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[00:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02pic - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=medium&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0170022.g005 [plos.org]
[00:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:pic - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─Dang! Come plant a 100m 3-bladed windmill in my backyard, but stay away with this ugly thing with could barely charge a cell phone... Related, in the "green energy NIMBY" sense: Why don't we have tidal turbines along the coast? We already have the ugly oil platforms...
[00:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Yes, but does it scale. - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:28] <exec> 08└─"The possible advantages here are...its smaller scale..." McCloskey said recently
[00:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Is small-scale wind in general practical? - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─Small scale solar panels seem to be everywhere. But of course wind is just solar energy by other means, and there's often wind around when the sun is asleep, so does anyone know if we're likely to have household/office level wind in any cost-effective form any time soon? One recent article suggests...
[00:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Corporate charity - 06Tokyo 2020 Olympics Asks Public to Donate Old Phones for Medals - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:40] <exec> 08└─I love corporate charity drives. YOU do the work, and THEY get the credit. Like when you're at the supermarket check out and they ask you if you want to donate a dollar to "flavor of the month". You get the privilege of paying a dollar (only about $0.20 of which will actually get anywhere near a pos...
[00:42:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Re:there is no "View > Toolbar Layout" - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:51] <exec> 08└─MS ribbon sucks... why would we want this? (I know... for the MS Office users to be able to handicap their way into the FOSS world, but still.... stupid is....) When i HAVE to use the office ribbon, im just glad i know some shortcuts like CTRL+P etc, cause ..... yeah....
[00:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 774 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:04] <exec> 08└─I shouldn't have to 'get used to it'. Pull down menus were invented to hide a large number of commands that would otherwise take up screen real-estate when not being used. That is the major drawback of both Toolbars and the Ribbon. It takes up screen pixels when it isn't being used. I find it amusin...
[00:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:10] <exec> 08└─large number of commands that would otherwise take up screen real-estate when not being used (...) It takes up screen pixels when it isn't being used.
[00:43:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:24] <exec> 08└─One of the most attractive factors of LibreOffice is that there is no ridiculous "ribbon" UI. Why would they waste development time making one? That effort could have been spent better elsewhere, and now it makes LibreOffice scream like an imitation of MS Office rather than being its own "office" su...
[00:43:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:Sabotage? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 1092 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:58] <exec> 08└─Your information is wrong. Energy companies themselves do not agree with those projections for coal. Here's an article my electricity provider linked to: https://singularityhub.com [singularityhub.com] They see that the cost of solar has fallen...
[00:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sabotage? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:08] <exec> 08└─So you make a big stink about Obama stopping them, but then it turns out to be a voluntary request, then you highlight "voluntary" (I pointed it out thank you very much) as if its a new point you insightfully came up with...
[00:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Correction: Page 134 - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:19] <exec> 08└─Correction: Page 134 (as numbered at the bottom of the page)
[00:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:I miss the old days - 06Climate Change Likely Drove Population Decline in New World Before Europeans Arrived - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:04] <exec> 08└─Paradigm shift, Frank and Ernest had a great take on this when the phrase was starting to get hot in academia: http://aphelis.net [aphelis.net]. Personally, I rarely hear it used in a "serious" way now.
[00:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So more climate change... - 06Climate Change Likely Drove Population Decline in New World Before Europeans Arrived - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:06] <exec> 08└─...means more dead Injuns? How many degrees before there are no more casinos?
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[01:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Again? - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:31] <exec> 08└─just a publication to let us know they're still at
[01:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:^ This - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:13] <exec> 08└─Every single item on the ribbon has a shortcut key. You don't tell a person to click on a bunch of things, you tell them to press four keys and you're done. It amazes me the hate for the ribbon. People are simply hating just because they want to. Don't like it taking up space? Turn on auto-hide. Don...
[01:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─In any Mac app, the help menu contains a text field. If you type something into it, then it will list help topics in the menu and also other menu items. If you select one of the menu items (mouse over or move down with the keyboard) then it opens the (nested) menu and points to where to find it. Thi...
[01:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:43] <exec> 08└─It's possible, but it's a dangerous strategy. If LibreOffice looks more like MS Office N than MS Office N+1 does, then that makes it easier to switch at your next upgrade cycle.
[01:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:55] <exec> 08└─And it somehow gets into the wild.
[01:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Isn't it obvious? - 06Russia Charges Cyber Security Experts With Treason - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─This is media spin. The crime of treason is for MONEY LAUNDERING and hiding assets for some corrupt government officials have already been arrested.
[01:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it obvious? - 06Russia Charges Cyber Security Experts With Treason - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:28] <exec> 08└─Neither money laundering or hiding assets are treason.
[01:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I totally hate Facebook - 06Facebook/Oculus Ordered to pay $500 Million to ZeniMax - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:39] <exec> 08└─A wholly-owned subsidiary of Facebook has been found liable for the infringement and has to pay the fine. If I take blood from your arm, am I taking blood only from your arm, but from you? If that same arm pushes a knife that kills someone, can you say that only your arm committed the crime?
[01:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good - 06With Net Neutrality Pretty Much Dead in the US, Your Privacy is Next - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:47] <exec> 08└─As a perfectionist, thank you for reminding me of that.
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[02:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02About freaking time! - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:20] <exec> 08└─All fifty states, D.C, all US possessions and teritorries, as well as the federal government should get on board with this suit. If Europe and the UK can provide actual high speed internet on trains as they travel from city to city, then WTF can't our telcos provide reliable high speed internet even...
[02:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:About freaking time! - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:22] <exec> 08└─Don't expect any positive change until 2019 at best, probably 2021, and potentially later...
[02:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Goddammit - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:24] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck do Agilent spectrum analyzers always align themselves in the middle of a fucking automatic test, under remote control? I want to choke the living shit out of the so-called "engineers" who thought it would be a good idea to align all of the filters and LOs in the middle of an automated t...
[02:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Political statement, but... - 06Tokyo 2020 Olympics Asks Public to Donate Old Phones for Medals - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:50] <exec> 08└─Apparently the bronze and silver ones are fairly pure (in the lower 90s% of purity). The gold ones are about 1-2%. http://www.kitco.com [kitco.com] What will be interesting is the by products of this process. Auqua regia is not...
[02:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:08] <exec> 08└─You move the whole UI off the primary screen and onto a secondary and smaller touch screen and you've arrived
[02:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:59] <exec> 08└─Also the ability to open some really obscure file formats
[02:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Why a pipeline for tar sands? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:32] <exec> 08└─As Elizabeth May likes to point out, once you treat it to flow through a pipe, it is almost impossible to clean up. Oil sand? You can clean that up with a shovel.
[02:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02why is this so hard - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:39] <exec> 08└─Run the pipe inside another pipe, or even inside a larger multi-purpose tunnel. Have leak detection. For example, pump dry nitrogen into the space between the inner and outer pipes. Go to a few hundred PSI. Wait, seeing if the pressure drops. Let the nitrogen out on the other side of the lake, check...
[02:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't it obvious? - 06Russia Charges Cyber Security Experts With Treason - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:40] <exec> 08└─You seem pretty confident. Sounds like motivated reasoning to me.
[02:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another that will affect average not criminals - 06All New Thai SIMs Will Require Fingerprint Registration From March - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:06] <exec> 08└─And now the muslims have taken over
[02:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spain phones require ID - 06All New Thai SIMs Will Require Fingerprint Registration From March - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─Spain mobiles require ID since... I don't know. It was no ID at first, then they started to request it. If you didn't fill the form, you lost the line or were not given one. The control crap spreads at different speeds in different places. No clear how, except always being "increase" mode. OTOH, whe...
[02:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cheap Nihilism FTL - 06With Net Neutrality Pretty Much Dead in the US, Your Privacy is Next - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─> However, the State has zero interest in protecting your privacy, in fact quite the opposite. That's like saying the state has zero interest in the prosperity of the citizenry. It is a short-sighted, ultra-reductive take on life that says more about your nihilism than it does about the values of a...
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[03:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good luck. - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:22] <exec> 08└─Good luck finding a real live person to file the papers with.
[03:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02only - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:29] <exec> 08└─(Caveat: Dataset currently provides "only" a 3.3 sigma confidence level.)
[03:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Are we matter, or anti-matter? - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:32] <exec> 08└─My understanding is we're matter only because we make up the world as we know it. For all we know (as I understand it) we could be the lone matter bubble in an anti-matter universe. Meteors, comets, they all come from our solar system. How do we know Proxima Centauri isn't made of anti-matter? Hell,...
[03:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Again? - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:42] <exec> 08└─I've heard of this, but I thought it was further along... On the other hand, I like this design, [businessinsider.com] which also uses trees for design inspiration. [newwind.fr]
[03:43:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 3132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:13] <exec> 08└─What is the effin problem though? Other than it being Microsoft. I fully appreciate memorizing all the shortcut keys, and that can be useful, but it doesn't take away from dropdown menus or ribbons, but works together with them. I love the ribbon. It is a more pictorial (icons) representation of a d...
[03:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[Each item] has a shortcut key'' - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:28] <exec> 08└─Every single item on the ribbon has a shortcut key I see 3 possible tracks out of the scenario I presented: 1) The guy being helped has a great memory and remembers the keystroke sequence from that point onward. 2) He has the presence of mind to say, "Wait a moment while I write this stuff down." 3)...
[03:48:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02no consideration of warfare? - 06Climate Change Likely Drove Population Decline in New World Before Europeans Arrived - 877 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:19] <exec> 08└─Decades ago, I found and read a biography of Tecumseh. I was in fourth grade, so, about ten years old. I don't remember now whether I found it in the school library, the city library, or someone's pile of books, I only remember the story. In the book, Tecumseh discussed with some white people why hi...
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[04:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02that's good - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:29] <exec> 08└─So hopefully Ethanol's golem with protect us from (((their))) golems!
[04:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:that's good - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:30] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for the anime adaptation.
[04:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02malevolence - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:41] <exec> 08└─Charter is claiming that it was the old pre-merger TWC that lied and cheated and stealed and now that they've merged that old TWC doesn't exist and can't be sued. Such bullshit. Oh, and even then it kept on going after the merger too. Meanwhile, the reason this suit was actually filed is that they f...
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we matter, or anti-matter? - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:51] <exec> 08└─Hell, the Andromeda galaxy is going to collide with the Milky way a few years after I die. What it's it's full of anti-matter?
[04:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02English - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:53] <exec> 08└─Why is there a Universe, and why is it filled with matter, and not equal amounts of matter and antimatter? The last question is a puzzle that has gainfully occupied the minds of and employed physicists for many years. The time spent pondering such questions has not been wasted, as it turns out, as r...
[04:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Awesome!! - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder if we can get it realistic enough to get birds to nest in it so I can send out my robo-squirrels to harvest them eggs....nom nom nom!!! Food and power supply!
[04:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:35] <exec> 08└─The issue is that ribbon is MS Office specific and requires you to spend time learning how to use it in order to get marginal benefit. If you applied the same amount of effort learning shortcut keys you'd get even better results. But, with ribbon, you're forced to jump through hoops if you want to d...
[04:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:02] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about drill-down menus is that I don't have to know where to look, or what to call something. I just need to know more or less where to start, and the menu itself will funnel me to the right place. With the ribbon, fuck if I even know where to start.
[04:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, but there's a solution to the imperfect organization of menus that doesn't require dumping it for something that's far less efficient. Yes, the menu does cover things up, but when has that ever been a problem? Most of the time it only covers a small part of the screen and most of the time there...
[04:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it obvious? - 06Russia Charges Cyber Security Experts With Treason - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's the only possible explanation for confidence.
[04:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:I miss the old days - 06Climate Change Likely Drove Population Decline in New World Before Europeans Arrived - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:08] <exec> 08└─My personal unfave is "leverage". As soon as I hear a marketer say "leverage", I know I'm about to hear bullshit.
