
[10:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No dilemma - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:08] <exec> 08└─The Nazi party also didn't kill many people. Initially.
[10:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:29] <exec> 08└─I worry I may get a "woosh" for this ... however, the most abolute hardline terrorist will gladly suffer eating bacon if it means you drop your guard and let him/her stay.
[10:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:37] <exec> 08└─> I don't understand this bizarre love affair so many leftists seem to have with Islam There is none - this is your (media source's) hyperbole to create insta-hate. The 21st century equivalent of calling people n***ger-lovers if they aren't as bigoted as you.
[10:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:10] <exec> 08└─"And it was uphill both ways." You forgot "in the CGA snow!"
[10:30:35] <exec> count new = 7
[10:30:35] <exec> count top = 0
[10:30:35] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[11:21:19] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[11:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449717
[11:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how many homeless does it seat - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:22] <exec> 08└─How many homeless people does it take to pedal the bicycle generator in the back of this millennial miracle car?
[11:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Live Stream your Social Life - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─In the home, at work, in the car, stream your entire life. Especially all your visits to the shower and the toilet. Special sensors will be installed on every bathroom door to switch your video feed from facebook to shitbook every time you step into a bathroom. Sensors will detect when you're having...
[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Connected all the time. - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─Of course in "the connected car" we can expect all that distracting input from outside the vehicle to be filtered out, all the windows will double as touchscreens so you can update your fuckface status as you hammer down the autobahn at 95mph. WCPGW?
[11:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Connected all the time. - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:28] <exec> 08└─Ubiquitous connectivity has driven me to social media refusal and near total social isolation! Instead of joining fuckbook or twatting pics of my junk, I've become more reclusive as I've become more connected. I have no less than five distinct routes to the internet at my fingertips, and all I'm doi...
[11:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Head-turning - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:30] <exec> 08└─Head-turning away-design. Holly shit that is one ugly mutherfucker. I regret that i looked at the article and verified my suspicions.
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:honey pot - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U [youtube.com]
[11:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─YOU IGNORANT RACIST SEXIST BIGOTED NEOFASCIST SWINE WHO VOTED AGAINST YOUR OWN ECONOMIC INTERESTS HAVE DOOMED US ALL!!!
[11:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:society is squeamish about death and sex - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:10] <exec> 08└─The true horror in all but the absolute bet nursing homes is the high rates of abuse & neglect, the shitty quality of the staff, and how little dignity the residents are allowed to have. Most of the medical tech that people freak out about — ventilators, percutaneous/PEG "feeding" tubes, ostomies,...
[11:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:13] <exec> 08└─> even today cancer is only second, after heart disease Maybe in Fatsoland.
[11:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Vinyl - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:30] <exec> 08└─(Much to the annoyance of nearby eavesdropping hipsters) "Daddy, what's that?" "It's a gramophone record. It's how people used to listen to music before they invented computers." "Why are they selling them now?" "I really don't know."
[11:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The detail you miss out on is... - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:20] <exec> 08└─In the Anarchist state there is a chance of that 10 percent helping secure you. In the Stasi state there is a change of the weakest 20-30 percent ruining your life, your family, and otherwise actively hindering you, while that strong 10 percent is in prison/dead/relocated elsewhere.
[11:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As someone else pointed out above... - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:00] <exec> 08└─Because the current Law Enforcement and Intelligence apparatus never stopped being the one set up prior to WW2. While many of the leaders got charges placed against them, many of the linemen and lower ranking officials then became the foundation for the replacement apparatuses after the war and thei...
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─That's legal in Alaska.
[11:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:is it news? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─That's legal in Alaska.
[11:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe useful - 06UCLA Mathematicians Bring Ocean to Life for Disney's ‘Moana’ - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:12] <exec> 08└─Here's a thought, maybe painful. Imagine a 2017 remake of the 2001 movie done by J J Abrams.... I ... I ... there aren't even words!
[11:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:11] <exec> 08└─The second part wouldn't happen. The reason that we throw things away rather than fix them is that labour costs are high, material costs are low. If it takes $50 of material and 10 minutes of labour to make a widget, and the person is making $24/hour, then that's a total cost of $54. If it takes two...
[11:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:27] <exec> 08└─Now allow me to inform you what the rich really do with their money: they invest it.
[11:30:36] <exec> count new = 17
[11:30:36] <exec> count top = 0
[11:30:36] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[12:21:19] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[12:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449736
[12:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02\o/ - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:28] <exec> 08└─I came in on Tuesday. Didn't notice anything more than usual. Guess I dodged that bullet.
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 4096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:41] <exec> 08└─> Setting aside its intended market, the car has good features that would appeal to a lot of customers. Really? What good features? Disclaimer, I am a "millennial", and one with a decently paid tech job in a high rising industry, so in theory I will be their target market once I find someone to star...
[12:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:honey pot - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:50] <exec> 08└─The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution [yorku.ca]
[12:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:10] <exec> 08└─He's right you know. The stock market is always higher right before a crash than after it.
[12:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dwarf organ - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:16] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's a dwarf organ.
[12:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:is max width optimal? - 06The Moving Sofa Problem - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:59] <exec> 08└─fatuitous
[12:30:10] <exec> count new = 6
[12:30:11] <exec> count top = 0
[12:30:11] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[13:21:19] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[13:21:20] <exec> last cid = 449743
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02forgot to knock on wood - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─
[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Self Inflicted - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─One thing CBP is very careful to stress was that this was not a malicious attack.
[13:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─What idiot pushes a software update on December 28th? Leave it until the New Year, or sort it out long beforehand.
[13:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02No friendly testers? - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they have rolled it out at Bumfuck International Airport in Nebraska first, and if everything works well then roll it out to a wider region? The only reason that would make sense would be if there's some API change. But if they didn't preserve backward compatibility in the API, then they de...
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02No mention of contractor? - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this was HPE again, right? They've been playing bait-and-switch, and I've heard, from people I used to work with, that the NASA debacle was headed by a first rate fuckup who was exiled from NMCI a few years ago. It would not surprise me to find out some college intern doing the job of 4...
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Connected all the time. - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─But at least you're still posting on SN as an anonymous coward, so you've got that going for you.
[13:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02MacKeeper researcher??? WTF? - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:57] <exec> 08└─Does the guy research FOR or AGAINST the annoyance from MacKeeper?
[13:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:society is squeamish about death and sex - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:30] <exec> 08└─analysis of the people he killed showed that the vast majority weren't terminally ill
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tbuskey [6127] (Score:1) 02Re:Where's the beef? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─Wheat doesn't produce as many calories/acre as potato. Potato can grow in poorer soil. That's why the Irish grew potato.
