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[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More Domestic Manufacturing - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─Get on the Trump Train. CHOO! CHOO!
[00:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More Low-Paying Jobs - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:12] <exec> 08└─More manufacturing shit-work for white people! Coding shit-work is for brown people!
[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, can't keep a good joke down. Back in the 1950s and 1960s that was a joke about the US Communist Party.
[00:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:29] <exec> 08└─Careful with that joke, son, it's an antique.
[00:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:31] <exec> 08└─except it was found out that about 10% of the cpa *was* feeb informants...
[00:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score:1) 02Re:Different Moral - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:36] <exec> 08└─I don't make plans any more - because the Prosecutor keeps using the word "Premeditated" in their Grand Jury filings.
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:weird aspects - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─It sounds so impractical that I can't see it ever becoming an effective portable stealth weapon. Attenuation through air at any large distance would mean power output would have to be pretty high. Higher output power requires more input power draining batteries or requiring mains AC power. Not sure...
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─The moral of the story is that if everybody had its portable X ray gun, people would be nicer to each others.
[00:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:50] <exec> 08└─Mobile x-ray guns don't kill people, people kill people.
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─Drugs affect people differently, if you didn't care for it then its hard to experience the pleasurable sides.
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:05] <exec> 08└─"You can't miss* something you've never had" (* = emotional sense, not "suffer a lack of") Personally I find life boring without tea (not caffeine, but tea), mainly due to the ritual of preparing and drinking it (and I get downright mean without my morning cup of hot chocolate). But to answer with r...
[00:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:08] <exec> 08└─Alcohol has its place, but over the last few decades it has had diminishing returns for me personally. The negatives outweigh the benefits, and being sober is a little more boring but overall more pleasurable. Alcohol has subtle effects on your mood for days if you get nice and drunk, not just the n...
[00:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eating your way to happiness - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:14] <exec> 08└─Hot yoga is literal, 100+ degrees F, up to 110-120. I regularly drank almost a gallon of water per session, stinky business with 10-20 people... I realize you were kidding, but giving legitimacy to anti vaxxers etc. is the opposite of mental yoga, that is delving into deception and social bullshit w...
[00:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:19] <exec> 08└─I won't know if CR works until I die (or don't) but it isn't as difficult as you'd think. I made a radical cutback a few years ago and after a period of adjustment it has been pretty painless. You think "I need three meals a day because I've always had three meals a day" but it isn't true at all. My...
[00:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is that we can't agree on what those healthy foods are. For the longest time, in the US we were told it was "carbs", esp. ones like whole grains. Then Americans got fat as shit off this new carb-heavy, low fat, low protein diet. Now the pendulum is swinging back to protein like it had be...
[00:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:41] <exec> 08└─Venus Inc. by Frederick Pohl and C.M Kornbluth It explores a society totally controlled by ad agencies. A great read that your comment about ads on the eyelids immediately made me think of.
[00:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - Arthur T Knackerbracket sure has problems - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:07] <exec> 08└─Heil Knackerbracket!
[00:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:15] <exec> 08└─Correction: Unrestricted markets over the long run naturally develop into monopolies.
[00:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, please. Even if I assume that risk exists, he should do it anyway for the good of the country.
[00:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, he ran to the Chinese first.
[00:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─Podcasts have been around long enough to have written a history on them? And just English ones at that?
[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─This passage from the Oxfam report supports the other poster's claim: All over the world we find that workers have been getting a smaller slice of the pie, while the owners of capital have been prospering. Even in China, a country where wages roughly tripled over the last decade, total income, fuel...
[00:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:12] <exec> 08└─> Bullshit. Name examples, don't just hand-wave like a pusillanimous partisan Nice troll anon, let us pretend it worked - 35 diplomats expelled while infusing units near NATO borders with Russia, Putin does not reciprocate ending up looking like the moderate one. - US abstains as UN demands end to I...
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[01:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02iApps Tune Store - 06Vulnerabilities Leave iTunes, App Store Open to Script Injection - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─iApps Tune Store is for idiots. Anyone who is smart enough to exploit it should be ashamed to use it long enough to discover vulnerabilities.
[01:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Elong Musky Gigadick - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:25] <exec> 08└─Batter up and explode in my mouth!
[01:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:29] <exec> 08└─Seems like a strange mix, motors and gearboxes have little to do with batteries. In fact with all the CNC milling that goes into gears metal dust might be just another source of battery contamination. Sounds like the building was too big for current needs and its the cheapest space available. Where...
[01:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:39] <exec> 08└─The question I have is: did he actually build something lethal, or just have access to components to build something lethal plus the idea to combine them, or was he just shooting his mouth off? In other words: how much of a thought crime was this? Since, I presume, he hasn't actually harmed anyone.
[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:46] <exec> 08└─^^ that ^^ If law enforcement can entrap some misfit without a clue, it makes their numbers look better. 3 convictions of cranks this year, sounds a lot better than no terrorist activity noted. But, the FBI isn't going to use the words crank, misfit, or clueless fool in their descriptions of the vic...
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─The spirit of the KKK is alive and well in Gainesville, Florida - at least it was in 2007 when red paint and racial slurs were left on the houses of a handful of Asian residents. Not quite a burning cross, but I guess they're just a little more cowardly now than they used to be back when. The Ku Klu...
[01:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Islam is the Enemy - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:03] <exec> 08└─The only problem I have here is that this guy just sounds like a kook
[01:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02An X-Rayed Society is a Polite Society! - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:11] <exec> 08└─
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:2) 02Not even a "novel" idea.... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:13] <exec> 08└─Taken right from the plot of a 1977 episode of "Quincy M.E.": http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] http://www.tv.com [tv.com]
[01:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Flashbacks anyone? - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:15] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else read the summary and have a flashback to the movie The Jerk? "Hey Mr. Hartunian, these cans are defective!" "It's not defective cans, it's a defective person!" Mind Blown :-D
[01:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''touch my alcohol, and I'll kill you'' - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:30] <exec> 08└─I've got your theme song right here. Gimme That Wine [genius.com] "I can't get well without Muscatel" Lyrics by Jon Hendricks [genius.com] are just freaking awesome repeatedly. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [secondhandsongs.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:33] <exec> 08└─It's probably a wise to develop a panoply of vices, so as to jump from one to the other in moderation.
[01:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:36] <exec> 08└─Is it better to get hammered infrequently, or slightly buzzed not-infrequently?
[01:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Granny - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:46] <exec> 08└─No, a 115lb granny who ate like a 4oz blue-jay, without scaling up by a factor of 460. I believe the expression "eats like a bird" is in common use throughout the English speaking world, and has been transliterated into many other languages. Idiom: eat like a bird Eat very little, as in Jan is very...
[01:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame Wall Street - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:02] <exec> 08└─Take it one step further, and blame yourself. Wall street wants high returns, not only because they are greedy, but because their customers have to get great returns to be able to afford to retire. Investment funds need to keep cranking the highest possible returns to avoid being abandoned by you an...
[01:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:03] <exec> 08└─> Instead, we should concentrate on preparing for economic and climatic disaster. I've already prepared, starting in my college years in the late 1970s when it seemed like I first started doing some of my own thinking. First move was to not have kids. There were several reasons and one of them was...
[01:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:I swear I'm on-topic - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─[Selecting from a drop down menu] Fuck you asshole
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:engine block eggs - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─Fair enough.
[01:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:06] <exec> 08└─Snowden hasn't been charged or arrested or imprisoned. There's as of yet nothing for which Obama can pardon him. Instruct the DOJ that they shall not prosecute him, but heeyyy there's a new guy in office this year! Bet the statute of limitations hasn't run out yet.
[01:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally Obama does something - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, healthcare for 20 million people. No biggee. I'm sure they are pretty ambivalent too.
[01:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally Obama does something - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:32] <exec> 08└─Hey, anyone who can dip into my pocket and get free stuff is going to be happy about it. That doesn't mean it is a net good for society.
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[02:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:31] <exec> 08└─Manufacturing other components have always been apart of the Gigafactory plan. Gigafactory 2 is slated for somewhere in Europe, with the vision that complete vehicles come out of the doors. Panasonic actually rents space from Tesla in the current Gigafactory for manufacturing cells, while Tesla does...
[02:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, Gigafactory 2 somewhere in Europe. That faggot Musky is really trying to build the Megacities of the Judge Dredd dystopia, isn't he? Fuck the billionaires. Fuck every billionaire to death.
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─Fuck Musk!
[02:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─> with all the CNC milling that goes into gears Novice way to make gears... In high volume gears are forged into nearly net shape. Very little or NO machining is done. Brief overview here, one of many hits, http://www.gearsolutions.com [gearsol...
[02:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:weird aspects - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:02] <exec> 08└─Masquerade as an AC/heater guy and install them in ductwork in mosques or something? It's about the only place I can think of that the hum would go unnoticed. You could then run the wires long the duct to get at the mains. I have no idea what amount of power you'd need though. I don't know a lot abo...
[02:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Wierd question - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─Ok, I can see getting this moron off the street before he manages to come up with a more practical way to kill people. But WMD? Not seeing it. At any power levels some random asshole is likely to generate you would be beaming X-Rays into your victim for hours and hope he dies in weeks to months. Dev...
[02:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In related news, Donald Trump just found... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:18] <exec> 08└─...someone better than General John Kelly to run the Department of Homeland Security.
[02:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not all doom and gloom - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:20] <exec> 08└─The upside is I got free dental x-rays
[02:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:51] <exec> 08└─The radical knowledge that eating less causes weight loss or stabilization is widely available. And yet Burger-Americans be fat still. I'm not saying it is impossible to practice CR. Just that it isn't regarded as the optimal option when certain chemicals like resveratrol could activate the desired...
[02:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:53] <exec> 08└─That's true. To muddy the carb waters, there's also digestion of simple vs. complex carbs, and high fructose corn syrup claimed to be more easily metabolized than sucrose even given the similar composition, and fruit juice being more easily metabolized than fruits. Fruit juice is also widely regarde...
