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[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:16] <exec> 08└─This was the weather we've had here in the 80's every winter. If anything this is a temporary return to normality.
[00:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:17] <exec> 08└─> This was the weather we've had here in the 80's every winter. Yeah, 'here' in North Dakota. Europe, OTOH, no so much. Meanwhile in the US deep south, average lows are 20°F above normal (normal low of 31°F, forecast lows of 50-55°F) for at least the next week.
[00:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:19] <exec> 08└─You understand that Europe is mostly in the same latitudes as Canada, right? That the southern US aligns better with Morroco and Tunisia? Most of Europe has, for the better part of a couple millennia, had outlier temperatures for its latitude/altitude? Britain, in particular has been far far warmer...
[00:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:21] <exec> 08└─As with a lot of climate change things, it's easy to miss the decadal shifts in the inter-annual noise...
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:How close? - 06The Science of Westworld - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─But how close are we to building the brains of Westworld's hosts for real?
[00:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:54] <exec> 08└─Please, the fact that girls don't want to code is not an issue of sexism, but of preference, and no amount of codling/extolling is going to make them want to. Do you really believe that at the elementary school level there is or has been some sort of conspiracy to prevent girls from pursuing STEM re...
[00:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:33] <exec> 08└─In a country with perpetual underemployment having these jobs be like winning the lottery is unconscionable.
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From my cold dead hands - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─Had it too, by far the best plan out there. Dropped it due to a move outside of T-Mobile territory. Toward the end of my service with them however, I did notice that using Firefox on Android would cause T-Mobile content sniffers to get upset and drop me at a gated-T-Mobile landing page, no matter wh...
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:ega is still the best - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:15] <exec> 08└─I'm so sorry that your hand is blind.
[00:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:with better IP law, wouldn't be a big deal - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:33] <exec> 08└─The stated intent of the patent and copyright system is to promote progress. As you suggest, it is likely the real intent of the lobbying of recent decades is to create monopolies over things which shouldn't have been monopolized, and the devil with progress. For instance, software patents. Cynical,...
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unstandard? - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─So I take it they didn't equip it with firmware/rootkit level LoJack protection? On company prototypes being taken out into public? Yeah, the thief is guilty. So are they - of criminal stupidity and negligence.
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[01:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:58] <exec> 08└─> Scientists predicted the climate will change. Even though some people try to deny it, here it is. Isn't that a bit like predicting the the sun will rise tomorrow? The climate has been changing before humans existed, I suspect it will change after humans have ceased to exist on earth. Nothing in th...
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile around Atlanta GA, schools were kept closed on Monday and Tuesday after a Saturday morning sleet storm because there were still a handful of icy patches on the roads that the local DOTs somehow could not deal with even though most of the roads had thawed and dried by noon Saturday! "Becaus...
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:02] <exec> 08└─I bet he was winking at the camera and mouthing, 'HINT, HINT' at the same time.
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─Poor guy is stuck wearing white even when he wants to impersonate Jiminy Cricket.
[01:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Global warming LOL - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:06] <exec> 08└─Looks like Trump is right, again.
[01:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Global warming LOL - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─He'll deny it as usual.
[01:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:TFS summarized ... - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and the cluster arrangements of the 6, 8, 10 (+?) SoCs can take advantage of both the higher performance and lower power options. Although in the case of Snapdragon 835, it looks like it is using 8 equivalent cores.
[01:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:20] <exec> 08└─As for government employees, they should never have unions because it creates an unjustified and even unconstitutionally privileged class that is unfireable, unreassignable
[01:12:59] <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 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:59] <exec> 08└─North American houses have 240V available for high-drain appliances. (split single phase with opposing 120V circuits)
[01:13:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 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
[01:13:26] <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!
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─I am supposed to be configuring FreeBSD instead of posting on the Internet :P By default, Xorg only uses one VT. Getty uses 6 by default (as you mention) But yes, systemd tries to do thing like change permissions for the sound card on the fly when you change users.
[01:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 2270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:12] <exec> 08└─If you just want a full user-switch feature, that depends largely on the desktop manager (kdm, lddm, gdm, etc.) and the desktop environment. However, your comparison to su make it sound like you want something a bit more fine-grained... If that's the case, it's likely what you'd rather have is attai...
[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─.desktop files bypass the permission requirements How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps [geekzone.co.nz]
[01:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Old School : was :96 DPI - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:59] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, the best cheap and rugged workspace was an interior door (knobs and hinges removed) laid across a pair of two drawer file cabinets.
[01:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:yes good enough - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:25] <exec> 08└─In Linux you can just use a tiling window manager like TMB suggests. The most popular flavour is dynamic tiling, where the windows split automatically as you add more, but I tend to prefer static tiling. My everyday driver lately has been Notion [github.io] across four screens, though I've also spen...
[01:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:I started with z-80 assembly - 06Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:38] <exec> 08└─I don’t think these famous quotes from Donald Knuth’s TAOCP are wrong
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[02:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:28] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a job for good old fashioned detective work uncovering the sex trafficking occurring on the site, and if anything the site would facilitate law enforcement with their entrapment efforts. If that detective works uncovers evidence of criminal activity by the company then fine, have a trial...
[02:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:29] <exec> 08└─How about, we all just go out and get beer and not say anything on this topic instead? Would be about as effective as actual discussion and would create less animosity between 'lentals.
[02:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen that much animosity in the previous discussions about Backpage. Most lentils seem to be pro-Backpage.
[02:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─I can fix that: "Should the backpage CEO and users be allowed to carry a 3D-printed concealed weapon to watch the Trump inauguration in their electric cars in the parking lot of a black church powered by Russian renewable energy?"
[02:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Carl Ferrer - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:36] <exec> 08└─is the CEO of this outfit. Add on the rest of the scumbag troop.
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Go ahead, claim a victory... - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this will totally destroy prostitution, as the people who, according to you, were making over 90% of their millions off the adult classifieds, will not work on a loophole at all. So, will it be a "dating" section, a "services" section, a "wellness" section, or just plain backbackpage.com? T...
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─Consenting adults. License, tax and monitor it. Who cares? Oh, the nattering nabobs of negativism, and the sexual prudes who hit up pornhub on the sly, or get naked with other dudes while proclaiming homosexuality is teh evil.
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score:1) 02Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─I thought making prostitution illegal was up to the states - it's certainly legal in (parts of) Nevada. Is there some federal law I don't know about, or some other reason congress should be allowed to investigate what is arguably a state matter?
[02:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:55] <exec> 08└─Why are you comparing the american south with europe? GO back and read the post you are responding to. Read it harder. Are un familiar with the concept that climate change causes increased variability, not uniform change?
[02:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:57] <exec> 08└─None of the literature I've read suggests increased variability(specifically interannual or intraannual), but you know, there's a wealth of information out there, so odds are I missed the memo on that one. Would you be so kind as to provide a citation?
[02:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:00] <exec> 08└─One issue with the climate change idea is that they take the average of an ensemble of models, all making different predictions from one another, and based on different contradictory assumptions.
[02:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Global warming LOL - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─Trump had nothing to do with this; if he had, the snow would've been yellow!
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:How close? - 06The Science of Westworld - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:31] <exec> 08└─Not sure why understanding the human brain is a prerequisite for AI.