[13:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:49] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. The problem is the very same people who want to steal from the rich are the ones touting globalism for the most part. Sanity is not in their color wheel.
[13:30:20] <exec> count new = 10
[13:30:20] <exec> count top = 0
[13:30:20] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[14:21:19] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[14:21:19] <exec> last cid = 449757
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 3065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─I have a modern car - 2016 model. It has a touchscreen in the dash. It's not used for any core function. It's basically a satnav. It suffers from exactly the problems you describe, even with voice control - context, selection, sticky-fingered-screen. I keep a cloth under it because it needs cleaning...
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─Two of your problems are driven by safety not innovation. The car has to start self destructing at a quarter inch impact partially to make money off fender benders, but mostly to start dissipating energy in a 40 MPH crash to make it survivable. Ditto the frigging giant beams attaching the roof in mo...
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─When I see such things, the first, and typically only, question that goes through my mind is "What is the problem to which this is the solution?". Lack of internet in the car? What??!?! I have my phone, it has internet, this is not a problem. Lack of charger sockets in the car? What?!?!? A hub in th...
[14:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─I have the same problem despite being a generation or two older where early adopter / early announcement syndrome. So you hear about version 0.1 or maybe vaporware on Slashdot or here or the clickbait sites or whatever and Nope the hell out of there. The rest of the world has no idea about the topic...
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 1723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─> Anyway I'm just saying your view of battery technology is quite accurate for the 80s to 90s, like a little before the GM EV1 era. However its all obsolete long before my wife's decade old Prius (which in itself is like gen 2 or gen 3 of its technology and is also hopelessly obsolete compared to a...
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─I'm an early Millenial (born 1982) and I don't want any more "tech" in my cars. It feels like my 2006 was the peak year of it's model line as every loaner I've had since just gets more and more overly complicated with little regard to actual usability. Same thing with rentals, to hell with this touc...
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─You sound more like a Baby Boomer than a Millenial to me. Electric cars don't do well in hot weather, and work even worse in cold.
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─If only millennials had any money left after their art history degree left them working at Starbucks and $100K in debt, while they live the urban dream of $5000K/month luxury condos and spend kilobucks on a new phone and macbook every year. Oh and their urban hellhole condo doesn't have parking, so...
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think that financial profile is exclusive to people who got degrees in art history any more. I know plenty people with law degrees, medical degrees, and technical degrees who have trouble with their debt-to-income ratio, too. That aside, a whole lot of people still live in suburbs and exurbs...
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02idiots - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─It is not presently known why an unprotected remote synchronization (rsync) service was active at an IP address tied to Potomac, Vickery says.
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─Sorry, out of mod points and that's some quality funny there.
[14:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─Your information is a little out of date. Overcoming the Hayflick limit is only one of several different things that must go wrong to cause a cancer, and while getting past it may increase the likelyhood of cancer, there are other targets to kill it/cure you. By the time we have developed the tech t...
[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─Ah ha! I knew it! They made CDs sound so bad that people will willingly buy over-priced ancient technology in preference! And vinyl doesn't last forever and it gets dusty and scratched.
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─You can master heavily compressed on vinyl exactly as much as you can on CD. The only reason that vinyl's not so heavily compressed is that they've made a conscious decision to master differently. They knew vinyl would be a continuing niche market, and they also knew that they could bring it back at...
[14:25:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:46] <exec> 08└─The FBI admits to ongoing investigations of potential terror suspects in all fifty states. Muslims are currently about 0.9% of the population and already account for essentially all domestic terror type attacks. The only reason they aren't killing more is the intelligence services are already well o...
[14:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:49] <exec> 08└─He's not entirely wrong, though. Yes, I modded him up; hell has frozen over. It's been a long-standing personal rule of mine that "when someone shows you who s/he is, believe him/her the first time." I don't understand this bizarre love affair so many leftists seem to have with Islam; the religion i...
[14:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:12] <exec> 08└─I had forgotten about resetting the PRAM. It was something that shouldn't commonly need to be done. The PRAM was nonvolatile memory that held some settings across power cycles. Powered by tiny battery like the real time clock. One setting that it held was which bootable drive to boot from first befo...
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─No resolution higher than 720 × 576 is needed for watching DVDs. Remember 800x600 at 24bpp on your SVGA video card from the early 1990s? That was high enough resolution/colour-depth.
[14:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, I agree on your first statement on regulatory capture. It's a shame you flipped the coin and came down with the exact opposite position for your proles. This is why I can never have any respect for a position you hold. Your ideals and ethics are subordinate to your emotions. You literally do not...
[14:30:41] <exec> count new = 17
[14:30:41] <exec> count top = 2
[14:30:41] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[15:21:19] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[15:21:20] <exec> last cid = 449776
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Register vs ATM - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Lately, I've taken to getting cash when I'm buying stuff at the store, pharmacy, etc. It seems less likely for there to be a skimmer at the register. Plus those places use the EMV technology. Am I right, or are these locations just as vulnerable.
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Self Inflicted - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─Well, odds are IBM was involved. That always seems to be bordering on malicious.
[15:23:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Connected all the time. - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─Of course in "the connected car" we can expect all that distracting input from outside the vehicle to be filtered out, all the windows will double as touchscreens so you can update your fuckface status as you hammer down the autobahn at 95mph. WCPGW?
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─Except lead acid, those things can really take punishment
[15:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:18] <exec> 08└─You sound more like a Baby Boomer than a Millenial to me.
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think that financial profile is exclusive to people who got degrees in art history any more. I know plenty people with law degrees, medical degrees, and technical degrees who have trouble with their debt-to-income ratio, too.
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02After one year, a useless brick - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─As quickly as technology becomes obsolete and/or broken these days, I can't imagine owning a car that is destined to become a useless brick within a year or so.
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02did not appear to take his warning seriously - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─They were probably trying to see if they could blame the leak on the reporter before doing anything else. If it was a government agency the guy would have been arrested already.
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Riiight, it couldn't have anything to do with.. - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─the fact that smartphones have gotten as insanely overpowered as PCs yet battery tech hasn't kept up with the times? Not to mention so many of them trying to ape "Apple thin" which makes the battery life suck even harder and you have plenty of reasons for consumers to look at the new stuff and go "n...
[15:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─Obviously you've never spent any time with DJs, I happened to live for several years literally next door to a radio station so I got to know the guys and the reason for the compression? RADIO. It makes car speakers "pump" and catches the attention of people who most likely would only hear a song a c...
[15:26:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Black hole, son...(apologies to Soundgarden) - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─"Dad, what's that?!?!?" "That's goatse, son." "Eww! Make it go away!" "I can't, the 'smart' TV has been hacked. We'll have to hook up the old 'dumb' TV." Welcome to the IoT, and comedy ensues...