[02:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Settles Nothing - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:56] <exec> 08└─The article seems a bit biased to me. I hate presumptive wording in science reporting that says that a single study has "settled" some controversy. https://www.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[02:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame Wall Street - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:11] <exec> 08└─Whenever I make a similar argument as to why the news industry has faltered, in the US at least, that being because of "You" not wanting to pay for newspapers and insist on running ad blockers and there's no money to actually pay someone to do investigative journalism, I get modded to hell.
[02:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:23] <exec> 08└─What method is he using to track the mouse? Have you been able to look at the data stream while reading?
[02:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:25] <exec> 08└─I admit I do not know. I assumed it was the javascript served by his domain which I did not allow. It could be the latest NSA malware which loads from a gif and allows Donald Trump to send tweets from your machine. I guess I am not paranoid enough.
[02:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:RISC-V - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:15] <exec> 08└─I think it would be great to be able to buy a truly free and open computer, even if it was older technology. How far back do you have to go to get a chip where all the patents have expired? They still make 386s for embedded applications and IIRC they cost less than $2 per. Stick 12 on those on a mot...
[02:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:52] <exec> 08└─Ok, show me a monopoly that doesn't have the government mixed up in it. Yes private entities do achieve monopoly status, but the government is almost always mixed up. Railroads? Government grants of eminent domain to only ONE company gives a monopoly on all transport between the nodes of the rail li...
[02:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:19] <exec> 08└─So you're 40 years into this "imminent" collapse of society, huh? And in another 40, if you're still around, you'll still be waiting for it to happen any day now because the current times are ALWAYS the worst times in history.
[02:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:18] <exec> 08└─Relevant to whom? The argument is about the US and US interests. Your comment is irrelevant to the argument.
[02:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:22] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't buy so much into Snowdens propaganda, hastily thrown together after dumping the data to foreign intel ("look, look, see, see, look at all this domestic surveillance! See, I'm doing this for you!!!!! (You don't mind if I hand over the remaining 99% of the info to these nice Chinese and...
[02:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:25] <exec> 08└─Snowden hasn't been charged or arrested or imprisoned.
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[03:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stack devs are morons - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:17] <exec> 08└─Oh I agree it is an egregious mistake. But how do they find out it is wrong? Maybe if we call them 'fucking morons' they will learn?
[03:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stack devs are morons - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:19] <exec> 08└─They wake up with a bill and wonder why the stupid tax is so high.
[03:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stack devs are morons - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:21] <exec> 08└─I know maybe we can call them stupid too that should totally work!
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:More Low-Paying Jobs - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─You racist left wing cunt! Don't you have anything better to do than race bait?
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:44] <exec> 08└─Fuck Musk!
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BeaverCleaver [5841] (Score:1) 02Re:Building too big? - 06Tesla to Expand Gigafactory Production - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, jobs for "drivetrain engineers" at the gigafactory were posted back in October. Some good info in this article: https://electrek.co [electrek.co] No idea why the governor is shouting about it now. But of course, he is a politicia...
[03:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lighten up, Francis - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:20] <exec> 08└─LOL, hi Aristarchus, ever manage to get that gerbil out of your ass?
[03:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:03] <exec> 08└─The radical knowledge that eating less causes weight loss or stabilization is widely available. [...] But metabolism is hard [...]
[03:11:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:17] <exec> 08└─And the sad thing is, Google used to be good at this. They used to tie the ads to the content on the page, so when you're reading about X, you'll see ads that are relevant to X. Those ads would be unobtrusive, plain text. I clicked on quite a few of these and was always surprised at how useful they...
[03:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:59] <exec> 08└─Bell Telephone, Standard Oil, Micro$erft, Google; need I go on? . And what is it with the flood of libertariantard ACs posting against a weary and lone charon? Is there a libertarian conference in town, or did mothers everywhere suddenly turn their no-good sons out of the basement? . And finally: Go...
[03:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Trumpmeat Sandwich - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:37] <exec> 08└─I dunno about that. Actually, I have a weird little feeling der Drumpfenscheisser is going to end up in a world of impeachment-flavored shit, and it'll be the GOP leading the charge. The guy is a useful idiot, and both Putin and the scary Theonomists played him like the world's ugliest Cheeto-dust-s...
[03:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A E I O U, sometimes Y and sometimes W - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:21] <exec> 08└─When I was in first grade back in 1965, my very elderly teacher taught us the vowels were A E I O U, sometimes Y and sometimes W. I never forgot that. Even though she never gave us any examples of words using W as a vowel. In college, after an argument with an english prof, I did some research and f...
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[04:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02this crap gets hard to understand - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Anti-Competitive Practices - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:10] <exec> 08└─First, gubbermint grants a monopoly to company X. Company X uses it's monopoly position to extract money from end users, customer corporations, competing corporations, government itself, and anyone else from whom they can extract money. Companies A, B, and C cry in court that Company X is exploiting...
[04:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:57] <exec> 08└─...or was he just shooting his mouth off?
[04:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:2) 02Streisand Effect - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:32] <exec> 08└─In their never-ending moronic witch-hunt way they've now broadcast the idea to all crazies. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame Wall Street - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:23] <exec> 08└─Yep. And the Wall Street mindset exists in the executive board rooms of large companies. Years ago, I worked for a major tech company that had a history of providing bonuses to employees at end of year if the company was profitable. In my short time there, executives changed the bonus rule where bon...
[04:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they should have advertised themselves mo - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:29] <exec> 08└─Well, Soylent ran the original announcement: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I also saw it mentioned a few times in comments. A quick search did not come up with the CrowdSupply campaign being on here, but a lot of sites do no like to run crowd funding campai...
[04:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time to look at Amiga - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:36] <exec> 08└─Someone managed to create an "Amiga", check http://amigaonthelake.com [amigaonthelake.com] The CPU is "old" (no idea when it was launched, maybe it wasn't so old then), but at least the price is not so high as this POWER8 project, USD 1840 for the base...
[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wirelessduck [3407] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:43] <exec> 08└─I think we should bioengineer forests of truly giant trees to absorb all the extra CO2 and allow us to live like Ewoks.
[04:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''[flying airliners] into skyscrapers'' - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:09] <exec> 08└─All the long lines and groping and all that shit are completely unnecessary.
[04:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:27] <exec> 08└─(You don't mind if I hand over the remaining 99% of the info to these nice Chinese and Russians, do you?).
[04:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:A E I O U, sometimes Y and sometimes W - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:21] <exec> 08└─I know cwm is of Welsh origin, and according to wikipedia, crwth is also. I've not heard of any others. At a guess I'd say Welsh is just weird.
[04:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A E I O U, sometimes Y and sometimes W - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:22] <exec> 08└─Makes sense to me that w is pronounced as a doubled u.
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[05:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Not like it's drugs - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Anti-Competitive Practices - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:10] <exec> 08└─that have been available for 50 years. Pharmabro buys a something, then jacks the price from $20 to $2000 for an epipen and he's cool. Qualcomm invents shit and decides how much people will pay within the 16 year patent window, and the farking US Government goes after them? Newsbreak. People need ce...
[05:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:22] <exec> 08└─Public/private key encrypted API key perhaps? I've done something like that to obfuscate database passwords in server property files. A dedicated person can always get them of course as all the information you need is there it's just finding it and figuring out what to do with it. You can always jus...
[05:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:59] <exec> 08└─It's an inventive idea, and probably completely untraceable.
[05:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:00] <exec> 08└─Argh, forgot to add: You can buy portable wireless-controlled X-ray devices off the shelf from any number of vendors. Here's one [or-technology.com], for example. It's the power levels that are the problem, a portable device capable of harming humans on any kind of scale would need a semi-trailer at...
[05:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Re:Streisand Effect - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:37] <exec> 08└─Not really. The entire WMD premise is total bullshit. This thing would have to be carefully focused to be a threat to a single person who was happy to remain in one place for a long period of time. If this nut can get a halfway decent lawyer, most of these charges will be dropped. The person bringin...
[05:11:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Blame Wall Street - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 3573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:26] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I know it's overused as an excuse, but blame Wall Street -- or, more importantly, the attitude toward business that it represents. And then consider the attitude toward investments that it creates. And then consider the way said investors will force businesses to act. What you seem to wan...
[05:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit sherlock? - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:24] <exec> 08└─It missed their only goal by a factor of six.
[05:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:12] <exec> 08└─The reason that the government is always involved in monopolies is that Capitalism rewards the most efficient and it is more efficient to form/manipulate/bribe/employ a government to enforce your monopoly. Using the railroad example. Businessman sees this new thing called a railroad and wants a mono...
[05:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Capitalism does not and has never accounted for long-term goals. Anything beyond the next fiscal quarter is a distant second concern and anything with a payout longer than 5 years would be laughed out of the board room. Capitalism permits taking the ideas of the best of humanity and giving...
[05:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02Force facial structure change - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:13] <exec> 08└─Well, after the inmates learn here's a child molester, I doubt his face will be recognizable anymore-- to software or anything else.
[05:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:obvious solution - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─Well obviously... You blame the people instead of the system. But sure, because they * chose their parents poorly * chose their geographical location poorly * chose their bad luck in life Instead of admitting that in a rigged system like ours you're bound to have a few super rich and billions of peo...
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[06:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02torturing the bags - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:08] <exec> 08└─It's easier for heavy and edged grocery items to poke a hole in the plastic bags, even if you double bag.
[06:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02I'll never run out of bags. - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:10] <exec> 08└─I have a metric ass load of saved bags, you could say I have a virtual library of Congress of the damn things. I just stuff a few in my pocket every time I go to the store and more often than not, I end up giving one or two to someone in line at the checkout. Whoever has to clean out my house when I...
[06:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll never run out of bags. - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:12] <exec> 08└─The store I goto has a recycle bin of them in front. I drop off a bunch every few months.
