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[00:07:24] <exec> 08└─Damn that's some bleeding edgy raspy! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[00:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Lazy Professors? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:35] <exec> 08└─Ehm,... you mean lazy fucking bastard students? Styles can be forged and and not always easy to recognize, especially if it is not the author's native language. Only one of the problems is that it is much easier now to make a forgery, to plagiarize or take other shortcuts. A very important factor is...
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[00:07:37] <exec> 08└─I've graded many papers, unless there is some specific writing style that sticks out then you wouldn't likely tell the difference between decent paper A and B. The PhD thesis level? Their thesis is probably one of the only pieces of actual writing the professor has actually read! Anything else was p...
[00:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:42] <exec> 08└─What about the students caught using them? I say if they get caught cheating not only should they fail the class, they should also get all credits wiped from their record and expelled without a refund of their tuition, and if they rode to college with a grant or scholarship they have to pay it back....
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[00:07:53] <exec> 08└─And as always, the FDA is trapped in regulatory capture, paralyzed within the labyrinthine shell of big snail.
[00:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:26] <exec> 08└─This level, or its equivalent, works well and safely every day in aviation, but then you almost always have to demonstrate competence to perform aviation. Not so in operating a terrestrial vehicle.
[00:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Primary Sources - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:32] <exec> 08└─I have no issue with the summary. I just found it really annoying that all 10 links in the article (6 of which are for specific makes rather than actual information) point straight back to MotorTrend, even when they are clearly referencing actions that third parties made. Third parties which clearly...
[00:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:To be fair, though.... - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:35] <exec> 08└─...based on my daily commute into Detroit, Ford engineers don't exercise a lot of "situational awareness" when driving their regular "Level 0" cars.
[00:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 4110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:35] <exec> 08└─A 1D line is plenty explanatory. It's a mix of liberty and rule. Liberty is individual freedom and rule is restraint. Social conservatism is just another part of rule as it demands conformity. To me, I don't see how you can be anti-authoritarian yet promote social conservatism as is the case with li...
[00:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─I prefer my environment to NOT be on fire before I take steps to protect it thankyouverymuch.
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─Isn't it cool to have a soothsayer who's always accurate and true?
[00:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:33] <exec> 08└─Regarding Cornwall and countries in the UK. Consider that what we call "England", "Scotland" and "Wales" were created by the agglomeration of many tens of smaller independent kingdoms over the course of centuries. They are the modern day counties for the most part. Some were annexed later than the o...
[00:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:35] <exec> 08└─what we call "England", "Scotland" and "Wales" were created by the agglomeration of many tens of smaller independent kingdoms over the course of centuries. They are the modern day counties for the most part.
[00:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:30] <exec> 08└─That said, Kim Dotcom is a jerk.
[00:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:06] <exec> 08└─You have my condolences, you poor bastard! But then, just who are you calling a scatterbrained mess?
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[01:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:44] <exec> 08└─Considering how poor internet security is, I'm starting a business blackmailing students who got their diplomas by using those sites. That might be double-blackmail if the sites themselves realize they could easily get extra income. it's not like students will go public and risk their diplomas... An...
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[01:07:45] <exec> 08└─They should also be forced to immediately pay back any loans, scholarships, etc. that were used to help perpetrate their fraud. And they should be banned from using transgender washrooms for five years.
[01:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intriguing - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:00] <exec> 08└─but personally I'd like any alternative to that junk be investigated before I'm in a position to need it.
[01:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:09] <exec> 08└─Some homeopathic remedies actually have trace active ingredients: FDA: Homeopathic teething gels may have killed 10 babies, sickened 400 [arstechnica.com] (Soylent news covered it, but I was not able to find the search bar) The parent may have been a more direct reference to this: Our Story [zicam.c...
[01:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Is there NOTHING the EU won't stick its hands i - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:53] <exec> 08└─Give Chairman Pai a few more weeks
[01:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:56] <exec> 08└─The EU is finished, the ponzi scheme is over, the entire scam will implode within the next year!
[01:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, and Trump will make America great again.
[01:09:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 3778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:41] <exec> 08└─I can somewhat agree with your assertions. Though, it's still based on the black and white left vs right politics which I think is a disservice to academia, its sciences, and the country as a whole. Science itself isn't political. It's just a word for "knowledge of how the physical world works". Sam...
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Non-standard notation is confusing - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─To the extreme left is an individual devoid of rule, an anarchist First, Anarchy is not "without rules"; it's "without RULERS". Anarchy is moving the making of rules as close as possible to those most affected by those rules. Anarchy is NOT synonymous with "chaos"--as so many have been led to believ...
[01:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:44] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, nearly any rally for any moral- or otherwise worthy cause nowadays is implicitly an unti-trump rally. Trump is just evidently wrong on so many issues, he should be right more often just by chance if he picked randomized concatenation of words.
[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─Awwww, I just got a warm fuzzy feeling . . . . oh wait, I think I pissed my pants.
[01:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:32] <exec> 08└─Doesn't sound right. I only got banned from moderating, being flagged as a spammer wouldn't do that while leaving the posting bonus intact, or at we should hope not. I was hoping mentioning it would bring out others to prove that it wasn't an isolated incident that could be put down to "sh*t happens...
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[02:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Lazy Professors? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 2897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:43] <exec> 08└─This isn't just about or at the PhD level, but with that in mind one would think you should be able to pick out a paper written by your own PhD students. You can do it a lot sooner, at least you should be able to do very educated guesses that are better then just pure guesswork. A lot of it might de...
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[02:13:00] <exec> 08└─My spine is awesome. But my patience with assholes flying the false flag of "but free speech" is terribly thin - twitter ain't the government. I can't think of anything more chickenshit than refusing to man up and add something of value - viz, that doesn't merit censorship - to a discussion. Spam sp...
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[03:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:18] <exec> 08└─The Russians could use methods to entomb their mistake that the Japanese, or any Western country for that matter, would probably never resort to. Ask Wikipedia how many people died containing Chernobyl. Don't take my word for it, go read the details of the horrors they exposed thousands to. And it w...
[03:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:19] <exec> 08└─Nah, the new thorium reactors don't produce enough weapons grade uranium, neither do fusion reactors.
[03:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02editorial - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:21] <exec> 08└─Dissident voice. A radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice. OK - it's an editorial. Nothing wrong with that, really, but that's what we're all here for. We like to comment on the news. As a rule, we offer the news here, then commence to commenting on that news. So, going by t...
[03:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Raspi, yes? - 06Add Bluetooth 5, ZigBee 3.0, and OpenThread to Raspberry Pi 3 - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:35] <exec> 08└─This has about as much to do with a Raspi, as - German proverb - a fish with a bicycle. But while we make up fun stuff, we might throw in the ESP8266 which, while being good enough for 99% of "IoT" applications, brutally hammers down everything Qualcomm ever will have to offer in the most important...
[03:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:55] <exec> 08└─Considering how poor internet security is, I'm starting a business blackmailing students who got their diplomas by using those sites.
[03:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:43] <exec> 08└─Autopilot is not level 3.
[03:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02A solution - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:54] <exec> 08└─Discard the idea that cars need to be fast futuristic-looking slick desirable luxurious things; take your design cues from the simplicity, efficiency and utility of bicycles, trains, and the lifestyles of the Amish culture. i.e. design cars with utility and efficiency as the only priority; super-low...
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[03:11:35] <exec> 08└─In order to get into orbit, you don't need to get a set distance from the Earth's center. You need to simply clear the atmosphere (which is approximately equally thick everywhere) and most importantly, you need a heck of a lot of lateral speed - that's the real cost driver. You need to achieve about...
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[04:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─They will actually finish constructing the new tomb for Chernobyl this year. There was a very interesting documentary about it on the BBC late last year, or was it early this year. Anyhow the old tomb was crumbling so a new one was needed. https://en.wikipedia.org
[04:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02The Japanese/Western method is mafia and greed - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:27] <exec> 08└─Mafia & greed, plenty of cover up: http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk] https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.fukush...
[04:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:29] <exec> 08└─If we are going to use nuke plants, and if you don't like burning dinosaurs there aren't too many options for base load, we really should...
[04:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:31] <exec> 08└─Well isn't it nice that in these final days of r selection you have so many free resources you can piss away so much to virtue signal your moral superiority. Now here in the real world it is a certainty that your installation will never make economic sense. It won't even be net positive if you ignor...
[04:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:editorial - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:34] <exec> 08└─I had grave reservations about that source article, but some of the links within it are to reputable and unslanted sources. Just hold your nose and click on http://akiomatsumura.com [akiomatsumura.com] and https://www.theguardi...
[04:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:editorial - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:37] <exec> 08└─Thank you Charon - I did click through, and found authoritative news sources. It's all good, and I really can't find fault with the editorial. I clicked around the DissidentVoice, found some stuff I liked, found other stuff I thought was silly, found more stuff I didn't like. I only felt it necessar...
[04:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score:3, Interesting) 02The first thing we need is ... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:39] <exec> 08└─There are enough small scraps of useful information in this article to suggest there might be a problem at Fukushima. If so, the first thing We the People need is a much better source of information. Few things diminish credibility more than using frantic wording -- unimaginable, horrifying -- in a...
[04:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Scott Pruit statement on Fukushima - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:43] <exec> 08└─"That's fake radiation. What nuclear needs is less regulation."
[04:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Raspi, yes? - 06Add Bluetooth 5, ZigBee 3.0, and OpenThread to Raspberry Pi 3 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:58] <exec> 08└─Or the new legislation that will prohibit using such ESP8266 module... [etc]
[04:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02So where's the PiHat? - 06Add Bluetooth 5, ZigBee 3.0, and OpenThread to Raspberry Pi 3 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:59] <exec> 08└─I'm looking for a retail PiHat with this module on it, including functional example code, for less than $50... any vendors yet?
[04:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Devil's advocate - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:22] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of colleges and universities. So many students writing essays. The average student has less and less chance of actually writing anything original. (Top students have a better chance, of course, I'm talking about average students here.) At best, the average student is just going to re...
[04:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:US medical system... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:32] <exec> 08└─Some people expect that opioid or alcohol use could potentially affect quality of code and thus refrain.
[04:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:06] <exec> 08└─The famous trolley problem. I recommend multi-track drifting.
[04:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A solution - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 2580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:22] <exec> 08└─build road systems by hydraulic-tamping the dirt and consolidate its surface with some environmentally friendly polymers Someone likes mud and ruts. That 'polymer' will do nothing. Lets be nice and say a car weighs 1 ton (older models can be as high as 4). That means each wheel has 250 pounds in a 1...
[04:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:26] <exec> 08└─Another way to see the same basic idea you are using is anonymousconservative's r/K selection applied to human society theory. It also pops up in "the fourth turning" and several other places. The idea seems popular but only the r/K theory puts real evolutionary biology, i.e. Science, behind it. The...
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[04:10:51] <exec> 08└─This will probably be lost in the noise since I'm late to this thread, but here goes: > As far as Trump I'd just chill. The thing about that old orange dude is he has spent decades acquiring property, figuring out whats wrong with it, and fixing it. I mean sure old people go nuts sometimes or they s...
[04:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:52] <exec> 08└─Hmm, just a guess here but would your unnamed blogger be the one Moldbug^WBoldmug decloaked in the comments section of to administer a spanking to a few weeks (post is unclear as to exact date of first post but probably Jan 25) ago?
[04:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:01] <exec> 08└─THANK YOU. Now I finally understand what VLM was talking about all this time. I've actually visited Aaronson's blog before, but it's been a couple years... and I'd forgotten about it. (It's not my main field.) Anyhow, I really don't know what was so hard about identifying this. It's actually more ca...
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[05:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Projection is not just a river in Egypt - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:21] <exec> 08└─> it's not just another damn journalist putting their damn byline, advertising themselves and their position on another damn story. Being cooped up all that time in the embassy seems to have warped his self-image. Seems like every release from wikileaks in recent memory has been carefully hyped to a...
[05:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:35] <exec> 08└─Base load? A great justification for big, possibly unnecessary power stations. Even nuclear may be unnecessary (although, as people have mentioned, if you have to, thorium is safer, without the "bonus" for nuclear weapons use) http://reneweconomy.com.au
[05:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:editorial - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:39] <exec> 08└─Just another daily example of "no enemies to the left". Anyone more than a smidge to someone's right is beyond the pale and probably Hitler but for most people there is no such thing as too far left. Openly Socialist? We just saw Bernie Sanders run up an impressive delegate count and only a few "nut...