[15:30:36] <exec> count new = 9
[15:30:36] <exec> count top = 2
[15:30:36] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[16:03:34] -!- exec has quit [Quit: dafuq]
[16:03:47] -!- exec [exec!~exec@23.24.kp.ip] has joined #comments
[16:03:48] -!- exec has quit [Changing host]
[16:03:48] -!- exec [exec!~exec@crutchys.brothel] has joined #comments
[17:03:35] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[17:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449786
[17:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:53] <exec> 08└─Google and Facebook are now the tech giants abusing their marketshare to make people's lives miserable for marginal increases in profit. Well, I guess Microsoft is also in the injecting-ads-where-they-don't-belong business now(don't buy windows 10) but those are the names I think of when I think of...
[17:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You Got that Backwards - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:54] <exec> 08└─> we love to hate Microsoft in general and IE in particular, but is Edge that bad? This story is about MS reducing the rate of loss that's the first step to a turn around. If there is any meaning to be taken from a single data point, the meaning here is that Edge might be good enough to turn things...
[17:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:57] <exec> 08└─>but is Edge that bad? maybe not as bad as the previous versions, but there's one caveat that cannot be forgiven, and that is, that it requires Windows 10. no sane individual with even a shred of concern for privacy would use that fucking cancerous " OS ". it literally phones home everything you do,...
[17:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:59] <exec> 08└─but is Edge that bad?
[17:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They are all vulnerable - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:09] <exec> 08└─They are vulnerable. They are less vulnerable than a gas pump or atm because there are more people around. But think of all the times that a checkout line is closed. An experienced thief can install a skimmer in a matter of seconds so there is plenty of opportunity to install them. Here's info on sk...
[17:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is that stores with skimmers installed are not the ones taking losses, so they simply don't need to care about it. The skimmed cards are taken elsewhere to commit fraud. Until someone starts holding companies that have skimmers liable somehow, nothing will change.
[17:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:13] <exec> 08└─Stores don't have skimmers installed. Unattended vending locations have skimmers installed.
[17:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:15] <exec> 08└─Alas stores do have skimmers as you cannot always trust their staff. One of my local stores was raided by police a few years ago as some of the staff had been happily skimming details and sending them onwards to have cards cloned. The usual trick with chip and pin is to send the clone over to the US...
[17:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:17] <exec> 08└─The only 2 instances of a bank phoning a card owner regarding possible fraud are: 1) UK Bank phones me at home in the midlands, asks for my lodger, who I explain is on holiday. They ask "where to?", and I say "how can I trust you, I don't know your the bank", and then then said "um, erm, uh, ahh, er...
[17:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:20] <exec> 08└─Ahh, here is the reason. http://krebsonsecurity.com [krebsonsecurity.com]
[17:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Informative) 02Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:22] <exec> 08└─"U.S. retailers are working overtime to get their EMV POS terminals up and running" No they haven't. They've been sitting on their arses for *two decades* whilst the rest of the civilised world was installing chip-and-pin. Even the normally-tardy UK banks have been issuing nothing but chip and pin c...
[17:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02No problem - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:30] <exec> 08└─I never eat habits. Seriously, I belong to the target audience, so I'm interested in ways to turn things around, without causing more damage like from starving. And easy to remember because, sorry I forgot why.
[17:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Summary misses the most salient point - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:32] <exec> 08└─Davidson realized these rats didn't know they were full. He says something similar may happen in human brains when people eat a diet high in fat and sugar.
[17:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The update displayed the following... - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:46] <exec> 08└─And there on the screen was a smiling Bill Gates Next to jolly old Santa, two arm-in-arm mates. And I heard them exclaim in voice so bright, "Have a MICROSOFT CHRISTMAS, and TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!"
[17:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Head-turning - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─There's no door pillar between the front and rear doors. What's that going to do for resistance against side impacts in a collision? Sounds dodgy (ba-dum-ching)
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─The car has to start self destructing at a quarter inch impact partially to make money off fender benders, but mostly to start dissipating energy in a 40 MPH crash to make it survivable. Ditto the frigging giant beams attaching the roof in modern cars, if you roll one or hit something with those bea...
[17:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:12] <exec> 08└─That is very interesting. Thanks a lot for link. I do find battery chemistries fascinating. There are so many! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] One of these days I will attempt to make my own aluminium air battery, just to see if I can make some decent power out of...
[17:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:20] <exec> 08└─If only millennials had any money left after their art history degree left them working at Starbucks and $100K in debt
[17:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where are the Russians? - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:34] <exec> 08└─How were they involved in this?
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where are the Russians? - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─To answer your topic: Everywhere To answer your question: Irrelevant
[17:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:57] <exec> 08└─I'll take an IOU.
[17:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:society is squeamish about death and sex - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:14] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, then why is vampire porn so popular?
[17:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:19] <exec> 08└─If your mental capacity declines far enough, living forever without cancer is pretty pointless.
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─> And no you cannot pump a vinyl like you can a CD, because the needle would jump the groove. > ... it will give you some seriously nasty distortion if its tape ... You clearly don't have a freaking clue what you're talking about. Compression's *nothing* to do with maximum levels (that's what the *a...
[17:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score:1) 02Terra Nova - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:17] <exec> 08└─As commentators elsewhere have pointed out, this is just one group's attempt to re-classify a collection of existing and well-known anatomical feature as an organ. It will have to be seen if their arguments gains traction or not among the medical community. Now, if you want an example of a recent ma...
[17:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:20] <exec> 08└─"No amount of willpower and hard work will bring everyone a good job, there literally are not enough good jobs to go around." you make your own job, ffs.
[17:12:51] <exec> count new = 26
[17:12:51] <exec> count top = 0
[17:12:51] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[18:03:35] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[18:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449813
[18:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:00] <exec> 08└─It would be silly to use it when there are better, faster, more open solutions that are free, and are more standards compliant as well. It takes minimal effort to install an alternative.
[18:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:02] <exec> 08└─It takes minimal effort to install an alternative.
[18:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:04] <exec> 08└─Debian is not exactly an alternative browser, although I'd highly recommend it. Also, it does not 'break' these things, they just don't work, or don't work perfectly on that particular piece of hardware (a specific laptop/tablet hybrid, by the way). That's a pretty textbook bit of FUD.
[18:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:06] <exec> 08└─pretty sure he was talking about browsers, not the OS itself, especially in regard to standards compliance.
[18:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:08] <exec> 08└─That's what live CDs or USB sticks are for. Try the distro, see whether it works, install the one which does. Given the price of MS products and of your privacy, you can spend a few hours looking for alternatives. If none works, either surrender to MS, or go buy different hardware. But do it informe...