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[05:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:that's good - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 2673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:30] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately there will be no anime promotional vid. However, as somebody who previously worked with their mechatronics division (now transferred to their wireless applications division) I can give you some insight as to the mechatronics divisions' M.O. Firstly, these guys were influenced by automa...
[05:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we matter, or anti-matter? - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:51] <exec> 08└─For all we know (as I understand it) we could be the lone matter bubble in an anti-matter universe.
[05:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporate charity - 06Tokyo 2020 Olympics Asks Public to Donate Old Phones for Medals - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:18] <exec> 08└─Despite what you say, I find the idea that members of the public will have donated a small portion of each event winner's medal to be somewhat touching. I think this'll make them a bit more special to the winners. It's certainly more interesting than just doing a straight fundraising drive.
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[05:45:05] <exec> 08└─I can't think of a better definition of "snowflake" than someone who is so self-absorbed and gets so upset and hysterical when people disagree with them that they want those people shot.
[05:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction: Page 134 - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:08] <exec> 08└─Correction? Barrels spilled per 1 million barrels transported by rain: 8.6
[05:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02It was lip service - 06With Net Neutrality Pretty Much Dead in the US, Your Privacy is Next - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:01] <exec> 08└─The net neutrality Obama may take credit for did, in the grand scheme of things, absolutely bupkis. Nothing new here.
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[06:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:22] <exec> 08└─Fuck you too, asshole. No one owes you anything. Australia made it very clear that they aren't taking in more people but they show up anyways. There's plenty of Middle East desert for you guys.
[06:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Oh no - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:24] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and your penal colony.
[06:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:26] <exec> 08└─You know, if the US, UK and Australia hadn't gone rampaging around the middle east, maybe we wouldn't be having this problem in the first place?
[06:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Deal made after November 8 - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:28] <exec> 08└─Obama made that deal after November 8th. Given that Trump's position on refugees was obviously different, that was some backstabbing work by the Obama team.
[06:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score:2) 02Are Molotov cocktails effective against these? - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:39] <exec> 08└─Asking for a friend.
[06:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:32] <exec> 08└─As others have mentioned, an obvious reason for adding a ribbon interface is so people migrating from Microsoft Office will have less to learn. For that purpose, the more similar it is in the way it looks and works, the better. Some tasks are done in a fundamentally different way so it won't be poss...
[06:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02What is the point? - 06All New Thai SIMs Will Require Fingerprint Registration From March - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:58] <exec> 08└─I have to start by saying the only cell phone I have is a Kyocera dumb tracphone that hasn't had minutes on it for years, and has been sitting in my drawer with the battery out of it for the same ammount of time. I do not understand the point of this. Since each SIMM already has a unique ID built in...
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[07:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''6 Hours of Data Lost'' - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:26] <exec> 08└─The title, as submitted, was GitLab Admin Deletes Database; All Backups Fail ...but, apparently, the number 6 is more significant that the number 5. That would be the 5 redundant backup methods which ALL failed, AKA the reason that the story was submitted. There's editing, then there's burying the l...
[07:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:27] <exec> 08└─I just wish less serious people would be using google docs. It makes it impossible to see the document for those unwilling to allow google code on their hardware.
[07:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:39] <exec> 08└─You know, if the US, UK and Australia hadn't gone rampaging around the middle east, maybe we wouldn't be having this problem in the first place?
[07:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:40] <exec> 08└─Nice link, thanks! I'd say that you're mixing up the concept of a refugee with a person in immigration detention though. People end up in immigration detention for other reasons than arriving as a refugee. Overstaying your visa could likely get you detained until a suitable deportation flight is ava...
[07:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:42] <exec> 08└─"Australia made it very clear that they aren't taking in more people but they show up anyways." Yeah, that's what the aborigines said.
[07:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 2045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:44] <exec> 08└─Actually, these economic migrants come here to screw us. After a while they openly admit why they risk their lives to get into Australia. My daughter is really sick, we have no where else to go! My family is torn apart in iran! I must get residency here so I can claim family reunion for my wife, 7 k...
[07:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Deal made after November 8 - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:47] <exec> 08└─A lame duck president is still president. Obma could have done this as a jab, but certainly the Aussies knew what would happen with the deal as well. I put more blame on the Australian govt for making a deal they knew would fail after dong jack shit for years, than I do on Obama for at least bringin...
[07:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wild idea - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:49] <exec> 08└─Here is a WILD idea. Send them home?
[07:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:that's good - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:00] <exec> 08└─I can't hold a candle to the guys who designed and built the robots, for they have engineering knowledge of amazingly precise collections of dynamic systems which would smoke my mere creations (The Gay Jewish Robots HAL Goldberg and Tyrone Silverstein),
[07:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:that's good - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:03] <exec> 08└─Here you go: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] For reference: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] http://megasxlr.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[07:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Corporate charity - 06Tokyo 2020 Olympics Asks Public to Donate Old Phones for Medals - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But death of the Olympics as it currently is would be a much better deal.
[07:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:there is no "View > Toolbar Layout" - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:08] <exec> 08└─You might also look at Chrome (Chromium’s existence notwithstanding).
[07:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:12] <exec> 08└─The ribbon is a tablet interface. Some of us still use proper workstations with keyboards.
[07:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:04] <exec> 08└─Yes it's an interface thing. OO/LO etc are absolutely heinous offenders in that area - importing obnoxious and unusable UI concepts from MS to the common linux desktop en masse. No, they aren't the only one doing it, but they're a big part of this self-sustaining circle-jerk of destruction that's pr...
[07:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:05] <exec> 08└─But would you use instead of a word processor? LaTeX is a lovecraftian madness built upon a monkey patching foundation. Or that's the impression I've got from the 3 times I tried to learn it.
[07:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And these rules stop whom? - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:34] <exec> 08└─All the regulation in the world wont stop it from being used, and it only makes it harder to advance.
[07:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is the point? - 06All New Thai SIMs Will Require Fingerprint Registration From March - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:35] <exec> 08└─No, with prepaid cards they don't immediately know who you are without such registration schemes. You pay for for a prepaid SIMM starter pack, put the SIMM into your phone and you can use it. Top ups/reloads can be using cash to buy top-up at convenience stores (which just provide you a number to us...
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[08:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:19] <exec> 08└─You want to move to areas where it's always below freezing. Zombies can't move when they're frozen. Best to get out into space, but even the ultra rich are having a hard time with that one. A space floating zombie could be attracted by your station's gravity pull, but at least it'll still be frozen...
[08:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02A Canticle! - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:20] <exec> 08└─A Canticle for Liebowitz! Good read, for all you multi-billionaire survival types. There was even a audio program, done rather well, by public radio? Try here: http://www.oldradioworld.com [oldradioworld.com] The two-headed woman will get you every time, once we re...
[08:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:''6 Hours of Data Lost'' - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:29] <exec> 08└─I think the back-ups worked properly. If it is live, it is not a backup (because the changes would then be replicated on the "backups").
[08:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:''6 Hours of Data Lost'' - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:32] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the editing team - You can start on Saturday morning! Alternatively, you can stop complaining about editors in general and let us get on with our job. If you don't like the job we do, then step up to the plate and become an editor. We are working on this site for the benefit of the whole...
[08:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:35] <exec> 08└─Consider using a VM to browse. I am going to do just that.
[08:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:37] <exec> 08└─I tried to post a quote of the google doc, but I encountered the lameness filter. Regardless, It's a decent read on how things went bad, and a good lesson on how tired sysadmins just need to hand it off rather than power through.
[08:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 3530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:39] <exec> 08└─GitLab.com Database Incident - 2017/01/31 GitLab.com Database Incident - 2017/01/31 Note: This incident affected the database (including issues and merge requests) but not the git repo's (repositories and wikis). YouTube Live stream - Follow us live debating and problem solving! Timeline (...
[08:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:41] <exec> 08└─Did you try? I have Javascript disabled, and the document is perfectly readable for me. On other occasions I have experienced what you describe.
[08:42:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:52] <exec> 08└─You know, if the US, UK and Australia hadn't gone rampaging around the middle east, maybe we wouldn't be having this problem in the first place?
[08:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:wild idea - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:01] <exec> 08└─That would not be fair. All that money given to criminal smuggling of human being went to waste? Try sending money to known criminals, see how fast you get the penal code thrown at you. Yet they can. The system is bent on collapsing on itself, probably because the next iteration of the system is rea...
[08:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02second submission - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:03] <exec> 08└─I had made two submissions about this story; the editor merged part of the second one without linking to it. It is about a phone call (mentioned in the Guardian article) between the Australian prime minister and the new U.S. president. After the call, the prime minister said that the president had m...
[08:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Are Molotov cocktails effective against these? - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:16] <exec> 08└─Depends if the tires are pneumatic or solid rubber, I guess.
[08:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02US Navy? - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:18] <exec> 08└─If Boston Dynamics want to make money, they should switch to sexbots. The US navy might not buy sexbots, but the sailors will - hell, yeah!
[08:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kugelblitz - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:41] <exec> 08└─In the early universe there was only radiation, then a kugelblitz formed. This black hole sucked in 1/2 a spontaneously produced matter-antimatter pair. It happened to be the anti-matter one. Forever after, antimatter was at a disadvantage. What is wrong with that simple idea?
[08:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:29] <exec> 08└─The two main problems with the ribbon are: - No logic in where everything is hidden. - Things move around based on some hidden rules such as what you use the most and what is currently selected. Extra ribbon panes appear and push themselves in front of what you have selected. Good luck printing THAT...
[08:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Sabotage? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:47] <exec> 08└─Holy fuck. That's just ridiculous.
[08:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:why is this so hard - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:10] <exec> 08└─>Run the pipe inside another pipe P|PECEPT|ON They started caring about the environment now?
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[09:42:18] <exec> 08└─posted by janrinok on 2017.02.03 18:19 from the SN-third? dept. FakeBeldin writes: From the SN-third? department:
[09:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Other European countries vying for third - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:20] <exec> 08└─Apparently, this video kicked off a bit of a habit amongst satirical shows in Europe to create alternative videos promoting their own country. Here [nos.nl] is an article containing Germany, Belgium (with Belgian's greatest band ever: ABBA. It's true. Alternative fact.), Denmark, and Switzerland. If...
[09:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02live by the sword ... get mentioned in a fiction - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:30] <exec> 08└─[...] In more realistic circumstances, there are 21.8 million veterans in the U.S., with various levels of professional expertise in solving problems like bunker busting. Hell, there's more guns than people in this country. Fixed locations are inherently vulnerable by their very nature, subject to s...
[09:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:45] <exec> 08└─That's just it, you never know whether it will work or not this time, and sooner or later you just stop clicking googledoc links altogether.
[09:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:59] <exec> 08└─The refugees come from the following countries, sorted most to least: New Zealand, Iran, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, China, India, Iraq, UK, Afghanistan, Other. (...) I see no direct link between rampaging in ME and this stream of migrants
[09:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Myfyr [3654] (Score:1) 02Re:wild idea - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:06] <exec> 08└─That is what the Australian government has been doing whenever they can. The problem with this group of refugees is that they have all been found to be genuine seekers of asylum who would be in danger if they were returned to their home country. Therefore, as signatories to the human rights conventi...
[09:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:09] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen much comment on Trump on SN. Here in the UK, he looks like a total clown. Is that the view from the US?
[09:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:that's good - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:20] <exec> 08└─Don't be a bigot. Racists cunts can come from any demographic. I truly believe in an equal opportunities for cuntism. I just hope someone who works there uses the info he has given to work out who he is and posts his messages to his boss...should be fun...
[09:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About freaking time! - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:33] <exec> 08└─You only need to convince the man the ISP's are in cahoots with the lizard people.