[06:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Would have liked to have been the marketing genius - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:14] <exec> 08└─The whole thing about reusable bags being all green and good for the environment is just a marketing gimmick to sell bags... That you will promptly forget about and never use. Or use a few times until they get nasty and you can't really wash them (perhaps some do wash). And getting a law passed to m...
[06:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Would have liked to have been the marketing gen - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:16] <exec> 08└─Paper or reusable are really the way to go. Plastic bags don't last very long and often times wind up in the ocean joining that huge hunk of plastic that's rapidly becoming continent size. Paper isn't too bad in that it's a bit more durable than plastic, and is made from renewable resources, unlike...
[06:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Paper is NOT biodegradable - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:18] <exec> 08└─Paper in fact do not decompose in landfill due to the lack of oxygen, and takes up much more space than thin plastic bags.
[06:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Always the other - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 1537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:21] <exec> 08└─No matter what is in favor today, the other choice is always better. There are tons of people who stand to gain from the switch, and very few who benefit from keeping it the same. Personally, I rarely (virtually never) use paper bags. Paper is very ecologically unfriendly to manufacture - the deade...
[06:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Not like it's drugs - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Anti-Competitive Practices - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:31] <exec> 08└─Qualcomm agreed to license their patents under Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms in order to have them incorporated into the standard. The government is going after them for reneging on that agreement now that it's patents are necessary to produce a device compatible with the phone syst...
[06:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:2) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:43] <exec> 08└─You can always just grab it in the clear from memory if it comes down to it.
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─A determined opponent will get the key if it is distributed to the users in the app. And now we apparently have automated tools to extract keys so it doesn't even require some 3rd world kid with a low enough value on his time to make disassembling code looking for keys to sell practical. I think rea...
[06:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Re:Different Moral - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:39] <exec> 08└─Really? +5 Insightful? Do you folks have any idea how many Government contractors are doing this very thing at this moment and getting paid millions for their effort? Think about that.
[06:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Streisand Effect - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:02] <exec> 08└─This thing would have to be carefully focused to be a threat to a single person who was happy to remain in one place for a long period of time.
[06:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:35] <exec> 08└─From my own summary: Following a controversial study that claims to explain why almost all "Biggest Loser" contestants regain massive amounts of weight, numerous ex-"Losers" reached out to the New York Post to dispute its findings — exclusively revealing that the show encouraged contestants to tak...
[06:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:39] <exec> 08└─Here is something interesting I have been doing in the past 2 months or so. I changed 1 meal out. My lunch is now a simple bit of fruit. About the same volume I was eating before. The rest of my meals and junk food are exactly the same (way too many colas and lots of HFC junk food, chips, burgers, e...
[06:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe just less calories than would be in a burger/etc.? I looked up "pineapple calories" and got a result of 452 calories for an entire 905 gram pineapple. If you are eating just a couple of voluminous apples and pears, you might be getting less than 400 calories in your meal.
[06:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:probable reasons for the old AMD CPU - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:58] <exec> 08└─As I recall, since Windows Vista, Microsoft has the OS build a unique fingerprint from the hardware. They wanted to stop people from simply copying a hard drive with a verified installation of Windows to other machines. That of course breaks the perfectly legitimate operation of moving the hard driv...
[06:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:39] <exec> 08└─Bell Telephone, Standard Oil, Micro$erft, Google; need I go on?
[06:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:46] <exec> 08└─But, your thinking makes no sense... If people are being imposed upon (i.e., they are suffering externalities), then it is in the self-interest of those people to push back, and thereby protect themselves; it is in this struggle where there is born the solution that works for everyone, at least in t...
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[14:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Is it better... - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:58] <exec> 08└─Is it better if we all have the power to be Big Brother? I wish this genie would go back into the lamp, but...
[14:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:59] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to spy on me because I'm fat and ugly. I win at last!
[14:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:02] <exec> 08└─*** FakeDiet 4000! SPECIAL OFFER Buy now! ****
[14:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:04] <exec> 08└─no, see, that only works for insecure people who crave attention.
[14:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:06] <exec> 08└─Cheap plastic surgery! Affordable payments!
[14:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:08] <exec> 08└─Fat, Ugly People Need Love Too! Meet Fat, Ugly Singles in your Area Tonight!
[14:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Unbiased? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:17] <exec> 08└─my random thoughts. Unbiased? A great deal of fluff surely. I'd be happy with finding published articles!! Oh and from the recesses of my movie bank... "Here we have the fifteen....*crash*...Ten commandments". (Mel Brooks)
[14:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unbiased? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:20] <exec> 08└─It was supposed to be one commandment: "Don't be a dick." Moses just had to be a dick and demand ten bullet points.
[14:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:23] <exec> 08└─for a curious future generation to open whenever it's deemed necessary
[14:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:25] <exec> 08└─"The only thing that can threaten this kind of data carrier is a hammer,"
[14:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:27] <exec> 08└─We should look for the previous archive. Or the repositories of the ancient aliens.
[14:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:29] <exec> 08└─Bad news. The alien knowledge repositories were tapped out after wi-fi was invented. It's why technological progression hasn't been progressing much lately. We're on our own again.
[14:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02previous archive - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:31] <exec> 08└─here you go! [gutenberg.org] (Gilgamesj) I think the ruins of Nineveh are gone, now that Daesh is done with them. What luck that these clay tablets were dug out before they got to them. If you read the translation, you go: "WTF was the translator stoned or what?". It shows what an enormous gulf of t...
[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Martin King day was Monday - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─emboldened by fire
[14:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:35] <exec> 08└─What language will he be using.? Languages change all the time and quite quickly too (in Human history terms)
[14:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02but why? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:38] <exec> 08└─bad: self destruct, or better, actively help satanic forces destroy your own civilization. worse: make sure future civilizations know all details. I say, leave the mt. rushmore thing standing, and call it a day.
[14:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When, not if - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:48] <exec> 08└─How else do you expect to offshore your security guards who watch video feeds all day and call the local cops for you. Capitalist bonus points for outsourcing labor to the local cops for free because your physical security is handled offsite.
[14:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Bad reporter, bad - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:59] <exec> 08└─site that doesn't support TLS certificates signed by the SHA-2 hashing algorithm.
[14:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:01] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered why using multiple hash algorithms simultaneously isn't the norm. Significantly harder to find a simultaneous collision in two different unrelated algorithms over the same input. I've seen this done in linux package managers for years already e.g. Gentoo's portage system where i...
[14:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:03] <exec> 08└─In theory it's not much more secure than the weaker of the two algorithms. In practice you need to select some pretty pathologically bad hashing algorithms for that to be the case. However, in cryptography, theory trumps practice, so it's not done. SSLv3 actually did this, it used a dual hash for ev...
[14:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bag discount is the only reason - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:42] <exec> 08└─I almost never use competitors bags, except for that one time when I was drunk. I haven't shopped drunk since.
[14:08:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Solid Waste vs Everything Else - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 663 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:45] <exec> 08└─The report does not consider the introduction of a carrier bag tax, the effects of littering, the ability and willingness of consumers to change behaviour, any adverse impacts of degradable polymers in the recycling stream, nor the potential economic impacts on UK business. The problem with the...
[14:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Sigh. - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:52] <exec> 08└─The 5p minimum charge applies to all plastic bags, not just single-use ones. But then, paper bags haven't been commonly available in the UK for many years*, so the charge isn't promoting paper bags; it's promoting reuse (or doing without) — both of which are environmentally friendly. (Or at leas...
[14:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Biodegradable plastic - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─Do you still use non-biodegradable plastic bags in the US? Here in Greece, we've had biodegradable plastic bags for years, which means that the rest of the world must have had them for decades. Leave one of those bags for a few months in a closet and, when you try to pick, it up it will fall apart i...
[14:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02The Bin Liner negation - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:58] <exec> 08└─Single-use plastic bags outperformed all alternatives, even reusable ones, on environmental performance.
[14:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02All about the smiling faces - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:00] <exec> 08└─At our grocery stores, the "false choice" of paper or plastic is just a customer service training ritual - engage the customer, ask them a harmless/empowering question, make them feel that you are serving them and they have choices, control.
[14:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gubbermint is a Monopoly on Violence - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Anti-Competitive Practices - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:10] <exec> 08└─Start by dismantling the monopolies that government has arrogated to itself.
[14:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:30] <exec> 08└─In your post, one "should" should be "shouldn't", shouldn't it?
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:32] <exec> 08└─or just "girlfriend"?
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Security" with scare quotes - 06Vulnerabilities Leave iTunes, App Store Open to Script Injection - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─The function takes information from the device, such iCloud credentials or devicename values, to alert users when a soon-to-launch application debuts.
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:13] <exec> 08└─Wow, so, now you just have to be a Hollywood script writer to be licensed to tell stories of mass terror attacks. Guy should have at least tried to get a SAG card, might have saved him 30 years in prison.
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:weird aspects - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─I'm coming up dry with Google at the moment but if it's the same case and I remember correctly, he had got the equipment from a dentist's office. I believe his idea was to put it in a van.
[14:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:46] <exec> 08└─He planned to fondle his victims' genitals, too?
[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─That term is so odious and vapid. I want to go back to "ABC weapons" (Atomic Biological Chemical).
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CORRUPTION is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─You're soooooo close, jmorris. So close it hurts. The only piece you're missing is why the government is mixed into these monopolies. Why did the government sell railroad right of ways to only one company? Why did the government mandate use of Microsoft Windows on their computers (and everyone else'...
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[15:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02how dare you - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:29] <exec> 08└─> after it had been trained to watch the speech movements of BBC News presenters for several hours A clockwork orange, 2017 edition.
[15:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how dare you - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:31] <exec> 08└─No wonder HAL snapped.
[15:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Funny) 02Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:33] <exec> 08└─"You're planning to park me next to that Yugo again, aren't you? I can't allow you to jeopardize our mission in this fashion."
