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[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─The reason public won in this instance (TFA quote with my emphasis): Publishers appeal to the division bench of the Delhi high court. While taking issue with some of the findings of the trial judge, the division bench nonetheless upholds the ultimate finding that the photocopying is covered under th...
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:10] <exec> 08└─To be true, title should read "Photocopying Textbooks for Educational Purposes is Fair Use in India"
[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─It is in the U.S. also. You pay for it, it's your property. Do with as you please. The end
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[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─offer no recourse when services are removed
[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─Entitled generation? I want it all (for free), I want it all (for free), I want it all (for free), and I want it now!
[00:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:28] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the "consumer" being protected from ?
[00:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:50] <exec> 08└─Do you mean that they can charge a premium for the apps/OS? If so, that sounds like it would be proprietary software. You can charge for free (as in freedom) software, but people could just get it from someone distributing zero-cost binaries. If you honestly think that proprietary software--which de...
[00:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:52] <exec> 08└─Business models for making money from mobile devices: 1. apps 2. Apps with in-app purchases 3. Handset sales 4. Air/data time 5. Your data As 4 and 3 decline, and people fill up their time and phones with apps, the only "growth" is in number 5.
[00:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:19] <exec> 08└─Since when has whether or not something should be done had any relevance to whether it can be done? Heck, it's a rare and lucky day if it has any impact on whether it does get done.
[00:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:20] <exec> 08└─I read a fantastic collection of short stories on this very subject - http://machineofdeath.net [machineofdeath.net]
[00:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:22] <exec> 08└─With a couple minutes lag, depending on how you define death.
[00:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:36] <exec> 08└─Skaravan [youtube.com] (music starts around 1:10)
[00:18:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Does Border Drop Mean Trump's Tough Talk is Working? - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─Who remembers the Iran hostage crisis? The liberal president made zero progress, trying to negotiate a release of the hostages.
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[01:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─big Western publishers...So often it seems that copyright only ever gets longer and stronger, with the public always on the losing side. The latest news from India shows that very occasionally, it's the public that wins.
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:15] <exec> 08└─It is in the U.S. also. You pay for it, it's your property. Do with as you please.
[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─Instead of making college free make the textbooks free. When I went to college (early 80s) the textbooks were easily twice the cost of tuition. Lets be honest, for a 4 year degree nothing has changed in a good 50-100 years. Same algebra, same calculus, same physics, same biology, same chemistry, sam...
[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─"Old farts like me can get the textbooks for free and learn the new improved stuff." If nothing has changed in your lifetime, what's to learn?
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:21] <exec> 08└─You must be new to the copyright and IP concept... If you buy a paper book, this particular set of printed pages is yours. You didn't buy the right to disseminate copies, only to let all your friends read it too.
[01:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:36] <exec> 08└─Entitled generation?
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─I'm responding to "my free [pirate] stream went down"... I'm quoting a singer who's been dead for 25 years... I could push my tongue further through my cheek, but that'd be bloody and you wouldn't even see.
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:40] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know a good way to freely watch cricket matches online? I'd like to watch a few games to see what the excitement is.
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know a good way to freely watch cricket matches online? I'd like to watch a few games to see what the excitement is.
[01:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:30] <exec> 08└─Good AI is only as good as the data it has. It's always been the same issue, there are so many features that you would need to identify _and_ track for this to have any sort of relevance. Any good doctor can predict with a reasonable timeframe when a person will die when they have a certain disease....
[01:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Infineon Demos a 1.65 mm^2 eSIM Chip - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:31] <exec> 08└─It works great when you travel overseas and need local phone service. I switched from CDMA based devices to GSM (now UMTS) devices because I could remove my SIM card, pop in the one I need and call it good. I'm not really sure why you'd want to have a form of lock-in which determines what can and ca...
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[02:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─AT&T has systematically discriminated against lower-income Cleveland neighborhoods
[02:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─the FCC required AT&T to provide discount broadband to poor people as condition of the merger.
[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─And if I buy an e-book, that particular concatenation of one's and zero's belongs to me, and I can do with it what I see fit, like replicate it onto a tablet, or a smart-phone, or into a bit-torrent seed. Copywhat? Imaginary Property Artificial Scarcity Digital Restrictions Malice, you say? All ed...
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:25] <exec> 08└─Could it be implicit protectionism as the biggest defendants were "Western publishers"?
[02:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:45] <exec> 08└─You just Poe-d [wikipedia.org] yourself. In today's post-truth world, with that many alt-facts, it doesn't seem wise to omit the smiley sign. (I'm usually grin-ing [soylentnews.org] in such occasions; because I'm such an idiot that I cannot take the occasional - or is it pervasive? - stupidity of th...
[02:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:47] <exec> 08└─I'd like to watch a few games to see what the excitement is.
[02:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06...but What is the Question? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:50] <exec> 08└─The answer, according to Betteridge, is "no."
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[03:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:09] <exec> 08└─Basically the same thing happened when congress appropriated billions of dollars for the telcos to expand out to that "last mile". They spent some part of those billions expanding their networks in densely populated areas. This study shows the discrimination between densely populated wealthy areas,...
[03:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:10] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, Obummer sure used the FCC to gut AT&T while he was in power. (grin)
[03:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─...and on top of that my DTEK50 got the March patch set last week. Nice to have a decent managed device from a company that actually values security.
[03:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:38] <exec> 08└─You forget, they're going to know anyway. They have the data. The question is, do YOU want to know. If you assume everyone else already knows (meaning govt., banks, insurance co, etc.) Do you want to be in on the secret too? I sure do. Do I have enough time to travel? To write that book? Or do I nee...
[03:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:53] <exec> 08└─What's with the increased interest in history? Previous story is about Xenix, and now this about the Silk Road. And wasn't there some news about Sid Meier's Civilization recently, an interview with him? Don't get me wrong, I find history interesting. Just wondering if others are becoming more intere...
[03:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:54] <exec> 08└─Cool, that Japanese band is really having a good time, steel drums and all. The audience dancing in sync is almost creepy. But I'll stick with the Ribot version, have you heard his arrangement of Fat Man Blues? https://vimeo.com [vimeo.com]
[03:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:57] <exec> 08└─Stagnating? Maybe in some areas, but not in tech. Moore's Law is still working for now.
[03:16:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Amazon Adjusts Alexa after Viral Video - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:51] <exec> 08└─Seriously? SERIOUSLY? God damned idiots have never used an Eliza program before. Think there are magickal fucking little men in the device that makes it talk. Oh noes, oh noes! It just revealed it's working for the lizard people!!!eleven!one! (Well why the living fuck would it do that if it really w...
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[04:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:21] <exec> 08└─the company has already been fined, so some responsibility has been indicated.. http://www.mlive.com [mlive.com] "The manufacturer was cited for a serious violation for not using a "lockout" on machinery that could have sto...
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─boopboop / boopbeep beepbeep / boopbeepboopboop beepbeepbeep beepbeepbeep beepboopbeep boopboop beepboop beepbeepboop / beepboopboop boopboop boopbeepboop boop beepboopbeepboop beep boopbeepboopboop beepboopbeepbeep / boopbeep beep / beepboopbeepbeep beepbeepbeep boopboopbeep / boopbeep beepboop bee...