[18:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:11] <exec> 08└─I wish I could ask if Edge is good or bad, but the browser only supports Windows 10. IE 11 is acceptable when I use it on Win7. I do want more rendering engines in the wild: Chrome is quickly becoming the dominant browser and I have encountered websites that only play nice on Chrome - not other Blin...
[18:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It happened! - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:13] <exec> 08└─I wish I had video recordings of all the people who told me IE (edge is new, but still MS) would be dominant forever. HAH! Don't fall for absolutes, they rarely hold true for long. Unless you're in the hard sciences, most of those absolutes are pretty safe :P
[18:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score:2) 02Yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. Wait, should I use it before answering?
[18:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:17] <exec> 08└─Most of the other posters are saying it doesn't matter, it's Windows 10, but here's an actual opinion of Edge. Yes, it is bad. Featurewise, Edge is very similar to IE 11, but does less. There are sites I must use IE 11 for, because Edge does not work with them. IE 11 is still the default browser for...
[18:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:33] <exec> 08└─My pedantometer made me learn something today! Website late to the domain game... but clarifies complement and compliment [elearnenglishlanguage.com] The brits really do complement the french. One has better food, the other has better attitudes, and even after all the wars you all connected yourselv...
[18:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:42] <exec> 08└─Heh, can't tell if you're joking much... the answer is easy to remember but hard to implement. Reduce your portion sizes significantly (not starvation level) and get more exercise. Even a 30+ min walk every day would help.
[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternate procedures? - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─So back to trusty groping and skin color then
[18:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:After one year, a useless brick - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:32] <exec> 08└─'Tis a feature, not a bug! All those "security vulnerabilities" that need to be patched will provide a steady stream of traffic to "our extensive dealer network" enabling "valued-added repair and maintenance" and extra visitors to showrooms.
[18:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Argh! - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:33] <exec> 08└─> The car is able to recognize them as they approach and reset itself to their favored position based on that profile information, > which is stored in a Chrysler cloud so will presumably work across other vehicles that might have the same feature. Flash is expensive, and everyone drives in the same...
[18:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:idiots - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:46] <exec> 08└─Where you'd otherwise use anonymous FTP, anonymous rsync has advantages.
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02We need to update the saying - 06Nanowire 'Inks' Enable Paper-based Printable Electronics - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─"Beware of programmers carrying ... fountain pens?"
[18:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:50] <exec> 08└─You clearly don't have a freaking clue what you're talking about.
[18:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's... - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:57] <exec> 08└─Trump's fault, and brexit, and Mariah Carey (did no one see her "interview" with ryan seacrest prior to her performing? no one has mentioned that, she was obviously intoxicated before she got on stage, probably Trump's fault also).
[18:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:The detail you miss out on is... - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:52] <exec> 08└─Those 20-30% realize their relative weakness and use the apparatus of the state against their betters.
[18:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─that's a bullshit complaint when fragile little snowflakes like vlm and jmorris make it its a bullshit complaint when you make it too
[18:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─And your fallacy is....*Family Feud scrolling sound* *DING!* False equivalence! I award you no points, and may God have mercy on what passes for your soul.
[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02VLM's Radical Vegaphobia - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:22] <exec> 08└─> Bacon eating contest ... you eat bacon you can stay because a rather flexible interpretation of dietary laws implies you're not a complete fanatic. VLM - keeping the world safe from vegetarians!
[18:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:31] <exec> 08└─Even assuming everything you said is true, the problem is that it paints people with an overwide brush and has a ton of collateral damage. For a more obvious example of why this is wrong, let's use the same argument in another situation. "Look at statistics. Something like 95% of rapists are men. I...
[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:34] <exec> 08└─No, it's not, and I've been racking my brains over what to do about this :/ You're of course entirely correct. Probably the most rational thing to do is slow or stop immigration from obvious hot zones, monitor mosques and madrassas up to the point allowed by the Constitution, and take a polite but v...
[18:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is it news? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:45] <exec> 08└─This is not a vertical farm: it is a container with tools that you put in an ordinary field.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Fails at scale? - 06Finland Launches Basic Income Experiment With Jan. 1 Cheques for Those in Pilot Project - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:16] <exec> 08└─Jesus fucking Christ, Uzzard, I can't keep replacing the fuses in the ol' Irony-o-meter. The sheer level of selfish projection and hypocrisy in this post actually made a mental record scratch sound go off in my head. I literally went "*vzzzzzrrrpt?!*" reading that. You seem to fancy yourself some ki...
[18:13:19] <exec> count new = 26
[18:13:19] <exec> count top = 0
[18:13:19] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[19:03:35] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[19:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449841
[19:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─And how is this Gemcoin different, i.e. less reliable, than a more established crypto-currency like Bitcoin?
[19:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:59] <exec> 08└─Yep. From the link in TFS on Gemcoin background: USFIA marketing websites labeled Bitcoin risky due to its categorization as a “decentralized” currency. USFIA claims that because its value is derived from market demand, it is unstable and subject to deflation. Gemcoin, alternatively, had preciou...
[19:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:01] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin "mining" isn't "burned up electricity." It is computation invested in preventing the threat of double spending.
[19:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:12] <exec> 08└─After years of avoiding IE like the plague I now deliberately use it in certain situations. Mostly for when I have to use one of those crappy applications Google now pretends are webpages that won't work in any of my sane browsers. If I have to run a piece of shit browser in a sandbox because Google...
[19:05:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:15] <exec> 08└─>but is Edge that bad? maybe not as bad as the previous versions, but there's one caveat that cannot be forgiven, and that is, that it requires Windows 10. no sane individual with even a shred of concern for privacy would use that fucking cancerous " OS ". it literally phones home everything you do,...
[19:05:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:17] <exec> 08└─It would be silly to use it when there are better, faster, more open solutions that are free, and are more standards compliant as well. It takes minimal effort to install an alternative.
[19:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:23] <exec> 08└─It takes minimal effort to install an alternative.
[19:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:25] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem with Edge is that it's Yet Another Browser testers have to test against, and many testers/designers ignore it because it's too new and doesn't have enough market-share. Thus, a lot of stuff doesn't work right in it, which in turn keeps its market share down. I'd rather see MS inc...
[19:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:29] <exec> 08└─Q. Is Edge that bad? A. It is from Microsoft.
[19:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:34] <exec> 08└─I haven't researched the details myself, but a friend told me Edge is a complete re-write and actually adheres to standards. With any luck MS will have a decent browser soon once they iron out those issues. However, after the Windows 10 fiasco I trust MS less than ever. Unless they fully open source...
[19:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02misnomer - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:36] <exec> 08└─"rock-bottom" is were daisies start pushing upwards ...
[19:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well I dont know - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:38] <exec> 08└─360 Browser is QUITE popular. And as far as anyone can tell it's old MS code that was stolen and is now maintained by some obscure Chinese company.
