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[00:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:10] <exec> 08└─...Sir Humphrey Appleby found out!
[00:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:31] <exec> 08└─NewSpeak: As companies rushed to take advantage of tax incentives for renewable power...
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[00:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:30] <exec> 08└─They don't need bosses at work because they all have bosses at home - their wives' bulls.
[00:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:31] <exec> 08└─> "Uh, I forgot my title, one sec..." This might be the story in a few years, but for now, http://dna.crisp.se [crisp.se] says: None of the 30+ consultants are actually employed by Crisp (although we do have a few employed office staff). We have no managers, not even a...
[00:56:57] <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 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:57] <exec> 08└─He's trying not to make sense.
[00:57:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 478 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:44] <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...
[01:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:53] <exec> 08└─It is a waste of federal money to have government employees conduct studies that span multiple diverse states, when each state knows what's best. It is a waste of state money to have government employees conduct studies that span multiple diverse counties, when each county knows what's best. It is a...
[01:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:19] <exec> 08└─First it was the National Revolutionary Party (PNR, in Spanish) as the government party emerged from the Mexican Revolution (1910) but around the 1940’s the name was changed to Institutional Revolutionary Party to signify the party’s adherence to institutions, supposedly democratic, while keepin...
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[01:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:20] <exec> 08└─I get that they observed a signal that matched what is expected from a BH-BH inspiral really well, but don't think it can be considered confirmed until they detect such a signal along with something else (eg a corresponding gamma wave burst). Otherwise the entire thing seems kind of circular. Also,...
[01:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:28] <exec> 08└─How much of that money will go towards powering the refineries with the abundant golf coast solar and wind power? (Exxon does have a "green energy" branch)
[01:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:30] <exec> 08└─All this investment will be a very effective smokescreen with the current federal administration. Oh, there was a spill? No big deal, look at all the jobs they have created.
[01:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:32] <exec> 08└─None... they're getting their SJW brownie points by ensuring that each refinery has transgender restrooms in sufficient number to accommodate all LGBTI2SD employees.
[01:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:34] <exec> 08└─And ruin the view [scotsman.com] from the fairway with solar panels and wind turbines? No one would want to tee off there!
[01:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:36] <exec> 08└─Greens energy is stupid! It's made of stupid!
[01:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:38] <exec> 08└─I think even die-hard anti-greenies may agree that a few wind turbines wouldn't spoil the overall refinery look. Whether safety and firefighting rules allow restrictions to the airspace is the question.
[01:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:52] <exec> 08└─Your ignorance of what ALREADY exists is showing. In the Basque country of Spain there is Mondragon. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikipedia.org] That cooperative started in 1956 with 6 worker-owners and currently has 100,000 worker-owners. In northern Italy, cooperatives are as common as sparrows...
[01:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:54] <exec> 08└─The original, as submitted, was simply from the socialism dept. The fundamental unit of Socialism is the worker-owned cooperative (or even the worker-owner). If you have gov't ownership of stuff, you -may- have Liberal Democracy or you -may- have State Capitalism or you -may- have Despotism. If you...
[01:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:56] <exec> 08└─When society is organized around private contracts and not around coercion by governments with guns, no one will have a boss unless they want one.
[01:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:58] <exec> 08└─The "almost" in that statement bothers me. I would like to see an actual example of a top-down something which happens there. TFA mentions that they are required (by incorporation law, it appears) to have a board of directors. It isn't said, but it seemed to me that that is made up of Worker-Owners...
[01:57:24] <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 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:25] <exec> 08└─We found your mexican rapist. He's in Colorado. Can we let the lettuce pickers back in now?
[01:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:46] <exec> 08└─An auto dealer isn't going to let you take a car off the lot, take it home, and take it apart before buying it so that you can fully evaluate its build quality and engineering, for instance.
[01:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:47] <exec> 08└─There is a strange place where you can still get "right to repair" tools: Harbor. Freight. Tools. Yes, the butt of jokes in Mad Magazine and Saturday night live. They do sell plenty of junk, and their stores make K-Mart look up scale. But some of their shit is actually pretty good once you get it se...
[02:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:20] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, you live in the 'burbs, or maybe in a nice pastoral rural setting, far from the madding and perennially over-studied crowd... I do, for sure! City living was fun when I was younger, but not anymore.
[02:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:21] <exec> 08└─Damn.
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[02:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:27] <exec> 08└─Dr. Feynman taught a "class" for one hour each week called "Physics X", in which there were no grades, no homework, no exams, no reading and no credit. He encouraged us to ask any question we wanted - even outside of physics - but our questions must not require him to work out any math. It's not lik...
[02:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:41] <exec> 08└─To get to customers, they have to move either the crude or product Perhaps they should build a 50 mile crude pipeline and inland plants?
[02:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:00] <exec> 08└─When society is organized around achieving the most good for the greatest number of people rather than nurturing a system which has a few wealthy individuals doing anything they can to maximize their profits, things will get a lot better. That is to say that the distributed wealth and power of Socia...
[02:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:02] <exec> 08└─Confiscate all the farm produce, put all the non-compliant cogs in shallow graves, such wealth and power. For the greater good! Serious question: How do you get into the privileged "greatest number of people" class of society? Can you fall out of it and revoked? Is this privilege transmitted by birt...
[02:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah - because socialism has been demonstrated to work so well - in the Soviet, in China, and a couple dozen other countries. You do cite a number of cooperatives, then you move on to espousing socialism. But, cooperatives ≠ socialism. Coops most certainly ≠ as it has been put into practice in m...
[02:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:58] <exec> 08└─Is this in any way related to the recent BBC 3 ``documentary'' on child exploitation in Japan? You know, the one where half of it was about the ``reporter'' claiming to feel unhappy that Japan isn't doing enough to control people's minds. Yes, she actually admitted this. It wasn't voodoo theory this...
[02:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:59] <exec> 08└─If you issue a query that refers to kiddieporn, bing suggests about a dozen related queries that pretty quickly leads one to the very worst of it. I reported this to the FBI, also the clark county washington sheriff's department, but nothing has been done.
[02:58:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:32] <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...
[02:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:30] <exec> 08└─The bit about the manuals reminded me of this gem. Most will find it quaint, but the bit about the VMS docs is (well, was) spot on: One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many...
[03:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:01] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Comment too funny
[03:02:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mmcmonster [401] 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 1084 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:19] <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...
[03:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation to Follow - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:23] <exec> 08└─Your comment is in line with the criticism of Wall Street's demand for short term corporate profits. If you don't look past the quarterly results, it makes for a great report to the share holders. But not so good in the long term. It's good common sense to plan far ahead for energy needs of the futu...
[03:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autism Genome Database Study Reveals 18 New Autism-Related Genes - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:40] <exec> 08└─moron.
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[03:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:16] <exec> 08└─He has few friends, and here he is, alienating those few. "No, you can't investigate the murder of my brother, because I had him killed. If you keep poking into my business, I'll just kill your ambassador and his staff, along with his family!"
[03:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:17] <exec> 08└─I doubt it even registered as a blip with most of the locals. Sure one guy died, VX was purportedly used, but among rising cost of living and the failing national currency, meh. I'm more interested in what the powers that may be is trying to get out of the escalation when neither has any force proje...
[03:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, the ambassador had been recalled by his boss previously, for discussions.
[03:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:22] <exec> 08└─Don't put it past Kimmy-poo to demand that the ambassador return for his execution. ;^)
[03:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:24] <exec> 08└─All of them? Seriously, there are only 11 Malaysians in NK and they think this is a bargaining chip? Oh well, if he cray, he cray...
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[03:56:26] <exec> 08└─Among those eleven are three diplomats there and their families. That makes them somewhat more important to a country than its ordinary citizens.
[03:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 2401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:36] <exec> 08└─1. If the science is correct (there's always a chance it's not ...) then these were stellar black holes, i.e. remnants of an earlier binary star system. Except for a few leftover planets and asteroids (whose total mass is typically very insignificant when compared to their stars), there's literally...
