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[00:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah... unlike with real rape, the TSA doesn't give you the option of just keeping your legs closed.
[00:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:30] <exec> 08└─> People have become targets because they wrote a letter to the editor expressing opposition to official government policies. The FBI opened its file on Pete Seeger after he wrote a [...] letter protesting and criticizing the California American Legion's resolution advocating deportation of all Jap...
[00:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:31] <exec> 08└─There's also a matter of copyright infringement. You've seen those anti-piracy warnings on DVDs? This story shows exactly how much the FBI really cares about criminal copyright infringement.
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[00:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:48] <exec> 08└─This. This is what I expected.
[00:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:49] <exec> 08└─With government, you're forced to continue paying for such horrors—or be be thrown into a cage as retribution for noncompliance. Yeah, sure. Protest all you want... as long as you keep writing those checks, amirite?
[00:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:51] <exec> 08└─All throughout human history, there has always been a violently imposed monopoly. Anywhere, anytime, only the scale varies. Can the trolling cease now?
[00:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:53] <exec> 08└─The Hill TFA: As recently as the end of last week, Lieu had expressed his support for leakers looking to expose malfeasance, tweeting "Are you a whistleblower & upset at all the lies from the Trump Admin?" and a link to instructions to securely leak documents to reporters hosted on his House website...
[00:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:55] <exec> 08└─History has shown that civilization is heading towards a market of voluntary trade, based around a cultural appreciation for contract negotiation/enforcement as implemented by competing service providers. 'Trolling' does not mean 'Making statements with which some people disagree'.
[00:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:57] <exec> 08└─Actually it does. Repeating the same thing every time, simplistic statements that continuously fail to account for reality, that is a form of trolling. Government / society must evolve naturally, as you point out that is where we are heading. However, there will always be the large groups that impos...
[00:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:00] <exec> 08└─> History has shown that civilization is heading towards a market of voluntary trade, based around a cultural appreciation > for contract negotiation/enforcement as implemented by competing service providers. You either should exit your cave and observe the world, or add a /sarc after this kind of s...
[00:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:23] <exec> 08└─One time during an interview the manager informed me that I'd be doing a whiteboard interview with the requirement of correct syntax, with no electronic help. I motioned for him to come help me with something before I shoved two of the thick dry-erase markers up his nostrils, stuffed the eraser in h...
[00:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:25] <exec> 08└─Neither on the reddit-page nor in the summary is a list of those questions we are supposed to comment on. Was this some general rambling about "those interview questions, whatever they are" or did I miss something?
[00:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:27] <exec> 08└─More likely the real reason you were not hired is your daily rate is 50 to 100% higher than someone with a special work visa. Also, the test means the company has *proof* no local was able to do the job, so they *had* to hire the visa-holder.
[00:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:29] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe they're just smarter than you are.
[00:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:31] <exec> 08└─This. When I ask you how many golf balls fit into an olympic sized swimming pool I don't care what the answer is. Hell, I don't know the answer. I want to see how you approach the problem. How big is the pool? Helifino. Assume 50m x 25m. How big is a golf ball? 2" diameter? How do sphere's pack? Hel...
[00:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:33] <exec> 08└─When I used to interview people I'd start with dirt simple questions and get progressively harder. After about 40 minutes or so I didn't expect you to be able to answer the question, I wanted to see how you handled it. When your face falls and you say you have no clue I explain you weren't expected...
[00:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:36] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of a colleague's story about how he got hired at our company. They gave him 20 minutes to study the features of the product and then he was to pitch the product. After he was done pitching, the lead interviewer said, "Half of what you just said was completely wrong . . . but I believ...
[00:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:48] <exec> 08└─First of all don't bomb or attack NK and they won't launch ICBMs at the US or Japan or much of anywhere. I know it sounds unthinkable to restrain empire colonialism to not invade the mountains of NK, but its really not much of a loss. Every pound of steel in a rocket they don't launch is a pound of...
[00:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:50] <exec> 08└─Let the rewriting of history begin! If Castro had killed JFK he'd have been killed a loooong time ago.
[00:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:14] <exec> 08└─I guess I'd prefer they turn it into plastic. But, they are pretty aggressive with carbon capture, so on the whole it's an improvement.
[01:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:48] <exec> 08└─> How's his life ruined here? Something like this? http://edition.cnn.com
[01:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoJ Dismisses Child Porn Charges to Keep Tor Hack Secret - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─It was Jeremy Bentham who wrote [...] the legislation of a society is vital to maintain the maximum pleasure and the minimum degree of pain for the greatest number of people.
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[01:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:08] <exec> 08└─Whoa, I get that people can have favorites and everything, but do you really think the same thing wouldn't exist if more people liked emacs?
[01:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:09] <exec> 08└─Are you autistic? Otherwise you don't have an excuse for not recognizing that Lieu is talking about the content, not the form. While I personally think the content of this leak is helpful because I believe the government should disclose security vulnerabilities to vendors rather than hoard zero-days...
[01:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:11] <exec> 08└─All throughout human history, there has always been a violently imposed monopoly.
[01:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:13] <exec> 08└─"No Man's Land: An Experiment In Libertarian Utopia" It's well known that prolonged station results in someone trying to undermine you.
[01:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:16] <exec> 08└─leaking information about behavior which in no way serves american interests.
[01:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeRandomGeek [856] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:46] <exec> 08└─I've been interviewing software developers for about 15 years now. I think the interviewer's perspective may be valuable. Many more unqualified candidates apply for software jobs than qualified candidates. Perhaps because the qualified candidates eventually get offers, and the unqualified ones keep...
[01:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:47] <exec> 08└─I'd ask on StackOverflow.
[01:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:49] <exec> 08└─they are not trying to hire you. they are marking the box to get a H1-B tell they to stick it. or better have them white board your question fisrt, so you tell if they are worth working for.
[01:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:30] <exec> 08└─Norway has a 1619 km border with Sweden. Lots of bad dudes crossing. No-go zones everywhere. Need to get that under control, figure out what the hell is going on.
[01:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:31] <exec> 08└─Møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.
[02:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06915 Coins Surgically Removed From Turtle - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:22] <exec> 08└─"People don’t realise that picking up something you have found amounts to a theft." http://www.news.com.au
[02:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:24] <exec> 08└─Some of us aren't traumatized by being touched on any point of our bodies, except maybe the eyes, but the TSA doesn't check under your eyelids so I'm still ok. IF they're going to be doing any screening they should at least be doing it right. The pat-downs check for anything firm hidden on you and f...
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[02:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:50] <exec> 08└─All it takes is for Microsoft to open an office, and start courting the decision makers. The state will reverse it's decision to go open source. http://www.networkworld.com Was performance of LiMux and LibreOffice really the r...
[02:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:52] <exec> 08└─I mean, looking to the Munich case, the result is: Microsoft moved the regional headquarters into the rebel city. Perhaps the Kerala government hopes for the same? Having some Accenture headquarters there (to advice moving back to Windows 2027) would be a bonus.
[02:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:00] <exec> 08└─Developed at Argonne, a Department of Energy Laboratory. Good thing the new head of the DoE has said he wants to eliminate the department.
[02:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should get the ShamWow guy to sell this thing.
[02:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:04] <exec> 08└─Joy Mangano of the miracle mop.
[02:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like they have a whole USB stick kit going on: https://wikileaks.org
[02:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:24] <exec> 08└─I read the Wikileaks press release and what is interesting is that much of the stuff is NOT classified, because if it was, it would create legal problems for those who deploy it on targets' computers because they would be releasing classified info: The CIA made these systems unclassified. Why the CI...
[02:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:27] <exec> 08└─> What guarantees you have cia won't use them on you, as AC as you think you might be? Whether it is also used on me does not negate the value of using it on american adversaries. I think you fail at basic boolean logic.
[02:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:29] <exec> 08└─Ow, wow!! (speechless)
[02:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:31] <exec> 08└─WRT classification: Bureaucracy, whether the government variety or not, always has to play catch up to the real world. WRT copyright: Copyright is a red herring, actually using these tools is criminal and obeying copyright is at the bottom of the list of a criminal's concerns.
[02:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:33] <exec> 08└─Saying you are speechless is literally the opposite of being speechless.
[02:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:35] <exec> 08└─The former MI6 agent behind the controversial Trump dossier has returned to work, nearly two months after its publication caused an international scandal and furious denials from Washington and Moscow." "Published in January by BuzzFeed, the dossier suggested that Donald Trump’s team had colluded...
[02:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:38] <exec> 08└─"EFI" made me think of EFF, here's their initial press release, https://www.eff.org The dark side of this story is that the documents confirm that the CIA holds on to security vulnerabilities in s...
[02:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:40] <exec> 08└─With regard to being members of a larger body: I didn't say otherwise, so your rebuttal is essentially a straw man. In fact, you're agreeing with me: The "civilized" world is looking ever more like what I describe. Much of human interaction already occurs through "private" negotiation/enforcement. T...
[02:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:42] <exec> 08└─https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html (\/) (°,,°) (\/) WOOPwoopwowopwoopwoopwoop! (^▽^) (`･ω･´) <-- Pedobear? (~￣▽￣)~ /╲/\╭ºoꍘoº╮/\╱\ <【☯】‿【☯】> = (ﾟдﾟ)ｳ @_@ d(*⌒▽⌒*)b o(≧∀≦)o o(≧o≦)o q(❂‿❂)p y=ｰ( ﾟдﾟ)･∵....
[02:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:44] <exec> 08└─What about typing "speechless"? Did you hear me uttering anything?
[02:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:17] <exec> 08└─Having been on that side of the table, I've found that the simplest FizzBuzz problem more often than not trips up the truly unqualified candidates. Because, as you point out, they don't understand loops, rarely really grasp if-elseif-else constructs, and in some cases even variables. The difference...
[02:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:18] <exec> 08└─There's no point in all that. Set the requirement that you're using the type of golf balls that float and your answer is: zero golf balls will fit into a filled swimming pool no matter how large the pool.
[02:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:21] <exec> 08└─Nope. Because I don't work in IT.
[02:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when I interviewed people I started with easy questions and got progressively harder. Fizzbuzz was usually the 3rd/4th question, about 10 minutes into the interview, and it was the biggest weeder I ever found. Of course, that was before google was so popular, now I expect every incompetent idi...
[02:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:25] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of: My First BillG Review
[02:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:40] <exec> 08└─> Psychologically NK is not like militant Islam. Man, you must really love muslims, seeing as how you can barely write a single post without making it about islam. Were your inept advances spurned by a belly-dancer?
[02:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bubble-Recoil" Could be Used to Cool CPUs in Space - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:53] <exec> 08└─If Sweden didn't import other countries' "trash" it wouldn't have so many rapes.
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[02:59:10] <exec> 08└─I stopped reading at exactly this point--"If you put your video-game aside, read this article...". I don't know why the author of that thinks that addressing people like children is a selling point. It sure didn't work on me.
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Variants Linked to Autism May Have Been Positively Selected For - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:34] <exec> 08└─While they weren't looking for autism as hard in the past, they still noticed the dysfunctional. I got diagnosed as brain damaged due to shortage of oxygen at birth back when I was evaluated in 1967. During my sons diagnosis for basically the same symptoms, the Doctors and researchers were very inte...
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[03:56:36] <exec> 08└─I'm sure we had this story earlier? Here it is in 'extended partial' (tm)... http://tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com (note the date) https://www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com Does anybody still think driverless cars are a good thing?
[03:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:37] <exec> 08└─Citations needed. We can make a case that this "free market" nonsense is just an abberation. Fact is, that whole "free market" thing is an elusive concept, which no on in the world today has ever witnessed. Maybe you've missed all the patent cases over the past few decades? And, you're unaware of te...
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[03:56:40] <exec> 08└─Whether it is also used on me does not negate the value of using it on american adversaries. I think you fail at basic boolean logic.
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[03:56:42] <exec> 08└─The CIA has good intentions, at least from the perspective of those who benefit from the power of the USA. This includes indirect beneficiaries, such as Japan and South Korea and NATO countries. If you benefit from the success of these, then you too are a beneficiary. From your perspective the CIA i...
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[03:56:44] <exec> 08└─Seven Russian Diplomats have Died since November There was that guy shot in Turkey, which was probably exactly what it seemed - someone with syrian ties angry over the bombings. But man, this is starting to look like a pattern. WTF is going on?
[03:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry dude, are those italics supposed to be words you are putting in my mouth? Because, frankly I'm having trouble figuring out what the hell your point is other than random outrage. Perhaps your meds need adjusting?
