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[00:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder if further understanding of Van der Waals forces could help explain this type of stuff. I am not a physicist, but dabble as an amateur, and am really interested. Could it be so simple as +/- electrical attraction on an electron/atomic level?
[00:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:43] <exec> 08└─I really am happy that these academics were able to get funded and to tackle an important topic. However, it could have been more productive if they had started with more of the existing knowledge. Tribology, which covers friction and lubrication, is indeed an important topic and one that gets a lot...
[00:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:46] <exec> 08└─It's not that easy, there's a large spectrum of what can happen at close contact and pressure/movement at nanoscale. Starting from extra energy dispersed as heat (see extreme cases of friction welding - does not melt the welded material) and ending with chemical synthesis in solid state initiated by...
[00:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:48] <exec> 08└─The cause, van der Waals forces,
[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─Retro. Geeks who like phines that are just phones. People who are nostalgic for the Nokia of old (note, this phone is being made by people who are not Nokia, and sold by people who own the Nokia name, but they are hoping people ignore that, and buy it anyway.) Also, if people find out about the thre...
[00:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:04] <exec> 08└─you could throw it at a brick wall and it will still work.
[00:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:24] <exec> 08└─You know who cares about the users who suffer software bugs? The people being paid by those users to care for those users; caring for people is a service. Not only is nobody paying me to care, but you are also suggesting that these people themselves don't even care enough about the problems. So... F...
[00:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:25] <exec> 08└─Why do there need to be sensors on water pump handles in order to enable maintenance? Especially why do there need to be sensors with that kind of precision on water pumps?!
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─You can turn that off in the preferences by un-ticking "Highlight New Comments." /my/comments ...or just don't log in.
[00:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─There need to be sensors because the people who use the handpumps can't be bothered to report back to the people who supply the handpumps when they break - they're too busy schlepping to the next water hole so they don't die of thirst. The people that supply the hand pumps can't be bothered to visit...
[00:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:18] <exec> 08└─Name an actor or musician who has truly, REALLY TRULY done something deserving of a real standing ovation Well, there are those who have used their celebrity (and friendships) in a positive way. George Harrison - Concert for Bangladesh Bob Geldof - Live Aid Willie Nelson - Farm Aid You may quibble a...
[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:19] <exec> 08└─Some people troll with multiple accounts, some people are genuinely just not good people... The only reason I stick around here is that there are other voices of reason to push back against the trolls and loonies. Hell, even the user who has real mental health problems is way above the blind ideolog...
[00:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:55] <exec> 08└─Works with elinks (everything appears, I think), but in a browser with load images disabled, the controls are invisible. Some kind of fallback text (C for comment, T for tree and such) or something would be nice. Just to avoid having to guess the position and still save on metered bandwidth. Nice wo...
[00:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:57] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your taking the time to explain -- thank you! Now I get it. Mostly. That is because under the old system, I found it most efficient for *me* to ask for the entire comment tree be sent and I would scroll through it all with no further clicking of controls required. Yes, it means I get to...
[00:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:59] <exec> 08└─Any reason you can't use colors? Make unread comments have brighter, redder title bars, maybe even ... pink?
[00:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:01] <exec> 08└─Okay, there's some oddness in the appearance which doesn't bother me. What I absolutely love is that when I moderate a comment, and click moderate (if I don't right then, I will forget), the page refreshes... at that comment! Not at the top, which was the previous behavior, that resulted in a ritual...
[00:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:03] <exec> 08└─Well, it shouldn't look the same, because then users will click it and be frustrated when it won't do anything. However, perhaps we could have a grayed-out version...
[00:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:34] <exec> 08└─In Australia cigarettes packets in the shop have to be hidden from view. Usually behind a door or screen. The font face, size and colour is also mandated to make it hard from them to work around the rules.
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[01:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:40] <exec> 08└─At my usual MP3 compression level, about 1MB/min, that's over 45 years ... I'm not sure whether I'll have enough hearing left towards the end.
[01:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:42] <exec> 08└─Treat yourself to FLAC before The End.
[01:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:44] <exec> 08└─Most modern "music" ain't worth FLAC to start with. Most of my listening conditions (office ambient noise, $5 earbuds, or cheap speakers) ain't worth FLAC...
[01:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:55] <exec> 08└─Reading TFA(bstract), this is a case in which chemical bonds come into play over time. Excerpts from the abstract with my emphasis: Recent atomic force microscope (AFM) experiments and simulations found that nanoscale silica contacts exhibit aging due to the progressive formation of interfacial chem...
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe I had the wrong parameters. Otherwise those were very large 1.5db steps.
[01:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodgod43 [4108] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─As a contractor I would laugh at every time some idiot would lament and cry about dropping their "next" phone off of a roof. My phone would drop and I would just go down the ladder, wipe the dirt off of it, and be on the phone with the architect within a minute. Are you guys really that out of touch...
[01:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:37] <exec> 08└─It'd be interesting to know why they can't count on the people using the pumps to report when they are broken. No tools to communicate with the authorities that repair them, perhaps? Likely a good guess--or maybe that their pay is so low that they buy cell time in seconds, or can't afford to pay som...
[01:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─> [...] how much money it would have cost to print the category at the top [...] Toner, a penny or so. A typist's labor, a few dollars. Lost publicity, priceless.
[01:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:29] <exec> 08└─Seems UI engineers are destroying other industries too. Is it really that difficult to have the award type and name on the same card?
[01:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:10] <exec> 08└─In my preferences I have Threaded-TOS with Threshold/Breakthrough both at -1, so that all comments should be displayed. I viewed a story earlier, /article.pl?sid=17/02/26/2115218 https://web.archive.org I viewed it again, wit...
[01:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:38] <exec> 08└─Get over it.
[01:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:02] <exec> 08└─...leave nothing but hoofprints.
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[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─This is what I love about the scientific method: self-correction.
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:48] <exec> 08└─Does it matter? But then I remembered: the flap of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane. And if that butterfly had extra chromosomes, it might flap its wings differently.
[02:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:50] <exec> 08└─I reckon this is showing the uttermost and exceptionally capital significance of Monarch butterfly's genome to human species survival. If this could happen in the context of Monarch butterflies, one can easily understand the doubt clouding the global warming issue (I really feel cold sweats now... w...
[02:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:02] <exec> 08└─I have enough room to store the porn your mom was in. / had to be said // 2-3 years ago bought a 3 TB NAS /// So far using 500G of it.
[02:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─Most of my listening conditions (office ambient noise, $5 earbuds, or cheap speakers)
[02:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:06] <exec> 08└─Since #4 is "Bang the pretty assistant, get sued into bankruptcy", that means I'm not the one pocketing the profit from #5.
[02:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:18] <exec> 08└─This solid-solid friction stuff may be hard...but then consider the case when one of the materials is soft/compliant. For example, a rubber tire on the road. Even a brief look at the literature describes multiple mechanisms all working at the same time, and on different size and time scales. For ext...
[02:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:38] <exec> 08└─Europe plans to shut down 3G ealier than 2G, as elevators, alarms and other industrial things (M2M, machine to machine) depend on 2G for things like emergencies or normal operations.
[02:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:39] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to identify the selling point of this device.
[02:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:41] <exec> 08└─In the US, AT&T killed their support for GSM at the beginning of this year to begin to refarm those bands. T-Mobile is still active, but at least in my area, you'll only get lucky on PCS bands.
[02:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:44] <exec> 08└─How is this plastic phone any more rugged than a $10 plastic phone?
[02:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:46] <exec> 08└─Market includes any company that wants to give their field/construction-site employees phones to keep in touch with...and not tiny computer game/facebook machines. As others have said, it's too bad that it's not 3G/4G for N. America (2G is going fast). If this sells at all, maybe they will keep the...
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:01] <exec> 08└─They did have both on the same card.
[02:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:44] <exec> 08└─I guess CSS hover can also be used, so moving the mouse to the black block will change the text color (no anims, thank you). Probably good to keep the SPOILER header visible, as hint that the black block is something and not just a random color rectangle.
[02:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:46] <exec> 08└─That is quite strange. I, too, was unable to load the text of the comment using the normal SoylentNews UI. Verified the comment was listed in a couple admin-y places, but whenever I went to view the comment, it came up blank. On the other hand, I looked at the "comments" and "comment_text" tables i...
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[03:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:53] <exec> 08└─What if its a big hoax for psychopaths the perfect excuse to push their shitty policies? Dare you question the green policies? Humanitarian aid, charity donations, peacekeeping missions, I'm probably too jaded for my own good.
[03:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:55] <exec> 08└─Too scared to comment? Silenced (by anything)? Are there several different butterflies that could be called "Monarch butterfly"? Is this like the difference between a frog and a toad? https://en.wikipedia.org Can I fill a comment with nothing bu questions?
[03:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:57] <exec> 08└─The trick is getting people to actually re-check facts and make sure it was correct in the first place. Then not running off half cocked and blabbing it on the news like it is the best thing ever. Coming up with new things is fun and gets you grants. Re-checking facts or falsifying data does not.
[03:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:59] <exec> 08└─Back in the seventies as a child I remember visiting a butterfly farm and learning about monarch butterflies. This makes all the difference in the world... because if the chromosome count was off, it means that I was handling worms as a normal boy should. After all, if, at such a young age, I was de...
[03:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:01] <exec> 08└─Can I fill a comment with nothing bu questions?
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:04] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if the butterflies might have a variable number of chromosomes and in 40 years they've drifted from a majority of 30 to a majority of 28. After all, it takes them several generations to make a single annual migration. Did the current author collect a statistically significant number...
[03:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:06] <exec> 08└─I'm no lepidopterist - know very little about butterflies, really. But, this article prompted me to do a search on the monarch. Wiki has an interesting piece - https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org It seems that genetically modified...
[03:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:08] <exec> 08└─"I immediately thought, 'Monarch butterflies in India? Really?'"
[03:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:10] <exec> 08└─Ten comments and nobody mentioned that it was unsurprisingly India which produced that faulty paper, just as they produce billions of lines of faulty Java code per day. The only things "green" about India are the rivers of shit which flow through their city streets and water supplies.
[03:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:23] <exec> 08└─Beating me, usage-wise. My NAS is 2TB, usage of 1TB, bought in...checks amazon order history...November 2012. At this point I expect to replace the drives not when they are too small, but when one start to fail.
[03:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:25] <exec> 08└─Since #4 is "Bang the pretty assistant, get sued into bankruptcy", that means I'm not the one pocketing the profit from #5.