[05:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The first thing we need is ... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:42] <exec> 08└─Agreed! The media try and do too much "thinking" for us instead of focusing on the facts. However, I'm pretty sure that's not by accident. If facts were at the forefront of daily public conversations, you'd see more thoughtful leaders being elected, better journalism, and a smarter population. Someb...
[05:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Dangerous? - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:46] <exec> 08└─Of course the center of the plant is going to be hot after a core melt down, and it will stay hot there for hundreds of years. But it's a very small area. Keeping that off limits for that long shouldn't be a problem. The contact with the core with ground water is more of a problem, but this is right...
[05:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:plagiarism, or ghostwriting? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:19] <exec> 08└─An essential component of plagiarism is that the perpetrator had no permission from the real authors to represent their work as his or her own, and in this case, the perp paid for permission.
[05:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:53] <exec> 08└─We agree that elevating Science to a perverted Priesthood is bad. The only difference is you refuse to see that is our current reality. You just described Moldbug's Cathedral far too accurately to have never thought about it, even if you have never encountered a word of his writing. Look again and s...
[05:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bwahahaha - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:35] <exec> 08└─Well, you're a bit misguided. That's Vancouver, Canada, not Vancouver, USA, in the article.
[05:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject or object, could that be the question? - 06NASA Exoplanets Press Conference at 1 PM EST on Wednesday - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:46] <exec> 08└─On would think they wouldn't need a press conference for those types of "news"... we get enough of those through the regular channels without an ahead of time conference announcement and embargo... Here's to hoping they found Jebus's shag pad!
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[06:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is an ad - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:19] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, this is just a press release from the company in question quoted without edit. Its an ad. If you want to know how carbon fiber is made, check out wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02timing of its leaks - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:27] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to put this in the 'self-defence' category... maybe it's not necessary moral, but I sorta understand it. I mean... look... anyone remembers who was in charge with the US external affairs [wikipedia.org] in Nov 2010, the time of the Cablegate? If my memory still serves me, it wasn't a per...
[06:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:39] <exec> 08└─I bought this book many years ago.... The Truth about Chernobyl" [amazon.com] written by one of its engineers..Grigori Medvedev. It was during a time when I, myself, was under pressure to "cut corners", and I was desperately searching for things to back me up concerning the risks of not paying suff...
[06:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:41] <exec> 08└─...Seemed to me that people with a business education did not have the same concerns as one with an engineering education...
[06:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:43] <exec> 08└─No... they laid me off.
[06:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:49] <exec> 08└─Translation: You redefine ignorance to be a virtue. You have no concept of how a power grid operates. Base load is a fundamental concept. Might as well, in a place like this, say compilers are obsolete or something and get butthurt when everyone points and laughs.
[06:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:51] <exec> 08└─Can we all mod jmorris down now? Can we, please? He will probably think it is a vast left-wing conspiracy, and that alone makes it worthwhile!!
[06:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:53] <exec> 08└─It won't even be net positive if you ignore the time value of the money you invested in it.
[06:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:56] <exec> 08└─Even if (and it's a big if) your contention is correct that people with personal solar systems have paid more for them than they will ever receive in lowered cost. Even if (and it's a big if) they are "virtue signaling," as you like to call it. And even if (and it's a big if) they are wasting their...
[06:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:58] <exec> 08└─Even a stereotypical evil, dog-eat-dog, hyper-capitalist would twirl his moustache and say, "Good! Those weaklings are making it easier for me to fleece profits from them."
[06:08:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02The first thing we need is ... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:04] <exec> 08└─There are enough small scraps of useful information in this article to suggest there might be a problem at Fukushima. If so, the first thing We the People need is a much better source of information. Few things diminish credibility more than using frantic wording -- unimaginable, horrifying -- in a...
[06:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score:1) 02Re:The first thing we need is ... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:07] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Somebody must think that 1) hiring people with advanced degrees is more expensive and 2) they can make more money by hiring idiots for less money. You assume there is some kind of evil conspiracy. That's not the case, it's just that there is no motivation for advanced journalism. Especially g...
[06:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02old news - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:11] <exec> 08└─Or better, old news under development. Book of Revelation chapter 8: The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star [which by def is a nuclear reactor], blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water [the pacific ocean is a third of the waters] th...
[06:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Try it from low earth orbit! - 06NASA Extends Trial of Steerable Parachute for Scientific Payloads - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:19] <exec> 08└─How about a parachute from LEO? e.g. throw a small transmitter attached to an inflateable-edge parachute out of the back of the ISS and see what happens. Should be enough stray gas molecules to begin to slow it and eventually it's gotta fall. How long it takes and whether it burns up or not is the q...
[06:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try it from low earth orbit! - 06NASA Extends Trial of Steerable Parachute for Scientific Payloads - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:21] <exec> 08└─and what's the worst that could happen?
[06:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:plagiarism, or ghostwriting? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:50] <exec> 08└─One of my college professors used to jokingly remark: Stealing from ONE source is called "plagiarism". Don't do it. Stealing from MANY sources is called "research". That's what we are looking for!
[06:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 3320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:06] <exec> 08└─Science is a huge, huge magnet and bane for propagandists. Science scored so big in the 20th century that nothing else compares. Religion is a distant second on authoritativeness. The nuclear bomb is in a league of its own in sheer power and destructiveness, and yet it was mere icing on the cake for...
[06:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From GP: ''marxist theory in the 30s'' - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:38] <exec> 08└─At Mondragon, the Worker-Owners hire (and fire) the managers--not the other way around.
[06:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02DMCA on transport? - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:58] <exec> 08└─Aren't ISPs suppose to be neutral content carriers? How the hell does the DMCA apply to them? Should ISPs also be responsible for not terminating repeat terrorism offenders? Any civil dispute (and IP infringement should be considered a civil dispute) should involve only the end parties, this is akin...
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[07:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is an ad - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:29] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, this is just a press release from the company....
[07:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:57] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, it is a bit like arguing with a grandparent who grew up speaking a different language: every conversation has less and less communication, and more and more nodding, smiling, and working out how you can get away...
[07:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 3435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:00] <exec> 08└─Where the heck are you? Google sez electricity in general is about 2 1/2 times more down under vs the U.S. but if you are out on the edge of the grid, OK, maybe you are getting shafted hard enough to justify trying something. Just how much are you paying? But again, that ain't typical for any signif...
[07:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:04] <exec> 08└─That was supposed to be an absurd sterotype. Most hyper-capitalists don't have moustaches they can twirl.
[07:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:06] <exec> 08└─Oh I'd have zero problem with people doing whatever they want with their own money. I'm on record here multiple times saying my Rule 0 is the Right to be Wrong since without it somebody has to wield the power of declaring who is Wrong. But it is an illusion in this case since taxpayers are typically...
[07:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:08] <exec> 08└─but it was the only way to fund a space program.
[07:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:10] <exec> 08└─...use a combination of photopanels and energy storage... Riiiight. You don't understand how much energy we use. There was an article a while back that ran some numbers. One example I remember: Suppose just the USA wanted to run purely off of solar, which means storing enough energy to provide elect...
[07:08:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02Scott Pruit statement on Fukushima - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:19] <exec> 08└─"That's fake radiation. What nuclear needs is less regulation."
[07:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:old news - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:23] <exec> 08└─The Bible is full of stuff which invariably comes to pass. What concerns me a lot is "The Mark of the Beast". This seems inevitable to come to pass given our present technology of keeping dossiers on every living creature on the planet. Especially, given our present economic trends where fewer and...
[07:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02significantly higher than "unimaginable' - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:26] <exec> 08└─Can we get an adult to write articles? Whatever rag this same from fails. Maybe there is a problem here, but I can't get past the hyperbole.
[07:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:08] <exec> 08└─I have had as much as leadership types tell me the difference between working-class people and the people who manage them is the management types do not "do" stuff, rather they "get things done" through other people. "Cheating" was not looked on the same way, as doing this was just another tool tha...
[07:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Time to hit something.... - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:08] <exec> 08└─BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi will introduce semi-autonomous Level 3 vehicles next year that require human intervention within 10 seconds
[07:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:13] <exec> 08└─Go back and keep hitting refresh until the fukushima article shows up for you...
[07:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:54] <exec> 08└─They know exactly what they are fighting against and have already built in anti-SJW entryism as an explicit goal for management.
[07:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:1) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:10] <exec> 08└─Seems Americans forget their history or, more likely, have so much propaganda shoved down their throats from birth that even a decent person such as Louis Brandeis makes fundamental mistakes. The American Revolution depended heavily on silencing opposition. Popular means of silencing included tar an...
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[08:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MISLEADING HEADLINE - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:32] <exec> 08└─Don't sensationalize, it's a lie. In this case he was not interviewed in Sydney. He was interviewed from Sydney. This shit's easy come on.
[08:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''our Government [...] being an enabler'' - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:59] <exec> 08└─I wish our Government would recognize this and quit being an enabler for this kind of destructive horse crap So, this time around, did you vote for the Red Brand of enabling or the Blue brand? Keeping up with what your Congresscritters are doing? Sending letters/calling? Going to participate in the...
[08:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:03] <exec> 08└─Riiiight. You don't understand how much energy we use. There was an article a while back that ran some numbers. One example I remember: Suppose just the USA wanted to run purely off of solar, which means storing enough energy to provide electricity overnight:
[08:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02Re:old news - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:15] <exec> 08└─A random fulfilling is possible, I guess other related fulfilling would defeat statistics. The mark of the beast: And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead Note the specific position, a mere imp...
[08:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:significantly higher than "unimaginable' - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:18] <exec> 08└─Whatever rag this same from fails.
[08:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The 2020 Tokyo Olympics - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:20] <exec> 08└─The 2020 Olympics will be in Tokyo and vicinity. Tokyo is just 100 miles from Fukushima. Japanese Prime Minister Ah-bay, while campaigning to get the 2020 Olympics, said that Fukushima is "under control". That was a lie. They don't even know exactly *how* bad things are. What they do know is that th...
[08:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:plagiarism, or ghostwriting? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 1660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:57] <exec> 08└─AthanasiusKircher That's an excellent comment. Some high-level European politicians have been embarrassed by retroactive checking of their dissertations - sometimes 30 years in the past. The cases I'm familiar with weren't ghost-writing, but rather extensive, unattributed copying. When your disserta...
[08:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A solution - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:02] <exec> 08└─there are vehicles that need to move as fast as possible: ambulances, fire trucks. and police cars, although some may argue against that. society will not allow you to slow down these vehicles. strong roads are also strategically relevant. if you need to move many soldiers very fast, you need good r...
[08:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Automation - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:05] <exec> 08└─Prima facie evidence that humans shouldn't be trusted, shouldn't be responsible, thus shouldn't be *able* to take control of these vehicles except on an emergency override basis. And if we're heading that route, you have a much tougher sell ahead of you, car manufacturers, because it's no longer "ou...
[08:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:59] <exec> 08└─Seems Americans forget their history or, more likely, have so much propaganda shoved down their throats from birth that even a decent person such as Louis Brandeis makes fundamental mistakes. The American Revolution depended heavily on silencing opposition. Popular means of silencing included tar an...
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[10:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:20] <exec> 08└─I am currently on latest ubuntu (zesty, one that will be released come 17.04). The version of KDE it ships with, is amazing! Finally, after so many years, I feel like it has caught up in usability to KDE3. I actually prefer the latest KDE over anything else. My number one problem is the bad integrat...
[10:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't work there. - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:27] <exec> 08└─Don't use their service.
[10:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And Tell Everyone - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:29] <exec> 08└─A personal boycott won't make any difference - your vote literally won't count. So if you think boycotting them is the solution, then you must also agree that publicizing the reasons for your boycott is also necessary.
[10:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The point isn't to boycott - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:31] <exec> 08└─Rather, the point is to build a life for yourself that is worthwhile. Frankly, I don't care that this particular person surrounded herself with nasties—that was her choice; personally, I'll still use Uber, because they are useful to me.
[10:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't work there. - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:33] <exec> 08└─Many companies go through this. They let things 'just go' then it ends up on the other end so crazy they will overcompensate. Witch hunts will happen. Then it will calm down and people will walk on egg shells and fear seeing HR.
[10:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:35] <exec> 08└─This annoys me to no end. I think there's an obvious reason for this. There is real sexual harassment but there are also people who are looking to make a buck or damage companies that they feel have wronged them though not necessarily for the reasons stated. And there is also the fragility issue. In...
[10:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:3, Informative) 02So do the Finns - 06Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:43] <exec> 08└─chainsaw! http://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[10:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh the humanity! - 06Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:45] <exec> 08└─I can easily imagine hackers diverting these things toward oil refineries, fertilizer nitration plants, and lots of other big fun places that go whoosh or bang when ignited.