[04:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─For a large company, $7,000 is pocket change, and easily just a "cost of doing business". I don't know why the government even bothers with fines so small. They should just publicly announce "we're not going to bother investigating accidents like this because there's just no point when the fines we...
[04:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:27] <exec> 08└─The worth of a non elite human life.
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─Fining a large company $7000 reminds me of the cases where the courts fine someone $1. They're basically saying: 1) yeah you're technically at fault, but 2) we're on your side on this, and 3) fuck the other parties.
[04:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:40] <exec> 08└─But....butbutbut letting businesses do their own thing with money and not loading them down with burdensome regulation ALWAYS leads to growth and consumer choice and lower prices!!!111eleventy-one
[04:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─Following on from your line of thinking, we should take the profit motive out of the equation and have the government install and own the last mile.
[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─Every time a municipality tries that, they seem to get sued...
[04:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:46] <exec> 08└─Are you never not a horrible cunt? Just because you're a tranny doesn't mean you need to act like you constantly have PMS.
[04:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:03] <exec> 08└─Physics and biology has changed significantly. For example, quantum field theory was only just emerging 100 years ago. The Higgs boson was discovered five years ago.
[04:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:04] <exec> 08└─Yup, nothing has happened in the world in 50 years.
[04:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:07] <exec> 08└─nothing has changed in a good 50-100 years ... same physics, same biology, same chemistry, same world studies, etc etc etc.
[04:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:28] <exec> 08└─I suppose a proper response then would be an Oompa Loompa number.
[04:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:49] <exec> 08└─Well, let's see: It's probably not the OEMs or the problem would be widespread rather than generally limited to a couple of companies. It's probably not the carriers or the problem would be widespread rather than generally limited to a couple of companies. Odds are, then, it's something injected in...
[04:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:07] <exec> 08└─OS/2, starting with Warp v3 used XDF formatting, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] which gave 1860 kbs per 3.5 in floppy.
[04:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06...but What is the Question? - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:38] <exec> 08└─The article says "If you try to get several regular polygons to meet snugly at a point in the plane, what's the most sides any of the polygons can have? The answer is 42." It goes on to discuss cases of 3 regular polygons with different numbers of sides. The way they originally stated the question,...
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[05:14:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, fuck it! And fuck all of you!
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[05:14:12] <exec> 08└─When I was 12, a theater in town had a deal with the junior high school. Once a month, they ran a film of a classic story. One had a scene I really remember. I lived in a military town in the South. Things were very regimented and conformist. (You never would have guessed that. Right?) There's a sce...
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[05:14:14] <exec> 08└─Huh?
[05:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:49] <exec> 08└─Instead of making college free make the textbooks free. When I went to college (early 80s) the textbooks were easily twice the cost of tuition.
[05:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:50] <exec> 08└─IMHO free college is a non starter, too many unqualified idiots will sign up thinking "jobs, hell yeah!!" but won't be willing to/be capable of doing the coursework.
[05:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:21] <exec> 08└─Apart from what you tell there is also the problem in what is considered "least cost", in the old travel routes it not was uncommon that between two points there where various alternatives routes and that the people selected one ore another in relation to the transportation method and how loaded the...
[05:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:53] <exec> 08└─SCSI drives usually didn't use CHS addressing and at least on OS/2 were one way of getting past the various IDE drive limits. There may have been translation happening somewhere. What about if you played with the geometry? It is possible to go to 2 TBs (actually slightly less) with CHS addressing, I...
[05:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Adjusts Alexa after Viral Video - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:40] <exec> 08└─I think you need to lean a bit more about "Mother Theresa" rather than the version promoted by the Catholic Church.
[05:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Feel Unsafe Sharing the Road With Fully Self-Driving Cars - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:12] <exec> 08└─Google turned up this report on a Rand study, https://phys.org [phys.org] Although the total number of crashes, injuries and fatalities from human drivers is high, the rate of these failures is low in comparison with the number...
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[06:14:12] <exec> 08└─I expect way more from a violently imposed monopoly. I expect, nay demand, 100% of Americans to be caught in the surveillance dragnet!
[06:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:27] <exec> 08└─I agree with the "why wasn't this equipment powered down, locked and tagged" above... It doesn't matter if it was a "robot", a giant hydraulic press, a pump or fan or whatever.... It shouldn't be able to just start up while undergoing maintenance regardless of what kind of machine it is.
[06:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:42] <exec> 08└─If what Azuma posted is indicative of PMS, then I have it as well. Regulation is required in exchange for the governmental enforcement of an artificial monopoly. These telecoms are more like a prostitute, with Uncle Sam pimping for them, using physical force if necessary to keep competition off the...
[06:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:37] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention that the routes sometimes also varied or changed depending of the season. All of this about routes is also valid today, specially in the less developed countries but even in the first world countries are examples like the ice roads.
[06:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 1807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:09] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Xenix doesn't support SCSI out of the box. A few editions appeared to have support for it (likely non-x86), but it's not in this version. The support is listed in the "master" file however. scsi 0 0137 014 scsi 0 28 28 1 4 0 0 0 0 This file has a list of basically any hardw...
[06:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Feel Unsafe Sharing the Road With Fully Self-Driving Cars - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:30] <exec> 08└─The other day I there was a car moving slowly (the speed limit where everyone is doing 50 in a 30) on the street in front of my office. So I crossed and the car came to a stop 75 meters away. It was the self driving Uber. Apparently it is the only safe driver on this road.
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[07:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2, Offtopic) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:10] <exec> 08└─I expect, nay demand, 100% of Americans to be caught in the surveillance dragnet!
[07:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:11] <exec> 08└─Stupid spies.. they need to make it mandatory tenure to work in the commercial/private sector where bullshit stats to wiggle out of scrutiny is basic requirement for moving up the corporate ladder. The answer to congress should be "Between 1% to 101%" 1 of those 2 sentences above is a joke.
[07:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:13] <exec> 08└─Unlimited black budget. What could possibly go wrong?
[07:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─The best amount. Unbelievably good amounts. Believe me. See how it's done?
[07:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:18] <exec> 08└─I know one orange-american who was caught up in the dragnet. They recorded him on the camera in his own microwave!
[07:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:32] <exec> 08└─Won't anyone think of the small businesses and job creators? Last thing the American people want is to be crushed under the dead weight of government dropping regulations on their heads.
[07:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 1909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:34] <exec> 08└─That's just the basic regulatory fine they get for not using adequate safety measures. They might have gotten the same fine if they had been reported, yet failed to upgrade the equipment in a timely manner regardless of whether or not anyone was injured or killed. It's an OSHA fine -- like you'd get...
[07:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:36] <exec> 08└─Not bad, but would be better if you worked on your rhyming a bit more: 5/10.
[07:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:35] <exec> 08└─Much like baseball in the USA, which is the only place you can buy the very lowest quality watered down beer and the left-overs they don't even put in sausages ground up and made into hotdogs. And with prices that are surprizingly high even considering you have no other choice.
[07:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, and then they pulled out of the phone business. I bought a second Passport as a backup and will look wearily at what happens with TCL/BlackBerry Mobile.
[07:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 4272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:58] <exec> 08└─If anything, we need some mechanism to read and make a digest of the operating system so we can verify its a OEM load. When I was first coming online with PC's, BIOS was usually shipped in a pair of UV-EPROMS ( i.e. 27128 and up ), which were programmed using a high voltage on a special EPROM write...
