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[00:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Fucking magnets, how do they work? - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:09] <exec> 08└─The article says: [...] the sediment samples were processed by magnetic separation, washing with water, and size fraction separation.
[00:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Fucking magnets, how do they work? - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:10] <exec> 08└─Nearly pure fayalite is a minor constituent in some granite-like rocks, and it is a major constituent of some metamorphic banded iron formations. [...] One of the important factors that can increase the portion of forsterite in the olivine solid solution is the ratio of iron(II) ions to iron(III) io...
[00:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking magnets, how do they work? - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:12] <exec> 08└─They work like the tides. Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.
[00:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking magnets, how do they work? - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:14] <exec> 08└─it can be explained only if you DO IT LIVE!
[00:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"Could you give me the debris from your gutters?" - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:17] <exec> 08└─"OK but why?" "For SCIENCE!"
[00:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Could you give me the debris from your gutters - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, it you want to clean and fix my gutters, you can keep everything you find inside. May I interest you in analyzing my shingles? You only need to replace the whole roof to collect them for free!
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:"Could you give me the debris from your gutters - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:21] <exec> 08└─"She blinded me! With... her gutter debris!"
[00:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─I know right. Haven't they moved on to quantum ASICKO cereal clusters yet?
[00:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:34] <exec> 08└─Hey, it was the first mainstream example of a GPU being used for something other than gaming that came to mind.
[00:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:38] <exec> 08└─winbox --- the only .exe i use
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:40] <exec> 08└─Large corporations that are switching to Linux desktops have always some cruft left that is just impossible to get working on alternatives and they are switching from Windows for a reason so they absolutely don't want to keep maintaining (and paying licenses) for Windows which are running on VMs. I...
[00:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:42] <exec> 08└─Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo 2. Oh and Rosetta Stone when I can remember to bother with it.
[00:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 1864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:44] <exec> 08└─"Real" Windows costs money, and VMs are not cheap and easy to maintain. I doubt everyone can manage their own KVM/VMware pools of hardware very well, so for the average person that leaves you with VPS that support Windows. All of those cost extra to a significant degree. In other words, I ain't payi...
[00:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02CrossOver Office here - 06Wine 2.0 released - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:48] <exec> 08└─We work in language services, and fortunately our clients are also happier with (or tied to) older .doc formats, so we're still using CrossOver Office (a commercial extension to Wine) from about 2004 for - get this - Office '97. Works fine, better than any subsequent version, no need to change. Nice...
[00:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:59] <exec> 08└─I meant to append this link. /article.pl?sid=16/11/12/1459250 [soylentnews.org]
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apology for the extreme venom - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:07] <exec> 08└─...at least that which was directed at you. The link (orig) paradigm was also broken after that was "improved". The first place to have published the story would have logically been the (orig) under the "improved" method of that editor. That was reversed by that ham-fisted editor. ...and if the PBS...
[00:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wet Foot, Dry Foot, what about Hairyfeet? - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:13] <exec> 08└─What happened to the "Hairyfeet Challenge" Policy? Is that abolished as well? Was there ever a difference between wet Hairyfeet and dry Hairyfeet?
[00:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No better way? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:44] <exec> 08└─I have the feeling that, like the Disney Movie effect and other things, it'll be a positive change for SOME ASD people, but not others. And that should be OK, but it won't be. We [especially in the US] want ONE answer, ONE treatment, etc., and then try to come down on The System when a possible trea...
[00:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:47] <exec> 08└─"Soylent Brown is fecal!!!!"
[00:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sounds full of shit to me - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:49] <exec> 08└─anyone who downvotes me is a DENIER!
[00:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Now we know why 1984 is selling so well - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:17] <exec> 08└─Big Brother is watching. They are pushing double-speak as "alternate facts". Reminds me of that Doctor Who quote posted on i09: “You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common,” the Doctor said. “They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to...
[00:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, if forgot about the khallow reading disability!
[00:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The beginning of the end - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:05] <exec> 08└─I'm seeing a beautiful wall built at no cost and perfect security for all. Plenty of thoughts and prayers for mass gun shooting victims. A new war following a bombing somewhere? Who's left that doesn't have nukes yet... Wonderful, wonderful tax cuts. "The best" healthcare when Democrats stop blockin...
[00:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you think Why exactly do fleeceable investors, gambling irrationally in ways that HFT can exploit, deserve to keep their money?
[00:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for about 50-100 Permanent Jobs - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:31] <exec> 08└─No, the buggy whip makers were all forced to be dominatrixes!
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[01:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Wind sand and stars - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:24] <exec> 08└─There's an awesome book about the earliest air mail pilots and their crazy ass stories. One of my favourites is a guy whose plane conks out midair and he puts it down on a tall plateau thing in Africa that's the size of a few football fields and got sheer drops on all sides. Finding all these little...
[01:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wind sand and stars - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:26] <exec> 08└─That was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that.
[01:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Commerical use - 06Wine 2.0 released - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:47] <exec> 08└─Some of GOG.com's Mac and Linux ports of games are the Windows version with a baked-in WINE wrapper. The Mac version of Evil Genius, for instance. That's how they offer Mac/Linux versions of games that only got Windows releases back when. Although they don't do it for all the games WINE can run, so...
[01:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:03] <exec> 08└─We need them in general, but the medical business machine doesn't want them. It is so much more profitable to have doctors that can't diagnose the flu without $1000 in blood tests and a chest x-ray. We need to bring back the art of the clinical diagnosis and we need doctors accustomed to understandi...
[01:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:04] <exec> 08└─So, by "Fake" you mean "True, but I don't think it's important."
[01:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''my dad'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:13] <exec> 08└─Did he go into remission and live another 5 years? (What is considered "a cure".) ...or did they simply extend his life by a few pain-filled months while he wasted away? In my daddy's case, it was the latter. Cuba's medical system emphasizes easy access and early intervention. Daddy was indoctrinate...
[01:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''my dad'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:15] <exec> 08└─s/to be so/to be superior -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:17] <exec> 08└─You're full of shit and spreading fake information. I know it's convenient (politically) to denigrate Cuban doctors as much as possible. Whatever keeps with the narrative that Communism has wholly failed everywhere, and that Cuba never evolved to meet any challenges at all. For the record, they are...
[01:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:31] <exec> 08└─Depending on the origin of the Cannadinoids, they also give you a French accent and a taste for exotic French cuisine.. They may even make you a **gasp** Socialist!!! You may now safely turn off your snark filter....
[01:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:40] <exec> 08└─As I've said before, here, I think the gut has lots to do with body problems: -Our son has done amazingly better on a gluten free diet: he no longer acts high, he no longer regurgtates his meals, he can focus better and is more social and all round "less autsticky" than he was (took pretty much a ye...
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bush, Obama, Clinton, Trump... - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:59] <exec> 08└─They are all pro-surveillance. This should not in any way be a partisan issue, it is US (the people) versus THEM (the politicians and their authoritarian backers of various stripes and creeds.) We need to remind them who is in charge and stop acting like livestock for them to do as they please. And...
[01:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scaled Back not repealed... - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:14] <exec> 08└─Canada is one of the few 'green' nations in the chart on http://infogalactic.com [infogalactic.com] (or wikipedia if you prefer, but fsck supporting Wales and his financially motivated 'non-profit') along with Ghana and a few other places you wouldn't...
[01:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I would be happy if the chromebook/netbook market - 06All New Chromebooks to Support Android Apps - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:14] <exec> 08└─just started providing proper flush-fit push to release sd card slots so I can use my own removable storage. Or better yet *TWO* of them. That would solve most internal storage issues, allow you to work around embedded eMMC cards so you don't fry them and then have to throw your device away betcause...
[01:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds completely un-like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember those. At least they're not actually destroying old research intentionally like the original poster suggested. As I recall they lost some Moon rocks during that era as well. I remember being 10 years old, watching the first Moon landing. Sigh, such greatness seems beyond the world i...
[01:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like Stephen Harper - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:08] <exec> 08└─"George Orwell was most heavily interested in the science of spin doctoring before that was a formal idea, and there's little question that Trump and his organization are very good at it." Well, at least we have a President whois good at something. Remember Hillary Clinton's "Correct the Record"? Th...
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[02:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:19] <exec> 08└─Well, nice try. Now you can burn in hell along with the rest of those bastards, Mr. Shkreli!
[02:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:21] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of wasted potential. Can we organize a Battle Royale between Unethical Lawyers, corrupt government members, and Asshole-Level-Greed Executives? Producers would make a truckload of cash, but they'd need to settle for Pirate OTA Broadcast, after season 1 decapitates most Broadcasting comp...
[02:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He is Right - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:23] <exec> 08└─They are all a bunch of fucking assholes. His mistake was to brag about being an asshole. It would be nice if he drags them all down with him. Unfortunately he's got name recognition and they don't.
[02:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confounded micrometeorites - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:38] <exec> 08└─they killed the micro-dinosours!
[02:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...and, after the OS is up and running... - 06Wine 2.0 released - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:54] <exec> 08└─[WINE is] also generally faster Your comment could be seen as a follow-on/mate to the comment by super_bob, currently directly above yours and posted a few minutes before yours. Now I'm wondering if any Soylentils have made a comparison of the speed of any particular app running via WINE relative to...
[02:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''export/recode Excel macros to OpenOffice'' - 06Wine 2.0 released - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:57] <exec> 08└─The guys in Munich hit this problem early on and developed (GPL'd) WollMux. [google.com] Have you heard of that? Did you give it a try? ...and OxygenOffice (a fork of OO.o, affiliated with SuSE) had decent M$Orifice macro compatibility for the most-commonly-used VBA stuff a bunch of years back. The...
[02:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:02] <exec> 08└─I guess my question is who WINE is really for these days. Is it a matter of price? A matter of principle of not using Microsoft? Something elsE? What's the market niche WINE still occupies?
[02:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CrossOver Office here - 06Wine 2.0 released - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:06] <exec> 08└─Good to know that Linux & Crossover (or WINE) is an option for me in the future. I'm still using Office '97, have managed to install it on Win7 without too many error messages. My amateur workaround is to get Win7 updated to some reasonable state and then turn off updates completely, then install Of...
[02:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Commerical use - 06Wine 2.0 released - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:09] <exec> 08└─It's not just gog's stuff. The version of System Shock 2 on Steam uses wine, and furthermore, wine gets used in some "native" game releases, at least indirectly. Some OS X ports of EA games (Sims 3 was one) used TransGaming's Cider for the port, for example, which was a proprietary wine fork. Parall...
[02:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wet Foot, Dry Foot, what about Hairyfeet? - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:39] <exec> 08└─Well, personally I find it difficult for an OS to pass Hairyfeet Challenge when the computer is wet. Therefore, I recommend dry.
[02:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:01] <exec> 08└─I agree with the majority of your post, but the NHS is going to be bait and switched, more and more 'small charges' and 'private sector competition' will be added... and in the Tory voter crowd, it will be seen as a necessity brought on by 'the immigrants' and the breadth of services now offered by...
[02:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:TRump is actually accomplishing something? - 06Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:47] <exec> 08└─Someone didn't get their "Runner-up" trophy in the mail yet!
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[03:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:29] <exec> 08└─That could work. The contests could be to the death and be held in some kind of arena. If the bouts started to get a little stale they could mix it up with ravenous beasts trying to eat the contestants. The Donald could sit in judgement as a tie-breaker in close matches, and dispatch the vanquished...
[03:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:...and, after the OS is up and running... - 06Wine 2.0 released - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:03] <exec> 08└─I'm taking into account the system load taken on by running Windows in a VM. This relates to it being a pig in general, and also to what I mentioned about it beating the crap out of the disk. I would guess that most applications run at a similar speed, tending toward running faster under Windows *na...
[03:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:...and, after the OS is up and running... - 06Wine 2.0 released - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:05] <exec> 08└─As someone who's done a lot of work on both, I'll put in my two cents. In general, I/O operations on Linux are considerably faster in my experience when taking account same hardware and same filesystems (or raw read/writes); for network performance alone, Linux generally has the edge. In terms of GP...