[10:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:55] <exec> 08└─We are as metric as you, with your 240 mL "metric" cup. For example, the inch is defined in terms of the meter. It's exactly 0.0254 meters, just as a centimeter is exactly 0.01 meters. The significant figures are infinite. We have MediCare. We also have Medicaid and the VA. Unsurprisingly, most of u...
[10:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:57] <exec> 08└─We are as metric as you, with your 240 mL "metric" cup.
[10:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Okay, so yours suck. - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:59] <exec> 08└─doesn't mean all public-funded organisations in all countries do, nor does it mean private is better, it just means , in some cases, yours suck. Unfortunately, many take this to mean ALL government funding is bad. Finland, Sweden, etc etc have excellent government funded education and health systems...
[10:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay, so yours suck. - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:02] <exec> 08└─but they aren't at American levels.
[10:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:04] <exec> 08└─Voice of America. Just the same as yours, they are all liberal propaganda nonsense
[10:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:06] <exec> 08└─In any case, the USian "liberal" views would be seen on the right of the political spectrum in Australia.
[10:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Projection is not just a river in Egypt - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:15] <exec> 08└─oh look, the obligatory "assange is just an attention whore" post. if you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.
[10:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:32] <exec> 08└─...Seemed to me that people with a business education did not have the same concerns as one with an engineering education...
[10:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:34] <exec> 08└─Obviously not. Op cit
[10:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:44] <exec> 08└─Where the heck are you?
[10:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:52] <exec> 08└─Community sounds too similar to communism so it is scary.
[10:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:56] <exec> 08└─Sure, fine, let's take just one of your examples where you have some specific numbers: "A 100-megawatt turbine would need a tank of about 9.1 metres (30 ft) tall and 24 metres (79 ft) in diameter to drive it for four hours by this design." Then think terawatt scale, because the world runs on terawat...
[10:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:58] <exec> 08└─This is the strongest evidence that jmo is a Russian astroturfer trying to mess up US politics! I'm only 1/3 kidding. Maybe 1/2, is have to read all his posts to be more accurate.
[10:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:old news - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:11] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I read this as an advance notice that "the Mark of the Beast" is going to be imposed on us by the powers-that-be in "the final days". Exactly what that mark is, I do not know. However I do know that already, nearly every individual on this planet has a number, and is accounted for from conc...
[10:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The 2020 Tokyo Olympics - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:15] <exec> 08└─What they do know is that the radiation is so intense that the robots that they send in keep getting fried before those get very deep into the structure. ONE robot has lasted long enough to get ONE reading on ONE reactor and that said that it was 132x a lethal dose for a human.
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Proofreading time! - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 2671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:17] <exec> 08└─Let's start with those quotes: > All four buildings were structurally damaged by the original earthquake No > and by the subsequent hydrogen explosions Yes, for those which did have explosions, which is not all four. > so should there be an earthquake greater than seven on the Richter scale, it is v...
[10:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score:1) 02How dare you! - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:19] <exec> 08└─All their carefully cut and pasted 'hot items!' from their All Radiation is Bad Mkay! forum have been ruined! That is just inconsiderate, dont you know you are supposed to huddle in the corner watching 60s nuclear attack! videos and avoiding all rice because it may have been grown inside the contain...
[10:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:54] <exec> 08└─And it exactly parallels TFS's "if the driver's workload is reduced to near zero they are in no position to intervene should the autonomous system get in trouble." Somehow pilots in the same circumstances are usually able to keep paying attention, maintain situational awareness, and take over if nec...
[10:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A solution - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:07] <exec> 08└─" thin large diameter spoked exterior wheels " That's what Americans are putting under their cars already in every car building tv show and IRL. Those chromed, low profile, spoked wheels, that look just like the cart wheels, except a little wider. Holy shit they are ugly.
[10:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:11] <exec> 08└─Go back and keep hitting refresh until the fukushima article shows up for you...
[10:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that's awesome. That chart is hilarious... Simple, eh?
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[11:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:26] <exec> 08└─Definitely with you on KDE. I switched to it after I found Gnome Shell a bit too unstable, and while it had its own stability issues during the release of KDE 5, it's been worth the wait. I think my only complaints at this point are in KMail, where there are a couple of minor bugs that I'd like to s...
[11:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Predictability - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:27] <exec> 08└─I'm a pretty dedicated Linux user - except for gaming, it's my OS 99% of the time. However, I'm not a Linux configuration expert - I just use it to get work done. It's hard to describe, but the thing that bugs me most about Linux are the expected things that happen. Let's call it a problem with "pre...
[11:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Um...UNexpected - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:29] <exec> 08└─I meant: the un expected things that happen...
[11:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Hardware compatibility - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:32] <exec> 08└─I've been dabbling with linux for a little under 20 years now, pretty much exclusively linux for 9 years now. I have use red hat back around RH 5/6 before Advanced Server and fedora. I used Mandrake (during the change to Mandriva) for a while, a little SUSE too, followed by Ubuntu, and now Mint. I t...
[11:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:43] <exec> 08└─That's a good question. She claims to have captured the actual texts sent. She really should have included the screen captures in her article. That said, her allegations are so extremely specific that they pretty much must be true. She has stated specific facts. If those facts were untrue, the compa...
[11:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:44] <exec> 08└─Her experience sounds horrible, and the company's working environment sounds even worse. Shit happens, and by making it public, she will warn everyone else to avoid working there. That's good. What's not so good are the strident feminists using this to say: "Look, we always told you that STEM is hos...
[11:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:35] <exec> 08└─Guess I don't. Seems just about the time I feel like I have a good handle on things, how they work, how to design stuff - I end up being put to pasture. Oh, well, maybe when I get my Arduino-based E4OD transmission controller designed, I'll open-source it onto the truck forums... That transmission c...
[11:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02Gerard K O'Neill's answer - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:58] <exec> 08└─O'Neill had an interesting answer for that particular issue (among others) back in 1976 - check out https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]. He proposed solar sats, always in sunlight, beaming down their energy to earth. Interestingly, the idea was no...
[11:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:00] <exec> 08└─Neither the Russians nor the West told people to stay home because something made the geiger counters peak. (Alternative explanation, geopolitics are a fraud because in the middle of the cold war nobody had geiger counters in operation)
[11:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:Try it from low earth orbit! - 06NASA Extends Trial of Steerable Parachute for Scientific Payloads - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:29] <exec> 08└─That would be terrible. I wouldn't find out whether it burns up on re-entry :(
[11:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Raspi, yes? - 06Add Bluetooth 5, ZigBee 3.0, and OpenThread to Raspberry Pi 3 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─usian regulation
[11:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Venom?! What could possibly go... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:21] <exec> 08└─See also: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk]
[11:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:51] <exec> 08└─I vote for requiring the engineer to hold a "steering wheel" (that doesn't actually control the vehicle) for it to move, along with a gaze-tracking camera, and if it determines you have nodded off, you get an electric shock. And removing your hands from the wheel results in a panic stop along with a...
[11:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''a more general term for this''? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:01] <exec> 08└─Worker-Owned Cooperative [google.com] Democracy in the Workplace [google.com] Democracy at Work [google.com] Worker Self-Directed Enterprise [google.com] I'm pretty sure Prof. Wolff originated that last term. I have to go down to item #6 to see his hit, however. He has a weekly hour-long broadcast o...
[11:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sweden, they don't do self defense of their borders, just launch over them anyway
[11:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Space planes & Vomit Comets - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:10] <exec> 08└─Cant launch north because that makes Russia crazy (ICBMs would take that path)
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[12:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Carried out only routine functions, 'ey? - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:28] <exec> 08└─If it carries out only routine function, it won't be that much of a loss for Apple, in case the European court decide they are operating outside the European law and closes Apple Ireland [fortune.com] before 2020 [wikipedia.org], righto? If I remember well, the Netherlands is European as well, so lo...
[12:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm pretty happy.
[12:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Predictability - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:42] <exec> 08└─I agree, my main issue is it trying to do too much behind the scenes without clear and verbosive output. There is a reason why none of my desktop machines (excepting the RPi with kodi) boots into a gui, and why my normal desktop is free of icons - it is normally more timeeffecient to just read the c...
[12:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardware compatibility - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:45] <exec> 08└─Have you tried System76 laptops? Maybe check their forums and see if there's any issues with your preferred distribution. Another option is MacBooks (Air, Pro, Whatever). There's enough hands pounding away at them that if there's a problem, there's likely to be a quick fix. Again, check the forums b...
[12:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardware compatibility - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:47] <exec> 08└─I have considered a System 76 laptop... But they are a little out of my budget. I do get a machine with decent specs, and I am willing to pay more than just bargain basement prices, but System 76 is a bit expensive in comparison. For example, I have been looking at prices lately... A 15.6" laptop wi...
[12:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Whinge - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:49] <exec> 08└─I have been using Mint for about 5 years now. I was really happy with it, but... 1. In the last three hardware installations in a row, I never managed to get graphics card drivers to work. One is a Dell laptop, one is a home build with some AMD card, one is an Intel NUC. That's okay, but I didn't fi...
[12:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 3879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:51] <exec> 08└─Now, before you go and bash me about distros being mostly non-commercial and can't spare cash for that, or also that marketing has no effect on usability, hear me out first. My main gripe with Linux in general is the (repetition necessary) generalized bad support. Bad support from developers (both t...
[12:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:53] <exec> 08└─What are your problems with Linux and how can we fix them?
[12:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 3504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:56] <exec> 08└─I've been a long time Linux (RHL 4.5) user, and before that FreeBSD (2.2 I think). Honestly, and it pains me to say this, I find usability on the whole to be backsliding rather than going forward to the point that my new laptop has been running Windows for the time being. I'd also like to think of m...
[12:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:58] <exec> 08└─I gave Linux over 20 years to get its desktop act together. If it hasn't by now, it never will. Linux has found its niche: as the no-GUI server OS. Nothing will ever change that.
[12:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Three things - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:00] <exec> 08└─1) The desktop environments keep getting "overhauled" and "improved" every few years, to the point where I've given up on KDE/Gnome/Unity/etc and gone back to WindowMaker. New and shinier != better. Needless to say, Linux isn't the only platform suffering this particular disease. As for WindowMaker,...
[12:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meh in the scheme of things - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:14] <exec> 08└─Regardless of if this is true or not--and if true, it sounds mostly like a "meh" issue on the grand scale, I mean you didn't get promoted, so that means it was harrassment? I didn't get promoted this year either--it's obvious this woman is an attention seeker.
[12:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:11] <exec> 08└─You redefine ignorance to be a virtue.
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:editorial - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─Your two links may be reputable and unslanted, but they are equally poor. The first seems to confuse pressure vessel and containment vessel (despite having them correct in a diagram at the top), scaremongering about the weakened pressure vessel failing in a new quake (um, it already has) and scatter...
[12:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Raspi, yes? - 06Add Bluetooth 5, ZigBee 3.0, and OpenThread to Raspberry Pi 3 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:11] <exec> 08└─Though luck, my sincere commiserations.
[12:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:US medical system... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:51] <exec> 08└─allow allow
[12:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:33] <exec> 08└─I agree that level 3 is much the same as aviation autopilots, the auto industry is now going where aviation went 40 or so years ago. Somehow pilots in the same circumstances are usually able to keep paying attention, maintain situational awareness, and take over if necessary. The aviation standards...
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[13:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Riiiiiiiight - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:20] <exec> 08└─EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland
[13:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02easy one if they would have the balls - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:22] <exec> 08└─assert that the EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates
[13:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:42] <exec> 08└─I think choice is a weakness if and only if there's no better choice directly due to the fact there's too much choice. Take that aside and I think choice is the best thing in the world (literally THE best thing, as in free will), but my personal feelings towards "choice" don't really make it perfect...
[13:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:43] <exec> 08└─open source apps made with purpose and not form in mind
[13:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, part of what made Windows successful, back before Microsoft got incompetent, was their effort to keep old stuff working, up to emulating bugs of earlier versions just for the few old applications that rely on the wrong behaviour. Basically, you could be almost certain that if your software eve...
[13:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02games - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:52] <exec> 08└─My main issue, and the only one I still run a windows OS at home is games. Everything else Linux is good enough or better + it doesn't want to spy on me. If the games I like would work on linux I wouldn't even think about getting Windows. (And I mean native, I don't want to fiddle around with wine a...