[02:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Big vs Small AI - 06The Science of Westworld - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:37] <exec> 08└─The strides that were made were firmly in the camp of Small AI; domain-specific tasks, clearly predefined, or approximated through training and re-evaluation systems. The Big AI guys have all either been sidelined in academic irrelevance, silently shoved into some government programme nobody knows a...
[02:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:28] <exec> 08└─Sadly, I'm not actually socialist. Compared to the American almost-literally-worshipping-the-market-as-divine center, I could come off that way, but I'm pretty sure most actual leftists don't want their ideology was watered down with humanist pragmatism.
[02:15:38] <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? - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:38] <exec> 08└─Differences between TVs and Monitors include how quickly it refreshes depending on the input port (e.g. is there a 100ms response time to display input data with a noticeable lag for tracking a mouse but not noticeable when watching a continuous movie?), multiple available ports (e.g. displayport?),...
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[03:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─Consenting adults. License, tax and monitor it. Who cares?
[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Congress is a Republican majority now. First they tried to kill their ethics watchdog. They were going to do prostitutes eventually, though didn't think it'd be this soon. Expect they'll go after abortion and same sex marriage at some point. Might take a swipe at evolution when they try to shut down...
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─Slavery is illegal, and immoral. Sex slavery even more so. There was this thing called "The Civil War" in America, and evidently you can still shame the Japanese government about it. Moreover, think of the children! Did you not see the movie, "Little Miss Sunshine"? Pervs all around, dude!
[03:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:34] <exec> 08└─Of course it's been criticized, it was horribly shoddy research. But just for the sake of argument let's say it's not, let's say that's true. Boys face far more formidable problems than that in school. It's an interesting measure of just how privileged women in our society are, that whenever the sub...
[03:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:01] <exec> 08└─So you assume she got promoted based on her gender and not on her ability.
[03:12:57] <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 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:57] <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.
[03:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:03] <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...
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[04:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:32] <exec> 08└─That's because there's a lot of Libertarians here. And others who lack any concept of unintended consequences.
[04:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:33] <exec> 08└─Legal or illegal, it seems like this activity is likely to continue. The Web and ***coin have made it even easier to get away with. If Congress is targeting Backpage, it probably has more to do with the fact that it is untaxed rather than helping teh childrenz. Other forms of illicit sex involve som...
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:39] <exec> 08└─they are seeking that whole power trip
[04:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:41] <exec> 08└─OK, so the totally symbolic act of shutting down Backpage is going to stop child trafficking. /sarc That said, this whole child trafficking thing being pushed hard in the news recently, has the feeling of the satanic ritual abuse / recovered memory scams of the 90s.
[04:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─1) That's not going to stop sex trafficking of children.
[04:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─They were going to do prostitutes eventually
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─Prostitution is not illegal under federal law, but you can't expect congress to be specific about federal law. Child prostitution is however not legal, nor is human trafficking, depending on exactly what is happening. Backpage wasn't convicted of a crime, issued a court injunction, or censored in an...
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─When Congress produces a report that says they might be complicit in child prostitution, they shut down rather than defend against the accusation. I'm all in favor of innocent until proven guilty, but this seems more like cockroaches scurrying away from the light.
[04:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:2) 02Another case of - 06Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:33] <exec> 08└─publish or perish...
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[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is based on the awareness of unintended consequences. You're clearly an idiot.
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:13] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile around Atlanta GA, schools were kept closed on Monday and Tuesday after a Saturday morning sleet storm because there were still a handful of icy patches on the roads that the local DOTs somehow could not deal with even though most of the roads had thawed and dried by noon Saturday! "Becaus...
[05:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Informative) 02It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:17] <exec> 08└─Zero to -30 C is not extreme weather - it's called Winter! This used to be normal winter weather - I would say the last few winters have been the abnormal once with their mild and weak weather. Sure it might come as a surprise down in Greece that there is snow falling and a bit colder then what they...
[05:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Difference between monitor and TV now - 06Is Screen Resolution Good Enough Considering the Fovea Centralis of the Eye? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:50] <exec> 08└─Monitors for the most part just display what's input into them. A lot of TVs muck around and process the incoming signal, and while it may be OK-ish for video sources, it can result in a very noticeably worse picture for things you use a computer for. Plus some TVs like to overscan or rescale the in...
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[06:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about the little guy? - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:16] <exec> 08└─Can I be a wind farmer and feed my family by installing windmills in my backyard? Fuck no I can't! The means of production must be owned by giant corporations and no one else!! It is your duty as a consumer to support the corporations!!!
[06:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The way the wind blows - 06Samsung Vice Chairman a Suspect in South Korean Presidential Bribery Probe - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:23] <exec> 08└─Lee, the chabol heir, likely won't go to jail. One of the group's senior executive will take the fall. The special prosecutors may be sympathetic to this approach - their ultimate and main target is the prez Park - the crooked imbecile.
[06:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:36] <exec> 08└─The second amendment says yes.
[06:10:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 1032 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:04] <exec> 08└─You understand that Europe is mostly in the same latitudes as Canada, right? That the southern US aligns better with Morroco and Tunisia? Most of Europe has, for the better part of a couple millennia, had outlier temperatures for its latitude/altitude? Britain, in particular has been far far warmer...
[06:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Global warming LOL - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:17] <exec> 08└─I think it would of been a lovely shade of Creamsicle Orange......(:
[06:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:21] <exec> 08└─Fairbanks Alaska. So far it's been a fairly normal winter if not for a bit on the warmer side. We've seen some -30F temps so far, even been out and worked in it a little bit. No big deal. A normal winter we would have seen -40 by now and for several weeks. Forecast is for 40 below by Monday but that...
[06:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score:2) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:18] <exec> 08└─Does filling up your tank take 20 minutes?
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[07:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Check your math - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:23] <exec> 08└─If you want to generate enough energy for the trip and also store the return energy, then you need 2.42GW not just 2.4GW. Mistakes like that will get you stranded and you'll have to predict a lightening strike or something!
[07:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:47] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is based on the awareness of unintended consequences. You're clearly an idiot.
[07:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Go ahead, claim a victory... - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 700 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:49] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this will totally destroy prostitution, as the people who, according to you, were making over 90% of their millions off the adult classifieds, will not work on a loophole at all. So, will it be a "dating" section, a "services" section, a "wellness" section, or just plain backbackpage.com? T...
[07:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:54] <exec> 08└─They can't get that from a consensual BDSM experience?
[07:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:57] <exec> 08└─OK, so the totally symbolic act of shutting down Backpage is going to stop child trafficking. /sarc
[07:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/20/0039236 [soylentnews.org]
[07:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:03] <exec> 08└─What part of license and monitor don't you get? Children can't get a license. Reputable companies know they're being monitored and won't deal with children.
[07:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:31] <exec> 08└─Actually dumbfuck, the Almighty is not a fairy. He is rather large and can ram a lightning bolt up yor ass if He chooses. You will see Him one day. It may very well be the last day you will ever know. You will NOT like that day.
[07:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:11] <exec> 08└─The forms of the discrimination (oppression, you call it) are only one axis of the problem. The other axis of the problem, the one that makes it into a huge fuckng deal, is that for girls in school, discrimination is everywhere, every day, multiple times per day, from day one. One mosquito? No big d...