[03:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:13] <exec> 08└─XP - in a VM, stayed up. Win7 - in a VM, self-destructed. Wine is welcome with v2.0, IF stuff works. I have several applications that I would like to run despite the passage of time. Setup with Wine so far was a nightmare, so hopefully 2.0 fixes a lot of that. As for "Wine 2.0 released" ... I consid...
[03:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''using Office '97 [...] a customer demanded it'' - 06Wine 2.0 released - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:18] <exec> 08└─I started using Office '97 when a customer demanded it...in 1998 Have you tried those documents using a FOSS app? Is there something about the gratis and libre stuff that hasn't achieved compatibility with the 20 year old proprietary app? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02LTSpice - 06Wine 2.0 released - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:22] <exec> 08└─Electronics simulation. Available for Windows and (somewhat lagging) Mac. Moved from Mac to Linux after my rMBP logic board crapped out in (a most annoying and expensive to fix) way. Even a more up-to-date version on Linux. The author makes sure that the software works neatly with Wine. Which it per...
[03:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:37] <exec> 08└─It is so much more profitable to have doctors that can't diagnose the flu without $1000 in blood tests and a chest x-ray.
[03:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''my dad'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:49] <exec> 08└─Condolences on your father. A long time friend who lived in LA died last year from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, he was in his mid-70s. Two different oncologists recommended chemo but on further investigation my friend found out that it was (a) agonizingly painful and (b) typically worth a couple of months....
[03:44:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:39] <exec> 08└─What was the point of having a national referendum if the votes don't matter?
[03:46:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─Or, more to the point, it basically adds up to "anything the (supposed) Good Guys can use, the Bad Guys can use too". It's just like how if you keep a key to your house under the potted plant in your backyard, a burglar can look there too, find the key, and get right in.
[03:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I would be happy if the chromebook/netbook mark - 06All New Chromebooks to Support Android Apps - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:48] <exec> 08└─I just checked my cheap Chromebook. The SD card reader apparently leaves 2/3 of the card exposed. I then discovered that half-height SD cards and microSD adapters exist [androidcentral.com]. But if 2/3 of the card is exposed, half-height would still leave a bump. The ChromeOS playbook is about givin...
[03:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02FTTH - 06NTT Creates 12 Core Single-Mode Optical Fiber - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:59] <exec> 08└─At the curb or it doesn't exist! Damn, I remember the days when our ISP was the hot shit because we had a T3, and this was in Seattle.
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[04:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Happened in a country not my own - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:09] <exec> 08└─A rather insignificant one at that, after the vote taken several months ago. / remind me again why the UK matters to me? // I fast forward any mention of the royal family /// except those of Kate in a bikini or less //// of which, I have seen zero. nada. nothing.
[04:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Weak sauce - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:11] <exec> 08└─How is that a win for the wheelchair user? He wanted to force the buggy (stroller) to move. The court decided that the buggy should not be compelled to move. Let me say something sexist: It is usually women who have an unreasonable sense of entitlement.
[04:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Barren Wasteland - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:13] <exec> 08└─Let the previous story languish, it deserves no attention! On to this story! Every situation is different so without having been there it is difficult to judge. Was the bus full and there was no place to put the baby stroller other than there? If there was space then the woman is an entitled mother...
[04:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02There is already a search engine - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:20] <exec> 08└─Free search (Google powered) AND free download: http://sci-hub.cc [sci-hub.cc] The first website in the world to provide mass & public access to research papers
[04:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:31] <exec> 08└─Pay for Health Care ? You Americans are stupid. Spending all that tax money for weapons and solders instead for free Health Care for everyone. I'm glad I live in a sane country with free Health Care and almost no money to military.
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:32] <exec> 08└─I notice the trolls who use this stupid comparison never mention what superior military-free country they come from, which country or organization will protect them next time there's a war, and how much in taxes are taken from them to pay for their "free" healthcare.
[04:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...and, after the OS is up and running... - 06Wine 2.0 released - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:07] <exec> 08└─Hell, I just started a raw diet, throw those numbers at me!
[04:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''using Office '97 [...] a customer demanded it - 06Wine 2.0 released - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:19] <exec> 08└─> Is there something about the gratis and libre stuff that hasn't achieved compatibility with the 20 year old proprietary app? Yes, layered figures often display incorrectly, missing layers. This is true for .doc files created on Word which I try to open with Open Office. These are engineering figur...
[04:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:51] <exec> 08└─I would pay $1k to know who on this site is a shill and who is not. I presume there are a good chunk of old neckbeards who are stuck in their ways and haven't been able to suss the truth from the crap. Anyone who lived through the 70s/80s got blasted with the most dramatic propaganda and lies, the c...
[04:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make airbags work better first... - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:38] <exec> 08└─One of them was a fender bender, on the others the car was smashed in nearly to the windshield on one, hit the sidewall of the freeway side on, and one I nearly got t boned, but it was more like L.
[04:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make airbags work better first... - 06New Metamaterial Could Let a Car Be Its Own Airbag - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:39] <exec> 08└─This is interesting, that much damage seems like you should have seen airbags firing...in at least one or two of the crashes you describe. As someone else noted, congrats on still being here. How old was your car(s) at the time of the accident(s)? Are you in a climate that promotes corrosion (salty...
[04:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:38] <exec> 08└─Too bad, you posted anonymously.
[04:49:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 910 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's like this: information asymmetry can be so profound that HFTraders can rob the profit from basically anyone else at the market. That is to say, they can have someone else take the risk at choosing to buy at a certain price, someone else take the risk of selling at another price, and eat eve...
[04:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:High frequency trading - 06Solarflare Claims Reduction of Networking Latency to 20-30 Nanoseconds for High Frequency Trading - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:50] <exec> 08└─However, finance people quickly realized they can play shell games with stocks and fleece people out of their money.
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[05:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Barren Wasteland - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:12] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I submitted a better Zuck story. Was the mother standing up or sitting on a collapsible seat (that you can put away to make room for wheelchair users)? Uh oh, do I have to RTFA?
[05:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:32] <exec> 08└─We're coming for your capital gains, Chuck! Doesn't matter what country we are coming from. We are still coming for you, Chuck! Health care is a universal human right. So we are coming for your capital gains, Chuck! Everyone is entitled to the best care society can provide. So we are coming for...
[05:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:33] <exec> 08└─Just pick a western nation that is not the U.S. and you'll not go wrong.
[05:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:4, Insightful) 02So what's your point, Martin? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:35] <exec> 08└─What was this about, were you just trying to make sure everyone knew you'd have company in hell? Maybe you assholes can save a little money on a group discount ticket or something.
[05:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02500 tiny specks out of 300kg - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:52] <exec> 08└─So, for each pound of roof gunk, you might have (on average) one tiny micrometeorite. I wonder what the distribution was, did they keep the sources separate? Did the concentration vary by latitude? Did all the micrometeorites come from just one or two roofs, or were they more evenly distributed?
[05:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:17] <exec> 08└─I guess my question is who WINE is really for these days. Is it a matter of price? A matter of principle of not using Microsoft? Something elsE? What's the market niche WINE still occupies?
[05:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Commerical use - 06Wine 2.0 released - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─Arcacnum needs to come with Wine's version of the D3D libs as it doesn't run on modern Windows without it...
[05:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, not to the extent you think. It really is becoming a lost art [nih.gov].
[05:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:''only sent 70K''[1] - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:52] <exec> 08└─charon is young, but s/he's heart is in the right place. charon will get better with more experience. I, for one, welcome our neophyte editor, and praise his/her choices!
[05:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Guts are an important part of the nervous system - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:29] <exec> 08└─:) I almost wrote "nervous shitstem."
[05:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I read the study - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:42] <exec> 08└─Terrible, terrible study design [biomedcentral.com]. Control group = children without any mental illness who were just monitored, not treated. THAT IS NOT A CONTROL GROUP. A control group would be children with autism who received a placebo. No wonder science is so fucked up nowadays.
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[06:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:11] <exec> 08└─Those assistants need to recognize who is speaking...
[06:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:12] <exec> 08└─If I had to choose between giving up some personal info or having my kid accidentally order a $150 doll house from Amazon....
[06:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AMEE - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:14] <exec> 08└─there was a movie that has foreseen this... just don't tell your phone that you intend to destroy it or it might end up killing you instead
[06:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Happened in a country not my own - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:23] <exec> 08└─You ought to be more specific: do you have a touch screen, a track pad, or a mouse? Do you have a PC, a Mac, a tablet or a phone? For a mouse: The front of the mouse points away from you and has two buttons on the left and right which you can click. These allow you to open programs and menus. In th...
[06:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's not like he could stand - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:28] <exec> 08└─The mother could hold the baby and sit/stand somewhere else. A baby stroller is a convenience, so if it cannot be accommodated then the people using them can find other convenient methods of transportation.
[06:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:There is already a search engine - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:37] <exec> 08└─Free as in copyright infringement, that is. http://crln.acrl.org [acrl.org] https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org [americanlibrariesmagazine.org] https://qz.com [qz.com]
[06:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:34] <exec> 08└─Uhhh just FYI you can get Windows 10 for free now [windows.com] which if all you are wanting to use it for is gaming or running some Windows only program? Meh works good enough for that role. Personally I'll stick with win 7 until the "Win 10 Pirate edition" comes out with all the adware/spyware str...
[06:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:17] <exec> 08└─I would pay $1k to know who on this site is a shill and who is not.
[06:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02Re:How many times are we going to see this? - 06A Trip Down the League of Legends Graphics Pipeline - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:40] <exec> 08└─This "How it Builds a Frame" article has been written very many times, for various definitions of "it".
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[07:42:19] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't what the phone knows about you. it's that it tattles. Ideally, it should only answer to you for many of it's functions (for example, ordering stuff on your credit card). If you allow 'guests' to use it, it should know to use safe search when a child asks a question. It should know...
[07:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your phone is a direct link to the NSA - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:22] <exec> 08└─who didn't know this after 1994? oh idiots
[07:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Barren Wasteland - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:34] <exec> 08└─Here, they folded up the seats where the wheel chairs go permanently, so they can be used only by wheelchairs. This issue simply never occurs now. The signs say the folding seats were deemed unsafe, and maybe they were, but it solved the problem of people not relinquishing the seats for those who ar...
[07:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Enhancing? - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:44] <exec> 08└─"... and will make its tool free to all in a few months after enhancing the product." What does that mean? Facebook integration?
[07:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is gross - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:46] <exec> 08└─I don't want a Zuck looking anime holographic girlfriend!
[07:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:500 tiny specks out of 300kg - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:19] <exec> 08└─Seems like the perfect follow up study. In this instance, I believe the goal was just to prove their existence. Now it's time for a more detailed study.
[07:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''who[m] [is WINE] really for these days''? - 06Wine 2.0 released - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:46] <exec> 08└─Nerdfest and edIII have both mentioned Telemetry. Now even Hairyfeet has mentioned the spyware. Rich (945) has mentioned LTspice. If I was still working, that would probably be on my list. Windoze on bare metal? Absolutely not. I don't have the time to figure out how to constantly adapt and outmaneu...
[07:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Adobe Digital Editions - 06Wine 2.0 released - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:50] <exec> 08└─This, though lately, it's gotten flakey on me: spinning forever and never downloading the actual book. I guess I'll have to try 2.0 and a fresh install.
[07:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''using Office '97 [...] a customer demanded it - 06Wine 2.0 released - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:56] <exec> 08└─OpenOffice has been dead since the Oracle acquisition of SUN. Try LibreOfiice, which is the fork where the development has been happening for the last 5 (10?) years.
[07:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:27] <exec> 08└─I thought you were joking at first. But if that is your belief then YOU are part of the reason a majority voted to leave.
[07:45:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:41] <exec> 08└─The votes would've mattered if "remain" had won
[07:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Johnson - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, this is an american fire drill here, as opposed to a chinese one. I run FreeBSD and am not at all concerned with any of the spying these assholes are capable of. As long as we have a free people on the planet somewhere, uninfected uncompromised code will always be. Or course those running M$ wi...