[09:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:there is no "View > Toolbar Layout" - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:31] <exec> 08└─What is amusing about this discussion is how there is this implication in all this that somehow OS software has the GUI sorted and these guys have diverted from awesome to a bad path. I am not going to explain why this is so amusing since if you lack the basic awareness of the state of software to k...
[09:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Couple words on ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:44] <exec> 08└─2007 called. They want their word processor back.
[09:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:06] <exec> 08└─May I suggest starting from "Home" and working your way right, ending with "File"... ("File" is usually the largest, as it often includes options/settings).
[09:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:22] <exec> 08└─As long as it stays optional then I see zero harm including a ribbon UI for anyone that wants it.
[09:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:25] <exec> 08└─Two sides of the same coin. The Windows 8/10 UI just took it up to eleven.
[09:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Technology changes everything - 06With Net Neutrality Pretty Much Dead in the US, Your Privacy is Next - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:54] <exec> 08└─all that can really be done are things like "poisoning the well" ( submitting false information to the info gleaners ), or obfuscation ( like encryption )
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[10:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other European countries vying for third - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, noticed those this morning. Both the Belgian and German aren't that funny. They mostly badmouth the Netherlands, and are hardly creative in themselves (although the Belgian, requesting the 10th place was a bit funny though).
[10:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBeemer [6398] (Score:1) 02Re:Other European countries vying for third - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, there is now a site (made by the Germans), dedicated to list all the introduction videos made by each country. http://everysecondcounts.eu [everysecondcounts.eu]
[10:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reply from a Dutchman - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:28] <exec> 08└─This was all over in the news here last week and radio shows asked the parks introduced (Ponypark Slagharen and Madurodam) if they noticed something from the attention they got. Their comments: Ponypark Slagharen: They hardly have any ponies in the park left and are replaced by other attractions. Ma...
[10:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Cheaper Option - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:39] <exec> 08└─I've taken the much cheaper doomsday survival option, namely being born in New Zealand.
[10:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:54] <exec> 08└─At least you have the option of viewing it (or not), my company proxy blocks it.
[10:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Deal made after November 8 - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:13] <exec> 08└─There had been speculation that some of the detainees might be resettled before the end of Obama's term. That doesn't seem to have happened. http://www.abc.net.au [abc.net.au]
[10:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not USA citizen, but the answer is obvious: He got near 50% votes, so near 50% support him. But probably not those that you see in media, Holywood actors, big bussines CEOs, Wallstreet people, journalist itself etc, or people who go to demonstrations and protests in big cities like New York, Was...
[10:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:21] <exec> 08└─Well, here in UK we have a typical thing where the new guy comes in, they have a "honeymoon" where they implement all the stuff they said and everyone likes them for it, then it starts going wrong and whatever majority disappears. Trump - well he had not much majority in the first place, and everyth...
[10:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02no need to wait - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcyFQyRJAss#t=36s [youtube.com]
[10:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we matter, or anti-matter? - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:00] <exec> 08└─I was about to say the same as the AC above. For a long time I wondered myself how do we know that the stuff outside earth are matter or anti-matter, and it boils down to the interface, if an asteroid, planet, solar system or galaxy were to be made of anti-matter, the gases and dust they emit would...
[10:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:there is no "View > Toolbar Layout" - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:52] <exec> 08└─If you're going to include instructions on how to toggle the feature in TFS, you should make a point of including the critical preliminary step, too. First: Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced > Enable experimental features (may be unstable) LO will need to restart.
[10:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trains Vs. Pipes - More propaganda lies - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:36] <exec> 08└─It could very well be the difference between how often and how much. Trains may very well have accidents resulting in oil spills more often than pipes. "How many leaks has your pipe had? Only one that we know of. Fixed it last months, though the locals say it has been leaking since 1986". A train, o...
[10:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:13] <exec> 08└─It's common sense, we shouldn't allow any genetically modified cattle, pigs, and dogs at all. You're only allowed aurochs, wild boar, and wolves, anything else is tainted by manipulation.
[10:47:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JustNiz [1573] 02Oh no not again.... - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:16] <exec> 08└─this is exactly how the vampire dalmatian apocalypse started on my home planet....
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[11:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:25] <exec> 08└─We should outfit police officers similarly. That way, when they shoot someone and claimed they felt threatened and acted in self defense, it would be easily verifiable.
[11:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:44] <exec> 08└─Those must not be pure aryan zombies then. http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[11:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:live by the sword ... get mentioned in a fictio - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:47] <exec> 08└─I am taking a similar tack... I am in the process of building arduino-based diesel engine and E4OD transmission controllers, learning as much as I can on how to maintain such a thing given minimal/nonexistent factory support. What I learn on this can be applied to other engine controllers. I used t...
[11:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Out of their minds - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:50] <exec> 08└─People acting like the breakdown of civilization would mean that the 7-11 closes are pretty comical.
[11:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Not worth a shit - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:53] <exec> 08└─What kind of doomsday plan doesn't account for zombies? I mean, fuck. That's a basic apocalypse staple there.
[11:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:10] <exec> 08└─If we somehow managed to destroy our production database we would be in exactly the same position being as we don't back up any more often than they did. Maybe we should look at changing that for the production server at least. Then again, we're talking comments rather than code. What do you lot thi...
[11:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Try another tack... - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:05] <exec> 08└─Instead of trying to force Time Warner to make good on their claims... just let subscribers legally pro-rate and pay for the service they received - and throw out all that craftily worded contract businesstalk as fraud.
[11:45:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 900 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:18] <exec> 08└─I would not say beautiful. Outlook for example, if you reply to an email you can't insert an in-line image. You have to "Pop Out" your reply to get the ribbon to add the insert image option. That's not intuitive, that's stupid. Most of the ribbon icons have to have text with them because outside of...
[11:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:09] <exec> 08└─Speaking from the digital print industry:- Acrobat 3 (1996) was a great improvement over everything before, but still just a little bit buggy. Design goal was "your piece of paper displayed on the screen". Acrobat 4 (2000) was the pinnacle. Rock solid and printed exactly the same everywhere. Could m...
[11:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Sabotage? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─> [...] oil sources for it are tar sands oil sources for it are tar sands [...] The Keystone XL pipeline would transport tar sands oil. DAPL, however, is to be fed by oil from the Bakken shale formation. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
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[12:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:33] <exec> 08└─I guess sometimes it's handy having the EIC in country for the story. He can just watch the local news and type as is relevant.
[12:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:35] <exec> 08└─I'll admit it, this is the first time I have seen breaking terrorist news on SN before anywhere else (working on something and glanced here before Google News). Adding BBC link to the link-less summary.
[12:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:37] <exec> 08└─Soldier with a rifle wounded by a guy with a machete. I think he did it wrong. He fired five shots and only wounded the guy? I know he did it wrong. Somebody get this guy a copy of Quake or Left4Dead or something.
[12:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:39] <exec> 08└─He fired five shots and only wounded the guy? I know he did it wrong.
[12:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02This is real life - not a computer game - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:41] <exec> 08└─Assuming that your comment is not a poor attempt at humour, if you believe that Quake or Left4Dead represent real life then perhaps it is you that ought to be rethinking events. We are talking about soldiers opening fire in a very busy public place. They are posing the minimum risk to the public and...
[12:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:50] <exec> 08└─We can say they're "on the beat".
[12:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02sleepr - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:52] <exec> 08└─It's not mentioned in the summary but I guess his mistake was claiming he was sleeping. Or talking to the police at all while being a criminal. Or, ok, setting his house on fire. “A cardiologist who reviewed that data determined ‘it is highly improbable Mr. Compton would have been able to collec...
[12:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Geert Wilders... - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:04] <exec> 08└─...needs no introduction.
[12:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:live by the sword ... get mentioned in a fictio - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:16] <exec> 08└─Knowing stuff would just mean you won't be killed outright, but enslaved by some local warlord to use that knowledge in his or her services. Whether that's preferable to death is up to each of us individually.
[12:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Spam-a-lot - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:21] <exec> 08└─How will he defend against Sauron and army or Orcs? New Zealand just doesn't sound like a good place to bunker down. If you build a bunker you have to do it yourself or everyone else involved have to have some kind of fatal "accident", dead men tell no tales. You can't just buy 50000 cans of SPAM al...
[12:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Foolproof and fun billionaire's survival plan - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:23] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Find some town where your face isn't well known, and using an array of different intermediaries to do the following: Step 2: Set up a heavily armed and well fortified compound at the edge of town. Stock it with loads of food, water, guns and ammunition, plenty of fuel and a couple of armoure...
[12:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Foolproof and fun billionaire's survival plan - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:25] <exec> 08└─Although it increases your personal risk, what's living in a fortress without your own cult of adoring worshipers? Boring, that's what!
[12:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:09] <exec> 08└─ Trump has the highest "unfavorability" rating of any President in 40 years: 54% rate him as unfavorable in mid-January. In contrast, three of the last 4 presidents started with over 80% approval. http://www.npr.org [npr.org] (ABC N...
[12:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scientists Design New Power Plant. - 06Scientists Design Electricity Generator that Mimics Trees - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:07] <exec> 08└─Seems like that would make a neat subject line....
[12:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Why a pipeline for tar sands? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:21] <exec> 08└─Why are the oil sands processed? Why not transport them safely to the refinery and then process them in that neighbourhood? (less risky)
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[13:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Why? - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:22] <exec> 08└─If Apple is sitting on 246 billion of cash. Why are they acquiring more By selling debt?
[13:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Video of incident - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:34] <exec> 08└─Inshallah! [youtu.be]
[13:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:35] <exec> 08└─So, if I'm reading this correctly, nobody died, the person who received the most injuries was the bad guy, and the soldier who was hurt will be fine when all is said and done. Which means that the fear of bad guys like this is much more of a threat than bad guys like this. Lock this idiot and his ac...
[13:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:38] <exec> 08└─When you put it that way, this news doesn't really need to be here. A LEO receiving injuries from a lone knife wielder isn't notable, and any terrorist/ISIS affiliation is just "inspiration". There are plenty of criminals and crazies wielding knives or guns against cops, but they don't usually make...
[13:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:47] <exec> 08└─i don't think that's a Touché worthy comment, but I agree with both statements... If our authorities do not actually feel quite as threatened as their testimony suggests, and that their statements are the justified reasons for shooting, actually having such biometric feedback of our enforcement age...
[13:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Failure to correspond is not a crime - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:51] <exec> 08└─The data from the pacemaker didn't correspond with Compton's version of what happened.
[13:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:live by the sword ... get mentioned in a fictio - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:15] <exec> 08└─So... it'll be business as usual except a little more honest. Some general comments: For political reasons both specifically as a Trump supporter and general anti-prepping media outlook (My god how could someone nut trust his life to Big Brother like we do?) there is intentional blindness for how th...
[13:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02list of preferred handsets - 06Tokyo 2020 Olympics Asks Public to Donate Old Phones for Medals - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:17] <exec> 08└─Dear Olympics® supporters, The Committee is especially desirous of the following mobile handsets: gold Nokia 6700 [aliexpress.com] silver Nokia 6700 [vintagemobile.fr] bronze Nokia 6700 [mobiledirect.de] Thank you.
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[14:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:39] <exec> 08└─Taxes. It wouldn't surprise me if they are finding a way to pay back this money they borrowed in the US with funds that have not been repatriated.
[14:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Enrich the bosses - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 1909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:41] <exec> 08└─> Apple (AAPL) will use proceeds for general corporate purposes, which can include share buybacks That's why. It's a scummy way for corporations to transfer wealth from the corporate treasury to upper management's personal pockets. They get paid in stock options, or in stock. But if they convert tho...
[14:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─Terrorist attack? A nutcase waving a knife now makes international news headlines just because he said the magic trigger words "Allahu Akbar"? If he'd forgotten to say that, would it have got any further than about page 3 of Le Monde, if that?
[14:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:56] <exec> 08└─rather than the apocalyptic supervillains
[14:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─You speak wise words!