[03:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:48] <exec> 08└─You seem to have been indoctrinated with the idea that anything NSA/CIA/FBI does is "in the American interest". If we define "American interest" as something that benefits "we the people", it is hard to see how all this hacking nonsense benefits "American interests". In point of fact, this "Hack the...
[03:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:50] <exec> 08└─That's it - keep drinking the Kool-Aid, comrade. CIA = good! CIA can do no wrong! The CIA would never consider destroying a legitimately elected democratic government for the sake of corporate profits, right? Don't bother to search for Operation Ajax, don't bother to read about it, and most certainl...
[03:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:53] <exec> 08└─> You seem to have been indoctrinated with the idea that anything NSA/CIA/FBI does is "in the American interest". You also seem to fail at basic boolean logic. The fact that the intelligence agencies do things that are not in the american interest does not negate the fact that they also do stuff in...
[03:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:55] <exec> 08└─Boolean logic has little to do with a concept called "values". Do I value American hegemony more, or do I value liberty more? This may be a tough one to call, for some people. We, Americans, have demonstrated that we are willing to sacrifice our own personal liberties for the sake of security. How m...
[03:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:57] <exec> 08└─I think Assange was pointing out that 1) he wasn't releasing classified info, and 2) if the Feds wanted to try something like they did Kim Dotcom - they don't have a copyright on the material. He was also pointing out that it reduces the charges that hackers could face.
[03:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:59] <exec> 08└─> Boolean logic has little to do with a concept called "values" Since nobody was talking about values, its good you have identified that you are completely off-topic. Now, if you could only figure out the prescription for being off-topic...
[03:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:38] <exec> 08└─I interviewed "graphics programmers in C language" from 1995 through about 2010, always with the sequence: read resumes, call in promising candidates - do the chit chat, and give them "the test." The job was always some kind of graphic programming, to be executed in C - these skills were always list...
[03:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:39] <exec> 08└─As non-programmer outside of all this, could this just be a way of justifying 'we can't find qualified people so we need H1-B's?' Just some ignorant guessing.
[03:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:41] <exec> 08└─No, it's more "I'd rather take the somewhat useful local dude for $100k instead of the cheap dude from India at $30k".
[03:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeRandomGeek [856] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:44] <exec> 08└─I've worked with some of the Paula Bean's of the world, and the mind does boggle. But they are not the worst developers to work with. The worst developers can spend an afternoon arguing with your team's otherwise most productive developer, then go back to their desk and inject a defect, to be found...
[03:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:00] <exec> 08└─China can put pressure on lil Kim, which could put an end to both the nuke and missile problems.
[03:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:01] <exec> 08└─> Castro felt justified in whacking JFK so he did precisely that [...] Bullshit.
[03:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:03] <exec> 08└─This has me worried about Japan. They have been frequently described as being a de facto nuclear state, just a “screwdriver’s turn away” from having nuclear weapons. Their space program demonstrates that they are already a lot better at building ballistic missiles than the North Koreans might...
[03:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:13] <exec> 08└─Fry's is big in Houston - literally HUGE stores.
[03:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:15] <exec> 08└─Back in the early 1970s, and before, you could be a legitimate "Electronics Store" just by carrying a modest selection of wire, connectors, batteries, and some resistors, capacitors, inductors, potentiometers, and a few transistors (or, earlier, tubes). A few thousand parts kept you relevant, and th...
[03:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:17] <exec> 08└─I knew a guy who was 8' tall, but it was ALL legs: when he sat down, I could look him in the eyes. His parents would buy him extra tall pants, but that meant his belt line came half way up his chest. Poor guy had to try hiding it under shirts not tucked in, or sweat shirt type of thing. Sometimes it...
[04:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:37] <exec> 08└─From the article: "One fundamental problem with improving the average fuel economy of the on-road fleet is that improvements in fuel economy for new vehicles take a long time to substantially influence fuel economy of the entire on-road fleet," said Sivak, a research professor at UMTRI. "This is th...
[04:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outstanding Issues - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:26] <exec> 08└─I ran into a problem with admin-to-user messaging when the message recipient receives messages from the *web*. Sent a multi-line test message to user who already had a message waiting. Message I sent: This is just a quick note to test admin-to-user messaging. This is on the second line.
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[04:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:42] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen it specifically referenced...
[04:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:43] <exec> 08└─Ryzen (the desktop version out now) supports ECC RAM, so I assume the server version will as well. Source: https://www.overclock3d.net
[04:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:45] <exec> 08└─Though I haven't seen it specifically referenced, I cannot see a business class architecture coming out without ECC support. It would be a non-starter.
[04:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:47] <exec> 08└─They really interconnect the two packages with over 62GBytes per second of bidirectional bandwidth? That ain't even really NUMA since one processor can saturate the other's RAM, only a little extra latency. A system board could host six PCIe x 16 GPUs for number crunching and still have plenty of la...
[04:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:50] <exec> 08└─Naples also qualifies as a system-on-a-chip (SoC), with a measure of internal IO for storage, USB and other things, and thus may be offered without a chipset.
[04:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:59] <exec> 08└─The Accenture report will, in part say "estimate savings of $[very large number], based on support cost modelling which would be true if removing proprietry software had cost $1000 per computer, per year"
[04:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:01] <exec> 08└─Where's the mod for "unfortunately true?"
[04:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:04] <exec> 08└─It's not the cost saving that matters more, but the fact that the Free Software [license] enables not only teachers and students but also the general public an opportunity to copy, distribute, and share the contents and use it as they wish", [said K. Anwar Sadath, executive director IT@School.]
[04:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:14] <exec> 08└─Some of it was forming a plume and drifting through the ocean under the surface.
[04:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:16] <exec> 08└─Correction, the quote was from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org Seems I should look into a corrective product.
[04:56:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 1189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:37] <exec> 08└─I read the Wikileaks press release and what is interesting is that much of the stuff is NOT classified, because if it was, it would create legal problems for those who deploy it on targets' computers because they would be releasing classified info: The CIA made these systems unclassified. Why the CI...
[04:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:59] <exec> 08└─Or he was just throwing some red-meat to his base.
[04:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:01] <exec> 08└─You do realize he copied that 'dossier' pretty much wholesale from a larp on 4chan right?
[04:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:03] <exec> 08└─Does it even need to be pointed out?
[04:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:05] <exec> 08└─Sorry dude, are those italics supposed to be words you are putting in my mouth?
[04:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:07] <exec> 08└─The CIA has good intentions, at least from the perspective of those who benefit from the power of the USA.
[04:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:09] <exec> 08└─The CIA has good intentions, at least from the perspective of those who benefit from the power of the USA. This includes indirect beneficiaries, such as Japan and South Korea and NATO countries. If you benefit from the success of these, then you too are a beneficiary. From your perspective the CIA i...
[04:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:11] <exec> 08└─yeah 4chan claimed it, but last i read the info was circulating long before 4chan used it. but if you have proof that shows otherwise i'd be interested.
[04:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:14] <exec> 08└─As the two aren't mutually exclusive, can be both. Thus, would you object to "pointing out there's a whole bunch of legislation that won't apply" only because Assange is "throwing some red-meat to his base.". BTW, care to explain what "throwing some red-meat to his base." means? You make it sound li...
[04:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:16] <exec> 08└─That wasn't a story, only a comment. As the release happened on March 7 2017, I doubt it's a story dupe.
[04:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:58] <exec> 08└─I just did a video interview with Triplebyte. It only wasn't a whiteboard interview in the sense that I could type on my own computer. The questions were essentially exactly the same.
[04:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:18] <exec> 08└─Does not bode well for anyone stranded on this rock.
[04:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:19] <exec> 08└─That could happen. In the 1970s/1980s, South Korea and Taiwan were working on developing nuclear weapons, but they abandoned their programmes. http://www.globalsecurity.org http://www.nonproliferation.org
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[05:56:04] <exec> 08└─Yes the chips have ECC support. No the software support is likely not there yet for the desktop. It should be by the time the server chips are out, and this and discovering teething problems before the Q2 release are likely why the consumer chips were released now. Get the early adopter enthusiasts...
[05:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:16] <exec> 08└─Free Software Foundation Europe got its foot in the door and this was added to the thingie: The strategy must be clear on which applications on LiMux-Basis will no longer be needed. The city council is to be informed on the extent that this requires write-offs of prior investments. Furthermore, a ro...
[05:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:18] <exec> 08└─The Accenture report has already come back. What it said was that apps should be OS-agnostic. The politicians have attempted to IGNORE the recommendation for which they paid so much. A previous submission on this topic said It appears to me that the politicians had an answer in mind and wanted to wo...
[05:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:20] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see what stuff they were using and, specifically, what volume discounts they were getting. Yeah. Undoubtedly forbidden to talk about that under NDA. A decade ago, this guy made up a list of stuff to put on his box and compared the totals. How I saved over $4000 on software -- OriginalOwn...
[05:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah that does seem high. VERY high. Hell you could kit out a whole very nice computer with that with a full MS stack from any pretty much any major OEM for half that easily. Most MS software includes office + windows. That is *AT MOST* 600 bucks. Schools also usually get killer discounts. Think mor...
[05:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:34] <exec> 08└─If the Dakota Access Pipeline pops open here or there, the mess will get cleaned up lickidy split. They have these fancy sponges to do the job, so there won't be any threat to the water supply. It also means that you can stop sending me those emails about how "water protectors" need help. You know,...
[05:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:26] <exec> 08└─(ᐧ)(ᐧ) (_⅄_)
[05:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:27] <exec> 08└─XKCD gets in on the fun, https://xkcd.com
[05:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:30] <exec> 08└─FAKE NEWS!!!!
[05:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:32] <exec> 08└─We, Americans, have demonstrated that we are willing to sacrifice our own personal liberties for the sake illusion of security.
[05:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:34] <exec> 08└─> That is what I understood from your position. Nah, more like something you dreamt up and decided to project on to anyone who thinks your first post was non-sensical.
[05:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:36] <exec> 08└─> You do realize he copied that 'dossier' pretty much wholesale from a larp on 4chan right? You do realize a troll on 4chan just made up that claim to sucker in people like you, right?
[05:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:38] <exec> 08└─RTFA, we hear you typing.
[05:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:40] <exec> 08└─Note that the probability of death is about 10 in a 1000 for an American 60 year old. Say there are 1000 senior russian diplomats (about 100 countries in the world, so probably reasonable estimate); say they have lifestyle roughly equivalent to average American, i.e. comfortable but sedentary, with...
[05:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 3606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:24] <exec> 08└─I have been doing this for a few months. I am seeing several different types. The 'where will you be in 5 years' types. They know what they want actually. They have 0 problems in 'I will train you'. These are actually fairly rare. But you see it here and there in the upper level interviews. I had 2...
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[06:55:46] <exec> 08└─... "You two have a very high chance of producing a child with autism, along with all the concomitant issues. Please consider adopting a child instead."
[06:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:14] <exec> 08└─So.. Office365?
[06:56:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:43] <exec> 08└─All throughout human history, there has always been a violently imposed monopoly.
[06:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:26] <exec> 08└─(yeap. No discussion possible. Thanks for your time)
[06:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:28] <exec> 08└─RTFA, we hear you typing.
[06:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming binomial distribution one can calculate that the probability of this being natural death is about 6 %.
[06:57:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:42] <exec> 08└─When I interview people, if I asked a technical question that is not basic-must-know, you don't need to give me a final answer. I'm interested in where you start, how you think you'd get closer, and how you behave when you don't know. If you could come up with the answer right there, that wouldn't b...
[06:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:14] <exec> 08└─Thinking up good questions takes time and most people are fucking lazy. It's easier to grab a puzzle problem from Google than think (at least in the short term).
[06:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:16] <exec> 08└─Trump?
[06:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:49] <exec> 08└─"You've got Questions. We have Phones!"
[06:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─if youre in Chicago area it shouldnt be that hard to go from Microcenter over to Vernon Hills to CDW's store front. At least at CDW you'll be able to get server grade stuff too.
[07:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Big Hack - the Day Cars Drove Themselves Into Walls and the Hospitals Froze - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:20] <exec> 08└─My main concern is that , ahem, "interested parties" , are stockpiling means of disrupting operations in the event of a political disagreement with the USA that results in armed response. I believe these "interested parties" are highly dependent on people being ignorant of how their stuff works and...