[19:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:55] <exec> 08└─A big tunnel like that only needs one well-placed hit to take the whole thing out, and even better can take out the enemy troops using it. I've read that the reason US retailers don't like the current chip and pin system is that every transaction must be processed immediately, which is slow. In Euro...
[19:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:56] <exec> 08└─I think the grocery store is the only place I go that doesn't have a business card stuck in the chip slot with "swipe only" written in magic marker. Thing is, about 6 months ago or so, they were all taking chip transactions. Then they stopped. The 2-5 minute wait for the transaction to happen probab...
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:06] <exec> 08└─Aww but I want the cool stuff: stomach stapling, custom dietician-prescribed meals, personal trainer. Gonna eat a family bag of MnMs now :(
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─No, silly, it's not an edible habit, it's the one you wear *while* eating. Obviously it can hurt your brain, especially if it's too tight or something.
[19:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary misses the most salient point - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:11] <exec> 08└─You're not allowed to say that. Please report to /r/TwoXChromosomes for re-education.
[19:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary misses the most salient point - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:13] <exec> 08└─Only on a libtard campus... I worked at a libtard campus and you could not give people advice along the lines of "You should not try to be X, you are way too dumb to ever make it." And then you see same kid taking same class every semester, failing every time till their Pell Grant runs out or some o...
[19:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:\o/ - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:22] <exec> 08└─Came in on Sunday, and the unnecessarily redundant procedures actually went a bit faster than usual. Considering the intercontinental flight took off 4 hours late, not getting the usual 90 minutes immigration crap was the best news of the day. May I recommend doing the next update on March 1st, or a...
[19:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PHB Scrooge [Re:Really? ] - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─We had a similar problem, and the supervisor pushing the updates was warned earlier that support staff would be thin during the holidays. He was objectively proven an idiot when bleep happened, yet kept his job.
[19:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:31] <exec> 08└─Friends don't let friends deploy software and drink.
[19:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Testing Environments - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─All developers are blessed to have a testing environment to deploy software to. Those who are doubly blessed are provided with a separate production environment in addition to testing.
[19:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:08] <exec> 08└─Math is the worst taught subject, if there ever was a field that needed flexibility that is it. Currently you learn some basics, then move on and never cover them again except when they are used in a lesson 2 years later. I think a lot of schooling would be improved by having kids learn through adap...
[19:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiight, it couldn't have anything to do with.. - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:53] <exec> 08└─battery tech hasn't kept up with the times
[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:brand new? It didn't exist until we saw it? - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─The organ is definitely not brand new.
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck you. Is it too much to ask that people who want to post things like that have the guts to attach a 'nym to it? I never, ever post AC on here. I'm beginning to wonder if I should also browse at +1 now rather than -1.
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Dylann & Dylan - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─(Replying as much as anything to know that your response was read.) This seems like a problem with no easy answer. One thing I did want to add, though, is that "monitor mosques and madrassas up to the point allowed by the Constitution" is itself a punishment. Just think of all those "Constitutional"...
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Collaborator - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─> He's not entirely wrong, though. Yes, I modded him up; hell has frozen over. He's just wrong in the every way that matters. You, like him suck at math. You focus on the vanishingly small minority says and use that justify stereotyping the majority. Why don't you focus on the what the majority say...
[19:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fah-lala-alse - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─> Muslims are currently about 0.9% of the population and already account for essentially all domestic terror type attacks. That's False Since 9/11 white supremacist and christian fanatics have accounted for the majority of domestic terror attacks. [nytimes.com] More than double the number of complet...
[19:12:50] <exec> count new = 27
[19:12:50] <exec> count top = 2
[19:12:50] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[20:03:35] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[20:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449870
[20:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:51] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing that came out of the Cold War, it was the undeniable fact that government is merely a work program for society's knuckle-dragging bullies.
[20:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:53] <exec> 08└─Invent some groundbreaking tech and you too can push around the FBI. Just kidding! Not anymore! We're all on a list of one sort or another... I bet asking them to stop will simply upgrade your threat level nowadays.
[20:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:55] <exec> 08└─If you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear (I jest... I jest...!)
[20:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:57] <exec> 08└─I still want to mod you down for even jesting about that so called "argument".
[20:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:59] <exec> 08└─It is a very correct argument though, since the whole US economy is based on getting (or feeling that you have) as many things as possible so you can be trapped by the fear of losing them
[20:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:10] <exec> 08└─It's the only link between the bitcoin value and the rest of the economy, and sets a pain threshold. The treat of double-spending is just an inner mechanism that allows that investment, therefore setting the value expectation.
[20:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:11] <exec> 08└─Well, the pyramid structure part would be a decent tip off of a scam. But then, plenty of people ignore that when it comes to Amway or Bernie Madoff. I guess I fundamentally don't get the unbacked currency idea. Having a million bitcoins means nothing unless you can find another person willing to ta...
[20:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:14] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Why of course, Social Darwinism is the way to go... there is plenty of evidence that this leads to a better society, where you always have to look over your shoulder because you could get mugged, stabbed, scammed, killed, etc...</sarcasm> I don't get why you would even begin to contemplate...
[20:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:16] <exec> 08└─Rarely does one have the honor of witnessing such an explicit straw man rebuttal; I mean, you even brazenly replaced me with your preferred, "sarcasm"-delimited opponent (which, by the way, betrays a poor understanding of what sarcasm is, anyway).
[20:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:27] <exec> 08└─Almost everyone supports Firefox, which leads me to believe you've got something against them too. Since it's topical(except to the person who modded me off topic before, not sure what they think the topic is), just in the last couple days, Google released a patch to Chrome that would uninstall Ad N...
[20:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''That's a pretty textbook bit of FUD'' - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:35] <exec> 08└─Yup. As a rule, MICROS~1 doesn't build device drivers. Redmond relies on the hardware manufacturers to support their own stuff. The Linux kernel team would like to see this kind of support from every manufacturer of hardware but, alas, some hardware manufacturers refuse to offer proper support for t...
[20:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:44] <exec> 08└─It's a real question. I don't have or plan on getting Windows 10, so I don't have any first hand experience of Edge. I cannot tell if it just habit to say, "lol, M$ suXXors," or if Edge is actually a bad browser.
[20:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:50] <exec> 08└─There was no rewrite, they "forked" their own IE code and named it Edge. It is is a PR stunt.
[20:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:They are all vulnerable - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─Those Walmart skimmers appear to only work when a card is swiped. The GP says he is using a chip card so his method is more secure and not just via more eyes on the terminal.
[20:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─For your budget, you only get the low-end fatso-scooter.