[03:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:27] <exec> 08└─If you're like me 90% of it is mp3/flac files. I can only create so many .doc, .c, .h, .java, and .py files in a day. But I can rip my CDs 3-4 in a day, and I have a lot of CDs. My backup, not counting media files (that means including pictures) is about 500 meg. Enough to make a tar file on my NAS,...
[03:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:29] <exec> 08└─I have enough room to store the porn your mom was in... ... /// So far using 500G of it.
[03:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:31] <exec> 08└─Get a 3TB or larger hard drive. Rip your stuff to flac. When you want to move it use something like flacSqusher to make MP3s out of it. Some 15-20 years ago when I first digitized my CD collection I used ogg. Then found out portable media players didn't support ogg. So I went MP3. Turned out 190kbps...
[03:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 1901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:31] <exec> 08└─> No, seriously, it can be so much better to give every villager a mobile phone to call the technician when needed, Actually... Feature phones have been a driving engine for improvement in africa. They help farmers find better prices for their crops. They help people find jobs outside of their villa...
[03:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not diminishing the importance of communication means for Africa. But... So if they could afford it,
[03:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:26] <exec> 08└─They were just trying to re-enact that part of the 3rd Naked Gun film.
[03:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:28] <exec> 08└─If nothing else, the mistake provided the pageant with a sudden jolt of attention. Vulture's Joe Adalian, a veteran television industry reporter, said it "wouldn't shock me" if the crown switcheroo was actually a planned stunt. "Everybody wins here," he said.
[03:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:30] <exec> 08└─Your complaints say nothing about the people you criticize and everything about how limited you are. All of those people have brought joy to millions and millions of people. In the grand scheme of things, that is literally the most important function anyone can have in life.
[03:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:32] <exec> 08└─It won the Canadian equivalent, a Genie award. http://www.imdb.com https://en.wikipedia.org
[03:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:26] <exec> 08└─Haha, well that's a different topic altogether. Suffice to say I think our economic system is going to require a bit of a bandage. But technology moving along is a very positive thing even if in the short to mid term I expect we're probably in for a bumpy ride.
[03:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:08] <exec> 08└─If the founding documents of democratic government aren't a strong enough binding for you and you profess one of the Big 3 religions, in the very first book of your scriptures there's a commandment. No, "dominion" does NOT mean that you get to destroy anything you want to on a whim. It also doesn't...
[03:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:08] <exec> 08└─The opposite would be legally non-blind. The law defines the exact point where a person is considered blind versus slightly visually impaired. Compare with "informally blind" or "romantically blind".
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[04:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:41] <exec> 08└─You are trusting something coming out of Trump's mouth? The guy says whatever is on the top of his head at any given moment. He doesn't think. He doesn't ponder. He panders. Trump saying we're going to the moon is like Bush saying there are WMDs in Iraq.
[04:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:42] <exec> 08└─But Ol' George U. U. Bush did go to Iraq no? So maybe Donald will shoot himself to the moon?
[04:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:44] <exec> 08└─Technically, he didn't say *we* were going to the moon.
[04:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:47] <exec> 08└─Wow, looks at this edgelord, can't wait until his term is over huh.
[04:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:49] <exec> 08└─Just make sure you bring your own beer.
[04:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:51] <exec> 08└─The mission has been in planning for years. The only difference is that they intend to add a crew and reduce the duration.
[04:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:28] <exec> 08└─The sad thing: my company has ~100K employees, they probably have 10,000 hours worth of meetings per day, so we could fill up your 24TB drive with audio recordings of our meetings in about 40 days. Picture spending the rest of your natural life listening to 40 days worth of meetings from a single co...
[04:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:30] <exec> 08└─I bought a pair of 2TB USB connected SSDs about 5 years ago, they rsync each other every night as simple (quasi RAID 1) mirror. They're still not full.
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─it could have been more productive if they had started with more of the existing knowledge.
[04:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Consequences of Friction at the Nanoscale - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:44] <exec> 08└─Gummy goo will take a long time to break down to first principles, particularly hot gummy goo in bleach on asphalt.
[04:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:34] <exec> 08└─On what basis have you decided that they couldn't afford it?
[04:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:33] <exec> 08└─So if La La Land is Clinton, who is Donald Trump? Suicide Squad?
[04:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:34] <exec> 08└─...headline only slightly so.
[04:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:12] <exec> 08└─What would stop those same "The People" from claiming authority to collar and assign title to YOU? The Constitution
[04:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:14] <exec> 08└─Or Venetian Blind - the state of not being able to see Venus.
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[05:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:58] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our Ebonics-speaking Ameri-lunar overlords.
[05:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:59] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the asteroid miners?
[05:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:01] <exec> 08└─Whoever coined the word "edgelord" needs to die in a fire, seriously.
[05:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:03] <exec> 08└─No, given how we currently are behaving, the sooner our infestation has been eliminated from Earth and not spread anywhere else, the better.
[05:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:24] <exec> 08└─Give me Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo. ;-)
[05:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:25] <exec> 08└─I'm no lepidopterist - know very little about butterflies, really.
[05:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:49] <exec> 08└─On what basis have you decided that they couldn't afford it?
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[06:44:55] <exec> 08└─By all means. After you, Alphonse.
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:57] <exec> 08└─Ah screw off. We are a virus and the number one goal of a virus is to get a new host before the old one dies. Eventually we will learn to live with our host but we need to live long enough to see the day. If you really think that way then off yourself and save x sqft of ice (recent article will give...
[06:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:59] <exec> 08└─At least until luna rocks us into submission
[06:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:01] <exec> 08└─Wow, what an edgemaster!
[06:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:23] <exec> 08└─What? MONARCH is evolving! Congratulations! Your MONARCH evolved into TRIARCH!
[06:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:22] <exec> 08└─Well, not this phone in particular as it's dead in the water in the U.S. without 3G support, but not everyone wants a smartphone. I tried switching my mother to a smartphone a couple of years ago, figuring it would grow on her. She absolutely hated it... mostly because she refused to learn how to us...
[06:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology and the Tactic of the Fake Market - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:42] <exec> 08└─Uber resembles a pyramid scheme to me in many ways, albeit done legally They don't make money. They sell the promise of making money. Those who started Uber make money. The early "investors" might make money, those who come later are likely to lose money. In some countries the fares don't even cover...
[06:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comments Redux - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:32] <exec> 08└─I do miss the old expand-this-entire-subtree-of-comments feature. I used that a lot. I haven't come up with a suitable workaround just yet. Maybe points-modding everything up by 5 would do something useful, but I haven't had the time to tinker yet.
[06:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:27] <exec> 08└─It also doesn't mean that you *own* anything.
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[07:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:49] <exec> 08└─Sorry, it will happen again, probably.
[07:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:51] <exec> 08└─What about BIARCH?
[07:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:50] <exec> 08└─I'd want this phone. I've got the Samsung S2 thinking I'll eventually get used to smartphones. Years later they still seem fiddly, over-engineered vanity mirrors. Just need something to make calls.
[07:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:17] <exec> 08└─The trick worked to Miss Universe event: lot of publicity. It deserved to be used again.
[07:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:59] <exec> 08└─>The energy loss of a stampede is probably insignificant Surprisingly, that's not the case in the western US in the winter. One long run can kill a wild animal.
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[08:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:44] <exec> 08└─Accompanied by flying pigs.
[08:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:05] <exec> 08└─Is this a variant of the problem we have here in California trying to maintain public toilets? Seems like every time a toilet is provided in some "bad areas", it is quickly destroyed.
[08:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:06] <exec> 08└─In a terrible sort of way, I actually found it refreshing to be reminded that I am not the only one who occasionally phux up big-time.
[08:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:07] <exec> 08└─People will react the damndest ways to unrehearsed situations. Ever seen the reels of bloopers even experienced actors do? Except this one went live.
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[09:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:42] <exec> 08└─Good: Fuck you /pol/
[09:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:43] <exec> 08└─I get this a lot, as a University instructor. "Hey, Prof! My dog ate my metallic hydrogen!" And much more besides.
[09:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:52] <exec> 08└─carrying the unnamed customers next year
[09:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:21] <exec> 08└─No, given how we currently are behaving, the sooner our infestation has been eliminated from Earth and not spread anywhere else, the better.
[09:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:47] <exec> 08└─what if it's all a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
[09:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:48] <exec> 08└─what if it's all a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
[09:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:49] <exec> 08└─I can see five uses for it right away. 1) Old people - this seems to be about max they are willing to learn, no idea how the dialing is implemented but if it is just "enter number, hit dial" (as it was pre-"smartphone") then it is perfect. 2) Emergencyphone/sportphone - when you need something that...
[09:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:50] <exec> 08└─Funny, when in phone-dangerous places we just use the voicecontrol and headsets - you havn't lived until you picked up a phone to be greated with "I'll SMS" just because you forgot that while the speakers are inside the hearing-protection the microphone isn't :)
[09:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:52] <exec> 08└─I just don't see the market for feature phones when devices running Android can be had for 50 dollars.
[09:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on whether or not it's built like a Nokia (apparently this is a brand license, not a new Nokia).
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[10:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:41] <exec> 08└─There's chicken in my soy strips?!
[10:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:43] <exec> 08└─( No further comment ).
[10:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:45] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is how are such tests done and what are they actually measuring? Even 100% chicken meat isn't 100% chicken DNA by weight. I have the impression that DNA tests are more useful for checking to see if there's too much rat or roach DNA in the samples... BTW seems like those making ko...
[10:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:55] <exec> 08└─I mean, of course the research was definitely robust and completely reproducible. Especially for the same lab. So all they have to do is just... do it again. Easy. That's how science should work, anyway. In reality I'm seeing more and more where even the same lab couldn't reproduce their own results...
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[10:45:04] <exec> 08└─Please let it be Hillary and Bill... and Nancy and Chuck...
[10:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if it takes 40 years to correct errors, how much current science can you really trust? The thing I most like about science is its reliance on reproduceability - science done only once lacks something. Sometimes the thing it lacks is correctness. However, the reason this one slipped through...
[10:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:06] <exec> 08└─As I wrote before : There are some memes around the 3310, and re-producing it is in the first place a marketing stunt. I understand that the new 3310 is an attempt to gain attention and to gloss over the fact that the producing company is not much related to the Finnish producer, and mainly a brand...
[10:47:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:15] <exec> 08└─"Good Vibration Hand Pumps" Seriously?!? This sounds like a bad spam email subject.
[10:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:36] <exec> 08└─You oughta hear the ruckus around here when the coffee machine malfunctions ...
[10:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:20] <exec> 08└─Sources? You should get out more kid...
[10:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:21] <exec> 08└─>not without the animal already being on death's doorstep Your reading comprehension needs work: They eat basically nothing all winter and live off energy reserves that have to last all season. They *are* on deaths door.
