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[00:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Who flies AWACS? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:28] <exec> 08└─And those missile-carrying thingies in the sky? Guess that branch of the military doesn't matter, just boats 'n grunts.
[00:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:43] <exec> 08└─To be a bit more precise: reactors 1, 2 and 3 were loaded at the time, and all melted down after the cooling systems failed. They had stopped automatically during the quake by rod insertion, but exponential decay is a bitch, so they were still too hot (tens of MW) to survive. Reactor 4 was empty, bu...
[00:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02Probably not: - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:44] <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...
[00:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty bomb in Sweden - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:54] <exec> 08└─These are very bad people folks. We know they're bad, they know they're bad, but it seems that we aren't allowed to do anything about it. They tell me its because of some old paper. Let me tell you, I love the constitution. Big fan. But when I can't keep my own countrymen safe because of it, then it...
[00:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty bomb in Sweden - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:56] <exec> 08└─... and he promised he wouldn't tell that we secretly started up our nuclear weapons program again after some 60 years of being mothballed.
[00:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:11] <exec> 08└─> 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. And I was a musician, and built my own subs (didn't go for the self build speakers though, I had a preference for Mission and KEF myself). I loved...
[00:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm deaf to human speech in my left ear - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:20] <exec> 08└─Wait- I thought that was normal. You mean people can actually understand each other at bars or airports or meetings? It would explain a lot of social iterations I'm puzzled by.
[00:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Business -> Bankruptcy; Government -> MORE MONE - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:35] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. When a business goes bankrupt, somebody buys the assets along with the various workers and the incompetent owner gets a golden parachute. As far as the government goes, it's your own damn fault for continually voting for incompetent politicians that promise to destroy the government by sto...
[00:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cancer research - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:58] <exec> 08└─That implies that we're anywhere near the point where there's a cure for cancers in general. What's more, this seems like a modified version of the prisoner's dilemma. Yes, it would technically be more profitable for them to futz around and get nothing accomplished, but then other people would get t...
[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ECC - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:36] <exec> 08└─NIST Removes Cryptography Algorithm from Random Number Generator Recommendations [nist.gov] Following a public comment period and review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on random number generators. Before implem...
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:must-have feature - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry everyone, I didn't read corey's post.
[00:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is a Michelin Star? - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─The Michelin one has a transgender bathroom, for what it's worth.
[00:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:17] <exec> 08└─Are you round?
[00:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should have waited - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:18] <exec> 08└─> Do I have to pay income tax if I live on a dwarf planet? Stop terraforming taxation!
[00:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:41] <exec> 08└─If he thought that you were implying that the planets stop at Jupiter, and that Saturn..Neptune don't count as planets in your eyes, then he's cleary having a argument with an imaginary opponent. It's true you could have worded it in a more spoon-feedy manner, but it was clear enough what you meant,...
[00:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprimise - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:45] <exec> 08└─So it should be awarded an honorary posthumous planethood?
[00:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:49] <exec> 08└─You're either making an very clever-yet-subtle joke about some people still thinking that the sun revolves around the earth, or I'm not sure I understand your post. I hope I haven't just explained the joke, I'd hate for those who don't deserve to get it to get it. A bit like my STDs.
[00:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:00] <exec> 08└─Neptune has gravitationally captured pluto/charon. There are thousands of objects that even jupiter hasn't cleared from its orbit, they're stuck in synchronised orbits, sometimes even simply phase-shifted identical orbits - that's right, it hasn't even cleared things from its own path - because of t...
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:03] <exec> 08└─No, it was the user interface that had more buttons but less options.
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─XFCE is good in that that don't change anything for the worse. But bad in that they don't change anything period. I sometimes (every ~2 years) wonder if has been disbanded.
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:12] <exec> 08└─Two notes for people who run into similar situations. The path length limit can be avoided by prepending \\?\ to the path. UNC doesn't have the same limit. I, sadly, have to use that workaround in Explorer a little too often, usually to delete files put there by some program or another. Also, I thin...
[00:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:15] <exec> 08└─The path length limit can be avoided by prepending \\?\ to the path.
[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no homeschooling??? - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─What do you do about the middle of Australia then? There is lots of vast nothingness. Getting a full classroom of kids could mean commuting hundreds of miles. Do you not have any bad neighborhoods? Seriously, I don't believe that. Forcing a well-behaved smart kid to go to a bad school is child abuse...
[00:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:46] <exec> 08└─You're paying now, and you're paying again when the panels fail and you find out the warranty is worthless because the vendor's gone out of business due to excessive warranty claims.
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[01:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02low-tech version - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:29] <exec> 08└─A flock of 2000 pigeons was released over the Brooklyn Navy Yard last year. /article.pl?sid=16/05/06/2318211 [soylentnews.org]
[01:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:30] <exec> 08└─Nothing the americans do is for peace. They want to start nuclear wars and WW3 is on its way. What will happen afterwards is anybody's guess. What the world needs today is quick death penalty for anyone who proposes war as a solution for anything. First these people create problems then propose thei...
[01:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:33] <exec> 08└─War is the hygiene of the world.
[01:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:47] <exec> 08└─What makes you think an old reactor is cold? It may well be less active than it used to be, but it's likely to be significantly active for thousands of years. (That said, so is granite, but it takes a long time for a reactor to cool down to be a low as granite.) I find it quite plausible than an old...
[01:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty bomb in Sweden - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:02] <exec> 08└─Swedes debate "no go zones" [rt.com]
[01:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Isn't it obvious? - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:03] <exec> 08└─The Predators turned on their underground pyramid playroom deep in the Arctic for a new hunt... Hollywood says so! My money's on the Xenomorph.
[01:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is a clue - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:06] <exec> 08└─They are getting you ready to hear the big news. The news will be that nuclear war has broken out. These "incidents" are a clue to what is coming for the world that was planned well over a century ago. The secret societies responsible for this "incident" need to be reminded that some intelligent peo...
[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:must-have feature - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:46] <exec> 08└─Needs to have a Dual_EC_DRBG RNG or it isn't fit for purpose!
[01:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''biscuits crisps fries boot tannoy snog'' - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:26] <exec> 08└─So, if you're a Brit and you make dough and **don't use eggs or sugar**, roll it out thick, cut it into cylinders (or whatever) kinda like scones, [google.com] and bake that, what do you call that? I saw this story in the queue and investigated a bit and came up with "tea biscuits". Close? -- Origin...
[01:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''here is much better'' - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:52] <exec> 08└─the climate [...] here is much better [than in California] Clearly, your current residence is in Heaven. What do you guys do for fun there besides ride around on clouds? [and the geography here is is much better than in California] In SoCal, it's a short ride to the beach (for folks who aren't alrea...
[01:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Joseph Swan's light bulb - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:09] <exec> 08└─Those had such a short service life that you had better buy them by the dozen. You'll need to keep a kerosene lamp around as well, otherwise you'll be waiting till sunrise to replace the Swan bulb that just burned out. Incandescent bulbs didn't really get to be practical [wikipedia.org] until tungst...
[01:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:01] <exec> 08└─Adj. 1 pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body.
[01:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:10] <exec> 08└─It doesn't. This is absurd claim to make particularly since we know more than those people thousands of years ago, and we'd have to exclude Neptune and Uranus as well because they weren't known for thousands of years.
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[02:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Raising my hat... - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:40] <exec> 08└─All the respect I'm able of for the "organisational/process engineering subordinated to the physical world reality" approach.
[02:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02whee - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:41] <exec> 08└─whether libraries ought to have a separate reference-room for ladies.
[02:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:53] <exec> 08└─Designing advanced weapons can't be outsourced... Keeping people scared of impotent enemies supports US jobs programs. Also, if you want to fly lots of drones safely, don't reinvent the wheel, ask the video games guys: Quite a few years back, Supreme Commander 2 already had some pretty impressive ro...
[02:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score:1) 02What could possibly go wrong? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:54] <exec> 08└─1. Globally connected defense systems 2. Semiautonomous detection of threats 3. Complex networks of systems including someday drones Nope, nothing to worry about here. -- cheers, ben
[02:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:14] <exec> 08└─Caesium-137 has a half-life >30 years. Perhaps you mentioned it in error? Iodine-131 has a half life of ~8 days; the Le Monde article translated in and linked from the summary says that the levels of iodine-131 detected in France are 1/1000 of what was measured after 11 March 2011. It doesn't explic...
[02:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Of course - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:30] <exec> 08└─Blame Russia. Because - Russia!
[02:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:44] <exec> 08└─THE 1812 OVERTURE WILL DO THAT.
[02:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Three sci fi plots - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:52] <exec> 08└─And cheap companies will only give a 50% shot so you'll never hear right.
[02:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The "sharks" of AI, oh dear - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, non-vaporware products are never involved in mismanagement.
[02:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:KiTTY - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─A PuTTY fork?
[02:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually, TFA is about transgender/intersex iss - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:23] <exec> 08└─I had to RTFA because this seemed like some bullshit trolling... TFA really does end with some social commentary about transwhatevers. How the fuck has society gotten to the point where a (formerly) respectable publication such as the BBC can print this tripe? We get it, you're insecure or want to b...
[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:38] <exec> 08└─s/less/more
[02:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02off-topic - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─Wait, so why can't we edit comments, at least for a few days or so? For that extra row feeling? Russians have a good saying: a word is not a sparrow: if you let it go, no way to catch it. Is that a climate we are cultivating here?
