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[00:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Idiocy and insistence outside of domain knowledge - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─Idiocy and insistence outside of domain knowledge can always cause a governmental failure. It's true.
[00:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:26] <exec> 08└─SEO is not free.
[00:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They just need to try them under... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:29] <exec> 08└─Economic Terrorism charges for helping facilitate mass copyright infringement. And claim they were materially aided by Economic Terrorist associations through the donation of source code, patches, and financing. Then send them all deep into a hellhole full of bad french poetry, baguettes, stupid hat...
[00:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:They just need to try them under... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:31] <exec> 08└─You're a nutter if you think French baguettes are a hellish experience!
[00:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score:1) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:33] <exec> 08└─I can't speak about France, but I know much of the US's laws are anti-optimized for non-commercial cooperation.
[00:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02full quote - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:35] <exec> 08└─.....adding that failures like this can always happen....
[00:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02I say we turn the beast on its own tail... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:37] <exec> 08└─I say we all turn the beast on its own tail... If anyone here is affiliated with Torrent9.me it would be quite delicious to put an endorsement link to the French tax authority on that website too. It might make some bureaucrats head explode if he has to explain why they also must be paying torrent9....
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I say we turn the beast on its own tail... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:39] <exec> 08└─They'll probably raid anyone who clicks on the link.
[00:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Interesting change - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:42] <exec> 08└─This guide ends with a link to the VLC Media Player, as can be seen below [image [torrentfreak.com]].
[00:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02France. - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:44] <exec> 08└─Wee wee. No No. Once again the French people prove how fucking faggity they are (and stupid).
[00:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh there's a surprise - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:53] <exec> 08└─Good point. Also, don't people shop online to avoid places like Walmart? The Amazon and Google Express delivery people are rude and unreliable enough as is. I can't imagine dealing with pissed-off Walmart/Jet.com employees.
[00:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:09] <exec> 08└─Per kilometer in the US and Liberia and per mile in the rest of the world, of course.
[00:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:11] <exec> 08└─Please reasonable units like Calories per bushel per furlong^3 per fortnight.
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─Ipso facto, Chromium is not Free.
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[01:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score:1) 02Re:Idiocy and insistence outside of domain knowled - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:37] <exec> 08└─I suggest ALL torrent sites put a link to this particular government offices website. Then they can investigate themselves. Perhaps, just perhaps, the link is there as VLC is a very good and free video players? Someone is grinding an axe.
[01:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:43] <exec> 08└─I think the default assumption is that any business relationship would involve a financial aspect, with non-profits being the only exception to the rule. The entire FLOSS concept is so alien to the most of the older generations, maybe it would best be explained with a metaphor: It is like being a go...
[01:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:France. - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:50] <exec> 08└─Once again the French people prove how...stupid...
[01:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ship to store - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:01] <exec> 08└─Our local suburban Walmart is about a half mile away. Don't buy much food there, we have better grocery options. We do order the occasional gadget from Walmart and normally use ship to store. For us the big advantage is, if you don't like something, you can return for full credit on the spot. Prices...
[01:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score:1) 02Re:Tribe size - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:32] <exec> 08└─'Hunter-gatherers and farming villagers who live in worlds without lightbulbs or thermostats sleep slightly less at night than smartphone-toting city slickers, researchers say.' Doh, perhaps thats because they have to actually spend all day doing the labor that keeps them alive? They have a short sl...
[01:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Bucket List - 06Cassini Takes Close View of Saturn's Rings in "Grazing" Phase - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:17] <exec> 08└─That's very human: There might be life we can relate to in this place, so why don't we dump our junk into that other place, ignoring how there could be unexpected forms of life in there? Laugh all you want, but when the Ammonia people come to retaliate for the obvious attack, you'll be sorry for dou...
[01:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Contempt of court... - 06DHS Ignores Judicial Ruling, Continues Trump's Ban - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:22] <exec> 08└─Unintentional Godwin, but can you think of a better precedent showing how "following orders" does not make you exempt from the law? Besides, the tiny-handed one is Godwinning himself, calling for mandatory registration of a particular religious group, travel bans, and mass deportations. If he wants...
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[02:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:35] <exec> 08└─This is probably the sort of person who believes the Internet is a massive failure and human tragedy because it is not monetized down to the tiniest detail (e.g. massive licensing fees for using TCP/IP). While there aren't many people like this, they do in fact exist, and in this case are obviously...
[02:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:soyverted service - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:51] <exec> 08└─My experience with Amazon is that their free shipping is absurdly slow. It really feels like they just sit on stuff for a week before doing anything in order to push people to sign up for the prime loyalty club. My last few orders didn't even leave the warehouse until a week later.
[02:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Middle Sleep - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:29] <exec> 08└─There is research to suggest that that style of sleeping only sprang up after we started become more civilized (started being indoors to work rather than outside foraging or hunting all day) and that our actual evolutionary pattern is fully sleeping through the night. Though I don't have a clue how...
[02:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck it... - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:33] <exec> 08└─Google disconinued Chrome on my machine.
[02:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck it... - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:42] <exec> 08└─It isn't just code audits, it is the forks. When a closed product goes bad or changes revenue models you are simply boned. See Windows 10. Or more on topic, Opera. Contrast to Firefox or Debian.
[02:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2) 02Otter - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:59] <exec> 08└─I've been using Vivaldi (which has already been mentioned) for a while now, but have found another Opera 12 follower called Otter [otter-browser.org]. It's not quite as far along (feature wise) as Vivaldi is, but its still pretty functional, and unlike Vivaldi, it is open source! Now I'm using the t...
[02:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:confused - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:06] <exec> 08└─You can try 'ungoogled-chromium' at https://github.com [github.com] . You can build it yourself on Linux (using Clang) or Windows (with VS2015). I'm using it right now to post this comment. The downside is that you have to build every update that you want and the auto-upda...
[02:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:confused - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:08] <exec> 08└─thanks, that sounds like a good start. i guess it's another example of how hard it is to escape from the evil empire...
[02:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor and dumb - 06Turkish Government to Remove Evolution From High School Curriculum - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:49] <exec> 08└─To troll progressives you can point out that this treaty quote is analogous
[02:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Automating software engineering? - 06Hungry Penguins Help Keep Car Code Safe - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:18] <exec> 08└─This already exists and it's called genetic programming (basically you run a genetic algorithm on the code structure itself, which is easiest in Lisp, or on command sequences that act as code). There's nothing to see here except a new name so someone can clam their search heuristic is something new....
[02:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit - 06Fake News is About to Get Even Easier Than You Ever Dreamed - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, except there are "reasons". First, Sophocles wrote plays. Second, Democritus is actually dead. Third, two parts: The best philosophers, like Socrates, never write anything down; and I forgot what was in my lost books. That is why they are lost.
[02:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trust is not ideal - 06Fake News is About to Get Even Easier Than You Ever Dreamed - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:17] <exec> 08└─- All news is paid for.
[02:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prediction - 06Fake News is About to Get Even Easier Than You Ever Dreamed - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─"eugenics is bad science" Okay, now what?
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[03:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How interesting. - 06Rat-Mouse Chimeras Offer Hope for Diabetics - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:25] <exec> 08└─I was just watching a video of a rat eat this chick out. Mousers must like the protein. ...Or maybe it's the cheese.
[03:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score:1) 02Re:They just need to try them under... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:38] <exec> 08└─Try having Celiac. D:
[03:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:41] <exec> 08└─The upside to 100% capitalization is that people like me who are freaks can participate in the system instead of being violently assaulted or killed just for being born different. Without capitalization, I would either get stoned to death, which is what most major religions believe should be done to...
[03:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:soyverted service - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:00] <exec> 08└─It really depends. I have gotten certain no-rush shipping items ahead of the delivery estimates. Maybe it's a geographical problem. And of course, you are also dealing with UPS, USPS, or FedEx.