[13:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Damn - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:55] <exec> 08└─I've used Linux since 2000ish: I'm on Arch now with xfce and i3wm, and am happy. Is Linux perfect? No. Do I find it better than windows? Hell yes. Windows just feels clunky to me. The work windows is locked down to unusability, the software (Office mostly) can fuck up files between releases because...
[13:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rufty [381] (Score:2) 02Networking - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:57] <exec> 08└─What's screwed up networking this time? Network manager? connman? openresolv/resolvconf? dhcpcd5? rfkill? udev?
[13:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Bugs. And drivers. And bugs in drivers. - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:59] <exec> 08└─I run Mint/Mate as "standard" distro on my (non-Mac) boxes and laptops, and Elementary on an experimental one, to test the waters. Generally, all that stuff is way good enough for everyday use (though Elementary regularly gets me with its single-click file manager logic...). Nothing much to improve...
[13:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nothing beyond - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:01] <exec> 08└─linux is damn f#cking awesome. until it is not. but that's still better then winblows : ) example: sometimes you have to configure some network device that came straight from the box. it has a default IP you connect to via (mostly) IExplorer.exe (bleh) and you cahnge the ip address of the winblows b...
[13:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02Re:The point isn't to boycott - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:13] <exec> 08└─She should have bailed when she saw HR was not going to do their job, but she was not at fault.
[13:08:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:17] <exec> 08└─That's a good question. She claims to have captured the actual texts sent. She really should have included the screen captures in her article. That said, her allegations are so extremely specific that they pretty much must be true. She has stated specific facts. If those facts were untrue, the compa...
[13:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:06] <exec> 08└─we still need to do long-term studies on the stuff...
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[14:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Gas dwarves? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:30] <exec> 08└─Presumably this would mean "gas dwarf" planets could exist. Is there a size minimum for a gaseous planet based on the amount of nearby debris (which I guess pulls the planet to pieces)?
[14:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Gas dwarves? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:31] <exec> 08└─Is there a size minimum for a gaseous planet based on the amount of nearby debris (which I guess pulls the planet to pieces)?
[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Gas dwarves? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, there you have it [stackexchange.com] According to the article "Minimum planetary size for forming outer Jovian-type planets - Stability of an isothermal atmosphere surrounding a protoplanet" (Sasaki, 1989) [harvard.edu], not only is this possible, but is suggested to have been an evolutionary...
[14:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Insightful) 02should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:36] <exec> 08└─The IAU could have and should have waited until this year to redefine planet. I have no problem with Pluto being redefined as a dwarf planet. What I found objectionable was the timing. They knew the first probe to visit Pluto was on the way. They could have waited for the probe to arrive and send ba...
[14:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:38] <exec> 08└─Historically, the planets were those that were visible to the naked eye. The moon was in a category of its own. These are large bodies that orbited the sun. We found other bodies later orbiting the sun and added them. Problem is we found SO MANY bodies orbiting the sun... you have to limit them or i...
[14:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with counting Pluto is that there are a bunch of other objects that have to be classified as planets if Pluto is (unless, as another poster suggested, you grandfather Pluto in as an exemption, but that's not a great way of defining a taxonomy) and some, like Eris, are a lot bigger than P...
[14:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, historically the moon and sun were often considered planets as well, and were believed to orbit the earth. Depending on how far back you go historically, and whose definitions you are using.
[14:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comprimise - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:44] <exec> 08└─They should just keep the current definition and grandfather Pluto in.
[14:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:05] <exec> 08└─Does it finally get the buttons in dialog boxes the correct way around, or does it still copy Windows? HCI documentation used to recommend that for left-to-right reading order locales you put the forward option on the right and the backwards option on the left, but the converse in right-to-left read...
[14:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:17] <exec> 08└─As a warning, macs no longer play very nicely with Linux. You're probably better running a hackintosh to do what you plan, plus you can save some money.
[14:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:23] <exec> 08└─Last I check, you can still install Debian 3.0, stable kernel 2.6 ABI :)
[14:08:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 2370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:26] <exec> 08└─I like my Linux laptop and the servers I maintain, I hardly use anything else. But most distributions I see on other laptops are terrible, by implementing the same shit I abandoned Windows for ~15 years ago. (Well, I say abandoned. I do have a Windows-VM on my work-laptop for some office-stuff, whic...
[14:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:games - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:29] <exec> 08└─Lately, the NES homebrew scene of all things has been coming up with enough games that one can just sudo apt install fceux and then just visit NESdev and PDRoms.
[14:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:32] <exec> 08└─You can use LibreOffice with Microsoft Windows. I do, and have for years. As for printing, I haven't had to had to reboot after adding a printer since Windows XP. There are certainly many valid criticisms of both Microsoft and Windows, but those two aren't it.
[14:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Angle at eyes for screen and print - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, that, and please put in working HiDPI support. As in 12pt Text at 100% is precisely as big as it's printed.
[14:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score:2) 02Libre Calc having VBA support - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:40] <exec> 08└─I just transitioned from Windows to Linux and most everything went smoothly with the exception of OverGrive eating my Google Drive files until I found rclone. One thing that is missing is VBA macro support in Libre Calc. I used to have my gradebook in Excel and upon exiting it would automatically up...
[14:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Good and bad - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:42] <exec> 08└─Way back I started with a Commodore PET 2001, later went to Amiga and Atari (for fun), then MSDOS and Windows (for business). I became a Windows refugee only about a year ago when I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition, on a new disk. I kept my Windows 7 disk intact, but haven't booted it since last...
[14:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2) 02Re:To be fair, though.... - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:29] <exec> 08└─Well, there are a lot of engineers on the roads during my commute... GM, Chrysler, vendors.... not many people are situationally aware, no matter what their employer or job. My main point was that it isn't a circumstance of the automated driving, but rather just a reality of a disengaged participant...
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:40] <exec> 08└─The political scale is relative so, in the public's mind, the Democrats are "left" and the Republicans are "right". Simplifying things in this way enables both parties to become more authoritarian without the public really noticing as there is still their team "left" or "right" to vote for. Saying t...
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''if Scotland decides to leave UK'' - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:13] <exec> 08└─...and, as AC #469639 has noted, when you include Scotland, you're now talking about Great Britain, not UK.
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[15:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 2040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:31] <exec> 08└─This article seems incredibly silly. One doesn't need to invoke Wittgenstein's "language games" or Quine's "web of belief" or whatever to understand the very simple idea that words aren't always precise enough to handle all cases. This is a very simple case of a trying to apply a precise legal defin...
[15:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:32] <exec> 08└─Jaffa, kree!
[15:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:35] <exec> 08└─Well said.
[15:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If it's round, it's a π - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:37] <exec> 08└─N/T
[15:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Pluto - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:39] <exec> 08└─As I read the summary all I could think of was the debate over whether Pluto was a planet or not. Incredibly, I scroll down and that very debate is the story right before this one. And just like in this story, someone questioned why people were bothering with the classification one way or the other...
[15:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Gas dwarves? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:50] <exec> 08└─Yes the earth is too light to hold hydrogen and helium in its atmosphere, mostly. Lots of debate about Mars and how its too light so its atmosphere mostly blew away. If you're bored some google terms to help find the scientific papers involve the distribution of thermal velocity in a low pressure wa...
[15:07:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 880 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:51] <exec> 08└─The IAU could have and should have waited until this year to redefine planet. I have no problem with Pluto being redefined as a dwarf planet. What I found objectionable was the timing. They knew the first probe to visit Pluto was on the way. They could have waited for the probe to arrive and send ba...
[15:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:55] <exec> 08└─Of course when I was a kid there were nine planets. I don't predate Pluto. Now there are thousands of exoplanets, so we don't expect kids to memorize all 2000 or so known exoplanets. Most don't even have names and more are discovered every week. I'd compare it to constellations. We kinda expect kids...
[15:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:58] <exec> 08└─I don't know why this was modded "Touche". It doesn't contradict my point about the definition being somewhat arbitrary and historical, starting as those objects that were visible (and BTW, that moved, unlike the stars). Certainly the moon (and the sun) are considered differently because they are so...
[15:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:01] <exec> 08└─To clarify, I meant the historical planets to be those we considered planets in the 1700's and 1800's when the generally agreed definition was basically a large body that orbited the sun.
[15:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:03] <exec> 08└─Also to clarify, the sun and moon might be considered planets in ancient times, but I meant "considered differently" in a *qualitative* sense. The sun lights up the sky and gives life and days, the moon has phases and gives tides, etc.
[15:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:05] <exec> 08└─The discovery of Pluto so early in the 20th century was supposedly an accident (due to inaccurate calculations of mass of Neptune, they were looking for something that effected the orbits of Neptune and Uranus), and the naming of a Disney character after the planet helped to make it iconic. It wasn'...
[15:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:07] <exec> 08└─Problem is we found SO MANY bodies orbiting the sun... you have to limit them or it ceases to be a useful term.
[15:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:3, Insightful) 02i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:10] <exec> 08└─Why does it matter what counts as a planet? Is there some international treaty or funding drive that changes how probes and things are financed depending on that?
[15:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:13] <exec> 08└─I suspect Earth was demoted from planet status by such politics: A celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood a...
[15:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, it's funding - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:15] <exec> 08└─It's easier to get funding to study the farthest (sometimes farthest, actually) planet in the solar system than some remote iceball. It's purely marketing.
[15:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, it's funding - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:17] <exec> 08└─The marketing was already done by Disney. Lack of a planetary status doesn't make Pluto any less well-known. In fact, losing the status made Pluto, Michael E. Brown, and Neil deGrasse Tyson better known (cha-ching). Finding more of the TNOs probably helped make New Horizons possible. From the second...
[15:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Eris - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:19] <exec> 08└─I was looking forward to Eris being the tenth planet. Now there are only eight. It is the wrong way to go, as far as I'm concerned.
[15:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Eris - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:21] <exec> 08└─Find #PlanetNine [wikipedia.org]! Save the solar system!
[15:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Planet Nine: 100+ satellites? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:24] <exec> 08└─Mercury, Venus: 0 moons. Earth: 1 moon. Mars: 2 moons. Ceres, Vesta, Pallas: 0 moons. Jupiter: ≥67 moons. Saturn: ≥62 moons. Uranus: ≥27 moons. Neptune: ≥14 moons. Pluto: 5 moons. It would be something if Planet Nine [exists] attracts more moons than expected due to it being a dominant objec...
[15:08:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Riiiiiiiight - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:32] <exec> 08└─EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland
[15:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiiiiiiight - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:35] <exec> 08└─I only read TFS, but is Apple seriously arguing that they were only using Ireland as a tax haven?
[15:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:01] <exec> 08└─A strength is almost always a weakness as well.
[15:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:09] <exec> 08└─I agree except for systemd. When you are dealing with a huge log file, having the log in a database can be a big advantage since it becomes much easier to be able to query certain fields and so on without having to parse the file. I do agree that you should be able to configure it to use the log fil...
[15:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Networking - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─Udev is an abomination.
[15:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Angle at eyes for screen and print - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:21] <exec> 08└─That's what the bloody zoom setting is for, because neither you, nor I, nor the computer have the slightest idea about where that friggin' piece of paper is right now. In fact, as I type this, there are two sheets of A4 paper next to my (laptop) computer: one is closer than the screen, the other fur...
[15:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02no agreement - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 3024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─The problem is lack of agreement combined with stupidity combined with bad judgment. The first problem is I want a unix like OS with human editable config files and lack of suprise and high productivity for, well, there's no nice way to put it, higher functioning, higher IQ people. I don't want a fi...
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score:1) 02change of mind! - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 2827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─>I had problems with my first Linux experience, mainly in the area of installing software: missing packages in Synaptic, small dependency hells, installing a package at a time by hand, some broken stuf So the old: missing software-> search the web-> download something-> try to install-> result This...
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score:2) 02Gnome 3 and Unity huge setback - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 4048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─1. Stop making stupid radical GUI changes By far the worst Linux useability regression is the asinine user interface experiments such as with Gnome 3 and Unity. There was widespread outrage over Unity and how it took what was once one of the most useable Linux distros and made it into a confounding...
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─Unless she's judgment proof, of course. Which regardless of truth or not of her allegations is probably financially accurate. But wait, you're saying getting sued for defamation would forbid hiring? Not in this case she's a special snowflake guaranteed to move on to bigger things because she'd Fight...
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─OK lets do it based on their previous known track records: 1) Her: dunno? 2) Uber: bad. http://nymag.com [nymag.com] The top execs said those privacy stuff was fixed but 2 years later nope. https://www.revealnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unnecessary. - 06Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─A release mechanism a pin retaining hook and an incendiary grenade will work far better. The think that is surprising isn't what could be destroyed everyday, but rather what *ISN'T* destroyed everyday given the level of bureacratic incompetence in law enforcement, prevention, and industrial risk man...