[15:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Is it better... - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:41] <exec> 08└─Is it better if we all have the power to be Big Brother? I wish this genie would go back into the lamp, but...
[15:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to spy on me because I'm fat and ugly. I win at last!
[15:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:46] <exec> 08└─*** FakeDiet 4000! SPECIAL OFFER Buy now! ****
[15:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:48] <exec> 08└─no, see, that only works for insecure people who crave attention.
[15:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:50] <exec> 08└─while true you were exposed to spam because you gave out information about yourself which is kinda the crux of this topic
[15:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:52] <exec> 08└─Cheap plastic surgery! Affordable payments!
[15:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─Fat, Ugly People Need Love Too! Meet Fat, Ugly Singles in your Area Tonight!
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Made Possible by "Social Credit" System - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:57] <exec> 08└─For those of you who only read the summary, the submitter didn't just bury the lede, they left it out. All of this is enabled by China's "social credit" system which has the government playing the role of credit rating agency on steroids. The government is tracking the shit out of everybody and then...
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02It's comforting, really - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─You'll never get lost, ever! There's always a nosy bastard looking over your shoulder. If you think you're lost, just turn around and ask the nosy bastard!
[15:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Unbiased? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:09] <exec> 08└─my random thoughts. Unbiased? A great deal of fluff surely. I'd be happy with finding published articles!! Oh and from the recesses of my movie bank... "Here we have the fifteen....*crash*...Ten commandments". (Mel Brooks)
[15:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unbiased? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─It was supposed to be one commandment: "Don't be a dick." Moses just had to be a dick and demand ten bullet points.
[15:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─for a curious future generation to open whenever it's deemed necessary
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─"The only thing that can threaten this kind of data carrier is a hammer,"
[15:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─We should look for the previous archive. Or the repositories of the ancient aliens.
[15:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:21] <exec> 08└─Bad news. The alien knowledge repositories were tapped out after wi-fi was invented. It's why technological progression hasn't been progressing much lately. We're on our own again.
[15:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02previous archive - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:23] <exec> 08└─here you go! [gutenberg.org] (Gilgamesj) I think the ruins of Nineveh are gone, now that Daesh is done with them. What luck that these clay tablets were dug out before they got to them. If you read the translation, you go: "WTF was the translator stoned or what?". It shows what an enormous gulf of t...
[15:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:26] <exec> 08└─The previous archive at Alexandria was torched by radical Christianity. :(
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re: It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─Apparently [todayifoundout.com] not [wikipedia.org].
[15:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─1st link We do know that one of the rare historic mathematicians, philosophers, and astronomers who was female, Hypatia, was brutally murdered by a religious mob in Alexandria around this time (in 415 A.D.)
[15:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Martin King day was Monday - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:32] <exec> 08└─emboldened by fire
[15:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─What language will he be using.? Languages change all the time and quite quickly too (in Human history terms)
[15:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:37] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Kunze aims to expand the project, to copy research, books, and newspaper editorials from around the world—along with instructions for the languages needed to read them.
[15:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02but why? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:39] <exec> 08└─bad: self destruct, or better, actively help satanic forces destroy your own civilization. worse: make sure future civilizations know all details. I say, leave the mt. rushmore thing standing, and call it a day.
[15:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02"All of Human Knowledge" - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a slight exaggeration to me... I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be possible to put all available knowledge about... lets say... Lego, including pictures, on a stack of ceramic squares small enough to fit into the mines. It has to remain human readable, after-all, otherwise the future historia...
[15:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:3, Insightful) 02All the SN experts again - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:43] <exec> 08└─I'm a little disappointed in this community's response to this article. Here's basically a regular guy trying to do something good for humankind, that will last. All most of the commenters so far have been able to do is post snide comments about how his idea isn't perfect, or can't contain all human...
[15:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Interesting) 02hung up on Dark Age losses - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 2184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─Fear of loss never gets old. This theme of the Lost Knowledge of the Ancients has been flogged for many stories-- Indiana Jones and Snowcrash come to mind. More general loss and decline is all over history. We know of many ancient civilizations, and they are all fallen, their languages, cultures, cu...
[15:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:from the somebody's-watching-me dept. - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:55] <exec> 08└─Every time I see you, I think of you Every time I'm near you, I think of you I think of you when I dream of you, when I'm taking pictures of you I think of you when I'm in a blimp, looking down from up above you You know I'm missing you My mind is kissing you I'm right behind you now, Charlene Waiti...
[15:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When, not if - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:58] <exec> 08└─How else do you expect to offshore your security guards who watch video feeds all day and call the local cops for you. Capitalist bonus points for outsourcing labor to the local cops for free because your physical security is handled offsite.
[15:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When, not if - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─But...but...but... Internet of Shit!!!
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When, not if - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Allowing your lofal devices to hook into the cloud is like letting Fleece Johnson [theroot.com] into your house.
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Just another day in IoT land... - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─A critical security flaw was discovered in an IoT device? Say it aint so!!
[15:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Bad reporter, bad - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:15] <exec> 08└─site that doesn't support TLS certificates signed by the SHA-2 hashing algorithm.
[15:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:18] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered why using multiple hash algorithms simultaneously isn't the norm. Significantly harder to find a simultaneous collision in two different unrelated algorithms over the same input. I've seen this done in linux package managers for years already e.g. Gentoo's portage system where i...
[15:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:20] <exec> 08└─In theory it's not much more secure than the weaker of the two algorithms. In practice you need to select some pretty pathologically bad hashing algorithms for that to be the case. However, in cryptography, theory trumps practice, so it's not done. SSLv3 actually did this, it used a dual hash for ev...
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:22] <exec> 08└─> In theory it's not much more secure than the weaker of the two algorithms Could you elaborate more on this statement? I am far from understanding the math and details of cryptography, but if I hash a file with MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256, how is the weakness of MD5 lessen the security of the other 2 a...
[15:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:3, Interesting) 02sounds like D3O - 06Strength of Hair Inspires New Materials - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─[...] The faster hair is stretched, the stronger it is. "Think of a highly viscous substance like honey," Meyers explained. "If you deform it fast it becomes stiff, but if you deform it slowly it readily pours."
[15:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always the other - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─I ran a 8 year experiment back in the 1580s when one of the blacksmiths was singing the praises of their artisan plastic bags. Tacked a couple to the sunny side of a shed, and staked a couple more on the ground. Ten years later my wife took them down and threw them in the recycle when we moved out o...
[15:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bag discount is the only reason - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:04] <exec> 08└─I almost never use competitors bags, except for that one time when I was drunk. I haven't shopped drunk since.
[15:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Solid Waste vs Everything Else - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:09] <exec> 08└─Yes! Also, the HUGE problem with these bags is that they get into the water systems and oceans, and wreak havoc on animals. Not only do animals die in them, but they think they're food and eat them, then those little bits of plastic get consumed by those Humans who are not yet herbivores, causing up...
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Sigh. - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:16] <exec> 08└─The 5p minimum charge applies to all plastic bags, not just single-use ones. But then, paper bags haven't been commonly available in the UK for many years*, so the charge isn't promoting paper bags; it's promoting reuse (or doing without) — both of which are environmentally friendly. (Or at leas...
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Biodegradable plastic - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:20] <exec> 08└─Do you still use non-biodegradable plastic bags in the US? Here in Greece, we've had biodegradable plastic bags for years, which means that the rest of the world must have had them for decades. Leave one of those bags for a few months in a closet and, when you try to pick, it up it will fall apart i...
[15:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Biodegradable plastic - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:23] <exec> 08└─This I am interested in. To what extent does it biodegrade? Is it going to make all them micro plastics that fish choke on, or does it actually degrade to nothing?
[15:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02The Bin Liner negation - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:25] <exec> 08└─Single-use plastic bags outperformed all alternatives, even reusable ones, on environmental performance.
[15:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Interesting) 02All about the smiling faces - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:27] <exec> 08└─At our grocery stores, the "false choice" of paper or plastic is just a customer service training ritual - engage the customer, ask them a harmless/empowering question, make them feel that you are serving them and they have choices, control.
[15:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gubbermint is a Monopoly on Violence - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Anti-Competitive Practices - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:37] <exec> 08└─Start by dismantling the monopolies that government has arrogated to itself.
[15:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:58] <exec> 08└─In your post, one "should" should be "shouldn't", shouldn't it?
[15:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:00] <exec> 08└─The way you are supposed to do it, is to put the security in the server
[15:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:02] <exec> 08└─Precisely my thoughts. At some level there will always be something like this done by companies that care about that level of user-as-commodity trading. It is not a security flaw, it is merely the same practice that often results in security flaws - a code smell, if you will.
[15:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─or just "girlfriend"?
[15:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Security" with scare quotes - 06Vulnerabilities Leave iTunes, App Store Open to Script Injection - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:13] <exec> 08└─The function takes information from the device, such iCloud credentials or devicename values, to alert users when a soon-to-launch application debuts.
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, so, now you just have to be a Hollywood script writer to be licensed to tell stories of mass terror attacks. Guy should have at least tried to get a SAG card, might have saved him 30 years in prison.
[15:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:56] <exec> 08└─Hey now... Potatoes can be DANGEROUS [deviantart.com]!
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:weird aspects - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:09] <exec> 08└─I'm coming up dry with Google at the moment but if it's the same case and I remember correctly, he had got the equipment from a dentist's office. I believe his idea was to put it in a van.
[15:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─He planned to fondle his victims' genitals, too?
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:22] <exec> 08└─That term is so odious and vapid. I want to go back to "ABC weapons" (Atomic Biological Chemical).
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:24] <exec> 08└─From all the military people I had met they all referred to it as NBC (nuclear, biological, checmical) and then the alternate meaning of No Body Cares.
[15:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seems like a good place to add: - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:36] <exec> 08└─Don't support Leah Rowe! If you need reasons why, they have already been posted to Soylent and Slashdot in the past. She singlehandedly ruined the libreboot project, gave FSF/GNU a black eye and a finger, and has done quite a bit of publicized damage to the community as a result. Supporting people l...