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[08:42:19] <exec> 08└─Also, if you order something on the web site, you have to first log in with your password, and you are clearly presented with the fact that you are about to order something (maybe the latter is not the case if you enable one-click shopping, but then, you are not required to enable that). The same ou...
[08:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Your phone is a direct link to the NSA - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:23] <exec> 08└─who didn't know this after 1994?
[08:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not like he could stand - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:37] <exec> 08└─How about "The stroller requires the same space as another paying customer, therefore please remit an additional full-fare for transportation of the stroller". The baby, if carried, rides free. No different than if you carried a package. But if you loaded additional packages you are not carrying, i...
[08:43:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 630 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:36] <exec> 08└─Not being spied upon is certainly one. It's also a lot lighter than installing Windows in a VM. Have you seen how frikkin' big Windows is these days? It's also generally faster as the OS is not busy downloading and installing updates, sending "telemetry", or doing who knows what to the registry. I'm...
[08:43:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Re:...and, after the OS is up and running... - 06Wine 2.0 released - 927 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:39] <exec> 08└─As someone who's done a lot of work on both, I'll put in my two cents. In general, I/O operations on Linux are considerably faster in my experience when taking account same hardware and same filesystems (or raw read/writes); for network performance alone, Linux generally has the edge. In terms of GP...
[08:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 1864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:46] <exec> 08└─"Real" Windows costs money, and VMs are not cheap and easy to maintain. I doubt everyone can manage their own KVM/VMware pools of hardware very well, so for the average person that leaves you with VPS that support Windows. All of those cost extra to a significant degree. In other words, I ain't payi...
[08:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:52] <exec> 08└─How is running Windows in a VM less trouble shooting? A VM stops neither malware, nor Windows Update changing settings to useless defaults. If the answer is "you can just wipe the VM without touching the rest of the system, then we are back to the argument about a lot less setup headache. Because th...
[08:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''charon will get better'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:28] <exec> 08└─I noticed that he has missed a few opportunities to add a dept. line and in 1 instance didn't replace a suggested one that was deleted (considered unworthy?). When something is appended to a summary, I'd like to see an [Ed: ] notation. I previously explained why I form hyperlinks the way I do. If no...
[08:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No shit? - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:01] <exec> 08└─You guys probably have undiagnosed Celiac Disease. Only about 1/3 of people in the USA with Celiac disease are diagnnosed, and about 1% of people of European ancestry have it, so that is a lot of people. For those with Celiac, giving up gluten can have the effects you described, and more. Giving up...
[08:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So What? - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─I would hazard a guess that the EU would take the court ruling into consideration with regards to 'a designated legitimate authority'.
[08:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:13] <exec> 08└─I step on a lot of commercial websites too with these fringe special players, scripts, and the like... leaving me with the question of do I disable the blocker and take my chances, or click away from the site. Unless I am damned determined, the latter is my preferred choice. As far as I am concerne...
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[09:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:09] <exec> 08└─I bet this was written by yet another American fetishizing European healthcare (as if it was all the same, too) without knowing anything about it.
[09:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:So what's your point, Martin? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think he fancies himself the misunderstood good guy. For example this [newsmax.com] stunt (he puts his face for auction, winner can punch him once, proceeds are donated to support the cancer-stricken son of his deceased former friend) looks quite amicable, if one overlooks the fact that...
[09:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:''using Office '97 [...] a customer demanded it - 06Wine 2.0 released - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:06] <exec> 08└─20 year too late, but I heard LaTeX is good for equations (I normally used a GUI called "lyx": a "What you see is what you mean" editor.
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[10:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02F1 is a show - 06How Formula 1 Will Change With Chase Carey at the Wheel - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:25] <exec> 08└─I stopped watching GPs after the death of Senna made clear to me that first came the money, then the show, then the men.
[10:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:34] <exec> 08└─If I had to choose between giving up some personal info or having my kid accidentally order a $150 doll house from Amazon....
[10:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not new - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:41] <exec> 08└─We've known for a long time that voice recognition is a bad idea [userfriendly.org].
[10:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:56] <exec> 08└─There is a limited area that is open enough for buggies and wheelchairs. Sometimes passengers travelling only a short distance also stand in this area. I have always taken the sign to be addressed to standing passengers - who can take a seat or stand in the aisle. The aisle is too narrow for a buggy...
[10:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:How do you keep the key secret? - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:39] <exec> 08└─The only way to tell if encrypted traffic is government-approved encrypted traffic is to decrypt a large enough sample that you can tell. Even then, there are cryptosystems that give two different real-seeming plaintexts depending on the key that you use, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to put t...
[10:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Seriously.... - 06Ransomware Attack Paralyses St Louis Libraries as Hackers Demand Bitcoins - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure Flash, unfortunately, is yet what I'd call a "fringe" medium. Librarians may not want to tell patrons who wish to view it to get stuffed.
[10:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds disturbingly like NASA - 06Trump Administration Freezes EPA Grants, Bans Employees From Giving Updates Via Social Media - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:53] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say this, my dear and fluffy khallow! Did you think it was me? Or AntonK? Or turgid? Or the infamous g_weg? No, it matters little who is posting anonymously, since the point is made regardless.
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[11:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is already a search engine - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:04] <exec> 08└─>Sci-Hub unmasked butthurt found
[11:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02GOES-R hey? - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:16] <exec> 08└─As in, GOES-R the gozerian? ;)
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[12:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02No i686 support? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I have mixed feelings. Arch was always a "bleeding edge" OS. Essentially Gentoo for those who didn't want to bother compiling everything and didn't know how to use the Gentoo binary package system. So it does not surprise me that they would be the first do something like this. They fig...
[12:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No i686 support? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:14] <exec> 08└─After discovering docker containers available with an Alpine linux spin to them, touted as having better default security and being tiny in size as it's advantage, I took at a look at this distro, and found it very much to my liking. This is coming from a long time Gentoo user (16 years now) where G...
[12:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:16] <exec> 08└─Offhand, I can't think of any 32bit x86 processor systems that you would actually want to put an entire Linux distro on. Maybe just a kernel and a very small subset of standard and/or custom software for embedded environments but not a full blown OS with all the trimmings. How about you lot?
[12:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:19] <exec> 08└─There are millions of devices out there that match the description of the kind of computer that you cannot even imagine; believe it or not, for most of modern computing, people have run 32-bit x86 systems, and they are still capable of running anything that is worthy of being considered "an entire L...
[12:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:21] <exec> 08└─You really know when the developers are no longer using setups like your own; things break all the time. It became very apparent when the kernel developers all moved to multi-core x86-64; all the single-core, 32-bit pathways started breaking regularly in new builds. As for Arch, it's always been hel...
[12:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02collision really ? - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:28] <exec> 08└─Every ksp player knows that the timestep used to integrate orbits equations makes a collision almost impossible.
[12:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:31] <exec> 08└─Is there a possibility of launching large squishy blobs into orbit specifically to act as a target for clouds of space junk, to catch-stop them, or at least to dissipate space junk's kinetic energy as it makes its way through the blobs, so that junk would de-orbit sooner? The material should be stic...
[12:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:33] <exec> 08└─A giant magnet would be better, have swing around the planet a few time picking up all the junk, then fly it into the sun.
[12:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02I just hope he makes changes slowly - 06How Formula 1 Will Change With Chase Carey at the Wheel - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:46] <exec> 08└─I'm a great critic of Bernie, but thanks to more outspoken - with the world's media more than prepared to propagate their criticisms - teams, most of the fuckups that Bernie and his croneys (he surrounded himself with yes-men) introduced have been fixed, and the sport is in about the healthiest stat...
[12:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:There is already a search engine - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:28] <exec> 08└─Meta seems to be an attempt to make relevant papers easier to find in a more advanced way than keyword or citation based search. If the Chanzuckmeta engine is released for free like they promise, it would be trivial to extend it to also link directly to Sci-Hub. So you could have the value of findin...
[12:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02AI = Crap - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:31] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder that AI doesnt mean anything. You might as well say "Heuristic Multi-stage Genetic Algorithm" but it wouldn't evoke images of attractive rendered female assistants making flying cars and stuff, so they don't bother. (or at least I presume AI == some neural network algorithm, the arti...
[12:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what's your point, Martin? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:50] <exec> 08└─You do like to open your big mouth about things and people you know nothing about. You'd be quite lucky if he even gave a shit what you think. Your comment is offensive and hateful based on things you heard on TV. You have no mind of your own. You are only a shill and I see only "hate-based" comment...
[12:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IAR compiler - 06Wine 2.0 released - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:51] <exec> 08└─Since gcc-msp430 doesn't space optimise well enough, we're stuck using a licensed IAR compiler. And to get decent build times, we do parallel builds on Linux using WINE. Quite the pain to get going with its !#!@#^ usb dongle, but in the end oh-so-worth the effort.
[12:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02WINE is *too much* like Windows - 06Wine 2.0 released - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:52] <exec> 08└─So one of the (thousands of) reasons I despise Windows is that it craps all over my disk. (I'm one of the few who believe it is my computer, it should obey me, not run off and do its own thing without my permission.) So I installed WINE, and it crapped all over my disk. Naturally. It is doing what W...
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[13:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:27] <exec> 08└─"a car with zero local emissions" At least they have the correct terminology. A 100W solar panel isn't going to do anything on a 150KWh battery pack, but maybe it let the co-driver read the maps on his iPad.
[13:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:38] <exec> 08└─the oldest system I would tend to use would be a core2 duo or something of that age. that's 64bit for sure. I have a laptop that shipped with win7-32 on that c2duo but its still a proper 64bit machine. still, its a shame to remove good code that COULD be useful, in a pinch. I wonder what makes them...
[13:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:40] <exec> 08└─"Offhand, I can't think of any 32bit x86 processor systems that you would actually want to put an entire Linux distro on. Maybe just a kernel and a very small subset of standard and/or custom software for embedded environments but not a full blown OS with all the trimmings. How about you lot?" Agree...
[13:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:42] <exec> 08└─From memory I've think I've still got some legacy toolchain things (& bespoke tools from vendors) for embedded system cross compiles that are 32 bit only and would be impossible and/or a royal PITA to try and rebuild or run on a 64/multilib system, but you still want a decent host development enviro...
[13:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:45] <exec> 08└─Me too, on an EeePC. Haven't found a replacement for it, there are basically no 10" laptops anymore, and the 11" ones are horribly expensive, ultra-thin with hardly any connectors, and most of them have mirrors where the screen should be (which also disqualifies all the tablets/convertibles which ar...
[13:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 023:rd party programs needing 32-bit support - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:47] <exec> 08└─I guess this will annoy some Arch users. To fully remove 32-bit support sounds bad. For those needing to run Wine, how will this work out? Or those needing Skype? Or anyone needing to run any other program with dependencies on 32-bit libraries.
[13:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3:rd party programs needing 32-bit support - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:50] <exec> 08└─The multilib support stays (that is all the lib32-packages that provide 32bit libraries ready to run on a 64bit base system). 32bit intel packages are also not entirely out of the question: If volunteers step up and take the burden, the packages will stick around -- a bit outside of the official bui...
[13:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Guilty as charged - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:52] <exec> 08└─Linux x 4.8.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 9 07:43:17 CET 2016 i686 GNU/Linux
[13:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score:1) 02VMs - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:54] <exec> 08└─I still use x86, for low memory VMs. As by construction, x64 uses some more memory, it is always neat to have a choice. My home dev rig uses Manjaro, an Arch derivative and is x64. Arch is not exactly your average server distro and probably do not have extensive resources to package and test, that m...
[13:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:05] <exec> 08└─I think deorbiting a bunch of space junk and having it evaporate in Earth's atmosphere is going to be a lot less costly than getting it out of Earth's gravity well and into the Sun. I like the ballistics gel/foam idea. If EmDrive were to work, you could have a solar-powered satellite deorbiting spac...
[13:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Football or football? - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:07] <exec> 08└─If we are talking American Football, 1000 meters is about 8 football fields. If we are talking world football, shouldn't you call it a pitch and not a field? Also, I still think that math is wonky. A bit more on topic - when are we going to start collecting this junk to make the Voltron of satellite...