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 2585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─I shared a room at a conference with a Aus student for a week. He wrote a paper on AI for StarCraft, so he was pretty okay ;). During the week we debated politics and political structure significantly (30+ minute car ride each day). It really highlighted the different philosophies of the different c...
[15:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:17] <exec> 08└─Nice piece of fiction, you show promise.
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─Nice dialog, but it's far from complete/correct. How come every car for sale in the USA now has a backup camera? My choice is to not have one (because I know how to look around before backing up) and I don't have that choice anymore.
[15:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─Seems like an authentic American, bringing guns into the discussion for no reason.
[15:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're not being entirely fair. Battery technology is supposed to be improving. Converting to a combination of wind and sun power might actually make sense in the not-distant future. Let's remember that the early adopters of new tech pay high prices, later buyer get better prices, and those wh...
[15:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:13] <exec> 08└─That's the problem: scale. All of your solutions are fine for small scale stuff. When you are talking about storing terawatt-hours, no currently known solution scales to that level.
[15:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:15] <exec> 08└─Don't like lead-acid, fine, you'll have even more problems with batteries reliant on rare earths.
[15:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score:1) 02Re:Gerard K O'Neill's answer - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:18] <exec> 08└─You'd want to actually convert the energy to microwave. That doesn't attenuate badly going through the atmosphere and your receiving station can be floating in the ocean so near-miss situations don't cause ecological or human damage.
[15:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:old news - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, a little bit of coincidence between an actual event and some random spew written by ancient ball garglers. That must mean your magic man is more powerful than anyone else's magic man and we must all gargle YOUR imaginary magic man's balls. If someone writes "bad things will happen" enough...
[15:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02Re:A solution - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─> ... design cars with utility and efficiency as the only priority ... I think you are reinventing the Holsman -- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A good friend drives his 1906 model for short trips (Honda minivan for everything else). I've driven it, it didn'...
[15:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:11] <exec> 08└─We agree that elevating Science to a perverted Priesthood is bad.
[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─There's no straight ~1000km-long path eastward that guarantees you can't hit inhabited areas.
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[16:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:43] <exec> 08└─Oh and by the way -- what kind of idiotic legislator enacted a regulation targeting "biscuits" without defining the term in the statute? Most well-drafted regulations contain a list of terminology and definitions to deal with this very type of situation. The judge shouldn't be contemplating the abst...
[16:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─One doesn't need to invoke Wittgenstein's "language games" or Quine's "web of belief" or whatever to understand the very simple idea that words aren't always precise enough to handle all cases.
[16:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:46] <exec> 08└─And besides, the very question raised is beyond silly. The item is OBVIOUSLY a cake, according to any reasonable culinary definition. Its structure, ingredients, and texture are a cake.
[16:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:50] <exec> 08└─A tax is charged on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on cakes.
[16:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:53] <exec> 08└─This is what I came to say. Food for humans shouldn't have sales tax applied anywhere.
[16:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Counterexample PITA - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 2535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:55] <exec> 08└─On the bright side the government trying to be too smart for its own good is just as much of a PITA. As a parallel example close to my heart (or wallet anyway) my state sales tax does not apply to custom software development, although it does apply to software maintenance contracts, so I quite liter...
[16:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Actually, TFA is about transgender/intersex issues - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:57] <exec> 08└─You know, I was too quick in my reply earlier. I actually did click on the article link, but all I saw were loads of irrelevant pictures of giant cakes/cookies. I thought I had skimmed the whole thing after I encountered yet another random photo loading at the bottom. But it turns out the article go...
[16:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─Well, we have the data now. What does it tell us? Also is being a planet like being a US state vs. a US territory? Do I have to pay income tax if I live on a dwarf planet? Why do I care if it's a "planet" or not? "Planet" is a human word and like most things human too vague while at the same time be...
[16:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:14] <exec> 08└─Oh I should also note to remember that "planet" means "wanderer." Maybe the only planets should be the original wanderers visible to the unaided human eye? Sorry Neptune! Your whole hood ain't planets no more! I'll settle down in Triton and call it good.
[16:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:23] <exec> 08└─"Planetes" means "wanderer". "Planetes asteres", planets for short, are stars that do not stay fixed relative to other stars. but which wander across the sky. While the sun and the moon both "wander", those are in categories of their own. Note also the original definition fails to include Earth its...
[16:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:25] <exec> 08└─I was shooting for "informative" or "interesting" or something. If I understand correctly the original word for planet basically meant "traveler" and meant the celestial objects that move to different locations in the sky each night as opposed to the stars which move but much more slowly. I remember...
[16:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:29] <exec> 08└─Read carefully, bruh: and the naming of a Disney character after the planet helped to make it iconic
[16:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:32] <exec> 08└─"Planet" already covers everything from Mercury to Jupiter
[16:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 2164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:39] <exec> 08└─I think a lot of hubbub is coming from NASA and other US research places, where certain people felt that the funding is often conditioned by the nomenclature. They get their money from the US congress, so I cannot totally dismiss their concerns, since most congresscritters seem to be more familiar w...
[16:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:09] <exec> 08└─I really wish some of these developers/designers would go back and look at how networking UNC names operated in Windows For Workgroups and NT. That was very slick and very useful. For example you could open Paint, draw something, go to save the file, and then just type the name like "\\othercomputer...
[16:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hardware compatibility - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:16] <exec> 08└─https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200 [libiquity.com] If you want a free machine, this is your best bet at the moment.
[16:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 2289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:25] <exec> 08└─The distros are the products. Linux, the kernel, or GNU, the base userland, or X11 (and omg Wayland run for the hills, not!, works fine for me and any day now Nvidia will play nice and I'll switch from X to Wayland and be done with it but no hardware accel won't fly for me), the display manager, or...
[16:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─1) The popular desktop UI/environments: every few years instead of continuing to make the popular stuff _stabler_ and better they throw everything away and start again.
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─It is possible to disable network manager [ubuntu.com]. But I generally agree: it seems that much brokenness comes from trying to emulate Microsoft's mistakes.
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─There is probably a setting in your window manager called "focus follows mouse". "Click to focus" is also common (and what Windows generally uses).
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02Mixed bag - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 3056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─disclaimer: I've used Linux on the desktop since around 1995, starting with Slackware and writing my own damn modelines for X Window. I went back to OS/2 for a short while before getting hooked for good on SuSE, later Debian, still later (K)Ubuntu, and in between using quite a lot of different distr...
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─It is a vast left wing conspiracy, asshole. I sneaked into last week's meeting, wearing one of those pointy white hat things. You couldn't seen my face under that hoody thing, and I wore white gloves to hide my hands. And, I hid my iPhone recording the event under that stupid thingy. BITE ME BITCHES...
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Automation - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:00] <exec> 08└─One possible scenario -- you program a destination when you get in the car. The car checks out the route and decides if this is a route that it can drive autonomously. Due to incomplete maps, bad weather (snow over the lane markings...), cell-network-gaps, recent road works, etc., the autonomous sys...
[16:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:13] <exec> 08└─he is giving increased credibility
[16:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─We travel in the same circles, as you know. Probably lots of names we both know. I didn't want to derail by turning the prof's relatively typical behavior into a referendum on that prof individually. That's an inevitable sophistry technique, that just doesn't matter to the larger debate.
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's a blog post perhaps worthy of scrollbar-use, not a public rant. At least he keeps his politics and his science mostly separate, you know when there's opinion ahead as opposed to facts. Everyone, on a medium they are in charge of, should be as permitted to express opinions as they are to...
[16:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Impact on plankton? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:19] <exec> 08└─If we start doing this large scale, what happens to the first step in all aquatic food chains?
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[17:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Michelin stars - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:46] <exec> 08└─In general these should be considered negative number
[17:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Michelin stars - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, yes. Nevertheless, there will be people who highly respect this award and consider it to have some profound meaning. Therefore, they could go to the eatery that was mistakenly given the award, and they would swear that the food is among the best they've ever tasted. In psychology there is p...
[17:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Happened in Canada already - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:50] <exec> 08└─http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/manitoba-gas-station-becomes-canada-s-first-ever-michelin-star-restaurant-satire-1.3844845 [www.cbc.ca] I heard it on CBC a couple months ago so it MUST be true.
[17:08:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 12 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:01] <exec> 08└─Jaffa, kree!
[17:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:03] <exec> 08└─to quote TGV below: by TGV (2838) Neutral on Wednesday February 22, @10:02AM (#470196) Well said.
[17:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:10] <exec> 08└─I kinda agree with you, but, hey, a little silliness in the news isn't a bad thing. Buncha silly people in a silly argument over something that doesn't mean anything, except to the tax man. And, the tax man lost his side of the argument. Next legal issue - which is superior, Scotch whiskey, or Irish...
[17:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pluto - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:14] <exec> 08└─So it can be taxed. thats the whole point. didn't you understand this?
[17:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Counterexample PITA - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:19] <exec> 08└─What fucked-up state is this that taxes all these standard computer activities?
[17:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Counterexample PITA - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:22] <exec> 08└─Not to drop the docs but I checked some generic midwestern states and its vaguely normal for that location. Check your own state, you might be surprised.
[17:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually, TFA is about transgender/intersex iss - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:25] <exec> 08└─the entire second half of the article (not at all addressed in the summary) is actually about gender, bring up transgender/intersex issues.
[17:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:27] <exec> 08└─It's quite obviously a cake, as anyone who's left a jaffa cake out too long will know.
[17:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:29] <exec> 08└─It's quite obviously a cake, as anyone who's left a jaffa cake out too long will know.
[17:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02there's a subjective component to life! - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:32] <exec> 08└─is it potatoe or potatoe? and can't we have a little war of words around it, a little **predictable** mismatch that serves to keep novelty alive .. or are we're truly going to declare a religious war against our subjective differences and make a world religion based on who's on the right side of an...
[17:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:51] <exec> 08└─You end up with the solar system being Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris now, which isn't too bad, but there are an estimated 200 objects with similar characteristics to Pluto, and no one is going to remember that list.
[17:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:04] <exec> 08└─asteroid belt
[17:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:05] <exec> 08└─'planet' already covers everything that's already a planet
[17:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Comets - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:15] <exec> 08└─How many comets meet this definition? Without a size or orbital shape cutoff, any icy comets that significantly melt and then reform into spheroidal shapes would qualify as planets. I'm all for returning Pluto to planethood, I don't mind the idea of having 29785 planets in the outer reaches of the s...
[17:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:17] <exec> 08└─Playing games with the definition of what is and isn't a planet looks like professors in some useless humanities department squabbling like children over some philosophical meaning of a certain opera performance that will never affect ordinary people's everyday lives. And then scientists want respec...
[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiiiiiiight - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─Basically yes, and that as a nonresident company they paid off....er...paid their taxes properly to Ireland. Also the link in the summary seems broken as there is a missing character in the address. The link from El Reg works or just use: http://eur-lex.europa.eu
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02respond to force with force - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─since governments use force to steal (henchmen and taxes) why don't big corps like apple have mercenary forces that kill politicians who don't fuck off and mind their own business?
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─That is based on the window style, which is customizable. Arguably the default still copies Windows, but it is more about continuing the KDE tradition nowadays. I hear you can use non-default style [kde.org] to switch the button locations.
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─KDE has done this since version 2 iirc. Although many older GTK and console progrms did not like that and had to have filesystem paths mapped for them.
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Predictability - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─In FreeBSD-land, we have POLA: the Principle Of Least Astonishment. Any user-visible changes should minimise the degree to which users are surprised and changes are often rejected as POLA violations (or, at least, pushed to a major version bump and required to have some solid documentation and some...
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hardware compatibility - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─how do you expect hardware support to improve when you keep funding the enemy? you have the money to buy laptops every two years but you buy nvidia, etc? no wonder companies don't give a shit about what i want when i only buy laptops every ten years. You are the problem. Stop being a whore and buy t...
[17:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─Apple on the other hand, while keeping a very similar standard on hardware and reliability, simply engineer (or make use of) the most amazing business processes, development APIs
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─I think you are confusing GTK+ and GNOME. XFCE announced plans to move from GTK+ version 2 to GTK+ version 3. There are many benefits behind the move, but there was a fair amount of FUD when the decision was announced.
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─I believe in the approach of small, dedicated tools for certain tasks, cobbling them together for big tasks. In this context I would expect a tool which ingests the existing log files and imports them into a database. Systemd as an init system is imo broken because it requires adaptation of other sw...