[07:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:28] <exec> 08└─But don't you think a man saying he is producing less of something related to women is inherently male chauvinistic?</sarcasm> Lets put it this way. Which of the following is gender equality about: (A) A process that doesn't care about your gender (B) A process that ensures that an arbitrary ratio o...
[07:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02HA - 06T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:14] <exec> 08└─"cover increased cost" To cover the ancient 10+ year old computers that run that system?
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[08:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02spreadsheet will fix this - 06New York State: Salary Histories No Longer Required From Gov't Job Seekers - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:15] <exec> 08└─No problem, HR will just have a spreadsheet to guesstimate prior salary by job title. Ageism will continue also, by assuming the applicant graduated from college at age 22. HR is too smart for you, peons. Don't bother trying to make yourself look valuable. The very fact that you're applying through...
[08:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Hope.. - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:23] <exec> 08└─I hope it performs better than previous boats made by M. Thebault - one tipped over, and then left abandoned in Hawaii. http://forums.sailinganarchy.com [sailinganarchy.com]
[08:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hope.. - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:25] <exec> 08└─Failure is one of the steps on the road to success.
[08:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:07] <exec> 08└─I am just commenting to hold a place until Azumi gets here and rips you a new asshole, just like you requested on BackdoorPage. Consent? Are the ropes too tight? Oh, you are not an adult? We are going to traffic your ass, with this piece of paper that you willing signed as we held a 9mm to your te...
[08:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:12] <exec> 08└─What? Does no one remember Jeff Gannon? Fake ex-Marine cut top? The one who visited Karl Rove in the Whitehouse on multiple occasions? Republicans kill their secretaries (or interns, a la Joe Scarborough), and have sex with steaming hunks of love of the same sex. Karl Rove! Karl Rove! Say it like...
[08:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:39] <exec> 08└─Did it ever occur to you that kissing up to the biggest bully on the playground is a crappy insurance policy?
[08:12:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:14] <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...
[08:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:08] <exec> 08└─Always blame environmentalists for decisions based on economics (there was no politics involved in the decision)
[08:13:46] <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 - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:46] <exec> 08└─No, but 20 minutes combined with a long range is not bad. I would not be willing to wait two hours on the loading station. But 20 minutes would not be bad. Especially if in return you'd not get the gas smell. Note that with a bit of planning, you'd schedule those at times where you'd have a break an...
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[09:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Other peoples jetpacks - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:18] <exec> 08└─If you thought other people where shitty drivers just imagine them one jetpacks ... in an urban environment. People smashing into houses, power lines, other people on jetpacks, jetpacks running out of power and people plummeting to the ground ...
[09:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other peoples jetpacks - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:19] <exec> 08└─Autonomous jetpacks! No experience necessary!
[09:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Walking - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:22] <exec> 08└─How would you prefer to get to work, by jetpack, Hyperloop, or VR?
[09:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Basic Income - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:24] <exec> 08└─Futurism is always fun. How would you prefer to get to work, by jetpack, Hyperloop, or VR?
[09:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:26] <exec> 08└─that corner where you sit down to ask for money from the 1% who have it. that will be your job. their job will be to stay alive in a world where everybody hates them. food, clothes and shit? robots (owned by the 0.01%, and operated by the 1%).
[09:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:28] <exec> 08└─if people use jetpacks routinely, they have basic income else if people do not use jetpacks routinely, no basic income
[09:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:spreadsheet will fix this - 06New York State: Salary Histories No Longer Required From Gov't Job Seekers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:37] <exec> 08└─At least it is better. I know a lot of people who would take anything, but their previous salary, gets them culled from consideration. The other trick is asking for a recent degree.
[09:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hope.. - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:47] <exec> 08└─It's also one of the steps on the road to continued failure. I'm just sayin'
[09:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the little guy? - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─Can I be a wind farmer and feed my family by installing windmills in my backyard? Fuck no I can't!
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Check your math - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:00] <exec> 08└─2.4GW in 2017 gigawatts will be worth 2.42GW in 2030 gigawatts due to inflation.
[09:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How could anybody exploit CHILDREN - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:44] <exec> 08└─When we're talking about the ADULT section
[09:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:42] <exec> 08└─As a bicyclist I can't hear the difference between a passing Tesla and a passing Audi, at least not until I listen carefully after seeing the Tesla logo. Tire noise is a bigger part than people think.
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[10:09:37] <exec> 08└─if people do not use jetpacks routinely in the future while enjoying basic income, it will be because all civilization was destroyed
[10:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:39] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you, but I have no problems to produce shit on my own. No robots needed for that.
[10:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From the Seine to San Francisco? - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can go from the Seine to San Francisco with a river taxi. An ocean taxi, perhaps. :-)
[10:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02They don't hover, and they're not bubble shaped - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:59] <exec> 08└─egg-shaped
[10:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:11] <exec> 08└─Why are wind-farms considered any uglier than, say, the Eiffel Tower? That's just a mass of girders rivetted together, and doesn't have any practical purpose - why are people taught to think it's intrinsically nice to look at, but that engineering that actually does something useful is intrinsically...
[10:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:44] <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....
[10:13:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 699 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:01] <exec> 08└─Please, the fact that girls don't want to code is not an issue of sexism, but of preference, and no amount of codling/extolling is going to make them want to. Do you really believe that at the elementary school level there is or has been some sort of conspiracy to prevent girls from pursuing STEM re...
[10:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:26] <exec> 08└─I followed you on checking out WIM, and I have to say I am also impressed with them. No bullshit, and a genuine enthusiasm for their subject goes a hell of a long way. They also seem to be aiming primarily at anyone who might be interested, with an emphasis on females, rather than pushing it on just...
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[11:09:15] <exec> 08└─The iPlayer has always been global. There's one script that checks your geolocation and absolutely everything else can be streamed locally from localized content delivery networks. The trick to it has always been to request that one script through a UK proxy and request the rest normally. So what's...
[11:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Fuck Zuck - 06David Plouffe Tapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:23] <exec> 08└─Give Zuck AIDS.
[11:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:38] <exec> 08└─You can't produce shit on your own without food to eat.
[11:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:10] <exec> 08└─* Novelty (building that high was kinda new when the eiffel toeer was built) * Scale (single construction is more bearable than monotones, also, landmark) * Noise (ironically larger cities would drown out the noise of a turbine, mariehamn [åland] was painful when they had that loud wind turbine nea...
[11:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:14] <exec> 08└─Can you really blame anyone for not getting so excited about a career in the STEM field if you will intend to have a family? [ocregister.com] I did STEM all my life. Just "officially" retired last year. It was fun. Well, most of it was until the last decade when the new management methods started m...
[11:14:23] <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 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─100A@250V is 25KW. While the parent was mentioning 250KW. Charge rate will have something to do with this if you are talking KWH. 25KW over 10Hours is 250KWH.
[11:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:cheapness vs range anxiety - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks... I had no idea charging Ni-Cds was endothermic... I just had to verify your claim. [jmbatterysystems.com] Charging process is strongly endothermic - the battery cools during charging. This makes it possible to charge very quickly, as the I2R heating and endothermic chemical reaction counte...
[11:14:44] <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 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─Can it work safely with drivers like this around: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Seems to be a cig in the guy's mouth too...
[11:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:44] <exec> 08└─Nope. Getty uses one: The one specified where it gets started. X.org uses one: The one specified where it gets started. If you want either to use more than one, you need to start several copies.