[13:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:33] <exec> 08└─Homer Simpson: Hello, My name is Mr Burns. I believe you have a letter for me. Postman: OK Mr Burns, what's your first name? Homer Simpson: I don't know.
[13:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score:1) 02has someone made an app for this yet ? - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:38] <exec> 08└─is it possible to rick roll a shopping mall full of smartphones ?
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mime and destroy - 06Wine 2.0 released - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:27] <exec> 08└─So, is it still pollutes MIME associations with it's own programs and programs you'd install inside it? I know I can disable winemenubuilder with an environment variable but it's still dumb.
[13:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:''only sent 70K''[1] - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:55] <exec> 08└─> [1] An uppercase K stands for Lord Kelvin. No. In *prose*, which is what that text is, the standard rendering for the abbrieviation of 1000 is the capital "K". These are not physical measurements, it is not a modifier to an SI unit, it's English text, and English dictionaries are the reference in...
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Ewww... - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─When they start selling capsules on AliExpress I'll be their first customer. Seriously, there are lots of currently incurable medical problems that this might help with. Lots of auto-immune issues. I'm willing to be a human test subject.
[13:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:So many links to get to the study - 06Fecal Transplant Improves Autism Symptoms - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:40] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the journal article. But TFA does not mention a control group with autism receiving a placebo. So likely just nonsense.
[13:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:09] <exec> 08└─More importantly, the referendum asked a very narrow and specific question. It didn't cover most of the things they are now trying to do, like leaving the single market and customs union. The goals of the negotiation and the final offering must be put to parliament, that's a long settled argument in...
[13:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:14] <exec> 08└─It also boils down to constituency votes in a lot of places. Here, around 75% voted remain, so our MP would be committing political suicide to vote to invoke Article 50 - his majority is quite slim and he'd lose it instantly if he did. Other places, such as Cornwall, have had a really crappy deal fr...
[13:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Why bother voting - 06UK Supreme Court Rules That Parliament Must Approve Article 50 Invocation - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:16] <exec> 08└─Politicians advocating to remain is a reasonable position. 48% of people who voted wanted that, and their views should be represented. It's reasonable to stand for election on that platform, and to do everything they can to soften the impact of leaving by e.g. trying to remain in the single market....
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[14:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bad Clickbait Headline - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:14] <exec> 08└─"Acciona Becomes First Electric Car to Complete Dakar" would be far more accurate. The current headline tries to sound like nobody else finished this race before they came around.
[14:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:15] <exec> 08└─> How soon until such headlines disappear because EVs are so commonplace? Looking forward to "Electric car wins the Dakar Rally"; then "... only petrol car to race in Dakar rally"; then "... wins petrol cars classic rally"
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:17] <exec> 08└─But honestly, the 2nd of those is just as likely to happen before the 1st as the other way round. But it came 57th in class this year, you say? The most competitive class, at that, the "car" class? Yeah, but there were only 57 finishers in that class. It lost. It was the charity case handicapped kid...
[14:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re: How soon until such headlines disappear - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:19] <exec> 08└─> How soon until such headlines disappear because EVs are so commonplace? When they have completed every other "first" done by an internal combustion engine.
[14:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02synchronous electric motor, attached to all four w - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:21] <exec> 08└─synchronous electric motor, attached to all four wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox
[14:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:33] <exec> 08└─Computers from that era have horrible performance per Watt compared to modern systems. Unless you have some old 32-bit Xeon system, a more powerful ARM SBC will cost you less than the power to operate the old P4 class system and probably be faster (and will be a lot faster than anything older).
[14:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─I have a 5 watt embedded 32bit X86 machine with 2 gigs of RAM you insensitive clod.
[14:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:41] <exec> 08└─Got also some x86 still in use: * VIA Epia 2 small personal server, mostly for email * AMD Duron 750MHz, as living room sound system and wireless AP * Intel Atom netbook, travel (development) laptop All run Gentoo Linux.
[14:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:43] <exec> 08└─Not sure about the other two, but the AMD Duron is a lot slower than a Raspberry Pi 3. How much are you spending on power for it per year?
[14:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A hamburger or two - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:45] <exec> 08└─To save a few extra dollars per year is no compelling reason to rebuild a working system, especially when there is sentimental value in keeping the old one running.
[14:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─> As for Arch, it's always been helmed by snobbish know-it-all tyrants, who are perfectly comfortable running roughshod over those who are not members of the recognized elite That's what I learned when Arch switched to systemd some years ago. The move was a huge pain to accomplish with their rolling...
[14:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Informative) 0264-bit - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 2313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:54] <exec> 08└─32-bit is dying on the desktop. Moan all you like, but it's on the way out. Games are stopping supporting it. OS are stopping supporting it. Everything is 64-bit by default and works just the same. Hardware that doesn't have 64-bit drivers nowadays is dead in the water. 32-bit will be consigned to e...
[14:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:64-bit - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:56] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
[14:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Re:64-bit - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─No, there's some truth to that. Installed some hardware on my desktop yesterday and the driver disk only had a 64-bit folder for drivers.
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02i wish - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:00] <exec> 08└─i wish i was allowed to install such things. i fixed two windows xp sp2 machines this week; was told not to waste time upgrading them. yep.
[14:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:11] <exec> 08└─I would think a giant magnet would be worthless. Most of the materials in a satellite are non-magnetic. Aluminum, glass, plastics, titanium. Plus flying it into the sun is a huge amount of fuel. For a fraction of that fuel you could de-orbit and hopefully burn up in the atmosphere. The blob idea may...
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:13] <exec> 08└─But what if pieces of the blob would separate from the whole? Wouldn't you get even more tiny pieces of space junk? Also, I guess it's cold out there... wouldn't the foam/blob freeze?
[14:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Units!! - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:16] <exec> 08└─Those numbers mean nothing to me! What are the distances in furlongs??? (I particularly like how TFA avoided giving a metric value for probably the single most important piece of information in the story: the projected minimum distance.)
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Nb: D-Wave are hiring... - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─... I notice on their website that they are hiring. Anyone with experience of optimisation routines/neural networks/etc?
[14:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─They still don't tell much about what they have. http://www.dwavesys.com [dwavesys.com] Their whitepaper is mostly about how they built the machine and only this on what it can do. " It harnesses the natural tendency of real-world quan...
[14:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─School Secretary: "So, you're saying Mary is sick, and can't come to school today?" Voice on Phone: "Yes." School Secretary: "To whom am I speaking?" Voice on Phone: "This is my mother."
[14:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─I agree, the special seat should be given to the first person that needs it. Reason to need it is no other space available that will work. This could mean the bus is full. There's no other place the person in the carriage will fit. There's no other place the wheelchair will fit. If you take 2 spaces...
[14:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:36] <exec> 08└─Heya!!! Number two (The Netherlands) here...* Obamacare was modelled after our medical insurance system... which is becoming more expensive by the year for us .... AND we don't have any money left for the military! * https://petitions.whitehouse.gov
[14:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:...and, after the OS is up and running... - 06Wine 2.0 released - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:22] <exec> 08└─I can't say about WoW now, but about 10 years ago WoW had a faster FPS on WINE than Windows on the same box.
[14:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Commerical use - 06Wine 2.0 released - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:44] <exec> 08└─How do they handle WINE (and dependencies)? Are they updated when security issues surface?
[14:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:02] <exec> 08└─Some Americans may have had the good sense to flee their country without waiting for a similar proclamation.
[14:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:25] <exec> 08└─Okay. So why isn’t millions of United States university marxists heading to Cuba for their free doctorates degrees? I doubt legality would stop them. Even if it wasn’t free, they’d spend thousands more of their parent’s money just to brag about having a communist education.
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[15:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02tRNA and mRNA? - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:19] <exec> 08└─Are there RNA molecules that match up to these nucleotides? If not, it's just random chemical garbage injected into DNA, right? If the polymererase hits an X or a Y during transcription, what happens?
[15:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:20] <exec> 08└─...and just suppose that this thing threatens to escape the containment of the laboratory. [wikipedia.org] What then? Hmmm? [wordpress.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[15:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:34] <exec> 08└─But the description is useful because an electric 4x4 could also be powered by four individual motors, couldn't it?
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No i686 support? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─DSL, yellow dog, and Puppy Linux all come to mind. I don't expect them to drop any old architectures any time soon. But, you've pretty much summarized my thoughts. Mixed feelings. I transitioned very early to 64 bit computing. I was impatient with progress every time I found it necessary to load 32...
[15:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:50] <exec> 08└─I have two PCs with a VIA C7 Eden CPU. These are passively cooled and barely sip power. They work great for my home server needs--one file server and a second web/email server. I am retiring the file server so I can take advantage of ZFS, I rather not retire the email/web server as that box works li...
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─just thought of a 32bit system I still care about: older atom fanless mini-itx boxes that make good firewalls or audio playback/headless systems. voyage linux used to be a good choice but it looks like its been a long time since it had updates.
[15:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─Not really, I've tried installing a 32bit browser along with all the stuff that goes along with it along side a 64bit browser in order to get software that was poorly programmed to work. Having a separate 32bit install is just a lot easier than trying to figure out how to get those components to pla...
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─Is the old VMware tool still available? Plug in a running system, and the virtualization tool would move it from hardware into a virtual machine. Or, if the hardware wasn't running, it would make a copy of the hard disk, then fire it up for the move. Or, that's how I remember it working, anyway. Ahh...
[15:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:01] <exec> 08└─The issue isn't the processor so much as the software. TFA and TFS are somewhat unclear about whether this is all 32-bit versions or just the ones that are for i686 based processors. I don't run Arch, but I do regularly use 32bit Linux as Cisco refuses to release a version of Webex that works with 6...
[15:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A hamburger or two - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, basically that... it works and I hardly throw hardware away. Electricity costs are hardly an issue.
[15:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─the AMD Duron is a lot slower than a Raspberry Pi 3
[15:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:13] <exec> 08└─Ditto. All my 4 machines are AthlonXP 2400/2600+ including a laptop. VLC plays ripped 720p content perfectly fine in my AthlonXP 2400+. ~120W with two 2TB HD and 24" FullHD monitor. And with Palemoon and just using Ublock Origin and NoScript can browse WAY faster than many modern laptops people brag...
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:16] <exec> 08└─> Compile new gcc with old gcc, then compile new gcc again, with new gcc. Then, recompile EVERYTHING with new gcc. Is that the optimisation they call "loop unrolling"?
[15:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"I just want a stable distro" - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:18] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of a Slashdot comment I read in my youth: Some guy said that he was a long-time Linux user who switched to the Macintosh because he was tired of tinkering and wanted a system that Just Works; at the time, I thought "Well, to each his own, but I love tinkering, and I cannot imagine e...
[15:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3:rd party programs needing 32-bit support - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:22] <exec> 08└─32bit intel packages are also not entirely out of the question: If volunteers step up and take the burden, the packages will stick around
[15:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Units!! - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:43] <exec> 08└─Well, it’s a celestial event, we should be using parsecs.
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Units!! - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─32 femtoparsecs
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Nu Math - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─When your margin of error is plus or minus 10 times the value you compute, you are doing math wrong and attributing significance to figures that should not be significant.
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02So much potential, but I bet its squandered - 06How Formula 1 Will Change With Chase Carey at the Wheel - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:03] <exec> 08└─F1 has the potential to really embrace the digital age, but judging from the E series, they will fuck it up. Fan boost? C'mon. I'm here to see team and driver talent, not get a boost because your popular. As for F1 itself: 1) Please stop cutting to women in the pit area, your director has a real bad...
[15:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:14] <exec> 08└─It's probably a moot point as you just report the charge as the unauthorized it is to the credit card issuer if Amazon refuses to pay for the return shipping. Despite whatever bullshit they might have in their terms of service, saying something in the presence of one of these devices does not repres...
[15:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:19] <exec> 08└─The responsibility here isn't on the parents, the responsibility here is on Amazon for shipping a product that they know can be used like this. This isn't that much different from when Google got smacked for allowing children to buy apps without parental approval. That strategy might work out for ol...
[15:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─I see the buggy as a bike/segway or a bag/luggage. Should someone's property have priority over space for a passenger? Someone with a bag is expected to move it from a seat for a passenger but someone with luggage isn't expected to get off a full bus. The woman said that the buggy would not fold-up....