[17:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:25] <exec> 08└─evince-thumbnailer
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:games - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:29] <exec> 08└─I use computers for CADCAM and gaming. If I were to run Linux I'd have to put Windows in a VM and run everything in that, so it would just add another layer of headache.
[17:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The point isn't to boycott - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─> She should have Victim blaming! /s
[17:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:57] <exec> 08└─What's not so good are the strident feminists using this to say: "Look, we always told you that STEM is hostile to women".
[17:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:59] <exec> 08└─I disagree. STEM *is* hostile to women. You don't see it because you haven't been working around 30-and-under Millennial brogrammers for your whole profession. It's a generational thing, and this is what the new crop of STEM workers are like now. It used to be an OK profession for women to work in,...
[17:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:MISLEADING HEADLINE - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:37] <exec> 08└─Can confirm. "In" was the word that made me click on this headline.
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:06] <exec> 08└─Hey, he is known to have decent points on purely science/tech articles.
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:More job killing regulations - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─Don't leave me a 1 star review on fivr, I'll lose my contract!
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[18:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03weregeek [6505] (Score:1) 02No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:40] <exec> 08└─Call me when PuTTY is distributed in a secure manner. This has been an issue for a long time, and largely undermines all of the hard work put into security fixes. PuTTY may well be the most feature complete and secure SSH client available for Windows, but nobody who downloads a binary has any assura...
[18:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02secure secure shell - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:42] <exec> 08└─I have no easy way to test, if it works with secure secure shell, other than obtaining a windows box and firing it up. Other folks have it easier. So to them I ask if it works: https://stribika.github.io [github.io] This is more or less how I set up my machines pl...
[18:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Michelin stars - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:52] <exec> 08└─But I... saw it on Kitchen Nightmares and now they don't have roaches in they're kitchen and the food is amazing!
[18:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michelin stars - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:54] <exec> 08└─Wow. I can't believe I typed "they're" instead of "their". Instant messaging is killing me.
[18:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Michelin stars - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:56] <exec> 08└─Sir Pratchett's version, called Headology: “So people see you coming in the hat and the cloak and they know you’re a witch and that’s why your magic works?” said Esk. “That’s right,” said Granny. “It’s called headology.” She tapped her silver hair, which was drawn into a tight bu...
[18:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:09] <exec> 08└─Jaffa, kree!
[18:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:16] <exec> 08└─There now exists a Welsh whisky. http://penderyn.wales [penderyn.wales]
[18:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:18] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as Scotch "whiskey". [end pedantry]
[18:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:20] <exec> 08└─I know it seems straightforward, but every supermarket in the country classifies it as a biscuit, as it's shelved with the biscuits, not the cakes. People buy them like biscuits and store them at home with biscuits. Basically, they are functionally used as biscuits (which are a luxury and hence taxe...
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Pluto - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:25] <exec> 08└─"Stop terraforming taxation," says the story before that. [soylentnews.org]
[18:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Counterexample PITA - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:32] <exec> 08└─No wonder California is still #1 for tech business. Other states keep trying to tout their "low" cost of living, but with insane business taxes and regulations like these, no one wants to run a business there.
[18:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually, TFA is about transgender/intersex iss - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:37] <exec> 08└─It's kind of like Kitty's are pussies .... but a pussy can be quite a non-kitty. If you know what i mean... nudge nudge, wink wink... does she? Ey? Ey? WOOF!! (man, that's a mash-up of Monty Python and Black Adder!) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:41] <exec> 08└─Twinkies are neither: they are just delicious, delicious poison. :)
[18:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:43] <exec> 08└─Note to our UK brethern, cousins separated by a shared language, a twink is different than a twinkie on this side of the pond. I do not believe either are sold in jolly ole england. Do you UK people like it when us ameri-burgers call you jolly ole england? If not, its not our fault, we learned every...
[18:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jaffa as in Israeli Nazis - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:46] <exec> 08└─You'd think the jews had learned something in the Konzentrationslagers but the only message they took home was the methods they now use on the Palestinians...
[18:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry, my gravity is so low you could jump to escape velocity. You would probably not enjoy living on me.
[18:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:18] <exec> 08└─I misread it then, although the sentence could have been cleared up some with better wording. Apologies.
[18:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:29] <exec> 08└─The union took a conservative approach, shaping the new definition to include precisely the same bodies which were traditionally considered the planets. Unfortunately, they failed to come up with objective criteria that would distinguish Pluto from other KBO, so they had to toss it.
[18:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:31] <exec> 08└─This consideration has been addressed like a million times. Indeed Pluto is in the stable orbital resonance with Neptune, and their orbital neighborhoods meet. But Neptune is some 10000 times more massive than Pluto, and the notion of clearing neighborhood is more nuanced than just ejecting everythi...
[18:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02Re:This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─You're right, it will never affect ordinary people's lives, so why do people care how astronomers classify those object which they study. It is their area of study, they have domain over how they classify objects which fall into that domain. Do we defy paleontologists when they need to reclassify a...
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─And then scientists want respect when it comes to substantive issues like climate change which will have a profound effect on people's lives.
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:1) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─I hopped off the KDE bandwagon over a decade ago because it had gotten so resource hungry. Used Fluxbox, XFCE, and LXDE through the years because Gnome 3. Cinnamon is actually pretty darn good these days; for the most part it just stays out of the way and does what I want without a whole lot of care...
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardware compatibility - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─Good concept, great price. But, isn't that just a little underpowered, for this day and age? Yeah, it's a laptop, and most people don't need real fast CPU, and truckloads of memory. But, still . . . with an i7 and 16 gig of memory, you can do more, and do it faster. Ehhh - I guess it depends on tast...
[18:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─""Products" fit somebody else's needs and solve somebody else's problems." "That does what somebody else wants it to do." Interesting point of view. One I've never really considered. Sure, I've danced all around that point of view. And, yes, that's a very large part of why I don't like Windows. But...
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─Your experience is unique.
[18:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:12] <exec> 08└─Nor do the new antimatter reactors, neither does the black hole burster.
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:42] <exec> 08└─Look at it this way: they're paying the early-adopter tax for us :) Now, from a purely energetic perspective you're right: a bunch of lucky people with money to burn aren't going to solve the pollution problem, and our battery tech straight up *is not there* yet. However...this is how it starts. If...
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[19:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:3, Informative) 02Aweful Putty format keys - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:27] <exec> 08└─Call me when PuTTY is distributed in a secure manner.
[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Aweful Putty format keys - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:28] <exec> 08└─This!. Those damn ppk keys. And that collection of crapware you have to install to get an X11 session if you ever need that. Its easier and faster to boot a slim linux virtual machine than to deal with the constant fight keeping cygwin 1) operational, and 2) up to date or 3) dealing with puddy. Many...
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─but nobody who downloads a binary has any assurance that they received the binary blob that the developer intended. At least the signature files are finally provided via HTTPS
[19:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:33] <exec> 08└─The official page may not use HTTPS, but all the download links and GPG signatures do.
[19:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:35] <exec> 08└─My theory, 'protecting' the download of this tool with HTTPS might be more of a legal hassle than they're willing to deal with. They have a legal disclaimer front and center. You the user of the software do so entirely at your own risk. By NOT using HTTPS it allows other actors that wish to know who...
[19:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02SecureCRT - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:38] <exec> 08└─If you fancy putting down the big bucks there is always SecureCRT from Van Dyke. It was good last time I checked, very expensive but good -- $180 for 3 years of usage or something like that. So unless you can get someone else to pay for it then I'd stick with Putty or something similar.
[19:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02mobaxterm - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:40] <exec> 08└─I have used MobaXterm [mobatek.net] in the past when I've needed an X11 server in addition to putty. There is a free home edition with a limited number of sessions available as well as a paid edition.
[19:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─I was running Windows
[19:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:2) 02PuTTY on Linux? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:45] <exec> 08└─Has anyone ever actually used it on Linux, since they have new features for that? I don't even like using putty on windows myself, the non-standard key format chafes me a bit too much; I just install mingw/cygwin and use its ssh.
[19:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bolek_b [1460] (Score:1) 02KiTTY - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:47] <exec> 08└─PuTTY was my first choice for a long time, but certain small inconveniences made me to switch to KiTTY. Auto-reconnect of broken sessions and folders for connection profiles would be enough reason for me, but it has many other improvements that I am gradually discovering.
[19:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That would be... - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:00] <exec> 08└─They were given a road tire? Cool!
[19:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed re: philosophy. On the other hand, semantics is the favorite sport round these here parts.
[19:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:30] <exec> 08└─There is no tax on basic foodstuff. There's tax on "luxury" (i.e. unnecessary, non-staple) products. One can argue about where to draw the line, or whether there should be one. I've never understood why cake wasn't counted while biscuits where.
[19:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:32] <exec> 08└─were
[19:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:34] <exec> 08└─One can argue about where to draw the line, or whether there should be one.
[19:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Counterexample PITA - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah I can bill a lot of sales tax when comparable housing is a tenth CA cost, and the climate and geography and crime level here is much better. Its not really all that bad. You sell a thing or a service and you pay the sales tax. The complication is there's a loophole where custom software develop...
[19:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:49] <exec> 08└─My apologies, oddly enough that was not covered in the Mary Poppins movie. I suppose I'm old. "Kids these days", Ameri-burgers anyway, probably learn everything about the UK from "Harry Potter" movies and books and that fat kid probably ate a lot of twinkies.
[19:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thomas Edison now British. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:53] <exec> 08└─"Britain's greatest invention after the steam engine and the light bulb"
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─Why does it cease to be a useful term?
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─and their orbital neighborhoods meet
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Inconceivable - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Clearly, per Wittgenstein, it is an uneaten biscuit. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:easy one if they would have the balls - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, other countries, in which you are not paying taxes because you repatriate all your income to Ireland, are really interested to know that you don't really do anything of value there. They'll call you soon for a pleasant chat...
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─My number one problem is the bad integration of external drives into a linux/unix user's workflow. In Windows you can have drives and in MAC, a drive is just another folder. But in linux I am still struggling mounting it in /mnt or /media or some place else. Design wise, I think, distros need to bec...
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─Fuck you thrice, asshole. You aren't a woman and you have no idea what kind of shit goes down in the workplace. We're running a marathon with a splint, dammit, every damn day. I'm lucky to be tall and scary and glare-y enough that most men don't try this crap with me, but you would not BELIEVE the s...
[19:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:23] <exec> 08└─We wrote the same thing, but I admit you wrote it much better. Compare your post with the section of mine saying the same thing around: she's a special snowflake guaranteed to move on to bigger things because she'd Fighting The Power(TM) and any claim she lied is merely anti-female sexism
[19:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:25] <exec> 08└─Fuck you four times. When you said > she's a special snowflake guaranteed to move on to bigger things because she'd Fighting The Power(TM) and any claim she lied is merely anti-female sexism You said the precise fucking OPPOSITE of what I did. And no, I never read Hunter S. Thompson; I was born in 1...
[19:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:27] <exec> 08└─Hey look everybody! We found him, the poor persecuted white male. It is a rare condition which usually results from dementia. Why this is tightly correlated with "software development" is a mystery yet to be solved.
[19:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:29] <exec> 08└─Where is your anger over rich people getting out of crimes? Or minorities wrongly accused of crimes out of convenience / profiling? Is this new concept of equality JUST TOO MUCH for you? Sounds like misdirected anger and a brain washed by anti-liberal propaganda to me. I recently overheard a convers...
[19:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:33] <exec> 08└─> Seems Uber has a bad corporate culture. Coming from a company based on "the rules applying to my competitors don't apply to me because I'm innovating"? Inconceivable! Also, I don't know if she'd be allowed to publish screenshots of the alleged harassment, considering the chat probably has an "inte...
[19:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:38] <exec> 08└─In extensive discussion on other sites on this topic I am willing to predict that bradley and I are telling the truth and are midwesterners and Grishnakh and Azuma are also telling the truth and are nearly certain to be Californians or NYC or at any rate coasties of some sort. How did I do? I never...
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─What's not so good are the strident feminists using this to say: "Look, we always told you that STEM is hostile to women". Which is simply not true. I have been in STEM for (gawd) nearly 40 years, my wife is in STEM, over the years I have had numerous female friends and colleagues in STEM, and not o...
[19:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SJW moderators to the rescue - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:44] <exec> 08└─Defend her honor
[19:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh in the scheme of things - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:46] <exec> 08└─No, repeatedly harassing people makes it harassment.