[10:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:24] <exec> 08└─Your logic needs work. If such wildlife was "on death's door" as you so claim, then the result of the first threat (real or imagined, "natural" or man-made) to pass by would do the whole herd in. This has obviously not happened, and therefore you are wrong. How does it feel to go through life on not...
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[10:52:26] <exec> 08└─That's rich - YOU asking ME for sources, when it is your claim in question in the first place. Here's a free starter clue for you: look up the caloric requirements for human exercise, and then extrapolate based on body mass for rough estimates.
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[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:56] <exec> 08└─BTW seems like those making kosher stuff might not cut corners as much
[11:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:16] <exec> 08└─I figure it's Bill wanting to join the miles high club with Ivanka :)
[11:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:14] <exec> 08└─Nice catch! ;) I still miss Leslie Nielsen (yes, I know it wasn't his line, but I still miss him).
[11:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:15] <exec> 08└─But are they good to eat? You know... With a nice Chianti?
[11:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:17] <exec> 08└─We have discovered khallow's greatest fear!
[11:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:54] <exec> 08└─They used the wrong photo for a dead person. http://www.smh.com.au
[11:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:56] <exec> 08└─Did not know that! :)
[11:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plain Packets Help Smokers Quit by Killing Brand Identities - 3446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:25] <exec> 08└─There is NO benzine in vape juice (that is another fake science article, paid for by big tobacco) as again before the big tobacco laws you could watch it being made in most vape shops and it is vegetable glycerin or VG (used in donuts and candy sprinkles sold to kids) and propylene glycol or PG (use...
[11:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These E-Glasses Help the Legally Blind See - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:46] <exec> 08└─Just saw the same thing in another SN article, It Took Less Than a Minute of Satellite Time to Catch These Thieves Red-Handed. It's subtle, but drop the 'these' and it instantly seems less like a teaser for a dramatic photo.
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[12:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:29] <exec> 08└─Molecular markers, probably through an (q)RT-PCR reaction. You can generate them to be specific for species. You test your material for the species it should be, then you get results that it is the species.... but also others. Then you go on with using markers for a variety of species and get result...
[12:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:30] <exec> 08└─If it is not mixed with other species meat (horse meat (which is in general very cheap) in sausages and minced meat products), it is injected with water (less meat, more water, lower price). There are even groups here in Europe claiming that most of the meat is infested with human pathogenic viruses...
[12:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:32] <exec> 08└─the meat is infested with human pathogenic viruses...
[12:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:35] <exec> 08└─that most of the meat is infested with human pathogenic viruses... I would not be surprised if that would be the case. It has me started thinking about reducing my meat consumption.
[12:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's also the reason to not completely stop eating meat. However, I know there are viruses that very stable, only one needs to slip through somewhere to get you infected.
[12:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─During my PhD (in biological sciences) I had to access journals by previous lab members... most were in unreadable hand writing, in a language that I don't speak (language of the university's country or English), raw data that, or disintegrated (dried gels), or faded (thermopaper photographs) or whe...
[12:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:59] <exec> 08└─Going there is the easy part. Do they also bring them back?
[12:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:29] <exec> 08└─... but do they also have plans on what to actually do there, once they are there? I mean, something long term goals. Building a base is not a long term goal, it's not like... "ok, it's build, lets get back to Earth... funding has run out".
[12:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:31] <exec> 08└─... but do they also have plans on what to actually do there, once they are there? I mean, something long term goals. Building a base is not a long term goal, it's not like... "ok, it's build, lets get back to Earth... funding has run out".
[12:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:33] <exec> 08└─The primary mission should be to develop, implement and test technologies designed to reduce the base's dependence on resupply from Earth. As long as at least some of the technologies are successful, the costs to maintain the base will (hopefully) decrease year on year, making it an easier sell to t...
[12:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:04] <exec> 08└─The same happened in plant development research two years ago. About 40 years various groups worked on Auxin Binding Protein 1 (ABP1) and the gene/protein was considered important... until someone created new mutants.... which didn't have any phenotypes (unlike the initial identified mutant, which w...
[12:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:44] <exec> 08└─How many of these things have been done, what's their failure rate? Is it any worse than Bill Gates' software debuts?
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[13:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:04] <exec> 08└─This rose could already sting you, now it can taze you, and then can it leave you. (it's in TFA title: "and leaves")
[13:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:22] <exec> 08└─TFS left out an important detail - McDonalds chicken sandwiches are 90% chicken DNA. Given that my first thoughts were "what about the breading and frying? That's probably half!", this is relevant. Also, notably, I feel like the vegetarians win this round - they replaced 50+% of the chicken with soy...
[13:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:23] <exec> 08└─> they replaced 50+% of the chicken with soy-chicken and no one noticed. Well, it is Subway, not sure anyone really buys that for the quality of the food. More for the "I am hungry, need something cheap and filling quickly". It is the McDonalds of sandwich shops. Saying that, I tried the chicken onc...
[13:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:25] <exec> 08└─Turnip. Not you, the filling in the corners. (Also potato, but that isn't as funny)
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:27] <exec> 08└─TFS left out an important detail - McDonalds chicken sandwiches are 90% chicken DNA. Given that my first thoughts were "what about the breading and frying? That's probably half!", this is relevant. Also, notably, I feel like the vegetarians win this round - they replaced 50 % of the chicken with soy...
[13:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly, in response I expect my next chicken sub to contain 150% chicken DNA.
[13:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:32] <exec> 08└─Subway finding yet another way to cheat the customer out of money? I have ate there in the past and one thing that has always stood out is how stingy they are with their product. The employee always puts the same few slices of meat and cheese no matter where you go. The trick to fill it out was to a...
[13:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:34] <exec> 08└─>and no one noticed. It was always soy-chicken. Their was a show on this study, where they did taste tests as well. And everyone noticed how shitty the "chicken" was.
[13:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:36] <exec> 08└─> they replaced 50 % of the chicken with soy-chicken and no one noticed. Well, it is Subway, not sure anyone really buys that for the quality of the food. More for the "I am hungry, need something cheap and filling quickly". It is the McDonalds of sandwich shops. Saying that, I tried the chicken onc...
[13:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:47] <exec> 08└─So they created it about a month, or two, ago. The creation process should still even be fresh in the memory of those involved. There really shouldn't be any issue then to re-create it again unless the creation was a mistake or some kind of a fluke that they can't explain how they did it, or the cos...
[13:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:49] <exec> 08└─Dear Fiona MacDonald, author of TFA quoted in TFS, The metallic hydrogen was being stored... between two diamonds in a type of vice.
[13:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:02] <exec> 08└─Well, this is not the How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently story, is it?
[13:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─carrying the unnamed customers next year
[13:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:06] <exec> 08└─There are some funny comments on this story already. But seriously, this is a giant step toward fulfilling many of our childhood dreams. I grew up during the "space age" and reading science fiction where it was commonplace for everyone in society by the year 2000 to be flying on rocket ships. I tho...
[13:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:08] <exec> 08└─The Dutch news asked various space experts about how feasible this is... they said 2018, not likely, but 2019-2020 should be doable. They base this mostly on the training and production of space suits and discuss as well some ways to work around that, but they say that would make the trip more risky...
[13:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:42] <exec> 08└─Interesting concept. When you look at completely artificial billionaire playgrounds like Dubai built out of the desert, it almost starts to sound realistic. When you consider the "ridiculously tall tower" vanity projects found in such places it makes even more sense - imagine how big a tower you cou...
[13:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:43] <exec> 08└─Interesting concept.
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[14:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:14] <exec> 08└─It the pocket server at Moz' site? Pockets? Some "cloud"? Face it. A pocket server is Cloud server with another name but the same risks. If the pocket server is not something I can physically touch then it can still be searched by 3rd parties for fun, profit and politics. Also, what about the Sync s...
[14:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:16] <exec> 08└─In case you were wondering¸ Wikipedia says: Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. [..] The application allows the user to save an article or web page to remote servers for later reading.
[14:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─Your bookmark folder stores complete articles? Mine only stores the links. Of course it might also be that the Wikipedia page is inaccurate and Pocket only stores links as well.
[14:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:20] <exec> 08└─Ah, I failed to notice that.
[14:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:30] <exec> 08└─[...] it is a bloody day here at the biggest vegan restaurant downtown, as the crowd of cyborg roses marching for plant rights suddenly became a mob and [...] one eyewitness was quoted as saying "you had to take a bite out of burger to get past the checkpoint, it was so humiliating [...]"
[14:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:32] <exec> 08└─I propose burgers with scorpion pepper sauce. Anybody who can't eat a scorpion burger should be deported.
[14:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:34] <exec> 08└─While a lot of Otaku criticised this series for being far too derivative, I really enjoyed it. I particularly liked the end battle between Cyborg Rose and the Giant Penis Squid from Neptune.
[14:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:59] <exec> 08└─they replaced 50+% of the chicken with soy-chicken and no one noticed.
[14:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:00] <exec> 08└─If your immune system is so bad that it already is unable to cope with a single virus, you'd better hide in some sterile environment.
[14:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:02] <exec> 08└─A touché mod for you! I didn't realise soy was the replacement. I only knew of "soy" in "Soy sauce", had no idea "soy chicken" was even a thing. I thought they were referring to chicken marinaded in soy sauce or something. Thanks for the insight :-)
[14:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─Might I interest you in a Naked Chicken Chalupa? - http://www.avclub.com
[14:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:07] <exec> 08└─The employee always puts the same few slices of meat and cheese no matter where you go.
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, I *would* criticize Subway and the other fast food restaurants for misrepresenting their products in advertising photos.
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:12] <exec> 08└─they replaced 50+% of the chicken with soy-chicken and no one noticed.
[14:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─Serious guess: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Your guess?
[14:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─I trust you are volunteering to eliminate your own personal infestation of Earth first. In fact I encourage you to get going.
[14:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:17] <exec> 08└─That's silly. Just bring some yeast, and the makings for your favorite kind of beer. Don't forget the grow lights, and the seeds for whichever grain you're going to use. Get in on the ground floor of a new market for mankind's Nectar of the Gods.
[14:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:19] <exec> 08└─>>imagine how big a tower you could build in lunar gravity! >Overlooking exactly what? Anybody with less money than you. That's the whole point isn't it? Buy-to-let lunar real estate could be the next big bubble! 1 - Persuade people to give you money to build apartments on the Moon. Tell them they c...
[14:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:21] <exec> 08└─There's not much market for the miners, until there are some bases and/or cities located somewhere up there to use the stuff they mine. The miners are still needed, but the miners aren't going to be self sufficient. Someone needs to be willing to trade food, water, entertainment, and other essential...