[14:42:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02This is real life - not a computer game - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 1094 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:00] <exec> 08└─Assuming that your comment is not a poor attempt at humour, if you believe that Quake or Left4Dead represent real life then perhaps it is you that ought to be rethinking events. We are talking about soldiers opening fire in a very busy public place. They are posing the minimum risk to the public and...
[14:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:This is real life - not a computer game - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:02] <exec> 08└─if you believe that Quake or Left4Dead represent real life then perhaps it is you that ought to be rethinking events. The soldier was injured as he did a rocket jump to get a good view
[14:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:04] <exec> 08└─The soldiers didn't resort to lethal force until it became necessary, then only used sufficient force to remove the threat. They did a good job. A patrol of four soldiers are reported to have tried to subdue the assailant using non-lethal force after he rushed at them. When this failed and after one...
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:10] <exec> 08└─A backpack or two containing explosives, dirty bomb, or bio weapons may make things a little more interesting.
[14:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─A backpack or two containing explosives, dirty bomb, or bio weapons may make things a little more interesting.
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:14] <exec> 08└─But but he said the trigger phrase Allah Ackbar!
[14:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:16] <exec> 08└─This kind of news (and basically any terrorist attack/multiple murder ~10 dead) shouldn't automatically be mainstream news, but anything able to scare people into pageviews/buying papers is the right kind of newsworthy.
[14:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:19] <exec> 08└─More like the fear of a good guy with a gun is overblown.
[14:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:21] <exec> 08└─There's something these good guys with guns had that many would-be good guys with guns don't have: training. Which makes a huge difference, because guys with training know what to shoot, when to shoot (and more importantly when not to), and how to shoot to hit their target rather than something else...
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─He's a terrorist, eh...? Back in my day, we called this type of person 'mentally disturbed' and I see no way to change that. Let's look at the fact - Thinks he can take on 2 soldiers by himself - Thinks he can win a gunfight with a knife - Thinks a magical sky wizard wants him to do this and will pr...
[14:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:33] <exec> 08└─The best shooters have icewater for blood - heart rate analysis does not apply.
[14:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Failure to correspond is not a crime - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:37] <exec> 08└─someone will deliberately lie, that turn out to be non-criminal
[14:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Failure to correspond is not a crime - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:39] <exec> 08└─> But don't pre-judge Why, it is so fun!
[14:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:A Canticle! - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:01] <exec> 08└─My favourite book.
[14:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheaper Option - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─Hah! You didn't read the summary. New Zealand is a stationary target for all us roving, gun-laden veteran types! Your tins of spam will be mine!
[14:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Spam-a-lot - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:13] <exec> 08└─Spam, macaroni and tin tomatoes with salt, fresh cracked pepper and sriracha sauce! OH MAN!!!!! It's like heaven in a bowl...
[14:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OK but - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:33] <exec> 08└─If I used gitlab/hub/whatever, it would be for backup/redundancy purposes.
[14:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─The honeymoon ends when reality forces to the elected charge to forget promises made as candidate. But Trump is fulfllilng his promises. Basically, America first... and fuck the rest of the world, de don't need anyone. The honeymoon for Trump will end when the reality left after pushing on with his...
[14:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:03] <exec> 08└─Stop linking to your fake news sites. They are not credible source of information, just a leftist propaganda machine. If you need proof, here is a sample of their fucking news. [cnn.com] Absolutely rabid nonsense, choice quote: "Fernandez graded them the same way he would his eight- to nine-year-old...
[14:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:05] <exec> 08└─That says little however. It's quite obvious that the media has never been on his side for anything he does. They've never been so united against a candidate (and later president) before. The public gets their information from the media. Does that leave much chance for him to have good ratings? If h...
[14:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02its complicated - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:07] <exec> 08└─It's complicated... he didn't win by much. Also note his opponents in the election were not considerably more likable in general either. A lot of people just voted for him because he's an "outsider" and they have been frustrated by the doubletalk of the last few presidents. A lot also liked his xeno...
[14:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02EMP - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:25] <exec> 08└─Anyone got any good blueprints for an EMP device? (also asking for a friend... of course)
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:43] <exec> 08└─Luckily GIMP gives you the choice between multi-window and single-window. And LibreOffice allows you to turn this on or off. I don't believe MS Word gives you an option. So that's the difference.
[14:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Why!? - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:49] <exec> 08└─Not to edit just any PDF. I like that I can generate a PDF that can be opened as the original ODF document in LibreOffice. In other words, the PDF is bigger because it also contains the ODF document. If you open *that* PDF in LibreOffice, you have the actual ODF document from which the PDF was creat...
[14:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:57] <exec> 08└─in what universe do the undead speak coherently?
[14:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:59] <exec> 08└─Der Himmel ist blau, actually.
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[15:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:28] <exec> 08└─n/a
[15:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:29] <exec> 08└─Uh, no, no it isn't. If you have terrible eyesight and/or terrible equipment, perhaps.
[15:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:32] <exec> 08└─I don't need to eyegasm every time I turn on my TV. DVD quality is just fine. If, on the other hand, you have a 976" TV where each millimeter contains 25 pixels, sure, DVD ain't gonna cut it.
[15:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:34] <exec> 08└─He probably doesn't use the same Monster-branded cables that you do.
[15:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 are two of my all-time favorite television series. I like to re-watch Babylon 5 from start to finish at least every other year, but it's getting harder to do so. As I've posted on here before, the close-up shots still look fine on 1080p televisions, but the p...
[15:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─Too bad compatibility will inevitably become a problem, otherwise I'd say just keep a slightly older non-4k TV around to watch them on.
[15:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Babylon 5 - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:41] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that the computer network used to generate the computer animated stuff no longer exists, and that the files used for the 3D models are gone, as Straczynski discovered when he wanted to use one of the White Star models in Crusade.
[15:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uber's self-driving cars are now 100% safe... - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:48] <exec> 08└─...in California. [sfexaminer.com]
[15:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:51] <exec> 08└─"Unwanted maneuvers," "perception discrepancies," and "recklessly behaving road user" also accounted for dozens of disengagements. There were no reports of crashes or accidents.
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─"recklessly behaving road user" — I hope that one doesn't refer to the autopilot … although I guess that would find customers, too ;-)
[15:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:03] <exec> 08└─If that's the reason they should have waited. Cutting the corporate tax is top priority for President Trump. With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority. Focus on tax re...
[15:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Why? - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:06] <exec> 08└─Because two piles of cash are better than one - especially when one of them is hidden out of reach of tax authorities and the other one gets to deduct interest from taxes.
[15:43:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─Terrorist attack? A nutcase waving a knife now makes international news headlines just because he said the magic trigger words "Allahu Akbar"? If he'd forgotten to say that, would it have got any further than about page 3 of Le Monde, if that?
[15:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:20] <exec> 08└─I was just waking up when I wrote that. I covered it in another comment. Fuck off! Make Allah great again!
[15:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:22] <exec> 08└─Yep, just like a guy stabbing black people shouting "die you fucking niggers" is a hate crime. I guess you just don't GET this whole terrorism thing, huh? Islam has nothing to do with it....
[15:43:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─He fired five shots and only wounded the guy? I know he did it wrong.
[15:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:29] <exec> 08└─I disagree, of course. Gun the animal down like a dog, and let him rot in the street. He isn't fit for a human burial, just let the scavengers consume him. And, if that offends some Muslim sensitivities, well, so be it. Stop acting like animals, and you won't be left out as road kill to be eaten by...
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─No, I rather think GreatAuntAnesthesia is on the right track with this--treat them like common, ordinary criminals. If you treat them differently, like you're talking about, you make them something to aspire to. Everybody wants to be the virtuous freedom fighter that stands up to evil overlords who...
[15:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:33] <exec> 08└─Reducing oneself to their level doesn't seem like something we should be aiming for.
[15:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:35] <exec> 08└─Not exactly reducing ourselves to their level. To a terrorist, you and I are important people. He needs us to make a statement, he needs us as his ticket into paradise, he needs us to convert, he needs us to justify his existence. We don't need him. We swat him like the shit eating insect that he is...
[15:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:37] <exec> 08└─desperate, pitiful, small-minded little criminals
[15:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:This is real life - not a computer game - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:42] <exec> 08└─> Why don't you wait until the facts are known before you start criticising Lol n00b, that's not how we do it in the Interwebz.
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─then only used sufficient force
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─Just for your information: The Louvre is not in America; American cops were not involved.
[15:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe the attacker with the two rucksacks had prayed that they be filled with explosives when the attack started. Magical thinking.
[15:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:56] <exec> 08└─Except in this case nothing like that was involved.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:03] <exec> 08└─Stop calling these people 'terrorists'; they aren't terrorizing anyone.
[15:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:05] <exec> 08└─I don't see any indication that he was an immigrant. That he shouted "Allahu Akbar" is an indication that he probably is Muslim, but even that is not a given — he might just have chosen to do so because it generates the most attention these days.
[15:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:08] <exec> 08└─When the guy open fires on a mosque in Quebec he is the official representative of nationalistic right. Therefore, when the guy swings machete in France he is the official representative of islam.
[15:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:10] <exec> 08└─Stop calling these people 'terrorists'; they aren't terrorizing anyone.
[15:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:20] <exec> 08└─It does: If you are frightened, you heart rate does go up. And if you shoot accidentally, your heart rate should spike right after the shot. If your heart rate remains low all of the time, it obviously was an intentional kill.
[15:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:22] <exec> 08└─It seems to me heart rate is not the proof they think it is. I have an implanted defibrillator/pacemaker I've had since I was 30, because they discovered I have a propensity for tachycardia (a race condition for the heart). At checkups my doctor would examine the readouts of when the device would pa...
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Failure to correspond is not a crime - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:28] <exec> 08└─But the data failing to correspond, on its own, is not a reason to convict him, nor even necessarily to suspect him.
[15:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Beg pardon? - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─This went viral, leading even to a White House petition to make the Netherlands second.
[15:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:52] <exec> 08└─I think his plan to flee to New Zealand is a pretty good one, I mean how many Americans even know where NZ is [youtube.com]? It's somewhere near Austria, the place with the kangaroos, sure, but can you point to it on a globe (without reading the labels)?
[15:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:53] <exec> 08└─yea, actually, we can. After the breakdown of society how do we or peter fly there?
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fixed locations are inherently vulnerable. - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:09] <exec> 08└─That's why I keep my escape rockets on rail cars. Each rocket is monitored by a Nest Cam (specially modified to disable the remote destruct feature). I keep several helicopters gassed up at all times. Redundancy plus mobility equals survival.
[15:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rockets that look a lot like ICBMs? - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─I can think of one SHTF scenario you haven't thought of.
[15:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Like carrying aboard your own personal life raft - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:13] <exec> 08└─Wow, these guys. Wouldn't it be better to invest in making sure the ship doesn't sink? Instead of prepping to be the rat with the best odds of surviving the sinking? Where's the sense of community, the feeling that we're all in this together? On airplanes, does their carry on luggage consist mostly...
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─It's called Disaster recovery [wikipedia.org] plan. Also one easy prevention measure is to ... change terminal PS1 format/colours to make it clear whether you’re using production or staging (red production, yellow staging). [gitlab.com]
[15:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:32] <exec> 08└─Eh, we do already have plans in place as well as daily local and offsite db dumps going back a good ways. I was asking more for specific ideas like the PS1 setting but more for the backups end of things. I mean we got a lot of smart folks here, might as well use them.
[15:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not an expert, but wouldn't best practice be to keep a log file with all SQL transactions where delete commands can be manually undone?
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Aussi scums - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─When Australia/UK or America under Trump or Hillary go full 1984 and Americans are looking for another place to go I would be surprised if even before this president more than the UK or Australia was willing to take us in in great numbers. But whatever, guess we need to keep doing on to others as we...