[15:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, the US is insane for spending as much as it does on the military. One of the numbers I particularly find telling is that the US military cannot account for roughly $6.5 trillion that we've given them. In other words, 1/3 of the US national debt was money that was sent to the Pentagon and prompt...
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''your markup'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─People who have clicked on the link part of one of my link (orig) things one time know what to expect. people should be reading entire paragraphs That's one reason the (orig) is included. ...but assuming that everyone should do exactly as you do is really elitist. Different people do things differen...
[15:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fundamental Problem - 06Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:21] <exec> 08└─Now suppose that use of this scheme was mandated, enforced by a fine, with exemptions for encryption used for health records, sales transactions, and messages under attorney-client privilege. Messages and personal data are under the mandate, but personal encryption users would be subject to at most...
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[16:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:22] <exec> 08└─Is there any explanation for the increase in sales of this particular book? Could the recent new US administration have triggered this increased sales? Perhaps the book has been added to the required reading list for incoming administration personnel as a policy roadmap?
[16:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─Could the recent new US administration have triggered this increased sales?
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02brisk sale in mushrooms - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─do 8 grams of dried mushrooms today, like meee
[16:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 021984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─Dystopias are supposed to be absurd, extreme takes on reality, and never really happen. That said, until very recently, I felt like Fahrenheit 451 was so much better a model for how things were going: a populace so wrapped up in their infinite blankets of entertainment and modern conveniences that...
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[16:42:37] <exec> 08└─lp0 on fire?
[16:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:tRNA and mRNA? - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─If the polymererase hits an X or a Y during transcription, what happens?
[16:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02Re:...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:42] <exec> 08└─The plot line from Evolution becomes a reality.
[16:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:44] <exec> 08└─Then... it'll probably not be able to compete against unmodified bacteria and go extinct rapidly? I mean, that's the general case for GMOs across the board. They tend to suck at the whole "Survive and reproduce" thing without human intervention. Because most of the human-created modifications make t...
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're racing, a sequential gearbox is entirely expected. And who cares if it has 6 gears, that doesn't change much at all. So we're down to the rest of the description. The official classification within the car classes is "Electric 4x4 improved Cross-Country Vehicles" Yeah, it's a vehicle r...
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─You could also do two, three or four motors. Two motors would probably be one for front wheels and one for back wheels; three motors probably would be one big motor for back wheels and smaller ones for each individual front wheel; four motors would be one for each wheel. Anything but one involves tr...
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─Wow, that brought back memories. I remember the time my friend booted his computer and I hadn't heard of VIA yet, but staring back at me in the console was "VIA VIA VIA" where I had always seen "AuthenticAMD." Asked him about it, he had no idea, so I asked his father, who just laughed when we insinu...
[16:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:27] <exec> 08└─Me too, on an EeePC. Haven't found a replacement for it, there are basically no 10" laptops anymore
[16:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:3:rd party programs needing 32-bit support - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:41] <exec> 08└─I too am married to Wine and Skype for various reasons, one of them being that my clients prefer Skype over IRC because Skype is automatically logged durably and IRC is not. And Ubuntu is also sunsetting 32-bit support; by 18.10 [ubuntu.com], its repository won't even include the libraries to run 32...
[16:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0264-bit is not need to use more than 4GB of ram! - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:47] <exec> 08└─You can use more than 4GB of ram on any common 32-bit OS without having to do anything yourself (they all use PAE out of the box). Thus your post contains absolutely no argument for 64 and comes across as completely clueless.
[16:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nu Math - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:07] <exec> 08└─So if I have a Gaussian curve with a mean of 10, but a standard deviation of 100, how am I supposed to describe that function? Am I no longer allowed to tell you it has a mean of 10 in your maths, or do I have to say it has a mean of zero because that is the digit in the third position?
[16:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:16] <exec> 08└─D-wave has been criticized in the past for hype and vaporware. I recall hearing that their first machine supposedly worked but it was so slow that simulating the processes on a classic computer was faster. Which immediately raised the question of whether they had resorted to the same technique thems...
[16:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not like he could stand - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:01] <exec> 08└─FWIW she claimed that the buggy could not fold up. The court's decision seems odd. If the mother wasn't lying, then either the guy in the wheelchair gets to ride or the mother and baby do, but not both. So someone gets left at the bus stop, and both of them are in equal need of the bus. The proposed...
[16:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm a bit confused by the story, too. What precisely does "She said the buggy would not fold" mean? Does it mean the buggy ACTUALLY wouldn't fold AND that it couldn't be moved to another area of the bus? In that case, yes, I agree that asking the woman to depart the bus with her baby is a bit m...
[16:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enhancing? - 06Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires "Meta" Science Search Engine - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:19] <exec> 08└─Possibly. Or data collection. After all, usually "free" doesn't really mean "free" but "paid for with your data".
[16:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:33] <exec> 08└─The Donald could sit in judgement as a tie-breaker in close matches, and dispatch the vanquished with a mighty, "You're FIRED!!!"
[16:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:34] <exec> 08└─Instead of the president sitting in judgment, I nominate Steven Seagal to act as referee.
[16:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Why? - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:05] <exec> 08└─It makes just about TOO much sense - why would professional astronomers even question it? They might argue that the concentration would be too low to be worth studying, but the fact that they would be there? It's just too sensible. I'm going to throw this one, I think, in the basket with red sprites...
[16:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Editors Edit - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─I'm the editor that made the changes; I didn't notice the (orig) link at first — that was my mistake and I'll own that. I loaded both the makes healthcare more expensive [googleusercontent.com] and the (orig) [counterpunch.org] links (which appeared in the original submission [soylentnews.org]) in...
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[17:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─I agree, but I think it's an interesting reaction - I'd more equate Obama and Bush Jr's presidencies to the realization of 1984. The early days of Trump are looking more like Mussolini or Hitler's rise to power.
[17:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:29] <exec> 08└─As long as you don't mind the dialect/age of the language, Eric Arthur Blair is a superb wordsmith, there shouldn't ever be any issue including one of his works on an English language syllabus. Whilst he wasn't the originator of the more famous quote, he did a set of rules rather like Antoine de Sai...
[17:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:31] <exec> 08└─people dont weep in hard situation, they weep afterwards. i think this is the same phenomenon. Trump will couse less global harm then any president, and people know this, but the preassure comes to surface now. by and large, the bush and obama was more reason for this type of litterature, but maybe...
[17:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're right. Trump is way more Animal Farm.
[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─there's shades of 1984 I thought I'd never see for being too absurd.
[17:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─But now, this "Even well demonstrated facts are free to be contested by the state" mode of the Trump administration starts to evoke minitru, and the explicit reathorization of torture by the head of state invokes miniluv.
[17:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:41] <exec> 08└─And here we have the class of idiot that allows the situation. One who cannot distinguish between "Selectively picks metrics to make themselves sound better, and taking subjectivity too far" and "Overtly willing to accept completely made up facts when presented by the right party, repeatedly, and wi...
[17:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:44] <exec> 08└─There aren't going to be thought police
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:maybe the waiting hurts to much? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─people seem to be in worse mood for every new day...
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:maybe the waiting hurts to much? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─yes... i have been modded troll for statements with similar content though. especially in connection to the owners of a lot of the media. but then a gain, who am i to troll(lol)...
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Emmanuel Goldstien? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:51] <exec> 08└─The most shocking this is the reveal of the actual identity of the "enemy of the state", the target of the "2-minute" hate: I never would have guessed that it would be Hilary Clinton!!! Double-plus Good, help us unremember.
[17:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, but evolution is not something easily turned off. If an organism has poor hand dealt to it by its human creator, mutations will give it opportunity to adapt better, starting from next generation in the wild.
[17:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, but, again, the bacteria all over the fucking place have a few billion years on them for this "adapting to the environment" thing.
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:No i686 support? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─DSL is on shaky ground. The site has undergone a few blackout periods in the past few years and the latest stable version is from 2008 and the latest preview from 2012. Doesn't mean its useless, I use it a lot on older systems for backups and disk imaging using DD.
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:39] <exec> 08└─Curious as to what system that is.
[17:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:57] <exec> 08└─Anything modern will also be back-doored, so there is that. Not sure if the RPI 3 is "small" enough to avoid that. I decided years ago the way to avoid treacherous hardware was to go big (Servers), or go small (embedded), since the consumer space was thoroughly sabotaged with DRM.
[17:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:64-bit is not need to use more than 4GB of ram! - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:12] <exec> 08└─The Redmond OS does not support PAE, apparently.
[17:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:64-bit - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:14] <exec> 08└─"Everything is 64-bit by default and works just the same." There's a problem with that statement.
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02VirtualBox - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─I still use 32 bit Linux (Ubuntu) every time I set up a virtual machine with VirtualBox. These are usually shortlived and not used for anything in production, but the last time I tried to run a 64 bit machine with VirtualBox I had to change the BIOS on my host machine and never could seem to get it...
[17:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:29] <exec> 08└─Deorbiting is the key. Hopefully burning up in the atmosphere. If not, most homeowners policies cover damage from falling space junk. (According to TV news broadcast when the skylab was coming down in 1979.) The odds of hitting anyone are extremely slim. Again, for skylab, the odds of it hitting SOM...
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Nu Math - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:37] <exec> 08└─Lets unroll GR's curvature, and pretend things are going in a straight line, just to simplify things. The fact that the paths are orbits rather than inertial is utterly irrelevant to your point, so this is a valid simplification. Let's also consider things only from the satelite's reference frame, a...
[17:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─This is not a Universal Quantum Computer, it can't run arbitrary quantum algorithms. It can only tackle optimisation and closely related problems. They've never claimed otherwise. They use quantum techniques to perform the annealing. It is computation, it's quantum, it is quantum computation.
[17:45:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Webweasel [567] 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─Homer Simpson: Hello, My name is Mr Burns. I believe you have a letter for me. Postman: OK Mr Burns, what's your first name? Homer Simpson: I don't know.
[17:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Possibilities are endless - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:20] <exec> 08└─It might be fun to pay some homeless dude to go hang out in BART stations at rush hour with a bullhorn shouting, "Siri, delete all my contacts!"
[17:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not like he could stand - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:37] <exec> 08└─or the mother and baby do
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:09] <exec> 08└─Chuck Norris isn't impartial enough, due to his very public support of Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz.
[17:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:So what's your point, Martin? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:21] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna have to stop wearing my Irony-o-meter when I visit this place. That one took out a few fuses. If you wanna go to hell along with them, you go right ahead, sunny Jim.
[17:46:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03moondoctor [2963] 02Wind sand and stars - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 682 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:36] <exec> 08└─There's an awesome book about the earliest air mail pilots and their crazy ass stories. One of my favourites is a guy whose plane conks out midair and he puts it down on a tall plateau thing in Africa that's the size of a few football fields and got sheer drops on all sides. Finding all these little...
[17:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grayswan [2602] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:49] <exec> 08└─That is how you do it. Report something that isn't important because it supports your narrative, while not publishing important news that contradicts it.
[17:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GOES-R hey? - 06Hi-Definition From the Heavens - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:36] <exec> 08└─LOL! Yeah, my first thought too when I saw it. For those who don't get it, a reference from the original 1984 GhostBusters movie.
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[18:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:26] <exec> 08└─Guess I gotta disable that when I get home. I take meetings sometimes from my desktop. That's the last thing I need to deal with.
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─Agree, meetings are the last thing I need to deal with.
[18:42:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─Could the recent new US administration have triggered this increased sales?
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─Previous administrations may have been heading in that direction, but they had been doing it subtly. Trump is about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face, and so suddenly people are starting to wake up. Of course, as usual, this comes too late. Kinda like the Brexit voters googling what it even me...
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─Trump hasn't been in office a week and he's already muzzling government agencies in order to control what information gets out to the public.
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:48] <exec> 08└─"If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out"
[18:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:52] <exec> 08└─Is there any explanation for the increase in sales of this particular book?
[18:42:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quacking duck [1395] 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─there's shades of 1984 I thought I'd never see for being too absurd.