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[03:57:11] <exec> 08└─You blew it with your very first word. Collect your dunce cap as you exit. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:12] <exec> 08└─Socialism is bottom-up. cooperatives ≠ socialism You just -insist- on demonstrating your ignorance. The "state" exercises ownership Spewing Cold War bullshit just reveals how stupid and easily-manipulated you are. Now, want to tell us how the Nazis (The National Socialist German Workers' Party) we...
[03:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:14] <exec> 08└─Well you're both right, and you're both wrong. The mistake you both make (and most people seem to) is conflating politics and economics. Socialism is neither bottom-up or top-down, it's just generally more efficient when done top-down, other factors aside. The main other factor being politics, which...
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[03:58:56] <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."
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[04:56:22] <exec> 08└─Even if they used VX, it was used as a contact neurotoxin, not an aerosol WMD. Context should really be used with some of these substances since as dangeous as many of them can be, the context matters a lot. Is this really any worse than those Polonium teas Russia has been using for hits for >40 yea...
[04:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:24] <exec> 08└─Or you know, it was a heart attack and nothing more... http://www.npr.org [npr.org] Feel free to continue with the wharbelgarble if that helps you sleep at night.
[04:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:26] <exec> 08└─Or you know, it was a heart attack and nothing more...
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[04:56:37] <exec> 08└─Intuition is the wrong way to approach any even halfway complicated physics situation. Even without getting into QM, Special Relativity or Electricity and Magnetism, it's easy to get yourself convinced about what the results should be and not understand why the result is different. If you want to ge...
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[04:57:15] <exec> 08└─Are you going to refute his points? Socialism is just communism with a bit more patience, still getting the helicopter rides.
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[04:57:16] <exec> 08└─A true committee run company.
[04:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 1737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:18] <exec> 08└─Socialism is neither bottom-up or top-down You clearly don't understand the term. helping people (socialism) You clearly don't understand the term. Socialism is a method of PRODUCTION. It stands in contrast with Capitalism and that method's absentee owners who do none of the production. In Capitalis...
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[04:59:10] <exec> 08└─And then perhaps the centre of technological innovation will move there, where one is still allowed to do such things! Hacking in both senses is a primary driver of innovation that they have forgotten despite their origins in it.
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[04:59:11] <exec> 08└─As someone from nebraska. Let me start with HAHAHAHAA and end with HAHAHAHAHAHA. We didnt give a flying fuck in the first place. We did it anyway. Just like everyone else.
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[04:59:14] <exec> 08└─Most HF stuff is cheap Chinese junk. The Chinese though basically made everything right to repair. They did that because everyone else does. If you don't you go out of business. Just keep in mind most of their power tools are junk. I use them all the time as most of my projects are one offs. I do no...
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[04:59:16] <exec> 08└─Louis Rossmann will be speaking in support of the bill at the hearing and has brought a camera person and gear to live stream the event on Youtube. This isn't just about farm equipment, the right to repair could make OEM batteries and parts available to consumers and provide repair shops with schema...
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[05:56:16] <exec> 08└─A huge difference between the Russian and North Korean cases is that the North Koreans got caught. Putin enemies keeling over from polonium poisoning without a poisoner to question is far harder to pin on someone than the sloppy mess that North Korea left in Malaysia. And if the North Koreans had us...
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[05:56:28] <exec> 08└─Intuition is the wrong way to approach any even halfway complicated physics situation.
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[05:56:42] <exec> 08└─All existing refineries are essentially grandfathered in. You can't build one, at least in practice. You'll never get the permits. We sometimes increase capacity by upgrading equipment at the existing refineries. They are pretty well packed now. Don't like pipelines and explody railroad tanker cars?...
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[05:57:10] <exec> 08└─You like the dictatorship where you work better? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[05:59:38] <exec> 08└─several utilities causing immediate kernel panics on launch (most annoying, vi did this, forcing me to use ed for almost all file editing)
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[06:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:11] <exec> 08└─Very impressive, though in #4 the intensity of the child actor's replaced face doesn't match what's going on. To me, the stunt double looked close enough and had a better expression. Logan's face replacement is amazing. Anyone on SN work on stuff like this? It must be painstaking work. “We have a...
[06:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:13] <exec> 08└─The post title is gibberish. Jan, do your job,
[06:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:15] <exec> 08└─He can't. He's not fluent in English and its idioms.
[06:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:32] <exec> 08└─But one big problem with VX and other very toxic compounds of that sort is that it has the potential to kill a lot more than just one person. Even used as it was, it could have harmed or killed emergency response just by touching the victim's face or the second poisoner's hands (which were also cont...
[06:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:33] <exec> 08└─Could have, would have, except only one death, they could have sprayed it in the air if they really want to grab headlines like "40 DEAD IN AIRPORT ATTACK" with Kim as one of the victims, but that didn't happen.
[06:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:36] <exec> 08└─While I'm normally of the persuasion that no country should start a military conflict, I think this is an exception. North Korea seems to be deluding itself into thinking that it is a real military power. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is watching the crazy guy with the matches and gasoline, hopin...
[06:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:30] <exec> 08└─No more need for jewish bosses anymore. Send them all to hell.
[06:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:58] <exec> 08└─The problem with jury nullification is that it is a two edged sword. Too often it has been used to acquit KKK members of murder as obviously a law that makes lynching black people murder is a law that deserves nullification.
[06:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:00] <exec> 08└─I'd be setting my bar in a completely different, and legal place, compared to where Miguel set his bar.
[06:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:29] <exec> 08└─Of course water won't help. Anyone who has played D&D knows you need acid to make the troll soluble.
[07:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:04] <exec> 08└─I think the best part is that directly references Xenix at the top: When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste...
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[07:00:06] <exec> 08└─Honestly, given the era, that's actually pretty damn accurate. UNIX itself has a lot of pitfalls which becomes very evident when you run software of the era; flakey filesystems, networking issues with NFS, lack of finegranded controls, etc. If large multiuser systems with thin clients/dumb clients w...
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[07:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:33] <exec> 08└─I was hoping it was about Logan's Run: sexiest. movie. ever.
[07:58:16] <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 - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:16] <exec> 08└─I think you assume that racism has a goal. Generally people aren't racist because they like racism, and probably almost as rarely they don't aim to hurt those people themselves, they just "honestly" think these people are bad, evil, lazy, they just dislike/hate them, ... Racism rarely is about an ev...
[07:59:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:12] <exec> 08└─No matter how many times you rephrase and repost, you're still dribbling shit.
[08:00:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:08] <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).
[08:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:22] <exec> 08└─onestly, given the era, that's actually pretty damn accurate. UNIX itself has a lot of pitfalls which becomes very evident when you run software of the era; flakey filesystems, networking issues with NFS, lack of finegranded controls, etc. If large multiuser systems with thin clients/dumb clients wa...
[08:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks
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[08:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:03] <exec> 08└─http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11784888 [nzherald.co.nz] https://www.niwa.co.nz [niwa.co.nz] On the bright side, when it gets windy you can strap on a wingsuit* and harness and do some flyi...
[08:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:20] <exec> 08└─Suppose Hollywood pays an actor and takes heaps of face scans. What stops them using the image of the actor in subsequent movies using cheap doubles in the subsequent installs of a franchise? For how long such an image can be used by Hollywood? 20 years, 100 years, forever? Are the face scans subjec...
[08:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:22] <exec> 08└─Not sure why you bothered to answer in your own question thus, with a separation of 8 minutes: The post title is gibberish. Jan, do your job,
[08:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_States [wikipedia.org] As long as these techniques are expensive due to computation and experienced manpower, they will only be used by big corporations. They will respect personality rights if they are within reach of lawsuits from actors and...
[08:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:44] <exec> 08└─I’ve been to Seoul and have seen just how ridiculously close it is to the border with North Korea. If you try to do a pre-emptive strike, a couple of artillery divisions right at the border are going to start raining fire and steel on Seoul. The whole city will be awash in blood and flame before y...