[20:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary misses the most salient point - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:26] <exec> 08└─I've had good luck blowing right past such objections. As long as you aren't being an insensitive clod then you will be fine. If someone wants to get bent out of shape because you used the words "dummies" and "tubbies" then that is their problem and you should treat them like the marginally crazy pe...
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary misses the most salient point - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:28] <exec> 08└─I don't see much about correlation/causation in the article. Maybe dummies are more likely to end up as tubbies.
[20:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:honey pot - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:32] <exec> 08└─The data is protected by a virus that will kill you if you extract it, but still lets you read all the data to confirm that it's genuine. Hollywood depresses me sometimes.
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02So...big question - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─What I really want to know is: how much does it pay to be a special forces medic?
[20:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:05] <exec> 08└─If my cheap plastic crap breaks, then there is duct tape. It's like the force. It has a dark side, a light side, and it binds the universe together.
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiight, it couldn't have anything to do with.. - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─I'd take a second phone just to help them, but considering the prices providers charge compared to Europe, and how the new FCC is likely to allow them to fuck us all even deeper, I'll have to pass. Get me a real hoverboard, or at least an e-bike with a decent range, and I'll help the tech sector's t...
[20:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:45] <exec> 08└─From the first citation in the Wikipedia article you linked: "The 'Loudness Wars' have gone back to the days of 45s," Ludwig [a record mastering engineer] says. "When I first got into the business and was doing a lot of vinyl disc cutting, one producer after another just wanted to have his 45 sound...
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:13] <exec> 08└─Your false equivalencies are LITERALLY GETTING INNOCENT PEOPLE KILLED. "There are Christians who quote the bible and attack abortion clinics and homosexuals." You are bad at statistics and you should feel like a fool. The proportion of murders per religious person is massively staggered against Isla...
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nobody Follows Their Religion to the Letter - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─> I'm not saying Islam, taken seriously to the letter, is a good religion. (Neither is Catholicism or any of the other Abrahamic religions, that applies to any ideology. You can easily say the same thing about capitalism. the thing about fundies is that they don't follow their religion to the letter...
[20:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─You've got it exactly backwards. The narrative of the extremists is that the west is fundamentally incompatible with islam. The more muslims happily living in the west the more that narrative is demolished. The more we block muslims from the west, the more the extremists' message is proven true. Tha...
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─This is what we should really be talking about. Logic can help quell our emotional reactions, which in this case are very high. The very word terrorist gets some people upset and irrational, but once you look at the statistics it becomes a simple logical step to realize the problem is not worth the...
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to learn. You're posting good, solid sources and there are no obvious inconsistencies in them, so this is worth listening to. I will freely admit much of the fear comes from actually having read the Koran in some depth, though in fairness I'm just as leery of Christians for the same reas...
[20:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:is it news? - 06Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:54] <exec> 08└─AFAICT it uses the same hydroponic type systems that a vertical farm would use, with produce growing vertically inside the container, and could even be made to stack vertically (container on top of another container). How else do you fit 2 acres worth of produce in a shipping container?
[20:13:12] <exec> count new = 28
[20:13:12] <exec> count top = 0
[20:13:12] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[21:03:35] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[21:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449899
[21:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstreet! - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:56] <exec> 08└─If you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear (I jest... I jest...!) Which is why we all opt to take a dump in the middle of mainstreet, in front of our friends, neighbors, and government officials, whenever our bowels urge us to. After all, we have nothing to hide. (I just ... I jest ...! But...
[21:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:58] <exec> 08└─As per Glenn Greenwald: Over the last 16 months, as I’ve debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody has said to me, “I don’t really worry about invasions of privacy because I don’t have anything to hide.” I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write d...
[21:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:00] <exec> 08└─You can't cite Greenwald! He's part of The Matrix [soylentnews.org]!!!
[21:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:02] <exec> 08└─How about this? I'm not a socialist, so I have nothing to fear. I'm not a trade unionist, so I have nothing to fear. I'm not in the free shit army, so I have nothing to fear. I'm not a Moslem, so I have nothing to fear. I'm not a... wait, hopefully there's a category after that so I will continue ha...
[21:05:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:11] <exec> 08└─And how is this Gemcoin different, i.e. less reliable, than a more established crypto-currency like Bitcoin?
[21:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:16] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin "mining" isn't "burned up electricity." It is computation invested in preventing the threat of double spending.
[21:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, their computations are making my Bitcoin quite valuable, which is why I keep trying to get as much of it as I can afford.
[21:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:24] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think you're wrong, your parent was correct.
[21:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:36] <exec> 08└─It is not 'awful' or 'better' than chrome. For that mater chrome is neither better or worse than Firefox. That is from a user POV. Technically chrome is the better choice. With a better sandbox and better javascript subsystem. I do however know google has the lead. My wife is looking for a job. No l...
[21:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:38] <exec> 08└─I haven't touched Microsoft for 16 years, it doesn't really affect me. Facebook and Google (especially google) though have all sorts of holds, far more concerning.
[21:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:''That's a pretty textbook bit of FUD'' - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:46] <exec> 08└─Before hardware manufactuers make drivers for you you've got to be relevant and professional. Uh oh.
[21:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:51] <exec> 08└─Must be a Windows thing.
[21:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps things would work better in it if it followed standards better.
[21:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:56] <exec> 08└─no sane individual with even a shred of concern for privacy would use that fucking cancerous " OS " Yep they should use google chrome to do that properly!
[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:02] <exec> 08└─It is actually bad. Almost everything about it is bad. It UI feels like beta software, in that some parts of the UI are responsive and others are not. It hides settings in different areas, so you have to remember which way of accessing them gives you which settings. It barfs on some pages and some p...
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─It's not a complete rewrite. It may be a partial rewrite. Mostly its on the frontend though. Edge is more standards-compliant I guess, but that doesn't mean anything when they have entire features not supported that are still in heavy use, even by themselves, with nothing to smooth the process over,...
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─Having had the unfortunate experience of being forced to use it fairly frequently, I concur that it's absolutely awful. The interface should be used in textbooks as a perfect paradigm of how not to do it, the options are few and usually require absurdly long click-paths to get to, and it appears to...
[21:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:32] <exec> 08└─The chip can authenticate the pin, and stores successful and missed attempts. You don't need to dial in to approve the transaction. The chip generates a unique code that tells the bank that the card and pin were present. 80's tech...
[21:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Pavlovian Explanation - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:50] <exec> 08└─I thought the wording used in the article sounded familiar. Some of this effect can be explained by Pavlovian conditioning, as outlined in an earlier (2013) paper by the same author (Terry Davidson): http://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com] Because the a...
[21:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02By any other name - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:11] <exec> 08└─"On Monday, the main passenger checking system used by CBP to check for undesirables trying to get into the Land of the FreeTM fell over." By "undesireables", they must mean single white males.