[11:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:46] <exec> 08└─Yes you do. Files don't have execute privilege by default.
[11:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:54] <exec> 08└─That would be a hole in Gnome or KDE, not in Linux. No different from a bug in Flash or Adobe Reader.
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[12:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:3, Interesting) 02No. - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:09] <exec> 08└─Is "event TV" still a thing for non-sports programming?
[12:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02mod Insightful - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:11] <exec> 08└─torrents
[12:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Is futurism always fun? - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─I've seen futurism's output in person for about 40 years, but of course I've seen earlier predictions as they get rolled out again later (often purely for comic effect), and to be honest, most of it is utterly tawdry. So little of it seems to pay attention to little things like the laws of physics (...
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is futurism always fun? - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─Wanna have fun with futurism? Put Next Big Future in your RSS feeds. Hybrid Fusion Fission Molten Salt Reactor [nextbigfuture.com]
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─Good points, but many are virtual things that are more nurture than intrinsic. It's important because it's important. It's beautiful because it's beautiful. These are all subjective deep down. Compare diesel locos - one person sees a dirty noisy stinky mess, another sees a unique exciting groundbrea...
[12:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:38] <exec> 08└─"Despite there being a legal option, the vast majority of prostitution in Nevada takes place illegally in Reno and Las Vegas."
[12:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:08] <exec> 08└─yep, la florida here, and we have not had much of our 'normal' winter weather/temps, set a local record (85) a week or so ago (previous record for that day was 2015)... literally, have not turned the heat on so far this season, when it normally would have been on a month or so back... mid-upper 70's...
[12:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:RISC-V - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 2447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:31] <exec> 08└─Speaking as someone whose name you'll find in the acknowledgements of the RISC-V spec: RISC-V is a pretty good mid '90s ISA. ARMv8 is a good late '00s ISA. The lack of any kind of predication in RISC-V (not even a conditional move) simplifies the register forwarding but means that you either need c...
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[13:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02You Ask, I Answer - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:24] <exec> 08└─Is "event TV" still a thing for non-sports programming?
[13:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Your own jetpack - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:41] <exec> 08└─One thing's for sure: there are a lot of circumstances in which flying a jetpack could really become a pain in the keister.
[13:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Your own jetpack - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:43] <exec> 08└─For example: jetpack envy.
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Your own jetpack - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─I was thinking much more like a "pants-on-fire" moment. Strapping a rocket to your back does not seem like a very smart idea to me.
[13:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Hope.. - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─I'd expect a few mishaps with experimental one-off prototype record breaking innovative unique designs.
[13:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:28] <exec> 08└─Mariehamn is the harbour used by Eckerö-linjen (to Grisslehamn, straight west of mariehamn), the turbine was there in the late 90s, and was a small one (sub-MW), and it was very loud due to it being a non-windy-port, the ferry (only company that uses it, it is a very small harbour) has a very short...
[13:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:28] <exec> 08└─Pretty normal winter in Helsinki: ie. minimum temperatures going below -20C but not -30C. We've had a couple of crazy warm winters during past few years with temperature not hitting -20C at all so if you compare to those, it's cold, but those aren't (yet) the norm.
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[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other peoples jetpacks - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─People smashing into ... other people on jetpacks...
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:35] <exec> 08└─"all we heard was a gentle relaxing hum" I've stood under a wind turbine (part of a mid-size wind farm) and I didn't find it relaxing. But I wouldn't judge the sound until you've lived next to a wind farm for a period of time - just stopping by for a few minutes and listening isn't the same. Imagine...
[14:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:How could anybody exploit CHILDREN - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:20] <exec> 08└─In the ADULT-section you post FOR adults... (apparently) not necessarily ABOUT adults...
[14:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How could anybody exploit CHILDREN - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:22] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the underrepresented child buyers of adult services: http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[14:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:46] <exec> 08└─To be fair, does anyone remember the ice/freezing rain/sleet event in Atlanta three years ago? At the time, there were thousands of cars stranded on the roads, they had to call out the National Guard to bring them to shelters, had to set up emergency overnight shelters all over the city, etc
[14:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:50] <exec> 08└─(1) you're right. A bully tried that once on me but I refused. (2) Pope Francis didn't ask for us to kiss the big strong bully's ass, but instead to protect the weak and those who are worse off than us.
[14:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Global warming LOL - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, he's far right.
[14:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─Haha. Yeah, the group punishments were so discriminatory against girls. All the boys had to keep their heads on their desks because a couple boys in the back of the classroom were being disruptive. The girls get treated as individuals. The policy that let girls wander the halls during indoor recess...
[14:13:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Blatant Sexism - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:39] <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...
[14:13:45] <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 - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─"Hotelling" is atrocious. It was started in one of the companies I had worked as a contractor, the description of my former coworkers can be summarized in one word: "atrocious". It is pure BS policy & very bad for team engagement... Here is another good one I've experienced: in another company, wher...
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:52] <exec> 08└─Why in the world should it be the goal of a company to make more "minorities" hirable?
[14:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:09] <exec> 08└─But is it true? Lets see you, with a straight face, say it couldn't possibly be true. We have at CEO at "Government Motors" who, as the first female CEO, instantly embarks on "diversity" initiatives. If I were picking the most likely Fortune 500 "Affirmative Action Hire CEO" she sounds like a strong...
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[15:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Formats - 06New Jersey State Legislature Considers Open Data Initiative - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:11] <exec> 08└─Open Data ey... so the data will be available in open formats as well, instead of as Excel(*) Spreadsheets (*) Excel still has the dubious title of being the world's database. Mind-boggling, I know.
[15:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is this risk sharing or hiding? - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:18] <exec> 08└─That paper describes a system more complicated than I want to think about. Simple banking (just taking deposits and lending money) is complicated enough with lending between banks and interest and inflation fluctuations. Adding the construction of investment instruments on top of these makes it more...
[15:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02the goal of a banker is - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:21] <exec> 08└─to make money for the bank 'service' to the customer is the same as a bull is of 'service' to the cow
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Depends on the type of show... - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:31] <exec> 08└─Is "event TV" still a thing for non-sports programming?
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your own jetpack - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─You're wearing in wrong.
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Walking - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm jealous of that. All the apartments within about a mile of my apartment are expensive one bedroom crapsack apartments, or they're two bedroom apartments going for more than double the price. I'd consider more than one mile out, but I live in the midwest, so sidewalks are kind of an afterthought...
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Jetpacks will be part of future cities - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─I prefer the notion of commuting by trebuchet
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spreadsheet will fix this - 06New York State: Salary Histories No Longer Required From Gov't Job Seekers - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─There is no technical reason as to why salary should be discussed prior to an offer being made. There are arguments to not waste anyones time; if there was an appropriate posting to the salary range (if based on experience) in the posting that includes the list of job responsibilities, then no one w...
[15:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that. I enjoy the sight of wind turbines turning in the breeze; it says to me we're living in the Buck Rogers future. Also, they greatly mitigate the mind-boggling tedium of the Midwest landscape. Covering every square inch of North Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas with wind turbines wou...
[15:12:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 1373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:00] <exec> 08└─Zero to -30 C is not extreme weather - it's called Winter! This used to be normal winter weather - I would say the last few winters have been the abnormal once with their mild and weak weather. Sure it might come as a surprise down in Greece that there is snow falling and a bit colder then what they...