[08:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:46] <exec> 08└─they have millions of brainwashed people willing to die for the glorious leader. there would be a neverending guerilla war, especially since all the propaganda would be "proven true" by surgical strikes against the leaders. in the middle east there are less bad guys/freedom fighters, but still it's...
[08:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:48] <exec> 08└─There was no real need for Malaysia to escalate things. Let the North Korean ambassador say his bullshit, it's not like the world takes him more seriously than the Iraq Information minister ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "His pronouncements included claims t...
[08:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:50] <exec> 08└─I did not understand this: Since VX is so toxic, how come the people who handled the VX have not died, especially, the 2 women who have been charged with the murder.
[08:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:03] <exec> 08└─I think I agree with you, but I find your view unclear. "intuition", in this context, is our ability to assign value to a mathematical statement before understanding all the details of the construction of that mathematical statement. our brains have intuition for euclidian geometry and constant grav...
[08:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:04] <exec> 08└─I’ve made a mistake in my summary. PSR B1913+16 was discovered by Hulse and Taylor in 1974, and they realised it was a pulsar and a neutron star in orbit around their common centre of mass. They watched the timing of the radio pulses from the pulsar, and realised that the changes in the timing sho...
[08:58:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:36] <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...
[09:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 2712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:24] <exec> 08└─Well, Novell actually did do pretty much what you described; expect they did it with OS/2: http://www.os2museum.com [os2museum.com] I've always been tempted to do *something* with NetWare as a retrocomputing project, but its just not that interesting unless I go dig out some tok...
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[09:00:25] <exec> 08└─> [...] the code was (eventually) open sourced [...] System V R4: The unification of BSD, SunOS, and SVR3, SVR4 combined all the base UNIX systems in common use at the time. Included is compatibility with System V R3 (obviously), 4.3BSD, and Microsoft's Xenix. Source code is for i386 version.
[09:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:28] <exec> 08└─I checked some of the indexes on this, and I think this is leaked or otherwise not-intended-for redistribution code; due to reasons of taint, I didn't dig deeply into this. The SVR code was redistributed quite wildly, but OpenSolaris is the only SVR4 code base that actually got legitimately open sou...
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[09:56:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vx-nerve-agent-in-north-koreans-murder-how-does-it-work/ [scientificamerican.com] However, the Malaysian authorities have now revealed that the nerve agent VX, ethyl ({2-[bis(propan-2-yl)amino]ethyl}sulfanyl)(methyl)phosphinate, a compound outlawed internat...
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[09:56:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the explanation and the link. It is, indeed, fortunate that there weren't more casualties given the deadly nature of VX.
[09:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:46] <exec> 08└─> Violently Imposed Monopoly Indeed, we need an Extremely Moderated, Anti-Corruption System instead.
[09:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:55] <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 :-)
[10:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:33] <exec> 08└─It was more of an "oblivious rebuttal"... The US being a type of democracy is not really relevant to industry being able to bribe physicians semi-legally, other than enabling industry to bribe our legislators semi-legally to look the other way. Likely, the term you were looking for was capitalism.
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[10:56:06] <exec> 08└─"other peoples experiences as ex-pats" It seems to me that there are various levels of emigration / ex-pat status. - Emigrating to a place with a common cultural background (e.g., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US - all colonies of the UK, with a common language). - Emigrating to a place with a rel...
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[10:58:47] <exec> 08└─My preference is for violently-imposed Scrabble, but that's just me.
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[11:56:03] <exec> 08└─"Extreme Vetting", huh? Another swipe at Trump, of course. Except, this guy entered the country before the election... Fair and Balanced, my ass.
[11:59:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Right to Repair - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:23] <exec> 08└─Apple Says Nebraska Will Become A 'Mecca For Hackers' If Right To Repair Bill Passes. [techdirt.com]
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[12:00:07] <exec> 08└─unicorn herds that graze on the rainbow-colored plains of the moons of Neptune
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[12:56:26] <exec> 08└─I believe I speak for the majority of SN users in saying that this type of news is not wanted here.
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[12:56:28] <exec> 08└─it [shroomery.org] Infographics are not news.
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[13:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:28] <exec> 08└─It should come as no surprise that this gene therapy is expensive. The amount of money (all the way back to the researcher's college fees) that goes into any new discovery is phenomenal. Just think what it would take to have this developed in "places that need it the most". It has cost so much money...
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[13:56:36] <exec> 08└─.... thug niggers.
[13:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed And Booze Do To Your Body And Brain - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is definately nothing useful or interesting behind the link. I am so certain that no one actually knows this, let alone that it found its way to a page of infographics, that I wont be clicking.
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[13:57:00] <exec> 08└─The saddest thing I see here (Switzerland), are American enclaves that are utterly isolated from the world around them. You see them occasionally, shopping and insisting on speaking English with the personnel. Ask them how they're enjoying their visit (assuming they are tourists) and you find out th...
[13:57:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:56] <exec> 08└─Intuition is the wrong way to approach any even halfway complicated physics situation.
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[13:57:59] <exec> 08└─supposedly the detector is anchored to earth in a complex gravitational system AND rotating. i suppose to be conclusive the detector (mirrors?) would need to ping pong light between the lagrang points? as long as the gravity wave detector is anchored to earth and detection can be interpreted as ligh...
[14:04:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06German Institute Successfully Tests Underwater Energy Storage Sphere - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:03] <exec> 08└─Godzilla spotted asking mechazilla if he'll join his team for the new underwater bowling league.
[14:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:09] <exec> 08└─I heartily agree with your sentiment — in fact, I've recently been promoting the idea of paper-based elections elsewhere. We need elections to be trustworthy, and the best way of doing that is keeping them simple enough and verifiable enough that anyone can watch the process and check every aspe...
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[14:56:31] <exec> 08└─1) You somehow make the research and production of these medicines cheap enough for developing countries to afford
[14:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:33] <exec> 08└─That's part of the infrastructure problem. The countries just don't have the capability to support cutting edge treatment.
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[14:56:43] <exec> 08└─Yeeeeah, if anything, it felt like a swipe at the previous administration, as the usual reply to "we need EXTREEEEME vetting" is "we already have it". The vibe I get here is "no we don't", with the word "extreme" in scare-quotes and everything. Of course, I haven't RTFA, so I may be mistaken and you...
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[14:56:45] <exec> 08└─That's too bad, but I doubt it will cause the reaction from being any different. Clearly we need to do a better job molesting travelers.
[14:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:47] <exec> 08└─The only way you could 100% keep all bad guys from outside of the country from getting into the country is: 1. Ban all international travel to the US, from anywhere. Which also means banning all international travel from the US to anywhere, since otherwise an American citizen could go to a foreign c...
[14:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:49] <exec> 08└─> Why ... ? Because instead of resorting to sane methods the USA government decided groping balls at the airport should do.
[14:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed And Booze Do To Your Body And Brain - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:00] <exec> 08└─Just say 'no' to click bait?
[14:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed And Booze Do To Your Body And Brain - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:03] <exec> 08└─This is some dare stuff. Look at the weed graphic. Extended heavy use leads to addiction... oooh. Except quitting weed after extended use is relatively easy. Quitting nicotine or coffee is much much worse.
[14:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:18] <exec> 08└─Sounds like many of the immigrant enclaves that we have all other the USA. The most annoying thing is that they don't learn the local language.
[14:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:20] <exec> 08└─Germany has a high standard of living (i.e. what you can afford with your take home pay - except maybe for start-ups in Berlin), good protection of workers, plenty of available tech/industry jobs everywhere in the country (thanks to the federation). The climate goes from "meh" close to the northern...
[14:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla to Hand Control of Buffalo Solar Panel Plant to Panasonic - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:27] <exec> 08└─If you go to Solar city's web site, you get the mystical marketing experience. They won't tell you how much it costs without signing up for advertizing from them. Since the lease business model didn't work, their market is reasonably tech savvy folks with the ability to buy a solar install. Those fo...
[14:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:08] <exec> 08└─To elaborate on the other reply, it indeed sounds like the two women attackers used two precursor chemicals in succession to actually create the VX toxin. Further, my understanding is that the second woman actually did fall ill. She would have been the one exposed to any actual VX.