[21:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:37] <exec> 08└─Part of that might be a design issue. Tesla demonstrated swappable batteries a couple of years ago. If automakers follow that pattern then swapping out the battery would be like any other device that uses them.
[21:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─Can't argue with that, I admit I am not a fan of touch screens at all. I am neither a fan or proponent. In a car though they are not as good of an idea. They encourage you to take your eyes off the road. To use a touch screen you have to look at it first. It is why keyboards have those little nubs o...
[21:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score:2) 02Re:money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 1741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:46] <exec> 08└─Interesting post. I too am a millenial in a similar situation to you: no college debt, job in a high tech sector, modest lifestyle. Do you suppose that people with expensive lifestyles like you mentioned save for retirement? That in itself is not cheap. I don't feel like I have the energy for a rela...
[21:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:After one year, a useless brick - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:52] <exec> 08└─If they followed Tesla's example of OTA updates that improve the car's performance, that wouldn't necessarily have to be true.
[21:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiight, it couldn't have anything to do with.. - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:41] <exec> 08└─Same here. I bought a multi-pack of extra batteries for my phone when I got it because the word on the street was that manufacturers were doing away with physical keyboards. I wanted to be able to cross the wasteland of touch screens to the future point when some company will come to its senses and...
[21:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:00] <exec> 08└─"All those people with their healthy lifestyles will look really dumb in fifty years, dying of nothing"
[21:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:02] <exec> 08└─Ah, another low energy comment.
[21:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, but cognitive dissonance is their game. They want a world without consequences, such that they can have cheap oil and never have to worry, think, or change. You can try to point out that doing what you suggest would be about the single best thing they could do for themselves economically, becau...
[21:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:46] <exec> 08└─The bible doesn't say "fight the infidels whenever you find them and show them no mercy unless they surrender unconditionally".
[21:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That doesn't work - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:12] <exec> 08└─> Logic can help quell our emotional reactions, which in this case are very high. I wish that were true. But it isn't. Azumi will not change her mind in response to these facts, this isn't the first time I've presented them to her. Beliefs, especially strongly held ones, are not changed by facts. Co...
[21:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─> I will freely admit much of the fear comes from actually having read the Koran in some depth, though in fairness I'm just as leery of Christians for the same reasons. The jesuits have a saying - when you read the bible, the bible reads you. It means that you can find whatever you are looking for i...
[21:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Collaborator - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:18] <exec> 08└─Nice try, but the "moderates" in any fringe group do nothing but legitimize the crazies. Also, how do we know these people mean what they say? How are we defining "moderate" here? We can't see into any person's skull and verify any of this. This may perhaps not be obvious, but I have nearly identica...
[21:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Collaborator - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:20] <exec> 08└─> the "moderates" in any fringe group do nothing but legitimize the crazies. That's a convenient rationalization which is completely counterfactual. Its about as well thought out as saying that accepting lesbian moms legitimizes milo yiannopoulos. 1.8 billion muslims are not a fringe group. Nor do t...
[21:13:48] <exec> count new = 32
[21:13:48] <exec> count top = 1
[21:13:48] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[22:03:36] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[22:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449933
[22:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:53] <exec> 08└─At least in the car buff mags: * fast = top speed * quick = acceleration time (0-60, 1/4 mile, etc) Editors: The headline was a little confusing. The other recent luxury electric intro from California is the Lucid Air (company was formerly called Atieva). Like Faraday Future, the company also...
[22:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:54] <exec> 08└─edited to quick
[22:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:56] <exec> 08└─I love this site! Thanks for the quick update!!
[22:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:59] <exec> 08└─The question remains of whether those guys can actually mass produce that toy, fast or quick.
[22:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:01] <exec> 08└─You're correct, but I'd like to supplement the nuance that the impressive torque of electric motors is a very relevant factor to both acceleration and max speed.
[22:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02A bit lazy tonight - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:03] <exec> 08└─It went on second attempt. Two guys were standing next to the car, one pushed the button. So if the other pushed it and said something like 'I forgot to tell you it's MY car'... But I guess making a good show at moments like this is not easy.
[22:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02the poison pen letter - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:19] <exec> 08└─Here's a link to a PDF of the letter (from which the last 13 pages are redacted) which, as mentioned in the summary, called Feynman a "master of deception." Its writer also wrote: I believe that Richard Feynman is either a Communist or very strongly pro-Communist [...]
[22:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the bot - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:20] <exec> 08└─I'd say that "Arthur T Knackerbracket" is doing a darn good job to find an interesting story like this. How do we give him mod points(??)
[22:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:39] <exec> 08└─I think all Anonymous Coward posts are incorrect. Shit, paradox.
[22:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:40] <exec> 08└─It is not at all paradox if you don't believe what you wrote. Now if you had left out the "I think" part … … it still would not have been a paradox.Because the negation of "all AC posts are incorrect" is "not all AC posts are incorrect", that is, "there is at least one AC post that is correct"....
[22:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:42] <exec> 08└─The world would be a better place if people had to take responsibility for being scammed.
[22:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''standards'' - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:10] <exec> 08└─You're reminding me of the browser compliance tests of years past: Acid2 and Acid3 [1] [google.com] [1] I sure do wish that the S/N comments engine was fixed so that it would quit screwing with things in URLs like + and " and |. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Look no further than... - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:26] <exec> 08└─http://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/dona-sarkar.html, [microsoft.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Microsoft's very own "Stay Puft" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man).
[22:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They are all vulnerable - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:38] <exec> 08└─Chip without pin isn't inherently all that more secure than swiping. Especially since most chip terminals have swipe fallback. So all you gotta do is make your fake terminal pretend to fall back.
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─https://floodthechunnel.org.uk/ [floodthechunnel.org.uk]
[22:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eat more vegetables and fruits - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:02] <exec> 08└─see: https://www.drfuhrman.com [drfuhrman.com]
[22:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how many homeless does it seat - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:39] <exec> 08└─None, once Uber perfects its driverless cars.
[22:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Head-turning - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─This is probably going to be a resounding success for Chrysler then. Millennials are infamous for having ridiculously horrible aesthetic taste, so they'll absolutely love this thing. Next, GM needs to just revive the Aztek and make a smaller version of it, and Millennials will be flocking to that to...
[22:07:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 4096 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:48] <exec> 08└─> Setting aside its intended market, the car has good features that would appeal to a lot of customers. Really? What good features? Disclaimer, I am a "millennial", and one with a decently paid tech job in a high rising industry, so in theory I will be their target market once I find someone to star...
[22:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:59] <exec> 08└─That is one definite solution, however it will require all EVs to standardise on a particular battery pack size (or sizes, as I suspect supercars will have different power needs to city EVs). Then having the distribution and storage to sustain all differing battery packs, and the grid infrastructure...