[03:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Walmart is terrible online - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:02] <exec> 08└─Walmart routinely forgets to put customs labels on their APO packages, and the packaging is nowhere near as sturdy as Amazon. The returns / claims process is a bitch as well. Didn't get something in your package? Walmart says you did. Good luck. Amazon is doing to Walmart what Walmart did to Sears/K...
[03:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dat rite!!! - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:25] <exec> 08└─Redneck physics FTW!!!
[03:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I sleep more than anyone I've ever met - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:47] <exec> 08└─It's a problem. I didn't go to work yesterday because I didn't want to get out of bed. Depression makes me sleep even more, but I sleep quite a lot even when not depressed. The worst part is when I wake up in the morning, only rarely do I feel rested. Usually I feel completely wrecked. I want nothin...
[03:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Bucket List - 06Cassini Takes Close View of Saturn's Rings in "Grazing" Phase - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:23] <exec> 08└─As amusing as it would be to find life floating around the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn, the environment is a little bit harsh. And I don't think you can contaminate it since the craft will burn up completely before it could stop moving.
[03:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Brave? - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:47] <exec> 08└─thanks for the tip, just installed Brave on OS X, looks nice (fast too)
[03:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump reopens border to brothers in Creationism - 06Turkish Government to Remove Evolution From High School Curriculum - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:44] <exec> 08└─> news media, who make their needed $ selling stories Took me a long time but I figured out some time ago that the media is far more biased towards drama than left or right. Drama sells. Fight! Fight! Fight! > There are many liars who call themselves "christian" and make a bad name and reputation fo...
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[04:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, but... - 06Aurora Supercomputer's Early Science Projects and Exascale Co-Design Centers - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:16] <exec> 08└─... does it run Linux?
[04:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02full quote - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:46] <exec> 08└─.....adding that failures like this can always happen....
[04:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:France. - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:52] <exec> 08└─Thats just because we expect nothing better of the French.
[04:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''we expect nothing better of the French'' - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:54] <exec> 08└─A 35-hour workweek with no reduction in pay sounds pretty good to me. Meanwhile, productivity in the USA has tripled since 1968 but wages have stayed flat. USA corporations are also expecting LONGER workweeks. [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:soyverted service - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:06] <exec> 08└─Seconded. I actually called customer service and asked about it the last time I ordered something sold by Amazon and was basically told as much. Such a shame, Amazon used to be so good at shipping. Now I try to buy from other sellers preferentially, even when I buy on Amazon, just to avoid the probl...
[04:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Acetylene? - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:32] <exec> 08└─Acetylene burns in pure oxygen with a temperature of 3,330 °C, quite enough to boil iron, which is why it’s used for welding. Do they plan on making the detonation chamber out of tungsten? That I think is the only material capable of withstanding such high temperatures. Ethylene burns with a temp...
[04:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Mass produced but still very small. - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:33] <exec> 08└─From TFP: The graphene nanosheets may be stacked in single, double, or triple layers, for example, and may have an average particle size of between about 35 to about 250 nm.
[04:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Cancel - 06Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─I'm just glad they didn't do the Google thing and cancel. I miss Reader. Newsblur is nice, but...
[04:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VoIP Block - 06Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:16] <exec> 08└─Please tell me you aren't paying for Voip..... Dude, its free, unless you need a POTS handoff for outgoing calls.
[04:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VoIP Block - 06Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:19] <exec> 08└─SMS over VOIP has always been a total crapshoot.
[04:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Probably 20 orbits - 06Cassini Takes Close View of Saturn's Rings in "Grazing" Phase - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:36] <exec> 08└─penultimate mission phase—20 orbits
[04:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:monkeys too - 06Hungry Penguins Help Keep Car Code Safe - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:48] <exec> 08└─Isn't an infinite number of monkeys, and their equally infinite amount of typewriters, equivalent to a single eternal monkey with an infinitely-working typewriter, for the purpose of assessing the probability of something being typed?
[04:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Mainstreamists are hilariously unaware - 06DHS Ignores Judicial Ruling, Continues Trump's Ban - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:07] <exec> 08└─What? Nobody knew that frojack was an interpreter for the American Forces in Iraq? At least his service record is legit, unlike that stolen valor bastard who keeps repeating the crazed ramblings of Cabinet Member Loony Flynn. Have you listened to this guy? Always amazes me that someone could get u...
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[05:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:21] <exec> 08└─The previous calculation was good to 1 %. This new one? Who knows/cares, it's pay-walled.
[05:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:23] <exec> 08└─Yep. This whole article is a fucking tease. They don't actually say what they found out, only that they did, and a teaser as to how. Fuck paywalls.
[05:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02 - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:25] <exec> 08└─💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
[05:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score:2) 02Re:France. - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:57] <exec> 08└─Shut up and eat your Freedom fries.
[05:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Acetylene? - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:36] <exec> 08└─The heat flash may not be as big of a deal for steel or iron to handle, will probably requiring cooling though.
[05:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:1) 02a solution...maybe - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:00] <exec> 08└─I have a similar problem, I really feel better working at night and sleeping during the day, except I can’t because my job practically demands daytime activity. So I got me a dog, a border collie. They (now I have two) will get restless around 6 or 6:15 in the morning. They will not be quiet until...
[05:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:VoIP Block - 06Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:22] <exec> 08└─Until most people get off the POTS, I need POTS hand-off capability. To be honest, I am not even set up to handle non POTS calls at the moment. Companies like Google and Facebook don't federate their VOIP servers, so I am not alone.
[05:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''website would not recognize [Palemoon]...'' - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:20] <exec> 08└─My bank's website would not recognize it as a compatible browser Crazy question: You did try a User Agent Switcher to spoof the site and tell it you were using something on their brain-dead list. Right? ...and proper sniffing[1] only looks for the rendering engine--not the browser name. [1] Browser...
[05:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck it... - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:23] <exec> 08└─"there were a lot of pages that would load in Firefox and Chrome but not Pale Moon. That's a no-go."...change the user agent string so it read Firefox instead of Pale Moon, works like a charm and any page that will load in FF will then load in PM. Its in about:config , easy peasy.
[05:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''command line driven browsers'' - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:30] <exec> 08└─Netsurf? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:46:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02Re:Poor and dumb - 06Turkish Government to Remove Evolution From High School Curriculum - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:16] <exec> 08└─'in god we trust' came about in the 50's (recently, not 200 yrs ago) when 'we' were afraid of the godless commies. this was not the real america speaking; it was an over-reaction and it actually goes AGAINST what america was formed FOR! religious freedom was one of the main reasons listed for the cr...
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[06:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Escape From Planet Earth - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:19] <exec> 08└─Oxygen can escape, but you can't!
[06:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cost Effective? - 06Aurora Supercomputer's Early Science Projects and Exascale Co-Design Centers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:27] <exec> 08└─No Bitcoin mining projects?
[06:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02 - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[06:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange, but seems to have some validity - 06Scientists Find "Earliest Known Human Ancestor" - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:46] <exec> 08└─But the researchers were unable to find any evidence that the creature had an anus. “If that was the case, then any waste material would simply have been taken out back through the mouth,
[06:49:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] 02Re:Bekenstein-Hawking Black Hole Entropy - 06Substantial Evidence of Holographic Universe - 739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:44] <exec> 08└─If entropy is something we can measure, and if we accept that anything which goes past the event horizon can not escape out again, that means that we can not measure it, information will never return to us in order to understand how much entropy is in there. It could be zero or infinite entropy in t...
[06:49:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02Re:Bekenstein-Hawking Black Hole Entropy - 06Substantial Evidence of Holographic Universe - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:57] <exec> 08└─if it is all a holographic simulation
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[07:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:29] <exec> 08└─I thought homeopathic medicine was supposed to be essentially, distilled water. The preparations are manufactured using a process of homeopathic dilution, in which a chosen substance is repeatedly diluted in alcohol or distilled water, each time with the containing vessel being bashed against an ela...