[02:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:no homeschooling??? - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:07] <exec> 08└─What do you do about the middle of Australia then? There is lots of vast nothingness. Getting a full classroom of kids could mean commuting hundreds of miles.
[02:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:no homeschooling??? - 06Carbon Fibre Makes Australian Debut - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:08] <exec> 08└─What do you do about the middle of Australia then?
[02:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Projection is not just a river in Egypt - 06Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviewed in Sydney - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:26] <exec> 08└─The claim is not that the obtaining or release of the information has no political angle - clearly that's untrue - but rather that the information itself is released as-is, not an interpretation or summary but the raw text after ethical redactions. They have not been perfect on any portion of this,...
[02:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:28] <exec> 08└─You're paying now, and you're paying again when the panels fail and you find out the warranty is worthless because the vendor's gone out of business due to excessive warranty claims.
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[03:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Not quite reassuring... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:35] <exec> 08└─When a software company, which has a "patch day" every month and requires AV scans [soylentnews.org], steps into the design of operating rooms... I don't know, it's an uneasy feeling to say the least.
[03:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Not quite reassuring... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:37] <exec> 08└─I'm getting a broken bone(r) just thinking about this: OMG, NOOOO! MS needs to redesign the operating room so it can be its first patient and DIE ALREADY!!
[03:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Raising my hat... - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:46] <exec> 08└─Empyricism! Yeah it's the way to go.
[03:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You may have opened one of the gates of hell - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:49] <exec> 08└─If you want to see real flames, check out the debates over handwriting here: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com [fountainpennetwork.com] And probably a good idea to stay away from the calligraphy forum, as well: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com
[03:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:19] <exec> 08└─I indeed meant Iodine, since the 8-day half-life is what makes it unlikely. I'm not a specialist of the atmosphere, but I assume that getting up to the upper troposphere takes a little while, and with sensors now everywhere in the Daiichi exclusion zone, it's quite unlikely nobody would have noticed...
[03:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:52] <exec> 08└─a way to actually sleep properly There are drugs for that too, of course.
[03:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes you "governmental", not "private" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─Doing so makes you a government;
[03:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay corruption! - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─I'm getting so tired of it all, I really wish people would stop shitting in their own milk.
[03:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why is parent marked Troll? - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─Was the single word "whore" what caused that? The questions and conclusion seem to be on the mark: It the MANUFACTURERS who provide device driver support. That's the way it works--no matter what OS you're using. Linux has an additional wedge with the Linux Driver Project, but if those guys can't eve...
[03:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:52] <exec> 08└─No, the biggest problem is that there are so many big problems that it gets hard to decide which ones are the biggest :).
[03:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:57] <exec> 08└─That's because it's getting popular enough to screw up. Seriously it feels as if the developers are _sabotaging_ Desktop Linux. Whenever Microsoft screws up (Vista, Metro), they make Desktop Linux even worse.
[03:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 3504 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:58] <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...
[03:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:10] <exec> 08└─My biggest issue with the binary log format is I can't easily glue syslogd to it. At a previous job, I would have syslog send all logs to a central source so I could easily check any machine in the cluster. The *sane* thing would be to do is make journald output to syslogd, and then provide a binary...
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[04:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─I've never given hospital or ER layout a lot of thought. (That despite the fact that I helped to build a hospital, believe it or not.) But, there must be something called "standards" involved. Probably different, competing standards. A big city traumy unit probably uses a different standard than a s...
[04:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:48] <exec> 08└─"They want to start nuclear wars and WW3 is on its way" The USA and Russia have been reducing their respective nuclear stockpiles for many years [fas.org]. If either really _wanted_ a nuclear war we'd have had one a long time ago. The fact that we haven't had a nuclear war yet sure isn't due to a la...
[04:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Which comes first, Skynet or Cylons? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:50] <exec> 08└─You just know that the spec will be for a completely air-gapped secure network, and somebody down the line will realize how much money they could save with a VPN . . .
[04:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm deaf to human speech in my left ear - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:51] <exec> 08└─Weird trick for noisy environments like that. You see people plug the ear facing away from the person they're trying to listen to. Doesn't help much. Instead, try plugging the ear *towards* the person you're trying to listen to and you'll find them much easier to hear. I dramatically increases the s...
[04:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Riiiiiiiight - 06Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:48] <exec> 08└─"EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland." "and suggesting the Commission pay Apple's costs into the bargain." Funny but this sounds like the same logic stream I get from my 4 year old grandson.
[04:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02All about the defaults - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:34] <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.
[04:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Going the Other Way - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:55] <exec> 08└─This only works if you're directly passing UNC paths to OpenFile()/etc, and you still have an upper limit of 32k kilobytes to command line arguments (a hardcoded constrain on CreateProcess as far as I can tell) which causes headaches when compiling extremely large software packages. As for case-sens...
[04:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope undefined... - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:04] <exec> 08└─On the topic of network mangler, simply define the interface in /etc/network/interfaces on Ubuntu, and NM will mark it as "disabled" in the UI and will not try to change it. I do this with the ethernet adapter on my desktop, while leaving NM control wifi because dealing with WPA on the command line...
[04:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Race to the Bottom - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fuck minimum community standards. Race to the bottom!
[04:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Uber - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:47] <exec> 08└─Well, you will be even more SHOCKED when you hail uber in Arizona and are picked by a driverless autobot. You can have a conversation with a computer screen. Clippy will be your chauffeur today.
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[05:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:32] <exec> 08└─The thing about standards is there are so many to choose from. Operating rooms are no longer one size fits all, and haven't been for a long time. ORs are as specialized as the disciplines that use them. Does Microsoft really think open heart surgery is performed in the same theater where Tonsils are...
[05:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:33] <exec> 08└─But, there must be something called "standards" involved.
[05:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:36] <exec> 08└─I've never given hospital or ER layout a lot of thought. (That despite the fact that I helped to build a hospital, believe it or not.)
[05:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02No kidding, shared operating rooms? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:38] <exec> 08└─You may not be aware of it, but surgical disciplines from general, to urologic, orthopedic, cardiac, and ear nose and throat (ENT) use shared operating rooms.
[05:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Confused company - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:40] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one feeling like Microsoft has lost its way (for better or worse)? They used to be the desktop & office juggernaut, steamrolling through everything in that space, with determinism and heavy business muscle. These days there's a whimpering of progress on Win 10 (mobile/tablet/desktop),...
[05:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Typewriter? - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:51] <exec> 08└─Weren't typewriters already invented by this time?
[05:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typewriter? - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:52] <exec> 08└─Article: "Though the newly invented typewriter was beginning to take hold, it took time and effort to teach the art of "machine writing." Librarians still had to handwrite their catalog cards." They were probably fairly prone to mechanical problems also. What we saw in the 1970's had collected sever...
[05:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Who flies AWACS? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:01] <exec> 08└─Those "missile-carrying things" are called F-35's, which can't fly when it's wet, the gun doesn't work, the newest missiles break the wings, and just for fun cost something like $220 million each and nobody is saying how much to maintain for each flight hour. So yeah, last thing we want to do is get...
[05:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Three sci fi plots - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:04] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I doubt that stimulated hair growth will provide any improved hearing for normal (evolved for millions of years) people. It is a miraculous cure for people who have lost their hearing after hair loss, but even they probably don't return to hearing as good as "normal." Kind of like the blind...
[05:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:17] <exec> 08└─I generally just use rsync for file transfers instead of dealing with scp/sftp's weird command line options. Has the bonus of acting exactly the same for local and remote transfers.
[05:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Joseph Swan's light bulb - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:54] <exec> 08└─Working and working well are two different concepts.
[05:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:i don't understand this - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:59] <exec> 08└─None of the science matter is affected by classifying Pluto one way or the other, so the state of knowledge is irrelevant for the purposes of evaluating how traditional something is.
[05:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 3033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:39] <exec> 08└─Like the AC said, KDE has had this, and much more, for a very long time under the name of "KIO"; I used it as far back as KDE 3.5, and it's one of the things that made me switch to KDE from WindowMaker, despite being happy with WM. It uses standard URI style naming, so any KDE application with an op...
[05:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:There are some 'advantages' to Communism - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:27] <exec> 08└─That isn't all of it. Another important distinction is base load is usually sources that can't be started and stopped quickly. Remember that the grid has zero storage, power generated must equal power consumed second by second or bad things happen. So for example a nuke plant is always base load sin...
[05:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:54] <exec> 08└─Ok, I missed the shift in units. Knew you had actually worked some numbers there. After pondering a few hours though, I find it amazing how people fret about some CO2 emissions that are inside the recorded geological variation and then many of the same folks will calmly discuss paving the entire Sah...
[05:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:...and energy storage... - 06Fukushima Radiation Exceeds Chernobyl's Worst - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:55] <exec> 08└─After pondering a few hours though, I find it amazing how people fret about some CO2 emissions
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[06:07:29] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02It all depends on the weight function, of course - 06Anagram Scoring - 2901 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:29] <exec> 08└─There's no unique best weight function. Most will boil down to deciding on a fixed set of operational primitives, and their costs, for all such evaluations, and then you select the shortest "program" using those primitives that performs the anagram. His primitives are "split string" with cost 1, and...
[06:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02rec.puzzles FAQ from the old days of Usenet - 06Anagram Scoring - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:30] <exec> 08└─Lists the longest "well-mixed transposal" as CINEMATOGRAPHER, MEGACHIROPTERAN (15 letters).