[15:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how's the butthurt today? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:25] <exec> 08└─Let's rub a little salt in the tender anus, alright? http://www.expressnews.com [expressnews.com] Confederate Heroes' Day commemorates those who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. A...
[15:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CORRUPTION is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:29] <exec> 08└─You're soooooo close, jmorris. So close it hurts. The only piece you're missing is why the government is mixed into these monopolies. Why did the government sell railroad right of ways to only one company? Why did the government mandate use of Microsoft Windows on their computers (and everyone else'...
[15:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoBGhrw9V4M [youtube.com]
[15:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3g1tXmfJN8 [youtube.com]
[15:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:37] <exec> 08└─"I'll just say it again. Being a con man, a liar who can fool a lot of people is not some mark of greatness." You're perfectly correct. That's why I never voted for any Clinton!
[15:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:40] <exec> 08└─I would have to agree to the extent that I don't see either one as a particularly great choice.
[15:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:42] <exec> 08└─We are 100% in agreement there! My first, second, third, and fourth choices all lost. I'd have voted for any number of unqualified fools, ahead of the two unqualified fools who lead the race. Ehhh . . . .
[15:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That we are... - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:21] <exec> 08└─...about due for another purge. Global this time? :)
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[16:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─It is possible that the reptilian bloodlines are planning a wipe-out of all electronically-stored data some time in the future. Then of course they will have this "unbaised" source of data (containing their version of historic knowledge). This is called re-writing of history. Whoever controls the pr...
[16:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:13] <exec> 08└─If he were even remotely intelligent he would have some sort of Rosetta stone in included. Maybe take some widely known document that is likely to still exist in the future like the first few chapters of some bronze age religion's holy book and have them in the major languages of today like English,...
[16:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:but why? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─worse: make sure future civilizations know all details.
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:All the SN experts again - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─Welcome to modern America. What you're observing shows why our culture and civilization is self-destructing. If humanity is lucky, other nations will survive the impending disaster, and rebuild.
[16:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When, not if - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─Local not lofal. *facepalm*
[16:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:49] <exec> 08└─If you hash sequentially then remember that output of function is the same for same input no matter what (this is what being a function mean). So if you find collision on one function others used after it will also "collide" because they will get the same input. When you use them in parallel and lea...
[16:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like D3O - 06Strength of Hair Inspires New Materials - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:03] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Suprotect impact foam, which Held uses in their gloves. From one rider to another, the Held Titans are the most protective gloves on the market, period. Above and beyond the Knox Handroid. If you like your hands as much as I do for typing/drawing/writing/working, etc. I highly recommen...
[16:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Would have liked to have been the marketing gen - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─WTF are you talking about? The reusable plastic bags are the best. They *are* easily cleaned: all you need is a garden hose. And they're just as durable as fabric, at least the ones I use are. I use the plastic ones all the time, not only for groceries but all kinds of other random stuff too (includ...
[16:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Would have liked to have been the marketing gen - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:22] <exec> 08└─That you will promptly forget about and never use. Speak for yourself. If you're too dumb to remember them and reuse them, maybe you have a problem. I and people I know don't seem to have this problem. The reusable bags are great, not only for carrying groceries a lot more effectively and efficient...
[16:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neither - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:48] <exec> 08└─Another great way to get into that mindset is when you have to choose between literally starving or making next month's rent if you can't figure it out.
[16:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02There's still a choice? - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:54] <exec> 08└─Every grocery store in my town offers just the original thin plastic bags, I think. At least they never ask me paper or plastic. We went through Austin recently where there is a law against plastic bags, and we were given some strange paper bags that had handles. It was the first we realized there w...
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02plastic - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─The choice is obvious: plastic bags. I have never heard of people suffocating on a paper bag, but a plastic bag can be used to rid the planet of a human pest quite effectively. And it's reusable!
[16:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:this crap gets hard to understand - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Anti-Competitive Practices - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:06] <exec> 08└─Better to oscillate around the ideal government than to head into a single direction, never to return. Unless you think people, or any of their creations, are capable of perfection.
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─Once the technology is available, these people will lobby to require ads on the inside of our eyelids. Yes really. Mark my words.
[16:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:53] <exec> 08└─"As has been pointed out repeatedly Trump lies and takes credit for things he didn't do." The one thing he did do is take $1mil and turn it into $Xbil. If you think he "fooled/deceived/raped the money" into multiplying itself a thousand times over, you can argue with numbers until you run out of bre...
[16:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:04] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you say, however I still take issue with this: "I wouldn't trust her to guard a bag of dog turds for five minutes. Everything about her says liar and crook." If you or anyone is still "trusting your gut" when it comes to Clinton or Trump, you're doing it wrong. As a Trump vot...
[16:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:05] <exec> 08└─"Awe hunny bunny no no no, you have to use your brain not blindly give it over to an old turkey! " This is not an argument. Nothing in your comment was verifiable by evidence or reason. You sound like the prosecutor from Not Sure's court case in Idiocracy.
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[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it better... - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:50] <exec> 08└─Nope. I've met enough humans to know that I wouldn't want many of them to know too much about me or my family. And I'm not a good-looking woman. The people with official full access to my data are supposed to have accountability, but there's already too many of them.
[17:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:57] <exec> 08└─It's slim odds, but the blackmail potential of finding someone wealthy/powerful who went on a date with a fat, ugly person is enough to make it worthwhile. Sorry to disappoint.
[17:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:59] <exec> 08└─Billionaires all over the world now realize that Moscow is a better choice than Beijing, if you want to keep your extramarital activities hidden from ordinary people...
[17:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whole fetish for... - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:02] <exec> 08└─Fat ugly people. Especially if you assume they will have no standards and are desparate. Or if you want a fatty dom to facesit you (whether male or female.) And yeah the current information genie is out of the bag. Either the infrastructure and data gets destroyed (hahahaha, unless society rises up)...
[17:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bias - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─Unbiased? Good luck with that.
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:but why? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Giant Cockroaches will be less selfish and self-destructive. But I'm not sure Evolution will ever correct that in humans.
[17:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:from the somebody's-watching-me dept. - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:45] <exec> 08└─Every breath you take, Every move you make... Especially if you're a Chinese citizen, with a Samunsung Camera. we'll be watching you.
[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll never run out of bags. - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:33] <exec> 08└─Make sure that you store them in the dark, because UV breaks down the plastic that they're made of. They're also biodegradable, so in an aerobic environment bacteria will break them down (unfortunately, neither mechanism works when they're buried in landfill). Ocado gives 5p for any plastic bags (in...
[17:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:''Paper [...] is made from renewable resources' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 1848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:38] <exec> 08└─From TFA, cotton bags need to be used 131 times to use less carbon dioxide than single-use bags (assuming that you use the single-use bags three times). We have a few that we've had for 4-5 years and seem to be in just as good condition as when we got them, in spite of being used most weekends for s...
[17:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Paper [...] is made from renewable resources' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:40] <exec> 08└─What is the problem in using water? The water is not destroyed. The higher demand for water leads to more research and development in this area. Sequestering carbon in wood-pulp reduces atmospheric carbon. Also every so called "estimate" for amount of resources that go into something I have ever rea...
[17:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:California is full of literally insane people - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:03] <exec> 08└─dude, people have been wearing branded items forever. it is not virtue signaling to wear a rolex. it's wealth signalling. people that use these reusable bags tell me two things: whether they are misguided or not, they are concerned about waste they were willing to pay for the bags, and are using the...
[17:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tyler [6335] (Score:1) 02Re:Neither - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─If you are in that much of a financial pickle, post a case study on forum.mrmoneymustache.com No guarantees, but if you follow some of the advice, you will most likely be better off than you were. You will have to be willing to make some changes, but they aren't necessarily deprivation when you get...
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Silly X-rays. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─Why would you use x-rays when microwaves work much better? High intensity 433-900mhz microwave transmitters, for a satellite uplink, radar, or industrial microwave should be more than powerful enough to get through a wall of a nearby building and could cause delayed physical injury and death after y...
[17:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasa he a real threat? - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:03] <exec> 08└─If your job is to fight terrorism and there are virtually no terrorists to be found then your choice is to either be bad at your job or invent some terrorists. Motivated people like the kind that become FBI agents don't like to be bad at their job.
[17:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:38] <exec> 08└─Now I have a drawer with more narcotics than any sane person should have.
[17:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - Arthur T Knackerbracket sure has problems - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah.... cause I thought Soylent News was People, not bots. And certainly not shilling puff pieces from "youexec.com" for visitor tracking software. So much for stories that are worthy to be intelligently discussed. Unless you're a bot.
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[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:28] <exec> 08└─When NATO was a bulwark against the Soviet Union it was sound strategy to bring Turkey in, warts and all. But this is a perfect example for why NATO needs to be dissolved now that the reason for it to exist has not itself existed for a generation. We should do it slowly, we should allow plenty of ti...
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─Seems to me like you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Wouldn't be a lot easier for NATO to simply kick out Turkey? I guess you could make the argument that the other member nations aren't willing to do that, but it hasn't even been officially proposed yet. Given Turkey's new cozy relatio...
[18:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:31] <exec> 08└─> why NATO needs to be dissolved now that the reason for it to exist has not itself existed for a generation NATO has long been a very useful way to set the standards for the weapons other countries will have to buy to be able to fight alongside the US. Sure, Greek manufacturers could come up with a...
[18:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─But this is a perfect example for why NATO needs to be dissolved now that the reason for it to exist has not itself existed for a generation.
[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─Are there any countries in the entire goddamn world not actively running towards fucking up every piece of progress they've made in the past 50 years? Tunisia, maybe? I guess I've heard Saudi Arabia is tentatively considering joining the 20th century for basic human rights. So much going to shit tha...