[07:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:59] <exec> 08└─I know you’re kidding, but unless your car uses acetylene or ethylene, your black ash likely isn’t graphene but soot. Gasoline tops out at 1500°C, but ethylene gets to 2300°C and acetylene 3300°C. An ethylene flame is hot enough to melt steel, and acetylene flames are hot enough to boil steel...
[07:46:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02Poor and dumb - 06Turkish Government to Remove Evolution From High School Curriculum - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:45] <exec> 08└─An old joke goes like this. Said the religious leader to the political leader: if you keep them poor, I'll keep them dumb. But in some countries the distinction between political and religious leaders is not as clear as in the west.
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[08:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 1905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:31] <exec> 08└─The actual expected concentrations: Hyland’s Baby Nighttime Teething Tablets -- Belladonna 12X HPUS [hylands.com] Hyland's Baby Teething Gel -- Belladonna 6X HPUS [hylands.com] Again from the wiki: Three main logarithmic potency scales are in regular use in homeopathy. Hahnemann created the "cente...
[08:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:32] <exec> 08└─oops wrong scale. (I used the C not X scale for my conclusion) From the website: Belladonna 6X HPUS (0.0000003% Alkaloids, calculated): -> 1/3x10e-9 -> 1: 333 million Belladonna 12X HPUS (0.0000000000003% alkaloids, calculated) -> 1/3x10e-15 -> 1: 333 trillion
[08:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:34] <exec> 08└─Homeopathy is always worse than placebo, because it is prescribed as a real thing. I could have died as a kid due to being prescribed homeopathy, when what I actually needed was surgery.
[08:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Huh? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:37] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the FDA have the authority to ban products whose toxicity levels fall well outside established regulations? If not, someone in government surely does... right? It almost has to be - the USA is not a coast-to-coast environmental hazard. So there's got to be more to this than "Maker refuses re...
[08:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Explains Runaway! - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:39] <exec> 08└─Do we finally have an explanation for Runaway1926? Belladonna! And Laudanum. Hillbilly Heroin, before there were Hillibillies or Heroin! Something to do with a White Horse Prophecy, but not Mormon at all. Brain damage. Fox News. Brietfart! All makes sense now. . . . Really!!! Seamonkeys took my hai...
[08:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Avoid homeopathic teething medicine? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:41] <exec> 08└─No way. As a scientist, I think the FDA should be encouraging it. Finally we have a homeopathic remedy that works - make the most of it!
[08:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Obligatory reference - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZED1M9eSw [youtube.com].
[08:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Projects involving both h/w and s/w - 06Aurora Supercomputer's Early Science Projects and Exascale Co-Design Centers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:00] <exec> 08└─I can optimise their co-design by a full 33%! The word they're looking for is just "design".
[08:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Like you weren't thinking the same - 06Rat-Mouse Chimeras Offer Hope for Diabetics - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:17] <exec> 08└─And now [type 2] diabetics can literally be part pig.
[08:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:15] <exec> 08└─How many cubits to the hogshead do you get?
[08:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I sleep more than anyone I've ever met - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:49] <exec> 08└─This may sound strange, but have you tried high doses if Vitamin D? That, and vitamin B injections really helped me. (2 digit UID but posting AC for Reasons)
[08:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devils advocate - 06Turkish Government to Remove Evolution From High School Curriculum - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:45] <exec> 08└─Gym class? Art history? Football?
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[09:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Well, part of a botnet - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:30] <exec> 08└─I think turning your router into an entire botnet would be pretty hard.
[09:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:45] <exec> 08└─Hyland's has acknowledged that there are some inconsistencies in the amount of belladonna in its products
[09:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ok but - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:54] <exec> 08└─it does not match previous measurements... http://archive.is [archive.is] Lunar Atmospheric Composition The Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment on the MoonThe Moon has an atmosphere, but it is very tenuous. Gases in the lunar atmosphere are easily lost to space. Because of the Moon's low...
[09:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:14] <exec> 08└─Well, if you want to learn about the properties of gold, you must provide some. ;-)
[09:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:16] <exec> 08└─The previous calculation was good to 1 %. This new one? Who knows/cares, it's pay-walled.
[09:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like you weren't thinking the same - 06Rat-Mouse Chimeras Offer Hope for Diabetics - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:26] <exec> 08└─I define pig as "eats a lot of corn", so they both already are in my eyes.
[09:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiocy and insistence outside of domain knowled - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:37] <exec> 08└─How this is playing out: 1. Dumb executive decision by some government official. [...oh no here we go again...] 2. Wide protests by folks affected by this, by folks not affected by this, even by folks living in other countries and not affected by this [... okay we know what the next step will be...s...
[09:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I say we turn the beast on its own tail... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:48] <exec> 08└─Not just a link... "Visit our sponsors" :-)
[09:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting change - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:51] <exec> 08└─Or, or, they don't get paid for SEO anymore? Case proven. Hand over all your customer data!
[09:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting change - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether to mod you funny or touché...
[09:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I sleep more than anyone I've ever met - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:04] <exec> 08└─Are you thirsty in the morning too? Because it really sounds like you have sleep apnea. Try to get that checked - it saved my life.
[09:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:''website would not recognize [Palemoon]...'' - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:27] <exec> 08└─Yes and it still didn't work. There was something lacking in the browser until somehow it was there in an update I had skipped. And it's not that it was a huge amount missing, the only thing it balked at doing was some crazy javascript thing for transferring money between accounts. Displayed everyth...
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[10:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kunasou [4148] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, part of a botnet - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:30] <exec> 08└─If your router can do that then it's something bigger than a router. Writing headlines is somehow difficult this days.
[10:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Ummm... - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:32] <exec> 08└─As Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin explains, any router that has the remote management option switched on is ultimately vulnerable to hacks.
[10:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:44] <exec> 08└─The whole point of a "placebo", at least in clinical trials, is that you don't actually know whether it is a placebo or the real thing. Homeopathy is therefore exactly the same as a placebo, and just as beneficial, also just as dangerous.
[10:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:49] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't easy to be sure about these poisonings. Lots of things can lead to similar symptoms. Also, the people using this product are no doubt doing all sorts of non-fda approved things unusual for the population in general, and this population is enriched for groups with certain socioeconomic a...
[10:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Setting themselves up.... - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:51] <exec> 08└─This is something the "Relion group" is gonna get mixed up in. Any day now, we will be tormented by yet another volley after volley of TV ads by their hard-as-nails blonde bombshell.
[10:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Helium. Once released, gone forever. - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:02] <exec> 08└─I understand that once Helium is released, you will never see it again. [millerwelds.com] The earth's gravity simply isn't strong enough to hold it.
[10:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[10:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Mono atomic gold annunaki - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:23] <exec> 08└─I have heard all sorts of fantastical stuff about "monoatomic gold" and the annunaki. So far, all I have to go on is stuff I find hardly credible. Anyone care to chime in with something more substantive than what I have on it?
[10:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02Re:Idiocy and insistence outside of domain knowled - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:41] <exec> 08└─I suggest ALL torrent sites put a link to this particular government offices website. Then they can investigate themselves. Perhaps, just perhaps, the link is there as VLC is a very good and free video players? Someone is grinding an axe.
[10:43:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:48] <exec> 08└─I think the default assumption is that any business relationship would involve a financial aspect, with non-profits being the only exception to the rule. The entire FLOSS concept is so alien to the most of the older generations, maybe it would best be explained with a metaphor: It is like being a go...
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[11:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Mentholated Space Cases - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:28] <exec> 08└─I thought fiberglass wasn't good for the body? This story is a decent scientific basis for energy shields to keep out cosmic radiation. Have any science fiction stories dealt with this concept yet as opposed to the military torpedo-block side of energy shields? Would our favorite Trek villain, Khan,...