[19:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Unnecessary. - 06Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:56] <exec> 08└─The Daesh idiots are starting to use consumer-grade drones to drop explosives, so even if they don't have enough batteries to reach outside of their neighborhood, we will soon see copycats (more likely homebrewed crazies than actual Daesh sympathizers).
[19:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shoes - 06Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could use one of these to get rid of all the shoes strung over wires in American cities.
[19:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:we have all that too, sadly - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:18] <exec> 08└─> we have decided to maximize personal freedom instead of efficiency in the services available to citizens Name one community which has always been on the wrong end of those lofty goals...
[19:12:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 844 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:40] <exec> 08└─The Russians could use methods to entomb their mistake that the Japanese, or any Western country for that matter, would probably never resort to. Ask Wikipedia how many people died containing Chernobyl. Don't take my word for it, go read the details of the horrors they exposed thousands to. And it w...
[19:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:56] <exec> 08└─Base load is a fundamental concept.
[19:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─Heh, if all California yuppies adopt African kids then I guess its true that your mom is also your sister, and your siblings are also your aunts/uncles. The world finally makes sense!
[19:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:49] <exec> 08└─fake news claims that's a major alliance
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[20:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Government suffers the same mismanagement - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:32] <exec> 08└─The difference is that Government can just demand more money from people at the point of a gun.
[20:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Business -> Bankruptcy; Government -> MORE MONEY! - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:34] <exec> 08└─When a business goes bad, it goes bankrupt, and thereby saves the rest of us from its further poor management. When government goes bad, it just gets to demand more resources; the problem, of course, was that it just didn't have enough money in the first place, you know, for oversight or something...
[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Government suffers the same mismanagement - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─Let's have anarcho-capitalism everywhere! Then we can give our money to gun-wielding "entrepreneurs."
[20:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yay corruption! - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:38] <exec> 08└─I'm getting so tired of it all, I really wish people would stop shitting in their own milk. Hefty goddamn prison sentences please!
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"snubbed their own IT experts" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─Been through that before. Manager would believe sales literature and people, and disregard his IT experts' opinion as children's chatter. It fit his general treatment of IT staff as janitors, with a mythical endless supply of candidates waiting for a job.
[20:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:"snubbed their own IT experts" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:42] <exec> 08└─When you get a duffas running these things they almost always crash and burn. If you get someone who knows what they are doing and hold everyone accountable they freeking rock. They wasted billions to gain 62 million.
[20:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02You know times are tough... - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:45] <exec> 08└─...when a top-shelf AI is unemployed.
[20:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:03] <exec> 08└─That's it! Learn to use the ssh and telnet commands. (and there once was even this thing called rs232) I find this a much simpler solution than running PuTTY. Run ssh or telnet commands on Linux. Where Linux is running in a web browser with PC emulator written in JavaScript [bellard.org]. The browse...
[20:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:04] <exec> 08└─Thats nice. How does that relate to the release of a widely used *windows* tool?
[20:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:PuTTY on Linux? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:07] <exec> 08└─Has anyone ever actually used it on Linux
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:KiTTY - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─I still use putty combined with mputty. Nice way of bashing (hehe) all the windows together and login control.
[20:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Cool hardware features! - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:13] <exec> 08└─> Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build If you're going to put "ECC" and "64-bit" within a few chars of each other, maybe you should spell out that it's the Cryptography version of the acronym. It's obvious that Putty doesn't actually manage memory errors, but I can't be the only one who had to pause to co...
[20:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Broken link - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:16] <exec> 08└─The link on the "0.68" text is broken, and takes you here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] but is presumably meant to take you here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk [greenend.org.uk]
[20:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02Puttytray - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:18] <exec> 08└─https://puttytray.goeswhere.com/ [goeswhere.com] on my wintendo partition I use this likewise freedomsoftware fork of putty which has a clickable url matcher in the term and more
[20:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Happened in Canada already - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:31] <exec> 08└─Manitoba gas station becomes Canada's first ever Michelin Star Restaurant [SATIRE]
[20:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:48] <exec> 08└─Oh and by the way -- what kind of idiotic legislator enacted a regulation targeting "biscuits" without defining the term in the statute?
[20:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02Re:Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:06] <exec> 08└─Because people can eat cake if they have no bread? Oh, wait, that was in France [and probably isn't true].
[20:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:20] <exec> 08└─So whats a twinkie?
[20:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Thomas Edison now British. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:25] <exec> 08└─Joseph Swan don't real. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thomas Edison now British. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─Inventions are only ideas if they don't work. Thomas Edison made it work. Although he was good at taking credit for others work. He created the model modern corporations use today to steal IP from smart people to give the financial rewards to those who aren't smart enough to do the actual innovation...
[20:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Easier path - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─Rename it the 1991 Biscuit and Jaffa Cake tax. Problem solved.
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─why do people care how astronomers classify those object which they study. It is their area of study, they have domain over how they classify objects
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:29] <exec> 08└─See my comment just above that says "Don't Tell Me!". I don't lump all scientists into one bucket. But here is something interesting to become aware of: Some people do. Some of those people see the entire imaginary group as equally distrusted. Sort of like politicians.
[20:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Riiiiiiiight - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:42] <exec> 08└─Thank you for noting that. The submitting bot ate the "&" in that link. Fixed now.
[20:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:easy one if they would have the balls - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:46] <exec> 08└─I was thinking exactly this as I posted this story. How can such a shameless transparent lie be spoken, let alone believed?
[20:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Its Marketing - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:26] <exec> 08└─And that's good enough for most people. I think you're right that the issues GP was talking about with respect to branding and integration is traditionally handled by distros. Two very different distros that exemplify this to me are BunsenLabs Linux [bunsenlabs.org] (formerly CrunchBang), and elemen...
[20:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:08] <exec> 08└─So I take it the wedding's off then? Just kidding. You don't have to get all personal just because we disagree on ... everything .... politically. No non-sequitur here, only complete lack of common ground making the issue perhaps too confusing for you. I do like your writing style even if we can't s...
[20:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck off. You got your bloated head handed to you and you're not gonna make a graceful exit. And everyone can see it.
[20:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 1614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:11] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal evidence is not relevant. This is a general rule but magnitudes more important on the internet. There are billions of us here. Even if you take something that is isolated to less than 1% of all jobs or environments you're looking at tens of millions of people who have stories to tell and o...
[20:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Shoes - 06Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7qhVJIPfck [youtube.com]
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Projection is not just a river in Egypt - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─"You're not reading pre-weaponised knowledge," Also, if the NSA, CIA & FBI are correct most of the DNC leaks were the result of Russian cyberattacks with intent to affect the election. That's pretty much the definition of pre-weaponised knowledge.
[20:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:52] <exec> 08└─Look at it this way: they're paying the early-adopter tax for us :)
[20:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:58] <exec> 08└─Somebody has a math problem. You state the energy consumption (in 2013) was 3.89e+20J and your proposal only generates 1.3e+18J Look again at the exponents and clarify, you obviously didn't mean that so something was botched as you transferred the math from the calculator to the input box. Now spitb...
[20:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:editorial - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:09] <exec> 08└─I'll just point out that it wasn't a leftie that started throwing around insults in this thread.
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[21:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:22] <exec> 08└─Please, please, please let this be legit. Hearing loss leads to a marked decline in quality of life for older people. When their children have to yell at them to communicate, that communication becomes less frequent and less pleasant. I believe, based on anecdata, that this hastens the decline of qu...
[21:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score:1) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─Agree, and the recent generations of kids will end up with hearing loss from the constant buds-in-ears unlike previous generations. I have tinnitus but that's because I used to build my own speakers and test them with such music as The Chemical Brothers up loud. One too many times. A reversal of the...
[21:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02The pessimist in me: cure for balding - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:25] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a great discovery; I know hearing protection is constantly reminded as a critical safety step however it is often overlooked. Reading the article it appears that hearing was always the target of the research, however my first guess was that the research is an offshoot from researchi...
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you coerce by gun, you're a government. - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be capitalism anymore. Get it?
[21:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you coerce by gun, you're a government. - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:38] <exec> 08└─capitalism - an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations A gun can be the means of exchange of wealth.
[21:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you coerce by gun, you're a government. - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─And out here, due process is a bullet.
[21:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You know times are tough... - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:47] <exec> 08└─I think the doctors here have the right idea. They know Bots can do their job better than they can these days, so they do what makes the most sense: throw their wooden shoes in the cogs!
[21:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Wake-up call - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:49] <exec> 08└─This looks like the beginning of a string of wake-up calls to tech people about medical research. I've been trying to explain to you for years, the entire thing is set up to waste as much time and money as possible without figuring anything out. Do not try to interact with them, they will only bring...
[21:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02I wonder... - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:51] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Rometty mentioned this in her HIMSS* keynote this week? *For those not in healthcare, HIMSS is the Healthcare Information Management Systems Symposium - one of the major shows in healthcare informatics.
[21:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:04] <exec> 08└─If you automatically trust every link on a site just because that site is served over HTTPS then you deserve whatever happens to you. Otherwise, you always look where a file is coming from before you download it. That's the only thing that matters here.
[21:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:SecureCRT - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:09] <exec> 08└─While I'm still on Windows I use SecureCRT too. It's quite excellent, and usually fast and stable. What I really appreciate are the tabbed shell windows. About the only thing it doesn't do is set up a socks5 proxy server, and that's where Bitvise SSH Client comes in. The latter being free. I've used...
[21:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:15] <exec> 08└─Some months ago I started working on a place that only have Windows. Heck, it's a bit uncomfortable for someone used to a good operation system. I installed VMWare, put Devuan on it, and I use putty.exe to open a shell there, so I can run my favorite IDE: the unix shell (screen, vim, git, ag, etc.)...
[21:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02SSH client on Windows? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:24] <exec> 08└─I have used PuTTY in the past and still do for a serial console. It's a great utility if all you need is an SSH terminal emulator with port forwarding. But what if you want a near full unix setup that runs natively under Windows? Use Cygwin. If you work with a lot of Unix stuff and desire that same...
[21:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02What is a Michelin Star? - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 2375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide [wikipedia.org] Looks like high end travel guide. The summary was a little confusing as I only know Michelin as the tyre manufacturer; so a restaurant catering to trades people doesn't seem too out of place. After reading the summary of the restaurant, if...
[21:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:01] <exec> 08└─Scotch: drink of the pretentious asshole. Scotch drinker: "Taste those smokey peaty notes!" me: "tastes like a tire fire." Scotch drinker: "You just don't understand scotch!" Irish whiskey: Smooth as butter.
[21:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:02] <exec> 08└─I kinda agree with you, but, hey, a little silliness in the news isn't a bad thing.
[21:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:04] <exec> 08└─So - queer cake?
[21:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heh. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:17] <exec> 08└─Ill bite... In America A Tomato is classed as a vegetable for tax reasons
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Biscuit or Cake? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─Once again, Father Ted to the rescue [youtube.com].
[21:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comprimise - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─This is a scientific matter, not a political one.
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comets - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─That has a snowball's chance in hell of happening ... oh, wait
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Comets - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:33] <exec> 08└─How many comets meet this definition? Without a size or orbital shape cutoff, any icy comets that significantly melt and then reform into spheroidal shapes would qualify as planets. I'm all for returning Pluto to planethood, I don't mind the idea of having 29785 planets in the outer reaches of the s...
[21:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02Re:This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right. People who don't know any better tend to classify science or scientists into one big group. But social/political/PR stuff should have no influence over science. If it does, you're not doing science anymore, you're just doing propaganda.
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This undermines respectibility of science - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:42] <exec> 08└─So what? I'm not about to police scientists just because an idiot will think badly of them, if they don't achieve some ridiculous collective standard of behavior.
[21:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:easy one if they would have the balls - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:57] <exec> 08└─I was thinking exactly this as I posted this story. How can such a shameless transparent lie be spoken, let alone believed?
[21:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 2098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:47] <exec> 08└─I agree partially regarding Linux desktop distributions degenerating. But unfortunately I still have to log in to Windows once in a while, and it still is a far worse pain in the ass. Maybe some products like a bluetooth mouse work out of the box, but I'm working in test-automation on a cross-platfo...
[21:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Uber - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:37] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked... SHOCKED to hear allegations that managers in a company whose business model is "convince gullible/desperate people to operate unlicensed taxis, take a cut of the fares" might be scumbags!
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[22:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:30] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about this kind of research is that, like Old Timer's, it's something that scares people who control lots of money. Show some progress and you will get funded.
[22:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:31] <exec> 08└─I have poor hearing and I never listened to loud music. I liked classical as a teenager. :(
[22:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:34] <exec> 08└─The hair cells don't care whether it is loud Presley or loud Wagner that hits them.