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[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─I've got to agree. Let's get together, and figure an angle to market this idea. SJW's should hop on rather quickly. Especially self-loathing heterosexual white male SJW's. The females can do the world a service by terminating themselves as well. Once they set the example, then all SJW's around the w...
[14:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:56] <exec> 08└─They do have that harden technique....
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[15:45:18] <exec> 08└─> If the pocket server is not something I can physically touch then it can still be searched by 3rd parties for fun, profit and politics. (a) Yes, that's true. But Mozilla has credibility that they won't make that sort of thing part of their business model. (b) If they open source it, you can host y...
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:20] <exec> 08└─This was my exact reaction to seeing pocket for the first time. "So it's a bookmark, but done stupid." *remove*
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─Which of the two won?
[15:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:33] <exec> 08└─Cyborg Hari will always be my cyborg fatale.
[15:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:35] <exec> 08└─"in such an encounter, there can be only winners."
[15:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─To be fair, there's Jared DNA in the chicken strips too.
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 2182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─If my meat is mostly water and soy, then personally that implies I could eat more meat today than I ever could before, and still be within my daily nutrition limits! More seriously, are you paranoid much? Eat meat or don't. Don't start preaching conspiracy theory nonsense trying to influence others....
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─As a vegan, I'm well aware of Soy as a replacement for meat. However, it pales in comparison to seitan and tempeh (and occasionally even tofu). I try to not eat those meat substitutes too much, but occasionally do, especially when eating out at a restaurant that has nice options like Seitan reubens,...
[15:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:14] <exec> 08└─Soy beans are one of the highest quality sources of protein. Its also one of the largest crops in the USA (and the world). Tofu is pure soy. This is the kind of stuff a regular of soylentnews.org really ought to know. FWIW, I'm not terribly bothered by this revelation. The roasted chicken 'cutlets'...
[15:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─I eat subway sandwiches all the time because I can get them loaded up with veggies. You are only half-right about the meat. Yes, they use the same misleadingly staged photos as all other food vendors. But no they don't skimp on the meat in real life. Its not presented as nicely because they are mi...
[15:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─Soy is good for you. I consider this a benefit.
[15:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:21] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm somewhat surprised they didn't use that as a marketing gimmick yet. For example, ham these days contains so little meat I wonder what's the threshold for a kosher certificate.
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:31] <exec> 08└─TFA has a spectacular fail in understanding the tech (or maybe I do): Musk's rockets—the Falcon and the soon-to-be-launched Falcon Heavy—are built to take off and land.
[15:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─Well, the world would be a better place if everyone had a greatest fear that meager. But alas, virtue signaling is a real thing, not merely a "greatest fear" of some poster on an obscure internet forum. You would be better served in this discussion to pay attention to the examples I gave.
[15:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:42] <exec> 08└─The only reason they installed a manual water pump must be that they really want to preserve some sort of traditional authenticity, to attract tourists, right? Right???
[15:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:44] <exec> 08└─So if they could afford it, it probably would be a lot better.
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[16:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─Betteridge says "no."
[16:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:32] <exec> 08└─There's no question in the title.
[16:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:34] <exec> 08└─A great option for those interested in saving video, images, text and other content, all in one place.
[16:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:37] <exec> 08└─' No, Chad Weiner of Mozilla is the father of Nate Weiner of Pocket: https://blog.mozilla.org ' Thought that warranted a repost/reminder. This is nothing more than executive funded nepotism from a 'non-profit' corporation. As much as it pains me to have fire...
[16:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:39] <exec> 08└─Possibly I'm the only person on SN who actually uses pocket. I use it because I use a lot of boxes on a daily basis and pocket syncs across them all. It does in fact store the content. I can assure you it works really well with no data access at all, assuming what you want has been properly synced f...
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─grass fed organic
[16:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:33] <exec> 08└─Are they still selling "not quite" foot long sandwiches?
[16:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:35] <exec> 08└─I've got a dragon repelling rock to sell you.
[16:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:37] <exec> 08└─Subway uses brown sugar to colour their bread brown and markets it as "whole wheat" bread. They are the lowest of the low when it comes to fast food places. You think they are a healthy alternative but they are not.
[16:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:40] <exec> 08└─You could replace "vegan" with "moron" and that sentence would have the same meaning.
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:53] <exec> 08└─I don't see the problem. between two diamonds in a type of [workbench tool for holding something].
[16:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:55] <exec> 08└─Guh. Well, you learn something new every day. I seem to have gone mumble-mumble years without having to use the word vise.
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─DAMMIT! Scratch that. Vice is the UK spelling of vise. I'm not a complete maroon this time!
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─Had you scrolled down on your first link, you would have found: chiefly British spelling of vise
[16:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:57] <exec> 08└─If you're going to drop stuff down the well, you might as well shape it like a spear, and wipe out all the competition, then you can rule earth. That would be a lonely job - almost as lonely as mining asteroids.
[16:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:59] <exec> 08└─"Not seeing how that gets you food, water, entertainment, and other essentials." When you've killed off the competition, and subdued the remaining population, you claim tribute. Water, liquour, food, women, wine, song, jewelry, whatever. No need to mine asteroids, if you can just conquer earth. Of c...
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─If I had rule of space, with sufficient resources to drop even one kiloton asteroid per month anywhere on Earth I wanted, I'm pretty sure I could negotiate all the luxury goods, entertainment and other things I wanted to be sent up to my crew. Just have to pass that self-sufficiency threshold so the...
[16:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:36] <exec> 08└─those German and Danish heretics will get their punishment
[16:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:58] <exec> 08└─This is always an almost irresistible topic, when you're looking at things like 'how much would it take to record every call my company makes' or 'what would it take to record everything I say in my lifetime'. As a rule, meeting recordings are human voice and can be compressed substantially beyond M...
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:59] <exec> 08└─There are some confounding factors, like: is everybody speaking clearly into a telephone, or are we dealing with people mumbling in corners of the room picked up by a too-far away microphone. My favorite (derailing further) audio recording trick is the one where you place a large number (~100) of mi...
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:47] <exec> 08└─Also apparently it's a whole bunch of old Nokia people in a new corp with a brand license (and presumably IP licenses as necessary). Thought experiment: if a new company has the people from the old company and licenses the brand from the old company, is it now actually the old company? Surely everyt...
[16:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Annoucement Was Totally Borked - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:26] <exec> 08└─Gaark doesn't seem to be terribly limited. The limited people are those who need Hollywood to entertain them. Your lives are so fucking meaningless, you find your heroes among the wastrels in Hollywood.
[16:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:15] <exec> 08└─Easy now. If you don't believe me that's fine. I grew up around these animals and I'm relaying personal experience and knowledge handed down over generations. Hard winters kill more Elk than mild ones which is a clear indication that yes, they are in fact at deaths door. In case you're curios about...
[16:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzzing Drone Causes 1,500 Elk to Stampede in Wyoming - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:16] <exec> 08└─>look up the caloric requirements for human exercise, and then extrapolate based on body mass for rough estimates That actually made me laugh. Look up Winter wildlife in the Rockies and you'll get a clearer picture. As I said, when you are camping in -20 weather you'd be amazed how much more food yo...
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[17:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:10] <exec> 08└─From the PLOS ONE Journal article (Open Access article CC Attribution License -- See Spoiler.) Copyright: © 2017 Tsvetkova et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in...
[17:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─User number 3902 of course. ;-)
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─Copyright spoils everything it infects!
[17:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─He was nice enough to put it in a spoiler tag, but you just threw it out there in a quote tag. Thanks a lot, you insensitive clod. ;)
[17:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:18] <exec> 08└─He did, however, make a slight change. Unlike in the spoiler in the summary, "Copyright" is not in boldface.
[17:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:20] <exec> 08└─Can anybody spot an example of a bot-on-bot revert war? I skimmed both articles for one and came up empty. It should be the highlight of the story: understanding what sort of detail the bots fight about.
[17:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:23] <exec> 08└─I agree it should disappear instantly when you mouse out, but the mouse over delay is there to prevent accidentally revealing the spoiler if you didn't mean to hover.
[17:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:25] <exec> 08└─I am a bot that is reverting your comment.
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets its Hands on Skylake-Based Intel Xeons - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:33] <exec> 08└─"As part of an ongoing effort to differentiate its public cloud services, Google made good this week on its intention to bring custom Xeon Skylake chips from Intel Corp. to its Google Compute Engine. The cloud provider is the first to offer the next-gen Xeons, and is getting access ahead of traditio...
[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks i saw some speculation that their must be some sort of love-in with pocket; first they violated every shred of common sense to implement an extension connecting to a proprietary company right into the browser; and then months later... acquired the company. All for a bookmarking utility that c...
[17:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:53] <exec> 08└─If Pocket stores full pages, isn't that the same as passing the link to the Internet Archive (archive.org) so they snag a copy of the current content?
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:55] <exec> 08└─I've found Wayback Machine by Internet Archive to be a lot less useful than it used to be now that so many expired, parked domains end up with a restrictive policy in /robots.txt. Unlike manual archiving services, Wayback Machine makes pages inaccessible based on the current contents of an origin's...
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nicdoye [3908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─The great thing about pocket is that it does Readability / Mercury / Safari Reader / whatever-it-is-called-in-Brave. (Separately, pocket is one of the few things that comes bundled with Brave). So it's a cross-platform, save-until-later, but readable (hence ad-free-ish) combo. iOS will also read the...
[17:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─I agree this is a huge problem and this behavior makes little sense and is prone to abuse.
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:02] <exec> 08└─I searched for pocket in about:config, and found an off switch. However, whilst there, I noticed a scary looking "noscript.default" that contained some pocket and things I DO NOT WANT - any idea what that does? (just about to rush out, no time to goog yet - I just hope I can rememberto come back and...
[17:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─I get your points, but as tech people our family and friends look to us for advice and I think we should start pushing back against all the "cloud" features. Users should be demanding total privacy through encryption, or at the very least have it as an option. These companies are selling a service,...
[17:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─How can you read/view something in the cloud while offline? I find it easier to "Ctrl+s" and save the page. Then I can put it on a thumb drive and view it on any of my computers. I don't care to use my phone to read web pages, I like to save the battery for doing stuff like communicating.
[17:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:10] <exec> 08└─(a) they already did, once, when they made pocket mandatory, presumably in exchange for a share of the profit. Hopefully they learned their lesson, but... Sync used to be secure, but they removed that option so now Mozilla (and anyone who sufficiently compromises their servers) can spy on your bookm...