[11:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doing it wrong - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:30] <exec> 08└─The space faring twin is supposed to travel near light speed! ;-)
[11:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Zombie! - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:32] <exec> 08└─Mengeles corpse is sooooo jealous.
[11:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:43] <exec> 08└─Whether done by cyber means
[11:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:00] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if they would state the actual tests run and the actual amounts found. The last time the FDA went into a tizzy about teething drops, they released a weasel worded document claiming they contained an ingredient that could be harmful in larger doses. A statement that is true of litera...
[11:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, and what is the denominator? How many meV is meV-level? Oh, the abstract left out that important information. The first thing any scientist wants to know about any calculation is the relative accuracy.
[11:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:35] <exec> 08└─Well, as soon as something is well-enough known to be found in Wikipedia, [wikipedia.org] it certainly doesn't need to be put into the article abstract. The ionization energy of gold is 890.1 kJ/mol. Yes, that's in a different unit, but also on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] you learn that 96.485 kJ/mol...
[11:44:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02I say we turn the beast on its own tail... - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:05] <exec> 08└─I say we all turn the beast on its own tail... If anyone here is affiliated with Torrent9.me it would be quite delicious to put an endorsement link to the French tax authority on that website too. It might make some bureaucrats head explode if he has to explain why they also must be paying torrent9....
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[12:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, part of a botnet - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:49] <exec> 08└─Clearly when the router is compromised, it's turned into a virtualisation host running multiple bots in VMs. Cheap and dirty way to inflate the node count of a botnet without requiring additional resources.
[12:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:05] <exec> 08└─It's the free market. If the consumer buys it, then it is okay. The government *warned* people not to buy or use it. Any more "intervention" would be over-reach, ("big government bad!"), wouldn't it? /s (although I expect some do believe this)
[12:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Nightshade? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:13] <exec> 08└─I did a little checking to see if it's a case of mis-identifying herbs, since I know that there are some like water hemlock and cow parsnip that are commonly confused. It seems juice from the berries of black nightshade are used for toothache [dailykos.com], so that part makes sense. Black nightshad...
[12:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiocy and insistence outside of domain knowled - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:08] <exec> 08└─The tax men have probably had copies of vlc installed in their home pc for years, so likely it is not idiocy, but terrorism. Or, as the classic definition of "terrorism by the ones already in charge" goes, terror.
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[13:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No surprise - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:40] <exec> 08└─Well face it. You force customers to go through "piracy" rants, unskippable ads for other movies, essentially treat them like sh*t. I'm not even talking about playback (not copy) protection or region codes. Each time I put in a DVD for the kids (they love to watch the same stuff over and over...), I...
[13:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:41] <exec> 08└─That's funny, I boycotted BluRay as well, and stopped buying DVDs at the same point. It just got too annoying.
[13:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Mentholated Space Cases - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:50] <exec> 08└─You forgot artificial gravity.
[13:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02But, but, ... - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:54] <exec> 08└─... they are twins no longer, as their age differs by now.
[13:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Story title updated - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Add Your Router to a Botnet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:06] <exec> 08└─Good catch; story title updated. Thanks!
[13:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Add Your Router to a Botnet - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:10] <exec> 08└─Obedience is ubiquitous. http://www.simplypsychology.org [simplypsychology.org]
[13:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:21] <exec> 08└─Looks like a case of false advertising then. While the 12X level of concentration would be ludicrously hard to achieve as long as you had belladonna in the same building, it sounds like they're not even close to reaching the 6X concentration. That's just sloppy chemistry (reusing the same kitchen bo...
[13:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure people might think twice about purchasing it if they called Belladonna by its other name, deadly nightshade. From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a perennial herbaceous plant (rhizomatous hemicryptophyte) in the Nigh...
[13:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:29] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism FTW! Hands off my path to profit government! Vote RED!
[13:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:11] <exec> 08└─I don't actually remember much about relativistic quantum mechanics [wikipedia.org], except for: "nooooo! don't do a relativistic QC calculation! our mainframe isn't up to that!". But if it's a variational approach [wikipedia.org], then it probably means that the result that they got is at most 1 me...
[13:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02summary... - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:13] <exec> 08└─"We add the important conclusion that in order to obtain balanced and precise results higher-order correlation effects and Breit and QED contributions (preferably at the correlated level) must be included simultaneously; neglect- ing any of them from the computational scheme renders the inclusion of...
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like you weren't thinking the same - 06Rat-Mouse Chimeras Offer Hope for Diabetics - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:24] <exec> 08└─I define pig as "eats a lot of doughnuts", so they both already are in my eyes. FTFY
[13:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:44] <exec> 08└─I wonder how they reconcile Twitter and Facebook link sharing.
[13:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Oh there's a surprise - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:04] <exec> 08└─Wal-Mart customers don't use a paid premium service, what a surprise.
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[14:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Will this be the next big thing in batteries? - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:38] <exec> 08└─Will this be the next big thing in batteries?
[14:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score:1) 02recharge issue with dendrites - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:39] <exec> 08└─The idea of a lithium metal battery is an old one. Moli Energy in Vancouver Canada tried to commercialize this in the 80's but ran into problems when aging tests showed that after ~200 recharge cycles, dendrites formed from the lithium anode through the separator and the battery would short causing...
[14:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02chemistries - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:42] <exec> 08└─Theres a lot of lithium battery chemistries out there, this one hasn't hit wikipedia yet. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see most of that, because I watch DVDs with VLC which doesn't respect the do-not-skip flag. I've actually started buying DVDs again, because the prices have dropped to the point where I'm paying around £5/season for fairly recent TV shows in boxed sets, and at that price it's cheaper than r...
[14:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wats it mean? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:54] <exec> 08└─so if they "write down" does that mean like they write a check for 977 million or what? is there a difference between "write down" and "write up" in space? does it just mean that they didn't sell the 977 million they thought hey would? 'cause in that case i think i'm going to go ahead and "write dow...
[14:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:wats it mean? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:57] <exec> 08└─To "write down" an asset means to report a significant drop in its value to the tax authority so that the business can deduct it.
[14:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Hollywood Accounting? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:59] <exec> 08└─See if they report the same kinds of horrendous losses to their shareholders. Because I could imagine plenty of scenarios where for tax purposes they'd lost almost $1 billion, but for shareholder purposes they'd made $250 million.
[14:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Reaping what you sow - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:01] <exec> 08└─They're ever so keen to blame losses on drops in various markets, but they never seem to take a step back and ask "are we making completely shitty films?" 2016 feels like a high water mark for bad films. I went through the list I'd watched this year and ranked them on IMDB. I must have seen about 80...
[14:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:40] <exec> 08└─they probably screwed up somewhere
[14:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:3, Funny) 02Wall - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:01] <exec> 08└─Space wall now. I am fed up with the moon stealing our Oxygen.
[14:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:58] <exec> 08└─> although there is a growing wave of change going on as people realize money isn't the only goal in life. Damn hippies.
[14:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score:1) 02The natural solution is - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:13] <exec> 08└─for all torrent sites to link to the French Tax Authority website.
[14:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Graphene, graphene, graphene - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:56] <exec> 08└─They're always talking about graphene. If they care so much about the stuff, why not harvest 10 million used notebooks from elementary school kids and ship 'em to India so those kids can peel off the layers with scotch tape? Boom, more graphene than you can shake a stick at, and Indian kids get to e...
[14:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02How do you feature-detect HTML, CSS, and ES6? - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:47] <exec> 08└─How is a site supposed to query support for essential HTML elements and CSS selectors and properties before sending the HTML and CSS to the browser, particularly if the user has disabled script? IE 8 is unsupported and therefore presumed vulnerable, but IE 9 is still supported for a few more months....
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[15:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:45] <exec> 08└─This is very interesting work, but one needs to keep in mind that this is inherently a "slow" process. A change in temperature needs to be generated, which is related to the thickness of the thermoelectric region; you can make it operate faster by making the thermoelectric region thinner, but that l...