[07:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:31] <exec> 08└─They don't need guns if you're a journeyman technician performing routine maintenance on one of the robots. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[07:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Adjusts Alexa after Viral Video - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─"SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why you have to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain every now and then."
[07:18:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Does Border Drop Mean Trump's Tough Talk is Working? - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:25] <exec> 08└─My first thought was to wonder if they'd cooked that 40% drop. Stand by for a "revised" estimate.
[07:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Feel Unsafe Sharing the Road With Fully Self-Driving Cars - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:47] <exec> 08└─"Any sacrifices of my life should be decided by myself and nobody/nothing else." Yeah... that's kind of the way our civilization manifested itself. Decisions instead of instinct. And some decisions imply sacrifice. Other don't. If you don't like that, it does not make it any less truthful.
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[08:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:09] <exec> 08└─Easy extra cash for people who don't want a second job. Unfortunately it's enough to live off, and so people abuse the system by using it for their primary income, and then throw a wobbler when they don't get the benefits of being employees, because they've forgotten they're abusing the system by tr...
[08:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:11] <exec> 08└─Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law
[08:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and he filmed how his traffic stops, even after the cop told the traffic not to stop. English is a terribly ambiguous language.
[08:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:15] <exec> 08└─You're right about the comma, but you think title case is stupid in a title? Really? I have to disagree with the latter point, friend.
[08:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:47] <exec> 08└─A massive cheer went up from the crowd when his hand plunged downward.
[08:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:48] <exec> 08└─What did the tech do to provoke the robot?
[08:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:50] <exec> 08└─It seems the device undergoing maintainence wasn't the one that killed her - so two, possibly three or more, devices should have *all* been switched off/tagged/pinned safe/chained. It is even poosible her body triggered the robot that killed her, passing a sensor or touching a pressure switch.
[08:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:52] <exec> 08└─Later in the story, the 99 Percenters use the guillotine repeatedly to rid themselves of their oppressors. Every time another head gets chopped off, the crowd (in the story) roars its approval. Call it an adjustment to the balance of power in that society. . I'm reminded of the non-emotional respons...
[08:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:30] <exec> 08└─I wish it were $140 per semester. Average yearly tuition at a 4 year state college is $9,410. https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org [collegeboard.org]
[08:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:08] <exec> 08└─Myself, i have always been interested in history, so i like these detours more than other stories... My 2c, anyway. And, great work on the website update! I quite love it.
[08:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:42] <exec> 08└─OK, thanks for refreshing my memory, been a while since thinking about this.
[08:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Feel Unsafe Sharing the Road With Fully Self-Driving Cars - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:05] <exec> 08└─"The most interesting assumption is that the car is going to immediately know the age, career, marital status, etc of every meatbag anywhere near it, including that infant that's riding in one of the vehicles' passenger seats it can't see." Some other prediction (ooh... this can become a fun game):...
[08:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arkansas Bill Restricts Release of Recordings of a Police Officer's Death - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:40] <exec> 08└─But cops are "super-citizens". They've earned the right to gun down lesser-so-called-"citizens" and have the consequences be that they get several weeks paid vacation as a reward for a job well done. Where it's OK to have a drop piece on you all the time, because "you never know when you need to dep...
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[09:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:06] <exec> 08└─"naturally occurring suction of water" I was wondering when the scientists would finally harness the great sucking force for the greater good.
[09:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:19] <exec> 08└─People being able to live is unfortunate? Interesting.
[09:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─It is, really. All it does is makes it harder to read. Sometimes also making things ambigous (windows/Windows). Might be nice if you want some click-bait, I guess. Stop brining (half-dead) printing industry practices to Internet.
[09:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:23] <exec> 08└─He simply doesn't enjoy the company of his wife any more, and this is an excuse to get out of the house. He can even play the martyr card too.
[09:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:25] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's a terribly flexible language, which means that it's possible to bend it into a shape where it's ambiguous. Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop, Citing Made-Up Law, Says Not to Relative clause more proximal to relevant noun => less ambiguity, I'd say zero.
[09:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:27] <exec> 08└─You apparently think the written language, and the application of different styles to different content types in written text, only came into existence with the invention of the printing press, as if you have never seen an illuminated manuscript? Basing your arguments upon such absurdities makes the...
[09:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:29] <exec> 08└─Population 110000. So, that's 0.03% of the population who have this right supported by the police. 99.97% of the country to go...
[09:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:32] <exec> 08└─Also, what you refer to as "Windows" isn't "Windows", it's "Microsoft Windows", or "MS Windows" for short. Use of the single word supports and validates their braindead trademark, supporting the idea that they are the ones who brought windows to the world. Support the weakening of their single-word...
[09:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:34] <exec> 08└─Which exactly absurdities are you talking about? You wrote many letters but said nothing.
[09:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:36] <exec> 08└─What's not-stupid in titlecase, title or not? It's done because it's expected and everyone else does it but is there any other rationale?
[09:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:50] <exec> 08└─That's God-Emperor Orange the Eternal, blessed is HIS name. Report yourself to the nearest reeducation chamber for your scheduled Patriotism Audit.
[09:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:51] <exec> 08└─No data - no renewal. Trial 'em all for treason after that.
[09:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:14] <exec> 08└─If you want to blame "the companies that built, installed, and maintained the robotics" for the death of somone who "was performing routine maintenance on one of the robots", then the person who was performing routine maintenance on one of the robots is clearly partly to blame.
[09:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:53] <exec> 08└─The reason the publishers withdrew from the case is likely not that they 'saw the light', but that they reckoned that setting a precedent would be worse for them than not setting a precedent. By withdrawing, they maintain the possibility of fighting a similar case in future where they are more likel...
[09:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:17] <exec> 08└─Radio 4 longwave - one doesn't miss much at all by merely listening instead of watching.
[09:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:18] <exec> 08└─Recently we had a discussion about several sites in the UK claiming that Kodi (open source media center software) is causing piracy, and people ended up writing them to tell them the difference between Kodi (legal) and the streams (illegal). Apparently, whoever wrote this summary completely missed t...
[09:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:34] <exec> 08└─If the paths through mountainous regions don't follow the expected route, there is a good chance that this is probably a strong signal that your expectations might be wrong. Humans are quite good at optimisation strategies, and routes that have taken decades, if not centuries, to evolve, probably ha...
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[11:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:59] <exec> 08└─Northern Ireland and Anglesey... long live the Small Britain.
[11:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:01] <exec> 08└─Small Britain.
[11:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:03] <exec> 08└─which the U.K. Parliament in Westminster ultimately must approve.
[11:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─Is to disolve salty (amonium chloride, sal ammonaic, salmiakki) liquorice in vodka (koskenkorva, kossu, preferably). This is the day that Alex Papadimoulis learnt that the "WTF" in DailyWTF stands for "Where's the fridge" (which is where you keep your salmiakki kossu bottle, obviously): http://www.s...
[11:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:20] <exec> 08└─one image would replace a thousand words ... time for [img src] tag allow maybe?
[11:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─time for [img src] tag allow maybe?
[11:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:25] <exec> 08└─SN supports images in the summary: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] If they were overused, they would hurt those with tiny bandwidth caps. Or using the interplanetary internet.