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[07:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:47] <exec> 08└─I really REALLY wish they would stop with the 'capacity' BS when it comes to such sources. At least the summary here mentions this, and at least its a LITTLE less stupid with wind that solar (where they often use a figure assuming direct overhead cloudless sun 24 hours a day). But then it tries to p...
[07:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:07] <exec> 08└─Irony: Nobody will buy this because the latest games don't have any performance improvement with 32-cores. Nobody will buy it because it's AMD, but they'll buy the Intel equivalent next year. In a few year's time, this things will be in the bin just like the bunch of old Intel processors that I made...
[07:56:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:18] <exec> 08└─It's not the cost saving that matters more, but the fact that the Free Software [license] enables not only teachers and students but also the general public an opportunity to copy, distribute, and share the contents and use it as they wish", [said K. Anwar Sadath, executive director IT@School.]
[07:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:25] <exec> 08└─The Head of Munich's central IT (their organizational structures are not as simple as you'd perhaps guess ...) had the following to say on LiMux: "There are no bigger technical issues" Source (major german IT-news portal, in German): https://m.heise.de
[07:57:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 1264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:14] <exec> 08└─You seem to have been indoctrinated with the idea that anything NSA/CIA/FBI does is "in the American interest". If we define "American interest" as something that benefits "we the people", it is hard to see how all this hacking nonsense benefits "American interests". In point of fact, this "Hack the...
[07:57:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mechanicjay [7] 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 2301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:50] <exec> 08└─I've also been writing software for about 10 years. I've found the further I've gotten from my graduation date, the less these questions are meaningful. Some of my favourites from the last round of serious interviews, then from my latest random "Hey Google called, I might as well talk to them".: Ta...
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[07:58:26] <exec> 08└─At a guess, part of this is trying to establish basic competence. You have 50 applications for a position, all with beautifully crafted CVs and apparently good references. Of those 50, 25 are people the last company was glad to be rid of. If you have letters of reference, maybe there is a hint, and...
[07:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:28] <exec> 08└─Someone already did.
[07:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 2069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:30] <exec> 08└─Wish I could have had more interviews like yours. What I kept running into were bullcrap interviews where I can't get past the initial screening to get to the tests, if there were any. So many companies are horrible at interviewing people, sometimes intentionally because they have a hidden agenda wh...
[07:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 3529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:32] <exec> 08└─I'd really enjoy it if we could go a few months without this "those darn interview questions are hard!!!" posts. I friggin LOVE the whiteboard section! This is a chance for not only the company to interview you, but also for you to vet the company. This is the part where you're in charge and it's pr...
[08:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:07] <exec> 08└─I know Amazon is evil, and I know I should be supporting local businesses, but the cat litter I buy, in 40 pound sacks, costs less and magically appears on my porch and then I bring it inside. My other option is to pay more at a store, heft it from shelf to cart, from cart to register, from register...
[08:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:32] <exec> 08└─That's why I call it Sjweden.
[08:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New and More Intrusive TSA Patdowns Coming - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:24] <exec> 08└─If they actually cared about security they would have put you in quarantine.
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[08:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:05] <exec> 08└─This is the new Opteron, which does have have a decent niche following in specific virtualisation and high density compute platforms. People don't buy these for gaming.
[08:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:38] <exec> 08└─That you are a moron? Probably not.
[08:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:40] <exec> 08└─Ok, have had a few hours to poke around in the archive. Am I the only one who is unimpressed with the quality of the CIA's capabilities? Ok, I know this was mostly a downlow reinvention of NSA's stuff to use places the NSA wouldn't but now I wonder just whether their vaunted tools are any better. Is...
[08:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:31] <exec> 08└─"I always say life is like a box of chocolates… Sure are a lot of brown ones in there." (SNL's spoof of Jeff Sessions)
[08:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:32] <exec> 08└─First off, I have been programming 20 years. What a bunch of whiners. You really ought to know that bubble sort is O(N^2) without a second thought since it is just two loops. And puzzles should give you a chance to show off that deep deep mental stack you've developed from those many years of solvin...
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[09:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:49] <exec> 08└─Just another example of how if a jurisdiction wants a clean election, it uses paper to run that election. Not punched cards with their hanging chads, but pieces of paper upon which voters must place an X or fill in a box. But those should not be counted by machines, but instead by people in open roo...
[09:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:05] <exec> 08└─I realize the title seems absurd, but so is this study. All these studies do is look for correlations, find them, and immediately imply causation. There is literally 0 causal reason to believe that these genes are in any way directly causal of autism and there are countless possible confounding vari...
[09:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:47] <exec> 08└─Can't be - studying the features would have required being able to read.
[09:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:48] <exec> 08└─And, did they hire you?
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[10:55:50] <exec> 08└─That doesn't work either. Ballot boxes can be stuffed full of paper in the time between the closing of polls and the delivery of ballots to counters. Ballot boxes can be opened, and "audited" with ballots for the opposition tossed in the shredder. All of these are easier to execute than this piece o...
[10:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:51] <exec> 08└─Did I see it wrong? This article dates March 31st 2016. That's almost a year ago. Bringing this up is either a very late cool pearl, or some weird, politically loaded flashback. There are more interesting things going on right now. Like the WL initials package.
[10:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:49] <exec> 08└─FizzBuzz is easy, man: http://thedailywtf.com
[10:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Create Bose-Einstein Condensates on the ISS - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:39] <exec> 08└─Then how does Earth have an atmosphere?
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[11:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:49] <exec> 08└─Imagine a weapon that can strike at the speed of light with deadly precision without revealing the source of the attack. This is what money has become. The problem of the article is just a small aspect of the bigger problem, which is, people are permitted to control through money things that generat...
[11:55:50] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03mmcmonster [401] 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 1843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:50] <exec> 08└─And, speaking as a physician, they're all bad. I'm sure that those statistics mentioned don't even include all the drug rep meals that the physicians eat. I don't think I know a single physician at my hospital who hasn't accepted free food from a drug rep at least once in the last year. I personally...
[11:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:01] <exec> 08└─Ballot boxes can be stuffed full of paper in the time between the closing of polls and the delivery of ballots to counters.
[11:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:03] <exec> 08└─> Institutional Revolutionary Party What is that supposed to mean BTW?
[11:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:05] <exec> 08└─. Ballot boxes can be stuffed full of paper in the time between the closing of polls and the delivery of ballots to counters.
[11:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:20] <exec> 08└─Yes don't risk having an autistic child, take someone else's autistic child instead...
[11:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:22] <exec> 08└─You sound like an anti-vaxxer, just because you don't understand how science works, doesn't mean everyone else is in the same boat with you. FYI, I used to maintain some of the DB servers used by a company that did this research. You sir, know less than nothing about this subject, pray tell you keep...
[11:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:37] <exec> 08└─make -j64 I''m sold as soon as they open their hardware rootkit so it can be disabled or at least controlled by the box owner with coreboot/libreboot.
[11:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:56] <exec> 08└─Most MS software includes office + windows. That is *AT MOST* 600 bucks.
[11:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:08] <exec> 08└─Fuck, I've never worked a day in my life if those are the criteria! Personally, I'd value OSS work, in particular hobby work done for no pay, at least as highly as handle-turning just-for-the-pay-cheque work - at least it shows motivation (if indeed it does show motivation).
[11:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:10] <exec> 08└─To some extent I can see the value in being able to calculate stuff like that in my head. I remember a story about a doctor who accidentally administered 100x the correct dose because of a fat finger calculator mistake. Being able to estimate approximately the right parameters in your head is a good...
[11:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:12] <exec> 08└─This is actually an unsolved problem I think. If I recall, there is no mathematical way to calculate the optimal arrangement of spheres packed into a given space at the moment. You can either brute force it or give an estimate, but knowing exactly and then filling the volume in the best possible way...
[11:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:14] <exec> 08└─...they made him the boss ! ! !
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[12:55:52] <exec> 08└─can we boil water at 700 meters below sea-level? teh diagram doesn't show a pipe going to surface to suck down "air" from surface?
[12:56:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:07] <exec> 08└─Just another example of how if a jurisdiction wants a clean election, it uses paper to run that election. Not punched cards with their hanging chads, but pieces of paper upon which voters must place an X or fill in a box. But those should not be counted by machines, but instead by people in open roo...
[12:56:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:12] <exec> 08└─. Ballot boxes can be stuffed full of paper in the time between the closing of polls and the delivery of ballots to counters.
[12:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:14] <exec> 08└─This is about defacing websites and shitposting on forums, etc. It is not about modifying the vote count. Also it didn't sound very effective.
[12:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:16] <exec> 08└─There are more interesting things going on right now.
[12:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:49] <exec> 08└─Those who buy these chips, often attach a great deal of extra stuff. 64 cores, 4TB of memory and 4 GPU's sounds like a sweet workstation ;-) And yes, it would play games just fine.
[12:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:25] <exec> 08└─What's that expression, "The Fruit of a Poisoned Tree?" The CIA tortures people. Torture is a war crime. Therefore, nothing they ever do can be good. Indeed, their very existence has become antithetical to American values. I personally feel that is also true of the NSA and the federal government mor...
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[12:59:26] <exec> 08└─Nice one :-) I forgot about that site. Once it was in my daily bookmarks. Funny as it is, but this is one the reasons I prefer to bring a laptop. In this case I think it is safe to assume that the candidate just doesn't have a clue. There are other tasks, however, where a solution might look awkward...
[12:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:47] <exec> 08└─Invaded who, and when? And compare their record to somewhat more warmongering empires, such as like, all of them, and they're practically the neutral Swiss. They make the Aussies look like warmongers. Agreed on the China thing and China is down with the whole MAD strategy thing, much like if "Castro...
[12:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:49] <exec> 08└─More precisely its my favorite conspiracy theory where all the behaviors and motivations and justifications fit and seem the most logical behaviors for those actors at that time, and there's no evidence against it, but then again there's no evidence proving it either. Frankly it makes more sense tha...
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[12:59:51] <exec> 08└─My wargaming guess is before it became a race to build warheads, there would be raids by military and commandos to mess stuff up eventually leading to outright war or Chinese intervention. The Chinese might be behind the whole darn thing just so they can waltz in as a regional nuclear power and gain...
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[13:56:02] <exec> 08└─Normal grey listing settings reject for 10 - 15 minutes, most mail servers retry within a few minutes. Seems like Virgin botched their settings. That mail delivery is delayed is normal, as it is a cause of the greylisting. But mail should never be completely rejected (when using a standard compliant...
[13:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:03] <exec> 08└─Greylisting doesn't work. There's way too many servers that don't respond the way you'd expect. You end up having to treat half of all of the senders as special snowflakes with various exceptions, workarounds, and mitigations. It's just not that useful; clients will dump you for losing ONE mail, and...
[13:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:06] <exec> 08└─Or, alternatively, they are getting an inbound email from email senders whose outbound email servers are either: A: Non-standards compliant and broken, and thus don't handle a 421 retry request per the RFC (e.g. some of Yahoo!'s servers) B: Retry correctly, but do so from a different outbound mails...
[13:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:15] <exec> 08└─The design looks a bit odd. Why pump water and not air? Inlet for air on the top side, hole (with generator) on the bottom side. Too much power => pump air into the vessel, too less power, open the air outlet and let the atmospheric pressure do its function.
[13:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:17] <exec> 08└─There is air-pressure storage for sure, but why then place it at such depths? The trick here is to use the water pressure of say 700m which would be equivalent to a turbine at the bottom of a 700m high dam. 700m is higher than any dam in existence as far as I know. The downside is the limited capaci...
[13:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed this is one of the finer points not mentioned. My guess is that the reservoir is kept at atmospheric pressure when lowered into the water. When filled with water, the air is compressed into a small volume. When water is pumped out the air returns to atmospheric pressure. As to how relevant th...
[13:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:29] <exec> 08└─I spent a horrifying Friday afternoon one day a couple years ago frantically trying to get a doctor's office to change an antibiotic prescription for two of my very young children before they closed for the weekend. A $4 antibiotic from Wal-Mart would do, but instead something was prescribed that wa...
[13:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:51] <exec> 08└─Its going to be interesting to see what happens when the subsidies vanish, since this smells an AWFUL like the shale-oil rush which was also just a cash in on subsidies.
[13:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:49] <exec> 08└─The epic fail of the Dakota protests is they wouldn't compromise and they're not going to make the western world give up oil, so you almost wonder if outside agitators screwed the protestors by not compromising. Like... if they stomped their feet and demanded the river only be crossed by quadruple t...