[15:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:46] <exec> 08└─It's a shame it's too big to be used in a CPU/GPU. Automatically switching off bits of the processor based on heat for instance so that you literally could not burn a chip up any more would be kinda sweet.
[15:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will this be the next big thing in batteries? - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─Given that it is based upon his research, it is coming from "the founder of Ionic Materials", and we're hearing about it from "hothardware.com" and not from a science or engineering site that is talking about any papers on the subject, I would tend to agree with you. It sounds like buzz generation m...
[15:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reaping what you sow - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, they have learned, but not in that way. To the studios movies that have lasting appeal are a bad thing, they don't want their new manure to compete against older output so it is in their own best interest that people only watch something once and them promptly forget it (they've already got your...
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Reaping what you sow - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─I went through the list I'd watched this year and ranked them on IMDB. I must have seen about 80 films, not all made in 2016, but quite a large representation were.
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score:2) 02need more strong blockbusters like Ghostbusters! - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─like Ghostbusters and Angry Birds, you know, the quality stuff ...
[15:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:need more strong blockbusters like Ghostbusters - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─The Angry Birds Movie Budget $73 million Box office $349.8 million Ghostbusters (2016 film) Budget $144 million Box office $229.1 million Hollywood accounting aside, these films are still enabled by the ticket buyers.
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Add Your Router to a Botnet - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─Not everyone in that experiment even obeyed. But that's the least of the problems with that garbage; it's from the social sciences.
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:01] <exec> 08└─Yep, that whole "so diluted there can't be anything left" argument you always hear is based on some really wrong and incorrect assumptions. So is the "water memory" explanation. It is amazing how easily pseudoscience takes over both sides of debates like this.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:03] <exec> 08└─Yep, that whole "so diluted there can't be anything left" argument you always hear is based on some really wrong and incorrect assumptions.
[15:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:ship to store - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:53] <exec> 08└─I won't do business with Amazon
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[16:42:46] <exec> 08└─I think a lot of people will come in here looking for the HAMR of transistors that allows further shrinking and vertical scaling, but it does not look like that whatsoever. Too bad. My computer was using something like 1000 threads earlier. If we don't have a core for each of those, we're nothing bu...
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[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's too slow. The Buzzard already commented on CPU apps but the first thing that came to mind for me was on the die of a RF power transistor you could put something like this in series with one of the leads and when it starts VHF oscillations or goes into thermal runaway usually in about a s...
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Lawyers Everwhere Start Salivating - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─Someone should advise Mr. Zimmerman to be careful about public guarantees of absolute safety. Attorneys feed on comments such as this like piranhas on a swimming ox.
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:need more strong blockbusters like Ghostbusters - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─The power of narrowcasting... ghostbusters total haul divided by $16/ticket at my local theater and half to Sony means 42M viewers. Assuming ALL the viewers are in the USA that means almost 90% of the population wouldn't watch, its just too stupid for them. Look at the IQ curve and think of that 10t...
[16:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:need more strong blockbusters like Ghostbusters - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─Just about every big movie now makes more money overseas (total of every country but USA) than in America alone. With China being a big portion of that, IF the film gets past the censors, possibly makes some changes for that market, and is one of a limited number of Western films allowed in theaters...
[16:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:06] <exec> 08└─No, it is pseudoscience when in practice it is very difficult to perform the dilutions they claim. For decades the "skeptics" failed to actually check this and kept on with the same oversimplified theoretical objection to homeopathy's pseudo-scientific explanation. It is idiots on both sides.
[16:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Explains Runaway! - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:11] <exec> 08└─1956, not 1926. His issues can be explained by childhood abuse, then abuse in the armed forces (giving and receiving, no doubt). I'd be surprised if he did any drugs other than the socially accepted ones, tobacco and alcohol.
[16:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:18] <exec> 08└─The real issue here is that the FDA has been specifically neutered by lobbying from the multi-billion dollar "natural medicine" industry and the resulting corrupt influence [scienceblogs.com] from Orrin Hatch [newrepublic.com]. If this was real medicine, the onus would be on the provider showing tha...
[16:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─Modded up because dammit people need to see this. Thank you for pointing it out. This is yet another example of "starve the beast," where these GOP pissfucks cut funding and power for an agency and then when it fails use that as an excuse to get rid of it.
[16:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Mono atomic gold annunaki - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:59] <exec> 08└─Well gold is a metal, and that means that the atoms share their outer electrons with all the other ones, so you can't really speak of the size of a molecule of gold anymore. The whole lump is the molecule. If it's crystalline then you can speak of the size of a unit cell (smallest replicating unit)....
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[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─If it's subject to radio interference, likely covering the back with aluminum foil would also solve the problem (assuming the router is behind the screen). Of course, standard, computer-related radio signals shouldn't interfere with standard computer equipment. Some QA engineer needs to find a new j...
[17:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:41] <exec> 08└─Does the frequency with which 5K-display pixels need to be updated correlate with the frequency of said router? Perhaps all monitors are affected, but the noise margins of lower-resolution devices are large enough to ignore the interference* * I'm talking out of my ass, of course.
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─Why blame QA? Without evidence to the contrary, my first instinct is ALWAYS to blame management. Maybe you've never heard of Dilbert. Engineers tend to make management aware of technical problems. (Unless management creates an environment that doesn't allow this.) Once aware of the problem, manageme...
[17:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:45] <exec> 08└─I agree. My router is next to the wall between the livingroom and garage. I taped foil sheets on the wall in the garage to keep my neighbor from stealing my no password guest wifi, it works. The signal on that side drops considerably. Trump to D.C. "I need a young priest and an old priest... The pow...
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Feature - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─They're obviously positioning the monitor incorrectly.
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What "can freeze the MacBook Pro"? - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't macs just work?
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hi, We're LG! - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:51] <exec> 08└─We can't be bothered to properly (or even elementarily) test our hardware against RFI.
[17:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Hi, We're LG! - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:53] <exec> 08└─It would be more amusing to show an LG router causing an LG monitor to fail, which causes a Mac to fail.
[17:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:56] <exec> 08└─Remind me again, why are we paying premium?
[17:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:58] <exec> 08└─In the very early 1980's (or late 1970's) Steve Jobs called it "perceived value". If the price is high, people will perceive that it must be worth it. Are you so old that you have forgotten this?
[17:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:09] <exec> 08└─The problem ended up being that there's nothing on the marketplace but there is prior art and prior patents. Maybe when the patents expire we'll see "smart transistors" flood the marketplace, it seems like a pretty obvious win. Why shouldn't my high power MMICs have a I2C interface and an onboard mo...
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Believe me! - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─... when I tell you that this new battery is totally, absolutely, onehundertpercently explosion-POOF!!
[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Believe me! - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─Hey, it was a misunderstanding! I meant I can prove the battery will explode!
[17:43:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02No surprise - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 1037 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─Well face it. You force customers to go through "piracy" rants, unskippable ads for other movies, essentially treat them like sh*t. I'm not even talking about playback (not copy) protection or region codes. Each time I put in a DVD for the kids (they love to watch the same stuff over and over...), I...
[17:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:wats it mean? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:38] <exec> 08└─Trump! We got Trump here! :)
[17:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:need more strong blockbusters like Ghostbusters - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:48] <exec> 08└─Hollywood accounting aside, these films are still enabled by the ticket buyers.
[17:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─never forget, never forgive https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Mentholated Space Cases - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:00] <exec> 08└─This story is a decent scientific basis for energy shields
[17:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:29] <exec> 08└─The weird thing is Hylands was removed from the market before for inconsistent levels of ingredients, and then the FDA let them back on the market. So what exactly made the FDA determine it was safe to let them back on the market before, and what, if anything, has changed? Have they gone back to the...