[14:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:23] <exec> 08└─The predominant reason that the Nobel wasn't given out for it last year was that the official announcement and paper came out just as, or just after the nomination and selection process began. Those "in the know" in the field knew several months before that this discovery was going to be announced,...
[14:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:25] <exec> 08└─The intuition that you describe goes back to the days of Euclid and was, in fact, so hard wired into our guts that we were locked into that mode of thinking and mathematics for a thousand years. Around Galileo's time people started trying to work in observations, but we were still locked into our in...
[14:59:40] <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 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─You'll be happy to hear that OJ is up for release, and Casey Anthony has a hot new interview out.
[15:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:18] <exec> 08└─The manufacturers are already using state violence to enforce their "license" against the legitimate owners of the hardware. This bill says that the state will no longer participate in that.
[15:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:19] <exec> 08└─You're looking at it backwards. Currently, JD, Apple, and co. are using the state's willingness to use force on their behalf to enforce their anti-repair policies. A right to repair is the state refusing to have itself used that way.
[15:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06What's the Real Extent of Industry Payments to Doctors? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:14] <exec> 08└─Likely, the term you were looking for was capitalism.
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[15:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:28] <exec> 08└─n/t
[15:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:36] <exec> 08└─need-moar-acronyms dept Your wish was granted: OGHIHA.
[15:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:38] <exec> 08└─The article says the 1 GB and 2 GB cards will have "32 or 64 MRAM chips." That's a lot of soldering.
[15:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:40] <exec> 08└─Worse than NAND, 3D XPoint, and DRAM?
[15:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:42] <exec> 08└─Seems to be sized for Separate log [freenas.org] applications.
[15:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:54] <exec> 08└─We'll get there eventually. It may take 5 years or 50 or 500, but eventually we'll get there, and everyone will have it.
[15:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:07] <exec> 08└─To go along with all the hate, where is H? Still showing her leadership skillz! H packed up all her toys and went home to play with Wasserman-Whogivesashit, while Sanders showed up to the fight. Vote for Sanders and be smart (unlike the DNC) Lol, can't believe this shit is still carrying on. :)
[15:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:08] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the pussy... Small orange hands get lots of pussy. ;) This shit is still fun!
[15:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:11] <exec> 08└─Nothing to see here, submitter is just another SJW who got triggered when someone broke the rules of her safe space.
[15:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:13] <exec> 08└─What does your post have to do with this article? Seriously, do you have Asperger's Syndrome?
[15:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:15] <exec> 08└─2. Build something more effective than the Berlin Wall along all US borders. Including all coastlines. It's going to be great. [nytimes.com] Really really terrific. [csmonitor.com] Believe me. [inhomelandsecurity.com]
[15:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:17] <exec> 08└─3. Ban all international trade, because nobody wants to spend the money to really investigate cargo shipping containers and a bad guy could easily sneak into the country by hiding in a shipping crate. This is technically incorrect. It would be pretty simple to use X-ray machines to scan all incoming...
[15:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:19] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately he does suffer from similar. [soylentnews.org] Nobody's perfect.
[15:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Counties Track Opioid Sales - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:37] <exec> 08└─it has always opted against doing so, largely over privacy concerns, including the potential for health records to be hacked
[15:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Counties Track Opioid Sales - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:38] <exec> 08└─How many more people ended up screaming in unrelenting pain? How many killed themselves to escape it? How many doctors have been sanctioned for prescribing to those people in an attempt to give them some quality of life? How many people who unfortunately got addicted to medically necessary pain kill...
[15:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:51] <exec> 08└─It's been that way for a long, long time. Your great grandparents were probably immigrants that barely spoke English, if at all. The assimilation process in America has always relied on slow generational shifts to erase cultural differences. Granted it's a lot more pleasant for the first generation...
[15:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:13] <exec> 08└─...he'd be on a plane to Boston lickety-split.
[15:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:42] <exec> 08└─NPR just proved they had lower credibility.
[15:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:44] <exec> 08└─Building a rocket involves a pretty deep manufacturing and tooling chain, which seems to be a contradiction.
[15:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:46] <exec> 08└─These bars around North Korea, are they cheaper than a wall? Do they work just as well?
[15:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:48] <exec> 08└─You don't need a guerilla war in NK, all you have to do is eliminate their ability to harm their southern neighbor and then just leave the people inside to starve to death. It sounds cold, but if the people really are that brainwashed and unwilling to surrender peacefully, then there's no reason to...
[15:58:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 1133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:58] <exec> 08└─Dr. Feynman taught a "class" for one hour each week called "Physics X", in which there were no grades, no homework, no exams, no reading and no credit. He encouraged us to ask any question we wanted - even outside of physics - but our questions must not require him to work out any math. It's not lik...
[15:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:08] <exec> 08└─Your post has interesting technical jargon that, when combined, do not make for a comprehensible statement/question. Are you saying that to be conclusive you need to be in some sort of universal rest frame? I don't know where to go with the last sentence.
[15:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:10] <exec> 08└─>"intuition", in this context, is our ability to assign value to a mathematical statement before understanding all the details of the construction of that mathematical statement. I disagree. I would say intuition in this context is developing an understanding of the mechanisms in play, independent o...
[16:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:57] <exec> 08└─That's their bread and butter, the nevereding river of dross, filth and fake news.
[16:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:05] <exec> 08└─No, not exactly. As I understand it, part of these RtR bills is forcing the mfgr to provide access to diagnostic tools and repair manuals to 3rd-party repair shops and end-users. The state isn't using "force" to enforce mgfrs' refusal to provide access to this, unless you count the willingness of th...
[16:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:07] <exec> 08└─This isn't completely true. Most HF hand tools (wrenches, sockets, etc.), in particular, aren't Chinese, they're Taiwanese, and they're very high quality. They're a lot better than the Crapsman junk these days (which is made in China from what I've seen). And they have a lifetime warranty. According...
[16:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:09] <exec> 08└─Withdrawal of force is at least part of the bill. I emphasize that since opponents of the bill would have us forget that the manufacturers have been happily enjoying the backing of state force for some time. Once that force is withdrawn, the rest will happen with or without the manufacturer's cooper...
[16:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:11] <exec> 08└─Capitalism requires state violence to enforce things like the DMCA and consumer hostile contract terms. Without the threat of state violence, the manuals and diagnostic equipment would have already been duplicated and spread widely.
[16:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:13] <exec> 08└─is more like it.
[16:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly what force are you talking about? You're free to work on these machines all you want, you just won't get the mfgr to honor the warranty any more (though you might be able to sue them under the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act, depending on exactly what you did). The OEMs have no ability to forcib...
[16:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media UK Customers Report New Email Blocking Woes - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:08] <exec> 08└─Greylisted for the very first time... ♪
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[16:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:24] <exec> 08└─Nah, everyone needs to know about this cross-dressing megalomani... oooh, wrong guy. Sorry. :)
[16:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:25] <exec> 08└─only in a parallel universe where trump is president and snowden doesn't exist is wiretapping not total utter public communication vaccum sucking. imagine TEH outrage: zeh elite getting all trumft up by spying ... errr .... wiretapping on private communication whilst the decade long warnings and wri...
[16:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:28] <exec> 08└─His main foul-up with H's email case is announcing it was being re-opened in connection with Weiner's laptop WITHOUT doing a cursory examination of possible H-related classified info breaches. When he did announce and was pressured for a cursory evaluation, it took only a few days. He should have sp...
[16:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether Aspirin was expensive when it first came to market? I do know that it was (adjusted for inflation) $16.39 a bottle (24 tablets) back in 1932, over 40 years after it was released (disclaimer: this price might be influenced by the great depression). So many things influence the price...
[16:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:10] <exec> 08└─What I'm getting from all of this is that the system worked. He was able to get past all of the various steps and obstacles to get into the country, and he was still caught. We're not hearing about him shooting up a mall or anything, we're hearing about his arrest.
[16:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:12] <exec> 08└─Given the level of X-ray radiation required to penetrate steel shipping crates, it probably wouldn't be good for any humans hiding inside either. There's already such scanners in use.