[18:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─Obama blew smoke up our ass for 8 years about a recovery that never happened...On one hand we have statements that are supported by data. The Economy Is Better — Why Don’t Voters Believe It? [fivethirtyeight.com] On the other hand, we have the Whitehouse Press Secretary lying about things for wh...
[18:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:03] <exec> 08└─The only thing missing would be bounties to turn in your friends and neighbors if they start saying the wrong thing.
[18:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:06] <exec> 08└─Not the same. But that's just the thing - we no longer need a network of informers turning in their neighbors and relatives. With every phone call being recorded and keyword-indexed, every email added to the DB, everyone's web browsing monitored, there's just no point in the informants.
[18:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:maybe the waiting hurts to much? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─We should be happy with techno-illogical advances like: Telescreens -- aka Smart TVs. Some now equipped with cameras and mics to enable video conferencingAlexa / OK Google -- devices always listening. The Amazon Echo even has a privacy button to notify Amazon that you're about to discuss something e...
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Emmanuel Goldstien? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─What I find amusing is that two months after the election, when Hillary is no longer relevant, not running for office, we hear "Hillary" continue to be the deflection cry used by those who have no real rebuttal argument to make about the current administration's policies going forward.
[18:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Culture Cold War - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─I have read the book a few times over the years. First when I was young and then later again at university. My impression at youth was how right it was (evil government etc etc) and as I grew older how over-rated and misunderstood it was. People focus to much on the whole surveillance society -- big...
[18:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Culture Cold War - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─A book by an author paid for by the CIA in its culture cold war between the west and soviet Russia.
[18:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Newspeak Dictionary - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:21] <exec> 08└─Let me acquaint you with modern Newspeak. Alternative Facts --> Lies Go through proper channels --> Turn yourself in and go to prison "Work Together" and "Cooperate" --> Do what government tells you and say it was your idea Golden Key --> Backdoor to defeat security Secure Encryption with a Golden K...
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:36] <exec> 08└─That hasn't worked out very well for starlink corn, Scotts bentgras, or roundup ready canola. A more interesting uise for synthetic base pairs would be creating organisms that cannot synthesize a critical base pair that also isn't found in nature. That way it would depend on a specialized growth med...
[18:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:50] <exec> 08└─Very true, but unlikely in a race where sand, rocks and the occasional water crossing means that you have to really shield each of your motors well. Not even talking about putting them unsprung in the wheels given how the suspension and ride would suffer. The fact that the gearbox has 6 speeds is th...
[18:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:64-bit is not need to use more than 4GB of ram! - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:44] <exec> 08└─The higher end datacenter and enterprise versions of Win 2k and 2003 supported the full 36 bit PAE address space of 64GB. There were hacks and settings you could change in 2k workstation/server and XP Pro/2003 to get PAE working since they all used the same kernel. tl;dr Thank god we have 64 bit. Fo...
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─Let's build a space elevator and put a Hollywood movie star in it. If that doesn't attract all the random space junk, I don't know what will.
[18:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─Honest questions: - What does it "optimize" for your $15M? - How does one actually program a thousand-Qbit machine?
[18:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So much potential, but I bet its squandered - 06How Formula 1 Will Change With Chase Carey at the Wheel - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:31] <exec> 08└─9) Make the starting grid the reverse of the championship rankings. I'm not paying money to see guys take off from the front row, lead the whole way, and then win, with only the pit stop changing the order. They should earn it by passing the other cars, not just by "don't make a mistake and you'll a...
[18:45:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Not new - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:51] <exec> 08└─We've known for a long time that voice recognition is a bad idea [userfriendly.org].
[18:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Kinda strikes me as misplaced alarm... - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:54] <exec> 08└─or even using Venmo to transfer money. Or, in a cyberattack scenario, a hidden command could open a website
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Pay for Health Care ? - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 2747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─No, no that's not how health care works in America. You wait until your health needs are dire, then go to emergency. That's the medical place with all those signs announcing that it is illegal for them to deny you care just because you have an unpaid debt with them. Afterwards, when you are no longe...
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''export/recode Excel macros to OpenOffice'' - 06Wine 2.0 released - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─No, those macros were doing some internal business logic and had to import data from external databases and after doing their stuff export some to some other systems etc. Maybe that OxygenOffice could have worked but I doubt, they went with RHEL anyway so no hope for even trying it.
[18:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:''only sent 70K''[1] - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─You want to opine, do it in the comments. Policy by my understanding is to strip your snarky bullshit out of links.
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[19:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Unsecured Phone of the PEEOTUS - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:20] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Trump is still wandering around with a foreign intelligence-gathering device [wired.com] in his pocket. That phone has got to be the biggest foreign intelligence agency "get" in the entire world right now. The only hope we have is that all the different spy agencies are trying to push eac...
[19:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:22] <exec> 08└─Just having a non-government email account is fine. Everyone I know has at least two email addresses, because people don't want their private and professional emails mixing. Some of us have more than two, if we are involved in other organizations as well. The million dollar question is: Is each addr...
[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02It worked in the campaign - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:24] <exec> 08└─Can we keep chanting, "Lock her up!"?
[19:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It worked in the campaign - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:26] <exec> 08└─Lock EVERYBODY up!
[19:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02It is an issue - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:29] <exec> 08└─If they use it for any government activities. I have a work and a personal email, I never use work for personal or personal for work. I think for these high up positions this needs to be monitored to ensure this breach is not occuring, unsure how one does that. I am sure some of his people have gmai...
[19:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:39] <exec> 08└─Avoid all meetings. Especially meetings where you're "let go" for not attending enough meetings. Solves so many problems.
[19:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Java Applet - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:41] <exec> 08└─Isn't that Java applet based as well? That's pretty much the most exploit ridden thing around these days regardless of this specific exploit. I guess if you have it set to run only when asked it's not bad, but it seem to be asking to be abused.
[19:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:Java Applet - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─I was going to ask the same thing. To my knowledge, webex uses a java applet and has no other option, and this is most likely a vulnerability related specifically to that. As a matter of fact, I believe that webex is trying to figure out what to replace it with, especially given that Firefox (and Ch...
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chrome, blech - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─Sure everyone seems to love Chrome but it happens to be the only browser that has managed to destabilize my linux distro. I'm sure its due to hardware support as I've got a newer laptop, but the very fact that the browser can crash the OS is kinda nuts.
[19:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:59] <exec> 08└─I am not convinced that the ensembles "the people reading 1984" and "the people who voted for Trump" intersect a lot.
[19:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:02] <exec> 08└─It is important to consider the entire context. With Obama there was no reason to think anything was out of the ordinary. Trump has given us all kinds of reasons to think things are out of the ordinary. Trump spent his entire campaign and the post-election(?!?!) doubling down on falsehoods, many of...
[19:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:04] <exec> 08└─Well.... shit. How did this not get more press coverage?
[19:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:06] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'll find many Obama apologists around here, generally it seems most people dislike him as being another Tool of the system. What's your point here? Don't worry about it because a previous tool did it, but he was considered "progressive" so you think we give it a pass? You need to Re...
[19:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Normal to Abnormal - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:08] <exec> 08└─You are probably right about khallow trying to pull a tu quoque fallacy, he has a history of that sort of shallow reasoning. But there is value to putting trump's actions in historical context. As long we don't cherry-pick the context in a partisan way. At a minimum it helps to refine the argument a...
[19:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:10] <exec> 08└─Trump? Have you paid attention to progressives lately? They think it's a how-to guide.
[19:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:13] <exec> 08└─We really need to do away with the labels, the whole partisan thing is just part of the puppet show. Democrats are no longer "progressive" by a long shot, Republicans from fifty years ago were more progressive than these well dressed snakes. How about we call out all the nasty shit done by either si...
[19:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm not defending him. More comparing him to something far more on the nose. And progressive is an accurate term still, though liberal isn't. Progressive just means moving forward, it says nothing about the direction you're facing.
[19:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:brisk sale in mushrooms - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:24] <exec> 08└─you wouldn't be posting if you had done that -- not within the past 8 to 12 hours!
[19:43:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:29] <exec> 08└─And here we have the class of idiot that allows the situation. One who cannot distinguish between "Selectively picks metrics to make themselves sound better, and taking subjectivity too far" and "Overtly willing to accept completely made up facts when presented by the right party, repeatedly, and wi...
[19:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:31] <exec> 08└─say what you want about the WMDs in Iraq being bullshit(I have plenty), they really did have sources they overtrusted.
[19:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:37] <exec> 08└─The informants are useful for 2 major reasons: 1. To keep people from speaking and organizing in person. Including in an unorganized fashion: Bob complains about government policy at the bar on Thursday night, Friday he no longer has a job and for some reason can't get another one in his field, that...
[19:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:maybe the waiting hurts to much? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:43] <exec> 08└─that shuld be the background noise. we should be happy whith the knowledge that give that shit. as example Google Earth has made me a better man. playing mobas and mmo has made me a better man. the advances in transportation made me more happy. the advances in robotics made me more happy, though som...
[19:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:maybe the waiting hurts to much? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:45] <exec> 08└─Check zugnub's posting history. He's literally a nazi.
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emmanuel Goldstien? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─It doesn't end until Hillary For Prison! That's what the crowds want, nay, demand! Trump! Fuck!
[19:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CIA Funding of George Orwell? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:54] <exec> 08└─Seems unlikely. The CIA did fund the first movie adaptations of both books. But they also made significant changes to the stories to fit the CIA's desired narrative. [spyculture.com] You can read (most of) the CIA's file on Orwell here. [spyculture.com]
[19:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Newspeak Dictionary - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:57] <exec> 08└─Shrooms --> Do Them
[19:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02quick - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:13] <exec> 08└─Call the United Galactic Sanitation department..
[19:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:25] <exec> 08└─To be fair it seems they took a bit of a detour: "The odyssey is over," says Ariel Jatón, driver of the Acciona 100% EcoPowered. "This year's Dakar was very tough, with some very intense stages complicated by the weather, and the altitude in Bolivia. It was the most gruelling race in South America,...
[19:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What does that even mean? - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:51] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's some proper old kit.
[19:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:55] <exec> 08└─Well, as near as I can tell, it's because Arch is/wants to be a desktop distro and they don't really make 32bit desktop processors for quite some time now.
[19:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:01] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff. That only means you need those specific 32bit libs though, rather than an entire 32bit system.
[19:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─Same thing when you're talking about Arch. For 32bit code they only had the 686 version.
[19:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alien ship - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─It is not space junk. It is an alien ship that instructed the earth vessel to change course or be fired upon. The ESA is putting out this news so that when the alien ships annihilates the earth vessel, they can say we told you about the space junk. And if there is any space junk out there, they cann...
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─With QBert of course! http://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com]
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More on Bernie - 06How Formula 1 Will Change With Chase Carey at the Wheel - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:19] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago a friend recommended the book, "No Angel", a bio of Bernie Ecclestone. The author is a tabloid writer who claims he had pretty good access to Bernie when he was writing, and he puts references for many of the quotes in the back of the book. Nice review here, https://www.theguar...
[19:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jazz Pharmaceuticals - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:46] <exec> 08└─From Shkreli: Jazz This is a really smart shareholder-focused company. But if you are looking for the vanguard of R&D, keep looking. Jazz is another "Dublin" headquartered company. Jazz Pharmaceuticals bought out another company that pushed the only effective treatment for narcolepsy through trials....
[19:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score:2) 02Reason and Evidence - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:07] <exec> 08└─It seems you're saying that they should have tested this sooner, and I'm totally with you. On the other hand, any claim, regardless of how much sense it makes, has no necessary correspondence with reality -- it must be substantiated by empirical evidence. I'm so happy they finally tested this; it's...
[19:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:22] <exec> 08└─If there are still people doing it, you are not responsible for their cluelessness. :)
[19:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02I shouldn't let myself get baited like this... - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 2207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:27] <exec> 08└─I know you guys fancy yourselves editor proof, but the fact is you, OriginalOwner, and you, aristarchus, regularly submit articles that need heavy revision to make them less biased. Some on the editing team prefer not to use them because they are difficult to wrangle. Perhaps that is where I most sh...