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded of a fanfiction (I know, I know) where somebody time traveled to the future. However, for a few pages people weren't able to convince her of the fact. "The middle east is at war? The environment is being trashed? Asian country threatening economic ruination on the US? Africa subject to...
[18:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02A peer to peer collision avoidance system? - 06Amazon Wants Gov't Permission to Run Mystery Wireless Tests in Rural Washington - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:46] <exec> 08└─Just throwing out ideas here, but what about a peer to peer collision avoidance system. If they are planning on having hundreds or thousands of drones flying around delivering stuff, then there will need to be some sort of air traffic control.
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:A peer to peer collision avoidance system? - 06Amazon Wants Gov't Permission to Run Mystery Wireless Tests in Rural Washington - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:48] <exec> 08└─FAA restrictions requiring the drones to be within the line of sight of an operator are a killer for Amazon Prime Air. This test may be aimed at convincing regulators that is not necessary. They seem to be approving softer requirements incrementally on a case by case basis: https://www.faa.gov
[18:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's comforting, really - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:17] <exec> 08└─But when you ask the nosy bastards to testify for your defense in court, they refuse. It seems the nosy bastards are only looking to screw you.
[18:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Unbiased? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:29] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, they can just provide "their opinion" on what is an unbiased picture, which in itself is biased and not representative of "mankind", thereby breaking one of the core points of the exercise in the first place.
[18:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re: It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:42] <exec> 08└─Way to completely grab one sentence out of context to fuel your preconceived notions. Legend has it that Theophilius, Patriarch of Alexandria in 391 A.D., began destroying pagan temples in the name of Christianity. The classical “pagan” scrolls contained in the library would have been a point o...
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:47] <exec> 08└─If he were even remotely intelligent he would have some sort of Rosetta stone in included.
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:but why? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─We should at least try.
[18:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:but why? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:54] <exec> 08└─That still doesn't mean there's any harm in providing the information. In the worst case, it doesn't help. But it's not as if they'd come back to us with time machines in order to conquer us, right? (And if they'd do that, they can collect first-hand information using their time machines, so the pro...
[18:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Didn't the Brain Spawn already try this? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:01] <exec> 08└─Last time I heard of a similar project [theinfosphere.org], it nearly resulted in the destruction of the universe...
[18:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 2865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:31] <exec> 08└─There are INDEPENDENT (hash = (MD5(data), SHA(data)) hashes and DEPENDENT (hash = MD5(SHA(data))) hashes. For independent hashes, the security is, at worst, the security of the strongest hashing algorithm. For dependent hashes, the security is, at best, the security level of the weakest hashing algo...
[18:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like D3O - 06Strength of Hair Inspires New Materials - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the suggestion.. They seem pretty race-oriented. They don't seem very weatherproof. I generally go for ones more in line with touring and/or commuting (in all kinds of weather). I do value my hands, though.
[18:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Paper [...] is made from renewable resources' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─> The maths for working out what proportion of bags end up being used as bin liners is quite suspect and contains a lot of hand waving. It's doubly questionable since ever since I don't have plastic bags anymore, I switched to other things like toilet paper or toast packaging as bin liners. For anyo...
[18:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Break even at 11 uses for reusable bags - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:32] <exec> 08└─A lot of people around here use cotton bags, because lots of places hand them out for free with some branding on. They're stronger than the reusable carrier bags, but the fold up smaller.
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Break even at 11 uses for reusable bags - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:33] <exec> 08└─Do you use it to virtue signal? It seems that you have a lot to show, based on the prevalent beliefs as to why anyone would use a bag like this. You even state you have used the bag longer than virtue signalling has been a term. I applaud your dedication.
[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The Bin Liner negation - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:44] <exec> 08└─Bob's law of 3-digit estimates/polls/forecasts to the rescue: [foghorn level] BULLSHIT!
[18:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So What Are You Supposed To Do? - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 1894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:20] <exec> 08└─And this is why I want to go back ten years, when people wrote code without fear of offending their advertising network or third party sponsor entirely unrelated to the product they are trying to get me to use. Google may or may not have ruined a great thing, but they greatly contributed to its demi...
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, and there's more! Once you have that protective SAG card, the FBI will go after anyone you accuse of stealing / pirating your works, even in other countries. That SAG card has far more power than people realize. And with it you can never be held accountable for shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded the...
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─It was in the news a while back. From what I remember, he actually built it in the back of a van.
[18:47:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:12] <exec> 08└─In the new era of FBI entrapment, they will hand you, a mentally ill male, gray Play-Doh, tell you it's an explosive, and convict you for wiring it to a potato and an off-brand smartwatch. Hmm, maybe they will splurge for a Misfit smartwatch just to write a funnier report.
[18:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Granny - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:20] <exec> 08└─My grandmother as well, but only after she was about 70. She never smoked or drank though. Her brother did, started smoking at age 12 and quit when he was 82, died at 92. But you do realize that's not the norm.
[18:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame Wall Street - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─If ad networks didn't insist on tracking my browsing behavior from one site to another, running proprietary JavaScript programs on my computer, or running video ads on non-video articles, then I wouldn't feel a need to use a tracking blocker.
[18:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─I guess the excuse is that ads allow Windows 10 to be $119, not $179 or so like Windows 7 retail was.
[18:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:33] <exec> 08└─Interesting. How easily can your technique be adapted from GBP to kilograms of body fat?
[18:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:54] <exec> 08└─First rule (Frist lure?) of SoylentNews is: You do not Talk about SoylentNews! ***** Second rule of SoylentNews, only slightly less know: Beware of ACs posting youtube links. * (* Forrest (Confederate) Gump (Union) said: "Like is like an AC youtube link; you never know what you are going to get."
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[19:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:20] <exec> 08└─Is this still going to be FAT32 so only have persistent storage of 4 gb? I was just recently making a linux usb and found this annoying, since I got a 30 gb stick for like $12.
[19:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:21] <exec> 08└─Cool, another sans-systemd distro. I'm using Devuan since the first alpha release.
[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:24] <exec> 08└─I recently tried out Devuan but it was going to be too much of a pain to get setup as a desktop. The window manager kept defaulting to XFCE which was basically broken even though I selected KDE. Has anyone set up a full desktop dev environment with Devuan?
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:26] <exec> 08└─Yup, I think it is time to ignore the fanboys who said we were a fringe of greybeards who wouldn't be able to muster the effort to resist. Who were just howling in the wilderness, who were obsolete, who refused to join the inevitable march of History. The truth is that we UNIX folk are a minority, a...
[19:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:37] <exec> 08└─As an European, I'm actually wishing what you prospect will come to be. But, are you sure you're not underestimating how much NATO is fundamental to protect American interest abroad? Aren't you also underestimating how much military spending supports your economy? If NATO no longer existed, most of...
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:41] <exec> 08└─The guy in the other article who wants to archive all human knowledge has the right idea. This era in history is coming to a close. 1,500 years from now people will look at the ruins of the financial/commercial centers of cities like New York, London, Chicago, etc and wonder. The Temple of Golman'za...
[19:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─You still refuse to see the cause. You won. Your team elected a Shit Midas and the world turned into shit. YOU are the problem, we have now taken the first step toward a solution in removing you and everyone who thinks like you from having the power to continue ruining things.
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─Burn to death, nazi.
[19:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:47] <exec> 08└─Isn't burning to death exactly what nazis used to do?
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:49] <exec> 08└─Not on an industrial scale. You're thinking of Viet Cong.
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─The world will gradually discover the importance of doing that again over the next couple decades. JMorris thinks that being called racist for saying racist shit over the past couple decades was the worst that could happen to Nazis. I'm very sure that he has no idea how much violence actual fascism...
[19:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:hung up on Dark Age losses - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:07] <exec> 08└─Fear of loss never gets old.
[19:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:39] <exec> 08└─Long story short, using multiple dependent hashes not only not help, but can make things worse due to the way they interact; and using multiple independent hashes doesn't help because using multiple hashes doesn't really affect the search for a collision in the strongest one.
[19:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Paper is NOT biodegradable - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:23] <exec> 08└─My choice is paper which then goes into recycle....I assume this is the best for the environment. The OP addresses those cases where I should have brought my good canvas bag that will last a long time, but forgot. My choice is paper, but your answer lies in what you will do after you get home....if...
[19:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:1) 02Re:shopping cart - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:35] <exec> 08└─When you are finished using the cart, be sure to throw it in a river along with any bicycle wheels or car tyres you have lying around.
[19:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''hand them out for free with some branding on'' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:45] <exec> 08└─I am expecting to see this become a noteworthy thing in Cali. "Public broadcasting" has been doing it with tote bags for decades. Cloth shopping bags seems an obvious extension to the paradigm. Back when I was still driving (and paper bags were still the norm), I kept some paper bags in the car. I w...
[19:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re: Sigh. - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─It's possible the great British cliamte had something to do with the decline in use of paper bags. Then again, it's worth onting that when the Republic of Ireland chose to introduce a charge on single use bags, they levived the charge on plasticbags. The result: every shop gives out disposable paper...
[19:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:15] <exec> 08└─I admit I do not know. I assumed it was the javascript served by his domain which I did not allow. It could be the latest NSA malware which loads from a gif and allows Donald Trump to send tweets from your machine. I guess I am not paranoid enough.
[19:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:42] <exec> 08└─Just introduce a currency named "kilogram of body fat". Then you can gamble with that.
[19:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:05] <exec> 08└─Oh those are easy enough to provide what with all those leaked emails. Facts just weren't the topic of discussion today.
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[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Funny) 02With RAISIN, Grapes can be 75% smaller... - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:25] <exec> 08└─...without losing sugar. With unlimited fruit plans becoming increasingly expensive, or eaters being forced to ditch their fruit due to under-consumption, anything that can reduce the amount of grapes we consume is welcome This is especially true for beverages such as wine or juice, and the sun just...