[13:59:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:22] <exec> 08└─More likely the real reason you were not hired is your daily rate is 50 to 100% higher than someone with a special work visa. Also, the test means the company has *proof* no local was able to do the job, so they *had* to hire the visa-holder.
[13:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:57] <exec> 08└─I friggin LOVE the whiteboard section!
[13:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:59] <exec> 08└─they are marking the box to get a H1-B
[14:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:01] <exec> 08└─Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response.
[14:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:03] <exec> 08└─First off, "SE" is typically used for systems engineer, not software. Secondly, don't starts this stupid programmer vs. engineer nonsense argument again.
[14:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 2568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:05] <exec> 08└─That's the difference between an engineer and a scientist, in that its extremely easy to solve if you only feed a feasibility study within an order of magnitude. I bet you can get a lot better than order of magnitude accuracy if you assume a cubical ball. Also its very "engineer" to spec asymmetric...
[14:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, I've been programming for 40 yrs. (70's) and you're an idiot. Also: everyone knows Big-O. Tell me, smart-guy, what are the Little-O or Omega complexities of a bubble sort.
[14:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:33] <exec> 08└─Invaded who, and when?
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[14:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:08] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree to the sentiment that greylisting doesn't work in practice, I guess there's more than one reason why big suppliers of antispam systems don't use it. There's - even large - mailsystems that don't keep an outgoing queue, if their first delivery fails, that's it, they won't come back. T...
[14:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:20] <exec> 08└─Is it any different than pumped storage with a 700m difference between reservoirs?
[14:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:21] <exec> 08└─yes. you don't have to drag the water through 700m of pipe. and I am being serious.
[14:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:23] <exec> 08└─What kind of pressure would be exerted on a hollow sphere at 700m deep? Also, how much force is applied by buoyancy when it's empty? I imagine it would take an insane amount of power and structural integrity to get a hollow sphere down that far.
[14:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:26] <exec> 08└─At 700m, pressure is ~70atm, so if the air in the sphere is at surface pressure, it will compress to less than 2% of its original volume.
[14:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:36] <exec> 08└─Imagine a weapon that can strike at the speed of light with deadly precision without revealing the source of the attack. This is what money has become. The problem of the article is just a small aspect of the bigger problem, which is, people are permitted to control through money things that generat...
[14:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:51] <exec> 08└─Well, given that Runaway submitted this one, it may be moot. At first brush, I thought this was yet another lame attempt by the DNC to push the "election was hacked!" narrative while continuing to offer exactly zero evidence. Then I saw your comment and also noted who submitted it on IRC. At the sam...
[14:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:00] <exec> 08└─Its going to be interesting to see what happens when the subsidies vanish, since this smells an AWFUL like the shale-oil rush which was also just a cash in on subsidies.
[14:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:12] <exec> 08└─All these studies do is look for correlations, find them, and immediately imply causation.
[14:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:13] <exec> 08└─You first.
[14:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:31] <exec> 08└─"hardware rootkit" So.. what are you currently using for your computing needs? Intel is using AMT, which functionally/basically is the same...
[14:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soaking Up an Oil Spill - With a Big Sponge - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:04] <exec> 08└─That would be your verdict no matter what option they'd chosen. If they attempted to compromise, then you'd be saying that they didn't get any part of what they were asking for because they had no spine.
[15:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:20] <exec> 08└─Right, the interviewer's problem is to figure out what is going on inside the person's head. Can he communicate and think logically under pressure, does he have a useful base of knowledge to draw from, does he bluff. The CTCI stuff can do this for skills for writing programs, but leaves much t...
[15:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:21] <exec> 08└─The market seems to be heating up a bit - turning in favor of candidates. Get in while you can, it will swing back the other way soon enough. Sadly, some places HR is very distant from the R&D/software departments, so getting past HR is an entirely different game from actually working with the peopl...
[15:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:24] <exec> 08└─Those are the two real stand outs, but the stuff mostly seems to be trying to determine who has mastered the CS category of Trivial Pursuit or who *just* graduated at the top of their class and the realworld experience matters less.
[15:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 2628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─There is a strange bit of insight in there, in that it can be a cultural test. So if you're interviewing at a H1B place, among the Asians, saving face is extremely important and honesty is way down on the list, I mean its nice but its way down there in their cultural priority list. At a "old white g...
[15:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:28] <exec> 08└─First off, "SE" is typically used for systems engineer, not software.
[15:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:31] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, two of those (separated by hundreds of miles and many years) insisted on drawing an exponentially decaying sine wave instead of the specified linear decay.
[15:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03What planet is this [5031] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:56] <exec> 08└─So where does this end. If there was ever a case for a preemptive nuclear strike... Is it a requirement to wait until New York is nuclear ash?
[15:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:16] <exec> 08└─I had an interview at Radio Shack once. The manager was able to confirm that yes, they were phasing out the electronic component section. I was confused by the decision since Best Buy has more floor space to sell the same thing (consumer electronics). Obviously, I did not get the job.
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[15:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jerry Smith [379] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:28] <exec> 08└─The video is from over a half year ago.
[15:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:29] <exec> 08└─Unless I've suddenly turned illiterate, TFS says this guy teaches something to the effect, "Niggers is just dumb, because they have low IQ's." I'm not one to attend protests, but if I were in the neighborhood when this guy was speaking, I just might attend this protest. Everyone here knows that I'm...
[15:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:32] <exec> 08└─Its actually from 3 years ago and its the standard half-truth de-contextualized in furtherance of right-wing lies that we've all seen a thousands times before.
[15:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:34] <exec> 08└─> Again, I'm no SJW, but facts are facts. You are now. Welcome to the factside.
[15:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:36] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, there is a huge link between intelligence and productivity in society; the lower the intelligence, the worse the productivity—and at a certain threshold across a population, society starts to break down. It does nobody any good to deny facts, and just write off discrepancies in outcom...
[15:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:38] <exec> 08└─and at a certain threshold across a population, society starts to break down.
[15:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:40] <exec> 08└─> There is a huge link between DNA and Intelligence Sure. But what there is not is a huge link between "race" and intelligence. Race itself is a social construct. Just ask any geneticist. For example, Dr Craig Venter (founder of the Human Genome Project) who said in 2000, "Race is a social concept,...
[15:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:42] <exec> 08└─...film at 11. Like Milo's Berkeley "riot" this rates a front page story in the campus paper and a mention in the local weekly "weird news" column, but I guess putting stories about those big bad elite university liberals behaving badly all over social media suits the Breitbart noise machine's agen...
[15:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:45] <exec> 08└─If it were, then you wouldn't be able to get a reading of your genetic heritage, and various groups of people wouldn't be more at risk for certain diseases, etc. Black people are better at being outside in the son doing manual labor, and white people are better at living in dark climates with very l...
[15:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:47] <exec> 08└─You should have attempted only your first point. People with African heritage are at a greater risk for breast cancer and sickle-cell anemia. You'll find credible references on this easy to come by. It's "sun," btw, if you're referring to the giant fusion reactor in the sky. For that point, allow me...
[15:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:49] <exec> 08└─... are not worth engaging.
[15:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:51] <exec> 08└─If it were, then you wouldn't be able to get a reading of your genetic heritage, and various groups of people wouldn't be more at risk for certain diseases, etc.
[15:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 2098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:53] <exec> 08└─It's a bit like breeds of dogs. There are different breeds of humans, the human breeds aren't as distinct due to more "haphazard breeding" but they do exist. So similar to there being measurable differences in breeds of dogs, I wouldn't be surprised if there are measurable differences in human breed...
[15:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:56] <exec> 08└─Well that was easy.
[15:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:06] <exec> 08└─I think most grey listing implementations allow whitelisting servers to cover both A and B.
[15:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:08] <exec> 08└─I greylist on my home mail server. The only real problem I've experienced is that occasionally someone sending me mail gets informed by his mail system that the message was undeliverable, presumably because it misrepresents my return code. However, I still get those messages. But yes, I still get sp...
[15:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:10] <exec> 08└─There's way too many servers that don't respond the way you'd expect.
[15:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:25] <exec> 08└─What kind of pressure would be exerted on a hollow sphere at 700m deep?
[15:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:27] <exec> 08└─One of the main downsides to pumped storage is the necessity to build dams and flood valleys often destroying vital wild animal habitat and almost always wrecking the view that was previously "unspoilt" countryside. Here the nasty (but essential) machinery can be hidden under the sea - hopefully wit...
[15:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your commentary on this -- really insightful (and distressing). One question about Durlaza, since you're a physician: you say "Durlaza is just aspirin," but it's not. I admittedly didn't know anything about Durlaza until I read your post, but a quick internet search brought up stuff li...
[15:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:40] <exec> 08└─Let me make the obvious rebuttal here.
[15:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 3769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not a "free-market" libertarian absolutist, nor am I a socialist. But I do believe that often some of the worst abuses in market systems happen with a markets that are only "partly free." The oversight or management tends to constrain some things, but actually often promotes other abuses. Classi...
[15:57:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:53] <exec> 08└─Ballot boxes can be stuffed full of paper in the time between the closing of polls and the delivery of ballots to counters.
[15:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:00] <exec> 08└─Ballot boxes can be stuffed full of paper in the time between the closing of polls and the delivery of ballots to counters.
[16:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Sir. Your fix is highly appropriate.
[16:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:21] <exec> 08└─secret by the CIA to ... turn ordinary devices including cellphones, computers and even television sets into surveillance tools.
[16:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Says It Has Obtained Trove of CIA Hacking Tools - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:23] <exec> 08└─The CIA has good intentions, at least from the perspective of those who benefit from the power of the USA. This includes indirect beneficiaries, such as Japan and South Korea and NATO countries. If you benefit from the success of these, then you too are a beneficiary. From your perspective the CIA i...
[16:00:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 1038 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:36] <exec> 08└─Solving riddles is a different kind of thought process than programming. There are clear similarities, but those are usually edge cases for the most part and often only academically interesting. On the other hand, the thought process to solve a generic problem vs programming is more similar and can...
[16:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:41] <exec> 08└─They want to see you reference at least some of the syntax of the language.
[16:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:42] <exec> 08└─So in the end, these big companies that are the supposed holy grail of programming and engineering jobs, arent. Plenty of other tech/programming jobs out there which might not be as prestigious sounding but pay the same.
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─One was an EE, but I believe they both stuck with the exp() library function (after all, it was supposed to be a quick test)... One had a bit of angst about how to make 10% at the end, do you measure amplitude at the extreme right side of the screen, or peak of the last wave? The non-EE was a self-t...
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─I think I read about a decade ago that mathematicians had finally proven the optimal way to stack spheres.
[16:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:49] <exec> 08└─That's a good story. The only time I intentionally blew an interview was with the CIA. They spent the whole day running me through scenarios designed to see how well you can think on your feet, how well you can keep your composure when you're surprised, etc. Basically stupid mind games all day, all...
[16:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:51] <exec> 08└─First off, I have been programming 20 years. What a bunch of whiners.
[16:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:53] <exec> 08└─Where he works now they have high end catering every day for lunch. Basically a mini buffet of good food (e.g. one day they had filet mignon). But it's a trick. It keeps employees in the chair longer instead of letting them roam freely for an hour or more on lunch.
[16:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:20] <exec> 08└─We should fry them before they fry us, because we're the good guys and they're the bad guys. Only problem with that reasoning, is I can't tell who said it... US or NK?
[16:03:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 1721 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:36] <exec> 08└─Back in the early 1970s, and before, you could be a legitimate "Electronics Store" just by carrying a modest selection of wire, connectors, batteries, and some resistors, capacitors, inductors, potentiometers, and a few transistors (or, earlier, tubes). A few thousand parts kept you relevant, and th...
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[16:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:48] <exec> 08└─Shame we can't upvote articles themselves, so I will just comment here and say thank you for the interesting trip through history. Looking forward to the next chapter :-)
[16:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:49] <exec> 08└─Wonder if Microsoft / SCO / Novell / Whoever owns it this week could be convinced to allow distribution and tinkering. It would be fun to be able to play with it. Would be interesting to see what would happen if work could be done to it, like say add in driver support for virtio. Somehow I suspect t...
[16:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:14] <exec> 08└─Class helps to determine your supposed IQ.
[16:57:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:15] <exec> 08└─First, to be absolutely clear, I'm NOT an advocate for Murray. I struggled about whether to submit this story, because I think some of his scholarship borders on irresponsible. But while I completely support the right to protest (and frankly support those who would protest him), I'm disturbed by the...