[06:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:rec.puzzles FAQ from the old days of Usenet - 06Anagram Scoring - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:33] <exec> 08└─Never mind, it's probably the same guy who put the entries in the FAQ, and this entry is already mentioned. I can't figure out how to delete this.
[06:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:46] <exec> 08└─this has been a profound and insightful contribution to the discussion here!
[06:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:47] <exec> 08└─Done. Probably. We have standards, maybe.
[06:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused company - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:52] <exec> 08└─They're not even embracing, extending & extinguishing well any more!
[06:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:11] <exec> 08└─I feel for you bro. G/f's recently suffered almost complete hearing loss (70-80dB) in one ear, with added tinnitus to boot. One of her (indeed our) joys is music, too. A local doctor saw her almost immediately, and prescribed betaserc, thioctacid, and medrol, and that appears to be doing some good....
[06:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Found the problem - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:32] <exec> 08└─Screen isnt available on cygwin? wrong. and if cygwin is slow for you, maybe you need a modern machine to run windows on.
[06:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Predictability - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:56] <exec> 08└─I've had similar issues. My guess to you is part of your desktop manager is crashing. Underneath everything is an annoying web of cross application messaging running through everything that wants to listen to it. Likely the desktop sees the message of a new mount and wants to play a notification sou...
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whinge - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─Ugh, I had a scrambled desktop too after updates. Somehow messing with a font package that doesn't get installed properly (isn't the package manager supposed to check that?) fixes it.
[06:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:26] <exec> 08└─Changing everything all the time because "ooh shiny!" also includes throwing out the baby with the bathwater that is Wayland. While at work we've migrated all the Windows apps to remote app servers, some linux desktop people want to remove that functionality because "X is broken". It is f'n not brok...
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[07:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:rec.puzzles FAQ from the old days of Usenet - 06Anagram Scoring - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:36] <exec> 08└─So the first two posters in the thread, thee and me, refer to usenet. Seems like these youngsters keep rediscovering stuff that's already on our lawn, and should get off it!
[07:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused company - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:56] <exec> 08└─Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not unhappy they've relented on the triple-E! I was just offering it as another example of them not seeming to do anything well/not take anything serious any more. (I mean, they don't even toss chairs like they used to...)
[07:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typewriter? - 06Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:10] <exec> 08└─Valuable information! Looking forward to seeing your notes posted. Thank you for sharing the nice article. Good to see your article. http://appsforsys.com [appsforsys.com]
[07:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Who flies AWACS? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:20] <exec> 08└─Those "missile-carrying things" are called F-35's,
[07:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:20] <exec> 08└─The same thing happened to me. Got an ear infection and turned out to be a viral infection. Have no idea how or where I picked it up. Long story short, mine was termed Sudden Sensory Hearing Loss and they fed me corticosteroids for it to try and save my hearing. It went from completely deaf to now h...
[07:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:22] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention that once you buy the White Noise App, all the sounds are free to download. You have a maximum you can download of 5 per day unless you use a Facebook login (unlimited then). You can really customize the app to still wake you up by alarm in the morning but it's a good idea to hav...
[07:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:24] <exec> 08└─I've fucking massacred these posts. I'm sorry for the mess but I'm doing it from a tablet and it's a pain in the ass to get it right and perfect. It also strips out all the damn paragraphs.... Here is the CBC link article http://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca]
[07:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The pessimist in me: cure for balding - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:30] <exec> 08└─I don't understand people. I would love to go bald so I'd never need to wash, brush, and cut my hair. How much time and money do you waste doing that?
[07:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes you "governmental", not "private" - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:04] <exec> 08└─Why have you put "private" in quotes? It's a word that appears neither in the summary, nor the article itself. Who are you quoting? Or are you trying to build a straw man? In either case - what does the "that" refer to? There are many noun phrases in that article, it's not obvious which one you are...
[07:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wake-up call - 06Mismanagement Sinks IBM Watson Partnership With University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:14] <exec> 08└─It's all a big conspiracy
[07:15:21] <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 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:21] <exec> 08└─Seems there's at least one more person who thinks Uber's culture sucks: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Is that enough for "context"?
[07:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Not normal - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:30] <exec> 08└─Late comment, so probably you won't see the reply. However, I spent the first half of my career in the US, so I *do* have a good view of both sides of the pond. What I cannot judge, is what another commenter claims: that there has been a generational change. That the younger generation of programmer...
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[08:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02But, but .... - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:18] <exec> 08└─Coming from some posters: But the sun doesn't shine 24 hours/day! Renewables cannot be used!
[08:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:20] <exec> 08└─Create panic by presenting numbers and news without context. Numbers: There are more than 1,600,000 active wells [fractracker.org] in the US. Of those, more than 100,000 are fracked [fracfocus.org]. Spills from 6600 over 10 years means: on average there was a spill from 0.04% of the wells, or 0.6% o...
[08:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:22] <exec> 08└─The numbers may be low but it all depends on how severe and long-lasting the damage from these spills is. IE: If something is severe enough even a single one out of a million could be a deal breaker.
[08:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:It all depends on the weight function, of cours - 06Anagram Scoring - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:36] <exec> 08└─> There's no unique best weight function. That's the only correct answer. "Best" here means something along the lines of "what surprises people most". But not everybody has the same appreciation for anagrams. Some people like anagrams that yield related words, others anagrams that are "as mixed as p...
[08:07:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Not quite reassuring... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:46] <exec> 08└─When a software company, which has a "patch day" every month and requires AV scans [soylentnews.org], steps into the design of operating rooms... I don't know, it's an uneasy feeling to say the least.
[08:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:25] <exec> 08└─War is the hygiene of the world.
[08:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:43] <exec> 08└─Do not bite any spiders.
[08:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:58] <exec> 08└─You do understand the difference between the Arctic and the Antarctic don't you?
[08:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:52] <exec> 08└─It is simple really. There are no biscuits anymore. A biscuit is twice (bi) baked (scuit). If it is not baked twice it is not a biscuit by definition. Modern manufacturers use faster and more efficient means to save costs and reduce price. As a consequence there are no biscuits anymore. (No, those...
[08:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (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)
[08:16:51] <exec> 08└─So for example a nuke plant is always base load since once you crank one up it takes a long time to cool it back down safely
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[09:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nigger Seed in Mother Earth Crack - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:33] <exec> 08└─I frack dat bitch and spray mah big buck nigger seed in yo mother earth crack.
[09:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Not quite reassuring... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:07] <exec> 08└─"I don't know, it's an uneasy feeling to say the least." I always thought the same when I heard about their Windows for Warships effort, though they do not seem to have started any wars yet doing it. https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[09:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The pessimist in me: cure for balding - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:46] <exec> 08└─Living requires wasting quite a bit of time and money but generally people don't try to kill themselves.
[09:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02What's changed? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:05] <exec> 08└─The fly-by still happened, and we still got the same data from it we would have done otherwise. How was any of that affected by what nomenclature we assign it? And the proposed new definition makes even less sense. By including satellites such as the Moon (which is still a large object, but the...
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[10:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:39] <exec> 08└─TFA's claim of "up to 16%" is nonsense.
[10:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Et tu, BBC? - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:41] <exec> 08└─Is it not enough that the US lame media spreads false news, now those brits do the same? Oh, what this world has become! (large grin)
[10:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rec.puzzles FAQ from the old days of Usenet - 06Anagram Scoring - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:59] <exec> 08└─I can't figure out how to delete this. nn: While reading the message within the newsgroup, press C (Shift-c). tin: While reading the message within the newsgroup, press D (Shift-d). You must be reading the message, not just have it highlighted on the article selection screen. Trumpet: View the artic...
[10:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Another scoring algorithm... - 06Anagram Scoring - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:02] <exec> 08└─... a couple of completely different scoring algorithms are "how common are the words" (e.g. skim many documents and look to see what sort of words come up) and "are the words related" (e.g. skim many documents and look for commonality between different words to train a neural network). He hints at...
[10:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 1624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:14] <exec> 08└─When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. And Microsoft is looking for something to use their expensive hammers on. I don't think sub-optimal operating theatres are a real problem. The main problem I see is doctors in hospitals around the world seem to be rather overworked. That's likely...
[10:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not quite reassuring... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:20] <exec> 08└─This kind of stuff during a war?!!?! Good Lord! I had to look at your URL several times to make sure it wasn't the onion. Micrium's uCOSII for that kind of thing! As far as the pretty eye-candy displays go, new companies such as Nextium are coming up with some beautiful architectures which isolat...
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[11:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Meh... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:21] <exec> 08└─They both suck... ;-)
[11:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:23] <exec> 08└─Ikr, who uses stock coolers lol
[11:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Sheesh. - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:25] <exec> 08└─Don't get this guy started on Windows vs Linux! Yikes!
[11:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Sheesh. - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:27] <exec> 08└─> Don't get this guy started on Windows vs Linux! Yikes! or vi vs emacs. The world would be turned into a wasteland by the end of the year!
[11:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02QED - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:30] <exec> 08└─> read first 5 words of TFTitle > it's vodka
[11:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But, but .... - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone has said solar can't be used, but it does have the problem of a very large part of it can't be stored currently, so it can't be used all by itself, and that is also the problem of windpower. I think you are just being a douche trying to stir up the pot with that comment.