[15:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:wild idea - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:00] <exec> 08└─Australia has a huge arid region inland. Many (most?) of these asylum seekers come from arid regions. Bus those people into the interior, and see how they get on with the aboriginals. It could be helluva good thing - or it could be helluva bad thing. But, the US has been kicking the can down the roa...
[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:07] <exec> 08└─"reason for voting against Clinton was that she was borderline criminal" There is no borderline there. She is as criminal as they come. More importantly, she wanted to invade Syria. Just what we needed, yet another military morass, but this one we would have been nose-to-nose with the Russians. Uhhh...
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─Libral nooz sites run polls unfavorable to newly elected non-libral office holder - more news at 11:00.
[15:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed. I've characterized our recently concluded election as the race between the court fool, and the wicked witch. We dodged the bullet when the fool pulled it off. Now, I sit back and watch, and laugh my arse off all the butthurt.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Explosively pumped flux compression generator - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─AFAIK this is the only practical non-nuclear EMP design: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Lag kills - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─Video games don't make people violent, lag does.
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Owning equipment versus renting it - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─Assuming a customer did upgrade their internet speed, the Attorney General alleges at least 900,000 of those customers were given older generation single-channel DOCSIS 1 and DOCSIS 2 cable modems the company knew were incapable of delivering the speed the customer signed up for. Even worse, the com...
[15:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:^ This - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─> ...but an every-bloody-user's-thing-is-unique setup?? > Just, WOW! Just imagine with the old menus and toolbars if you could change the UI by moving all the buttons around, changing what was on each toolbar, changing the contents of each menu. Then add to that OLE controls that when you click on t...
[15:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because 'HOME' is so much more logical as a label for text formatting options than 'FORMAT'... Well, except the formatting options that aren't under 'HOME' that show up under 'LAYOUT', which makes a bit of sense, although there's also some under 'DESIGN' -- although you better not get used to...
[15:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Why a pipeline for tar sands? - 06Army Corp of Engineers Now Accepting Public Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:10] <exec> 08└─Because it's cheaper than paying to transport the additional bulk of the soon-to-be waste material from the refining process?
[15:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:45] <exec> 08└─That's kind of why I pointed it out. Didn't expect to get downmodded myself for it though, heh. Ah well, no karma lost because AC.
[15:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Patent term vs. age of consent - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:56] <exec> 08└─Even if someone was conceived with a patented germline gene, by the time the human is old enough to legally reproduce, the patent on this gene will likely have expired.
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[16:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─720p looks significantly better than 480p (there is also 720x576 [wikipedia.org]), especially when viewing on a laptop. 720p is a great minimum resolution that ignores two jumps in quality, 1080p and the amazing super duper 4K (ignore NHK fiddling around with 8K).
[16:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:35] <exec> 08└─You are correct, sir! I gasm over TOS because! I tried watching TNG, but it is sooooo bad, especially the first season.... Could not do it. Would much rather watch B5 over TNG.
[16:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 1820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─This is obviously very much a YMMV position, but what complicates things further is that you also need to take into account what the viewer is aiming to get out of watching the show, what they are used to, and (most critically) what their screen size/screen resolution/viewing distance ratio is. VHS...
[16:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─On a 40inch LCD TV (6 years old now), DVD's still look just fine, as do older standard dev TV shows, yet it also displays a beautiful 1080p picture as well. I haven't make the jump to B-R yet, and probably won't for the foreseeable future, the jump in quality just from 1080 just doesn't seem worth...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:43] <exec> 08└─Just wait a few years and your senses will go down hill. I save a lot of space with higher mp3 compression because I can no longer hear the difference :)
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, B5 barely withstood the transition to DVD - the live-action stuff had been filmed at 16:9 so they made the DVDs widescreen, but that meant that all the CGI and composite stuff started out as NTSC and then got cropped and stretched to 16:9. Ugh... and they pretty much pioneered live ac...
[16:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02we'll likely never see Babylon 5 in HD or 4K Ultra - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:51] <exec> 08└─Gunsmoke and Beverly Hillbillies are definitely out then, huh?
[16:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:we'll likely never see Babylon 5 in HD or 4K Ul - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, according to the interview in the article, no, Gunsmoke and Beverly Hillbillies are not out necessarily. Prior to the mid '80s, television shows were mostly filmed on 35mm film, so they can be fairly easily remastered to 4K Ultra HD. Unfortunately, special effects laden television shows fr...
[16:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Time heals all wounds - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─Prediction: Over time, technology will make this a more automatic process. At some point, the cost of remastering this old content will become acceptable and it will happen.
[16:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:06] <exec> 08└─I would think the meanings are pretty clear: Unwanted maneuvers refers to the car doing something the human monitor thinks it ought not to: crossing lanes, turning unexpectedly, running red lights, speeding, whatever. Perception discrepancies are when the camera goes "Oh shit there's something there...
[16:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Enrich the bosses - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 1909 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─> Apple (AAPL) will use proceeds for general corporate purposes, which can include share buybacks That's why. It's a scummy way for corporations to transfer wealth from the corporate treasury to upper management's personal pockets. They get paid in stock options, or in stock. But if they convert tho...
[16:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:32] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Go put "knife attack" in Google News. Looks like there were at least three other knife attacks in the US in the last 24 hours. None of which made it past "page 3."
[16:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! This is gonna scare the crap outta ol' Runaway! Quick, some one prep his safe zone, stat!!
[16:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:44] <exec> 08└─I aspire to being better than that, although I accept that I might fail always to do so. I have no sympathy for terrorists, but I refuse to lower myself to treat anyone other than expected under the law.
[16:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:46] <exec> 08└─ol' Runaway! Quick, some one prep his safe zone, stat!!
[16:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:48] <exec> 08└─That's just plain stupid. Whenever you catch a bad guy, what you want is for the bad guy to tell you everything he knows about what he and other bad guys are up to, so you can catch the other bad guys and also thwart any other plots the bad guy might have going on. There are lots of interrogation te...
[16:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:05] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree more, except that this is one of a series of attacks in France (Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan, Nice etc) which all affect the public perception of their own safety. I feel it is newsworthy because we have all seen what over-reaction can do to such a threat, for example in the USA. The se...
[16:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:12] <exec> 08└─When the guy open fires on a mosque in Quebec he is the official representative of nationalistic right. Therefore, when the guy swings machete in France he is the official representative of islam. According to the Whitehouse, when a white nationalist Trump supporter opens fire on a Mosque that's...
[16:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:16] <exec> 08└─And that is exactly my point...
[16:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Beg pardon? - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:47] <exec> 08└─Watch the video after work.
[16:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spam-a-lot - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Vegemite.
[16:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:38] <exec> 08└─IIRC, you use MySQL. In that case, turn on https://dev.mysql.com [mysql.com] with a basename that points to a different directory. The logs will rotate automatically when they hit a certain size or the daemon is restarted. You can then restore, if necessary from the...
[16:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:40] <exec> 08└─It was rm -Rvf, not DELETE FROM.
[16:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Explosively pumped flux compression generator - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:39] <exec> 08└─My friend said something about how it shouldn't use a 'high explosive' because said friend would prefer not to be on the 'enemies list' before he/she's got this EMP device working.
[16:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Explosively pumped flux compression generator - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:40] <exec> 08└─Then it's up to your friend's engineering genius to invent the Pressure cooker pumped flux compression generator, I'm afraid. Hold on, somebody's at the door...
[16:46:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02About freaking time! - 06Charter (Time Warner Cable) Sued by State of New York for Slow Internet - 1441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─All fifty states, D.C, all US possessions and teritorries, as well as the federal government should get on board with this suit. If Europe and the UK can provide actual high speed internet on trains as they travel from city to city, then WTF can't our telcos provide reliable high speed internet even...
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Why is there a universe? - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:11] <exec> 08└─All this stuff had to go somewhere.
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:I see what they did there - 06Tokyo 2020 Olympics Asks Public to Donate Old Phones for Medals - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─I suspect that the latter option depends a lot on the age of the phone. I have an old HTC Desire (Bravo, for US folk), which has a 1GHz processor and ought to be pretty useable. Unfortunately, even the most recent CyanogenMod for it ships with an old SSL implementation and an outdated root certifica...
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[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:33] <exec> 08└─This will pretty much put the Hackintoshes out of reach. I'd expect it to be followed by a step to ensure the Mac software store was the only way to get software. Because Apple.
[17:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:35] <exec> 08└─I guess it would depend on the ARM chip. Given the magic they already do in a Hackintosh build, it would be hilarious to see that backfire and someone find a way to get OSX running on every $150 walmart chromebook. I might be giving them too much credit, but they'd probably want to maintain their ab...
[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─I would guess that Windows will run as the x86 stuff is still there, but OS X will check for the ARM processor. Tried KDE lately? It's back top being stable again and is very fast and flexible. Even Gnome 3 is probably pretty decent these days. I still don't like Unity. I really do love having all t...
[17:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I haven't tried it in quite a while. I'm rather a fan of the not-OSX style that Elementary has, but I feel like it's different enough to be jarring. Doesn't handle stuff like Steam well either. MATE is decent, all things considered. I think my problem is that I got too used to what I got...
[17:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:41] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be for other OSes to a.) ignore the chip, or b.) embrace and support the chip, and even the Touch Bar or whatever.
[17:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:54] <exec> 08└─WTF? TNG is a fantasic show. However, you have to skip the entire 1st season and much of the 2nd one too. It's seasons 3-5 and some of 6 that are great. You're not going to get much argument about the 1st season of TNG. It was truly terrible, and it's amazing how much they were able to turn it aroun...
[17:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 2943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:59] <exec> 08└─Can't say I get the fuss at all to be honest. And could you not just sell the Blu-Ray with the best res you can manage without having to interpolate / whatever, even if that's not 4K? Surely the Blu-Ray player can just upscale it for you. So long as you're honest about it, are people really going to...
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─I personally CAN tell the difference between DVD quality (I guess 576 lines), 720 and 1080). Admittedly, there are only particular types of scenes where 720 vs 1080 makes a difference, and it's more on the lines of an "oooh" factor and pure delight at seeing some details, it doesn't affect the story...
[17:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:07] <exec> 08└─Releasing the B5 DVDs in 16:9 was the worst decision they could have possibly made, short of not releasing it on DVD at all. Yes, they'd shot the original live-action in that ratio, and kudos to them for being forward-thinking, but first-broadcast was 4:3 like every TV at the time. So it's not like...
[17:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02I have a solution - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─Use a smaller screen. Don't waste money on defective-by-design big screens. Funny how easily first world problems can be solved when you simply recognize that you don't have to buy junk just because the tv told you to.
[17:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:we'll likely never see Babylon 5 in HD or 4K Ul - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:15] <exec> 08└─Yup; this is why Knight Rider (1982-86) was already in HD on Netflix years ago.
[17:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02It didn't stop them with Doctor Who - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:18] <exec> 08└─SD resolution didn't stop them re-releasing series 1-4 of (new) [i]Doctor Who[/i] on blu-ray. They just upscaled it. It was marginally better than the DVD release, but they could have just stuck the SD video on a blu-ray compressed with a modern codec at high bitrate and left it to people's TVs to u...
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─"Unwanted maneuvers refers to the car doing something the human monitor thinks it ought not to: crossing lanes, turning unexpectedly, running red lights, speeding, whatever." Except that would already be accounted for under software glitch.
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Only if we define "Glitch" in a way that is identical to "Something other than what the driver wants". Which is a perfectly acceptable definition, but to a programmer, a glitch is usually more akin to an actual programming error, rather than a disconnect between requirements and what the user actual...
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Improvement or learning? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure at all how this all works but my understanding is that driving patterns are governed by machine learning algorithms. I am sure adjustments are made but I also think that if there is more data available, the algorithm should perform better. Which brings me to the point that right now I t...