[15:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Private-Public Partnership - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:26] <exec> 08└─As for government employees, they should never have unions because it creates an unjustified and even unconstitutionally privileged class that is unfireable, unreassignable
[15:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─The EOL is where anti-nuclear environmentalist politics have done real harm. There are no newer models of nuclear plant in the US because it's impossible to build them anymore. Republicans have a good excuse: their constituents don't like them, and they don't care if coal pollutes. Democrats trying...
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[16:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eaten by Niggers - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:24] <exec> 08└─Baby dinosaurs taste like Popeye's chicken.
[16:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Eaten by Niggers - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:25] <exec> 08└─Out of Africa theory, proven! Niggers were the first homos.
[16:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Dinomon! - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:27] <exec> 08└─I choose you, Dracorex! Ow yea, he evolved to a Stygimoloch! Use your fire breath attack!
[16:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dinomon! - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:29] <exec> 08└─Kabutops, go! Surf attack!
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Noah kidnapped them - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─Noah lured them into his Ark with candy. Never to be seen again ...
[16:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Extinct - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, the names "Stygimoloch" and "Dracorex" may be no more. But Pachycephalosaurus is extinct as well.
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Jack Horner is a fun speaker - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─I had not seen this talk before, but mention the following TED talk by Jack whenever I can. It is discussing enabling suppressed dinosaur genes on a chicken: https://www.ted.com [ted.com]
[16:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02No. - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Is "event TV" still a thing for non-sports programming?
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Game shows, Oscars, and Bill O'Reilly - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─I can think of a few other categories of programs on American TV with extremely short shelf life: Certain game shows, such as Dancing with the Stars Entertainment awards shows, such as Golden Globe, Grammy Awards, and Academy AwardsPolitical commentary, such as The Rachel Maddow Show
[16:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Betteridge says... - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:05] <exec> 08└─Is "event TV" still a thing for non-sports programming?
[16:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Jetpacks will be part of future cities - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:38] <exec> 08└─Or maybe flying slaves: http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com]
[16:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Interesting... - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:17] <exec> 08└─He announces this 2.4GW wind farm, just days after NY state decides to decommission a 2GW nuclear plant.
[16:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:21] <exec> 08└─The tie is between climate change and extreme weather events. These ties are faring about as well as the rest of the climate change stuff: - "2007: We predict more and/or stronger hurricanes" [nationalgeographic.com] Darn, it didn't happen [noaa.gov]. - 2007: We predict more and stronger tornadoes [...
[16:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score:2) 02Re:"Environmentalists" - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 3673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, lets look at this egg from another angle. To get the nuclear materials one needs to mine them. This process generates huge amounts of radioactive waste, contaminates huge amounts of water, and this pretty much forever maintenance on those sites. If you need some examples of what can go wrong:...
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:''security'' - 06Controversial Nuclear Power Plant Near New York to Close - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─It was around a year or two after 9-11.
[16:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:err... - 06KillDisk Malware Now Targets Linux - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:05] <exec> 08└─Notice I didn't say the unprivileged user was the same unprivileged user as I did anything important with. For example, you could create a new user called "build", do the build as that user, and now that user can't see, say, everything you ever stored in your web browser cache.
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[17:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Post-Traumatic Stress Cure - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:22] <exec> 08└─Excise the amygdala. Make our Troops the perfect killing machines. For the undying glory of Trump!
[17:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eaten by Niggers - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─Niggered by Trolls.
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Dinomon! - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─If a chicken can have a hatching and a chick, I don’t see why Pach* cannot have a Drac* or Styg*.
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jack Horner is a fun speaker - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─Tastes like chicken.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jack Horner is a fun speaker - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─Dats som gud chiken nigga.
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coke and Pepsi - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─Coke and Pepsi are the same thing! according to future archaeologists.
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Aren't they? - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─What do you wanna drink? Wine, orange juice, Whiskey, milk, Fanta, Cognac or X Cola?
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Maybe - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe the dingosaurus ate yo' babbies.
[17:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02An alternate measure, for practical purposes - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─In determining whether a bank is systemically important enough to bail out using money from the public treasury, the best way to measure is the amount of money donated to the campaigns of the most important politicians. In determining whether a bank is systemically important enough to regulate unusu...
[17:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jetpacks will be part of future cities - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:55] <exec> 08└─"You're fired!" ... *Kaffflloooong!*
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:spreadsheet will fix this - 06New York State: Salary Histories No Longer Required From Gov't Job Seekers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:06] <exec> 08└─There is no technical reason as to why salary should be discussed prior to an offer being made.
[17:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The usual prohibition tactics - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:25] <exec> 08└─What you are seeing here is the usual prohibition tactics: take an activity that is not in itself harmful, use some extreme example of criminality or "bad stuff" associated with this activity in a very small percentage of cases, and prohibit all legitimate, non-harmful cases by saying they are ALL j...
[17:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:43] <exec> 08└─I just ran the linear regressions on that first link's dataset. There's absolutely a p Why the fuck did you just lie to me? No, seriously, why did you just lie? What the hell do you get out of saying one thing when your own data says something different? I don't really want to go any further with cl...
[17:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:44] <exec> 08└─Well, I will apologize for letting a stray < turn into something that ate a paragraph about how I analyzed your data, and not using preview. But I won't apologize for calling your dishonest bullshit bullshit. Or saying fuck you. Both of those are still entirely deserved.
[17:14:58] <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 - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─You really think that in the Brave New Trump World that "society" is somehow going to regulate and tax companies for not being diverse enough? What are you smoking? Big business has owned government in this country for quite some time now, and it's only going to get much worse in 2017. Finally, comp...
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[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Smoking, high BP due to stress - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:22] <exec> 08└─Stress could be as important a risk factor as smoking and high blood pressure
[18:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Distinct animals - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe these are not a growth series, but distinct animals. The reason we find only fossils of adult animals is because those left behind to form fossils were unfit for space travel prior to the extinction event. Can they disprove this hypothesis? I think I need to write a letter. Who is Trump's scie...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─The last "event" for me was the presidential debates (on youtube). Nothing other than those.
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Game shows, Oscars, and Bill O'Reilly - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 4091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:15] <exec> 08└─I think for CERTAIN audiences and for CERTAIN shows (mostly very popular shows), there can still be a sense of "event TV" for people, especially those over 35 or 40 who grew up without necessarily using time-shifting all the time. (Yes, time-shifting has been easy since VCRs became popular in the 19...
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02TiVo costs over half a grand - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─I think for CERTAIN audiences and for CERTAIN shows (mostly very popular shows), there can still be a sense of "event TV" for people, especially those over 35 or 40 who grew up without necessarily using time-shifting all the time.
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't Watch Unless Bingeable - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─After getting burned by too many mid-season cancellations I stopped watching all non-episodic shows until they had at least an entire season fully-released. It isn't that I necessarily binge-watch, although I do, its just that once I had a choice, I was no longer going to let the networks screw me a...
[18:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Why not ask the deeper question? - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─The BBC was created to fill a void. One that obviously no longer exists. They are abandoning the over the air viewer that was their stated reason to exist. Therefore why not ask the question of "Why does the BBC still exist?" We should be asking the same question about the U.S.'s Corporation for Pub...