[22:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder what fraction of deafness is caused by hairs vs other problems. I went to school with a deaf dude who didn't bother with hearing aides because it was some kind of nerve thing and no level of pounding his ear hairs was going to jump the damaged circuit thats downstream of the ear hairs. More...
[22:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mordac [6108] (Score:1) 02Re:The pessimist in me: cure for balding - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:39] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if the "combination of drugs" was that caffeine shampoo...
[22:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Three sci fi plots - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 2787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:41] <exec> 08└─Not one, not two, but three hard sci fi plots for you to think about today, all of which are halfway interesting. 1) Parents who blow $$$$ on their kids learning to play some instrument solely to get into college will blow $$$$ to get injections to make their kids hearing better so theoretically the...
[22:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That makes you "governmental", not "private" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:55] <exec> 08└─Doing so makes you a government; you would no longer be a "private" individual. Hence, what you imply is NOT capitalism. Get it, yet?
[22:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes you "governmental", not "private" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:56] <exec> 08└─So cattle rustlers were governments, cartels are governments, the maffia and yukuza are governments. Oh we get it, you're crazy like a loon!
[22:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes you "governmental", not "private" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:58] <exec> 08└─And of course every single bank robber was a government. I wonder how they arrested those bank robbers. Don't governments have immunity? :-)
[22:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Certainly, they were not "private"... - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:01] <exec> 08└─Those robbers imposed rules of interaction that they concocted on the fly. They were not engaged in negotiating and then abiding by (including enforcing) contracts to which all of the participants had already agreed up front; fundamentally, in terms of societal interaction, they are no different fro...
[22:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, those are governments. - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:03] <exec> 08└─They have various jurisdictions, and they base their funding on involuntary interaction. Guess what? North Korea's government looks nothing like that of the U.S. Neither does some warlord in Somalia, but he and his organization constitute a government nonetheless. Get it, yet?
[22:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wake-up call - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:11] <exec> 08└─I've been trying to explain to you for years, the entire thing is set up to waste as much time and money as possible without figuring anything out.
[22:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder... - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:14] <exec> 08└─In Sunny Orlando... my manager is there now.
[22:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cancer research - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:16] <exec> 08└─Not for curing cancer, it's for keeping the cancer patients hopeful as they slowly decline and by cancer researchers there third yacht
[22:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02The "sharks" of AI, oh dear - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised to read a fail story like this after hearing about all the hyperventilation [soylentnews.org] surrounding Watson. This is exactly the sort of excitement that surrounds vaporware.
[22:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score:1) 02Re:Aweful Putty format keys - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:30] <exec> 08└─Cygwin is about the worst solution for X11 forwarding. You don't need a lot of extra crap for X11 forwarding from Linux to windows. Get putty, get xming https://sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net] an X11 server for windows. Run xming, run putty (ensure x11 forwarding is on). run gui st...
[22:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score:1) 02ECC - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:51] <exec> 08└─Ah NIST ECC, that's the one that the NSA helped make, right... Glad to see 64 bit binaries finally. I've used putty daily for years on my Win boxes.
[22:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─So whats a twinkie?
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Thomas Edison now British. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─Inventions are only ideas if they don't work.
[22:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thomas Edison now British. - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─In addressing the question of who invented the incandescent lamp, historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel[8] list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison. They conclude that Edison's version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of three factors...
[22:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I was not caffeinated.
[22:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─If you engage your brain, it's fairly obvious what was meant: The term "planet" already covers objects of such a wide range of different properties ranging from Mercury (a relatively small rock ball) to Jupiter (a gigantic gas ball).
[22:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─Orbital neighborhood is a neighborhood of an elliptical orbit, an elongated donut, at least that's one obvious way to define it. Just because you do not have a definition, doesn't mean it's undefined. Also, no one says there has to be one true definition. Neptune would have "cleared" its orbit, with...
[22:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:58] <exec> 08└─Orbital neighborhood is a neighborhood of an elliptical orbit, an elongated donut, at least that's one obvious way to define it. Just because you do not have a definition, doesn't mean it's undefined.
[22:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Comets - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:06] <exec> 08└─It makes a difference to the solar energy influx pattern whether or not a "planet" is in a relatively circular, or highly elliptical, or hyperbolic escape trajectory. Of course, rotation relative to the Sun is another thing. It is all rather arbitrary, I believe the thinking on calling "large enough...
[22:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:52] <exec> 08└─You got trolled.
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh in the scheme of things - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─I can't believe it feels necessary to mod this up...
[22:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Projection is not just a river in Egypt - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─I can't deny your point, but wikileaks does release leaked documents instead of a story about leaked documents. Undoubtedly they have an agenda, but I still appreciate their existence. Without wikileaks there is a lot of info we would still be speculating about. Sounds like some people are just bent...
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:41] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaand your fallacy is....*Classic Family-Feud scrolling sound* ...Faaaaaaalse Equivaleeeeence! A fucking iPhone and solar power are not the same thing. The fact that you can't tell the difference speaks badly of either your intelligence or your morals. Or both. This is more like what fell out of...
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:48] <exec> 08└─You state the energy consumption (in 2013) was 3.89e+20J and your proposal only generates 1.3e+18J
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:50] <exec> 08└─Now spitball the cost to cover the ENTIRE Sahara with collectors and be sure to factor in the disapproval of the current inhabitants... etc
[22:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DTH rulez - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─Oh wow, this gives me nostalgia for dial-up message boards.
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[23:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ask the Russians - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:25] <exec> 08└─whether they are missing a submarine again?
[23:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02RTFA - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:27] <exec> 08└─The Russians have scuttled so many subs, they wouldn't know if they were missing one today. Dumped whole reactors, complete with rods, along with nuclear components and waste. The sea was their scrap yard. TFA has a photo of partially disassembled submarines, sitting at the edge of the water. TFA sp...
[23:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask the Russians - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:29] <exec> 08└─This [postimg.org] would be the likely result.
[23:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 2766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─Just to head it off at the pass, a couple weeks after the samples were taken a cooling fan in a hydrogen cooled alternator on a PWR reactor in France blew its bearings resulting in the alternator blowing up at that nuclear plant. Being a PWR and being an explosion in the cooling system of an alterna...
[23:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:33] <exec> 08└─It could be worse . . . Oh, I thought those beakers of yellow fluid were apple juice. So I drank them. I was wondering why I was glowing in the dark last night.
[23:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:35] <exec> 08└─Appreciate you heading off pointless speculation. But, let's speculate about that Russian graveyard. Maybe someone tried to fire up an old, cold reactor?
[23:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:37] <exec> 08└─> It can NOT be fukushima contamination because that reactor broke a couple years ago. The chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said in October 2015 that "Recriticality is physically impossible." http://www.fukushimaminponews.com [fukushimaminponews.com] However, it's not im...
[23:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:4, Informative) 02Probably not: - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:40] <exec> 08└─All they detected was iodine 131. It's short half life so it'd something new. If it was from fission products you'd likely see other isotopes characteristic of that. More likely is an unreported accident with a medical source. We can detect awfully small amounts of such radioactives. That's one of t...
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably not: - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. Medicine uses tiny amounts. Basically thyroid ablation and perhaps scanning for iodine uptake (although I123 is replacing I131 for scanning). There was a story of someone who received I131 for thyroid ablation and then their RV set off a radiation sensor in a tunnel in NY. The radioactive...
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a test - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─Godzilla was just unfrozen and they've been trying to knock him out with some small nukes. The Japanese government could not be reached for comment.
[23:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a test - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:46] <exec> 08└─Trump had a meltdown.
[23:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score:2) 02Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─All nukes are banned by international agreement in the Antarctic Treaty. No reactors, no bombs. There was 1, deactivated in 1972, that ran for over a decade powering Mcmurdo station. It was poorly designed and unreliable, so they took it out. Due to leakage and risk, no further reactors were planned...
[23:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:51] <exec> 08└─Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
[23:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:53] <exec> 08└─Bing Maps user detected.
[23:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:55] <exec> 08└─All nukes are banned by international agreement in the Antarctic Treaty.
[23:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dirty bomb in Sweden - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:57] <exec> 08└─Trump tipped us off to it last Friday. The mainstream press is covering it up, of course.
[23:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty bomb in Sweden - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:59] <exec> 08└─They're covering it up because they hate it when he's right about Muslims and terrorism.
[23:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:12] <exec> 08└─THE 1812 OVERTURE WILL DO THAT.
[23:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:The pessimist in me: cure for balding - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:16] <exec> 08└─Mr. Ballmer would like to blame Linux as the cause for hearing loss, baldness and impotence. But Linux is not the cause.
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm deaf to human speech in my left ear - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─That sounds like speech discrimination more than hearing loss. That's the term my doctor used. I sometimes have difficulty understanding speech in a loud noisy environment. But I can tell if a CRT television (remember those?) is turned on in the other room just by the ultrasonic sound from the yoke....
[23:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Drugs counter hearing loss. - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:24] <exec> 08└─TIL "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll" is a folk remedy.
[23:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Drugs counter hearing loss. - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:26] <exec> 08└─If you have two, you can get the third.
[23:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Reminder: Tylenol and Ibuprofen Cause Hearing Loss - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:28] <exec> 08└─Everyone should know that these common pain meds can cause hearing loss in small doses (from most to least damaging, but this ordering depends on the specific studies you look at): Naproxen (Aleve)Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin)Acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin, Excedrin)Acetaminophen (Tylenol) (can be very d...
[23:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminder: Tylenol and Ibuprofen Cause Hearing L - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:30] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info, I had been hoping it was temporary. :(
[23:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Injections? - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:32] <exec> 08└─Hell man, I drank mine. Now my belly does strange things at concerts!
[23:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"snubbed their own IT experts" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:54] <exec> 08└─That almost sounds like Twitter!
[23:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wake-up call - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, a vast conspiracy to prevent the advancement of medical knowledge... Or as some like to call it, bureaucracy! Now go feed the leopard!!
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:19] <exec> 08└─Ask Simon Tatham. He works for ARM, he's a nice guy, he helped me out (actually discovered that I was using a glibc with an ARM-only bug) when I was porting his puzzle collection to a weird Korean handheld console. His repository is also available if you want to compile yourself. The key format? Not...
[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:mobaxterm - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:25] <exec> 08└─Someone give this man an upvote. MobaXterm is easy to use, has tabs, uses the standard SSH keys, and embeds an X11 server and gnu for windows (think cygwin). Installation takes about 2mins from start to finish, and is truly painless.
[23:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:31] <exec> 08└─I was about to say "not true", but then checked just to make sure. As it turns out, the standard sftp client can resume partial transfers if you pass the "-a" flag. Wow, that's something I wish I'd learned earlier. Is that a new feature? I have to think I checked the man pages before downloading PuT...
[23:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02ZOC - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─I've used ZOC [emtec.com]. I began using it back in the late '90s when it was just for plain ol' dial-up and telnet, and supported OS/2 and Windows 95. I used it to dial-in to local BBSs and play MUDs. It supports the REXX scripting language, which made it great for playing BBS games and MUDs. Since...
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score:1) 02Re:Happened in Canada already - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─Well, even though "aclarke" didn't mention it, the CBC is pretty clear about "This is That" being satire. I will admit to beign fooled for a little while for a few minutes when I've turned on the radio and caught them part way through a broadcast. This one is a pretty funny video: http://www.cbc.ca
[23:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet definition - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:34] <exec> 08└─Under internet "stand your ground" law, you should not have apologised - you did nothing wrong.
[23:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:easy one if they would have the balls - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:23] <exec> 08└─Did the Benghazi pedo pizza place have the biggest crowds ever during the Swedish Bowling Green massacre with Iraqi WMDs?
[23:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:respond to force with force - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:26] <exec> 08└─Don't know why this was modded flamebait ^. It reflects cycnicism quite similar to posts above it. That said - despite the problems we have with incompetent and corrupt governments, I believe we have a problem when corporations are telling governments how things are going to be. The old tail wagging...
[23:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:respond to force with force - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:28] <exec> 08└─When I found out Jobs went out of his way to not pay the tag tax on his cars I knew pretty much everything I needed to know about him and taxes. He built his companies on the same tax structure. Look at how Apple, Pixar, NeXT, and Disney run themselves. Some of those are now just Apple and Disney. T...
[23:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:These 'cases' always lack in context quotes... - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:53] <exec> 08└─You misread. She did NOT sleep with him. Read closer, please.
[23:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:03] <exec> 08└─you haven't been working around 30-and-under Millennial brogrammers for your whole profession
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