[11:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:27] <exec> 08└─Wave energy has been harvested from what is effectively only centimetres of transient differential pressure, so I'm not really sure this has unlocked any new potential. Maybe the efficiency is superior? It would be useful if there had been *numbers* comparing the old tech to the new tech, but they a...
[11:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:29] <exec> 08└─up to 10 kWh per day...is enough power to meet the requirements of 5 European families Um...we live in Europe, and our family uses somewhere around 10000kwh/year, which comes out to 30kwh/day. I just checked online: The average US family residential customer uses 10812 kwh/year. [eia.gov] So 10kwh/d...
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─TFA has images and video, including this one https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] - clearest description/views are about 5mins in. A static image probably doesn't help much as the video, because it looks like it's dynamic effects and 3D shape that are important.
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─one image would replace a thousand words ... time for [img src] tag allow maybe?
[11:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:36] <exec> 08└─I'd be more interested in tidal - this might be ideal for tidal flow turbines without having to build massive barrages etc., not sure it is reversible though.
[11:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:38] <exec> 08└─From https://www.thoughtco.com [thoughtco.com] "Viktor Schauberger was an Austrian inventor and naturalist who built and patented a water ram pump involving a spiral flow which he claimed to have learned from a visit to the Egyptian pyramid. Schauberger is considered the f...
[11:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:00] <exec> 08└─It is, really. All it does is makes it harder to read. Sometimes also making things ambigous (windows/Windows). Might be nice if you want some click-bait, I guess. Stop brining (half-dead) printing industry practices to Internet.
[11:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:01] <exec> 08└─If you don't like title case, don't use it. That said, many, if not most, people will judge the value of what you write, at least in part, on how you write it. Your middle school English teacher should have told you that, and your high school English teachers should have deducted points for work tha...
[11:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:03] <exec> 08└─You've gone and proved the maxim that "it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." I guess the silver lining is that you've gone and proved the rule. Keep up the good work!
[11:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:05] <exec> 08└─[Jeremy Irons] You have no idea.
[11:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:22] <exec> 08└─I and other members of Congress have been seeking an answer to this question since 2011.
[11:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:46] <exec> 08└─"Show me on the doll where the bad lady touched you"
[11:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:47] <exec> 08└─It says "Become a sys admin and not a victim of the robot uprising".
[11:16:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:17] <exec> 08└─"Old farts like me can get the textbooks for free and learn the new improved stuff." If nothing has changed in your lifetime, what's to learn?
[11:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:53] <exec> 08└─"The batsman's holding the bowler's willy" is also so much funnier in an audio-only medium. (As you can't see things like capital and missing letters when there's no screen.)
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[12:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:05] <exec> 08└─The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2015 that textbooks prices had jumped over 1000% since 1977.
[12:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:07] <exec> 08└─Do the textbooks teach the controversy? If not, they'll be rejected in 3,2,1...
[12:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:17] <exec> 08└─The last time they lost because the Scottish where told they would not be able to stay in the EU if they voted for independence. That promise is now broken as well. I don't blame them for using it as an excuse to try again.
[12:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:19] <exec> 08└─My own view is the the Nationalists are simply trying for a second bite of the cherry - they didn't get the result they wanted last time and so would love the opportunity to try again. In effect, they intend to keep asking the question until they get the answer that they want.
[12:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:21] <exec> 08└─Why would McPolsky and Patricks [nrscotland.gov.uk] want to be governed from London? Europe has quite good regional dev programs and science funding, I don't think London can match them.
[12:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:23] <exec> 08└─> post-Brexit life is found not to be so bad after all. Conservatives in power. Non-existent 3rd party. Unelectable Labour party. Might I add "Female PM" to that list in order to highlight the fact that history is repeating itself, and it was bad last time. C^HHunt's decimation of the NHS (which is...
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─the problem is the EU needs Britain , more than the EU needs Scotland. There are only 3 1/2 big EU countries supporting all the small ones. If Britain leaves, there will only be 2 1/2 big countries, and 1 of those is Germany and is not happy about paying for all the rest. I'm not sure I see any solu...
[12:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:35] <exec> 08└─Dude.. wtf.. seriously.. Plan better when you shop - alko has both tervasnapsi and minttu black ;) (Hmm, I wonder just how many non-nordic soylentils will come after us with pitchforks after trying the stuff that is commonplace for us)
[12:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:37] <exec> 08└─A friend of a friend thinks it's important at this point to note that if you dissolve Terva Leijona pastillia in normal whisky (such as Kolme Leijona), it doesn't end up like a peated Islay whisky.
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, but many in the US do not have gas appliances or wood/coal furnaces. I'm guessing you likely have a gas stove, water heater, boiler/furnace? In my home those all run on electrical as there is no natural gas supply for a couple miles and coal/wood pellets for heat have their own issues and are m...
[12:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:21] <exec> 08└─Bulgaria here (usually counted in EU, but not always). I didn't get a single traffic stop without a cop making up a law or "rule" trying to scare me in the past 15 years. Everything changed when I put a dashcam - the cop stops me, looks at the windscreen, sees the lens and points me to go, usually b...
[12:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:22] <exec> 08└─Note that title case is a particularly American thing. English doesn't use it.
[12:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:05] <exec> 08└─Simple morse code i/am/looking/directly/at/you/and/interested/in/destroying/your/meatbag/body.-.-.-.
[12:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:22] <exec> 08└─Can't say I agree with this kind of hidden wealth transfer. Everyone else should pay $70/month while poor people pay $5/month? AFAIK, internet access is a luxury and mainly used to waste time, which poor people should be doing less of.
[12:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:47] <exec> 08└─99% of textbooks are sold to freshmen working inclined planes, kinematics, maybe second semester they hit electromagnetic theory, with or without calculus. Cool trivial pursuit stuff is cool, but doesn't really matter to learning.
[12:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 5076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:14] <exec> 08└─But "Kodi box", like "MAME cabinet", is increasingly used not to describe legal devices only made to play legal content, but are associated with search terms for "every tv show and movie" or "every video game", etc. Kodi are doing nothing illegal, just the same as MAME are not. But people know that...
[12:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─Paint wall green. Watch wall dry. There, I just simulated it for you.
[12:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:06] <exec> 08└─Thank you for fixing this issue. BTW, can a story be in several nexuses at once? For example, assume writing a community review: This would obviously belong into the Community Review nexus, but it would also be original content, and thus should logically be in that new Original Content nexus. Or con...
[12:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Infineon Demos a 1.65 mm^2 eSIM Chip - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:24] <exec> 08└─The SIM card slot on my Moto X is crapping out. It complains about no SIM once a month. Then I have to shut down. Remove case. Find tool. Remove SIM. Blow on it. Hope I don't drop it. Reassemble. Turn on. Oh, it works. F* you, SIM cards.
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[13:14:09] <exec> 08└─A jump of 1000% is a factor of 11. Since a 1977 dollar is approximately 4 of today's dollars, this makes an effective factor between 2 and 3.
[13:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:10] <exec> 08└─It's Open Source. You can add the controversy on your own.
[13:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:12] <exec> 08└─10x inflation tracks many things: a suburban home, a new car, many smaller items like hardware, wood planks, etc. On the other hand, it's time for textbooks to be replaced with e-versions, whether free or not - and I'm not convinced that non-free textbooks offer much over their more affordable kin....