[16:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:18] <exec> 08└─the lower the intelligence, the worse the productivity—and at a certain threshold across a population, society starts to break down.
[16:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:20] <exec> 08└─Just as there are whole populations of people whose genetic heritage condemn them to a higher risk of sickle cell anemia, there are also whole populations whose genetic heritage condemn them to lower IQs. I'm not arguing that because some black populations have genetically lower IQs that all black p...
[16:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:22] <exec> 08└─there are also whole populations whose genetic heritage condemn them to lower IQs.
[16:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:24] <exec> 08└─I'm disturbed by the form and escalation of the protests.
[16:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:26] <exec> 08└─and you've completely missed the point of this or the Berkley riot from Milo, it isn't trolling at all, and it isn't about bringing conservatives on campus to do a lecture. this is about schools becoming safe-spaces where there is no room for critical thought, no room for anyone to have a different...
[16:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:28] <exec> 08└─which promoted links between intelligence and race
[16:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:31] <exec> 08└─Firstly, see this comment, namely the reply titled "You are AGREEING with me". Secondly, note that Africans were enslaved by other Africans in their various tribal wars, and then those slaves were sold to Arab slave traders; Europeans and Americans then purchased those people not as slaves, but as i...
[16:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not arguing that because some black populations have genetically lower IQs that all black people have lower IQs;
[16:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:35] <exec> 08└─You are not arguing against what is being said. What is being said is that there ARE differences in populations; the only thing that is a social construct is the notion that all humans are equal and would have the exact same outcomes were it not for some nefarious "structural" conspiracy in the orga...
[16:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:37] <exec> 08└─Some people¹ get bent out of shape about it because they don't want a caste system. There are facts, and then there are what people do with those facts. If species::men were angels, we would have no need for a taboo as concerns discussing the facts. Some people are interested in genomics and quanti...
[16:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:39] <exec> 08└─You are making things up; you are constructing a straw man.
[16:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:42] <exec> 08└─SAD isn't a strawman here. You failed to elaborate what you meant by "better at living in caves" so he took a guess.
[16:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:44] <exec> 08└─Alright, I glanced at the Bell Curve. Want my opinion?
[16:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:46] <exec> 08└─"it's unscientific to get so upset that some guy claims there are measurable differences in IQ in the different breeds of humans. Or to assume it can't be true just because "it can't be true" because you and "everyone" don't like it." I can't really dispute that. But, then again, I have never claime...
[16:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:48] <exec> 08└─> Secondly, note that Africans were enslaved by other Africans in their various tribal wars, As if the fact that some africans sold other africans into slavery has anything to do with genetics. Your decision to trot out a completely unrelated rationalization for racism just revealed that this is all...
[16:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:50] <exec> 08└─OK, the word "populations" here is a deceptive one. I suspect you are thinking of "populations" as is "a bunch of similar looking people living in the same geographical area". I'm thinking of "populations" as in "a bunch of people who share some genetic traits but don't necessarily look like or live...
[16:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:52] <exec> 08└─Having read the book, this is libel.
[16:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:55] <exec> 08└─Here: Vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent among African Americans (blacks) than other Americans and, in North America, most young, healthy blacks do not achieve optimal 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations at any time of year. This is primarily due to the fact that pigmentation reduces...
[16:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 2283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:57] <exec> 08└─That's actually not a bad paraphrase of the conclusion of the book, as I read it originally 20 years ago. Being ivory tower academics the authors got into other ivory towers, and one specific example was economic models assuming a billion Africans in Africa will generate quite as much economic innov...
[16:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:59] <exec> 08└─What is that now? 3 different accusations of "strawman!" Its funny how you are reduced to declaring that everybody else is arguing a strawman when in fact all of these "strawmen" are the direct and obviously intentional conclusion of your postulation. Especially when you say things like, "having bl...
[16:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:01] <exec> 08└─A "protest" is being present, and doing stupid but harmless things like waving banners, wearing T-shirts with mottos, chanting, maybe even marching. A "violent protest" is more commonly known as a riot. Protesting is an annoyance, rioting is a danger to society. The only time I have ever taken any p...
[16:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:03] <exec> 08└─I am the one speaking of populations in terms of genetic heritage, not something superficial like skin color. Furthermore, people who look similar and live in the same geographical area tend to share the same genetic heritage. You'll note that I wrote "having black skin in America". In America: That...
[16:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:05] <exec> 08└─this is about schools becoming safe-spaces where there is no room for critical thought, no room for anyone to have a different opinion, not even in jest. and if you truly don't see how dangerous this is, you're as fucking retarded as the marxists who started this in the first place.
[16:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your unbiased facts, I was unaware that the human nervous system was created in the womb entirely independent of DNA and epigenetic factors.
[16:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:10] <exec> 08└─I said "it may well be the case" Here, allow me to put back in place those parts you cut out in your attempt to build a straw man: That being said, it may very well be that having black skin in America is a very good proxy for having some genetic trait, such as sickle-cell anemia or difficulty with...
[16:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:25] <exec> 08└─t-online.de since at least 5 years directly rejects (554) inbound email even from well behaved servers and with proper dns spf entries if their automaton thinks that it's a residential ip and you should be using your ISP mta. And there is nothing .you can do.
[16:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:43] <exec> 08└─A 30m sphere has about 14,000 m^3 of volume, and 2800 m^2 of surface area. If that was water, it would weigh about 14,000 tonnes, so to a first order approximation it would have 14,000 tonnes of buoyancy. 14,000 tonnes of concrete means the walls are about 2 meters thick. Given the scale of the proj...
[16:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:45] <exec> 08└─This hollow, underwater sphere is big enough to engulf a man. They should call it Rover.
[16:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:59] <exec> 08└─Every time you say "the obvious rebuttal" everybody takes a shot.
[16:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:17] <exec> 08└─The normal ones are transparent so you still have to bribe the people who are supposed to ensure the boxes are empty. All these sort of stuff is standard practice. Perhaps you're just used to easily rigged elections and thus are unaware of how stuff is done in other places. In my country I think the...
[16:59:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:29] <exec> 08└─Its going to be interesting to see what happens when the subsidies vanish, since this smells an AWFUL like the shale-oil rush which was also just a cash in on subsidies.
[17:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 4346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:13] <exec> 08└─I took a different tack than what most have talked about here. I suck at those kind of gotcha tests in interviews, so I avoid them. I know I can build solid systems because I have done so many times. (There's even one guy at Kaplan, the test-prep company, who has built an entire division and his car...
[17:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:15] <exec> 08└─For what its worth, many many white americans are downright rude and even reject resume because it has an Indian name. I once pointed this out and was told that it is a correct strategy to weed out bad programmers. Similarly in my experience, Indian managers are downright abusive to Indian developer...
[17:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:17] <exec> 08└─I believe they both stuck with the exp()
[17:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:45] <exec> 08└─The invasion of course of South Korea in 1950.
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[17:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:35] <exec> 08└─I look forward to the point where the "games" disk is ran. This continues to be fantastic.
[17:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:36] <exec> 08└─It would be possible, the kernel is shipped as a set of object modules, and documentation exists on how to write and add new device drivers plus the linker used by this unique version of Xenix is present. I've worked with virtio professionally, and am somewhat familiar with it, though if I was to ac...
[17:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:39] <exec> 08└─Not sure it helps - I have a box set (in unknown condition) of 2.3.4h with the Games floppy (and of course no license) - 3.5HD floppies. Let me know if it can help out in anyway...
[17:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:41] <exec> 08└─As I recall Xenix came in a cube box about > 2 feet x >2 feet. The thing was HUGE with manuals, floppies, and such. I don't remember how it took up all that room but it sure did.
[17:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:43] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, that version hasn't made it into preservation. It would be very good to get those scanned and archived. What I'm planning to with these images is send them to the Internet Archive both in unrestored and restored state, in the hope that if/when copyright law becomes more sane, o...
[17:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:45] <exec> 08└─Eagerly awaiting to hear more. Took a quick look at those Teledisk images for myself, and wow there are a bunch of missing sectors. Oddly most of the errors on each disk are in about the same place (~track 30 and ~track 60) which makes me think whoever dumped these may have had a serious problem wit...
[17:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:47] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the boxed set of OS/2 2.1 I had back in the day. 29 floppies + drivers, and enough books that it could flatten a small housepet if it fell on them.
[17:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:39] <exec> 08└─Race itself is a social construct. Just ask any geneticist.
[17:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:41] <exec> 08└─Protesting's fine, putting him in the hospital because you don't like what he has to say ain't. Ahh the fabled tolerance of the left.
[17:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:43] <exec> 08└─Eh, the lamestream history on this was already fake news even back in 1840 I'm guessing. Those poor southern slave er servant-holders er job creators, their angel-like nature sullied by the degenerate influence of the negro.
[17:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:45] <exec> 08└─Oh... very well. I should probably re-read the book to freshen up. I wonder if there's a newer kindle edition with newer data. I think WRT reception of the book when it was new, other than tons more street violence now, it would not be realistic to pretend the politically motivated reception would b...
[17:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:47] <exec> 08└─but I don't see how that justifies the kind of threats and intimidation tactics shown at this protest.
[17:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:49] <exec> 08└─You're just some triggered fool who is trying to sooth his cognitive dissonance by replacing the actual statements with ones that nobody made.
[17:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:51] <exec> 08└─Who are you and what have you done with the real Runaway? Please tell me you dropped the body in a vat of lye or something...
[17:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's no question about that. They tried to design IQ tests in such a way that it didn't, but so far have not succeeded.
[17:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:56] <exec> 08└─How come only black people have become stuck there?
[17:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:58] <exec> 08└─First off, if you think Milo is a conservative, I've got a fucking bridge to sell you. If you take him at face value, he's a Nazi. If you don't, he's a troll. I was choosing the more charitable interpretation. And secondly, I don't normally pull out "retard" as an insult, but if you think the "marx...
[17:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:00] <exec> 08└─> Sounds good. Let's ask Dawkins (at 35:35). Give me a link that is useful, that I don't have to turn on javascript. As it is I can't even find a link to whatever media is supposed to be on that page, audio, video? Maybe some text that you actually quote so we evaluate whatever specific claimns you...
[17:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:02] <exec> 08└─> There could well be other traits of note; that is the point. Yeah and the one "trait of note" you just happened to single out is intelligence. Its pretty funny watching you try to have your racist cake and eat it too.
[17:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:04] <exec> 08└─But NONE of those differences are related to intelligence.
[17:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:07] <exec> 08└─Secondly, note that Africans were enslaved by other Africans in their various tribal wars,
[17:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:09] <exec> 08└─yeah... no, as I said this has nothing to do with Milo, this issue has been going on for a LOT longer than any of that, even comedians are giving up on going to campuses, Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher talking about this come to mind, but there is a lot more than just that. calling somebody a snowfla...
[17:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:11] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with you?
[17:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:13] <exec> 08└─Many more people than those however are simply looking for an excuse to justify treating other people like shit, because they want a caste system, one where they, conveniently enough, just so happen to be the superior, more authentic caste.
[17:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:15] <exec> 08└─As if the left is the only group who preaches tolerance and then does the opposite....
[17:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:17] <exec> 08└─http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jerry-seinfeld-college-politically-correct-racism-sexism_n_7534978 http://www.huffingtonpost.com http://www.thewrap.com http://ew....
[17:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 2458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:20] <exec> 08└─Trump voters can be broken down into three main groups in a ven diagram. You have the people who refused to vote for Hillary because of her very real baggage, the people who were willing to try anything for a job, and the Trolls who did it for the keks. When he won the response by the losers was tha...
[17:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone should tell this to the marine biologists working on Orcas. Then again, they might all just be Costanza.
[17:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─Yes intelligence is genetic, on a per individual basis. But intelligence is not meaningfully correlated by "race" because there is literally no reliable genetic definition of race. Whenever somebody tries to scientifically define race they end up with so many exceptions that either they have to divi...
[17:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:26] <exec> 08└─There's genetic component of intelligence, for instance: Irish setters, not quite as smart as your average Homo sapiens - there's a strong genetic component at work there. Even within H. sapiens, there are genetic components that play into intelligence/aptitude. Race also has a strong genetic compon...