[11:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:KiTTY - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:30] <exec> 08└─It's more of a PuTTY enhancement, as they rebase their code, whenever a new version of PuTTY comes out. The current version is based on PuTTY 0.67.
[11:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:55] <exec> 08└─I thought this was the definition used to settle the 1991 case mentioned in the summary.
[11:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:What's changed? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:19] <exec> 08└─New Horizons was very much the people's probe. It was built and launched because the people gave high priority to the mission of visiting the last unvisited planet that we knew of. If Pluto had been demoted even earlier, New Horizons might never have happened. Why politics? Well, why else was the re...
[11:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:43] <exec> 08└─Fixed? You must be using KDE 4. KDE 5 crashes, freezes and/or displays weird behavior all the time, at least in Fedora. Certain notifications (e.g., deleting a note from the desktop) will consistently freeze plasma, others (e.g., network connection established) may or may not, while others, such as...
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[12:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:2, Interesting) 02So sad, right before Ryzen and Vega releases - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:39] <exec> 08└─Ryzen 7 1800X 3,6 GHz 4,0 GHz 95W $499 Core i7 6900K ($1089) Ryzen 7 1700X 3,4 GHz 3,8 GHz 95W $399 Core i7 6800K ($434) Ryzen 7 1700 3,0 GHz 3,7 GHz 65W $329 Core i7 7700K ($339)
[12:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fans - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:41] <exec> 08└─The difference between fans on graphics cards and fans of graphics cards: Fans on graphics cards remove heat. Fans of graphics cards add heat.
[12:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:43] <exec> 08└─How many times can you stab someone to death?
[12:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:45] <exec> 08└─Once. At a certain point after that it is either an aerobic workout, or art.
[12:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:47] <exec> 08└─How many times can you stab someone to death?
[12:08:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:08:03] <exec> 08└─TFA's claim of "up to 16%" is nonsense.
[12:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Insightful) 02again - 06Anagram Scoring - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:25] <exec> 08└─The best anagrams are those indistinguishable from normal utterances that also tell things about the subject. MEANING is involved. To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune = In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tra...
[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably not: - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─The manufacturers of isotopes for medical use produce more than tiny amounts. TFA says the last time an I131 release happened was in 2011, only a few months after Fukushima. There apparently was a faulty filter at the Institute of Isotopes Ltd., Budapest. Their source: http://journals.plos.org
[12:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What's changed? - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:41] <exec> 08└─Well, why else was the redefinition of planet done so hastily? Why the rush?
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[13:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02conclusion... - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:24] <exec> 08└─"An implication of our research is that it puts the emphasis fi rmly on the family in terms of understanding the considerable fraction of adiposity determination. Speci fi cally, we need to look no further than the simple biological process of genetic inheritance from parents to child; and what happ...
[13:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2) 02So... who won the argument? AMD or nVidia? - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:42] <exec> 08└─I'd at least like to know which bunch of fanbois are more stabby!
[13:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:So... who won the argument? AMD or nVidia? - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:43] <exec> 08└─The Nvidia guy "won," but really I'd say that they both lost.
[13:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Soviet Russia... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:45] <exec> 08└─Graphics card kills you!
[13:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Teh Baron - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:47] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what you get when you get into an argument with Baron Vladimir Harkonnen!
[13:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02theonion - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:49] <exec> 08└─Hmm, after seeing other news from by24.org ... I wonder if it is something like "The Onion"?
[13:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02aliens - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:59] <exec> 08└─there is one problem with the summary. it assumes that the analysts are human. this bugdrop operation is simply a way of cutting costs for them, since maintaining satellite dishes in people's butts is kind of hard (this was well documented in one of the south park series of documentaries).
[13:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:02] <exec> 08└─So which government is the suspect de jour?
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[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02conclusion... - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─"An implication of our research is that it puts the emphasis fi rmly on the family in terms of understanding the considerable fraction of adiposity determination. Speci fi cally, we need to look no further than the simple biological process of genetic inheritance from parents to child; and what happ...
[14:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Fear of arrest - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:04] <exec> 08└─But since "stranger danger" and Child Overprotective Services, it's been harder for parents to let their kids even walk to the park without fear of arrest [treehugger.com].
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02I didn't RTFA - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:06] <exec> 08└─So, since I didn't RTFA, can anyone explain to me how they decided this was a causal relationship as opposed to simply correlated? I see words like "10 per cent due to their father" and I wonder how they determined it to be causal.
[14:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I didn't RTFA - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─Simple answer, they cant do what is being claimed. Also, they are misinterpreting regression coefficients: http://andrewgelman.com [andrewgelman.com] These errors are standard biomed research procedure.
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─It is good to see that there is research going on in this area, but I feel there is quite a bit more than genetic inheritance that needs to be addressed. I personally grew up in what I refer to a "food abusive" family. I literally had no control over what I could put down my own throat until the day...
[14:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Sheesh. - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:22] <exec> 08└─Well if it's waste you want, we know where you stand. Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
[14:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:QED - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─That IS a pretty hardcore hack though.
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─Hah Hah Hah LOL LOL LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Art ! Oh god y'er kill'n me ! Oh.... wait a minute....... maybe that wasn't the best choice of words .....
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─Good question. Should we use brackets to clarify? E.g. "(stab someone) to death", seeing the stabbing as a joint activity of multiple stabs accumulating in the death of the victim, or is "stab to death" referring to the stab that irrevocably initiated the transition? I would say "once". Even if you...
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2) 02So... who won the argument? AMD or nVidia? - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─I'd at least like to know which bunch of fanbois are more stabby!
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:So... who won the argument? AMD or nVidia? - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─The Nvidia guy "won," but really I'd say that they both lost.
[14:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Soviet Russia... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:40] <exec> 08└─Graphics card kills you!
[14:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:3, Funny) 02Teh Baron - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:42] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what you get when you get into an argument with Baron Vladimir Harkonnen!
[14:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02theonion - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:45] <exec> 08└─Hmm, after seeing other news from by24.org ... I wonder if it is something like "The Onion"?
[14:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02aliens - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─there is one problem with the summary. it assumes that the analysts are human. this bugdrop operation is simply a way of cutting costs for them, since maintaining satellite dishes in people's butts is kind of hard (this was well documented in one of the south park series of documentaries).
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:55] <exec> 08└─So which government is the suspect de jour?
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:57] <exec> 08└─> So which government is the suspect de jour? Pretty much any of the "five eyes". This very much falls into the "slurp every single thing we can, then we can process it later" mentality of western/NATO nations, plus the NSA built that massive DC recently, which should provide the needed infrastructu...
[14:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Et tu, BBC? - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting who you put in as Caesar (a tyrant usurping power from the republican senate) and who you put in as Brutus...
[14:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I have a solution - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:12] <exec> 08└─Order the CEO to perform the clean-up by hand, and to remain on site until it is done. That will fix the problem.
[14:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:47] <exec> 08└─Manspider, Manspider, Does whatever a man can Browse a web, any size, Catches flies just like thieves Look Out! Here comes the Manspider.
[14:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:01] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. The difference is merely an ant. Have you ever seen how small an ant is? Certainly not large enough to make a difference on a geographical region. :-)
[14:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Extremely unlikely - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─ants ? ? ?
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a clue - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─The secret societies responsible for this "incident" need to be reminded that some intelligent people still exist who see them as what they are, not as what they appear to be.
[14:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02Where's the coffee? - 06Former Uber Engineer Says Company Ignored Repeated Reports of Harassment - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:32] <exec> 08└─I'm lucky to be tall and scary and glare-y enough that most men don't try this crap with me
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[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Let's point some transmitters in that direction. Oh wait, that would be politically correct since as we know the earth is flat and roughly 6,000 years old, and the Bible doesn't say anything about these "Trappers." We need to stop this progressive madness. I'm sick of politically correct shit like "...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─Hahah, you're funny. What I'm tired of is all of this talk of "earth like" or "potentially habitable" planets that we can't really verify, and don't have any way to get to (not in our life times). AND, all of the ridiculous news articles about this with "artists renditions" of these beautiful landsc...
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─Its also not done by the actual scientists but those who translate the admittedly dry news of we discovered a planet that happens to be within the habitable zone to those of us who aren't astrophysicists. Its when it has to be dumbed down to fit within a newspaper for general consumption that extra...
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─Wow, aren't you guys a bunch of killjoys? This IS exciting news. These exoplanets are almost ideal for further study: Their relative closeness ot Earth ("only" 39 LY), the smallness of the star, the short orbital periods (lots of transits), the fact that there are no less than THREE planets in the g...
[15:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02TRAPPIST South Equipment - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:11] <exec> 08└─In case you're interested in the hardware used: http://www.trappist.ulg.ac.be [ulg.ac.be] It's a nice 60cm RC (Ritchey-Chretien, same type as Hubble) telescope with a focal length of 4.8m (at f/8), on a heavy german equatorial mount. The 'scope alone seems...
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Planet Hop from Trappist-1e! - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:13] <exec> 08└─Most important impact of the discovery: A new travel poster from JPL (and a new desktop background for my laptop)! http://www.jpl.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[15:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't RTFA - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you. This is what I expected. I am sad.
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─If there were justice in the world, that would be considered criminal child abuse, especially given what we know about the effects of obesity on overall health.
[15:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─Once. At a certain point after that it is either an aerobic workout, or art.
[15:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:48] <exec> 08└─Aerobic for you. Surely it gets more and more anaerobic for the other guy.