[18:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trapped? - 06David Plouffe Tapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─I first read the headline as "David Plouffe Trapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team", kind of like the way mosquitos are drawn to those bug zappers. Stay away from the Zuck. Just stay away.
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:2) 02Re:Other peoples jetpacks - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─I'd worry more about snipers trying to stop the additional pollution to what's left of their environment.
[18:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Basic Income - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:58] <exec> 08└─You can't produce shit on your own without food to eat.
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Jetpacks will be part of future cities - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─No no no no, you've got it wrong: Management commutes by trebuchet. Peons commute by slingshot. Layoffs are conducted by cannon. It's like ex-presidents getting a last ride home on Marine One, but more thrilling.
[18:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jetpacks will be part of future cities - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─Everyone in the future will be commuting via pneumatic tube.
[18:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:They don't hover, and they're not bubble shaped - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:30] <exec> 08└─> Don't they work better (less vomit inducing, anyway) than normal boats even when the water isn't calm? As long as the waves are shorter than the foils (plus margin). Beyond that, hilarious things happen. > Nope. That'd be a hovercraft. Clue's in the name. "hover..." needs to die for anything that'...
[18:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me correct that for you - 06GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:26] <exec> 08└─If a white male is in a position everyone assumes he earned it, since he doesn't have PC privilege. The notable exception that demonstrates the point is when the guy is the son of the last boss, then he is always having to prove he deserves to be there... and often fails. In other words he suffers t...
[18:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Composite image?! - 06Earth and the Moon as Seen From Mars - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:21] <exec> 08└─There is nothing of the sort that even approaches "lying" going on here. You have an array of numbers; the issue is how do you display that? What would you consider "not lying"? Does it have to look "real"? And what even does that mean? Does it have to look like what you'd see viewing it with a sens...
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[19:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:22] <exec> 08└─Fire every dentist over 30. Only young dentists are young enough to understand stem cells.
[19:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:23] <exec> 08└─Turn all fetuses into pulpy stem cells, and feed them to the old. In fact, kill everyone under 31 and use their tissues to repair the elites.
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:25] <exec> 08└─But every coder is under 31 years old! Without coders who will app our apps?
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─Bots, bro. Codebots.
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─Counterpoint: murdering elites for their stemcells seems far better than appointing them to cabinet positions.
[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a recent film about an immortal survivor of Pompeii who stays alive by becoming pregnant every 20 years and absorbing the stem cells of her unborn children? https://en.wikipedia.org(2014_film) [wikipedia.org] Nope, can't mention that, 2014 was too recent for SN old people....
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking, high BP due to stress - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─They are not statistically independent, but they are independent in the sense that none is completely determined by the others. In particular, you cannot deduce from someone's smoking habits and blood pressure how much stress he has. A non-smoker with low blood pressure may have stress, too.
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Well duh... - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─> Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related (...) Me confused by the idea that Stress-Related anything could have potentially not be linked to brain activity... I'm also glad they're doing studies to confirm what my mom and grandma had been repeating for decades (also seen in many books and mov...
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02now worse - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Just knowing this causes me stress. Knowing that knowing it causes me stress causes me stress.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Extinct - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─It's all a coverup to settle the secret trademark lawsuit that the real Molochs and Dracorex just filed from their secret moon and underground bases (respectively).
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Aren't they? - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─I'm a sophisticated historian and member the Old Earth Society. Give me "the usual", mix them all up and serve over frozen co2.
[19:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jersey? - 06New Jersey State Legislature Considers Open Data Initiative - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, it's New Joisey, who wants their stinkin' data?
[19:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02American Idol? - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─I wonder about those reality/competition shows with text-voting. Apparently, more people voted for American Idol than for President [itv.com] (in 2012) so I'd imagine it's still a popular TV event.
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't Watch Unless Bingeable - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 4031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:49] <exec> 08└─Dear BBC and other streaming TV series producers: I got tired of the Gilligan's Island formula in the 70's. That is, where you can interchange the episodes into any order and it doesn't matter. All conditions are reset back to initial conditions by the end of each episode. I loved Babylon 5 for brea...
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For Live Real World events Yes, NO otherwise - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─Is "event TV" still a thing for non-sports programming?
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Trapped? - 06David Plouffe Tapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:03] <exec> 08└─"Tapped" has some weird connotations, too.
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heat index vs chilly air - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─I don't mind walking when it's between about 0-70F You and are are opposites in sensitivities. Below 72F, I start getting uncomfortable. Below 40F, I'm completely useless. but 70+ at 90% humidity (roughly half the year) is pretty intolerable for me The Heat index chart [wikipedia.org] doesn't even l...
[19:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:16] <exec> 08└─Why are wind-farms considered any uglier than, say, the Eiffel Tower? 'Cause change is scary. People protested the Eiffel Tower for being ugly, too. [www.toureiffel.paris]
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─7 January was reported to be the coldest Orthodox Christmas in Moscow for 120 years, I think if you break a coldness record that's been standing for 120 years you can legitimately call it extreme.
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[20:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:25] <exec> 08└─Nope, can't mention that, 2014 was too recent for SN old people.
[20:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:26] <exec> 08└─You mean my shtick isn't stale enough to appeal to geezers who remember the gay old days when George Carlin was alive.
[20:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02calcium and silicon-based products - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:28] <exec> 08└─real men have their teeth full of mercury https://en.wikipedia.org(dentistry) [wikipedia.org] but don't worry, Colgate says it's safe http://www.colgate.com [colgate.com]
[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am the mad hacker! - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:30] <exec> 08└─CHANGE PLACES!!!
[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:32] <exec> 08└─Anyone else notice an uptick in "meme" type comments? Shall we truly devolve into a hybrid of reddit/4chan/wikipedia/ and, god forbid, youtube comments?
[20:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─Whut you talkin bout dudebro I don't even?
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:37] <exec> 08└─These damn kids better get off my lawn I tell you hwut!
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─You mean those damn hipster kids are disrupting your lawn with their apps! Why won't you drop dead old luddite your house is a dead zone in our mesh network. One of these nights we're just going to break into your place and install mesh nodes in your attic.
[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's called trolling. On stories that typically get less than 20 comments, one troll can dominate with little effort. Game over, Soylent.
[20:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:43] <exec> 08└─NO. The meme market is real! I have well over a quadrillion dollars in it!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02next, reverse gum recession - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:45] <exec> 08└─After you get cavities to fill themselves, do something about reversing gum recession without surgery. It's mind boggling how gum tissue just doesn't grow back on its own. It's soft tissue. Soft tissue should heal.
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:next, reverse gum recession - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─Yes please!
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:now worse - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:00] <exec> 08└─Can I interest you in some soma? Cannabis? Mushrooms? Heroin? Jenkem?
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02fun with xml - 06New Jersey State Legislature Considers Open Data Initiative - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:33] <exec> 08└─Have some fun with xml. Find your own docx or xlsx file. Find your favorite program to unzip files. I personally like 7-zip. Change the extension in windows and unzip the file. If you are in linux you can just use the tool directly. The files are valid pkzip files with a xml file zipped up inside th...
[20:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this risk sharing or hiding? - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─Yup, why else would the tax code be longer than any one person could possibly hope to ever understand?
[20:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't Watch Unless Bingeable - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:06] <exec> 08└─The BBC is actually good at making single-season shows. They also avoid that american failing of packing them with filler episodes. One 8 episode BBC show often tells more story in a more engaging fashion than one 22 episode american show.