[17:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:59] <exec> 08└─OMG!! the Muslims are out to get us all! /s Meanwhile there were at least 10 gang shootings in Stockton, California last month, and just as many in Salinas, California, and god knows how many in LA. People who feel held down and cheated in life often commit violent acts. See news at 11.
[17:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:19] <exec> 08└─The "sufficient force" part was using less-lethal options until it was clear that was insufficient. Not having been on the scene, I'm not going to second-guess the difficulty of the shot or the capability of the shooter. From the description in Fnord666's post the rifle was used with lethal intent,...
[17:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:30] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with us discussing this story here. My main point was that the fear narrative pushed by the mainstream news acts as in a positive feed-back loop. Scary stories that are overblown (over-representing risk) affect public perception and drive increased interest in future scary stories....
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:37] <exec> 08└─I don't see any indication that he was an immigrant.
[17:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:39] <exec> 08└─About 99% of the immigrants I've seen on TV are poor, wretched people that are fleeing war zones or persecution. They look like they've been to hell and back. A lot of them are children. Why are you scared of them? If you have compassion, then help them. Sheesh, what's wrong with people these days?
[17:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:45] <exec> 08└─I think you're attributing too sophisticated a level of thinking here. From some ends of the media, it's "I hate Muslims, this clown makes Muslims look bad, report it far and wide." From most other areas of the media, it's "A lot of other outlets are reporting this, we'll look like chumps if we don'...
[17:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Beg pardon? - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:18] <exec> 08└─Watch the video after work. What? You expect me to read Soylent when I'm not getting paid to do something else?
[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:31] <exec> 08└─"Borrow" an airliner. If we're raiding some billionaire's apocalypse hideout for canned food and ammunition, the threat of going to jail for Grand Theft Boeing doesn't carry much weight. Protip: you want one with inertial navigation, radio beacons will shut down when their backup generators run out...
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Out of their minds - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't take much disruption to the status quo to cause panic. After Hurricane Sandy knocked out power in large sections of the Tri-state area people were desperate to charge their cellphones. They camped out in malls that were running off generators so they could charge at the outlets used for f...
[17:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─Good link, thanks. That "binary log" is essentially a journal. But it should be usable for quick replay of changes on top of last backup, otherwise it is not of much value. Restore (as well as backup) should be fully automated bullet-proof task exactly for the reason in the story: sometimes humans e...
[17:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:1) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:16] <exec> 08└─Loss is a part of life. You can't take it with you data included. Take reasonable steps to protect the data knowing that guaranteed complete recovery is improbable or prohibitively expensive.
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[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─I use Steam very regularly under the latest KDE (with NVidia proprietary drivers). Zero problems to date. A while ago I had a few annoyances (in KDE, not when using Steam) if I left the compositor on, but I've switched it back on the last few months and it seems very stable. Keep in mind that I run...
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─I think the issue will be the opposite ... OS X will *not* work without the hardware. Although, perhaps the saving grace will be that they'll have to support their own older hardware for a while.
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"long live the battery!" - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─A single computer (mobile, desktop, server) doesnt use alot of power, but if there are millions, then it starts to matter. it is curious how during the evolution of computers, energy usage was of no big concern. if energy requirements would have been a concern, then many of the first computers would...
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"long live the battery!" - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─If a battery breakthrough lets your laptop/smartphone carry around 10x more Watt-hours of energy (or 2-4x with a smaller battery), your device is that much closer to being a bomb.
[18:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:"long live the battery!" - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:46] <exec> 08└─Part of it is the cost of electricity as well. Some of the desktop machines a few years ago absolutely sucked down power, even at idle. An office full of those ends up incurring quite a power cost.
[18:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I'm rather baffled - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:49] <exec> 08└─I fail to see where this fits in the big scope. I was always assuming they'd prepare a seamless move to ARM, if just for negotiating with Intel. Hence buying Lattner and his LLVM. LLVM Intermediate Only in the App Store next. But now, Lattner has left and no signs of such preparations. For the descr...
[18:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:03] <exec> 08└─For you it may be fine. At least on 50" screens and larger, DVD is clearly inferior, and I have had family members with less anal eyes than mine notice the difference. Not only is the resolution limitations noticeable, but color range, where DVDs are in NTSC, is limited. Many focus on just resolutio...
[18:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─Depends which question you're asking I think. Technically better, yes. As someone with great eyesight, a nice colour-calibrated TV, HTPC and blu-ray ripbot, I'm a sucker for my hi-def gubbins. But it's not the visual quality I'm watching, it's the content. To my eyes, a 480i MPEG2 turd still looks a...
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:17] <exec> 08└─I guess with the B5 DVDs they had good intentions and committed themselves before they realised what the consequences would be. Looked like some of the film had seen better days, too... When they remastered TNG for HD, they did the smart thing and kept it at 4:3.
[18:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02motion capture FTW! - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:26] <exec> 08└─that's why everything should be shot with at least TWO cameras and invisible-light (UV) reflecting dresses/clothes (or body paint) this way, in the future, we can just track the (invisible) spots in 3D space (thanks to having TWO camera vantage points) and then render everything around these points/...
[18:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02X-Files did the same thing - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:28] <exec> 08└─9 seasons of X-Files were rebuilt from the original 35mm negatives for HD remaster. So it's totally possible to do this for Star Trek.
[18:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:42] <exec> 08└─If we include everything under "software glitch," what exactly would we learn from these reports? Unless people can fall asleep drunk and get to their final destination nearly 100% of the time, people won't trust self-driving cars. Learning about specific types of problems helps ease tensions, but i...
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─Hey, I freeze myself in traffic sometimes. Do it too long, you get honked at.
[18:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly do these mean? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:45] <exec> 08└─What exactly do those terms mean here? "Unwanted maneuvers" — Did Google's car do an unwanted maneuver? Yes. If you look at the report the cause is actually "disengage for unwanted maneuver of the vehicle" so the causes in the summary are excerpted a bit. I'd copy/paste them here but it's a scanne...
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how much Trump cuts the taxes. Some companies may bring back a little amount of cash to please the Dictator, but the rest will stay safely abroad. Apple's money outside the US is taxed at an infinitesimal rate (sub-0.1%). Why would they bring it back to a place where their placemen...
[18:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enrich the bosses - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:58] <exec> 08└─oh?! very good!
[18:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:22] <exec> 08└─A Trump mask would have been a good statement... I'm sure the white house will spin this into a "bowling green"-level massacre, while the French seem to actually want to minimize it... (partially for election reasons)
[18:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:38] <exec> 08└─American cops were not involved.
[18:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:40] <exec> 08└─My point is that he only survived by happenstance of where the bullet did or did not go, not by design. Put your own political slant on it if you really feel compelled.
[18:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, genius, that's obvious, and nothing I said suggests I'm talking about only US cops. Law enforcers learn the same techniques when faced with potentially lethal attempts on their lives. They have different tools to use for different situations, but once immediate threat to life is determined, the...
[18:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:55] <exec> 08└─It is interesting that you have said that. This evening the news reporting is much more restrained. It is still considered a terrorist attack, but the French are certainly playing down the danger that it posed and see the outcome as justification of their current high-visibility security presence in...
[18:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─Because only immigrants can shout the trigger phrase, Allah Ackbar.
[18:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:54] <exec> 08└─Afaik are alle commercial airplanes required to have (inertial) navigation and are pilots trained to navigate without systems like GPS.
[18:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:Out of their minds - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:05] <exec> 08└─Stuff's made to be unfixable. I bet if you took an iPhone with a bad solder joint on one CPU pin back to the factory that made it, they couldn't re-work it. They would bin the whole logic board and sell you a new one just like the Apple store "geniuses".
[18:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:''6 Hours of Data Lost'' - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:25] <exec> 08└─> I think the back-ups worked properly. Apparently, the server behind the couch worked properly, after all the official backup systems proved to be corrupted or misconfigured. Reminds me of the almost identical story I heard, I believe about Toy Story: - Someone does a bad rm -rf command, nuking...
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02been there. a dev accidentally wiped our db - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 3233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─I was working for a small startup as a sysadm. We had a db admin and a network admin. The rest of the technical people were all developers. To make their lives a tiny bit more convenient, the devs demanded that the db not be protected with passwords. Even though they would all know the passwords, th...
[18:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02This thing about refugees... - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:21] <exec> 08└─Most of the refugees that Australia faces - for that matter, most of the ones trying to reach Europe - are not seeking asylum. They are economic migrants. They are coming from failing or failed countries, looking for a place where they can have a better life. That's all well and good, and the people...
[18:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:This thing about refugees... - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─Um...into your NON-failed country, of course.
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Dear Samsung, Tesla and aerovironment, - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe we don't need better batteries and solar cells. It might be a good thing if robots DO need to recharge for a while... What's the point of all that money you're making, if the robot which doesn't have your backdoor is the one coming too kill your grandchildren?
[18:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Kugelblitz - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:14] <exec> 08└─Forever after, antimatter was at a disadvantage. What is wrong with that simple idea?
[18:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:54] <exec> 08└─That just makes you a literal grammar Nazi :D I don't sprechen Deutsch, sorry.
[18:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regarding ristrictions - 06A Biohacker's Plan to Upgrade Dalmatians Ends Up in the Doghouse - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:11] <exec> 08└─will anybody be eating the dalmatians? Wait for the Phase II rulemaking.
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[19:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02I admit - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:28] <exec> 08└─the headline scared me for second, before I read the first line of TFS
[19:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Dear Tesla Inc, - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:30] <exec> 08└─Can I buy your panels, instead of having to enter into an abusive^W long-term relationship with Solar City?
[19:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:32] <exec> 08└─those articles, some real balanced and considered reporting there.... only way they could have gone further is to call musk the messiah. I really wish people would get off elon's dick for 5 minutes, his businesses are the perfect symbol of crony capitalism. like the products all you want, but do not...
[19:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:34] <exec> 08└─Musky has reached a level beyond mere mortals. He is now the Trump Whisperer (Mars-oriented, non-Bannon variety).
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:"long live the battery!" - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─since computers are a evolution and a architecture cannot be restarted, as from scratch, every new generation incorporates the previous in some form.
[19:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm rather baffled - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:54] <exec> 08└─The TLAs will be able to spy on each other.
[19:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Intel - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:56] <exec> 08└─So if I'm Intel, the takeaway is for me to get crackin' on (way) better power management, much lower power draw at idle, much slower lowest speed clocks, etc. - hoping to nip this in the bud.
[19:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Intel - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:58] <exec> 08└─It would be neat to see Intel and AMD take a page from the ARM big.LITTLE approach and include one or two wimpy low-power cores alongside all x86 chips. Disable it or remove it in the bleeding performance enthusiast desktop chips, or not... since even desktops could benefit from the faux-hibernation...
[19:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:28] <exec> 08└─That's just shitty upsampling. With better algorithms it would look just the way you are used to regardless of pixel density.
[19:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02DVD is the better format anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:39] <exec> 08└─Aside from better resolution, Blue Ray is just a terrible format. The hardware is slow trouble prone. They killed the format with DRM shit, and giving content providers the ability to force you to watch all their commercials first before you could get to the movie. Frankly, DVD is just more tolerabl...
[19:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02One idea - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:41] <exec> 08└─So, how can CBS be expected to shell out probably 20-million dollars per series to remaster them into HD?
[19:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fewer disengagements does not mean safer - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:58] <exec> 08└─Drivers could become too complacent with fewer disengagements. The reduction in disengagements does not imply an increase in safety.
[19:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02How about when drivers just don't use it? - 06Google's Self-Driving Vehicles Are Getting Safer - 2530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there's been significant improvements in this technology. But I recall from looking in detail at some of these reports in the past from Google that they don't provide data on when the drivers simply choose to drive themselves, other than perhaps a mileage summary. (And I recall that there w...