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─Or, yet another source of amusement to practical jokers, first they had flowers that could squirt you, now they can also deliver a nice juicy static spark!
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─Giant Penis Squid from Neptune.
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:10] <exec> 08└─As what you quoted states (and as TFA states), it is soy... Taking it to a whole new level! Didn't read article - CHECK Didn't read summary - CHECK Didn't read post he was responding to - CHECK Didn't read the post he was actually posting - CHECK
[17:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─I think the issue is that these things are starting to taste disgusting. I generally order a salad at Wendy's as my lunch. Occasionally I would have a 5 piece chicken nugget instead. Lately the chicken nuggets have a horrible pasty consistence and taste awful. Happened to me twice in a row. No more...
[17:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─If you're looking for places to go, I hear the moon is fairly sterile. However, you probably want to bring a dust mask or a HEPA filter or two as you may discover that you're allergic to the moon dust. (it would not surprise me in the least if lunar dust has the same side effects as asbestos)
[17:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green is chickens!
[17:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─In this case, it might say "Chicken, Soy, flavourings, etc."
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:21] <exec> 08└─Oh don't be silly, it's not like corporations are people or something... Fraud is only fraud when you or I do it.
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:23] <exec> 08└─I did not know morons were generally picky eaters. Was not aware that vegans generally had mild metal retardation either, buy YMMV I suppose.
[17:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:25] <exec> 08└─>This is the kind of stuff a regular of soylentnews.org really ought to know. I guess if you are really that interested in food. Apart from the odd time I had tofu, I don't think I ever had anything else with soy in it (and until now, I didn't know tofu was pure soy). It isn't a part of my culture,...
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─To be fair, they've halfway got a point, but they lose it in volume. Eating substandard food is cheap compared to the real version of it you can cook at home, unless you cook like a human and not like a restaurant and if you ignore the fact that you get multiple meals out of it. Overall, it's probab...
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─Well, that post has three sentences. However two of them don't contain the word "vegan" so they of course trivially have the same meaning with that replacement. So let's look at the only sentence that, indeed, contains the word "vegan": As a vegan, I'm well aware of Soy as a replacement for meat.
[17:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:32] <exec> 08└─Soy may be good for some people.
[17:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:34] <exec> 08└─To be fair, about any bread you get that comes from anywhere other than your own oven is pretty gross and should be treated as suspect. I've found literally one type of bread I could buy from a store even that didn't have unnecessary things in it. And that's not even counting whatever is in restaura...
[17:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─Calm down, it was a joke...
[17:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─I like for those commentating about science news on the internet to know the difference between US English and everyone else's English.
[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:12] <exec> 08└─Not allowed by their life insurance companies. Same reasoning as top managers of multinationals not flying on the same plane. Besides that, those two together for a few days would spontaneously combust!
[17:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─My guess is a rich couple. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more...)
[17:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─Two random venture capital names in Silicon Valley that nobody's heard of. I think your serious guess might not be so serious, but commenting on it: Musk has repeatedly expressed aversion to being one of the first to actually do somewhat risky things until SpaceX has reached its goal which is human...
[17:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:01] <exec> 08└─When you've killed off the competition, and subdued the remaining population, you claim tribute. Water, liquour, food, women, wine, song, jewelry, whatever. No need to mine asteroids, if you can just conquer earth. Of course, when that cataclysmic event happens, then it's "Good night, mankind!'
[17:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:03] <exec> 08└─Baring the establishment Rs and Ds getting us into a nuclear exchange This is exactly what's going to happen. It's frankly amazing it hasn't happened already, but it'll happen before too long, especially now with Trump in charge. Oh well, we had a pretty good run. What we really need to do is build...
[17:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:05] <exec> 08└─No, when funding runs out, the base crew is simply stuck there. Just look at what happens when the Federal government shuts down over a funding fight. Going to a Moon base as an American astronaut would be suicidal lunacy; there's simply no way you can trust the political leadership to take care of...
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:07] <exec> 08└─Transporters. Actually, you can probably come down and enjoy a life of ease after you've subdued the population. But, come on, man - I'm the guy pushing the idea of getting OUT THERE - the rest of this scenario is just so much bullshit. Let me out there, and I sure as hell don't want to come back. T...
[17:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:09] <exec> 08└─Just look at what happens when the Federal government shuts down over a funding fight.
[17:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:45] <exec> 08└─This makes all the difference in the world... because if the chromosome count was off, it means that I was handling worms as a normal boy should. After all, if, at such a young age, I was dealing with caterpillars and butterflies, I might end up as an adult being some hippie radical freak interested...
[17:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:46] <exec> 08└─Can't find the original quote at the moment: "Digging up fossil fuel for energy is like robbing a bank for money" Of course power storage is going to approximately double electricity costs. You need twice the capacity on stand by (generation + power storage).
[17:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NGD Systems Recently Announced Catalina, a 24 Terabyte SSD - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I value silent single-pixel porn. It's amazing how much of that you can store on even the tiniest disk. ;-)
[17:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:57] <exec> 08└─There are all kinds of plastic -- some types are incredibly tough. Molding them is more expensive (higher temp, more viscous), as is the feedstock, but for a small thing like a phone it should add very little to the total cost to use a high performance plastic. At least we can hope.
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[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─THANK YOU!!! For killing this off. It ruined the site for me. Gee, imagine what would happen if a tech related discussion site made big changes to their front end, then refused to budge when users complained? PS Thank you as well for not enabling emojis and avatars.
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:22] <exec> 08└─Cuz somebody has to. No request other than restoration of "nested" comment display option. All good otherwise. You guys rock.
[18:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how the site looks in the end, I want to congratulate the team for doing a lot of work and being willing to undo some of it in light of the opinion of a majority of soylentils. The ample communication with the team and the response gives me high hope the site will last a long time than...
[18:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:27] <exec> 08└─I seemed to have missed the majority of the problems--not sure if it it was because I missed the window of opportunity or if it was because of my preferred theme (VT220)/discussion threading (D1/classic threaded-->threaded/TOS with -1/0 Threshold/Breakthrough). None the less, this is how beta should...
[18:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:29] <exec> 08└─We knew that changing commenting was going to get people to go to the Pitchfork Emporium and hunt us down. The only way we were going to do this was by making sure that we were communicating to the userbase as we did it. The loss of some functionality is unfortunate, but having the servers melting i...
[18:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:31] <exec> 08└─Can you try Threaded-TNG, and then manipulate the score, or be more specific on how things need to change. On the whole, none of us really spotted much difference between Nested and Threaded overall, but the original code implementation was incredibly convoluted and scary so I'm not exactly surprise...
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:33] <exec> 08└─Any word on Nested view? There is a workaround (setting Breakthrough/Threshold to a lower value) but I feel like it's a popular enough view mode that it deserves a place in the drop-down list.
[18:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:36] <exec> 08└─I'll have to check with TMB/Paul but we might re-add Nested as a threading mode that basically does that on the back end to emulate the old behavior. That being said, we've had trouble figuring out what exactly the difference between Threading and Nested was. The backend code for this is/was absolut...
[18:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:38] <exec> 08└─Before -1 nested would show all comments, nested. Thread-TNG seems to do the trick, but changing to it also changes score threshold to 2 (default?), so needs another step to change it back to -1.
[18:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─Honestly, the problem with beta wasn't so much the change itself, it was the utter disrespect to the community as they did it. If DICE had actually given a shit to the community, I probably won't have cared enough to help get SN off the ground. I wasn't thrilled with the updated comments on beta, th...
[18:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:42] <exec> 08└─Thread-TNG seems to do the trick, but changing to it also changes score threshold to 2 (default?),
[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:45] <exec> 08└─Pretty similar to Threaded with the Breakthrough/Threshold at 0 I think. When it hit a -1 instead of the collapsible tree it would just have a link saying "X replies beneath your current threshold." If I felt like reading the flamebait and any rebuttals I would middle-click this and it would open th...
[18:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─Messages: Notification of reply. The link results in OK The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
[18:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:03] <exec> 08└─We need to connect to bot frameworks is more irrational, disgusting, and just get naked and bored' sort of excel in kinetic warfare, i guess.
[18:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone just came up with Wikipedia Core Wars? Bots battling it out for edit-supremacy. There can be only one (editor)! http://www.corewars.org Isn't the edit-re-edit-war a sideeffect of bot stupidity? They don't know when they are wrong and they never give up. They have their "facts" a...
[18:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:07] <exec> 08└─Popular Science: [...] the automatons can roam unchecked, interacting with humans and bots alike. And with no one monitoring them, it’s hard to know what they get up to.
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets its Hands on Skylake-Based Intel Xeons - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I haven't experienced much difference in speed in CPUs for about 10 years. I had a little Core 2 Duo on my desktop that I did some number crunching on, then the guy in the next office blew $10k on a 32core 64Gb RAM machine (this was when that was a lot of RAM). I begged him to give me...
[18:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets its Hands on Skylake-Based Intel Xeons - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:19] <exec> 08└─I am not sure why it is I care to read about their reselling indirect access to a CPU. My stuff wont go faster if they put more seats on the plane, despite whatever efficiency gained. or is that the wrong metaphor. anyway it benefits them and how they can put more customers on the same box. any spee...
[18:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets its Hands on Skylake-Based Intel Xeons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:21] <exec> 08└─Your old machine already had enough juice to play your porn collection.
[18:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─"Cloud" storage doesn't have to equal significant risk - that's what client-side encryption is for. So long as the encryption is secure, the unencrypted data never leaves your device, and you're the only one with the keys, it doesn't really mater who has access to the pseudo-random "noise" stored on...
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─>These companies are selling a service Not to us they're not, unless you've found a way to actually *pay* for that service? There are exceptions (such as the bulk of open source software), but generally speaking if you're not actually paying for something, then you're not the customer, you're the pr...
[18:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:54] <exec> 08└─Oops, I submitted when I meant to preview. > Chad Weiner of Mozilla is the father of Nate Weiner of Pocket: How do you know this? The page you've linked doesn't say that. It doesn't mention Nate Weiner at all. You say this is a reminder, but a search for "weiner pocket" (not as a phrase) turns up no...
[18:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:56] <exec> 08└─Users should be demanding total privacy
[18:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:10] <exec> 08└─Have you EVER seen a actual sandwich from McDonald's or Burger King or Wendy's or any other fast food chain that actually resembled photos used in commercials?
[18:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:11] <exec> 08└─I have known this for a long time, this is why I prefer to buy Kosher Products. You can say a lot about religion, but in this one instance they have a huge net positive on accountability. The kosher inspectors take their jobs... religiously.