[16:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:14] <exec> 08└─Two things with lead shielding: 1) you can just boost the X-ray power and penetrate that, or 2) since lead shielding isn't likely to be commonly used in containers, any that do can be flagged for manual inspection, at additional cost to the shipper or receiver. As for the expense of scanning, how ex...
[16:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:16] <exec> 08└─Without defining how the new vetting would be more "extreme" than before, there is little use in comparing administrations and turning this into a partisan debate. Bad guys lie and cheat; that's not news.
[16:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:28] <exec> 08└─Effects on spiders: https://priceonomics.com [priceonomics.com] http://scienceblogs.com [scienceblogs.com] Not surprised the higher dose of caffeine is so bad for spiders since it's fairly toxi...
[16:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know how many people you speak for or think you speak for but you don't speak for me.
[16:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:52] <exec> 08└─Granted it's a lot more pleasant for the first generation if they are able to assimilate directly. Unfortunately anti-immigrant bigotry usually makes that difficult enough that they'd rather not bother.
[16:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:53] <exec> 08└─I have to suffer horrible landings at my hometown's airport [wikipedia.org], especially during spring (around Nov-Dec). I tried to find a video of a landing there but I couldn't find any. I bet even the bravest of youtubers would be holding their hands praying furiously. And then, there's Heathrow...
[16:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:16] <exec> 08└─Suppose Hollywood pays an actor and takes heaps of face scans. What stops them using the image of the actor in subsequent movies using cheap doubles in the subsequent installs of a franchise? For how long such an image can be used by Hollywood? 20 years, 100 years, forever? Are the face scans subjec...
[16:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:49] <exec> 08└─There was no real need for Malaysia to escalate things.
[16:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:51] <exec> 08└─NPR just proved they had lower credibility.
[16:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 3728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:11] <exec> 08└─I think I kind of get where you're coming from, and the answer is basically no. All the rotational behavior of Earth happens on a nice regular cycle - if light had a non-constant speed, such as if it had a preferred direction of travel, the interferometer would show that as it rotated into and out o...
[17:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:13] <exec> 08└─So if I grab up the repair manuals and diagnostic equipment and begin distributing copies, I may expect no visit from a LEO and no summons? Will the state really refrain from applying force against me?
[17:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:14] <exec> 08└─If you use force to take things that aren't yours, then yes, you can expect to receive force in return from the state. What's so hard to understand about that? Theft has never been allowed in any civilized country (and that's ignoring the whole issue of copyright law, I'm just talking about your ini...
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[17:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:17] <exec> 08└─A naked browser is alright - sometimes. A couple extensions are essential - adblockers, and script blockers. Take your choice of several that work well on Firefox or on Chrome, some of them on both. With Palemoon, you are pretty restricted. Other extensions, some of us can just live without. Palemoo...
[17:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:18] <exec> 08└─I didn't even know they had a survey, totally missed that and I use the browser everyday. They do seem to draw some odd conclusions tho if one is to judge from language and pie-charts such as "we've seen a very big percentage of people primarily using Linux.". OK 31.3%, about a 1/3 users -- still it...
[17:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:20] <exec> 08└─We are, however, working on providing an as broad as possible support for the three main extension formats in use: XUL, bootstrapped and SDK (in the form of PMkit); the technologies that Mozilla is going to completely abandon in November 2017 with Firefox 57.
[17:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:31] <exec> 08└─Of course, for all the utterly baffling and, let's be honest, completely retarded reasons I've heard people cite for voting Trump, I've heard no one cite the Wiener investigation. That requires entirely too much affirmative attention to details to be relevant to the kind of people who'd ever even th...
[17:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying you're wrong, but it doesn't seem likely to me that the emails had any bearing on the election. White people, and white men in particular, and straight white men specifically, are tired of seeing the world crumble around them while also being told that it's there fault, despite nearly...
[17:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:35] <exec> 08└─That is a gut feeling kind of thing right.... Some analysis shows it had a definte effect for e.g http://election.princeton.edu [princeton.edu] white men tired of whatever flipped the election ? really ...is that the way white men think of the historical arc motion towar...
[17:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:37] <exec> 08└─I would love for this not to belong in the politics section.
[17:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:39] <exec> 08└─No, but it is probably the reason a lot of moderates decided to stay home that day. Incidentally, the polling place I normally go to was all closed up with the lights off, but a tiny little sign directed people to the back of the building (where almost nobody was, with no sign of any real activity)....
[17:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:27] <exec> 08└─No matter how strict your guidelines, you are always at risk of one or more of them being accidentally overlooked. There is always a chance to get through.
[17:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed. can someone--anyone--tell me what "extreme vetting" means to them in the context of what Trump promised to the voters. AIUI, a refugee has to be first screened by the UNHCR before they are passed on the the US Dept of State for consideration for resettlement in the USA. Then the real fun beg...
[17:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's turn our country into a hermit kingdom, like NK. I hear it's completely safe over there.
[17:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:30] <exec> 08└─The only real problem is that the meaning of "Logan" isn't clear from context. Not having to use title case would have helped with that, since at least it would have been clear it was a proper noun...
[18:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Evidence of Bias in Jury Deliberations Can Lead to a Retrial - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:42] <exec> 08└─Didn't they have the evidence in the OJ case, but the jury was ... distracted?
[18:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:17] <exec> 08└─Internet trolls are suicidal trolls. They're the only ones dumb enough to constantly start flame wars. (for the few who don't know their classics: burning a troll is one of the few ways to prevent regeneration after you kill him. TMYK)
[18:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:32] <exec> 08└─So, if I simply crack JDs encryption and produce a diagnostic system that uses that discovered key, no issues at all? And who said anything about taking? I'm talking about copying, perhaps while employed by JD. No way around it, JD is depending on a state application of force to deny the right to re...
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[18:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:40] <exec> 08└─I'm a full-time user of Pale Moon myself, and I'm sorry I missed the survey. I dislike how they just blew off point 4; "Chrome is faster". Maybe in "tests" Chrome isn't faster, but it sure as hell "feels" much faster and more responsive. I use Pale Moon moon for 99% of my browsing, because of extens...
[18:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:41] <exec> 08└─Did they just assume it was about version numbers? Being 64-bit matters. Being fully ASLR-compatible matters. (compiler flags on all object files; linked as a shared object on Linux) Enforcing W^X matters. JIT randomization matters. Using the new memory type register feature on Intel matters. Using...
[18:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:43] <exec> 08└─So... you're going to be 'behind' even more and get out of sync even more with one of the major browsers in the world and its capabilities? You'll make it even harder for folks to develop extensions for your product?
[18:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:46] <exec> 08└─Some people are moving from Firefox to Pale Moon because compatibility with XUL extensions matters to them. I'm sticking with Firefox for exactly the same reason. Mozilla cares enough about security to phase out an old extension protocol that was designed with no thought for security. That's a good...
[18:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:48] <exec> 08└─There is RequestPolicy (continued) that took the base RP extension as a base. I use that now since it has active development. https://github.com [github.com] I do not use PM, so do not know if the extension is compatible with it.
[18:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:50] <exec> 08└─The survey results are meaningless if they don't say how many respondents. Are they hiding that because they got few responses?
[18:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:52] <exec> 08└─As the recent javascript ASLR exploit shows, obfuscation doesn't help solve underlying security issues, and given the false sense of security, programmers are more likely to produce further critical errors which lead to the 'keys to the kingdom' being all the more easy to obtain. What is really need...
[18:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:09] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? "Emails" is pretty much the #1 reason cited. The investigation had been closed and the damage done. You don't think re-opening it a week before the election had an effect?
[18:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:10] <exec> 08└─treating women as equal human being
[18:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:12] <exec> 08└─Reopening it implied H would be tied up in trials and investigations most of her tenure. Voters want somebody who can focus, like T (said biting my tongue).
[18:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:14] <exec> 08└─Like any good sycophant he will eventually stick his head out far enough, or be forced into a bad situation by his handlers, and CHOP goes the axe. It'll be worth the wait, hopefully he can't do too much damage before he gets tossed. He is supported by 3 of the most fascist Presidents in history, th...