[17:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:32] <exec> 08└─Belladonna has been used as a painkiller for a long time, according to that article. And the tablets do seem to work, so apparently, as some have pointed out, there are levels of belladonna in the product beyond homeopathic levels. So I'm curious what those levels are and how consistent they are.
[17:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:42] <exec> 08└─It's already gone - you can't get them anywhere in the US.
[17:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's almost like GOVERNMENT NOT NEEDED - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:44] <exec> 08└─It almost has to be - the USA is not a coast-to-coast environmental hazard.
[17:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:51] <exec> 08└─It's also not clear if the people involved were using the product according to the directions, or were giving their kids these pills like rats on a saccharine study. The FDA really isn't releasing a whole lot of actual scientific data, here - just making pronouncements. For what it's worth, as a res...
[17:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JavaDevGuy [5155] (Score:1) 02FDA should just ban Homeopathic products - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:58] <exec> 08└─The FDA should be telling everyone to avoid homeopathic products as they are a fraud. Even worse than economic damage people with real issues can end up taking this snake oil and can suffer serious issues from not getting effective help.
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Ferengi are more accurate than we give credit for - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:09] <exec> 08└─"But where is the profit?!"
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FTFY - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─When confronted with the usual request by a reporter, the Ministry of Economy and Finance didn't give in. Instead, it reportedly stated that "if we are investigating somebody, it's because we have been paid to do so: Investigation is not free..," suggesting that he's on somebody's payroll. A nice FT...
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Re:VoIP Block - 06Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─I had forgotten about the god awful UIs. That was also a major contributor to me giving up. I tried voip.ms, but their UI was so unbelievably cumbersome that I dropped them fairly quickly. Anveo is much better, and they actually advertise SMS as a feature rather than something that is just 'in beta'...
[17:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Re:VoIP Block - 06Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:02] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it's US only, so that doesn't help me at all. Also... Google. I'm not about to rely on something Google does only to have them turn around and cancel the service later on.
[17:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck it... - 06Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:00] <exec> 08└─takyon said : I decline.
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[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:0, Troll) 02That's one way to quit smoking - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─After a week, the cravings go down dramatically.
[18:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 026 days on a CPB - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─6 days on a Cardiopulmonary Bypass machine [wikipedia.org]... I wonder if you could do this with a patient that is conscious and fully awake...
[18:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:50] <exec> 08└─Engineers tend to make management aware of technical problems.
[18:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What "can freeze the MacBook Pro"? - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:54] <exec> 08└─It's hard out there for a pimp
[18:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─I have an ex-boss who believes that the "perceived value" is more important than the **actual** value. I could not believe it when he said this to my face.
[18:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─For marketing reasons, sure. Engineers care about what works. Marketers care about what sells. Hot shit on a plate is great if it sells; an electrically perfect thingamabob is worthless if it won't sell.
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─That's a problem already solved by diode+ADC, which gives you dynamic control over where you set your trip point based on part testing and use case. Not sure I see the benefit.
[18:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─P6 family processors introduced a thermal sensor that acts as a catastrophic shutdown detector. This catastrophic shutdown detector was also implemented in Pentium 4, Intel Xeon and Pentium M processors. It is always enabled. When processor core temperature reaches a factory preset level, the sensor...
[18:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wats it mean? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:44] <exec> 08└─Aso .. thanks for explaining. Random value drop ... cool!
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score:1) 02Re:sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:57] <exec> 08└─Exactly! So sorry to hear that the kings of mediocre lost a couple of bucks. Sony used to be cutting edge technology. Quality was second to none. The only innovation they have been working on since the days of DVD players and mp3 players is how to DRM the shit out of it - so nobody in their right mi...
[18:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02DNS Hijacking Sure... but Botnet? - 06Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Add Your Router to a Botnet - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:25] <exec> 08└─We used to recommend Netgear routers for consumer use, as the hardware is quite reliable, they work reasonably well, and models are usually supported for quite a while. But these security issues are getting out of hand, there have simply been too many security vulnerabilities in these Netgear router...
[18:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. The abstract should be self contained as much as possible. Most physicists (the readership of PRL) will not know the ionization energy of gold without consulting a reference. And omitting the number of meV does not imply that the number is one.
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:16] <exec> 08└─Score! The more you use your anger the more it turns against you. XOXO forever may the light shine and help you find inner peace.
[18:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:1) 02Re:So... - 06Physicists Patent Detonation Technique to Mass-Produce Graphene - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:08] <exec> 08└─about a byte.
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Sources of differences - 06Snooze Patterns Vary Across Cultures, Opening Eyes to Evolution of Sleep - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the actual cause of the differences in sleep patterns is.
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[19:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's one way to quit smoking - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:40] <exec> 08└─A less than amazing joke that is on topic is moderated troll? She didn't die, I think its ok to crack a macabre joke or two.
[19:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Life is too frightening words - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─Talk to any surgeon who does things like this for a living, and he'll tell you that he cannot allow himself to think about undergoing such things.
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Life is too frightening words - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─Entertaining thoughts like that takes an iron constitution.
[19:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:6 days on a CPB - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:47] <exec> 08└─Not in the US. They'd unplug themselves to avoid seeing the hospital bill.
[19:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Dammit!!! - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:49] <exec> 08└─Where's the socialized medical care rationing death panels when you need them? "It was a difficult discussion because when we’re talking about something that had never to our knowledge been done before, there were a lot of unknowns," said Dr. Niall Ferguson, head of critical care at the Universit...
[19:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Already proven - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─The lungs you were born with are not necessary to sustain your life
[19:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Moral of the Story - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:53] <exec> 08└─Consider being an organ donor. Please.
[19:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:05] <exec> 08└─The way I read it is that the monitor is not emitting EMI but is way too sensitive to signals emitted by routers. Enough so that it causes the display to flicker. The flickering within the monitor is affecting some high power components in the monitor at a frequency that unintentionally is so noisy...
[19:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:07] <exec> 08└─"reciprocity" is the key-word you missed.
[19:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What "can freeze the MacBook Pro"? - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:13] <exec> 08└─It's hard out there for a pimp
[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─He's right. There's no such thing as "actual" value. The only thing that matters is how much you can sucker^Wconvince someone into paying for your product. That's exactly how much your product is worth. If you can convince someone to buy your fresh turd for $1M, then it's worth $1M. Of course, norma...
[19:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Routers my ass - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:23] <exec> 08└─It's RADIO TRANSMISSION (at a specific frequency range) that affects the monitor and not presence of a router. Fucking moronic title for a technical publication.
[19:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Routers my ass - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:25] <exec> 08└─Weee ooo weeee oooo Time to go back home, you've been skipping your treatments and you know how upset you can get.
[19:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Routers my ass - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:27] <exec> 08└─Then microwave ovens should interfere as much. Whenever someone uses the microwave our wifi drops.
[19:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02when is a router not a router? - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:29] <exec> 08└─I'll bet routing of packets has no effect on this monitor. On the other hand, I'll bet that 2.4 or 5.8 GHz wireless signals affect it adversely. Your home Wi-Fi barely qualifies as networking....
[19:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Every transistor is temperature sensitive - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:44] <exec> 08└─For bipolar transistors, Vbe changes by 2 mV/C. For FETs, the threshold voltage has a similar dependence [wikipedia.org]. These new transistors have a sensitivity of 7 mV/C. Temperature sensitivity: It's not a bug, it's a feature.
[19:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:recharge issue with dendrites - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:55] <exec> 08└─lithium + water (including from the air) = hydrogen gas. Kinda explosive. Also the reaction is fairly energetic.
[19:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:wats it mean? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:15] <exec> 08└─It means North Korea is winning.
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Hollywood Accounting? - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:17] <exec> 08└─See if they report the same kinds of horrendous losses to their shareholders. This _IS_ a report to their shareholders.