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[20:42:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:15] <exec> 08└─Just having a non-government email account is fine. Everyone I know has at least two email addresses, because people don't want their private and professional emails mixing. Some of us have more than two, if we are involved in other organizations as well. The million dollar question is: Is each addr...
[20:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:17] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct. However, how many people here really think that if these people have ongoing access to a non-audited email system that they won't abuse it at some point?
[20:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:19] <exec> 08└─Especially when its directly linked to a major political party. I almost feel that certain public officials should have all their communications monitored. We got it backwards, they shouldn't be using mass surveillance on the general population, they should be using it on government officials to mak...
[20:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Privacy for the People - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─Privacy for the people. Surveillance for the powerful. Of course the practical effect of that is surveillance for nobody because the powerful can afford to circumvent surveillance. But that's better than the current state of affairs.
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Asked and Answered - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:23] <exec> 08└─The million dollar question is: Is each address used appropriately. Using non-governmental email addresses for official business is not allowed, and never has been.
[20:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:It is an issue - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:28] <exec> 08└─They need to be monitored. There needs to be somebody watching. It would seem the easiest way is to only allow high level officials to use government approved devices. They can have a way to indicate what is personal and official correspondence. The fact is that there needs to be a record, even if i...
[20:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:31] <exec> 08└─What are you going to do about it? Don't point out a problem if you're not at least thinking about a solution.
[20:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:33] <exec> 08└─Can we just supply a default solution of "hang all politicians" until something better emerges in the discussion?
[20:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:44] <exec> 08└─You know you're in the wrong place when there is a meeting to plan a meeting.
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:46] <exec> 08└─I actually worked in a group that slowly turned from a technical group into the guys who did that. Got the hell out of there ASAP.
[20:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Java Applet - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:50] <exec> 08└─You can "just" disable everything and it offers you to download a binary to run once, without all that applet and plugin crap. I admit I don't like running random code downloaded from the internet, but given that that's all these webex plugins and Java applets seem to do, too, that seems to be the l...
[20:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Java Applet - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─I know WebEx used a Java Applet in the past. But does it still? I am sure I have had applets disabled for a long time, yet WebEx works. I always have Java installed for development. But not available in the browser. If WebEx didn't already have alternate mechanisms (Flash, ActiveX, Silverlight) to a...
[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Chrome, blech - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:55] <exec> 08└─I haven't had any problems with Chrome on Mint, but then I don't use WebEx at home.
[20:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:11] <exec> 08└─Well, no. The analogy wasn't a perfect one-to-one. I was more aiming for everyone going, "Oh shit something's happening! I better find out what!" after said something has already happened.
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:14] <exec> 08└─With Obama there was no reason to think anything was out of the ordinary. Trump has given us all kinds of reasons to think things are out of the ordinary.
[20:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:16] <exec> 08└─Simply repeating your bullshit does not make it any more true than it was the first time you said it.
[20:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:18] <exec> 08└─They're not falsehoods. They are merely "alternate facts".
[20:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:26] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia In America, progressivism began as a social movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and grew into a political movement, in what was known as the Progressive Era. While the term "American progressives" represent a range of diverse political pressure groups (not always unite...
[20:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 3914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:29] <exec> 08└─I recently have come across these two videos. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.c-span.org [c-span.org] They are very interesting in he pretty much nails what is going on today. Back in 2007 and in 2013. 'Progressives' are not 'evi...
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─Discrimination is the same as eating an ass cream cone. Yeah sure. Any lame bullshit to prove your point. The rest of your post is OK but progressives have some sane beliefs. They just don't have good or effective leaders. They were given Her. The Party seems to be realizing the mistake and putting...
[20:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:33] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the "progressives" in the US really arn't. The only reason they are even considered "the left" is cause "the right" is so much farther right. In any other democratic country, the democrats have more in common with that countries right than left.
[20:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:brisk sale in mushrooms - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:43] <exec> 08└─Nah it worked pretty gud and I would recommend it to anybody. Effects last closer to 4 hours and you can comment @ ShroomNews at any time.
[20:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:47] <exec> 08└─Poe's Law at work. https://en.wikipedia.org's_law [wikipedia.org]
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with your brain?
[20:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:59] <exec> 08└─Even China no longer needs informants to achieve these goals. Theoretically you can keep things voice-only and fly under the radar, but that's increasingly alien to young people.
[20:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:...and just suppose... - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:21] <exec> 08└─Where's it going to find the X and Y nucleic acids in the non-lab environment? If you need them to build your genetic code, you need them to grow. That said, to answer an earlier question, (in at least one reported organism of this variety) the ribosomes have been modified to respond to additional R...
[20:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:quick - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:24] <exec> 08└─Wow. I wonder how many people around here are old enough to remember that :) They don't make ship's navigators like that anymore.....
[20:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:40] <exec> 08└─So could a gas powered 4x4.
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still use 32-bit, single-core x86 - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─Those first ones are all convertibles, i.e. tablets with a keyboard. The problem with tablets is - touchscreen, thus glaring - tiny SSD, SOLDERED IN (though admittedly a bit larger than what my netbook has, but then that netbook has a SD slot), RAM soldered in (and 1/4 of what I have in my netbook,...
[20:45:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:3:rd party programs needing 32-bit support - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:30] <exec> 08└─32bit intel packages are also not entirely out of the question: If volunteers step up and take the burden, the packages will stick around
[20:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old PC support in general is dying - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:41] <exec> 08└─I have a couple of old AthlonXP desktops that I only rarely power-on. I recently powered one up and did all the software updates...only to realize the Firefox update killed it (no support for CPU's with SSE2) and none of the other big/mainstream browsers supported it either (best I came up with was...
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:17] <exec> 08└─Why not ask one of their clients? Such as Google: https://research.googleblog.com
[20:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mystical marketing - 06D-Wave Announces Availability of a ~2,000 Qubit Machine and a Customer for It - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you gray out the definition until it fits. Of course, how that differs from any other computer at that point becomes a lot more vague IMHO.
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Kinda strikes me as misplaced alarm... - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:54] <exec> 08└─Cyberattack. Maybe they only consider the cyber applicable if the attack is coming over the internet? I mean we all know that where security is concerned you are only allowed to attack via traditional channels and all other attack surfaces are strictly off limits, right?
[20:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not like he could stand - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─Actually (if you read the judgement - it's para 3, so not far in) the guy actually _was_ capable of getting out of the wheelchair himself, sitting in a normal seat, AND folding his wheelchair. In that sense he was more able than the mother with the buggy. The driver wouldn't let him do that because...
[20:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is a Britishism, but in the US I'm pretty sure we only use the word "pressurize" when doing something like putting appropriate levels of air in a spacesuit or maybe inflating a tire. We'd simply "pressure" a person to do something. But maybe this is an alternative -- if a passenger refu...
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Overly entitled - 06'Wheelchair v. Buggy': Disabled Man Wins UK Supreme Court Case - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm a bit confused by the story, too. What precisely does "She said the buggy would not fold" mean? Does it mean the buggy ACTUALLY wouldn't fold AND that it couldn't be moved to another area of the bus? In that case, yes, I agree that asking the woman to depart the bus with her baby is a bit m...
[20:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Re:Reason and Evidence - 06Micrometeorites Found in Roof Gutters - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. And yet - each time a chemist creates a new compound, they don't immediately turn around and test it to make sure it obeys the law of gravity. The idea that it *wouldn't* would be the thing so unusual someone would want to test it to make sure. These meteorites are the result of small dropl...
[20:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''your markup'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:43] <exec> 08└─People who have clicked on the link part of one of my link (orig) things one time know what to expect.
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[21:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:15] <exec> 08└─They had better have some video evidence and not just officer testimony. There is very little detail about exactly what they were arrested for, the specific actions which are being called "inciting a riot". I find it incredibly unlikely that all these journalists from different networks were all enc...
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─Journalists without "press credentials" have always been subject to abuse. Credentialing was always a bullshit form of state soft power. What's different now is that the democratization of media has produced a lot more uncredentialed journalists.
[21:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:19] <exec> 08└─I'll bet all the video footage from the journalists was confiscated during arrest.
[21:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:21] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize Trump was out arresting protesters on his Inauguration day. Fact is these people were arrested that day, depending on what time it could have been during either administration. Neither Trump or Obama has any direct control over the DC police. The police obviously thought they had ca...
[21:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:23] <exec> 08└─Don't you know that the Superbowl is coming, the Dow is above 20k, companies are going to hire Americans, and taxes are going to be lowered? Why are you obsessed by things which really don't matter, citizen?
[21:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:25] <exec> 08└─More than likely what happened is that they argued with the cops at some point. That's how it works. When a riot is going on and the cops tell you to move on or get out of the way, or whatever, and you decide you want to argue with the cops, you get arrested for inciting a riot. It might be unfair,...
[21:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not necessarily bad - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:35] <exec> 08└─Before talking near it, he should pop out the battery or put it in a sound-proof box. An easier solution is to hand it to one of his many armed guards, who can then step out of the room. Trump doesn't use email. The phone needn't hold very much that is even private. I could see stock traders wanting...
[21:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not necessarily bad - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:37] <exec> 08└─Before talking near it, he should pop out the battery or put it in a sound-proof box. An easier solution is to hand it to one of his many armed guards, who can then step out of the room.
[21:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:43] <exec> 08└─However, how many people here really think that if these people have ongoing access to a non-audited email system that they won't abuse it at some point?
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Something to keep an eye on, but... - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:46] <exec> 08└─How dare you not pile on this. The mere fact that these e-mail addresses exist means that these people were involved with the conspiracy between the NSA, KGB and Lizzard people to assassinate Kennedy and install Nixon to start the war on drugs to make them cool. Now that my 2 minutes of hate are...
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with that.
[21:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:57] <exec> 08└─No. With the amount of bull shit they spew while alive can you imagine the smell if they were just left hanging there dead. I would much prefer incineration in an electric arc furnace to ensure total destruction.
[21:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:59] <exec> 08└─> Don't point out a problem if you're not at least thinking about a solution. Lolwut? The solution is do not use 3rd party email services. But really, all you are doing is arguing for pretending the emperor is clothed.
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─It's against the law to use Federal computer systems, including email servers, for political campaigning. This borders on "fake news" with how it is being up-played as nefarious.
[21:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:03] <exec> 08└─One of the first things I thought of when I read this article was Nixon's checkers speech. Really worth a listen if you have not heard it before. https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Java Applet - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:19] <exec> 08└─Depends what platform you're on. For Linux it uses a Java applet and it only works in 32bit mode. In 64bit, you can't actually get audio. On Windows, there's a newer client. I think Android has a different one as well. I'm not sure about OSX. This is largely a matter of Cisco being too damned lazy a...
[21:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chrome, blech - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:23] <exec> 08└─Considering how many people cream themselves over Chrome, it astonishes me how bad it is. It routinely freezes even without any additional plugins added and spies on people. It's a clear indication of how incompetent the people at Mozilla are that they're losing to that crapware product.
[21:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─Simply repeating your bullshit does not make it any more true than it was the first time you said it.
[21:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:45] <exec> 08└─Well, we already have the fact that the Obama administration did the same thing and that for better or worse, the current actions of the Trump administration seem to be standard procedure and not particularly alarming the last time they happened.
[21:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Context Matters - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:47] <exec> 08└─> Second, Obama demonstrated that he was going to be a duplicitous president back after he won the Democrat convention in 2008. Wah! Obama wasn't 100% to your liking. So he's a total science-denying hypocrite. We all know you love your climate change denialism like it was your mother's milk. Its obv...
[21:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Normal to Abnormal - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:53] <exec> 08└─You are probably right about khallow trying to pull a tu quoque fallacy, he has a history of that sort of shallow reasoning. But there is value to putting trump's actions in historical context. As long we don't cherry-pick the context in a partisan way. At a minimum it helps to refine the argument...
[21:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, they had one primary on-the-ground intelligence source and it was an exiled dissident. They had some satellite imagery that showed construction they couldn't explain. Divorced of all other context, that's a kind of very weak evidence. Were it the the only evidence of any kind, positive o...