[19:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─I'll bring in my money and open factories in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. You'll waive the tax and start a trade war with South Korea. Shake on it?
[19:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:42] <exec> 08└─Not exactly reducing ourselves to their level. Correct. It would put us at a lower level. Eliminating due process while proclaiming our love of freedom would also add a healthy dose of hypocrisy to the bill.
[19:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:44] <exec> 08└─William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned...
[19:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:48] <exec> 08└─If you'd leave a dead person to rot in front of the Louvre, passersby would complain to the government that these latest risqué avant-garde works of performance art are really going too far.
[19:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:19] <exec> 08└─How about a tally of say the last 50 times someone started murdering and yelling "Allah ackbar". Take note of how many times they were immigrants and how many not. Let me know if you find any statistical correlation. CUCKOLD.
[19:45:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Language Inflation - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:23] <exec> 08└─Stop calling these people 'terrorists'; they aren't terrorizing anyone.
[19:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:2) 02Re:Beg pardon? - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─Summary: Mr Trump, America first, but can we just say The Netherlands Second?
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:live by the sword ... get mentioned in a fictio - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─It does depend on the definition of "rich". A bunch of useless green paper and a few numbers with lots of zeros tied to a bank in an unreachable paradise island doesn't carry much weight when even cops are hungry and their children sick. > A rich old corporate guys who's spent 40 years winning at ki...
[19:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spam-a-lot - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Kiwis just LOVE IT when they're mistaken for the Aussies.
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Foolproof and fun billionaire's survival plan - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:36] <exec> 08└─The main problems with taking your harem with you are the maintenance of said harem, the distraction required to keep them off each other's throats if there is no media, and how having a harem will attract every crazy ass in a 200-km radius...
[19:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:google :/ - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:58] <exec> 08└─google is also impossible for people who care about their privacy
[19:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:44] <exec> 08└─Didn't the same bunch say Clinton was going to win? They are probably sampling the same pee from the same cups and saying it tastes the same.
[19:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:US Navy? - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:06] <exec> 08└─Sailors share bunks to save space................
[19:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we matter, or anti-matter? - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:40] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not clear. There are other alternatives to unequal amounts being created, it's just that they depend on mechanisms that we don't have good reason to believe existed. For Example: We don't see the entire universe, over half (how much over we can't guess) is probably invisible because it'...
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[20:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Amateurs ... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:30] <exec> 08└─Find desperate loner online (craigslist, dating sites) Agree to meet them in discrete place. If loner status confirmed, kidnap or kill them a month later. Hide them well. Use their phone sparingly for a week. Restart. It's all about proper methodology...
[20:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amateurs ... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:32] <exec> 08└─The scary thing is that I am sure there is at least one person out there who is taking your suggestion quite seriously. While I am sure that "bob_super" is an alias, I'm also quite sure that it can easily be traced by law enforcement (or, indeed, just about anyone with the patience and desire to kno...
[20:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Burner phones - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:34] <exec> 08└─Even if legitimately buying anonymous phones was completely impossible, the illegitimate way still works well: Pay somebody to send bums into the store to buy you phones. This way is much smarter in the first place anyway, you never show up near the phones on record unless you're really incautious,...
[20:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Burner phones - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:36] <exec> 08└─While the bum may be drug addled, the bum will probably have a stronger memory of you than a cashier who handles dozens of transactions every day.
[20:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:47] <exec> 08└─Well, compared to cable companies, mil-indus rent seekers or bankers, there's value in his companies making new things which genuinely advance the state of the art, and deliver it on an industrial scale. Even if Tesla Motors is too big-brotherish for my taste, at least they don't have yet a track re...
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─Tesla and Panasonic are spending hundreds of millions or billions of dollars [arstechnica.com] on a solar panel factory in Buffalo, NY, so it's no wonder that The Buffalo News would give Musklord a pass.
[20:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Tesla Motors made motor cars... - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:51] <exec> 08└─uMatrix seems to have blocked that domain. Is it an adpervtising cesspool?
[20:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─Streaming services (like Netflix and Amazon Prime) have no such crap.
[20:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─My guess is that the OP has a DVD player and (at best) a 1080p screen, so simply hasn't been forced to the next rung on the ladder by default and is content with what they have via a form of ignorance is bliss - and much cheaper too!
[20:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:39] <exec> 08└─If I'm reading this correctly, the shows don't exist in DVD quality; they exist in VHS quality.
[20:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:X-Files did the same thing - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:55] <exec> 08└─Did you just decide not to read the summary or the article, then?
[20:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:47] <exec> 08└─" A nutcase waving a knife " A nutcase waving a knife is no big deal here in the Land of the Free where I can own a gun. A nutcase waving a knife, a couple nutcases waving guns, a nutcase with a bomb suit, a couple nutcases driving trucks, and a LOT of nutcases doing a LOT of raping (statistically,...
[20:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Statistically much higher - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:49] <exec> 08└─> statistically, much higher than native populations Since you reference statistics, let's see them. Not anecdata, an actual comparison of crimes rates. After all, that's the basis of your entire argument, right? So you must have these numbers, please share them with us so that we can all be persuad...
[20:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uh, Yeah ... According to the Whitehouse - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:51] <exec> 08└─6 people killed, 12 injured by a white supremacist in a country on our border and trump has nothing to say some idiot swings a machete and trump goes all in on twitter By the end of the day he's going to be calling it the massacre at the louvre
[20:44:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:59] <exec> 08└─No, I rather think GreatAuntAnesthesia is on the right track with this--treat them like common, ordinary criminals. If you treat them differently, like you're talking about, you make them something to aspire to. Everybody wants to be the virtuous freedom fighter that stands up to evil overlords who...
[20:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just like all the other terrorists - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:01] <exec> 08└─> No, I rather think GreatAuntAnesthesia is on the right track with this--treat them like common, ordinary criminals. Exactly the way we do all the other terrorists like white nationalists. > If you treat them differently, like you're talking about, you make them something to aspire to. But you forg...
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:19] <exec> 08└─FWIK...admittedly from decades ago...MPs are also restrained in their use of force compared to many US cops.
[20:46:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:Beg pardon? - 06Viral Video: Introducing the Netherlands, Trump-style - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:07] <exec> 08└─Watch the video after work. What? You expect me to read Soylent when I'm not getting paid to do something else?
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like carrying aboard your own personal life raf - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─How would that allow them to get so wealthy they couldn't spend it over several lifetimes? These are people that are so narcissistic that they believe they're entitled to be mega-wealthy with millions going without decent food.
[20:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We're in the same boat here - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:11] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention: https://dev.mysql.com [mysql.com] can be helpful to cut down redundant. replays
[20:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:its complicated - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:54] <exec> 08└─"The Worst" isn't what anyone I've heard has been assuming. I know one couple who voted for him, and their sole reason was that they couldn't stand Hillary. Personally that would have made me vote third party, but both major third parties had candidates that disqualified themselves. I can't imagine...
[20:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:This thing about refugees... - 06Australian Government Asks U.S. to Take Detainees - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:59] <exec> 08└─No, if they're following your plain they are clearly a failed country. E.g. you are stating clearly that adequate education isn't required, and implying that it probably isn't available.
[20:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US Navy? - 06Boston Dynamics Produces a Wheeled Terror as Google Watches Nervously - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Sodomy_%26_the_Lash [wikipedia.org]
[20:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:47] <exec> 08└─Don't think of it like multi-window. Think of it like the dropdown menus, ribbon, or whatever sitting next to your keyboard on the left or the right, or even right above your keyboard. I've envisioned something that curves around your mouse and keyboard to provide a literal dashboard. It's not a hug...
[20:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:51] <exec> 08└─Proper? These things can work together and not be mutually exclusive. The vast majority of the time I'm working with SSH shells and headless servers, and I'm not doing much with the workstation itself. So by some of us, you mean both of us. Touch screens are somewhat superior to a mouse, and whether...
[20:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''people have short memories'' - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:10] <exec> 08└─...or maybe it's that we have had a completely different experience. Looking through the (meta)thread, it's pretty clear who has been dependent on M$ file formats and M$ apps to access those. I've never had that dependency. Even going back in my working days, I have had intelligent corespondents who...
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[20:51:14] <exec> 08└─s/Run/Ruin/
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[21:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Amateurs ... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:34] <exec> 08└─Ah tell yew hwut, that boy ain't right...
[21:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Burner phones - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:38] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the cashier's memory, but the actual records their systems keep.
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Burner != anonymous - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─That phone remains tied to an unknown person until the first time you use it. Then there's a link from your phone to whoever you called. Two to three more calls and they're starting to build out your unique social network graph. Maybe you need a random dialer to muddy the waters about which calls ar...
[21:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Mr. Number - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:42] <exec> 08└─I use Mr. Number [google.com] and it mostly works as advertised. Apparently some numbers have a code or something that allows them to make it past the filter, but the phone rings once and then they are gone. About 99.9% are caught and filtered, so it is good enough. You can decide to keep a history...
[21:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use a phone for data, not voice/sms. - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Or the latter only with audio/text encryption and a remote burner phone. If data caps were bigger there would be no excuse for using voice/text anywhere, replaced by email/im/voip+assorted data services. Far more anonymous when done correctly too.
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Trackable privacy - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:46] <exec> 08└─Even a phone that has no name or ID associated can be tracked to its owner. If you use the phone in a normal matter, then the pattern of calls placed, to whom, for how long and from where, will be able to pinpoint you personally. That is what meta-data is all about. That is why meta-data is more dan...
[21:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trackable privacy - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:48] <exec> 08└─Even if you can be found in other ways, compromising yourself from step one is self-defeating. People should resist in whatever ways they can, even if their resistance isn't perfect.
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02My observations fwiw - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:51] <exec> 08└─I have bought several phones at the independent wireless store near my home (a guy named Alex who buys & sells used phones and sells cell phone service). No ID required, just cash. Sim cards for H2O [h2owirelessnow.com] (works on AT&T network/phones) and Net 10 [net10.com] (Works on AT&T or Verizon...
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Tesla Inc, - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─Yes. Rooftop solar giant SolarCity said Thursday that federal and state tax incentives would go directly to consumers under the company’s new loan program that allows homeowners to buy solar panels instead of leasing them. [latimes.com]
[21:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Musky'' - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:05] <exec> 08└─From half a century ago, I'm reminded of a cartoon muskrat. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Star Wreck models were all pilfered... - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:02] <exec> 08└─All that stuff had been floating around on the internet since the AOL/Compuserv Days, some were harder to get than others, but there was a huge 3d modelling fan community for both Trek and B5 and Star Wreck was only possible because of the much more lax copyright laws in Finland(?) over the rest of...
[21:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Foolproof and fun billionaire's survival plan - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─The obvious solution is to use electro-shock aversion therapy to gradually reprogram yourself to find only cabbages sexy. Then you can keep a huge harem of cabbages instead. Much lower maintenance.
[21:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:only - 06Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Confirmed in Baryons - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:00] <exec> 08└─By convention, the particle physics community doesn't get super excited until they see it at least at the 5-sigma level [scientificamerican.com].
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[22:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good enough - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─for a nice hot shower.
[22:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Good enough - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:25] <exec> 08└─Well, thing is, temperature != heat. It's unknown whether the unspecified whatever at a temperature of 427C, that far down, has enough heat to heat enough water for a shower. Heat and temperature are funny. A bucket of warm water has more heat than a white-hot nail, for example [google.com]. "More a...
[22:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Oh no, they say he's got to go - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─> If it works, maybe the Japanese could do likewise and avoid nuclear and fossil fuel power alike. So when is the next Godzilla movie coming out?
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02In related news ... - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─Hollow Earth Church in crisis after founder incorrectly predicted doomsday when "This hole will make the Earth pop like a balloon". When contacted on his newly-purchased tropical island, the founder declared "turns out I counted wrong, but Soul Salvation Donations were clearly marked as non-refundab...