[19:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Reaping what you sow - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:22] <exec> 08└─Other critical factor: Cord cutters. Since i cut the cord, I don't get bombarded with movies trailers anymore. So I don't realize all the "great" stuff I'm missing, if I only go to see what my friends recommend. On top of which, they keep recommending stuff they see on Netflix. I may pay for Netflix...
[19:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:31] <exec> 08└─This is their latest trick. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Small distortions in the audio to cause the player to just shut down if it is not 'authorized'. They also forced all bluray manufactures to include the detection code in their firmware. I rip my DVDs/Bluray. If it is a...
[19:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:But, but, ... - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:44] <exec> 08└─So... technically, they are no twins, unless they get pulled out of mommy together, and always kept side-by-side during any movement?
[19:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's almost like GOVERNMENT NOT NEEDED - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:27] <exec> 08└─It's almost like the distributed, decentralized decision-making of individuals is good enough... I think the parents of the ten dead babies would disagree.
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wall - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─It's the only way to protect our air from Space Balls.
[19:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:53] <exec> 08└─Correct. Walls are not for keeping things out, but in.
[19:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Minor result & pay-walled - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:16] <exec> 08└─Gold is great folks. Makes me look rich when I put it everywhere. Very rich. Matches my hair transplant too. I have the best gold. That's all you need to know.
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Mono atomic gold annunaki - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─It's like spice melange for lizard people [wikipedia.org]: Icke maintains that they came for monatomic gold, a non-existent mineral (only gases can exist in a monatomic state) that, he writes, increases the capacity of the nervous system ten thousandfold. After ingesting it, the reptilians can proc...
[19:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02Gold into Lead, or vice versa possible yet? - 06Chemists Solve Mystery About Gold's Properties - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:28] <exec> 08└─Here's the real question; Does this help us understand what steps need to be taken to turn lead into gold (without the use of a particle accelerator [scientificamerican.com])?
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[20:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02"to help boost understanding"? - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:36] <exec> 08└─Over 16 years of GPS space weather data has been released to the public for the first time, in a bid to prevent the new administration from suppressing it.
[20:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:"to help boost understanding"? - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:37] <exec> 08└─Global space warming is definitely a hoax.
[20:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"to help boost understanding"? - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, wrong data type there. The ionosphere is generally left out of the whole GW debacle. Not debate, we're quite a ways past that and no longer need to convince the mouth breathers that they're wrong. Thankfully most of the world is on board with increasing renewable and energy sources.
[20:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"to help boost understanding"? - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:42] <exec> 08└─That is funny, but it does turn out that the data was released by an Obama Executive Order from October.
[20:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02cystic fibrosis isn't funny - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─what sort of asshat would even THINK to post this shit?
[20:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral of the Story - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:01] <exec> 08└─This is true. Also think about this. Automated vehicles are coming. Where do most organ donations come from?
[20:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Similar to my cousin - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:04] <exec> 08└─It was a decade or two ago. Her heart was infected, and they removed it. She was bedridden, with her blood being pumped mechanically, for almost a year before she recieved a transplant.
[20:43:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:14] <exec> 08└─Why blame QA? Without evidence to the contrary, my first instinct is ALWAYS to blame management. Maybe you've never heard of Dilbert. Engineers tend to make management aware of technical problems. (Unless management creates an environment that doesn't allow this.) Once aware of the problem, manageme...
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─Of course there's an objective measure of value apart from the perceived value! I don't have the time to argue the SEVERAL points that reveal this POV as pure sophistry, but I'll choose one. 'Caveat emptor' means it's the buyer's responsibility to find the true value prior to purchase-if he's buying...
[20:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tech blog writers are paid by the Apple name-drop - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:32] <exec> 08└─And you aren't paying a vendor premium, >4k monitors are just that expensive.
[20:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Routers my ass - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:37] <exec> 08└─LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by [blank] Is it adversely affected by routers? Yes. Is it adversely affected by some other radio transmission equipment? You get to buy it and find out!
[20:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Lawyers Everwhere Start Salivating - 06Researcher Develops Completely Explosion-Proof Lithium Metal Battery With 2X Power of Lithium Ion - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:05] <exec> 08└─And as everyone knows, schools of piranhas can have explosive effects on oxhides.
[20:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:38] <exec> 08└─"And the dammed millennials keep buying play stations (with yet more hardware lock in and DRM) supporting Sony's bad behaviour - fools!" What? You'd recommend Nintendo's consoles with their hardware lockin and DRM instead? Or perhaps Microsoft's consoles with their hardware lockin and DRM instead? I...
[20:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score:1) 02Re:sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't say anything about Nintendo or Microsoft either. I didn't mention Apple either.... I hate them all too. The fact that you are so sensitive about it, likely means you are guilty of supporting those bastards that have taken our money and gave us rootkits and DRM. For what? Expecting games to...
[20:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score:1) 02Re:sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah they never compensated me or my employer for the days of wasted labor removing their rootkit from CAD workstations and burning tables where an employee thought he'd listen to one of their legally purchased CDs. My prick boss also attempted to use the incident to get said employee fired. Then I...
[20:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[Mengele's] corpse'' - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:53] <exec> 08└─Josef Mengele, trained as a physician, evaded the Mosad and drowned while swimming at age 67. He was known as The Angel of Death because he wore his white lab coat as he directed arrivals at the Auschwitz death camp to the right or the left (continued life or immediate death). Josef Mengele [wikipe...
[20:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Clones - 06NASA Releases First Results from Twin Study - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:57] <exec> 08└─They are clones. It just happened that the natural spontaneus clonation process produced two clones at the same time, so the same age. Now there has been a little divergence.
[20:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:29] <exec> 08└─I bet the levels weren't so much inconsistent as the were individually adjusted to the levels of latent lycanthropy in the patients under consideration. That's why it had to be put back on the market -- the master lycanthrope is still on the loose.
[20:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:53] <exec> 08└─Test Results are on their website. [fda.gov]
[20:47:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Maybe not for tools like the ministry - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 16 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:05] <exec> 08└─SEO is not free.
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[21:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02TED - 06GlobalXplorer Allows Public to Search Satellite Imagery for Archaeology Sites - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:29] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing is why people don't like TED talks, the whole self aggrandizement and fake declaration of being first or having invented things. If you'd like to see a directory of the last decade of "human eyes categorizing scientific data" see https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia...
[21:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:TED - 06GlobalXplorer Allows Public to Search Satellite Imagery for Archaeology Sites - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:30] <exec> 08└─I remember when Zooniverse was just about classifying galaxies and galaxy mergers. They have come a long way.
[21:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Have her findings been confirmed? - 06GlobalXplorer Allows Public to Search Satellite Imagery for Archaeology Sites - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:32] <exec> 08└─I saw an interesting NOVA (or some similar show) about her looking for North American viking settlements. She takes different wavelength satellite images and does some math on them and you end up with an image that looks like you pushed it through an edge detection algorithm. She studies those image...
[21:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02Re:"to help boost understanding"? - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, wrong data type there.
[21:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02military vs spies - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:47] <exec> 08└─The original GPS program was military only, but it somehow morphed into the worlds first international public utility, which it unfortunately gets absolutely no credit for. The cold war military roots imply all kinds of anti-nuke war defensive stuff. So presumably $100M of DOD research grants and co...
[21:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02exist - 0616 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:49] <exec> 08└─Space weather doesn't exist, its a Chinese plot to undermine our space program.
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:cystic fibrosis isn't funny - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─All comedians are now BANNED by EXECUTIVE ORDER! Inappropriate humor will not be tolerated!
[21:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:6 days on a CPB - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:07] <exec> 08└─Not if the newly proposed Supreme Court nominee has anything to say about it (the unplugging, that is).
[21:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral of the Story - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:13] <exec> 08└─Look around. Organs will probably be grown from scratch or inside chimera pigs or something. It might even happen before half of the vehicles on the road are automated.