[15:10:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimshatt [978] 02Teh Baron - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what you get when you get into an argument with Baron Vladimir Harkonnen!
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nVidia is the best... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:58] <exec> 08└─I used to believe in AMD, just like I used to believe in a Ford. Now it's nVidia only, and Chevy.
[15:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─With the browser converging to be the one app that people use all the time, certain people are porting spy interfaces to javascript to not leave Unix users out.
[15:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:21] <exec> 08└─Don't worry folks. Under the Trump EPA no reporting will happen so nothing to worry about.
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─You little huzzy - you've got the hots for Runaway1886. You like old dudes. Why don't you put on your shortest little skirt, and expose all your cleavage, and go visit him? What's the worst thing that could happen? His wife shoots you off the porch. What's the best thing that could happen? His wife...
[15:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slightly off topic... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:12] <exec> 08└─I went in for surgery once and noticed a few Craftsman toolboxs were being used to hold instruments in the OR. Kind of funny considering I was a mechanic at the time.
[15:12:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 2766 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:54] <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...
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:46] <exec> 08└─You are right there are many kinds of hearing loss. There's a lot of things that can go wrong. I was born with severe hearing loss that has gradually gotten worse with time but it is a rare unknown type for example (best theory is something is wrong with my nervous system, I've been told I need to f...
[15:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm deaf to human speech in my left ear - 06Drug Treatment Could Combat Hearing Loss - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I always take my gaming headset on business trips with the hope of noise isolating conference calls I have to take in airports, but I'll try that the next time I have an issue.
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No HTTPS download? - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, please. HTTPS using the Certificate Authority system in-place is utterly broken when all the gov spies have signed MITM keys from gag-attached National Security Letters (along with other-region equivalents). Grab the signatures, scan the files for malware, verify the signatures with trusted keys...
[15:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Michelin stars - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:43] <exec> 08└─Instant messaging is literally killing me.
[15:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:What is a Michelin Star? - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:51] <exec> 08└─Being transgender looks expensive.
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[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02massive war of rape - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─This mostly male migration may have persisted for several generations, sending men into the arms of European women who interbred with them,
[16:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:massive war of rape - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─Interbreeding with the members of a ruling warrior elite might have been an evolutionary advantage, therefore actively pursued.
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0250% - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─the proportion of men and women in an ancestral population
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 2563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─GP here. I was being too cynical. I'm enjoying a nice cup of tea, earl grey, hot right now. I agree that the "artist renditions" are completely useless. I was looking at one and thought, "You've painted an Arctic iceberg with three moon-like objects in the sky instead of one. Yay." There are two pri...
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:TRAPPIST South Equipment - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─Very interesting link, thanks for sharing. And the unsung OS providing a glimpse into another solar system? Microsoft Windows XP Pro! Not sure how to take that, if you have to use windows, then XP/2000 is pretty much the peak of Microsoft's work. Would have nice if it was an open source OS, but what...
[16:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet Hop from Trappist-1e! - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:16] <exec> 08└─I don't know if many Americans will get the references here. Belgians are involved in this project. Trappist is a kind of beer in Belgium, hop is an ingredient. Actually trappist refers to the monks that brew the beer, so it's not really a kind of beer. Belgium still has many kinds of beer, whereas...
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Fans - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:46] <exec> 08└─In Korea, fans murder you. [wikipedia.org] In Russia, you murder fan!
[16:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:52] <exec> 08└─I'm imagining the tootsie pop owl.
[16:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:55] <exec> 08└─Unless the subject receives medical attention and resuscitation. Then you can kill them again later.
[16:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02wealth of funny wording choices - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:04] <exec> 08└─Guessing this summary was translated by somebody, LOL. for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death
[16:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:45] <exec> 08└─"What the world needs today is quick death penalty for anyone who proposes war as a solution for anything. " I too am anti-war, and I agree! Let's go kill every single ISIS member and sympathizer - en masse! Actually that sounds pretty hard for just you and me to do, maybe we should ask the Army for...
[16:13:46] <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)
[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─For small values of "properly."
[16:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:39] <exec> 08└─I did engage my brain. The point they were making was totally wrong.
[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, range of *properties*? I was reading that as "geographical range," and past Jupiter was excluded because it was common knowledge dwarf planets were in that area. Guess my eyes skated over "types" for some reason :P
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:KDE is fixed - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:45] <exec> 08└─I am thinking the difference is our versions. I haven't used Fedora but Ubuntu has been very stable for me. I am currently on KDE 5.9.2 and I like the direction they are going in. As per your complaint in 2nd paragraph, my solution was to bite the bullet and go the anti-debian way. I don't use Kate...
[16:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Desktop UI/environment - 06Linux Usability Improvements - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:19] <exec> 08└─If it ain't broke, don't fix it!! :)
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[17:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nVIDIAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─*stabs wildly* *stabs some more to make sure* *stabs again for good measure* *additional stabbing here* *stabs just in case* *considers not stabbing, stabs instead*
[17:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You do NOT KNOW that - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─You cannot just make stuff up and call it "fact".
[17:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:50% - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:25] <exec> 08└─Not true. Half female, half male would be the BIRTH RATE (more precisely, it applies only to rate of conception). Many other things can skew the sex ratio post birth: selective infanticide (in modern China, sex-selective abortion means birth rate favors boys), wars where males are killed more than f...
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Apes and Angels - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 2799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:37] <exec> 08└─> (That also assumes that at exactly 400 years from now, there's a civilization in power on one of those planets that's also capable of receiving and interpreting this signal and replying. One of the quirks of the vastness of cosmological time, is that if we find intelligent life out there capable o...
[17:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't RTFA - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:54] <exec> 08└─Somebody just took a stats course and applied methods they were shown there to draw the conclusions from the dataset they had... did they really think about it? Doubtful. Doesn't matter, got published.
[17:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Science" - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:57] <exec> 08└─Fat people have fat children, obviously genetics is the only way this could possibly happen.
[17:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02It's 2017! - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─BMI is sizist. "Obesity" is an offensive body shaming term. Now drop and give me 20 privilege checks.
[17:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's 2017! - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─Found the fatty!
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:It's 2017! - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─I think Poe's Law applies here.
[17:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Sheesh. - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:17] <exec> 08└─I would be more concerned about tabs vs spaces. Whether or not lines should end with semicolons. KDE or GNOME. (Let's not worry about the newer pipsqueak desktops that might actually be better) Scheme or Common Lisp. (Or Clojure, etc) Python 3 or 2 Pretty soon we could have a major riot. And without...
[17:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:32] <exec> 08└─If you "kill" someone, and the victim is successfully revived, could you still be charged with murder? Or would it be attempted murder?
[17:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:33] <exec> 08└─It would be interrupted murder.
[17:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:theonion - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:40] <exec> 08└─Does "The Onion" wait until someone has been convicted before calling him a criminal? Very civilised, that.
[17:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:53] <exec> 08└─suspect de jour?
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─If something is severe enough even a single one out of a million could be a deal breaker.
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─Who told you Trump will keep the EPA?
[17:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:10] <exec> 08└─The largest spill recorded involved 100,000 litres of fluid with most related to storing and moving liquids.
[17:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Et tu, BBC? - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─BBC = Brutus, Brutus and Cassius (Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus)
[17:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:rec.puzzles FAQ from the old days of Usenet - 06Anagram Scoring - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:34] <exec> 08└─(from the Soylent News FAQ)
[17:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not just surgeries... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:04] <exec> 08└─...they're designing a robotic abbatoir that uses Kinects. There's a lot of synergy between the two projects.
[17:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop pretending it's for peace - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─None of those countries is looking to send "salvos" against you or anyone. The problem is you. So all those artillery pieces just north of the DMZ in Korea don't exist? Are you stupid?
[17:13:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ben_white [5531] 02What could possibly go wrong? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─1. Globally connected defense systems 2. Semiautonomous detection of threats 3. Complex networks of systems including someday drones Nope, nothing to worry about here. -- cheers, ben
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which comes first, Skynet or Cylons? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─Automation keeps our stormtroopers out of harm's way.
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Frickin Thank You! - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─By comparison, these recent measurements are roughly 1/1000th the size of what was detected during the Fukushima incident and 1/1,000,000th the concentration found in the nuclear tainted cloud that washed across Europe following the Chernobyl disaster.
[17:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cakes go hard when stale, biscuits go soft - 06Cake or Biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes Excite Philosophers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─So whats a twinkie? Imagine Milo Yiannopoulos, but 15 years younger. Or the sorts he likes, but 10 years older.
[17:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:34] <exec> 08└─I'll try again: The term "Planet" already covers a range of bodies as diverse as gas giants (Jupiter) and small, rocky worlds (Mercury) so its never going to be sufficient as a term for classifying objects. That clear enough?
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[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nVIDIAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─Have you been drinking, sir?
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─I haven't found specs on the memory interfaces... Working on my boss to buy a new box, but we need massive memory bandwidth. I can get quad-channel DDR4 from Intel for just over a grand (CPU+mobo+RAM), will Ryzen match that, pretty pretty pretty please??
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─For over a decade I've been waiting for this. My first job involves building custom computers, and we've been watching Ryzen with massive anticipation since it was first announced. Odd thing is, now that 1) Ryzen looks like a world-beater and 2) Intel released sub-$100 2c/4t chips in the form of the...
[18:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─Ryzen will be a world-heater! If you're looking for a correlation to global warming....