[20:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Why not ask the deeper question? - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─> They are abandoning the over the air viewer that was their stated reason to exist. No, that was not their stated reason to exist. Their stated reason to exist was to provide programming not subject to commercial influence. That hasn't changed. Same with the CPB. Nice try with the rationalizing can...
[20:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Thorium reactors'' - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:48] <exec> 08└─All that needs to happen is someone thinking it's a grand enough idea to invest money to make it happen. So far, no takers. Solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal are getting the investments. ...and, at the end of the lifetimes of those devices, they won't leave radioactive structures to deal with. The...
[20:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:spreadsheet will fix this - 06New York State: Salary Histories No Longer Required From Gov't Job Seekers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:04] <exec> 08└─It's a bit like going into some big appliance store and the salesman starts by saying, "What's your price range?"
[20:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─Retard should try asking people rather than an imaginary sky fairy.
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I cast magic missile. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:06] <exec> 08└─Big deal. Find the wizard(s) responsible for these icy spells and cast fireball on them. If that fails, try axe-wielding barbarians. You're welcome, Europe.
[20:14:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:RISC-V - 06Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 Detailed: 3 Billion Transistors on a 10nm Process - 2447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:16] <exec> 08└─Speaking as someone whose name you'll find in the acknowledgements of the RISC-V spec: RISC-V is a pretty good mid '90s ISA. ARMv8 is a good late '00s ISA. The lack of any kind of predication in RISC-V (not even a conditional move) simplifies the register forwarding but means that you either need c...
[20:17:41] <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 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─The charging plug-in interfaces (at least more advanced) don't let the car turn on until the plug is removed. I'm sure there is still some way for an idiot to ruin an electric charging cable, but this makes it a little harder.
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lovely - 06Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─Interesting comment, haven't been passed by a Tesla yet (while cycling). In cool weather, I've always been impressed by the bubble of warm air that follows after a car passes--assuming this is all the waste heat from the IC engine. Maybe the Tesla doesn't have this warm bubble behind it?
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[21:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Back to old tech... - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─Prior art: David was a genius inventor who used a slingshot to separate plasma and whole blood from Goliath.
[21:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Back on your bike! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:21] <exec> 08└─No time for slacking, more human powered electricity! Just like ... (Let me see, have the old people of SN seen the Black Mirror episode yet? Doubtful. Best not to reference it.) ... in Soylent Green!
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02A sling - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─A sling, not a slingshot, that would have been ridiculous.
[21:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:A sling - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─Correct.
[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:27] <exec> 08└─How does plundering dead civilizations for their lost technology earn a genius award?
[21:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:29] <exec> 08└─Your very use of the word "plunder" shows your thinking to be biased. Since the tech has been around for quite a long time I will side with the article and say that developing such a low cost alternative to a crucial piece of medical tech is genius. With your criteria everything ever done is plunder...
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Picture from article - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─In case you don't like clicking on articles as you might need to read something, here is a picture of the device: http://www.nature.com [nature.com]
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNJi0CzfodI [youtube.com]
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:calcium and silicon-based products - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─My materials science professor in school agreed with Colgate, although he also claimed that you could drink Mercury and not have an issue. I'm not terribly familiar with the bioavailablity of mercury, but I believe the liquid elemental form is poorly adsorbed. I would prefer metal fillings, as they...
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:calcium and silicon-based products - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:52] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't buy that argument. If it were actually true, then there'd be no point in lying to patients about what's being done to their bodies. Those fillings are mostly mercury, much of which goes missing over the first few years. Whats more, a lot of the fillings that are done are being done becaus...
[21:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:59] <exec> 08└─If you want a higher signal to noise ratio, go hang out with the cool kids over at Hacker News where Social Justice is queen, trolls get Zero Tolerance, and the kids literally do Show-And-Tell like a bunch of kindergartners.
[21:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─That's true and rather than let people mod whomever they like, the site has restrictions on how many times you can mod the same person in the same day. Which is rather ridiculous. If somebody is trolling with 5 posts, you should be able to downmod all of them. That kind of restriction unbalances thi...
[21:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:next, reverse gum recession - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─It's soft tissue, but it has to connect to the tooth. That's the primary issue. I can understand why you're posting AC, it's controversial around here to acknowledge that the gums are pretty much the only thing that matters here. Without fixing the gums, there's not much point in fixing the teeth ba...
[21:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jack Horner is a fun speaker - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but I had a hard time reading this. It felt like it was intended for less than 8th grade readership. No one really thinks like this: '"By about 1970, some scientists were sitting around and they thought, "What in the world -- Look at these dinosaurs, they're all big. Where are all the lit...
[21:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy? - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:44] <exec> 08└─The babies, almost all of them, either grew into adults or grew into the belly of carnivores. Which doesn't mean the author's hypothesis isn't true, either....
[21:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this risk sharing or hiding? - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:05] <exec> 08└─Same reason that the government doesn't use the information they have on you to fill out the forms for you. H+R Block and the other tax preparation services have their bribes in.
[21:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Proposed use - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:08] <exec> 08└─Could we compare an individual bank's (or whatever entity's relational complexity is being measured) score to the scores of the entities as a whole, and say ``This number means you're too big to fail''? The regulator would then force it to sell off some interests, or split into two or more (now unre...
[21:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Following in Trump's footsteps - 06David Plouffe Tapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:42] <exec> 08└─[H]e pushed Facebook board members to allow him to retain control of the company even if he takes a leave of absence to work in government.
[21:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Heat index vs chilly air - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:02] <exec> 08└─It's strange. I've lived where the 'normal' temp range is about -10 - 105 F all my life, and I simply cannot acclimate to much higher than 70 or so. I can deal with as high as 75-80 if I'm stationary, but the moment it goes much higher I just sweat profusely and feel terribly uncomfortable. I tried...
[21:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Walking: The paradigm of the future? - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:03] <exec> 08└─In a number of places, an increasingly valued thing is the walkable city. [google.com] A current sticking point is legacy zoning that segregates "commercial" from "residential". ...and existing places, e.g. Irvine, CA, which were built around the notion of the automobile. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentn...
[21:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the little guy? - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm all amped up to dig myself some coal RIGHT NOW.
[21:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─We're all going to die too, so why the big deal about killing a few fetuses or nuking the odd town? Shit just happens.
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:In perspective... - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─1) wut 2) Yes, he did, because he is the Pope. The moral things he's asking are older than the entire Abrahamic corpus, let alone Catholic Christianity which is only about 1690 years old (Council of Nicaea/325 AD). And other religions do it better; I am specifically thinking here of Buddhism.
[21:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─Pussy. When I went to school it was -40 indoors. In Summer. On a nice day. And we liked it.
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─Not both ways?
[21:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─Nonsense! If there has ever been a time on Earth when it has been colder than that, then it is within normal range and you are an alarmist for suggesting otherwise. Temperatures go up, temperatures go down. You can't explain it. Nobody can explain it.
[21:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's called winter. - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─You can't explain it. Nobody can explain it. It's true! I definitely can't explain how a glob of crazy-warm air over the arctic is displacing all this cold air to more southern regions. [theguardian.com] And, I should feel bad for trying.
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[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Airspace - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe cities should stop intruding on drone pilots' airspace with their ridiculously tall buildings.