[21:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:quick - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:49] <exec> 08└─arrgh. wrong story..
[21:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score:1) 02Re:Sigh - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why they even called out the solar panel given how insignificant it was.
[21:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:04] <exec> 08└─It's now just known as the Dakar rally, and it has been moved to run through South America now, as going through the African section was considered too dangerous to safely go through. I don't expect electric vehicles to be able to seriously compete with combustion vehicles in this race unless they c...
[21:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:synchronous electric motor, attached to all fou - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─I’m guessing the gear box is there to keep the motor at a low rpm so it doesn’t overheat and boil out the dielectric. Or it’s a cheap one with limited rpms and gears are necessary. Or maybe they wired the battery direct to the motor and use the gear box to control speed to get the most range o...
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[21:45:54] <exec> 08└─I just do not understand this argument. I recently started building out my home network. Two old laptops running virtual servers, a new pfsense hardware firewall, some pis and webcams and an extra switch and a dozen fans and other support hardware. As far as I can tell, my power bill hasn't increase...
[21:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:"I just want a stable distro" - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:59] <exec> 08└─Mate on Xubuntu 12.04?
[21:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02Re:Old PC support in general is dying - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─Midori or Qupzilla might run OK on it.
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:pincussion - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─Everything you just said is wrong.
[21:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Kinda strikes me as misplaced alarm... - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe they only consider the cyber applicable if the attack is coming over the internet?
[21:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine in the age of VM's - 06Wine 2.0 released - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:27] <exec> 08└─Why do that though? Why fight Microsoft so hard for the privacy and dignity we deserve while computing with our devices that we own? Failure is catastrophic. Once you fail to protect yourself, once the pirates fail (even once) to turn off telemetry, Microsoft has all of your data. All of your keystr...
[21:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the link part of one of my link (orig) things'' - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:21] <exec> 08└─-------> The point O /|\ You / \ -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 3986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:33] <exec> 08└─Okay. It's why aren't the young people you so denigrate heading to Cuba for "free" doctorates. #1 It's not free, but provided to Cuban citizens as part of their free education for all citizens programs. Which work very well, and Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Cuban people a...
[21:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:35] <exec> 08└─#1 It's not free, but provided to Cuban citizens as part of their free education
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[22:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Brian does lots of processing - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:16] <exec> 08└─The amount of image processing my brain does is scary. I am pretty sure my eyes are failing, yet my "mind's eye" is very sharp. Details get filled in with interpolation, or even outright guessing. It became noticeable one day when I got on the wrong bus. The display above the driver miraculously cor...
[22:42:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─They had better have some video evidence and not just officer testimony. There is very little detail about exactly what they were arrested for, the specific actions which are being called "inciting a riot". I find it incredibly unlikely that all these journalists from different networks were all enc...
[22:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─and lost
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Hallelujah money, oh yes, hallelujah moneyyy. At least we have high quality bread and circuses these days...
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Well, they do have a bit of property damage. What's interesting is that when I googled around, I found a case of alleged mutual inciting of riot where Project Veritas [snopes.com] (shtick is that they go undercover and supposedly reveal underhanded doings and schemes of the Left) and a counter-sting...
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─You should have a /s at the end of your comment, but somehow I don't think you meant "Good times" sarcastically. Well, they do have a bit of property damage
[22:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:38] <exec> 08└─According to the news I saw yesterday, the reporters were only reporting, and were rounded up along with over 200 protesters as 'part of the crowd'. There were no riots in the immediate area, or part of the arrested crowd. At one point, one of the reporters started to switch memory cards in her came...
[22:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:40] <exec> 08└─Why the hell do the authorities get so panicky whenever someone records them doing their job? "Nothing to hide" doesn't even cover it. They're trying to prevent being recorded when the act of doing so seems to be the only thing they're actually doing that's objectionable?
[22:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─Part of the culture we need to push back on. Cops don't have a magic right to violate people's constitutional rights just because it makes their own lives easier. Freedom of the press! If they have press badges, or can produce the required paperwork, then they can film from wherever they'd like. We...
[22:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:45] <exec> 08└─If they have press badges, or can produce the required paperwork, then they can film from wherever they'd like.
[22:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02trump trump trump. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:48] <exec> 08└─trump trump trump. Lets talk more about trump! There are what 4 on the front page currently? 1 in the pending? 11+ in the submission queue? If I want to read about DT is going to end the world I can pop over to reddit.com/r/poltics or if I think he is the bees knees I can pop over to reddit.com/r/th...
[22:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:trump trump trump. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:50] <exec> 08└─Submit more non-trump stories. Then the editors have more to work with.
[22:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02settlement coming - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.rt.com/usa/259785-world-bank-protest-settlement/ [rt.com] http://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com
[22:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:17] <exec> 08└─It's OK, they compost.
[22:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:22] <exec> 08└─It's against the law to use Federal computer systems, including email servers, for political campaigning. This borders on "fake news" with how it is being up-played as nefarious.
[22:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:24] <exec> 08└─That is only because anything anti-republican seems to somehow be redefined by the left just as you are doing now. It is almost like you fail to see how this is not democrat vs republican but actually the bourgeoisie and the prolitariat vs the aristocracy.
[22:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:59] <exec> 08└─It's not the surveillance, it's the "alternative facts" that Orwell so presciently came up with; "Doublespeak".
[22:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─There is no need to keep this in mind because, in every political discussion on the internet, somebody from Europe (probably a Brit) happily regurgitates it for us. But here's the thing: The USA, at least for the moment, is where the most political power resides, so they determine where the middle i...
[22:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:39] <exec> 08└─On one hand we have statements that are supported by data. The Economy Is Better — Why Don’t Voters Believe It? [fivethirtyeight.com]
[22:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:tRNA and mRNA? - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─If you RTFA, you'll see that the claim to fame isn't that they got the new bases into DNA, that's been done before, it's that they've rejiggered the needed protein machinery to make the bases persist over generations. It doesn't do anything but take up space, yet, but this is the first step.
[22:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:How soon... - 06Electric Car Becomes the First to Conquer Dakar - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:20] <exec> 08└─Heinlein wrote a story about gasoline engines being outlawed. The protagonist had a 1968 Camaro that the cops kept trying to find. I don't remember the name of the story or which of my Heinlein collections it's in.
[22:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Not I - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:00] <exec> 08└─Until earlier this year, I ran a development and database server that provides the backend data acquisition for a live website [thelotterystation.com] on an older 32-bit Pentium-4* based HP server. The machine ran i386 Debian stable (Jessie) [debian.org] and hosted all the scripts that pull the live...
[22:46:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 0264-bit - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 2313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:23] <exec> 08└─32-bit is dying on the desktop. Moan all you like, but it's on the way out. Games are stopping supporting it. OS are stopping supporting it. Everything is 64-bit by default and works just the same. Hardware that doesn't have 64-bit drivers nowadays is dead in the water. 32-bit will be consigned to e...
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:64-bit is not need to use more than 4GB of ram! - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─My PentiumII-350 is running an SMP kernel with PAE support because it is recommended for that machine (debian). Never mind that it only physically supports 384MB of RAM. I guess we may not even be disagreeing since my use-case does not have any programs using more than 2GB of memory. (I do have that...
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:SSE support - 06Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:35] <exec> 08└─Firefox-esr 45.6.0 works on my PentiumII-350Mhz machine (stupidly slowly). It does not even have SSE support. Maybe your distro is dropping i686 support as well. I *did* run into that problem with Chromium though. It is particularly bad for old AMD systems because they lag behind one generation with...
[22:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02quick - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─call the United Galactic Sanitation department
[22:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:41] <exec> 08└─I'm paranoid and NEVER shop on my phone. Any e-shopping is on my laptop, at home on my own network. I had too many phones lost and stolen, and don't trust Google.
[22:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:43] <exec> 08└─Funny, this trick wouldn't work on my Kyocera phone or my Samsung tablet; you have to tap the microphone icon before it listens. I wouldn't buy a device that was listening all the time.
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Tu quoque - 06Martin Shkreli Points Fingers at Other Pharmaceutical Companies - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─Hmm, yes, but as an aikido guy Steven Segal would manage only half the THWACK! that Chuck can. It's all about the THWACK!
[22:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants - 2462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:58] <exec> 08└─You have reading comprehension problems. Education in Cuba is afforded to EVERYONE in Cuba, that is a citizen of course. How is it fascist (do you know what that word means?) to only offer free education to citizens only? Republicans are constantly bitter and enraged that illegal immigrants, or immi...
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[23:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Brian does lots of processing - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Brian - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, self proof-reading is difficult for the same reason :P
[23:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Umm - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:19] <exec> 08└─When our eyeballs roll back in their sockets during a blink
[23:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:21] <exec> 08└─10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.029
[23:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:23] <exec> 08└─It's a Digital Object Identifier [wikipedia.org] (DOI), commonly used to uniquely identify electronic documents such as pspers in scholarly journals, research data sets, and the like. You'll generally see one whenever a paper in a peer-reviewed journal is referenced, as it will allow someone with th...
[23:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Dat Link - 06Why the Lights Don't Dim When We Blink - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:25] <exec> 08└─A fine point, perhaps, but... 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.029
[23:42:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02Re:Video Footage - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 940 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:36] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize Trump was out arresting protesters on his Inauguration day. Fact is these people were arrested that day, depending on what time it could have been during either administration. Neither Trump or Obama has any direct control over the DC police. The police obviously thought they had ca...
[23:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02That's not how it works. - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:37] <exec> 08└─> I didn't realize Trump was out arresting protesters on his Inauguration day. Fact is these people were arrested that day, That's not how it works. People are not automatons rigidly following orders. People in the ranks take cues from the people at the top. Trump's been broadcasting cues are loud...
[23:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:48] <exec> 08└─Pretty much sums it up. Everyone is a journalist now. We should be judging them by actions not by profession or hobby. They obviously did something to gain the attention of the police officers. Most likely some publicity stunt.
[23:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet they argued with the cops - 06Journalists Face Felony Charges After Arrests While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:49] <exec> 08└─Sadly these days, that something could be getting a cop on video. They hate when there's evidence and they don't control it.
[23:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:20] <exec> 08└─It's against the law to use Federal computer systems, including email servers, for political campaigning. This borders on "fake news" with how it is being up-played as nefarious.
[23:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Required By Law! - 06Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Accounts [Updated] - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:24] <exec> 08└─During past years, the dems did have official cover. Their propaganda was officially endorsed and therefore seemed less fake. The claim that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous reaction to Innocence of Muslims was fake news.
[23:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06Widely Used WebEx Plugin for Chrome is Easily Exploitable - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:44] <exec> 08└─Imagine combining this with ransomware!
[23:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Why this increase in sales? - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:18] <exec> 08└─I agree. Welcome to the world created by whatever you'd care to call those who religiously vote D. Anything they dislike, they simply redefine [blogspot.com]. Marriage, racism, equality, liberalism, progressive, harassment, peaceful protest, feminism, nationalism, illness, disability... Definitions...
[23:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:1984 always seemed like the wrong one - 06Brisk Sales for "1984" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:40] <exec> 08└─It's fucking horrifying. What's wrong with your brain?
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Need to fix my reflex dyslexia - 06Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Organism With Three-base-pair DNA - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─This is an interesting story, but my mind interpreted the headline initially as, "Scientists Engineer First Semisynthetic Orgasm With Three-base-pair DNA." Which would be quite a different story, I believe. And I'd volunteer for any field trials of that one.
[23:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Nu Math - 06Space Junk Could Take Out a European Satellite This Week - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:00] <exec> 08└─So if I have a Gaussian curve with a mean of 10, but a standard deviation of 100
[23:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:No! No! NO! - 06Hidden Voice Commands Could Hijack Your Phone - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:46] <exec> 08└─Since the currently do tattle and aren't all that tightly secured, that's a good idea.
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[23:49:58] <exec> 08└─Even if you regularly use a native Windows install Wine is still useful. I once even attempted (unsuccessfully) to get Wine running on native Windows -- because there's a lot of old Windows apps that Wine will still run, but modern versions of Windows won't (And I'm including XP as "modern", and yes...
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