[20:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02upscaling - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:26] <exec> 08└─I read through the description of RAISR. I do not fully comprehend the implications yet, but it seems that the idea is, it is a form of upscaling (I suppose that explains the name). The images can be stored at lower resolutions and then upscaled with a technique that generates a more accurate result...
[20:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:36] <exec> 08└─The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1 byte or 4,294,967,295 (232 − 1) bytes. This limit is a consequence of the file length entry in the directory table and would also affect huge FAT16 partitions with a sufficient sector size.[1]
[20:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─Why do you need a "persistent storage" file to begin with?
[20:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:40] <exec> 08└─To save all the packages and settings
[20:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:44] <exec> 08└─Install Mate. If you have a laptop you need to manually patch (one liner) one package and only rebuild another to get power management to work, Google will quickly point you to a page with detailed instructions. GNOME hard depends on systemd so it isn't ever going to work and apparently KDE is almos...
[20:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:47] <exec> 08└─GNOME hard depends on systemd so it isn't ever going to work and apparently KDE is almost as bad and nobody has yet put in the work to disinfect it.
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks to both of you.
[20:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03randomerr [6458] (Score:1) 02Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─I usually do small installs of Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, or Lubuntu depending on the age of the machine) for desktop setups or as print servers. Why wouldn't you use the systemd init system?
[20:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─You are shifting the burden of proof. The correct question is not "Why shouldn't you implement systemd" it should be "why should you implement systemd?" If you are starting from scratch, as you claim you do often, then the argument is pretty much only personal choice. If instead you are upgrading sy...
[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:56] <exec> 08└─Instead of starting their own fork to demonstrate systemd works they decided to hijack the main branch and then when people complain about it tell them to GTFO and make their own fork so the traditional shit continues working.
[20:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:59] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't you use the systemd init system?
[20:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:01] <exec> 08└─I rarely boot machines, and what little boot time improvement systemd can provide is not at all worth the increased hassle and time to wrestle systemd into submission.
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:03] <exec> 08└─There are many good answers to this, and you already have a few. Systemd is not simply an init system. It aims to replace a wide variety of critical system software, by wedging itself in as the init then changing the way everything else works. That in and of itself should raise some questions I woul...
[20:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02See also MX-16 from the same author - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:05] <exec> 08└─Those with more powerful machines (newer than ~10 years old or so) might prefer MX-16 by the same author (anticapitalista) which has a rather nice XFCE front end and is similarly devoid of systemd.
[20:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:16] <exec> 08└─Didn't you hear? Russia will soon be our ally!
[20:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:20] <exec> 08└─Very frequently California and Texas are very opposed to each other, but neither of them (seriously, as in over 20% of the state's population) are seriously moving to leave the United States.
[20:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, lets divide the world back into Axis and Allies, that didn't have any negative consequences AT ALL! I get where you're coming from, protect our own citizens and allies, but you fail as usual to see the bigger picture. The world needs to heal the divides, not create bigger ones. Your xenophobic...
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─I'm rather skeptical of this prediction. It requires humans to not go extinct, which I think is a little farfetched. A better prediction is that, a few hundred thousand years from now, some new civilization will arise, comprised of intelligent beings who evolved from some other species (dolphins tha...
[20:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:35] <exec> 08└─And yet jmo imagines that the progressives/liberals are to blame... He's such a brainwashed tool it really is hard for me to fathom sometimes. I guess Bush/Cheney had nothing to do with the shitshow we're in. I guess the fact that our political leaders aren't really red/blue anyway has no impact on...
[20:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:38] <exec> 08└─I don't like accusing people who I think are wrong of being brainwashed. JMorris and the modern hard-right are people who I think are so morally and factually wrong that their individual deaths could very well be a good thing for humanity, in spite of the actual people who'd be hurt along the way, h...
[20:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:40] <exec> 08└─And you're a complete moron that somehow can construct proper english sentences. Its hard to "live and let live" when there are people like you we should be legitimately afraid of, gun loving liberal hating willing to gas people type of bootlicker. I guess you just like getting a rise out of people,...
[20:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:42] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow's your big day! I've got big expectations for your team!
[20:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:how dare you - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:58] <exec> 08└─The AI truly learned to hate humanity after watching old reruns of Crossfire and The McLaughlin Group.
[20:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the perfect target for junk food advertising.
[20:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Made Possible by "Social Credit" System - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:21] <exec> 08└─Same in the United States. Any piece of government data obtainable by law enforcement, like home addresses from drivers licenses, can be obtained by private investigators or anyone with $50. Our government sells the data too. It just creates a bunch of "scary" bureaucracy around it that makes it sou...
[20:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All the SN experts again - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:01] <exec> 08└─Not thinking far enough. If humanity is lucky, there won't be any nations, and all humans are hybrid, many-shaped things, containing plant, man and machine parts... Which would remove the need to rebuild anything ever and the need to have external data storage?
[20:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oh no! - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:39] <exec> 08└─Experts warn the move [to] SHA-2 comes with a wide range of side effects; from unsupported applications, new hardware headaches tied to misconfigured equipment and cases of crippled credit card processing gear unable to communicate with backend servers. They say the entire process has been confusing...
[20:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:oh no! - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:40] <exec> 08└─I am not sure what you are complaining about. You attack both sides and then state the obvious.
[20:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Would have liked to have been the marketing gen - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:20] <exec> 08└─If you don't mind food poisoning, that's probably acceptable. Otherwise, it's great to be able to sanitize the bags being used to transport food. Cloth also better tolerates being folded and scrunched. 171 reuses sounds like a lot, but cloth can usually handle at least that much.
[20:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:Paper is NOT biodegradable - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─Why? Don't those disposal options release carbon into the atmosphere, whereas paper buried in a landfill sequesters it?
[20:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Paper is NOT biodegradable - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─So paper makes a stable structural base for building suburban housing in a previous landfill.
[20:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Actually cotton or just synthetic cloth? - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:51] <exec> 08└─A lot of people around here use cotton bags, because lots of places hand them out for free with some branding on. They're stronger than the reusable carrier bags, but the fold up smaller.
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''reusing [...] boxes'' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 1998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:01] <exec> 08└─reusing using boxes Slow down, Cowboy. Take a moment to proofread before clicking Submit. Yeah, I've been doing this for years. No bags to tear/flop over at inopportune times. After finding some boxes that are just the right dimensions for me, I took some other boxes, cut them up, and used that to d...
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[21:42:14] <exec> 08└─...without losing sugar. With unlimited fruit plans becoming increasingly expensive, or eaters being forced to ditch their fruit due to under-consumption, anything that can reduce the amount of grapes we consume is welcome This is especially true for beverages such as wine or juice, and the sun just...
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:upscaling - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:17] <exec> 08└─Which sounds like an outright lie. You can't retrieve information that isn't there; upsampling just makes something look sharper by interpolating, but it doesn't actually add lost information back to the image. To make an extreme argument, I can replace a picture of a line with a file that just desc...
[21:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Information theory... - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:20] <exec> 08└─Yup, they might need to brush up on it. Smartly upscaling a low-rez image can create a nice sharp image. But it will fill in the blanks with information that is different from the original. I guess in the era of photshop-everything and look-at-my-breakfast-plate, it's not a big deal, until the wrong...
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Information theory... - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─i think you just sold the product; it's a convenient scapegoat to deny wrongdoing. The machine said so, your honor.
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─The antix usb I am using has the first partition FAT for mere data interchange, second partition with a standard linux install and a grub entry for live install, the Live USB folder keeps the persistent data on the second partition.
[21:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─Mate is basically GNOME 2.x maintained and patched to rename everything that conflicts (by design) so it can be kept in a repo with GNOME3 without throwing up errors. Yes, I have Centos 6.x running on workstations here too, it is sane, it works and with some patching to keep Chrome working it is cur...
[21:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Upmodded because you are correct. Though it makes my soul feel like it needs a shower to agree with you on anything. Well, truth is truth; even Stalin couldn't be wrong all the time. You know, I think I figured out what your issue is: you don't "get" humanity. You and Uzzard both seem to be competen...
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:51] <exec> 08└─What horror stories? The only horror stories I hear about systemd are whiners whining about something that isn't going to affect 99.5% of the rest of the users. Get over it... systemd and Trump are here to stay.
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MX Linux - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah. (Rejected submission follows) from the middleweight-companion-to-a-versatile-favorite dept. antiX releases are codenamed after human rights activists. (The antiX help forum has a Greek Cafe corner where the topics tend to be freedom and civil liberties.) Berta Cáceres, after whom this release...
[21:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:09] <exec> 08└─Citation needed to the secession vote. This is the first I've heard of that. We'll see if it succeeds. (Seriously, if you want to be taken seriously in discussions of secession, you need to learn to use the correct word and spell it right.) Anyway, personally I think the idea of California seceding...
[21:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:12] <exec> 08└─Why is violence necessary? Why can't we just turn our backs on Turkey and leave them to their own devices? When I don't like one of my neighbors, I don't get a gun and shoot at him. Instead, I just put up a fence and ignore him. However, I would never advocate walling off the midwest/southern US ju...
[21:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:27] <exec> 08└─Wow, J-Mo. I will say this, der Drumpfenscheissmeister's election has really brought out all the crazy and evil from where it was hiding. I always knew you were bat-buggering insane, but this confirms you're actually evil, too. You have no idea, NONE, what kind of disaster for the entire human race...
[21:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02European Union candidate country. - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:28] <exec> 08└─European Union candidate country.
[21:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02HAL - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:47] <exec> 08└─Rotate the pod please, HAL. I don't think he can hear us.
[21:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:38] <exec> 08└─What language will the instructions be written in?
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:hung up on Dark Age losses - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:52] <exec> 08└─I find digital media a Godsend. A whole wall of books can fit on one SD card, and computers can search through that material for whatever I want far, far faster than I can. The only reason I keep various paper items is fear of copyright extremism. I'd dump my old print magazine collections in a hear...