[17:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:41] <exec> 08└─They have a Web form you can use to contact them. http://www.t-online.de
[17:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:16] <exec> 08└─> And, speaking as a physician, they're all bad. Thanks for your comments. Your restraint in accepting free lunches is to be commended! Since you are on the "front lines", do you have any idea of the "multiplier" or return on investment? By this I mean, what do the drug companies spend on their reps...
[17:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:17] <exec> 08└─The journal articles fail to mention: Aspirin irreversibly and completely stops platelet functions. An 81mg dose will basically de-activate all platelets in the bloodstream. The only way the body gets platelet action is that it continually creates new platelets. The reason why 81mg aspirin dose is c...
[17:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:20] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention: Platelets have a lifespan of about 7 days. So if you want to stop aspirin prior to a surgical procedure (typically for brain or spine surgery) they want you off of aspirin for 7 days. Because they know that a single dose can effect overall clotting function (because platelets he...
[17:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:22] <exec> 08└─And, speaking as a physician, they're all bad. I'm sure that those statistics mentioned don't even include all the drug rep meals that the physicians eat. I don't think I know a single physician at my hospital who hasn't accepted free food from a drug rep at least once in the last year.
[17:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:24] <exec> 08└─Not sure how to calculate these sort of numbers. But I've had drug reps pay $200 or more to feed an office to get 15 minutes with two physicians. And the same rep will come back to the same office monthly for a year or more to speak to the same docs. For instance: I've been dealing with the same rep...
[17:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:26] <exec> 08└─Ask your brother (after he has a couple drinks) whether he's based any treatment decisions based on a drug rep lunch (not even a dinner!). He may say more, but if he thinks about it and is honest, he may reconsider and realize that the reps have more influence on him than he originally thought. Afte...
[17:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:28] <exec> 08└─you should be able to get an estimate, just as a car mechanic or really any other reputable business could give you
[17:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 2818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:30] <exec> 08└─Being able to charge what you want is not the kind of freedom meant by the "free" in free market. I don't like that term "oversight", with its connotations of control, as in, price controls. The market is a game, with rules and ways to cheat. Some games rely on players, either others to catch cheati...
[17:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:58] <exec> 08└─> That's roughly $14 billion [...] That was a typo and you meant $10 billion or $10.1 billion, right? In addition, the industry gets standard subsidies and tax write-offs common to anyone in a mining industry which I might add are in large part to compensate for the unusual vagaries of that sort of...
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─That was a typo and you meant $10 billion or $10.1 billion, right?
[18:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:14] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaxxer. Now that is one incredibly ironic pejorative! I imagine you chose that to maintain some modicum of decorum - certainly better than calling me a poopy face. In reality anti-vaxxers suffer from the same bad science that genetics (and many other purely correlational fields) thrive on. The...
[18:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you for making me dig more deeply into the paper. This one is even worse than I expected. This paper wasn't even just about finding correlations and implying causation, but about finding correlations that could be monetized in the form of pharmaceutical "treatments." As usual, look at the conc...
[18:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 32-Core "Naples" Chips Coming in Q2 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:35] <exec> 08└─AMD Phenom II x6 1090T. Top end of the last of the free chips.
[18:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:54] <exec> 08└─That's interesting, my experience with the feds WRT security clearance decades ago was they continued to ask the same dumb questions over and over. I later read that WRT lie detectors people who try to beat the test, memorize their cover story so well they never make a mistake, but casual stuff that...
[18:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:56] <exec> 08└─For a given material and cutter combination, the optimal feed and speed can change an order of magnitude or more depending on axial and radial engagement, toolholder type, tool stickout, and workholding security. Since almost all CNC programming is done on a computer, it's far better to use the soft...
[18:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:27] <exec> 08└─"but not running 24-7 high def radar coverage on China to appease them." Do you really think the US Intelligence community is not surveilling a competitor's military movements to the maximum extent possible out of respect?
[18:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:28] <exec> 08└─And yet North Korea is still killing people over this ancient war. I mean what realistically is the problem, other than general imperial warmongering and such?
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[18:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:53] <exec> 08└─It won't be robust; it's as transient as the violently imposed monopolists who currently helm that organization which calls itself "government". The only way to achieve a robust "right to repair" is to have a shift in culture, and thus a concomitant shift in economics, so that industry and society o...
[18:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:55] <exec> 08└─It won't be robust; it will be as transient as the viol-ently impos-ed mono-polists who currently helm that organization which calls itself "government". The only way to achieve a robust "right to repair" is to have a shift in culture, and thus a concomitant shift in economics, so that industry and...
[18:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:57] <exec> 08└─Adobe actually have "eternal licenses" (similar to the old style of license) that you can get if you're a business and sign up with their VIP plan thing. It's a huge bother to get access to it though since they are fairly ruthless with how they manage their vendors... Oh and if you're just buying it...
[18:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:00] <exec> 08└─Case in point: Adobe. They realized that photoshop pretty much peaked and no one would be buying each year's new version for very minor functionality additions. So what do they do? Move everything to the cloud and charge monthly access fees. Jerks. I don't have a problem with this; I just wish they'...
[18:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:02] <exec> 08└─Big agriculture and big tech – including John Deere, Apple and AT&T – are lobbying hard against the bill
[18:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:04] <exec> 08└─It won't be robust; it will be as ephemeral as the self-imposing clowns who currently helm that organization which calls itself "The State". The only way to achieve a robust "right to repair" is to have a shift in culture, and thus a similar shift in economics, so that society organizes itself inti...
[18:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:06] <exec> 08└─Apple Says Nebraska Will Become A 'Mecca For Hackers' If Right To Repair Bill Passes.
[18:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:08] <exec> 08└─So why are Nebraska farmers buying their farm equipment from John Deere, instead of other companies like Kubota? I don't see them ever listed in these articles as trying to kill right-to-repair legislation. Most likely, their stuff is easier to fix too. A quick Google search found that there's a bun...
[18:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:11] <exec> 08└─Sure, I'll get right on that, as soon as I finish milking my unicorn herds that graze on the rainbow-colored plains of the moons of Neptune.
[18:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:13] <exec> 08└─What a cruel and harsh world you must create around yourself. So everyone must be omnipotent at all times or they deserve to be screwed over by shitty business practices. Yup, seems reasonable /s May the precedent be set and all future a-holes sued into oblivion!
[18:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:15] <exec> 08└─Lack of local dealers maybe? I'm sure farmers don't want additional shipping cost, it can't be cheap for monster machines like those. Also, that does not factor in farmers who are already invested in John Deere. As for solving problems with the "free market" we've seen that doesn't really work out s...
[18:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:17] <exec> 08└─What if the prediction comes true and "Cornhackers" becomes a new hit show on ABC? Set in Omaha, hackers and criminal gangs settle in the Cornhusker State. The Omaha FBI field office triples its manpower. The protag gets a hot rural hacker girlfriend from University of Nebraska Omaha. Apple Inc. sen...
[18:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:19] <exec> 08└─unicorn herds that graze on the rainbow-colored plains of the moons of Neptune
[18:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:21] <exec> 08└─Also, that does not factor in farmers who are already invested in John Deere. Sunk cost fallacy. Consumer knowledge plus cornering the market makes "voting with your wallet" a rare option. I'm all for increasing consumer knowledge. These anti-repair policies should be required to be advertised by m...
[18:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:38] <exec> 08└─Having gotten the system mostly working, I can confirm for a fact that Xenix uses standard 9 track alignment for DS media, and it was a bad read. The first two disks use the standard filesystem (the missing sectors at the start of N1/N2 is just unused or not present boot sectors), while the rest are...
[18:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:40] <exec> 08└─Amusingly, the Xenix manual lists the games disk as for your entertainment only, and that SCO provides no support for it. Here's the file listing, let the nostalgia take you over. $ tar tf Xenix\ Games.img ./tmp/_lbl/prd=games/typ=n86/rel=2.2.2a/vol=01 ./tmp/perms/games ./usr/games/trek ./usr/games/...
[18:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:42] <exec> 08└─How do you insert pictures into a submission?
[18:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:44] <exec> 08└─Simply put the link in the submission with a remark its supposed to be an inline image. That being said, we'll probably only put content up that's either public domain or the copyright holder gives his permission.
[18:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:46] <exec> 08└─I was sure that our standards for inline images were even stricter than that and that images will only appear in the most unusual circumstances... such as your original content. They will also likely be tiny file size PNG images.
[18:58:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:00] <exec> 08└─Its actually from 3 years ago and its the standard half-truth de-contextualized in furtherance of right-wing lies that we've all seen a thousands times before.
[18:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:03] <exec> 08└─I agree to some extent, but who decides what is right and what is wrong? if the vocal minority are the only ones to speak out does that mean that they are right because they are the only ones voicing an opinion? how far do you take this? if all the ($minority) at once decree that something ($majorit...
[18:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 3119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:05] <exec> 08└─First, thanks for the link. Interesting discussion. Yes, you're correct that "race is not simply made up," but I think it's important to note a few other things Dawkins says in your linked discussion, including: (1) The genetic variance of the human species seems to be remarkably small compared to m...
[18:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:07] <exec> 08└─And thus the circular argument that proves itself with no actual proof. We are talking about racial differences in intelligence so its totally possible there could be actual racial differences in intelligence...
[18:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:09] <exec> 08└─The safe-space-trigger-warning-crowds that demands the tolerance of others once again show themselves to be an intolerant mob. Sadly it's not even surprising anymore and it seems to be the new normal for the "academic left" - if you don't agree with us we are going to riot and use violence to get wh...
[18:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:11] <exec> 08└─One reason why humans test higher on IQ scores than dogs is because humans made up the test, for humans. Same can be said for old-school IQ tests made up by U.S. born WASPs - if you aren't a U.S. born WASP, you've got a disadvantage going into the test. To an extent, some jobs are tailor made for ce...
[18:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:13] <exec> 08└─You cannot fix it. Any attempt to fix it will result in overpopulation, and make the problems 10x worse for next generation.
[18:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:16] <exec> 08└─Since when are there different races of orcas? You aren't confusing species with race, are you? Because that would be a pretty stupid thing to do, don't you agree?
[18:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:18] <exec> 08└─It always seems strange to me that certain correlations aren't allowed. To be clear, I think that the mixing of correlation and causation is abhorrent. However, if we're going to look at correlations and create new medicines, policies, and ideas based upon these correlations then I don't see why thi...
[18:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:20] <exec> 08└─Let's be honest and admit that we don't actually know whether there is a link between race or gender and intellectual potential. Given how poorly black people have historically been treated in the US, you can't just look at current achievement levels and deduce anything from it. And we don't know ho...
[18:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:22] <exec> 08└─How many hops, skips, and jumps away from saying "race and IQ are correlated" to saying "We must secure a future for our white children blah blah blah..."? These sentences appear to be unrelated, but to a racist they are the same thing.
[18:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 9947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:24] <exec> 08└─Here we see the so called "tolerant" progressives true side, violently attacking and assaulting people who do not subscribe to their own political doctrine. It also shows how progressives despite how they portray themselves as rational and scientific, are anything but, ignoring the scientific eviden...
[18:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:26] <exec> 08└─but had Hitler been censored early on, had the signs been heeded, Europe would not have needed to be destroyed for the second time in decades.
[18:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─Punch a Nazi in the face for Jesus!!!
[18:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─Also there was a movie I think called Gattaca that might explain the shortcomings of a caste system Well yeah, Gattaca is clearly the primary source you should refer to. However, if that's not available there was this guy named Ghandi that had a thing or two to say about it. He was played by Ben Kin...
[18:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:33] <exec> 08└─and white people are better at living in dark climates with very little light.
[18:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:35] <exec> 08└─If we don't follow the rule of law, and the constitution, you'll just replace Hitler with Stalin.
[18:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:37] <exec> 08└─If he went public the publisher and editor HQ would simply have been burned down or rioted or whatever.
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:39] <exec> 08└─There's genetic component of intelligence, for instance: Irish settlers, not quite as smart as your average Homo sapiens -
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─Now when you say "real variations should not be ignored," *what* precisely do you mean by this? It's insulting as fuck that you think we don't know the subtext of what you're saying. You're sure as hell not implying "well we should pay attention to things like Vitamin D deficiency and sickle-cell an...
[18:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:44] <exec> 08└─There is one simple thing you could personally do to help save society. I think you know what it is.
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─(3) Murray wasn't there to talk about racial intelligence. He was there to have a discussion on his latest book, which is about class divisions, particularly in white communities. So, he likely wasn't even going to spout any propaganda about race and intelligence, unless someone asked him a question...