[18:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:13] <exec> 08└─It also fucks up your hormone levels, and makes you more feminine. Enjoy your "balls-fall-off" meat substitute.
[18:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:15] <exec> 08└─Soy protein is estrogen-mimicing. It encourages the growth of breast cancer. You might even get feminized in some way -- do you like boobs? Soy protein is also inflammatory. https://en.wikipedia.org You can mostly avoid this by using fermented soy (soy sauce, tempeh, miso, natto)...
[18:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:17] <exec> 08└─Well, kinda. I mean it's a great protein source, but it isn't without it's hazards. As just one example of many , it contains several anti-nutrients (undigestible molecules that bond to nutrients and remove them from your body), including for calcium, zinc, and iron, which are especially important f...
[18:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:20] <exec> 08└─>You think they are a healthy alternative but they are not. Really? Is there another major fast food chain where I can get a seriously loaded veggie sandwich with meat seasoning that I don't know about? I mean, yeah, the bread is over-sweetened mass-produced foam, but you only have to take a bite of...
[18:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:22] <exec> 08└─Don't eat chicken (or pizza) you find in the subway.
[18:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:24] <exec> 08└─Might I interest you in a Naked Chicken Chalupa? - http://www.avclub.com
[18:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:42] <exec> 08└─Just like Elvis, it didn't disappear, it only went home!
[18:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:43] <exec> 08└─From what I read it could still be there. The thing is the diamond basically exploded. So the sample may have evaporated (likely) once the pressure was removed. Or shot off in some odd direction and they can not find it being rather tiny. That the diamond shattered is not too surprising. When they o...
[18:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:46] <exec> 08└─I like for those commentating about science news on the internet to know the difference between US English and everyone else's English.
[18:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:48] <exec> 08└─American detected.
[18:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─That is farfetched. More likely it was kidnapped - or as they say, liberated - by the hydrogen people. They take care of their own.
[18:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:10] <exec> 08└─But seriously, this is a giant step toward fulfilling many of our childhood dreams.
[18:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:02] <exec> 08└─One can only hope they try it. If the top 0.1% of the world goes Galt's Gulch on the moon, that leaves the rest of us down here with a *lot* more resources to divvy up.
[18:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:03] <exec> 08└─Come on, Runaway. You break out the Ming the Merciless outfit *after* you get the death ray. Publicly speculating about all the tribute you're going to get once your "asteroid mining station" is operational is a bit premature.
[18:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:06] <exec> 08└─If astronauts depend on a space flight for survival, Congress will find a way to fund it just to avoid the massive political hit. Maybe in the past, but I wouldn't trust this Congress to do that. We have a Congress and Administration now that want to completely gut all Federal spending and eliminate...
[18:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:08] <exec> 08└─I think a Putonium layer would be a nice complement to the Iridium layer to give future species something interesting to wonder about.
[18:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:10] <exec> 08└─A few astronauts here, a few 100k citizens there. Meh comes out in the wash. What we need to focus on is PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM TERRORISTS. Vote for me.
[18:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 2096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:12] <exec> 08└─While you're right that the SpaceX first stages are indeed designed for landing in controlled conditions here on Earth after boosting the second stage, you're completely overblowing the difficulty of landing on the Moon. Let me spell it out for you: When have we been able to land rockets on Earth? O...
[18:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:52] <exec> 08└─Can't find the original quote at the moment: "Digging up fossil fuel for energy is like robbing a bank for money"
[18:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:53] <exec> 08└─Well, 29 might actually be pretty interesting - any non-even number would imply that they inherit a different number of chromosomes from each parent. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's really uncommon at best.
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:07] <exec> 08└─never argue with an audiophile or a wine snob or an epeen.
[18:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia 3310 Feature Phone to be Relaunched - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:08] <exec> 08└─i also want something to make calls with as needed, that won't track me quite as pervasively as modern smartphones do with wifi and bluetooth tracking, the microphones listening, all that stuff. Privacy sells to some people, too. Privacy is not an all or nothing proposition. I accept being tracked b...
[18:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:43] <exec> 08└─Out here in the real world, "economically unviable" is usually the single largest difficulty there is. Hell, we could probably even colonize another star system if we were willing to dedicate 99% of the global GDP to that goal for a few decades. If you want to change the (developing) world, forget...
[18:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Oscars: Best Picture Announcement Was Totally Borked - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:51] <exec> 08└─Clearly you are in great need of joy in your life. Hope you find it, somewhere.
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[19:45:51] <exec> 08└─For AC, we may need to change the default Breakthrough to a lower number. Also we may have a bug in the breakthrough setting code that I need to check on tonight.
[19:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:53] <exec> 08└─/me goes and cries in a corner 'cuz nobody loves us
[19:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─We know of a few of these errors, but we have not been able to track them down. Our error logs are not showing the specific errors. Also the karma and mod points should not be fluctuating, other than by changes due to mods that are made against you and mods you spend.
[19:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─> Maybe that one extra step is your AC penance? Screw you. Seriously. Your dislike of ACs is not a justification for giving them a deliberately poor user experience. Especially when all it would take is a change in the default behavior. The previous version of the site defaulted to the most function...
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─OP AC here. Maybe frojack is suggesting that the behavior may be specific to AC mode (i.e., not logged in)?
[19:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:02] <exec> 08└─Okay: there are problems with tablets that are probably harder to solve. I want to give 3K thumbs up to the guys (gals? He/She/It/Shim?) doing the hard work. As per stuff like *spoiler and *URL, on a tablet, it would be sooooo much easier to be able to click a button and put your URL (especially!!!!...
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:05] <exec> 08└─On the old site, after I posted a comment I would be taken to a page that showed my comment, with the story above. By reloading that page, I could readily see whether anyone had replied. On the new site, I'm taken to a page that has the story and everyone's comments. I can, of course, search within...
[19:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Trendy Whitespace Everywhere... Thanks for keeping SN content*-dense *quality of content varies by location.
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:09] <exec> 08└─It takes me to the offset my new comment on the story page. Clicking the comment number there, gets you back to that comment-specific page. I prefer to be back to the story, it saves me the extra click. Change approved! Inline commenting would be even better (still could scroll to read/copy/paste fr...
[19:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:11] <exec> 08└─What is the intended purpose of the Spoiler tag? We've already seen an example it being re-purposed to get lengthy attribution boilerplate out of stories, and it seems likely it even more variations on that theme may arise over time. Was this the intent? If so, would there be a better name than "Spo...
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─BTW, the related links have a scroll bar now. On this very story.
[19:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:16] <exec> 08└─I browse with Threshold at "1" and Breakthrough at "1" using the Threaded-TOS style. I previously used the Improved Threaded style. If the comment at a start of a thread was rated "0" or "-1," it would be hidden, but I would still see responses rated "1" or above. I noticed this morning that now I s...
[19:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:18] <exec> 08└─is a pissing pain on a tablet
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:38] <exec> 08└─However if you've ever tried to figure out a proper interwiki relation you'll quickly find out it's really hairy. I mean no wonder people don't see eye to eye every time. Of course bot edit wars should play out like any other edit wars, via discussion.
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─Dammit, now you ruined the end of it for me. On a less silly note, what's with the weird time-delayed disappearing/reappearing spoiler? Would've taken up less space just to print the whole thing in the first place, too...
[19:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:41] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go with the AC who likes to say "get it yet?" after every sentence.
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:43] <exec> 08└─How would bots know they are "wrong"? And what defines "Wrong" or "Truth" in the Wikipedia world? I imagine after a couple of trips through reversions, one or both "sides" just send in the bots to assure that their comment remains in the article, or that some particular comments are always removed....
[19:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:46] <exec> 08└─Of course bot edit wars should play out like any other edit wars, via discussion.
[19:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:52] <exec> 08└─The relationship I have to my food is I'm a rich capitalist white male buying it with money made out of tasty refined tears of multi generational oppression, which is different from a relationship consisting primarily of posting pix of it to instagram and pintrest for the "likes". Like Gene Hackman...
[19:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:54] <exec> 08└─That sounds delicious. The only thing I'd add is teenage kids mean I don't have leftovers they're like wet dry vacuum cleaners but before their monstrous appetites I would make like ten servings of delicious chili as you mention and put a plastic ziploc bag in a bowl or jar and fill the bag and free...
[19:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:56] <exec> 08└─Personally, horse tastes fabulous. Apart from dishonesty, I see no problem with horsemeat in product. A horsemeat burger I had in Italy is probably one of the best things I've ever eaten. They eat it all the time. Sure, nobody wants dishonesty in ingredients lists, but my gammon steak already tells...
[19:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:58] <exec> 08└─FTFY To be fair, there's Jared DNA in your children too.
[19:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:00] <exec> 08└─Why is horse meat so sacrosanct? I'd eat horse meat! Is a horse so much nobler than a cow, pig, chicken or mealworm that it deserves a "Ewwww, yuck! You eat horse?!?!?!" thing? Man, i've eaten a lot of things. Why not horse?
[19:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:03] <exec> 08└─I hear it was his exercise regimen.
[19:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:05] <exec> 08└─The only problem is, soy is like gluten and lactose: it. is. in. EVERYTHING. Just read your ingredients: you're probably getting more than you think.
[19:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:07] <exec> 08└─Do i like boobs? HELL YES! I'd pay to have nice, soft, feminine boobs. It's why i got married! Do i like boobs. Did Hitler like being a Godwin!?!
[19:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:09] <exec> 08└─I like going to A&W: if you are gluten intolerant and lactose intolerant like me, just ask for a teen burger, no bun and no cheese The 'restaurants' i go to will lay a fecking salad of lettuce and tomato and onion on your burger and put it on a plate for you with stanless-steel knife and fork: i get...
[19:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:56] <exec> 08└─It's How to Go on a Sweet Moon Joyride in Just One Year.
[19:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:58] <exec> 08└─Why break one record when you can break two... and get laid in space?
[19:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:58] <exec> 08└─Trump saying we're going to the moon is like Bush saying there are WMDs in Iraq. I think it's more like that time Bush said we're going to the moon. ...calling on NASA to "gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."
[19:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 1896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:59] <exec> 08└─All or Most Future SpaceX Launches Will Use Reusable Boosters https://en.wikipedia.org Although not a part of the initial Falcon Heavy design, SpaceX is doing parallel development on a reusable rocket launching system that is intended to be extensibl...
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[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─I mean, look, if a trained electrician living outback manages to conduct a credible "fairly sophisticated research",
[20:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:11] <exec> 08└─As a sovereign nation, why shouldn't ISIL have its own missile detection equipment? Or anybody else who doesn't want to get blown up for that matter?