[13:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:15] <exec> 08└─Since a 1977 dollar is approximately 4 of today's dollars,
[13:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─the problem is the EU needs Britain , more than the EU needs Scotland.
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the fishing rights and EEZ. If Scotland breaks with the UK, then all those fishermen in the NE of England that were so desperate for the removal of EU fishing quotas so they could fish the North Sea to piscine extinction and let their grandkids worry about what to do for a living will h...
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─I'll wager the oil will not go with Scotland independence, and may not even be available. Nationalism 200 years ago, meant using your population to feed, clothe and defend your populations. Nationalism 100 years ago, meant blaming the other guy, for your inability to feed, clothe and defend your pop...
[13:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:45] <exec> 08└─Did you note any effect [wikipedia.org] of the phytoestrogens in liquorice?
[13:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:30] <exec> 08└─so people abuse the system
[13:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:31] <exec> 08└─The car market has failed in that I get to select among 15 buggy failure "smart car" dashboards that take 10 button presses to make the slightest HVAC change and are extremely expensive and unreliable compared to the manual controls I purchased, yet I can't get a cheap dash cam built in OEM standard...
[13:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:33] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just wow. You just defined circular reasoning and straw man in the same post. I'm going to update encyclopedias so they can refer to you from now on. So look, I'm questioning whether some established and taught practice (that I'm well aware of and entirely capable of following) makes sense in t...
[13:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what a process to make poultry moist has to do with this discussion
[13:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:52] <exec> 08└─It only gets renewed once every five years. Which means this is the first vote since snowden.
[13:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:19] <exec> 08└─Still technician error then if the robots next to it should also have been de-energized and locked out. The liability on the employer then depends on how well they trained the employee on the safety procedures and if they were being followed.
[13:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:37] <exec> 08└─It may be a luxury where you live, but in parts of the western world it's become a necessity. No internet means no means of reaching your government or banks. It means less chances for education, getting cheap second-hand appliances or finding a job. It's about time you stop with the lazy poor line....
[13:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the miracle of mass production, the cost of producing a book is lower than the cost of manually photocopying a book. It merely means they're a manufacturing company competing on manufacturing cost, instead of a rights company extracting as much licensing fee from the IP as possible. This i...
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[13:17:32] <exec> 08└─Totally missed the point. The previous article had the "kodi boxes" thing that you are talking about, but this time the quotes from the article GOT IT RIGHT, while the SUMMARY got it wrong.
[13:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Machine Predict Your Death? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:28] <exec> 08└─I believe it's already called a "Kevorkian machine [wikipedia.org]". Warning: disturbing article.
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[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─Just think of the gorgeous rainbow emphasizing a camel-toe. Sublime. Or ridiculous.
[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─... or every time you fart or every time you get excited (male or female).
[14:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:29] <exec> 08└─Armpit stains are bad enough as it is.
[14:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a project (or ten) to make high school level open source textbooks? I can't imagine it would take much effort to cover all the sciences at the very least.
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:01] <exec> 08└─it's not really post brexit when a50 hasn't happened yet. also from my own position, new orders for my business have dried up. all the clients who actually paid well have now lost all their potential profits on the fall of the pound and the stagnation of the general economy which has seriously affec...
[14:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:03] <exec> 08└─Calling it now.
[14:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:05] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they're doing it too rationally. "Oh, let's wait until we know exactly what Brexit is, so that we can talk about it like informed, civilized people and come to a rational conclusion supported by the evidence." That's a bunch of fag talk if I ever imagined any. People with honest...
[14:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:07] <exec> 08└─Wait, the Scottish Nationalists are banking on the support of European migrants to get their Independance? You owe me a new Ironymeter, mine just blew up.
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─What sort of democracy keeps reasking the same question until the political class gets the desired results? The prior time, they had a weak vision of independence -- one that had them keeping the pound. If they fear leaving the EU, why don't they do a reverse independence? Let the rest of the UK go,...
[14:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─I'll wager the oil will not go with Scotland independence
[14:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:40] <exec> 08└─"Exaggerated" is being too kind. This is pure nonsense. There is no indication that any water is actually moving in the tank. If it was flowing through the device, you would be able to see some kind of interference where the hands are in the water. How is the water flowing in the tank? The thing is...
[14:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:14] <exec> 08└─Might be a blessing. If they did build in dashcams the cams would auto-upload to the cloud "for your convenience" and contain no light indicating if the in-car mic was on or not.
[14:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:00] <exec> 08└─Yep. LOTO - lock out tag out procedures are put in place for a reason. And, the tech is expected to exercise some judgement. Sometimes, you HAVE to power something up, to make adjustments - which a lot of so-called safety officers don't understand. But, still, there should be a LOTO precedure in pla...
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[14:17:02] <exec> 08└─"1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." (Can't believe no-one's posted that yet...) In the years since Asimov wrote that, real-life robots have been created — mostly industrial ones like in this story. But I'm not aware of any serious...
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[14:17:21] <exec> 08└─Your analogy lacks something. A prostitute promises his/her services for a fixed price. The prostitute delivers the services, then gets out of your life. The telcos seldom deliver on their best promises, they never get out of your life, and they continue to ask for more and more money, forever, endl...
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[15:13:47] <exec> 08└─If you connect using http://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] you get a "nginx has been successfully installed" page rather than getting redirected to https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─Only for users who aren't logged in.
[15:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:50] <exec> 08└─On the main page, where each story shows "n comments", can we have something like "n comments (m read)" or "n comments (m unread)"?
[15:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:53] <exec> 08└─The tags have links like <a href="//soylentnews.org/meta/search.pl?tid=8" class="topic2">Soylent</a> but the href isn't valid (no https: in it), so the link isn't clickable, so I am sad. Not sure it it's a pre-existing problem or not.
[15:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:04] <exec> 08└─So, basically a mood ring?
[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─It took me waaaay too long to figure out what the original AC was on about.
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─You mean like in this everything2 post from 2002? http://everything2.com [everything2.com]
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─We had fabrics like this back in the 1990s (or was it the 80s?). They made shirts that changed color when they got warm. It was a popular fad for a brief time, and died out quickly. Having a shirt that emphasizes your armpits isn't really attractive.
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─It was in the plot of an episode of an 80s sitcom named "Cheers" where in the last minute of the show someone gets even with one of the waitresses by giving her a really nice color changing sweater that had the word "horny" on her back when it got warm. Or something like that. Anyway given that evid...
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─Or will it take off as a uniform that's white when it's cold, and camouflage pattern when it's hot?
[15:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:52] <exec> 08└─Might I add "Female PM" to that list in order to highlight the fact that history is repeating itself, and it was bad last time
[15:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─Fishermans friend and lakrisal make good ingredients too ;)
[15:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:05] <exec> 08└─Perkele!
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─i just mentioned it because i come across sensational headlines (or videos, like trump mustering a alien invasion) only to have to click AT LEAST 3 click-deep until the real "meat" is revealed, sorta because you have to PAY to see the whole details. one site w/ article links to another and another a...
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:01] <exec> 08└─Er, sorry, excuse me??? The English were using it for, well, titles, before the USA existed! No, I wasn't there... :-) But I am in England, and I see lots of title-case text. Title case is useful: it can identify a title within a sentence without needing additional punctuation. However, I think...