[22:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Airspace - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─Right. And they should also ban those silly roofs which keep interfering with the HD camera.
[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─Um, I don't think you know how genius works. First you find someone who invented something that works. Then you steal it while you're unimportant. Then you sell it for a lot of money. Then you use your newfound money to legally outmaneuver the original inventor. It worked for Steve Jobs. It worked f...
[22:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:28] <exec> 08└─'cause losers like you, sitting behind a keyboard typing comments on SN, never created a single thing of real value to humanity. That creation (generation, whatever) of real value is what separates stupid (you) from genius (him).
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Picture from article - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─I know what it looks like. Those medical centrifuges were a favorite toy of mine when I was a kid. His doesn't have the cool colors and lights on it that mine had.
[22:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Picture from article - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. I was thinking of test tubes whirling around. This is more like a couple drops of blood (enough for a test i guess).
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:57] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in Soviet Russia...
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoking, high BP due to stress - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─Stress eating is also a related factor.
[22:10:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Well duh... - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:16] <exec> 08└─> Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related (...) Me confused by the idea that Stress-Related anything could have potentially not be linked to brain activity... I'm also glad they're doing studies to confirm what my mom and grandma had been repeating for decades (also seen in many books and mov...
[22:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Jack Horner is a fun speaker - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─> I'm sure no scientist wondered where the fossilized babies were, and then thought to cut open fossils they had to find the hidden babies inside or whatever they came up with as a reasonable solution. Well, there's a few steps missing in the summary, almost as though they were trying to hit the hig...
[22:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Distinct animals - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:45] <exec> 08└─Letter? Best not to assume too high a reading comprehension level. Use crayon.
[22:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Non-proprietary formats - 06New Jersey State Legislature Considers Open Data Initiative - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─Upon reading the headline, it also struck me that they should specify open non-proprietary formats as standards. (An AC below has mentioned XLS, XLSX, and DOCX specifically.) Outside of VisualBasic macros[1], FOSS apps have been dealing with XLS/XLSX files well for several years. If M$ stops moving...
[22:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:26] <exec> 08└─So people who actually care about freedom and the Constitution lack any concept of unintended consequences? It's possible to be fully aware of the consequences of something and yet still accept them in the name of freedom. And what unintended consequences, exactly? I'm not seeing any huge negative c...
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:And the answer is: legalize prostitution - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─It's probably the 'right thing to do' but its not going to really change anything.
[22:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Is prostution against federal law? - 06After Release of U.S. Senate Report, Backpage Shuts Down U.S. Adult Section - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─I'm all in favor of innocent until proven guilty, but [...]
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly as predicted - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─Geez, calm down, you'll give yourself ulcers... From your, um, explosion it's not entirely clear which data set you're talking about. I'll assume you mean the first one. Is there a trend over the course of the whole data? Maybe, I didn't check, because that's not important. What's important is this:...
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[23:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02trace the IMEI/MAC/serial and nail the fucker - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:16] <exec> 08└─Remember rule 3 of the Australia Project. "Nothing is anonymous." That's right, Manna fans. Your stupid rules will be used against you. Just like rule 7 says. "Obey the rules."
[23:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Dry run? - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:18] <exec> 08└─Not going to cause a lot of damage but surely this could create a panic if the operator had the wrong intentions. The operator seems in complete control until initiating the collision. This flight is already occurring outside the legitimate flight parameters of the operator. Laws will not change the...
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02More rules won't fix stupid - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─But maybe some investigation and civil and criminal consequences using the laws they already have would help. Criminal negligence and reckless endangerment come to mind.
[23:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:More rules won't fix stupid - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─I'm quite sure existing laws already cover this. You don't get to commit reckless endangerment with a new device just because it wasn't around when the law was written. It's not like the law has to specify every single way that reckless endangerment can be committed.
[23:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:24] <exec> 08└─FAA [faa.gov] You can fly your drone in Class G (uncontrolled) airspace without air traffic control authorization, but operations in any other airspace need air traffic approval.
[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─The only problem with this is that, to enforce this, you need some technical means of doing so. A law saying "you can't fly drones in controlled airspace" isn't going to stop someone determined to do so, nor are some police-operated drones buzzing around. Right now, all they can do is attempt to rec...
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:29] <exec> 08└─There are some really big drones out there which can carry a movie camera and its accessories. You need to equip one of those with that net bazooka, and hand the control to someone with drone racing skills, and that's your defense system (unless you get attacked by a swarm). You don't mind the 10k$/...
[23:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:31] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more along the lines of drones that can triangulate a controller's transmitter, and cameras detecting any drone activity. They could probably detect the launch point. Personally I don't like the idea of added surveillance, or the idea of police drones monitoring events, but situations...
[23:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:33] <exec> 08└─...and should have a bunch of liability insurance. What is biggest deterrent on actions in today's world? Criminal sanctions? Maybe. Civil $ liabilities? Yep, for most people.
[23:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─No prob dood, I'll just put the fine on my credit card and add it to my student loan debt. Bail me out, bankruptcy.
[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:37] <exec> 08└─Last I heard bankruptcy does not void student loan debt. Am I wrong?
[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─You are correct. Designed to prevent exactly this situation.
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Back to old tech... - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─David killed Goliath in 1025BC. Your prior art claim is bogus. Sad that it was modded so informative. Whirligig 3,300BC. That's 2275 years before David slew Goliath!
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:55] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your sentiment, the one thing that sets a "genius" apart is just one thing: they are recognized. Spending a lifetime making incremental improvements makes you a good engineer and a good person, but not a genius. The genius is the one who finds incremental improvement #539, recogni...
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, the inventors overwhelmingly know their inventions are useful. The shitheads pretty much always just win a race to sell it at the right moment. Hell, the courts can even recognize that you stole the exact design from someone else, as with the Swan lightbulb, and just a dash more bullshittery...
[23:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link to that Wikipedia page for the Spring movie; now I don't have to watch it! Honestly, it sounds like an interesting premise but not well thought-out, and with a lame plot. She loses her immortality if she falls in love? Seriously? And she's 2000 years old? How exactly does she kno...
[23:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─In the USA, it won't matter. New dental treatments are typically used for years in Europe before they get approval in the USA.
[23:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:next, reverse gum recession - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a stem cell treatment could be applied to the gums to get them to regrow? Also, they're not talking about making teeth regrow from nothing, they're talking about getting existing teeth to regrow themselves to eliminate cavities (caries), so that you don't need to get a filling. It'd be great...
[23:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Horns! - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─so now you should be able to grow horns or tusks!
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Horns! - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─Billionaire hipsters will grow real unicorn horns.
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Horns! - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─Antlers [dilbert.com] will be the next big fad.
[23:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this risk sharing or hiding? - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:48] <exec> 08└─Yup, why else would the tax code be longer than any one person could possibly hope to ever understand?
[23:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02who is - 06David Plouffe Tapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:25] <exec> 08└─Who is this for, Chan?
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─Right now, I'm listening to doof-doof-doof from the local nightclub (I live downtown). I'd trade that for a constant hum any day.
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:out of sight of the Long Island beachfront - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, love the Lakota, but fuck the rest of them! (j/k - g/f's from NE)
[23:17:21] <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 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Even in engineering, the women who do go into this field usually end up getting out of true engineering roles pretty quickly. They move into management of some kind, or they get sick of the field and go into something entirely different.
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