[18:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:17] <exec> 08└─I might have a dam on the Colorado River to sell you too :)
[18:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:19] <exec> 08└─That's a basic example. Women do not desire responsibility for their own actions, and you don't want them to have to have that responsibility either. In that way, men keep women hopelessly infantalized. Both of your gender castes seem happy that way.
[18:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:30] <exec> 08└─Ok, this stuff is essentially RAM. I have seen it sold as a drop in replacement for RAM in the 8bit world. You can buy a 28pin PDIP version that is a drop in replacement for an old 8bit SRAM chip, only difference is you can't assume it will be filled with junk on power up. I get that part of their p...
[18:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:31] <exec> 08└─Or if there is a good SATA to M.2 adapter, then these devices would be perfect (if expensive!) as replacement disk drives for retrocomputing projects (ide to sata adapters are already plenty cheap, and m.2 to sata adapters exist) Furthermore for older systems that have physical RAM limitations, this...
[18:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:33] <exec> 08└─Right. And in the 8 bit world, ferroelectric ram has lower power consumption than MRAM, is only a little bit slower, and has a huge number of allowable writes. Too lazy to research right now: do you have any idea how hardened MRAM/FeRAM are to radiation, high temperature, high magnetic fields, etc....
[18:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, OK. It's good that he was caught before he did something like shoot up a mall. On the other hand, I would feel more comfortable about it if he were caught before he was allowed into the country. From that perspective, I think it entirely appropriate for the US Dept of State to review the...
[18:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:14] <exec> 08└─tell me what "extreme vetting" means to them in the context of what Trump promised to the voters. An unconstitutional ban on Muslims entering the country.
[18:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:17] <exec> 08└─You forgot the beaches. Perhaps we need pillboxes with .50 caliber machine guns at all beaches on both coasts. Or mines. Yeah, we could lay mines in the beaches. In the real world, this administration is proposing reductions to the funding of the Coast Guard.
[18:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, that would be optimal. I'm guessing studying how he got through all the steps successfully is very much going to effect future vetting practices, as it should. It's kind of like the black-hat vs. white-hat hacker debate. Penetration testing is highly effective at reducing further intrusion. If...
[18:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:21] <exec> 08└─Some constitutional rights apply to all people, some to people on US soil, and some to US citizens. (read carefully; check supreme court decisions) There is probably no right to enter. Supposing there is, the constitution has a change process. It's wishful thinking to imagine that importing the 3rd-...
[18:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─The first ban was already ruled unconstitutional.
[18:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:25] <exec> 08└─The fact that one may get through is no excuse for not having a proper wall. Better, do 5 fences with 1000-foot spacing and sensors, or just lay a minefield. Cutting down on identity theft would also help. If you can't do basic transactions in the USA, it's rather hard to survive undetected. (no job...
[18:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:28] <exec> 08└─The first ban was already ruled unconstitutional.
[18:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:30] <exec> 08└─First, the pre-screening: eat a bacon cheeseburger without hesitation Second, get into the brain scanner. We show video of various things and see how your brain reacts. Some things: rabbi, imam, woman in burka, woman in bikini, man in bikini, dog, pig, cow, sheep, goat, a mixed group of unrelated me...
[18:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─and their after-effects are often nowhere near as pleasant as the immediate results they produce. The after-effect of my evening weed is a good night's sleep. Frankly, that's MORE pleasant than the immediate effect.
[18:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:45] <exec> 08└─If the headline delivered what it promised it would be interesting. Instead, it delivers a bunch of propaganda and a few outright lies.
[18:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:47] <exec> 08└─All are just equal easy to leave at the begining before trying, just say no to all.
[18:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:10] <exec> 08└─Literally every immigrant family I've known (including stories of my great grandparents, since only my british colonial and native american ancestors came over earlier) has had their children speaking native english from the get-go. Some will try and make sure their kids know their native tongue so...
[18:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Face Swaps in Logan Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:36] <exec> 08└─The fact that if they can do it plausibly in a movie scene, then a state actor can certainly use similiar techniques to forge video evidence of someone they want/need to convict? Furthermore if you use a higher resolution initial video, but then downscale/postprocess it to 1/4 or less resolution, it...
[19:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:11] <exec> 08└─now we're supposed to be worried about escalation from the innocent side
[19:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:48] <exec> 08└─Hyperion actually got an air permit to build a 400,000 barrel per day refinery in South Dakota in the last five years or so. They never actually started construction, so I'm pretty sure the permit has expired by now.
[19:01:52] <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 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks, Cartman.
[19:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:40] <exec> 08└─The main problem I see is Federal copyright law. State law can't trump Federal laws. But this law isn't just removing the state protections for copyright and hoping some insider sticks the information on the internet somewhere; it's literally forcing the mfgr to provide information. That's rather di...
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[19:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:45] <exec> 08└─Yes change, I can change I can change, I can change And I'm here with my malt I am here with my scotch And I'm a million different people From one day to the next I can change my malt Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes For the worse... [youtube.com]
[19:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:47] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see how personalities change between 21 and 77, ostensibly after completion of the rapid physical changes associated with adolescence.
[19:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:50] <exec> 08└─To one degree or another we all change. Maybe there are specific traits that are highly visible that do not change dramatically enough, but other things do. Also, a lot of those changes are probably more internal so your friends and family won't see the change directly until some random circumstance...
[19:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:08] <exec> 08└─I did not take the survey, but I wonder what they consider: Despite clear indicators of what would be considered a valid survey response, no less than 8% of the respondents still saw it necessary to provide duplicate responses, use anonymizers, use throwaway e-mail addresses and other behavior that...
[19:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:09] <exec> 08└─Request Policy Continued is 100% compatible with Pale Moon; I use that combination myself.
[19:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:11] <exec> 08└─I would really like to see Pale Moon setup their own add-on page
[19:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:13] <exec> 08└─Thank you for pointing out RequestPolicy Continued I had no idea there was a version still being actively developed.
[19:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:16] <exec> 08└─How about focusing on extensions and creating a default extension which lets you spoof this, I mean, if this is such a big deal, why not allow spoofing right from the get-go with an officially supported extension for this?
[19:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:18] <exec> 08└─If it ends up breaking 90% of the extensions, then so be it.
[19:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:20] <exec> 08└─So... you're going to be 'behind' even more and get out of sync even more with one of the major browsers in the world and its capabilities?
[19:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:22] <exec> 08└─Web browsers are capable of so much, I really would prefer a more stable experience that tends not to break functionality.
[19:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:25] <exec> 08└─Chrome (I guess) directly uses native API more often instead of channelling it thru layers of wrappers (which are necessary to keep the UI as extensible as it is with old FF/PM).
[19:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:27] <exec> 08└─They're phasing it out because they're too lazy to support customization. They admitted as much on their bug tracker by saying it's hard (as in time consuming, not hard) to revamp the UI on their end if they have to keep customization in mind.
[19:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:29] <exec> 08└─Felt like I went back in time. To a simpler time. When browsers used to be terrible. Not that they aren't now. It's just a different kind of terrible.
[19:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:31] <exec> 08└─Same thing. I have exactly 1.6666... extensions installed.
[19:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:54] <exec> 08└─Number one cited reason for voting Trump was actually "He will bring change", number 2 was "He tells it like it is", number 3 was "Clinton's past connections", which I guess could include some concern over "emails" To be honest I'm still baffled beyond reason by the 10% who said they liked Donald Tr...
[19:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:55] <exec> 08└─To be honest I'm still baffled beyond reason by the 10% who said they liked Donald Trump's personal integrity and values, it's really low on the list, but I can't envision what kind of person would say that under what circumstances.
[19:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:57] <exec> 08└─It's not that I think he's done even a half decent job, or kept away from politics, or followed the law. It's just that judging from the other appointments his likely replacement would be worse.
[19:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:59] <exec> 08└─His main foul-up with H's email case is announcing it was being re-opened in connection with Weiner's laptop WITHOUT doing a cursory examination of possible H-related classified info breaches.