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You do NOT KNOW that - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─Correct! You must call it an Alternative Fact!
[18:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:38] <exec> 08└─Where's the "Grumpy" mod? It would only take a few hundred to a few thousand years to get a probe there, plus another 40 to get the data back. We should start planning now, because there ain't much else within reach after we're done trashing our only Goldilocks planet!
[18:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apes and Angels - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─we will master all kinds of exciting new technologies We won't be more intelligent for having done so. More knowledgeable, yes.
[18:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Apes and Angels - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:44] <exec> 08└─> for over 99.9% of our time on Earth, this planet has been uninhabitted as far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned. Technocentric mindset, man. The Aliens, man, they can feel our auras, man. We radiate crummy Karma like crazy, man. That's why they're hiding from us, and you need another puff to...
[18:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:46] <exec> 08└─Verify schmerify, potentially habitable will do. If we stay where we are we're doomed. The mutant star goat is coming!
[18:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRAPPIST South Equipment - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:50] <exec> 08└─Not sure how to take that, if you have to use windows, then XP/2000 is pretty much the peak of Microsoft's work. Would have nice if it was an open source OS, but whatever works (and runs their software).
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet Hop from Trappist-1e! - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit few countries south from Belgium, and I've never heard of Trappist beer. My first (and only) association was... Trappist cheese. [wikipedia.org] Those Trappist monks seem to be quite awesome.
[18:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:09] <exec> 08└─> there was nothing I was permitted to do about it. Can't control input? Need to raise the output to match.
[18:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Science" - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:12] <exec> 08└─Pass the Cheetos
[18:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternatively... - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─"Culture" is passed from one generation to the next. In this case, "consumer culture" could be the "gene" that is passed on.
[18:11:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Fans - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:34] <exec> 08└─The difference between fans on graphics cards and fans of graphics cards: Fans on graphics cards remove heat. Fans of graphics cards add heat.
[18:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02And the Result? - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:54] <exec> 08└─So which won? AMD or Nvidia?
[18:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:06] <exec> 08└─We're gonna need to do some NoScript code reviews, or make open source browsers with full real-time scripting visibility: "This script is currently accessing your camera, that one just requested file X"
[18:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:21] <exec> 08└─Grass above major acquifer source dead, local farmers puzzled. In other news, local farmers are having problems with their crops, probable cause determined to be "early spring".
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:25] <exec> 08└─He needs the shiny eco-labels to put on the buildings he^Whis children sell to millionaires.
[18:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a solution - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:33] <exec> 08└─First, you have to plug the leak. That begins by stuffing the hole full of the bodies of the Board and CEO, trailing down each level of the org chart until the leak has been plugged. The survivors can then be used for cleanup, but humans are not very absorbent.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Pre-Darwinian Zoology - 06Another Definition of a Planet Proposed by "Pluto People" - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─Crystal. Thanks.
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[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:nVIDIAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─Damn Russians and their murderous fanboyism!
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:nVIDIAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─I get the vague impression this guy doesn't prefer nVidia.
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─[...] Ryzen was able to match Intel's performance with 45 W less TDP - 95 W TDP on Ryzen against the 140 W TDP on Intel's 6900K.
[19:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score:1) 02Intel response - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:24] <exec> 08└─The intel response will be that the day before the release, they will announce 16 and 32 core CPUs... again costing a huge fortune, mostly no one will buy it, but recovering again the top CPU brand i do hope that this is a new athlon vs pentium4, were intel was kicked in the butt!
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Can't Wait - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not one to initially adapt a new processor, but I look forward to buying a new notebook computer in late 2018 with an AMD Ryzen processor and AMD Vega graphics card. I imagine that they'll both have decent Linux drivers by then.
[19:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:massive war of rape - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I am sure ancient European women held them in their arms while being subjects in "interbreeding" ... I wonder how much of a difference there was between the two descriptions in the early bronze age.
[19:10:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─Wow, aren't you guys a bunch of killjoys? This IS exciting news. These exoplanets are almost ideal for further study: Their relative closeness ot Earth ("only" 39 LY), the smallness of the star, the short orbital periods (lots of transits), the fact that there are no less than THREE planets in the g...
[19:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:53] <exec> 08└─Study? Right! Can't really study it, can we? Can't get to it. Really, just a guess. Might be habitable, might not. Might have a tropical rain forest, might not. I'm all for science, but come on, this is getting ridiculous. Lets fix our home first. Focus some scientific resources right here, right no...
[19:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:00] <exec> 08└─"potentially habitable" planets that we can't really verify
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet Hop from Trappist-1e - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:08] <exec> 08└─Trappist Ale. Vow of silence. And everyone knows there is no such country as Belgium. Belgium does not exist! [zapatopi.net]
[19:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Habitable zone is based off CO2 theory? - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:10] <exec> 08└─The inner edge of the HZ is the distance where a runaway greenhouse effect vaporizes the whole water reservoir and,[9] as a second effect, induces the photodissociation of water vapor and the loss of hydrogen to space. The outer edge of the HZ is the distance from the star where adding more carbon d...
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear of arrest - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:22] <exec> 08└─Too bad nobody was arrested. Otherwise you might have a good point.
[19:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't RTFA - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:28] <exec> 08└─So, since I didn't RTFA, can anyone explain to me how they decided this was a causal relationship as opposed to simply correlated?
[19:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:33] <exec> 08└─Can't control input? Need to raise the output to match.
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just wait - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─until there is nuclear war, a killer virus, or large asteroid impact. High-BMI folks may still have the last laugh.
[19:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:11] <exec> 08└─Aborted murder? *ducks*
[19:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score:1) 02No, AMD is the best... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:19] <exec> 08└─No, AMD is clearly the best... say otherwise and i will kill you!! :D
[19:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But, but .... - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─GP should have referenced Soylindra. We can't use solar because government shouldn't pick and choose winners, so we should pick oil as the winner. Also, do the patriotic thing and buy some of Ivanka's Trump Shoes.
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:But, but .... - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:46] <exec> 08└─The real solution is to use cleaner fuels like Thorium/Uranium. But none of the Active high-pressure water kettle designs that caused disasters in Russia and Japan.
[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─Grass above major acquifer source dead, local farmers puzzled. In other news, local farmers are having problems with their crops, probable cause determined to be "early spring".
[19:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, the point was that the spills have environmental impacts that aren't always immediately apparent. No one is going hysterical, but the evidence is clearly mounting that oil is not the best future for humanity. We've known it for a long time, but apparently it takes overwhelming evidence of...
[19:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─Good thing we have the public option for the clean water act. If the EPA stops enforcing it we can sue them ourselves.
[19:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:04] <exec> 08└─The most important word in that quote was "recorded"
[19:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─Some random thoughts from someone who gets paid to deal with this fun stuff... Define "Spill": Most people are picturing pipeline ruptures and overturned tanker trucks. The EPA defines "Reportable Quantities (RQs)" for hazardous materials where if you spill more than the RQ you have to report it to...
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─It is almost like you didn't really read the BBC article let alone the actual study: epa.gov [epa.gov] Surprise surprise, there have been multiple incidents of hydraulic fracturing contaminating drinking water sources. Statistically the incidence of contamination is low compared to the total number...
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:rec.puzzles FAQ from the old days of Usenet - 06Anagram Scoring - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─I meant that I didn't know how to delete from Soylent News, not that I don't know how to delete from Usenet. I don't think we allow deletion here.
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Standards? - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─Even Milo couldn't get away with pedophilia. What makes you think Runaway could?
[19:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just surgeries... - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:05] <exec> 08└─Great! All we really need is some synergy to drill down and leverage a robotic abbatoir. Where do I sign up?
[19:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:Head off at the pass - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─So if a sub sank or blew up, someone isn't talking and its probably Russian.
[19:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course - 06Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:23] <exec> 08└─Blame Russia. Because - Russia! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that it was detected on the Russia/Norway border and that Norway doesn't have nukes. Wow, actual Russia apologists....
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[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02moar links - 06Soyuz-U Retrospective - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:24] <exec> 08└─video of the last launch http://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] story http://www.spaceflightinsider.com [spaceflightinsider.com]
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so, are the quotes merited? - 06Soyuz-U Retrospective - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─Is it the longest serving rocket? Putting it in quotes and having no qualifier to suggest the undertone that it is not, does no service other than to appear as propaganda against them for making a claim that no facts are refuting.
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:so, are the quotes merited? - 06Soyuz-U Retrospective - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─Or, it's like, you know, quoting from the story? I know that's an archaic use for quotation marks from the time before they became used as an accusatory finger, but a literate person such as yourself should be expected to know such things.
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:so, are the quotes merited? - 06Soyuz-U Retrospective - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia thinks so, and at 44 years, I can't think of a competitor. 47 flights in its peak year, and almost 800 launches, with an amazing overall lifetime reliability of 97.3%, makes it a true engineering marvel, and one of the best pieces of tech ever designed, because we're often reminded how spa...
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:so, are the quotes merited? - 06Soyuz-U Retrospective - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, RT is propagandistic--I said so explicitly in my submission. But the quotation marks merely indicate that those are a few of RT's exact words, not enough to merit a block quote. The story, as far as I know, is factual.
[20:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02nVIDIAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─*stabs wildly* *stabs some more to make sure* *stabs again for good measure* *additional stabbing here* *stabs just in case* *considers not stabbing, stabs instead*
[20:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:47] <exec> 08└─I tired going to the source [amd.com], and it looks like you are right. They have very little information posted. I think Linus Tech Tips mentioned DDR4 support. The focus on hype is concerning though.