[15:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─No, I wasn't there... :-) But I am in England, and I see lots of title-case text.
[15:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:04] <exec> 08└─He looks young, probably has a gazillion dollars in student loans and an entry level job.
[15:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:06] <exec> 08└─ur mom
[15:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but nitpicky people get grumpy when you end a sentence with a preposition. How about: Cop Says Not to Film Traffic Stop, Citing Made-Up Law, but Lawyer Does Anyway Just make the whole thing more directly S-V-O.
[15:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:11] <exec> 08└─How do you know that it's a second job? There is a surplus of lawyers in the USA, I believe that it can be difficult to find a job unless you graduate from one of the top law schools.
[15:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:58] <exec> 08└─Making it part of a joke (bet) kind of ruins the entire impact of that story.
[15:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:00] <exec> 08└─Forget the damn lockout procedure, this guy didn't even bother to put the thing into friggin' thing into manual...
[15:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK ISPs to Block Set-Top Boxes That Illegally Live-Stream Soccer Matches - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:16] <exec> 08└─I'm pleased to see that the headline, unlike the article, doesn't identify the boxes by one of the bits of software installed on them. Kodi is a simple, extensible media player. (Disclaimer: I use it on my Raspberry Pi for playing movies and TV programmes I recorded or ripped myself. That's my...
[15:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware Found Preinstalled on 38 Android Phones Used by 2 Companies - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:40] <exec> 08└─Riiiiight. The US government is intercepting truckloads of equipment, opening each box up, reprogramming each phone with fairly easily detected malware written by third parties, repackaging without any signs of tampering, and sending them on their way, and of the hundreds or thousands of employees n...
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[16:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─Let's get this out of the way: http://dilbert.com [dilbert.com]
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to picture 4 sided dice: am I just too tired?
[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─Tetrahedral - each side is an equilateral triangle.
[16:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─Probably to tired. They look like little pyramids or if you like tetrahedrons. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier if imagine yourself as a flatlander.
[16:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:36] <exec> 08└─Gaaark outed as never played DnD. You know whats hilarious about D4 is there's D4 with the numbers on the edges and D4 with the numbers on the point and dungeonmaster/gamemasters/wtfmasters will get really pissed off if they're used to one style and a player shows up with the other. Point D4 are rea...
[16:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 2545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─They miss all the fun apps for PRNGs and CSRNGs You can blast a 23 bit register generated pattern down a telecommunications data line thats looped back to detect errors because you know you're sending a specific bit pattern and given the most recently rx bit you can guess the next, and if it doesn't...
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/221/ [xkcd.com] It's even got dice roll in it!
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─I didn't particularly like the previous icons, but I really hate these new ones. What's wrong with a standard +/- type icon.? There are loads of them on http://www.iconarchive.com [iconarchive.com] to choose from - a lot of them are Commercial Free too. Something like : + : http://www.iconarchive.c...
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─Fixed
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, I thought of this, and mentioned it on IRC, but I missed adding it to the list. I"ll add it to the feature requests.
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─I used to be able to click on one + and have all of a comment's replies expanded. I'd like to request that this feature be put back. Frankly, the site appeared to be working perfectly fine as it was. Why muck around with things?
[16:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:14] <exec> 08└─Well the mood rings go back to the 70s or maybe even 60s; those are really old. I disagree about the safety of the 80s shirts though. Things weren't that bad back then. More likely, it was a stupid fad, just like Coca-Cola shirts, "Big Johnson" t-shirts, parachute pants, shoulder pads, etc., and it...
[16:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:15] <exec> 08└─I have seen a harry potter mug [harrypottershop.com] that works sort of like that (not that specific design). It has a heat-sensitive layer that goes from black to clear in the presence of heat. I guess the important question is if it works the same way in the IR spectrum.
[16:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:30] <exec> 08└─Do they come with a compendium 10 times thicker which contains the edit war?
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see any solutions apart (say) from some more terrible natural disaster to unite the populations and realise the world is not a nice place...
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:59] <exec> 08└─The real tragedy here is that the English-speaking areas won't all leave together and stay together. Yes, that means the Republic of Ireland. The problem is historical stupidity involving Henry VIII, Pope Clement VII, a divorce, some farmland, and rotten potatoes. Having a split that lasts today ove...
[16:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─> The last time they lost because the Scottish where told they would not be able to stay in the EU if they voted for independence. That promise is now broken as well. I don't blame them for using it as an excuse to try again. But they have been just told again by the EU that they don't automatically...
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─> What sort of democracy keeps reasking the same question until the political class gets the desired results? The "EU" kind (e.g. the EU kept re-asking the "Accept the Lisbon treaty" question till they got the "right" answer, then stopped). As Sturgeon and co are pro-EU, doesn't surprise me they hav...
[16:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─Good call. A friend linked me a fascinating 2008 documentary [youtube.com] (IMDB [imdb.com]) about his ideas, work, and life a couple months ago. The segment towards the end covers some modern work towards attempting to build an electric generator based on his design. “Die Natur kapieren und kopie...
[16:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─There is a rectangular water tank on the left. He opens a valve, dumping it into a round tank on the right. From there it overflows into an inner tank, and then down through the device. He obviously needs an electric pump to put the water back; he isn't claiming perpetual motion. The alternative wou...
[16:17:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:05] <exec> 08└─Bulgaria here (usually counted in EU, but not always). I didn't get a single traffic stop without a cop making up a law or "rule" trying to scare me in the past 15 years. Everything changed when I put a dashcam - the cop stops me, looks at the windscreen, sees the lens and points me to go, usually b...
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─The car market hasn't completely failed. Go buy a Mazda; the HVAC is completely separate from the infotainment system, and even on the fully-automatic HVAC system it's regular knobs and buttons and pretty easy to use. Avoid any cars that require you to use a touchscreen to adjust the HVAC. That's ju...
[16:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:20] <exec> 08└─Why, back home Muh Mamma used to brine just about everything. Thinks I'll go soaks muh feets in some brine right now.
[16:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:22] <exec> 08└─If they did build in dashcams the cams would auto-upload to the cloud "for your convenience"
[16:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:24] <exec> 08└─Stop brining (half-dead) printing industry practices to Internet.
[16:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:26] <exec> 08└─Also, it should be noted that a lot of lawyers don't actually make boatloads of money. Public defenders are a standard example [chron.com]. (In case you don't want to click the link, it says that median salaries for beginning public defenders in 2010 was $47,500.) And there are other areas of law wh...
[16:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:29] <exec> 08└─Cop Says Not to Film Traffic Stop, Citing Made-Up Law, but Lawyer Does Anyway--you'll never guess what happens next
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─Will those Laws (or something roughly equivalent) start to find a place in our robots (industrial or otherwise)?
[16:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─The real power OSHA has isn't in fines. It is the fact that they can shut down your operation if they believe truly willful disregard for employees is taking place. OSHA, MSHA and the like can shut down a plant, mine, factory, etc. until they are convinced things are under control and managed to the...
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─Should be some sort of temporary removal of energy control policy to handle such situations.
[16:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:42] <exec> 08└─Because it might work. -- cheers, ben
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─Internet access is no more a luxury than any other utility in the modern world. In many markets most job postings are on the internet, I know my company hasn't used dead tree advertising for job openings in nearly 10 years. All job apps are online, I guess you could print them out, but ... wow ... y...