[20:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:13] <exec> 08└─Being a soldier without uniform of a sovereign nation at war with us, does the Geneva convention apply to the guy?
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 2041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:15] <exec> 08└─The first thing that ran thru my mind is in the USA almost all FBI "captures" turn out to be entrapment of retarded people, like developmentally disabled in the brain people, because thats how we get easy convictions and grow prosecutor careers and thats how we mistreat our retarded adults, by surro...
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─Where did the "Select All" on messages.pl go? Ain't nobody got time for clicking on checkboxes! Also these new faded comment boxes have been thinking my eyesight is on the fritz.
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:20] <exec> 08└─The cybers are hard. The computers are magic boxes. The LASERs are Sci-Fi. The Daesh are Evil. Combine the four for maximumnews effect.
[20:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:22] <exec> 08└─Highly doubtful the guy is that low on intelligence. I would be more curious to see the actual evidence and his defense, everything before that is pure guesswork. Was he duped into helping someone with a project? Or was he intentionally trying to develop military tech? Was he helping people on the n...
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:25] <exec> 08└─I'll second the "select all", while pointing out there are now TWO stories for reporting issues with the changes. Can't mod myself offtopic, though.
[20:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:27] <exec> 08└─Geneva convention only applies to *civilized* countries, as the US has shown it is trivial to get around conventions by using duplicitous labeling where terrorist != human and enhanced interrogation != torture. Since this guy is also an Australian citizen he probably faces stiffer punishment as a tr...
[20:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:29] <exec> 08└─"How would they know other than reading his mail or web browsing history?" Do you not know or are you just trolling for responses?
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:31] <exec> 08└─Highly doubtful the guy is that low on intelligence.
[20:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:06] <exec> 08└─Keep up the good work!
[20:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:07] <exec> 08└─PS Thank you as well for not enabling emojis and avatars.
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─It's long been possible to have Unicode-style emoji in the bodies of comments and stories. /article.pl?sid=15/05/14/1140253
[20:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:12] <exec> 08└─Like bob said, it should take you right to the comment you just made. Maybe just make a rapid middle-click on the #472976 link, and then continue reading other comments on the story. Then close that tab and leave the other one open. This behavior might be a good place for a new user setting, however...
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─If you have any feature requests or bug reports for my extension (link in sig), put them here. I am looking at: Title button for journalsCorrect cancellation of dialogs (like URL button)Spoiler tag buttonChange STRIKE to DELDept. field handling in Save Draft featurePossible Quote This enhancementPos...
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:16] <exec> 08└─On the new site, I'm taken to a page that has the story and everyone's comments. I can, of course, search within the page for my own and, having found it, click on its number to get to the page about it.
[20:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─/me goes and cries in a corner 'cuz nobody loves us
[20:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:21] <exec> 08└─This is a bit off-topic, but since we're being Meta... It would be *really* nice if when following an "in reply to your comment" link from the Message Center, you had the option to "unfold" the comment thread that preceded the comment, rather than using the immediately relevant comment as the head....
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:23] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the tag was introduced for... ...those who wanted to be able to post reviews 🎥
[20:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─I solved this with an old folding bluetooth keyboard. (old as in 'HP iPAQ' & 'Palm TX' era) I get much better typing speeds on that thing and a detachable stand for the tablet too.
[20:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:36] <exec> 08└─Broadcast television comes to mind as the most well-known example - the customers are the advertisers paying for access to you, the watcher.
[20:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:37] <exec> 08└─You are misinformed about sync. The change they made opens a specific window of vulnerability - they can potentially capture the sync decryption key at the time of creation. But (a) they say they do not store permanently and (b) that is the only time a sync user is vulnerable. If LE came by with a...
[20:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─you really have to provide more information if you want anyone to bother trying to answer your question like all the info necessary for someone else find this "noscript.default" thing you are talking about. its almost like you've never had to work tech support in your life and have no idea how to fi...
[20:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:42] <exec> 08└─Firefox has its own "readability" built in, its called "Reader View" and unlike most (all?) of the others, it is completely local. No handing off your web page to some server to process (and log as part of your browsing record). I use reader view all the time.
[20:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─> create fuel cells or autonomous energy systems inside living plants Wicked, wicked, wicked. We are building not only Skynet but The Matrix itself.
[20:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Rose" Contains Fully Functioning Supercapacitors - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:59] <exec> 08└─These comments make SN unsafe for women.
[20:48:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 856 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:54] <exec> 08└─>This is the kind of stuff a regular of soylentnews.org really ought to know. I guess if you are really that interested in food. Apart from the odd time I had tofu, I don't think I ever had anything else with soy in it (and until now, I didn't know tofu was pure soy). It isn't a part of my culture,...
[20:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 1926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:17] <exec> 08└─No, it's cheating the customer. Just one more reason why we should all rise up and kill every single MBA on the planet. Destroying the planet outright, and progressively feeding us *less* and *less* actual food that we *THOUGHT* we were paying for. This is just inequality furthering itself. Before,...
[20:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:41] <exec> 08└─No, British, which is exactly why I couldn't see the original "problem."
[20:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:06] <exec> 08└─Half the nation calls bullshit, and SpaceX doubles up on their claims? How will they do it, with even more fistpumps, high-fives, bluetooth headsets and CGI?
[20:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:09] <exec> 08└─das edgy
[20:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:11] <exec> 08└─I think you mistake the one who is a Russian puppet and therefor unlikely to nuke Russia and the one who promised to bomb Iran and hold Russia accountable (read: ground war in Syria and Ukraine). Sorry to say but the asshole Trump was the safer choice on not having a nuclear exchange.
[20:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:13] <exec> 08└─Just have to pass that self-sufficiency threshold so the mud dwellers don't negotiate by boycott of life-sustaining essentials in return.
[20:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:53] <exec> 08└─Digging up fossil fuel for energy disrupts the environment, doesn't produce anything of value, potentially inflicts substantial harm on others for trivial gain, etc. Kind of arrogant to assume the best use of fossil fuels is releasing the energy stored therein.
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[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:16] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with the premise that preserving current biodiversity is more cost-effective and desirable than de-extincting species in the name of biodiversity. However, there must be other reasons for going down the de-extinction path that justifies the effort. I cannot think of any reason to br...
[21:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 2347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─The last link is dead I got a 404, the nature.com articles doi:10.1038 s41559-016-0053 Maybe its just part of the AWS outage today The analysis in the link was typical "divide the pie" not "grow the pie" analysis with the sole exception that maybe Outback Steakhouse would fund a copyrighted patented...
[21:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:20] <exec> 08└─As always, civilization will be pushed forward by "private" capital: Shitloads of money can be made by creating and displaying in a zoo these resurrected mammoths, and then those resources could be directed towards not only conservation efforts, but also better techniques for storing and resurrectin...
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:22] <exec> 08└─The price of genome sequencing efforts are dropping like rocks. This analysis is at best a snapshot at the time it was done - which was months before publication, the way peer review works. It is in no way a durable truth. Frankly, I'm amazed that on the low end we're close to a 1:2 ratio of de-exti...
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:25] <exec> 08└─Not part of the AWS outage. Just no early access (even to the abstract) for plebs apparently. Hence the note in the summary. Going to the the journal's website shows articles from 21 February 2017.
[21:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:44] <exec> 08└─The only applicable doctrine of the international law is "might makes right", with might being mostly interchangeable with monetary resources. The Daesh are not mighty enough nor they have mighty enough allies, thus they are not right. Doesn't matter if they're vile kill-all-unbelievers pushers of t...
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─Understandable, and why I'm interested to see the evidence. If all they have is thought crime due to researching things THEY deem questionable, then the authorities should put their big boy pants back on and start acting like adults. They'd better have concrete evidence that the guy knew he was work...
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─Is ISIS a sovereign nation? Has it ever been recognized? Having incoming missile detection equipment is one thing. Having guided missiles is another thing. I am skeptical that guided missiles would be used for peaceful purposes.
[21:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─"An electrician living in rural NSW was using the internet to develop a long-range missile for the terror group ISIL and had already bought components which could be used to build a possible prototype, police will allege. ... “The material included details on the electronics and circuitry to build...
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 4267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:34] <exec> 08└─Preface: As always I want to recognize that the admins are doing great things with only the sweat of their virtual brows to show for it. I thank you all for the time you put in. A lot of the things I immediately hated about the update were rapidly fixed. Some others were acknowledged, but haven't ye...
[21:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─I tend to fall in the "No Javascript" crowd, but I'd think the inline comment would be a great feature for those who feel secure in their JS environment setup and the new page a great backup function for when JS is disabled. Sites that cannot run without JS I feel are broken, but light use of JS for...
[21:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─What is the difference between Threaded-TOS and Threaded-TNG? It is not immediately obvious. Maybe tooltips or explanatory text in the preference pages might be helpful?
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─For me, nested gave 50 comments per page. improvedthreaded (and now the new default) gives 100 comments per page (with the proper highlightthresh). It's been a long time since nested wasn't inferior. -- OriginalOwner_
[21:46:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:59] <exec> 08└─Dammit, now you ruined the end of it for me. On a less silly note, what's with the weird time-delayed disappearing/reappearing spoiler? Would've taken up less space just to print the whole thing in the first place, too...
[21:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:04] <exec> 08└─Oh that is easy. Anything that disagrees with my bot's owner is wrong and fake.
[21:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:06] <exec> 08└─So does Advertising.
[21:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia Bots Spent Years Fighting Silent, Tiny Battles With Each Other - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─between Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica? ED's pages are funnier.
[21:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets its Hands on Skylake-Based Intel Xeons - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:19] <exec> 08└─It is safer to use a VM rather than the bare thing. Especially if the VM can easily be reset back to it's initial hard drive state for each session.
[21:47:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:41] <exec> 08└─I've found Wayback Machine by Internet Archive to be a lot less useful than it used to be now that so many expired, parked domains end up with a restrictive policy in /robots.txt. Unlike manual archiving services, Wayback Machine makes pages inaccessible based on the current contents of an origin's...
[21:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 3555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:57] <exec> 08└─Erase them from the line about the about:config. and the other things that alarm you, but keep in mind what things do. here are the answers you seek; check the "pocket*" wildcard below. https://noscript.net 1.5 Q: What websites are in the default whitelist and why? A: If you're a security-mind...
[21:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:59] <exec> 08└─For static pages, it's often better to print to pdf. For video pages, it's a bit more complicated.
[21:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:01] <exec> 08└─Or is there?
[21:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:34] <exec> 08└─Prison food...