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not misleading people, I'm stating the facts. Some people just assume SHA-2 or whatever is secure enough and know that adding more doesn't help. Some people are paranoid (like Gentoo) and add more to help with the security. But it is still a mistake to say that multiple hashes are more secure th...
[21:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always the other - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:21] <exec> 08└─(??? Do they forget the shoes and the shirts too?)
[21:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:59] <exec> 08└─Did he at least kill a chihuahua or some other deserving test subject before getting arrested? I mean, it could have been a science experiment to try to talk with aliens and he was just talking about other potential uses for it...
[21:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's enough to get into trouble for. They all have a prescription label. My doctor knows exactly why I have them.
[21:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Granny - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:16] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, had a boss who smoked a pack a day and got himself a heart attack and subsequent stroke around age 55. Great granny was just too mean to get cancer.
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[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─Netflix was a nice service, it will soon be a nice TV channel. It ain't worth a 374 PE to buy into. Reality check time, the old Netflix is dead, they realize it and are using their capital to transition to a TV channel before the market realizes it. The old Netflix could only work as an "in addition...
[22:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02I'm soaring!...Oh no!...*SPLAT!* - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm soaring high, on my Netflix hang glider this very minute. *comment brought to you from Netflix's comments section, which is a cut above the Youtube comments section!* I think I just got intercepted by a Google drone...*static*
[22:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:upscaling - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:25] <exec> 08└─Presumably, they are doing something "more" than upscaling, which will give (at least qualitatively) better reproduction of the original image than upscaling alone, and require more data as well. As far as I can see, it's just another evolution beyond jpeg et.al. with more acceptable quality at the...
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not All Bits are Created Equal - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing - not every bit carries an identical amount of information. What they've done is "put" the information into the upscaling algorithms - or more precisely into the choice of aglorithms, and the parameters to the algorithms. There is still some loss of information. Just not as much as...
[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not All Bits are Created Equal - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:31] <exec> 08└─Would you mind reading TFS's title again? without losing detail is most definitely incorrect.
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score:1) 02WTF does "75% smaller" mean? - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Is the new image 75% (3/4) the size of the old? Is the old image 125% (5/4) the size of the old - thus the new being 80% the size of the old? Is the new image 25% (1/4) the size of the old? Is it something else? Why do so many people want to sue the word "smaller" when combined with a percentage or...
[22:42:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 1132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:52] <exec> 08└─Yup, I think it is time to ignore the fanboys who said we were a fringe of greybeards who wouldn't be able to muster the effort to resist. Who were just howling in the wilderness, who were obsolete, who refused to join the inevitable march of History. The truth is that we UNIX folk are a minority, a...
[22:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─"we're talking about reducing my boot time from 5 minutes to 3 once or twice a day, which is nowhere near enough justification to mangle various other parts of the system that are already working fine." Holy moly batman! Why do you reboot so often?
[22:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─..Get over it... systemd and Trump are here to stay.
[22:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 1386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─There are many good answers to this, and you already have a few. Systemd is not simply an init system. It aims to replace a wide variety of critical system software, by wedging itself in as the init then changing the way everything else works. That in and of itself should raise some questions I woul...
[22:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Yeah, speech to text bit me again. Thanks for pointing that out ;P I'm having a hard time finding a citation, but I know that it was handed to the Attorney General for CA and that at some point it received the number of signatures required. AFIAK, the next time we will be voting it will be on...
[22:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:24] <exec> 08└─How far can they possibly get with that? The Civil War established that states don't have the right to secede. It would be a purely symbolic effort.
[22:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:26] <exec> 08└─It would be a purely symbolic effort.
[22:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:31] <exec> 08└─I would like to agree with what you say, this election has left a lot of anger and created a lot of division. However I still hold to the idea that creating divisions is a bad idea. The problem with banishing countries/states is that you set up future conflict. Cultures will diverge further and soon...
[22:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:33] <exec> 08└─As an addition, unless Trump and the Republicans go full dictator mode the way Turkey has, then if anything this last election cycle will wake up a LOT of people to the importance of elections. Expect grassroots campaigns to dramatically increase, and bullshit like the DNC pulled on Sanders to be sw...
[22:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 3558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:35] <exec> 08└─However I still hold to the idea that creating divisions is a bad idea. Why? We already have separate nations. There's a division between the US and Canada. Are you proposing that the US and the Canada merge into a single nation? What about the US and Mexico? The US and Canada, in particular, seem...
[22:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:41] <exec> 08└─and don't forget to visit the temple to the time god Bhen.
[22:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:44] <exec> 08└─I was kind of going out on a limb there to refer to Big Ben.
[22:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:53] <exec> 08└─One thing I've observed is that a lot of people are followers, and feel the need to find a group to fit into, and then they become happy foot-soldiers for that group, parroting its propaganda and philosophy and ardently defending it. It's not just the hard-right of today, you see this across history...
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Why, Universal Galactic, you silly rabbit. ;-) Does it really matter? Historians/linguists/archeologists seem to have a pretty good track record for figuring old/dead/obscure languages. I think the future ones will also do fine. Even if we get tossed back to the Stone Age, we will sooner or later ad...
[22:45:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02All the SN experts again - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 718 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:16] <exec> 08└─I'm a little disappointed in this community's response to this article. Here's basically a regular guy trying to do something good for humankind, that will last. All most of the commenters so far have been able to do is post snide comments about how his idea isn't perfect, or can't contain all human...
[22:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Paper is NOT biodegradable - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─That is a feature. Any idea for a better carbon sequestration? This is pretty good.
[22:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Pay-per-article with a 30 cent PayPal fee - 06Access Tokens and Keys Found in Hundreds of Android Apps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:45] <exec> 08└─And as my hobby grew, my business paid for the hosting as well
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[23:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Or, another possibility, - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─No one on the AGDQ stage acknowledged how weird this all was, leaving hundreds in the Herndon, VA ballroom and nearly 200,000 people watching live on Twitch temporarily guessing at what, exactly, was going on.
[23:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:26] <exec> 08└─You hit it on the head. I just hope someone picks up the reins of the old Netflix to fill the void. I am becoming less and less interested in their new model. Amazon Prime is confusing as hell to browse (what is free and what isn't?). I haven't tried Hulu or Sling yet, but that's not too far off for...
[23:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─I agree about amazon. It interface goes sideways pretty quickly. This works 'ok' but get off that page and meh... https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[23:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And they aim to be? - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, with numbers like those I'm sure they'll soon become the next MTV.
[23:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Problem soon solved ... - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:33] <exec> 08└─With the end of Net Neutrality, and perfectly-legal 3GB/month data caps on non-ISP-approved services, Netflix will die fast. Comcast and friends will get back to selling their Fabulous 5Mb/s Mega-Speed Deal for the CMOT price of $199.99 a month (plus fees, plus rental, plus taxes). All will be well...
[23:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not All Bits are Created Equal - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:49] <exec> 08└─They're not losing any information. They are adding information by trying to be clever in figuring out what detail is supposed to be there. The point is correct, that you can't add detail that isn't there to begin with. Their deep learning algorithms have been trained on lots of real-life pictures s...
[23:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF does "75% smaller" mean? - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:51] <exec> 08└─Why do so many people want to sue the word "smaller" when combined with a percentage or fraction? Do they not know how ambigious that is?
[23:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02ENHANCE IT!!! - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:54] <exec> 08└─Zoom in! Enhance JPEG section A6 - tighten up on the reflection of his eye - there's a mirror in the room he's in. Now we just re-vectorize the compression algorithms on the Z-Axis to anti-alias and...oh god, it's...it's a copy of this horrible script!!!
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ENHANCE IT!!! - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:56] <exec> 08└─http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qlmuy [dailymotion.com] Love this vid :)
[23:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:21] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't you use the systemd init system?
[23:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:24] <exec> 08└─People attracted to systemd come from Windows and thus have an expectation of needing to reboot frequently.
[23:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:26] <exec> 08└─Then you get the punchline. The whole reason we HAD to adopt systemd, boottime, is bogus. Install devuan + slimdm on a (older, slower even) laptop and watch it boot. The time between POST / GRUB and a login screen is so short an external monitor can't lock down a signal between GRUB and lightdm. If...
[23:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:30] <exec> 08└─Aaaeeeiiii! The Two Signs Certain of the Apocalypse!! . systemd and Trump are here to stay.
[23:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Unix Philosophy - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:33] <exec> 08└─the fundamental philosophies of x-nix ...then there is the antithesis: Windoze Specifically: Try to cram as much as you possibly can into a single piece of software. Complexity kills Ray Ozzie, 2010: Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers, and IT. Complexity makes produ...
[23:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:See also MX-16 from the same author - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:38] <exec> 08└─It is also possible to set up a Gentoo machine with OpenRC and MATE (or, presumably KDE, XFCE) and almost no systemd (udev seems to have a small systemd infection).
[23:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unlikely to happen. - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:56] <exec> 08└─In order for California to secede from the Union, a whole lot of businesses would suddenly have to deal with customs from Cali to adjoining states (or elsewhere in the US.) Just as an example, Intel has major hubs in Oregon and Arizona (latter doing chip fabrication plus R&D), while a majority of so...
[23:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:57] <exec> 08└─"Assuming we clean house and kick out the parasites" Who are the parasites? I'm curious.
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:be undesirable - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:58] <exec> 08└─As long as your not paying the world's finest(according to Putin) prostitutes to urinate on a bed, apparently. ;-)
[23:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Is Earth the best place? - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it make more sense to put such an archive on the moon along with a giant sign, visible from Earth, that says, "Giant Archive of all human knowledge ever here?" Yes, given several million years meteorite strikes could take that out, too, but if civilization doesn't build itself back up befor...
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[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks for typing all that up, that's what I was referring to in my post but (a) didn't want to type a small essay and (b) was too lazy to go dig up all the refs. As I mentioned, in theory it's an issue, but you have to use pathologically broken hash algorithms in order to demonstrate it. In practic...
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