[20:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:49] <exec> 08└─The AM4 socket [wikipedia.org] only has 1331 pins, which doesn't bode well for quad-channel DDR4. That page says support for four modules, but I assume it's 2 per channel... Which sucks, because I really need max bandwidth, and I can't see how Ryzen can compensate having half what the "Extreme" Inte...
[20:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:54] <exec> 08└─Fake news. Don't believe any of it. There is no way that AMD will ever outperform Intel. It's a mathematical impossibility. The tests are rigged, like always when someone tries to say AMD is better. But... the moderators are on a murderous rampage to stifle the truth.
[20:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:56] <exec> 08└─From early signs it looks like AMD may have a competitive chip finally. Intel missed on its tick tock strategy and it AMD quickly caught up. Intel will have to up its game. Just to temper that. A lot of what we have seen looks like intel graphic chips vs AMD boards. That was never a competition. Mos...
[20:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intel response - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─recovering again the top CPU brand I'm sure Intel will take a stab at it.
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Intel response - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:01] <exec> 08└─I've already seen some intel response (maybe?). Got an email from newegg about a bunch of sales. All of them were intel related : D
[20:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:massive war of rape - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:15] <exec> 08└─I've seen lots of euphemisms in my lifetime, but this one is over the top. Yeah, I am sure ancient European women held them in their arms while being subjects in "interbreeding" ...
[20:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:50% - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─It's also the rate of ancestry. Exactly half of each persons ancestors are male (minus the slight chance of parthenogenesis..which is really too slight to consider). This is true even among Elephant Seals, where only about one out of 100 males reproduces at all.
[20:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:33] <exec> 08└─Can't really study it, can we?
[20:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:34] <exec> 08└─If we can never get there, how are you going to verify. Too many hypotheticals for me.
[20:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Habitable zone is based off CO2 theory? - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:50] <exec> 08└─It looks like up to at least 2013 they were... So far, most studies concerned with the determination of the limits of the habitable zone have used 1D calculations.
[20:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Habitable zone is based off CO2 theory? - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:51] <exec> 08└─They have to use some constraints, and given the wide range of possible planetary and stellar conditions it is probably better to use a basic limiting condition. The inner and outer zones are calculated on extreme conditions, thus they are more inclusive than exclusive.
[20:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump and NASA - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:53] <exec> 08└─This news comes less than a week after this: The Trump administration aims to largely restrict NASA’s focus to its space missions and have it abandon climate change research
[20:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear of arrest - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:04] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter that nobody was arrested. The important thing is that people THINK they will get arrested or otherwise in to trouble.
[20:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I didn't RTFA - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:11] <exec> 08└─...how they decided this was a causal relationship as opposed to simply correlated? I don't think the actual paper claims causality. I can only see the abstract but this bit speaks to correlation only: Highlights • We examine the intergenerational transmission of BMI between children and their...
[20:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:17] <exec> 08└─You know, I'm going to disagree with what I just wrote: people MOSTLY get fat due to input problems, not activity problems.
[20:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:19] <exec> 08└─What's interesting to me is that, while poor people in food desert in shitty urban neighborhoods are understandably more obese from the lack of affordable healthy options and lack of safe exercise opportunities, the stats in rural areas are equally bad... I understand long commutes and cheap food, b...
[20:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sure he was just joking. Exercise was not much of an option for me. I had severe allergies and asthma, combined with my obsessive mother always wanting to keep an eye on me, basically kept me inside all the time. Kinds of food? Lots of sweet stuff. Not much "healthy" really. Couldn't identify ha...
[20:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:23] <exec> 08└─A recent article in the Scientific American (last month, I think, possibly the one before that) indicated that exercise had at best minimal relation to weight. It's almost entirely down to diet. Exercise is for other reasons, like health. In particular they showed that a Kalahari hunter-gatherer use...
[20:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Food abuse - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:25] <exec> 08└─Didn't work. We would get in to trouble if we were caught vomiting. Again, because that was "wasteful". My middle younger brother had a weak stomach and would sometimes barf when he got in to trouble, and that would just get him in to more trouble. I eventually found that some foods with cheese woul...
[20:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:"Science" - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:29] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the articles (one comes up as a list of links and the other as "a problem was encountered providing the content you requested") but studying children who were sent to foster homes is a way to distinguish between cultural and genetic factors.
[20:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just wait - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not aware that fat is protective against radiation, viruses, or large asteroids. Small asteroids, I can maybe believe.
[20:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just wait - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:39] <exec> 08└─It won't help directly, but if there is mass starvation, you'll do better if if you start with some meat on your bones.
[20:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:1) 02Re:wealth of funny wording choices - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─The original article says that he died from the blows from a 'kitchen ax' (? unusual utensil for a kitchen) and was already dead when he was stabbed.
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─Why limit is so? I see no reason to not also consider the Chinese, the Russians, the Israelis, the South Africans, the South Koreans, the Japanese, the Australians, and just about any other government with a major technical infrastructure. It's not like it would take a tremendous capital investment....
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:33] <exec> 08└─Australia is one of the 5 eyes
[20:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 3386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:53] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but I don't quite read the evidence the same way. I'll agree that petrochemicals are a bad idea, but that's because they add archaic carbon back into the currently overheating process rather than because there's something inherently wrong with oil. (There *are* things wrong with oil, but...
[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:10] <exec> 08└─What you just linked is not the study the article is referring to. Also, from you link: We did not find evidence that these mechanisms have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States. Of the potential mechanisms identified in this report, we found specific i...
[20:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:11] <exec> 08└─I mentioned both of those points: I will agree that the paywall on the subsequent study is dumb, and especially ironic when the summary concludes with
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spill baby spill! - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Hell, it's cleaner than clean coal!
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No license though - 06Baidu "Ring Allreduce" Algorithm Allows Faster Machine Learning Over Multiple GPUs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─I guess it's because there is no copyright law in China...
[20:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong? - 06Pacific Command Chief: Link Army, Navy Missile Defense Networks, Network Hundreds of Drones - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:39] <exec> 08└─"In today's news: Software glitch clears the sky over Asia, all airplanes shot down. Pentagon declines to comment."
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[21:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've never understood the lagging software - 06VR Gaming Comes to Linux - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:04] <exec> 08└─With something like a GPU, shouldn't the software drivers be incredibly easy for the hardware manufacturer to produce? I mean, the difficult work is already done in the hardware, so it should simply be a matter of following some basic interface like "Stuff data in here, using this format" and "Get d...
[21:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:I've never understood the lagging software - 06VR Gaming Comes to Linux - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:06] <exec> 08└─> I mean, the difficult work is already done in the hardware, so it should simply be a matter of following some basic interface https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─only has 1331 pins That won't do. It obviously needs 6 more pins. I suggest adding JTAG.
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:33] <exec> 08└─I doubt this has quad channel memory. The original hype of a 32 core CPU with HBM and quad channel DDR4 was speculation of a hypothetical Zen server CPU which is usually where you find quad channel memory (aside from desktop Xeons re-badged as i7's). Hopefully at some point AMD will release an opter...
[21:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:39] <exec> 08└─Post was over 140 chars and didn't end with "Sad!" Sad!
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been waiting for this... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:42] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen, Ryzen appears to have Haswell/Broadwell level IPC, lower clocks, FAR better efficiency (seriously...3GHz 8C/16T in 65W, how the hell?!), and the kind of pricing I would never have dared imagine in my wildest dreams. Intel is still going to be the single-thread performance king;...
[21:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:massive war of rape - 06Genetic Data for Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian Migrations Analyzed - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:59] <exec> 08└─This could have depended a lot on tribal customs. There is evidence that among some bronze age tribes women weren't allowed to choose whom they would marry. Among others, the code was so loose that the woman's brother was closer to her children than their presumptive father. "Open marriage" isn't a...
[21:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet Hop from Trappist-1e! - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:32] <exec> 08└─If you can get your hands on it, try Westmalle Tripel. One of the best trappist beers in the world in my opinion. But be moderate, it has 9 to 10% alcohol. And don't pour the beer dregs (if any) into your glass, so you have to pour it gently.
[21:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Orbit period - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:37] <exec> 08└─from the tentatively-named-Doc-Grumpy-Happy-Sleepy-Bashful-Sneezy-and-Dopey dept.
[21:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear of arrest - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because they are being lied to.
[21:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wealth of funny wording choices - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:57] <exec> 08└─It's non-obscure English. I assume most native English readers would be able to parse it without too much trouble... for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death
[21:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:wealth of funny wording choices - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:58] <exec> 08└─The point still stands that you can't really die "instantly" from a drawn-out assault.
[21:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:And the Result? - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:01] <exec> 08└─Not sure there is a winner here, AMD is apparently to die for and Nvidia went to jail.
[21:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This isn't as bad as I thought it would be - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:03] <exec> 08└─I thought he was going to grate him to death with a MoBo or something.
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02All to common - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:06] <exec> 08└─Ignoring the whole AMD vs Nvidia angle and this just seems like a fairly common drunken brawl ending in death. It's almost ridiculous how common it is - people get drunk, there is an argument over something stupid, one person stabs the other to death with a knife.