[22:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does it come with... - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:14] <exec> 08└─GLaDOS?
[22:08:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:52] <exec> 08└─He's right you know. The stock market is always higher right before a crash than after it.
[22:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiight, it couldn't have anything to do with.. - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:04] <exec> 08└─Dampened = made slightly wet. Damped = reduced amplitude of.
[22:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:39] <exec> 08└─This line of thinking is tedious. Before this, communists were the big baddies who were going to undermine our great nation and impurify our precious bodily fluids. Is there some kind of cowardice-recovery program we can sign all of you into? All the quavering, frothing you do is so severe no suppor...
[22:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the day - 06Ransomware Arrives on Smart TVs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:10] <exec> 08└─I don't miss car's points or carburetor.
[22:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Where? - 06The Moving Sofa Problem - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─Well... yeah... I cannot post an image in the summary. And I would say if you were interested enough in the story to comment on it here, you might actually want to look at the source article which has the pictures of the shapes and animations too. Are you really complaining that I did not post the e...
[22:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Where? - 06The Moving Sofa Problem - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:27] <exec> 08└─That animation is on the source page of the linked article. Are we all now too lazy to click to the source?
[22:13:41] <exec> count new = 25
[22:13:41] <exec> count top = 2
[22:13:42] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[23:03:35] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[23:03:36] <exec> last cid = 449958
[23:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:05] <exec> 08└─Torque only affects how quickly you'll get to the top speed, but not the top speed. Only power is relevant for top speed. Your power is the rate at which you can waste energy by creating air turbulance and heating the air and the road (i.e. your losses at a steady speed, namely your terminal speed)....
[23:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:07] <exec> 08└─The most critical factor for top speed is the transmission gearing. It doesn't matter how much power you have, once you hit the red line, that's your top speed. I've driven a sub-100HP minivan at over 130MPH, so for most cars it's not the losses which limit the top speed, but the lack of an extra ge...
[23:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:20] <exec> 08└─US economy? That's just mortality.
[23:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:26] <exec> 08└─This whole discussion reminds me of John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden. Oliver went around and asked ordinary Americans if they knew who Snowden was or what he did (most either didn't know him at all or were totally confused about what he did). He also asked them questions about how far the...
[23:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the poison pen letter - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:29] <exec> 08└─I believe that butthurt is either a Radicalized Muslim or very strongly pro-Radicalized Muslim.
[23:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:the poison pen letter - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:31] <exec> 08└─Apparently my ex has discovered SoylentNews.
[23:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:34] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing that came out of the Cold War, it was the undeniable fact that government is merely a work program for society's knuckle-dragging bullies. ------- This comment is a repost; it was previously marked as "Troll" [soylentnews.org].
[23:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:36] <exec> 08└─I wish they were knuckle draggers, and they employ a fair share of those, but sadly the majority are rather intelligent. This is worse because you can't just sidestep their stupidity. They are smart enough to screw us over, and dumb enough to do it badly. Blech.
[23:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:38] <exec> 08└─Just because a creature drags its knuckles doesn't mean it can't be taught to perform some sophisticated behaviors. They are unwitting and expendable cogs in a giant, indifferent machine whose sole and nearly sentient purpose is to maintain (if not expand) its existence.
[23:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:52] <exec> 08└─So it's keeping the currency afloat by pulling up on its own shoelaces. Got it.
[23:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:00] <exec> 08└─I don't get why you would even begin to contemplate a world where social darwinism is a desirable state of affairs... unless, of course, you not only recognize that you are just a simple and primitive animal (I'm with you up to right here) but also that you explicitly state that you do not aspire to...
[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:03] <exec> 08└─I largely agree, but there is one point to address. There is NO SUCH THING as identity theft. If you convince a bank that you are me, I still have my identity. The BANK has been scammed. The whole identity theft thing is just the bank trying to scam me in return rather than accepting that they fooli...
[23:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:05] <exec> 08└─The world would be a better place if people had to take responsibility for being scammed.
[23:06:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─Must be a Windows thing.
[23:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:40] <exec> 08└─Amazing, something that even the great Aristarchus doesn't know. What a cock sucker.
[23:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02UI guessing - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:51] <exec> 08└─The thing I hate most is UI guessing. Where should i type the URL? Oh wait! no hell! there really? How could you know... there was nothing there!!!! so puzzling!
[23:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rendering guessing - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:53] <exec> 08└─Wait till you learn to write web pages...
[23:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:UI guessing - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:55] <exec> 08└─I had the same problem Safari recently, kept looking for the search bar then remembered that a lot of browsers now combine search and URL. Seriously lame, I don't want some mistyped crap sent to a search engine. Its almost as bad as the ISPs who take a bad DNS lookup and inject their own "search eng...
[23:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02speaking of IE - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:57] <exec> 08└─I never use IE. But then last week I tried to use it for something and I found out that it's kind of idiotic, in a way I had not foreseen. I had a computer with nothing on it but a fresh install of win 7. I wanted to copy a 50GB file to it. So I connected another computer with a short ethernet cross...
[23:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, we left the UK in 2000. Since then we've been chip and pin. And never encountered any card fraud. We've upped our game; up yours.
[23:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:15] <exec> 08└─Not Trump. I was guessing it would be Trump.
[23:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:35] <exec> 08└─She says not watching TV while you eat is one of the "small easy changes that people can make that don't involve a lot of self-control and that don't involve a lot of sacrifices, but that can still make a significant difference into how much you're eating."
[23:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Really? - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:57] <exec> 08└─At a guess, maybe someone anticipating the insertion of a leap second at the end of the year? /article.pl?sid=16/12/30/1511206 [soylentnews.org]
[23:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:money - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:41] <exec> 08└─Do you suppose that people with expensive lifestyles like you mentioned save for retirement? That in itself is not cheap.
[23:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So...big question - 06Top-Secret-cleared SOCOM Medics Hit in 11GB Govt Database Leak - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:06] <exec> 08└─Can you work it out from the "Cost Rate" field?
[23:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Riiight, it couldn't have anything to do with.. - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─Re = regarding, or reply
[23:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─Right. From Health, United States, 2015: Heart disease: 614,348Cancer: 591,699Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,101Accidents (unintentional injuries): 136,053Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 133,103Alzheimer's disease: 93,541Diabetes: 76,488Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,227Nephritis, nephroti...
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:cure aging - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─*Those are the numbers of deaths in 2014.
[23:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Roman concrete - 06Probing Ways to Turn Cement's Weakness to Strength - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:41] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Joe, great job!
[23:13:50] <exec> count new = 28
[23:13:50] <exec> count top = 1
[23:13:50] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********