[19:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Missouri Counties Track Opioid Sales - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─I'm about as impaired from my pain medicines as most people are by decaffeinated coffee. However, with databases like this -- if I have an accident am I suddenly going to be facing a criminal charge for driving down the road? If I do end up working for someone else, and get hurt on the job -- am I g...
[19:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Counties Track Opioid Sales - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:29] <exec> 08└─Exactly! When I went to my PCP for increasingly severe joint and muscle pain along with ulcers and stabbing abdominal pain my PCP said there is nothing wrong and refused to even treat the pain. I was reported as drug seeking and the city ran an asset forfeiture drug sting on me instead. Apparently i...
[19:59:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 1342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:38] <exec> 08└─"other peoples experiences as ex-pats" It seems to me that there are various levels of emigration / ex-pat status. - Emigrating to a place with a common cultural background (e.g., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US - all colonies of the UK, with a common language). - Emigrating to a place with a rel...
[19:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─I had created an account at LookSee Wellington as soon as I heard about it. I had received advance notice through Immigration New Zealand, along with helpful advice on creating a CV from my American resume. I created my account, submitted my CV and answered some basic questions as a biography. Last...
[19:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:50] <exec> 08└─I've been to Munich several times, and I highly enjoyed it. I wouldn't mind going there again, and I know my daughter would get on well. I'm not so sure about my wife and my son, though.
[19:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:52] <exec> 08└─I guess you speak from an American point of view... But otherwise I would dispute your first point. I would claim that for example Australia is culturally closer to e.g. Sweden than to the US. And language isn't a real issue in Sweden, I get all the time that Swedes say "oh, sorry, I don't know why...
[20:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0611 Malaysians Barred From Leaving North Korea - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:55] <exec> 08└─Last but not least there's no real proof that the NK Gov did it yet.
[20:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:02] <exec> 08└─I find your anti-capitalist ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter and or blog. Please send your name, address, social security number, and a description of your typical travel patterns to DefinitelyNotTheFBI@fbi.gov.
[20:02:37] <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 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:38] <exec> 08└─If there wasn't a substantial effect on the decision, then the re-trial will find the same result.
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[20:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:22] <exec> 08└─...than the personalities.
[20:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this will change. I feel lucky in many ways that I grew up just prior to advent of mass scale social media (back in my day we walked to school barefoot AND had to have an ivy league university address to sign up for facebook). Like everybody, when I was younger I said, did, and thought l...
[20:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:25] <exec> 08└─I'd rather see a study that does both: tracks personalty starting in early adolescence, checking again in late adolescence and then again at college-age, then again around 30, then fast-forward to late adulthood.
[20:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:55] <exec> 08└─Complexity is the enemy of security. Reducing the attack surface is a win, no matter what motivated the decision to do so.
[20:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 2912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:56] <exec> 08└─Palemoon is what Firefox should be, I started switching our work PCs today and I won't be going back. I need to get real work done, and I can't be constantly having to worry about my browser breaking! There are three things that Firefox broke recently (or will be breaking) that I cannot work without...
[20:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:59] <exec> 08└─Could be that they are comparing themselves with Firefox. And in that case one should not be surprised, as Firefox switched to GTK3 for their Linux variant a while back, leaving many "older" systems in a bind (And now Firefox depends on Pulseaudio, making even more tempting to go Palemoon full time...
[20:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:01] <exec> 08└─Your approach is no better than a giant corporation, using unauthenticated telnet and FTP and fileshares, that installs a firewall and expects that to save them. You are looking for a silver bullet, and there isn't one. I didn't say you couldn't convert the codebase to Rust or LISP, or that you coul...
[20:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:28] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't have expected this rant from you. You should bookmark news stories that illustrate these points, with all the hubub about misandry nowadays it would be good to have decent examples. Otherwise they are just edge cases the same as sexual harassment / prejudice against women. Sure it happens,...
[20:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:43] <exec> 08└─>1GB or 2GB on a PCIe 3 x8 card smaller than ram, probably at least x10 more expensive 2GB can be saved/restored on shutdown/boot in under ONE second using NVMe SSD. Whats the point?
[20:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:56] <exec> 08└─I think the price, particularly in pharmacological developments, never tends to come down to 'price to make and administer'. It's just an endless game of maximizing the sales x price curve with complete disregard for any and everything else. Aspirin is an amusing example. For those that don't know,...
[20:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:58] <exec> 08└─It costs huge amounts of money to create these cures, and for now that's just a pill we have to swallow. There's going to be much huger amounts of money in offering these cures to the general public once they're more mainstream and the costs are brought down and the technology improved. It's worth t...
[20:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:00] <exec> 08└─For those that don't know, the active ingredient in aspirin literally grows on trees, common ones - willow. Cultures for centuries have chewed on the bark, brewed tea from the leaves/bark, etc to create what is for all intents and purposes - aspirin. Not exactly. Willow bark has salicylic acid, and...
[20:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:37] <exec> 08└─First, the pre-screening: eat a bacon cheeseburger without hesitation
[20:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:55] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I would want to know what I am potentially poisoning myself with, so that I can make a better decision than what the product marketing may otherwise suggest. DARE programs and propaganda and so on -- do not an informed consumer make. This article and its presentation are suspect, but the...
[20:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:57] <exec> 08└─So weed doesn't give you physical problems when you quit. That isn't everything. Weed users sort of lose their will to... do much of anything really, except smoke more weed. Life becomes meaningless. Initiative disappears. I'd call that an addiction.
[20:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:28] <exec> 08└─I really can't find the source of your complaint. OP said it takes generations to fully assimilate, I didn't see anything about keeping the next generation monolingual with their original language.
[20:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:29] <exec> 08└─Well, it's clear why they need IT professionals. That page is still on maintenance.
[21:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exxon Mobil Investing $20 Billion in Gulf Coast Refineries - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─probably other permits stopped them -- an air permit isn't enough all by itself
[21:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─8-) It strikes me as odd how folks here and elsewhere refer to "The Left" WRT non-Republicans when the people to which they are referring have not rejected Capitalism. [politicalcompass.org] N.B. Neither Nader nor Kucinich have rejected Capitalism either; as such, that chart has been artificially...
[21:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:14] <exec> 08└─Due to federal copyright law, it's the only way the states can get that information out there where it belongs. Of course, let's not forget that JD only exists because of an act of the state. It is a legal fiction created by the state. I'm not so sure it's in the public interest to let them use DRM...
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[21:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:37] <exec> 08└─With one of these I could beat those sites that use ReCAPTCHA.
[21:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:39] <exec> 08└─Since building quantum computing algorithms is so hard, can we build an AI on classical hardware to do it?
[21:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:41] <exec> 08└─there are short trees, tall trees, trees next to each other, next to buildings—all sorts of combinations
[21:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:43] <exec> 08└─So what does the "D" in "D-Wave" stand for? DeLorean? Must be a SERN plot.
[21:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:45] <exec> 08└─Great Scott! I just received a text message that says it can emulate an IBN-5100!
[21:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:47] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't bet on that. A lot of humans have to ask for multiple tries to get some of those. ...and I'm not getting the "cats" analogy in the title. Can someone clue me in? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:01] <exec> 08└─When I was young I was convinced that the world would be a better place once the old people in charge would be gone. Now that I'm that old guy, I'm convinced that most young people don't have a clue.
[21:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, one or two of *your* extensions. I assumed you were talking about the extension library as a whole since you didn't specify.
[21:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acharax [4264] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:39] <exec> 08└─You'd think that Mozilla, with all the money they have now (vs when they were called Phoenix 15 years ago), would have matured to the point where they don't pull crap like this (...)
[21:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:41] <exec> 08└─I've used Pale Moon as my main add free browser for a number of years, with an unblocked Firefox on the side for the rare occasions when I need an unrestricted browser (for banking, government sites and such). But recently I reversed this setup mainly because Pale Moon seems to have an annoying ever...