[16:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─I completely agree that we've had significant changes in most fields. On the other hand, there are still instances where a textbook (or significant portions of a textbook) from a century ago could still be more than adequate. Most math classes except for really advanced math majors, for example. A l...
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─Going beyond standard media limitations was generally an exercise of the drive itself vs. the FDC; even the PC AT could theoretically go beyond the standard limitations via the commands in the FDC. A drive built "within" tolerances should always work with standard gap sizes, but if you decreased the...
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[17:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:36] <exec> 08└─This was really cool and I'm glad it was shared here. The comments so far are great to read, too. And pulling up the book of numbers on Amazon leads to the chance to read some very interesting and funny reviews! I actually once printed five pages of random digits off of random.org and saved them for...
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you see, but I see exactly a "+" resp. "-" icon; the main difference from those linked by you being that they are black on white instead of white on black (and frankly, black on white looks better IMHO). The only thing I don't like is that they are now too large. I liked the size o...
[17:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:54] <exec> 08└─The comment coding had to be extensively rewritten because we were getting up to 1m load times on the backend without caching on articles with more than 50 or so comments. See the first or second post in the series which goes into the technical reasons why the system was replaced.
[17:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:56] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you are seeing, but I'm seeing the same as your example, aside from size and color.
[17:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─For me they work just fine. And I always thought the browser was supposed to auto-fill the missing initial part anyway (so the omission of the protocol actually means that the link works on both http and https, leading you to the same type of protocol for the target as the one used for the current p...
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a number for each threshold. This would be especially helpful with slow browsers and slow connections. For example: 3 8 22 46 91 or 93 comments (the "3" is score 5, the "91" is score 0, the "93" is score -1)
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─a href=// is valid by spec, it means use the same protocol as this page was loaded on. It was a holdover from when we supported both HTTP and HTTPS before fully switching over to the later. Which browser is choking? Those links work right in both Chrome and Firefox. The themes haven't been edited be...
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─This would not make a difference. We changed how comment are sent and any threshold level will yield the same download speed. We limit file size with the pagination of comments.
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─The problem with the current icons seems to be that they've been antialiased for a low resolution display, so on a high-DPI screen they just look blurry.
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a number for each threshold. This would be especially helpful with slow browsers and slow connections. For example: 3 8 22 46 91 or 93 comments (the "3" is score 5, the "91" is score 0, the "93" is score -1)
[17:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 1987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:28] <exec> 08└─You know, the 80s didn't seem that tasteless back when I was in them, probably because we spent so much time being thankful we were no longer in the 60s or 70s. But, in retrospect, that stuff in your list was pretty WTF. Not as bad as the 70s, but bad indeed. Another 80s thing was kids in the midwes...
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:30] <exec> 08└─We had fabrics like this back in the 1990s (or was it the 80s?).
[17:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:32] <exec> 08└─The 70s were a weird time. The styles were horrible: men's hairstyles made them look like apes, clothes were pretty ugly overall (remember patent leather jackets and disco-wear?), and American cars looked horrifically awful. But the music was amazing, at least the rock was (Led Zeppelin, etc.). I do...
[17:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─What sort of democracy keeps reasking the same question until the political class gets the desired results?
[17:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─Thatcher didn't suck because she was a woman; she sucked because she was Margaret Thatcher. Let's not be stupid here.
[17:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:39] <exec> 08└─Huh. I hadn't noticed the weird casing in the titles. I guess that's why I usually feel more inclined to skip it and read the summary instead first.
[17:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:40] <exec> 08└─...or: Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop, Citing Made-Up Law, Says Not To
[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, the current library standard is to use sentence case for titles when cataloging--I've done that for so long now that typing in title case feels awkward. I now tend to use sentence case for titles in writing, setting out the titles with underlining, italics or quotes, depending on the...
[17:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to adjust the High Voltage Alternating Current? My old truck just has an ignition switch which enables converting the LVDC to HVDC using a coil.
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:23] <exec> 08└─I like the track you're on here. God Emperor Orange is some sort of Seldon Crisis for our civilization to overcome.
[17:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Changes Our Understanding of Who Built Ancient Silk Roads - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─It also happens that the longer road attracted the most people by being safer, and therefore got the most maintenance, improvements, and more traveler facilities. Until you get to reliable cars which can go hundreds of kilometers, you're gonna stay on the road where an incident won't leave you stran...
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[17:22:01] <exec> 08└─Thank you for fixing this issue.
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[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─People should define largest...(size, collecting area, power of photons usefully collected ?) This is definitely not the largest earth bound astronomical telescope...In shear size lots of the radio astronomy instruments beat it. In collecting area too. Optical interferometers like the VLT etc have a...
[18:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─They spend all that time, energy, and money building a better telescope - on earth. How 'bout they design the biggest, bestest, state of the art telescope, and send it into space? Yeah, it would be damned expensive. The necessity of launching the components into space would require that they be pret...
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─Can't. Those thieving Mexicans and towel heads, who certainly aren't migrants (nor is Mexican or towel head a race!), are stealing our space stuff.
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:45] <exec> 08└─It's not an either-or situation. They do both, typically (I'm looking at you Hawaii) only time and money restricting.
[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:47] <exec> 08└─Considering the budget and delays of both Hubble and Webb, and the short lifespan of the latter (if it doesn't blow up on the way), I can understand why the safe bet of the Atacama is the favored choice. It would make sense to assemble a few telescope modules on the other side of the moon, which giv...
[18:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─I've got half a dozen D4, of both types. So do my friends, and in our decades of RPGing, none of us has ever heard of anyone arguing about which type someone should throw. Must be a local custom.
[18:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─Build your own, if you're into that kind of thing. [makezine.com] Sounds pretty similar to Turing's device though I read the article a while ago and only re-skimmed it now...
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─I still have a couple of those yellow caltrops left from my 1st ed. D&D dice sets--the edges and corners wore off all the rest of the dice, but those D4s can still punch a hole in your foot these decades later...
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─The only arguments/complaints I've seen are about barrel dice.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─D4's - my favorite use for them was as caltrops thrown in from of my sister's bedroom door >:-)
[18:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─Er .... that was thrown IN FRONT OF not thrown from ( steps away from keyboard & heads back to coffee maker )......
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:16] <exec> 08└─I remember learning the distinction between pseudorandom and random numbers back in my first stone age programming class. I never really understood the need for the former, as my concern was more with programming character generators and combat tables. Man...I was so proud of myself when I figured o...
[18:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:42] <exec> 08└─Regarding Known Bug #10: Some people are still having issues with previously-seen comments' dimming. Not so much that they are dimmed, but in how they are dimmed. Maybe dim the only the title? Maybe change the color?
[18:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:44] <exec> 08└─I'll add my thanks to the Dev team. It certainly helps considerably to have 'Meta' postings explaining why certain changes have been made. While I might dislike some of the changes, when I understand why they have been made, it makes them more palatable. I am also very happy that some of the snazzy...
[18:16:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:40] <exec> 08└─Calling it now.
[18:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, it does not have to approve the Referendum, but refusing it would not be a wise thing to do.
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─Most people aren't into religion, unless you count the Muslim invasion, and it's been decades since The Troubles.