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Correction from TFS - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─If it works, maybe everyone near a volcano could do likewise and avoid nuclear and fossil fuel power alike.
[22:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amateurs ... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. Using the same phone for a week is a sure way to get caught. Obvious stooge is obvious.
[22:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Burner phones - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:49] <exec> 08└─If you pay in cash and they erase old surveillance footage, then those records don't matter.
[22:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:re Mr. Number - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:53] <exec> 08└─He asked for a whitelist he could administer and you link a blacklist someone else administered. It may work well for you but it's nothing at all like what he's asking for.
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:re Mr. Number - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:56] <exec> 08└─I use Mr. Number. You CAN administer your own listing, i.e., any number not in your contacts or address book is redirected to voicemail or just terminated, your choice, leaving a record or not. You can (or not) mark unwanted numbers a number of ways (spam, debt collectors, etc.) to help the communit...
[22:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:re Mr. Number - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─Not more. Less.
[22:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Burner != anonymous - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:01] <exec> 08└─Don't use a burner phone to call anyone in your real social graph. Use it for something else that you would not use your primary phone for. For example, prank calls asking to page someone of a certain name. Or use it for other porpoises.
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Burner != anonymous - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─You can get pretty close to that with Google Voice [google.com].
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Burner != anonymous - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the offer of potentially useful information. However I tripped over this, from your link: "When people in this group call you" ... select the phones that you want them to ring when they call.
[22:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Burner != anonymous - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:07] <exec> 08└─Two to three more calls and they're starting to build out your unique social network graph.
[22:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02VOIP and free wifi? - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:12] <exec> 08└─do any voip apps not transmit IMEI or handset data, because then you could use them with "free" wifi (cafés, shopping centres?) Maybe even just use voip on a tablet without a sim.
[22:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use a payphone... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:15] <exec> 08└─There's still some in front of every 7/11
[22:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:2) 02Use VOIP - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:17] <exec> 08└─Or, you can get a cell phone or tablet (tablets have larger antenna arrays and so are better able to deal with weak signals), install a voip client, and use a free VOIP service for your calls instead. Assuming you bought an android or ios device, you could then install a VPN client so that the SIP c...
[22:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't worry... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:19] <exec> 08└─.... Trump will soon have all those pesky privacy holes patched for us!
[22:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Tesla Inc, - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:29] <exec> 08└─Because a 10 or 20-year loan isn't a long-term relationship? I want panels for cash (which I may get from a loan of my choosing). I also want a single company to redo my roof AND install panels in one single contract, which is oddly hard to find in sunny CA.
[22:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 2941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:35] <exec> 08└─As i said in my original comment... You can like the products all you want, but the TSLA business model is not something anyone else can replicate or compete with, and it has absolutely no trajectory to making positive cash flow and profit making. Musk is always kicking the can down the road with th...
[22:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:38] <exec> 08└─I really wish people would get off elon's dick for 5 minutes, his businesses are the perfect symbol of crony capitalism.
[22:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:40] <exec> 08└─> impoverishing oil sheiks who want to destroy us They just need enough unrest to keep the barrel price high. Actually destroying us would really hurt both their income and their dollar-based savings...
[22:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''adpervtising cesspool?'' - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:44] <exec> 08└─I count 13 scripts (all blocked here). There are 2 images clearly identified as */promotion/ (also blocked here). Seems pretty normal to me. For use of Accessibility features, I'd give them a C-minus. There are some #FragmentIdentifiers in the page, but that's not especially well done. This is the c...
[22:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Hackintosh Killer - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:56] <exec> 08└─Thinking about this more, the Hackintosh fix would probably be to just inject some FakeARM.kext similar to how they deal with SMC and power management and just force the computer into the x86 mode full-time. But that's speculation until we actually see some of this stuff rolling out.
[22:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Samsung Chromebook 2 - 06Apple Wants to Ship More ARM Chips in Macs - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:08] <exec> 08└─The Samsung Chromebook 2 has an octa-core Exynos with big.LITTLE. Fantastic little machine, and Chrome OS with a Gentoo chroot makes for a nice dev machine. I've since moved on to a Surface Pro 4. The PixelSense display is far better, plus I can run VMs on Hyper-V. I know you old bastards love to ha...
[22:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 2034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:28] <exec> 08└─As someone who mostly only watches over the air on my 42" relatively new Samsung TV, while I like and appreciate the HD local channel broadcasts (yeah, they pop), I'm not really put off by watching shows on MeTV, etc., that are at best only in standard res, NTSC, even if they did come from a crappy...
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Easier if all the pieces are available - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:49] <exec> 08└─Prediction: Over time, technology will make this a more automatic process. At some point, the cost of remastering this old content will become acceptable and it will happen.
[22:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DVD is the better format anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─With Kodi can find and stream a movie in 10 seconds... so even owning the commercial dvd movie or even having it ripped and burned to dvd just don't bother to look for it.
[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live-ish from the Editing Honcho - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:51] <exec> 08└─and they are ALL coming from the same cultural background...you must be willfully ignorant if you believe there is not a trend that should go noticed.
[22:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I understand your objection to my reply, since I totally agree with you that when using a firearm the only proper means to employ it is with lethal intent. I have no reason to believe that the soldier firing his rifle on this assailant did anything else: soldiers are taught to shoot to...
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be terrorized! - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:35] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that the French media are handling things better than the US media does. Do you think the current amount of security is justified or would it be best to increase/decrease it?
[22:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted... - 06GitLab Admin Deletes Database, 6 Hours of Data Lost - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120514/17243918918/how-toy-story-2-almost-got-deleted-except-that-one-person-made-home-backup.shtml [techdirt.com]
[22:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:56] <exec> 08└─> What is the effin problem though? -high real estate costs -poor discoverability -icons over text -low proximality -varying size of elements (depatterning makes it much harder to scan) -customizeable is horrid for users switching between systems --yes neophytes, who don't know they've changed somet...
[22:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Autocad & Tablets - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:57] <exec> 08└─Even though I'm past 100 comments.... The answer is pretty simple. THERE IS NO REASON TO CHANGE THE UI. NONE. EXCEPT TO GENERATE FORCED UPGRADING TO STAY CURRENT. So, if you perceive no fucking difference, then LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE, mmmkay? No love, Me
[22:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I love ribbon - 06LibreOffice 5.3 Ships with Experimental Office-Like Ribbon UI - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:20] <exec> 08└─Aaah! AAAAH NO! My word processor is gone! All I have is a white screen open! Aaaah! I'm going to get fired and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!
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[23:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Feynman - 06Vaccum Birefringence Observed Near Neutron Star - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:25] <exec> 08└─Richard Feynman would be thrilled. Bert
[23:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vaccum? - 06Vaccum Birefringence Observed Near Neutron Star - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:26] <exec> 08└─props for not misspelling birefringence though.
[23:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Dupe? Well, sorta... - 06Vaccum Birefringence Observed Near Neutron Star - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:29] <exec> 08└─We talked about this in: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The linked articles are massively better this time, though. And definitely worth a second look.
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no, they say he's got to go - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, Godzilla vs Balrog, who would win?
[23:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In related news ... - 06Drilling Into Heart of Iceland Volcano Complete - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:43] <exec> 08└─before taking another sip of cocktail off his topless assistant's bellybutton. Does that come with a coaster? Also do you just lift it up and drink out of it? How does that work exactly? Details.... we *NEED* details.
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score:1) 02Re:Amateurs ... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:56] <exec> 08└─Discrete=separate, individual Discreet=on the down low
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Amateurs ... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:57] <exec> 08└─Dang! I normally get that one right.
[23:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:re Mr. Number - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:07] <exec> 08└─Less.
[23:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:re Mr. Number - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not trying to speak for Arik but here's what I would like: 1. I admin a whitelist of my friends. Potentially, anyone I call may be easily added to that list. 2. That's it. No other callers/texters can penetrate my universe. At all.
[23:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Burner != anonymous - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:16] <exec> 08└─It's not a separate phone, but I use a 'perpetual-demo' version of Embware "Blocker" pretty much the way you describe. It's not pretty or trendy-looking, but it's the sort of option-packed program that appeals to people like me who want to be able to customize the hell out of it. In case you want to...
[23:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use a payphone... - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:23] <exec> 08└─Pay phones are OK in a pinch if you need to take a leak. Ones that can make calls are rare these days.
[23:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Funny) 02Unfortunately - 06Are True Burner Phones Now Impossible in the USA? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:27] <exec> 08└─there are way less burners now that they retired the galaxy note 7.
[23:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:impossible - nothing new here move along. - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:44] <exec> 08└─Toyota Motor Manufacturing is one of 13 sister companies of Toyada (a holding company). It is the largest and best known. when you said "Toyota" you are saying "Toyota Motor Manufacturing". The sisters have many sub-relationships, like one is into Foods (like Orange Juice), Recycle Metals, and Diab...
[23:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:impossible - 06Goodbye, "Tesla Motors" - 2790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:48] <exec> 08└─I agree, Musk wouldn't be where he is today without being smart and thinking strategically. The broader aspects of the vision, are something I am hugely in support of... I would buy an EV today if it was viable for my use cases, but right now they're only viable for urban populations who are not hau...
[23:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:DVD quality is good enough anyway - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:31] <exec> 08└─Okay, thanks! When it first came out, i had sooo much hope, 'cause.... Star Trek!!!!!, but then it all went sort of WTF on me, so i stopped watching. Maybe i'll skip to season 3.... hrmmmm....
[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score:1) 02Re:Shame - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─ISTR that the re-mastered version of TOS is wide-screen, though
[23:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we'll likely never see Babylon 5 in HD or 4K Ul - 06Why Deep Space Nine and Voyager Aren't on Blu-Ray - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing about those early shows is once you drop them into HD they really look like people on a set. The sets were just not designed to be shown in HD. The film has the detail but the screens of the time did not show it. The people building the sets knew it and the people filming it kn...
[23:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enrich the bosses - 06Apple Plans $10 Billion Bond Sale to Boost U.S. Cash Pile - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:41] <exec> 08└─The other part is tax avoidance. As debt can be considered against profit and is tax deductible. If there is one thing apple is good at it is tax avoidance.
[23:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is real life - not a computer game - 06Breaking News: Terrorist Attack on Louvre, Paris - Assailant and Soldier Injured - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─> Why don't you wait until the facts are known before you start criticising Lol n00b, that's not how we do it in the Interwebz.
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh that's a good idea - 06Arsonist's Pacemaker Rats Him Out; Police Subpoenaed Logs - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─To rephrase: the best shooters do not get frightened, they do not shoot accidentally. Just because a kill was intentional does not mean it was a bad kill. If a shooter sees a weapon being drawn, they can intentionally, calmly, fire first and keep control of the situation. Ideally, that's how it woul...
[23:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold is your friend - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:39] <exec> 08└─Good point about the stairs, but you could just use the emergency escape slides.
[23:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Out of their minds - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 2317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:52] <exec> 08└─You have it the wrong way round. The breakdown of civilisation doesn't close the 7-11, the closure of the 7-11 is what breaks down civilisation. All you need is a major interruption to the food supply chain, coupled with a major distraction to hamper the government's efforts to provide relief. Say,...
[23:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Foolproof and fun billionaire's survival plan - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:02] <exec> 08└─There's nothing in that plan that actually requires a zombie apocolypse. Why not start now?
[23:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Foolproof and fun billionaire's survival plan - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:04] <exec> 08└─This is the type of intelligent and quality advice I want to get out of a tech site like this. Thank you, I'll start tomorrow.
[23:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score:1) 02Under the dark deep ocean - 06Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:10] <exec> 08└─Lot of money required but that's not the issue for a billionaire, but buy a nuclear submarine. They only need to come up for food. But if you learn some botany you could grow stuff onboard. Live at the bottom of the ocean, no concern for what's going on up on the surface.
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