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─There has to be give and take, the Right has been giving on several core opinions
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:50] <exec> 08└─If anyone ever doubted just how motivational racial animus is ... that post should remove all doubt. Whoever that anonymous cuck is, that fact that he spent the time to write that huge post all from scratch and post it here where hardly anyonebody will even bother to read it just goes to show how wo...
[19:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:07] <exec> 08└─This. This is what I expected.
[19:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:28] <exec> 08└─Godzilla spotted asking mechazilla if he'll join his team for the new underwater bowling league.
[19:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:29] <exec> 08└─Why do you assume they're boiling the water?
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:55] <exec> 08└─Ask your brother (after he has a couple drinks) whether he's based any treatment decisions based on a drug rep lunch (not even a dinner!). He may say more, but if he thinks about it and is honest, he may reconsider and realize that the reps have more influence on him than he originally thought. Afte...
[19:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:57] <exec> 08└─The medical market, such as it is, is extremely corrupt. All kinds of crap goes on that would be busted in an instant if tried in another market. I really do not understand why we continue to let them get away with it. There is a woeful lack of transparency. Most markets have "list" prices. Medical'...
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─Since my practice was way out in the countryside no one from the pharma companies used to visit me. They'd be crawling all over the clinics and hospitals downtown though. Meh, I didn't miss much. But free samples to give away to some of my poorer patients would have been nice...
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─If you lived in Mexico you could just write a prescription for yourself.
[19:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:03] <exec> 08└─Clearly, this is a complex problem with one simple solution: Repeal ObamaCare. That way they don't have to report this data anymore and therefore the problem ceases to exist.
[19:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─Speaking from a US perspective... do you have any idea what you are talking about? There are procedures in place to stop this. Specifically, in most polling places there are monitors from both the Democrats and Republicans watching for this kind of abuse; before you go on a rant about how they are c...
[19:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:24] <exec> 08└─Well, voting machines still have to deal with the legacy of Diebold's CEO promising to "win the election" for the Republicans (in Ohio?). We know software. Humans write it. We should never trust elections to magic counting boxes.
[19:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:37] <exec> 08└─>[...] and $4 billion over 30 years. This? The US Department of Energy also invested about $137 million in gas research over three decades.
[19:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:39] <exec> 08└─If the wind subsidies/markets crash, you still have thousands of windmills providing millions of kWh for a few decades for the cost of maintenance alone. Broken ones can be dismantled for parts and metal. If the shale oil subsidies/markets crash, you have wells which might produce for at best three...
[19:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:41] <exec> 08└─Not just larger, but better established and profitable. It needs subsidies because there are uncertainties? Any business faces uncertainties.
[19:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:43] <exec> 08└─for the cost of maintenance alone
[19:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:38] <exec> 08└─It's a bit of a nitpick but could we use currency symbols when applicable? India for eg does have a currency symbol: ₹ Unless $ is the only relevant currency symbol
[19:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:34] <exec> 08└─some kind of pink colored chat board 4chan color?
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korean Missiles and What the US is Doing About It - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─"but not running 24-7 high def radar coverage on China to appease them." Do you really think the US Intelligence community is not surveilling a competitor's military movements to the maximum extent possible out of respect?
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RadioShack Bankruptcy Savior to File For, You Guessed It, Bankruptcy - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─Good for the customers. I doubt it helps the sales droids though. Last time I was at an electronics store, it was with a coworker who was looking for a prepaid SIM card. So we ask at the front, they look it up and say they don't think they have it -- even though their own website said they did. So w...
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[19:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:26] <exec> 08└─New BBC facebook post highlighting their reporting that they got reported by facebook for reporting on CP found on facebook. New Facebook post about new BBC facebook post highlighting their reporting that they got reported by facebook for reporting on CP found on facebook. ... #3: profit (well, all...
[19:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:27] <exec> 08└─It is always easier to blame the messenger. Blame someone else and just repeat it often enough. The blame game is an effective game of disinformation. It does not help to solve the problem, but at least it is SEP(*) now. (*) Please read the really good book for this particular phenomenon.
[19:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:53] <exec> 08└─Are you illiterate? I specifically said in my prior post that I support making it plainly obvious to consumers what the policies and repairability etc. of products are, before they buy them. I don't like the idea of people getting screwed over because of some fine print, or because there was no reas...
[19:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:54] <exec> 08└─If it looks like a duck, it's a duck. So, if it looks like a sale, it should be a sale. No have your cake and eat it too. If you wish to use copyright to protect something, then first sale and fair use should apply and special license terms should not apply. (Fixing your tractor should certain...
[19:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:57] <exec> 08└─No matter how many times you rephrase and repost, you're still dribbling shit.
[19:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:59] <exec> 08└─"Perfect is the enemy of the good." Expecting a corporate sphere to voluntarily organize itself to better society is hilariously and egregiously naive. The only way you get companies to play nicely is punish them when they won't. Unless your post is just a more subtle way of saying "communist revolu...
[19:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:01] <exec> 08└─> "These anti-repair policies should be required to be advertised by manufacturers. But consumers should make the ultimate choice. All too often, people are stupid and short-sighted. Why do we need Big Brother to save us from ourselves if we're too dumb to make intelligent choices in the first place...
[19:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:03] <exec> 08└─I'd wager it's part brand loyalty and part nationalism. John Deere is an American icon and the most respected brand of AG equipment in the USA. It's as as synonymous with AG equipment as Mack is to commercial trucks. Telling a loyal JD owner to switch to another, foreign brand would be like convinci...
[19:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:05] <exec> 08└─It's the US. You're supposed to go into debt to buy The New Shiny. Repairing the Old Dull (formerly know as last year's New Shiny) is a waste of your time, and robs you of a Golden Opportunity to contract more debt and Buy The New Shiny! How else do you get perpetual market growth with no immigratio...
[19:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:07] <exec> 08└─The world isn't black and white. That's why many of our laws and our courtroom procedures reference "reasonability". There's only so much research that consumers can reasonably expected to do before purchase. An auto dealer isn't going to let you take a car off the lot, take it home, and take it apa...
[19:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:09] <exec> 08└─You do not own this comment. You are granted a license to percolate said comment through your neurons for personal enjoyment only. Ancillary thoughts generated in your brain by this comment may not be redistributed for commercial purposes. This comment comes with a hemisphere site license. The comme...
[19:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:12] <exec> 08└─My point is that I fully support a legal precedent which makes such practices illegal. "Plainly obvious" does not always work, and sometimes people don't even realize they should care about some fine print. This exists for a reason: https://www.ftc.gov
[19:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:14] <exec> 08└─So why do we need to coddle these idiots? They've made their beds, now let them lie in them. Also, I'm fairly sure CASE and International Harvester and CAT are at least somewhat American, and I think New Holland still makes stuff here too (though the ownership is now Italian). This seems more like t...
[19:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:16] <exec> 08└─Still not hearing a good argument as to why we shouldn't enact legislation for Right to Repair. Companies can update their warranties. Actually I don't think would need to, it is pretty common policy to have "your warranty is voided if you break this seal". So, no downside for the company except for...
[19:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:38] <exec> 08└─We don't have a formal policy on it. Might be worth popping a meta article on it for submissions. I'm OK with it either way TBH.
[19:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:40] <exec> 08└─I care not about Xenix but I love the adventure! Can't wait to read more. Seriously, this is exactly the type of thing that I think makes for great SN content "beyond" news items (which are very valuable).
[19:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:42] <exec> 08└─I was thinking for original content. I am in the middle of a 3d printer build and have been taking pictures...
[19:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:45] <exec> 08└─I would have no problem with this, though I'd like to get written permission as part of your writeup and such to rehost the images so we don't have to hotlink to a third-party domain. Drop by in #editoral in IRC and we can discuss the specifics.
[19:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─> The trials became great propaganda tools for the Nazis. You bolded that, did you mean to make it a link so we could actually verify your claim? That would have been the right thing to do.
[19:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:30] <exec> 08└─And the worst part is that the far left AND the far right are perpetuating the class system in the USA.
[19:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:32] <exec> 08└─And all that has nothing to do with intelligence.
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─No matter how many times white men with rifles beat and shoot them, they just won't do democracy right.
[19:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─This from the piece of shit that lets Corporate America & avarice determine reality? Try not being a mouthpiece and apologist before you start talking about bald assertions, lies, and what reality is.
[19:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:39] <exec> 08└─No, they're just the ones who make half their platform about tolerance then employ violence against anyone who disagrees with them.
[19:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─How come only black people have become stuck there?
[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─In the US they are. The right is very open about not being tolerant of those on the left.
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─Black people are better at being outside in the son... Well crap, you were doing fine with the racism. But, say goodbye to your book deal now!
[19:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─Why are you so sure that the right wing death squads will meet no defenses or violence in response? I don't know if you were trying to be cute, but if shit gets to that point it will be civil war. No, we will not all pull through it, and because there was no intelligence involved, it will all happen...
[19:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:50] <exec> 08└─edIII, I have taken great pains not to talk to you because you stepped over the line to threatening behavior. Control your anger or you will continue to be someone unworthy of my time.
[20:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:34] <exec> 08└─> > cost of maintenance alone > Which let us note is a significant cost. Indeed, but wind is getting cost-competitive when including amortization of initial cost, so future maintenance alone will not make the price go up significantly, and the fuel is free. > And how is that different than your outc...
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[20:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:30] <exec> 08└─Its stupid but is this is a pattern or a one-off? Because it sounds like it was just a drone mindlessly following "the rules." You don't have to be a computer to be a robot.
[20:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:32] <exec> 08└─Meh, just shut down the entire Internet. "BecauseYouCan'tBeTooSafeThinkOfTheChildrenPollyWannaCracker"
[20:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:34] <exec> 08└─Blame someone else and just repeat it often enough.
[20:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:36] <exec> 08└─http://www.theonion.com/article/world-agrees-just-take-down-internet-while-until-t-55200
[20:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:38] <exec> 08└─They are just creepy that way.
[20:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:40] <exec> 08└─...from a Violently Imposed Monopoly?
[20:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:43] <exec> 08└─Hey, are you memeing us?
[20:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:45] <exec> 08└─I'll bite, but you'll have to elaborate. I'm afraid I'm not making the connection as readily this time. Where is the violently imposed monopoly here? I'm thinking chemtrails and the weather war might be more applicable to this topic, since chemtrails are the only thing I can figure that would make p...
[20:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:22] <exec> 08└─Communism involves the sort of violent imposition that we're seeing proposed by this legislation; capitalism, in contrast, requires voluntary association.
[20:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:23] <exec> 08└─If John Deer retains ownership, then they have the responsibility of performing all maintenance and repairs at no additional charge, and replacing units that are beyond repair.
[20:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:25] <exec> 08└─Must be why mods can only be inreresting or funny but not both.
[20:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:50] <exec> 08└─Corruption happened a couple of disks in back in the 90s so I never got around to reinstalling it (Plus 2.1 didn't come with network drivers or CD-ROM support, which made Win 3.1 far more desirable since I had access to network drivers AND both IPX and TCP/IP protocol support on it.) A number of yea...
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[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─i assumed the sphere made from concret is lowered from surface filled with water. concret like compression but doesnt like stretching. since water is not compressible if the sphere is lowered full of water it will experience any outward pressure. water is not compressible .. how ever it can cavitate...
[21:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks for all the info and clarifications.
[21:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:16] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956's Soviet brainwashing kicked in. He says "comrade" now. Sad!
[21:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:35] <exec> 08└─> We already did that. [...] Expensive energy sources subsidized for use in the developed world don't deliver [...] Perhaps they wouldn't be so expensive, if the industry were larger so it enjoyed greater economies of scale/network effects. Perhaps they won't be so expensive, with further technologi...
[21:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they wouldn't be so expensive, if the industry were larger so it enjoyed greater economies of scale/network effects. Perhaps they won't be so expensive, with further technological development. Subsidies could help to bring those two things about.
[21:05:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 2568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:08] <exec> 08└─That's the difference between an engineer and a scientist, in that its extremely easy to solve if you only feed a feasibility study within an order of magnitude. I bet you can get a lot better than order of magnitude accuracy if you assume a cubical ball. Also its very "engineer" to spec asymmetric...
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[21:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:24] <exec> 08└─There's quite reasonable quantities of evidence that every major step of the criminal justice process in the US suffers a small-to-moderate racial bias, from investigations, to arrests(paywalled), to prosocutorial discretion, to (mock) sentencing, even exoneration of wrongful conviction. And that's...