[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:state actor? - 06Hackers Who Took Control of PC Microphones Siphon >600 GB From 70 Targets - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─I have no intention of giving my browser access to my microphone, camera or anything else. Needless to say I am not popular with the "web is an app" crowd that want to reimplement the entire OS in the browser. Most sites don't work for me without JS, but thankfully the ones I really care about do. I...
[21:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:58] <exec> 08└─You miss-read it then because a low incident count, and a lack of systemic impacts are two VERY different things.
[21:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:1) 02Re:What is a Michelin Star? - 06Cafe Overwhelmed With Customers After It Is Accidentally Awarded a Michelin Star - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:41] <exec> 08└─Seriously? You didn't know what a Michelin star is?
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[22:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What! - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─My $400 apple watch will not make me thinner?
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What! - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:10] <exec> 08└─It will make your wrist fatter.
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What! - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─It already made your wallet thinner!
[22:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Automagic - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─Putting a device on my wrist doesn't automagically make me drop in weight? Say it ain't so ... From the article then it seems they gained weight or lost less weight, which isn't that odd since they probably gained a fair chunk of muscle mass due to all the extra exercise they got. People are to focu...
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 025 steps to fitness - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─1. buy wearable fitness device 2. a) wear wearable fitness device b) look fabulous 3. meet other wearable fitness device wearer(s) 4. sex 5. fitness
[22:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Fitness != Weight Loss - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:19] <exec> 08└─Living in such an extraordinarily fat time it can be easy to equate the two, but they are not the same thing. Exercise (within reason) is certainly good for you, but if you need to lose weight you're probably better off concentrating on diet more than exercise. Exercise can easily make you heavier,...
[22:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Backwards mentality - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─A very large friend of mine who has bad diet/weight issues is a little too big into his fitbit. He'll do things like exercise like hell, but then turn around and use that as justification for a 1500 calorie lunch. He loses weight, but not like he could be, and he usually gains it all back when he st...
[22:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards mentality - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:24] <exec> 08└─* It should also be mentioned that among the things I've been doing has been to cut my calories from alcohol from about 13,000/week to about 1920/week. But still, like I said, portion control.
[22:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's all stuff the Kernel guys could do... - 06VR Gaming Comes to Linux - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:34] <exec> 08└─It still doesn't explain why stuffing data into a GPU and gathering the output is some mysterious black magic.
[22:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:That's all stuff the Kernel guys could do... - 06VR Gaming Comes to Linux - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:37] <exec> 08└─For some reason Nvidia thinks the hardware interface is some kind of trade secret. Probably because the cores are general-purpose these days: most of what separates one GPU from another is firmware.
[22:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:I've never understood the lagging software - 06VR Gaming Comes to Linux - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─With something like a GPU, shouldn't the software drivers be incredibly easy... the difficult work is already done in the hardware?
[22:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:nVIDIAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:00] <exec> 08└─Only if they've been drinking nVodka.
[22:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:07] <exec> 08└─I figured they were saving it for AM4+
[22:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't Wait - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:20] <exec> 08└─Yes. Too bad they won't go past 4 cores in the laptop, but it should have 8 threads.
[22:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Good chipsets with lots of fast IO... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:22] <exec> 08└─With most of the southbridge getting baked into the SoC die there's lots of fast connections even in the mid\low-end so the OEM boxes should start sucking less now.
[22:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02SN folding@home - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:24] <exec> 08└─Soo, i actually blew up my mobo some months ago while folding for SN. Knew that the little nano-itx was running too hot. But it was stable so i shrugged and ran it until the magic smoke came out. Put a new cheapo mobo in but the cpu socket was turned 90 degrees. Bumped out half the ram and the graph...
[22:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:00] <exec> 08└─The TRAPPIST-1 system might be a poor choice to look for intelligent life because the star is "at least 500 million years old". That line from Wikipedia seems to be based on this paper [arxiv.org]. I guess that is based on the low temperature of the "ultra-cool" red dwarfs requiring at the least 500...
[22:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet Hop from Trappist-1e! - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:11] <exec> 08└─for those without Javascript: Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They are Earth-sized planets in a spectacular planetary system ou...
[22:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump and NASA - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:17] <exec> 08└─As you can plainly see in the summary, Europe was very involved in this research. The observations were made before Trump came into office, and Spitzer was launched in 2003 during the Bush presidency. Also, this research is not considered "climate change research" or "Earth science research". There...
[22:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Orbit period - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:20] <exec> 08└─The implications of the low orbital period, or more precisely, being close to a red dwarf star which could flare up and cause ion escape, are not too good: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] http://iopscience.iop.org [iop.org]...
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Nine Lives - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─All those extra holes to let air in?
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, AMD is the best... - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─You know what AMD stands for? Another Mediocre Display.
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Numbers, numbers - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, the point was that the spills have environmental impacts that aren't always immediately apparent.
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:41] <exec> 08└─Yes sir semantics officer sir! There was a lack of widespread systemic impacts, and a few incidents that were serious. Basically, frakking isn't the end of the world, it doesn't guarantee massive pollution of drinking water. That said, there are long term effects we can't know about without magic ea...
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02SuperPutty - 06PuTTY 0.68 Released, Containing ECC, a 64-bit Build, and Security Fixes - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─SuperPutty runs putty in tabs. And it's free too.
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[23:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02exoskeleton with hemispherical morphology - 06Scientists Decipher the Nanoscale Architecture of a Beetle's Shell - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsaK6eu7IWQ [youtube.com]
[23:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What! - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:24] <exec> 08└─Quiet! The industry would not survive evidence that the 6-figures sports cars don't make you a good driver, and the giant pickup trucks don't make your dick bigger.
[23:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What! - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:26] <exec> 08└─But if I drive a sports car, I'm doing sports, and therefore I should be healthier, right? ;-)
[23:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Automagic - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:29] <exec> 08└─You sound fit.
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Automagic - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah baby! Wanna come over to my place and watch my comic book collection?
[23:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:5 steps to fitness - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─1. get a vasectomy 2. grow drugs 3. use drugs to get interest/sex 4. never get married 5. you had a fit life (cis male version)
[23:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:5 steps to fitness - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:36] <exec> 08└─10 BUY 20 ??? 30 SEX 40 GOTO 10
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Backwards mentality - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─That's ... a lot of alcohol...
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards mentality - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─About a 12 pack a night of real beer, not Budwiser pisswater. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I can put it away back when I was trying to.
[23:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards mentality - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:46] <exec> 08└─It was thought in 1992 that consuming small amounts of alcohol can lead to weight gain, but consuming large amounts can lead to weight loss.* The so-called Drinking Man's Diet, a treacherous scheme popular in the 1960's that suggested substituting alcohol for sugars and starches to shed unwanted po...
[23:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, it's more than diet - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:48] <exec> 08└─Diet is a key component - you can eat more calories than you can possibly burn. But you must also exercise. You can eat almost nothing and lose weight.... and then not be able to move because your muscles have atrophied/burned as well as the fat. And you must hydrate. Because hydration is a key in a...
[23:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Headline/summary mismatch - 06Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit Fitbits and Apple Watches [...] don't appear to be effective in weight loss.
[23:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Memory interface... - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:31] <exec> 08└─They only need to add one more, and then cut it in half.
[23:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ryzen PSP? - 06AMD Ryzen Processor Hype is Building - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:47] <exec> 08└─ Its my understanding that all future AMD chips will have AMD's PSP technology in them. This is their equivilent of Intels AMT/MT/vPro remote control tech. If this is correct, I find it quite disheartening, as now pretty much all new mainstream CPUs are backdoored from the factory. :( ...
[23:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:18] <exec> 08└─Mars and Venus are Goldilocks planets too. We should at least trash them too before heading out with a few thousand years worth of beer in the trunk.
[23:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:git-r-done over a couple centuries - 06Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Including Three Potentially Habitable, Identified Around TRAPPIST-1 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:22] <exec> 08└─Then you probably also doubt that there is helium in the sun, because nobody ever took a gas probe from the sun and checked that it really contained helium atoms, right?
[23:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear of arrest - 06Child Obesity "35-40 Percent" Inherited From Parents - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:59] <exec> 08└─Too bad nobody was arrested.
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sheesh. - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─"jasassin" hmmm PYTHON IS BETTER THAN JS NYAH!
[23:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wealth of funny wording choices - 06Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─You think outsourcing and hiring interns to do real work is limited to tech??? Journalism has been dying for years... Oh wait! I went and looked at the author, here's his little bio: I love to read books, play games and discover new things on the internet. The Last of Us is the best game ever. Oh, I...
[23:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Random Thoughts - 06Thousands of Spills at US Oil and Gas Fracking Sites - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:10] <exec> 08└─That's fine, let's ban natural gas. End Result: Trump coal-job promises come true. CO2 emissions massively increase. Radioactive dust emission massively increase. S0x, N0x, PM5, PM2.5 go way up and acid rain comes back. Great job Mr. Environmentalist.
[23:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[M$ has] relented on the triple-E'' - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:01] <exec> 08└─Nothing could be farther from the truth. M$ continues to extort via patent trolling, in particular in the realm of Android where they still claim that their closed proprietary stuff is somehow in the FOSS offerings. Microsoft Hates Linux - Part II - Patent Lawsuits Against Android/Linux Still Going...
[23:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Fixed title: - 06Microsoft Partnership Aims to Redesign Operating Rooms Using HoloLens - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:05] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Partnership Aims to Kill Another Company And Then Pick Over The Carcase
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