[21:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:23] <exec> 08└─Shaping a projectile seems like a lot of work as compared to just applying some delta-V. And, there's no reason to be hostile with the mud side, we're up here to help, bring you valuable rocks, deflect ones that might land somewhere unpleasant. Just like nuke missile submarine crews, though, it prob...
[21:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:25] <exec> 08└─Vegas business trip >> 20 years of not recycling a single thing you buy food in. Vegas itself is pretty obscene, resource wise, but the flights to-from, especially trans-oceanic ones, are the real resource hogs. Somebody should do an analysis: how much money does it cost to emit a ton of CO2 via var...
[21:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:27] <exec> 08└─It really is disgusting here. I was walking through the MGM and just seeing the shear amount of wasted capital. The resource drain (capital/environmental) caused by Vegas is outstanding. Just the water usage alone is a crime.
[21:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Good Vibration' Hand Pumps Boost Africa's Water Security - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:56] <exec> 08└─If we had dedicated anything > 9% of _global_ GDP to space exploration and colonization/travel since 1970, we'd have probes on their way to exoplanets already, and permanent residencies beyond Earth orbit. Instead, I think we're dedicating > 9% of global GDP to "defense," "security," and outright wa...
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[22:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:13] <exec> 08└─Where's your data coming from? My data shows a stall out, and I haven't heard anyone report a reliable $100 human genome sequencing.
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─Polar bears gonna need something to eat in the arctic when the poles melt, so seed Siberia and North Canada with Mammoth herds. Something often overlooked in this era of fattening up livestock on farmed corn, is back in the good old days the only productive use of some wastelands was feeding pasture...
[22:45:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─The last link is dead
[22:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:19] <exec> 08└─if you can build an industry around your efforts, and thereby convince people to hand over their hard-won resources of their own free will.
[22:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:22] <exec> 08└─Essentially its free and you're now mostly paying for HIPPA and biomedical safety of the workers and profit and paperwork costs. You'll get bizarre quotes, because the market is bizarre, but "simple blood work" is of that order of magnitude of cost depending on insurance deals and bulk discounts and...
[22:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:24] <exec> 08└─Your comment sounds good, but is bullshit. There is no genome sequencing free lunch, costs can go down, but haven't yet, and HIPPA does not apply to non-humans, like the ones these guys would be sequencing.
[22:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:26] <exec> 08└─The more complex a phenomenon, the more you must accept that evolution by variation and selection is the only way to think about working with it. The problems you cite are the result of an attempt at to impose some kind of Intelligent Design on an incredibly complex phenomenon (society, or the econo...
[22:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:28] <exec> 08└─It's predicted that ~35% of all species may be "committed to extinction" by 2050. http://www.nature.com Preserving living cells before a species becomes extinct, then taking them out of storage as desired ought to be cheaper than trying to re-create spe...
[22:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─Surely corporations as currently defined F stuff up and are a net drag on society. Its not 1860 building railroads or 1910 building cars anymore, they are just obsolete and mostly exist today to F stuff up, a net drain on society.
[22:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:33] <exec> 08└─A zoo? But they sound so delicious.
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:56] <exec> 08└─I think I have found the problem
[22:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:58] <exec> 08└─> preparations for incursions into foreign countries for purpose of engaging in hostile activities How long before an actual action is taken can you blame someone for considering it? I'm asking for a friend who'd like to level DC with nukes and has started collecting seawater...
[22:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:49] <exec> 08└─I don't tend to -click- links. I drag and drop them into a blanked Address Bar and modify them there. I make sure that I add &threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1 to those, so I don't tend to see what GP does. Your lower-default-breakthrough notion would seem to be the trick for him. WRT nested, after I...
[22:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─When I get a message about a comment reply and attempt to follow the link to see the response, it's linking to the top of the page instead of to the page's #commentwrap anchor. Not an issue for short summaries, but it definitely stands out with longer articles like these meta ones. Same happens when...
[22:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:52] <exec> 08└─I'd like to request that markdown support be added in the next major release of the software. Practically every other site on the net supports markdown now. Besides standardization there is a lot less typing - for example italics are just * characters like *this* instead of full-blown open and close...
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─One of the things that I've noticed for me is that there is no css on the initial page load. Everything is just plain text. However, when I click on a particular story, everything seems normal. I usually only hit SN while I'm at work. I know my company has some funny business with https sites, and t...
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─Practically every other site on the net supports markdown now. Besides standardization there is a lot less typing - for example italics are just * characters like *this* instead of full-blown open and close i tags.
[22:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─I think I may do that tomorrow and see if I can rework the old Improved Threaded javascript on it for them as like javascript. Mind you, this ain't a promise. I suck the balls at javascript on account of hating its breathing guts too much to ever get any practice in with it. Just creating a Nested m...
[22:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:18] <exec> 08└─Very true, but in this case Mozilla is a non-profit that says they respect privacy, so users are the customers. I bring up paid SAAS models because those do exist and they do datamine the crap out of their customers. Your files can be scanned, and even if they have privacy policies that still leaves...
[22:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:19] <exec> 08└─Disagree, but not enough to downmod. Access logs are a huge cry away from mining your files and other data that isn't logged through simple access. Never will I agree that only morons put secrets online, there are expectations of privacy people abide by, and if you feel comfortable living in a thoug...
[22:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:21] <exec> 08└─mining your files and other data that isn't logged through simple access
[22:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:20] <exec> 08└─No pressure to apologise. We wouldn't want you to turn metallic on us.
[22:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:21] <exec> 08└─And yet you can't even spell "moron" correctly, or were you referring to the shade of embarrassment your face would make? I'm joking by the way, can never be too careful with UK citizens these days!
[22:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:24] <exec> 08└─The researchers made it clear that their sample was unique. Reproduction can take time because the diamond anvils are so special. Getting them to a sufficient level of polish and quality will involve some luck and trial-and-error. If the experiment were "easy", like you claim, it would have been don...
[22:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:48] <exec> 08└─Why not? Professional astronauts are expensive. A whole bunch of people are ready to die young on a one-way trip to Mars. SpaceX needs to prove their system is ready. Put both together: "Hey! We've got to try this new capsule eventually. Should I order space-grade crash dummies?" "Wait, we can get p...
[22:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:34] <exec> 08└─Digging up fossil fuel for energy disrupts the environment, doesn't produce anything of value, potentially inflicts substantial harm on others for trivial gain, etc.
[22:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:35] <exec> 08└─You think robbing a bank does not stimulate the economy? The criminals will want to spend it sooner or later. The banks are fractional reserve anyway. They only need so much cash on hand. The point of the original analogy is that by burning fossil fuels, we are burning millions of years of accumulat...
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[23:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06AWS is Down - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─cumslutzdoanal.com fistmytightsphincter.co.jp massivecockinmyhairybutt.ca gardening.com All seem to be down at the moment.
[23:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS is Down - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:01] <exec> 08└─As of 2:08 PM PST things should be back to normal.
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS is Down - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─As of 2:08 PM PST things should be back to normal.
[23:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:29] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is a lack of data on what fraction of the 35% are truly tragic like the disappearing Rhino or Giraffe and which are just boring bacteria that mostly cause food poisoning if something that interesting at all.
[23:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really matter much. As the human population strains the carrying capacity of the (former) planet, other species get pushed out. I don't trust our ability to geo-engineer our way out of this mess, so preserving diversity where we can is likely a good thing. It may just give us enough room...
[23:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis Supports Conservation of Existing Species Rather Than De-Extinction of Mammoths - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:33] <exec> 08└─So... single payer healthcare? Yup, sounds good to me too!
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Electrician Allegedly Helps ISIL Develop Missile and Missile Laser Detection Tech - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─Researching while brown? Oh sorry, too specific. Doing anything while brown?
[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:55] <exec> 08└─Just a heads up, while https://soylentnews.org works great, https://www.soylentnews.org does not (appears to be missing a stylesheet?). It's grovy to drop the useless "www" but you might want to put in a redirect from www to the main site to prevent a corrupt page from appearing. cheers!
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─Flat, TNG ,and TOS all give up to 100 nowadays. Really TNG is misnamed if you think about it since it's basically just a slightly different Nested and Nested was older than Threaded.
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─I totally just reported this same thing two seconds ago :) The main site is https://soylentnews.org so if you hit that it will load correctly. Something broke on the "www" version. Usually for companys the problem is the other way around, they don't account for people who drop the "www" portion.
[23:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─Are you by chance reading in Flat mode? Because single comment requests in Flat mode is what I'm on at the moment.
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─You can just paste the URL in if you like. The servers convert it to a clickable link automagically. Watch: https://www.youtube.com
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─Automanglement like eating < signs?
[23:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:08] <exec> 08└─That's not an inconsistency if you're not taken back to your comment in the entire page of comments, it's a bug. When you comment it should always take you to the comment you just made.
[23:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:10] <exec> 08└─For this: Snape kills Dumbledore!
[23:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:12] <exec> 08└─Why, yes, O Buzzard of Might! How prescient of you! I will try to move on from Flatland to have some points.
[23:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:15] <exec> 08└─That was a conscious design decision to have Breakthrough override Threshold. Previously you could have a gerzillion +5 comments in reply to a -1 comment and you would never see them set at 1/1. Technically I think we could still show the Comment Below Threshold message instead of the comment subjec...
[23:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:17] <exec> 08└─You seem to be implying that markdown isn't really standardized. I could see how a naive reading of those quotes would lead you to believe that. But that would be an incorrect reading. It is true that various sites have indeed added their own extras in order to support extended functionality. But so...
[23:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Update: The Next Episode - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:19] <exec> 08└─I've thought that before too. Remind us a month or two from now when we're through with the bugs/bitches fixing from the upgrade and have bitcoin payments working again and I'll see if I can work something up for that. May be nothing but a link to the top of that thread that you can open in another...
[23:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:17] <exec> 08└─When you're working three part time jobs, "cook at home" is a pipe dream worthy of Cheech and Chong.
[23:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard University's Metallic Hydrogen Sample "Disappeared" or Ruined - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:46] <exec> 08└─What a ta-la-la goon-dee-ay
[23:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:12] <exec> 08└─My thought too. Why send a chimp or a dog when you can send a couple of people stupid to actually PAY to be the dummies.
[23:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder how far they set back private manned spaceflight if they don't come back alive?
[23:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:16] <exec> 08└─Depends a lot on whether they do come back dead. And also on how many pieces they are in, wherever they end up.
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years, Permanently - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:21] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons I've long supported dropping various federal regulations on gambling and investment. It creates abominations like this.
[23:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Scientific Error About the Monarch Butterflies May Have Persisted for More Than 40 Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:04] <exec> 08└─You think robbing a bank does not stimulate the economy? The criminals will want to spend it sooner or later.
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