[21:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:26] <exec> 08└─If you don't talk about your racial bias, nobody will ever have to know. You know he's guilty, why let your (relevant) bias give him a retrial?
[21:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:28] <exec> 08└─There's quite reasonable quantities of evidence that every major step of the criminal justice process in the US suffers a small-to-moderate racial bias
[21:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:30] <exec> 08└─In other news, the output of a decent chunk of the entire judicial system came to a screeching halt when somebody pointed out everyone is biased about everything. Interesting timing as I just recently did my first jury duty (didn't get on the jury, then got dismissed).
[21:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:32] <exec> 08└─Because if you don't talk about your racial bias, then you can't use that to convince others of your racially-biased opinion. Of course, it doesn't work in all groups; in some groups, talking about your racial bias will get you ostracized, but in other groups it earns you agreement and then you can...
[21:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:34] <exec> 08└─You can do more than pretend. You can actively work to counter your subconscious biases, when you know about them and care about doing the right thing. But when you are tried, or angry, or scared your brain runs on autopilot and your subconscious biases rule. So try not to end up in situations where...
[21:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:36] <exec> 08└─I don't purport to be unbiased. I just firmly belief that biases in a justice system are inherently unjust and must be combated for the future of our country and our species. You can never live in an ideal world, but you can always work for a better world.
[21:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:53] <exec> 08└─How many times does it need to show up before we all agree that it's as toxic as actual spam? I don't know that I can mod it spam because it's not trying to sell stuff, but I wish there was a better mod than wasting points on troll/flamebait. I always browse at -1, to catch unfounded AC downmods, so...
[21:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:55] <exec> 08└─Child pornography is great,” the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. ”It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing si...
[21:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:57] <exec> 08└─You can't have a -2 option by default, abuse guaranteed. Perhaps some logic for a thread that checks if a post was made from an IP that was already modded troll. All future comments from that IP (and only for that thread) will then have the -2 option. Not perfect, but I'll err on the side of caution...
[21:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:59] <exec> 08└─You've obviously never had to fight off a group of heavily armed TV Licensing thugs. If we had a free market in television, disasters like this unfounded attack on Facebook wouldn't happen.
[21:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:01] <exec> 08└─This is an insoluble problem. Either you see *all* the troll posts, or you miss potential unjust mods. Idiot is in the eye of the beholder
[21:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:04] <exec> 08└─If you don't care what everyone else sees, you can apply your own complex automatic meta mods here: https://soylentnews.org
[21:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:06] <exec> 08└─> This is an insoluble problem. Have you tried mixing it with water?
[21:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:45] <exec> 08└─Even the yearly update scenario will plateau growth pretty quickly. OH NO! PROFITS ARE STAYING STEADY AND NOT RISING EVERY 3 MONTHS!?!?
[21:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:46] <exec> 08└─It would be criminal to not pass this legislation. Allowing companies to screw over and restrict the freedoms of its users? I guess those of us without a fortune 500 just can't understand.
[21:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:48] <exec> 08└─>the sort of violent imposition that we're seeing proposed by this legislation >violent imposition >violent I don't think that word means what you think it means. Letting a customer tinker with their own property now is considered "violence?" Or is this like another of those "all property is theft"...
[21:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:51] <exec> 08└─...telling a loyal, nationalistic GM owner to switch to a Ford, and him turning up his nose...
[21:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:53] <exec> 08└─If customers are happily purchasing from a company that actually threatens to sue them for tinkering with their own property, I think the customers have a serious problem. Really, it seems to me that the fundamental problem is the DMCA itself. (Aside: what "two acts" are they talking about here? "DR...
[21:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:55] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but at some point you will realize that with such a large population there are going to be enough uneducated / clueless people such that these business practices will always be a problem. Getting mad about human nature and other things we can't control is a pointless exercise that only...
[21:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:57] <exec> 08└─Your cut and paste text has made me see the light. Tell me oh great sage, how do I become free of imposed structure? Is there a movement I can join? Will there be smart uniforms with shiny buttons for all?
[21:58:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 1458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:41] <exec> 08└─Unless I've suddenly turned illiterate, TFS says this guy teaches something to the effect, "Niggers is just dumb, because they have low IQ's." I'm not one to attend protests, but if I were in the neighborhood when this guy was speaking, I just might attend this protest. Everyone here knows that I'm...
[21:58:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:46] <exec> 08└─> There is a huge link between DNA and Intelligence Sure. But what there is not is a huge link between "race" and intelligence. Race itself is a social construct. Just ask any geneticist. For example, Dr Craig Venter (founder of the Human Genome Project) who said in 2000, "Race is a social concept,...
[22:00:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02 - 06Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:06] <exec> 08└─There has to be give and take, the Right has been giving on several core opinions
[22:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:31] <exec> 08└─They can't tell you how much a service will cost until they try to bill your insurance? Really? Of course costs are high when every time they try to squeeze as much money as possible and see what the insurance will accept.
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:54] <exec> 08└─You're right. This article mentions "a team of hackers that stole campaign strategies" and "spyware in opposition offices." The Watergate affair included [...] a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters [and] bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixo...
[22:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─"Hosed servers in Russia and Ukraine" Ipso-facto - he is the russian hacker who hacked clinton lol.
[22:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─We just stopped doing FizzBuzz this last week because all but one candidate had done it already. Not only that but three candidates were taught FizzBuzz in school because "you might need it to get hired". We wrote up our own coding challenge for Bowling. Lots of fun exceptions to the rules in that o...
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[22:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:28] <exec> 08└─You look at this tragic kidnapping in Sweden. Who would believe this? They’re having problems like they never thought possible.
[22:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:29] <exec> 08└─It's the kind of thing that a market allows: People making bets on various ways of organizing resources. In my opinion, the key is to realize that this organization works not because of any inherent structure that can be written down and copied by others (despite their "protocol"), but rather becaus...
[22:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:31] <exec> 08└─There's another big factor here, and that's the nature of their business. This is a software consultancy. That type of business is rather different from most businesses, as you're working directly for a customer, much like a contract employee. It doesn't require a lot of management.
[22:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:46] <exec> 08└─"He looks guilty. Didn't you see him (shifting in his chair/not looking the person in the face/stammering/whatever)?" "Her alibi didn't sound very convincing to me." "He just looks guilty." "She's guilty, I just know it." It's easy to allude to racist reasoning without outright saying it. And even i...
[22:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:47] <exec> 08└─Erm... no? As my above post describes, I'm not sure what an ideal approach to this would be, but the idea of removing bias has been a staple of our justice system since far before it was imported from England. The idea of Jurors being removed if they had existing biases(not racial biases, personal o...
[22:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:49] <exec> 08└─> In other news, the output of a decent chunk of the entire judicial system came to a screeching halt when somebody pointed out everyone is biased about everything. Good! This way, only cases where clear evidence overwhelms any taint from bias can get through. Mission accomplished.
[22:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:51] <exec> 08└─They know that and that's why the selection process involves excusing jurors including some that don't require cause. The problem is when people lie about their prejudices to get onto a case.
[22:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:54] <exec> 08└─They already grill the jury with various questions designed to uncover biases that are directly harmful to their arguments. I'm not yet convinced that the whole case should be overturned because the lawyers didn't perform their job flawlessly. If this single guy on the jury managed to sway the entir...
[22:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is when people lie about their prejudices to get onto a case.
[22:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:20] <exec> 08└─That's how we do things in Russia. Glad you are catching up.
[22:57:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:39] <exec> 08└─Sure, I'll get right on that, as soon as I finish milking my unicorn herds that graze on the rainbow-colored plains of the moons of Neptune.
[22:57:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 1643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:52] <exec> 08└─The world isn't black and white. That's why many of our laws and our courtroom procedures reference "reasonability". There's only so much research that consumers can reasonably expected to do before purchase. An auto dealer isn't going to let you take a car off the lot, take it home, and take it apa...
[22:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:07] <exec> 08└─If it's the farmer's property, then there's already nothing preventing him from tinkering with it; there's no need for any violently imposed mandate. It sounds like these things are not the farmer's property, and that such farmers are trying to use the violent imposition of the state to commandeer t...
[22:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:09] <exec> 08└─John Deere are famous for the slogan: "Nothing runs like a Deere." Soon, we'll have to add a tag: "...but nothing smells like a John."
[22:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:11] <exec> 08└─If it's the farmer's property, then there's already nothing preventing him from tinkering with it
[22:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:13] <exec> 08└─Structure and order is not what's in dispute. What's in dispute is action without such structure and order—specifically, action without any clear foundation in prior agreement to some set of rules of interaction (e.g., a contract, or a long-lived understanding, etc.). In this case, it seems like a...
[22:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:15] <exec> 08└─This exists for a reason:
[22:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:17] <exec> 08└─Sure, they'll be a problem, but I think it's a bit unfair to chalk everything stupid humans do up to "human nature". People can and do better. Lots of people do thorough research before buying a new car, for instance; there's all kinds of sources for information on this, from large publications like...
[22:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:44] <exec> 08└─That reminds me.... SOMEWHERE around here I have a program which, of course, I cannot even recall the name of, which did an amazing job of recovering floppy disks by repeatedly reading any unreadable sectors in some raw mode on the WDC floppy controllers where it could see the ECC data as it went al...
[22:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:45] <exec> 08└─There are special USB hardware devices such as Kyroflux that let you plug in almost any floppy drive, and recover data in a lot for formats including non-PC stuff. LGR's Clint did an amazing review on this product: https://www.youtube.com Programs that work via a FDC directly are...
[22:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:47] <exec> 08└─I'm continuing to be impressed by the quality of the stories here but I don't have much free time these days to comment. I'm not keen on the recent modification that makes comments pale after you've read them. The low contrast is uncomfortable.
[22:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:50] <exec> 08└─Edit: I suppose I mean CRC, not ECC... :) Looking at the WD chip programming docs, I'm sure it was the "Read Track" command that it used somehow. It would sit there and read and read and read with differing offsets from any detected index pulse (or address mark or something) in some way until it som...
[23:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─Imagine a party that lasts 71 years, becoming an institution. Now imagine that while people are partying, the same lawlessness applies as during a revolution. "No queremos olimpiadas, queremos revolución!" https://socialistworker.co.uk https://...
[23:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:51] <exec> 08└─"We will be all right, we don't vaccinate."
[23:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I've Been a Software Engineer for 10 Years and I Can't Do These Interview Questions - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:31] <exec> 08└─Yes: conjectured in 1611, proven in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org's_conjecture
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[23:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:24] <exec> 08└─"You're fired!" "No I'm not, you're fired!" "Make me!" "Okay, you two are BOTH fired." "Hey, who are you?" "Uh, I forgot my title, one sec..."
[23:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:25] <exec> 08└─New organizations must "metastasize" from this original.
[23:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:46] <exec> 08└─Societies are moving away from violently imposed government fiat and toward a paradigm of voluntary private contracts. "Unlawful sexual contact" won't exist and non-consensual sexual contact will be just another breach of contract that the courts can deal with easily. Without governments interfering...
[23:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:48] <exec> 08└─No, they get sick of people like you disrespecting their authority.
[23:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:50] <exec> 08└─This is a SCOTUS case, so it isn't just about this guy. If there wasn't a substantial effect on the decision, then the re-trial will find the same result. If there was a substantial effect, then the guy should be entitled to a fair trial. If it were my trial and it has one juror that is willing to d...
[23:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:52] <exec> 08└─http://fija.org/ https://www.washingtonpost.com
[23:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:54] <exec> 08└─What courts? Courts are part of the government. Also what contract? I really doubt anyone who do non-consensual sexual contact is going to sign a contract with his/her victims.
[23:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:19] <exec> 08└─> Have you tried mixing it with water? It's not a polar issue, everyone (possible exception of the troll, but cannot exclude the case that even him) agree its a troll. A such, only non-polar solvents might dissolve it, water won't help.
[23:57:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:47] <exec> 08└─"Perfect is the enemy of the good." Expecting a corporate sphere to voluntarily organize itself to better society is hilariously and egregiously naive. The only way you get companies to play nicely is punish them when they won't. Unless your post is just a more subtle way of saying "communist revolu...
[23:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:13] <exec> 08└─In one episode, the main character foils an insidious plot by a major corporation trying to spy on residents using a multi-gigabit fiber network. Two seasons later, the same corporation returns with gigabit wireless.
[23:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not keen on the recent modification that makes comments pale after you've read them. The low contrast is uncomfortable.