[21:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle-Cell Disease - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:38] <exec> 08└─somebody driven by motives beyond just the accumulation of wealth
[21:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:17] <exec> 08└─Suppose your religion requires you to toss virgins into volcanos. We don't let you do this, even though it limits your religious expression. The same goes for tossing homosexuals off of buildings, stoning women who get raped but don't have at least 4 male witnesses, killing people who leave your fai...
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Counties Track Opioid Sales - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:47] <exec> 08└─Those looking to make pain management a crime can go straight to hell. Swing by a methadone clinic for a few weeks and you will say differently. A scant few were there for medical reasons. The vast majority are recreational. They are the ones who make it hard for you. As for your doctor many are jus...
[22:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:21] <exec> 08└─Socialism is neither bottom-up or top-down You clearly don't understand the term.
[22:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: No Tools, No Problem (Part 2) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:30] <exec> 08└─The OS/2 2.0 fiasco is so bad it is one of my favorite topics BTW.
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[22:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Captures Best Ever Images of Saturn's Tiny Moon Pan - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:22] <exec> 08└─It looks like a weird lumpy grey saturn itself, like a smushed clay model of Saturn made by a kid. :^3
[22:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:36] <exec> 08└─http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology [nytimes.com] http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[22:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:37] <exec> 08└─...and I'm not getting the "cats" analogy in the title. Can someone clue me in?
[22:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:39] <exec> 08└─Well, D-Wave is the brand of the gear they're using. I thought that the D may have related to a founder's name. Nope. [google.com] In Neurophysiology, a d-wave [google.com] is an electrical impulse with a uniquely identifiable waveform. It goes from the brain and along the spinal cord, terminating a...
[22:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:42] <exec> 08└─Let me Wikipedia that for you: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The company name refers to their first qubit designs, which used d-wave [wikipedia.org] superconductors.
[22:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:44] <exec> 08└─Ah. "Quantum". Another animal metaphor: "If it had been a snake, it'd have bitten me." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:46] <exec> 08└─...and I'm not getting the "cats" analogy in the title. Can someone clue me in?
[22:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:48] <exec> 08└─Today, your logic is far superior to mine. (My first page of search results was full of references to the company and I started adding Boolean NOTs to eliminate those in order to get a more general answer. D'oh.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:50] <exec> 08└─Rory: How can we be outside the Universe? The Universe is everything. The Doctor: Imagine a great big soap bubble with one of those tiny little bubbles on the outside. Rory: Okay. The Doctor: Well it’s nothing like that. [...] Amy: Wait, so we’re in a tiny bubble universe sticking to the side of...
[22:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:05] <exec> 08└─I'm in one of the rare personality categories.
[22:57:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:19] <exec> 08└─So... you're going to be 'behind' even more and get out of sync even more with one of the major browsers in the world and its capabilities? You'll make it even harder for folks to develop extensions for your product?
[22:57:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 2912 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:38] <exec> 08└─Palemoon is what Firefox should be, I started switching our work PCs today and I won't be going back. I need to get real work done, and I can't be constantly having to worry about my browser breaking! There are three things that Firefox broke recently (or will be breaking) that I cannot work without...
[22:57:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acharax [4264] 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:42] <exec> 08└─You'd think that Mozilla, with all the money they have now (vs when they were called Phoenix 15 years ago), would have matured to the point where they don't pull crap like this (...)
[22:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:45] <exec> 08└─Despite some improvements lately, even with user agent switching to spoof the latest Firefox, some things refuse to function on pale moon. Most notably, my online banking connection is reset every time I enter my username, preventing login. The only way I can get in is to use Firefox. I've also expe...
[22:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:47] <exec> 08└─Mostly I think your 90% figure is bogus. Reference?
[22:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:49] <exec> 08└─Wait and see, I guess. Apparently there are a lot more different extension systems crammed into Firefox than I realized before today. One big differentiater is the type of extensions that will still work, too--WebExtension ones tend to be simpler widget stuff that isn't deeply integrated into the br...
[22:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pale Moon 2017 User Survey - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:51] <exec> 08└─Pretty weird post. First you lambast mitigation strategies for providing no true profound security. Then you argue for thread compartmentalisation, which, at best, would be the same kind of mitigation strategy. I say "at best", because that's the first time I ever heard anyone arguing that threading...
[22:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:19] <exec> 08└─Comey will always be welcomed here.
[22:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:20] <exec> 08└─" If a woman is unable to learn a programming language... "
[22:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everspin Announces New MRAM Products - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:36] <exec> 08└─It's cheaper than 3D XPoint
[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:31] <exec> 08└─Yep It's absolutely embarrassing and shameful to be an American these days. Absolutely disgusting for this trash to gain power. More like the land of the Amerinazis now.
[22:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:32] <exec> 08└─I love America now more than ever. Enjoy the grapes, they can be sour sometimes.
[22:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iraqi Insurgent Fighter Allegedly Lied About Identity, Got Through 'Extreme' Vetting - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:34] <exec> 08└─Genius, take all the money from TSA for the wall as far as I'm concerned. Also man the wall with patriots.
[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─Weed users sort of lose their will to... do much of anything really, except smoke more weed. Life becomes meaningless. Initiative disappears.
[22:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry to dissent, I find this interesting.
[23:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Free Trip to NZ for IT Professionals - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:29] <exec> 08└─You say the "catch" is the wind? That's it? Nothing else? Hahaha. I'm from Oklahoma. Where do I sign up?
[23:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Richard Feynman Convinced Naysayers that Gravitational Waves are Real - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:49] <exec> 08└─Was evolution willing to pay the cost of expanding our intuitive perception enough to understand the universe? There certainly is no need of that for our species to be able to gather food and reproduce. As a theoretical physicist, I see future work being very non-intuitive. The circular thought proc...
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[23:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Captures Best Ever Images of Saturn's Tiny Moon Pan - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:31] <exec> 08└─Compared to the gap in the rings that it creates, I expected it to be a lot smaller.
[23:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:53] <exec> 08└─I just assumed the name was made up, until now. What's more interesting than the name is that despite the extreme skepticism [wikipedia.org] facing the company, they've gone from 128 to 512 to 1152 to 2048 "qubits" with their commercial machines, and continued to attract interest from Google, Lockhe...
[23:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:55] <exec> 08└─Amazingly, I didn't have Schrödinger's stray in mind at all when I spewed the headline. I was thinking of Google's cat video classification hypegasm from 2012. I guess I don't associate D-Wave with "quantum" since it's a mysterious annealer and not a proven quantum computer.
[23:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:57] <exec> 08└─Bootstrap skynet, yup, sure, go for it. However, note that D-Wave isn't a (general purpose) "Quantum Computer". It's a quantum annealer that can only solve a subset of problem types super-efficiently. Getting a lintel cluster to program it to generate optimal actual Quantum Computation algorithms wo...
[23:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trees Are the New Cats: D-Wave Used for Machine Vision - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:59] <exec> 08└─The new heads of the EPA and the Department of the Interior have requested estimates on how long it would take to add a robotic chainsaw ...
[23:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I went from "don't trust anyone over 30" to "don't trust anyone under 35" a year or two ago. I'm 33. I'm hoping to make it to 35 before that shifts again.
[23:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:17] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of firsts contained in those periods -- entering school, high school, college, first professional job. I bet personality changes a lot through all of those.
[23:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:19] <exec> 08└─re-evaluate everything you've learned since your youth. give away your posessions. don't be a selfish twit and see what comes of it.
[23:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Longest Personality Study of All Time - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:21] <exec> 08└─First exposure to real minorities outside of watching TV shows. First series of realizations that liberalism is bullshit. '90's me: " Momma, don't throw that soda bottle in the trash, recycle it! " 2010's me: " Go ahead and throw the McDonald's trash out the car, we're in a parking lot and being mer...
[23:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure they could get worse, and if they can I welcome it!! This implosion of government might just be what we need to wake people the fuck up. Especially the people who work for these agencies...
[23:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We're Stuck With Comey - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:34] <exec> 08└─And put in a real patriot, Rudy Guiliani [crooksandliars.com]! He'd certainly fit right in.