[21:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Similar to my cousin - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:16] <exec> 08└─Replacing the heart is a very different case. The heart just moves the blood, the lungs do a lot of filtering. Not to mention the lungs are much larger and were completely removed. Sorry, just realized I mixed my response to you with my brain's thoughts on "we knew you didn't need lungs since the 80...
[21:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:30] <exec> 08└─The law says that a device can't interfere with other devices, or complain about certified devices interfering with it. My last TV was a 42' Trinitron flat screen tube. If the stereo speakers (I have large ones) were within a foot of the TV, it would make rainbows on the sides of the screen, from th...
[21:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 1630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:45] <exec> 08└─As I pointed out, there is a difference between a one-time conning and the ability to consistently sell product at a certain price. The only thing that makes the latter "objective" is that more than 1 customer has to agree to that price, but it's still subjective as you're dealing with human psychol...
[21:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:46] <exec> 08└─That is the economic value of a thing. The practical value of a thing, on the other hand, is what you can do with it (or, more accurately, your net evaluation of the liabilities and advantages it brings you, but for people that do work, the advantages are in 'what can you do with it?') In "normal" m...
[21:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Routers my ass - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:53] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that a device has to have a radio transmitter if it routes packets?
[21:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Routers my ass - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not implying anything at all. I'm just stating facts.
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than placebo? - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─I don't see why they bother. You can't fight [penny-arcade.com] the dapperness!
[21:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's almost like GOVERNMENT NOT NEEDED - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:01] <exec> 08└─If it just saves TEN LIVES...
[21:46:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:10] <exec> 08└─Modded up because dammit people need to see this. Thank you for pointing it out. This is yet another example of "starve the beast," where these GOP pissfucks cut funding and power for an agency and then when it fails use that as an excuse to get rid of it.
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Asking nicely versus guns-up-noses - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─If [natural medicine] was real medicine, the onus would be on the provider showing that it is safe.
[21:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you, good information. Unfortunately, it confirms my suspicion. The biggest outlier of the lot was a single pill that contained 1.1 MICRO-gram of atropine. The dose used medically is .01-.05 mg/kg. So, definitely don't give the baby 70 pills at once. It seems unlikely that a dose of 1/70th the...
[21:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gov should just point guns at people - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:21] <exec> 08└─The product in question wasn't "homeopathic" as there was a measurable amount of the active ingredient in the product being sold. (Actual homeopathic "remedies" rely upon "water memory" and dilution to the point where the existence of a single molecule of the active ingredient is statistically unlik...
[21:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score:1) 02Re:Wall - 06Oxygen Ions From Earth Escape to the Moon - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─Need to make the Moonies pay for it!
[21:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:France. - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:54] <exec> 08└─Now, are you trying to be funny? You'd better be, cause if you're serious then you should really have a good long sitdown where you compare US and France.
[21:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02really? - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:57] <exec> 08└─torrent is still a thing? wow.
[21:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score:1) 02Meanwhile, Amazon is trying to kill Prime - 06Walmart Kills Amazon Prime-like Service, Expands Free Shipping - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:15] <exec> 08└─At least in my area (MSP metro), Amazon seems to be trying to kill Prime. "Guaranteed" two-day delivery takes three days more often than not, and Amazon's delivery drivers routinely try to deliver to business addresses after 6pm or on Saturday.
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[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's the tragedy that if she was focused on the work she'd get a lot more eyes and a lot less replicated effort at the giant zooniverse but she's focused on building her personal brand as sort of a startup founder. The idea is awesome, the data is awesome, the purpose is awesome, the public i...
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:cystic fibrosis isn't funny - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:55] <exec> 08└─If she had died, would it make you feel better??? How many times I almost died as a kid and ended up laughing... Humour is good: even dark humour!
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:6 days on a CPB - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─And then what's next? Bring back official slavery, so rich people can get new toys as they use their insurance to save your family from eternal debt?
[22:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:25] <exec> 08└─Why blame QA? Without evidence to the contrary, my first instinct is ALWAYS to blame management. Maybe you've never heard of Dilbert.
[22:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What "can freeze the MacBook Pro"? - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:31] <exec> 08└─It is not a good sign indeed. Anyway The mac that never froze for me IIRC had system 7.x. And of course the apple ][ was pretty immune to random freezes (the joy of no threads)
[22:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 2574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:42] <exec> 08└─but simply because it is expensive and thus exclusive. It's not quite that simple. I'm not trying to defend Apple products here, but many luxury products are known to be very high-quality, and actually better than their lesser-priced counterparts. This isn't true for all of them, but for some it arg...
[22:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:03] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more selective-like. Clocking down the cores based on heat and outright shutting down bits you could shut down and not bugger up anything running on it.
[22:44:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02sony rootkit - 06Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:49] <exec> 08└─never forget, never forgive https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─the onus is on the Government to show that it is not safe
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[23:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02100g spec released today - 0625G/50G Ethernet Specification Finalized - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:25] <exec> 08└─"Data will move at 100g/s on this spec". There, I beat them to it!
[23:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:100g spec released today - 0625G/50G Ethernet Specification Finalized - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:26] <exec> 08└─Get ou-tera here.
[23:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:100g spec released today - 0625G/50G Ethernet Specification Finalized - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─But but but you didn't finalize it. what if 99.9999999999 is a better way to express it?
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:100g spec released today - 0625G/50G Ethernet Specification Finalized - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─If you're using microSD cards as carriers, a hundred grams per second is a pretty impressive amount of data.
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TED - 06GlobalXplorer Allows Public to Search Satellite Imagery for Archaeology Sites - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:42] <exec> 08└─You've figured out her motivations how? Is there something bad about her focusing on her personal brand? Isn't that what capitalists do?
[23:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:cystic fibrosis isn't funny - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:08] <exec> 08└─Other things that are not funny: Death, war, hunger, taxes and systemd. All of those have been discussed in the internet and made fun of. That does not implies we consider them less unfunny. Especially systemd. Consider that my joke would have been like: "Unbelievable. How did she manage six days wi...
[23:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:That's one way to quit smoking - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:10] <exec> 08└─That's one way to quit smoking
[23:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Dammit!!! - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:19] <exec> 08└─We're more advanced here in Canada... It would have cost about 4 quatloos. That's for the coffees her family bought while waiting for her to wake up. Coffee AND donuts, if her family has cops in it, say... 6 quatloos.
[23:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Dammit!!! - 06Woman Kept Alive for Six Days Without Lungs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:21] <exec> 08└─If we didn't have caps on med schools and students the problem would largely solve itself in the US. A 'free market', indeed.
[23:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aluminum foil - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:43] <exec> 08└─At some point, somebody needs to cut corners to get the thing out the door
[23:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:CrApple 2017... - 06LG's New 5K Monitor is Adversely Affected by Routers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:56] <exec> 08└─Too bad Ken Olsen learned that lesson too late.
[23:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment on "smart pixel" - 06The World's First Heat-Driven Transistor - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:22] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they already do that. https://www.pcgamesn.com [pcgamesn.com] The Ryzen processors also house hundreds of sensors to track and locally optimise the silicon to enable it to run at its fastest while still maintaining the lowest possible po...
[23:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─No, dipshit, its called consumer product safety backed by 100 years of regulation of pharmaceuticals and homeopathic products.
[23:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time to stop asking nicely. - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe the ten dead babies were Muslim?
[23:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FDA should just ban Homeopathic products - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─The FDA won't act, but the FTC is making them put up or shut up [npr.org] on their labels.
[23:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FDA should just ban Homeopathic products - 06FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses to Recall - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:36] <exec> 08└─You can't ban water, idiot.
[23:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''we expect nothing better of the French'' - 06VLC Contacted by French Tax Authority Due to a "One-Way Endorsement" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:07] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder to anyone seeking to understand the world: the successful mobster's offspring is likely to end up with MBAs.
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