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─Brussels may be eager to keep Scotland as a giant FU to England, and to show other separatist areas that the EU is still attractive. "If the Scots are ready to break their link with England to stay with us, why would you leave?" Given the political trends in the Netherlands and France, plus Cataloni...
[18:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─All democracies should in light of new evidence. The propaganda against Brexit was absurd essentially suggesting that if it passes it would be the end of the world. Yet once it passed very little changed. Well actually the stock market soared to record highs. In any case, none of the doomsday predic...
[18:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:34] <exec> 08└─Images on posts? I believe I speak for everyone here when I say fuck that and fuck you.
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:36] <exec> 08└─Let's reinvent the waterwheel, shall we?
[18:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─I didn't see that at all. You have better eyes than I do. I didn't think he was claiming perpetual motion, just that he could get more energy out of the water than what was there to begin with and his explanation is not very complete. Generators (many DIY) that work off of a moving stream have been...
[18:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─As am I, but the examples you see are imported. You might want to read a style guide written in England. They all recommend against it.
[18:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why this is even surprising. Cops lie to suspects all the time. They have no legal obligation to tell the truth. (While we're at it, they have no legal obligation to protect you if you're in danger. They have no legal obligation to respond to any emergency. Even if they demonstrate gros...
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─Should be, but things usually aren't done that way. Our robots are powered separately from the machines they service. There are safety switches that are supposed to prevent robot movement if the machine isn't turned on and running, but those safeties can be bypassed in order to work on the robot. A...
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─Open the HEAD CRUSHING pod bay doors HAL.
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It's the employer's responsibility to ensure their employees follow the Lock-Out-Tag-Out policy (which makes it impossible for equipment to activate while work is happening). However, it takes an employee to ignore that policy for an incident like this to happen.
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, you HAVE to power something up, to make adjustments In my experience, they don't like to follow the Arc-Flash policy for those situations, either.
[18:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:16] <exec> 08└─College libraries won't let you copy the 3 pages you need from books to complete that small assignment. When I was a kid copying pages from library books was routine and nobody thought anything of it. Recently I went to an OfficeMax to run off copies of my degree (so I could have copies for intervie...
[18:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:18] <exec> 08└─When I was in grad school in the 90s, all the Indian students had copies of the physics textbooks they got from India. The books were all blatant photocopies done by a company who bound them up in paperback form and sold them for something like $5 to $10. I don't think this issue was about anyone co...
[18:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:20] <exec> 08└─Most phones (let alone real cameras, and obviously scanners) now come with enough megapixels that refusing to copy something just means you're going to print a picture of it. As a bonus, the NSA has to hack your computer to get it, rather than simply grab the hard drive in the copy machine.
[18:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photocopying Textbooks is Fair Use in India - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, this one right here -- in new America's preschool-themed "everybody gets a medal for showing up to the race" degrees are handed out similarly, especially now because it's racist to give people failing grades or not allow them to arbitrarily skip exams because "stress from the election" or whate...
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[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─It concerns me that they cars will need, or even want, this. I would feel a lot more comfortable if the car could see and navigate the road based on active telemetry instead of cached telemetry. This all feels like it's going in the wrong direction.
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─Something falls out of the truck in from of me. I see it and could stop if I were driving. But the car is driving and the thing is not on the map. The point is that the car needs to sense this stuff and adjust. If it can do that, then the map need not be so critical.
[19:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:28] <exec> 08└─The wrong direction, indeed -- governmental assassination machines rode by the willing.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─It's probably all good in the end. This way, people who otherwise would have driven into a lake or off a cliff by hypnotically obeying the GPS voice can instead blame the car when it does the exact same thing.
[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─The OP is right to be concerned. What happens when a "map mistake" leads cars to drive through my backyard or worse? A car using sensors and a basic understanding of what a road should look like would avoid those situations. More detailed maps are not the answer.
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─How many times do we have to mention adaptive optics? It's not a new concept. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] An adaptive optics system tries to correct these distortions, using a wavefront sensor which takes some of the astronomical light, a deformable mirror that lies...
[19:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─Or leech off John Walker's Hotbits: http://fourmilab.ch [fourmilab.ch] which he says are really random from a radioactive source, but I haven't been there, so what do I know?
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─I remember learning the distinction between pseudorandom and random numbers back in my first stone age programming class. I never really understood the need for the former, as my concern was more with programming character generators and combat tables.
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:12] <exec> 08└─It's worth a look:
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not familiar with those. Are they the dice you use when doing a barrel roll?
[19:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:40] <exec> 08└─Went to "messages" and clicked on my own posts, to read the responses under them. Sometimes, you want to look back at the previous portion of the conversation, so you click "parent" - and got an error to the effect that "message not found". I just attempted to reproduce that, and it failed to reprod...
[19:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:42] <exec> 08└─I'm using latest Safari (10.0.3)on Mac 10.12.3
[19:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:44] <exec> 08└─The problem with the current icons seems to be that they've been antialiased for a low resolution display, so on a high-DPI screen they just look blurry.
[19:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:46] <exec> 08└─Perhaps just unbolding read comments would suffice.
[19:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:22] <exec> 08└─From the summary: Some professors at this university have already made the switch to OERs. Lecturer Scott Roberts made an online textbook for PSYC100: Introduction to Psychology in 2010 after he became annoyed with new editions of the published textbook--which he said essentially contained the same...
[19:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:24] <exec> 08└─it's time for textbooks to be replaced with e-versions, whether free or not
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe some controversies have made it in to satisfy people who don't like history glossing over the negatives, but make no mistake: big education companies are shaping curriculum for the worse.
[19:16:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:46] <exec> 08└─it's not really post brexit when a50 hasn't happened yet. also from my own position, new orders for my business have dried up. all the clients who actually paid well have now lost all their potential profits on the fall of the pound and the stagnation of the general economy which has seriously affec...
[19:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:04] <exec> 08└─since there will be retaliation for leaving.
[19:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:05] <exec> 08└─The money to exploit the North Sea oilfields was not provided by Scotland, but by the UK. The whole of the UK has a stake in those resources, they are not Scotland's to simply claim. Similarly with fishing rights. Scotland can claim out to 12 nm of the coast, but the rest of the water is still a res...
[19:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:07] <exec> 08└─The childish answer is because people are pissed at the Brits always bitching about the EU while enjoying the benefits. The real answer was in my previous line: to dissuade a long list of others from leaving, and protect the integration which, for all its faults, has been beneficial overall. Right a...
[19:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:09] <exec> 08└─British army lead me to believe that the cream of their fighting force comes from Scotland
[19:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:12] <exec> 08└─The majority didn't seem to value the 'benefits' that you seem to think are so good. We are paying in far more than we get back, although the pro-Brexiteers claims were simply ridiculous and didn't bear close scrutiny. To follow on from the remainder of your comment (thank you, by the way), if the E...
[19:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:14] <exec> 08└─Stop being a knee-jerk SJW. Care to point out the exact words where I assert that Thatcher was bad because she was female? Clue - you can't because I did't say that. I said she was a woman, and she was bad for the country (or at least its middle and lower classes, which is the majority of it, or for...
[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the innovation here is that his bladeless turbine can operate at very low pressure differences and flow rates - such as you might find in a small stream, rather than requiring fast-moving rivers or large dams. I.e. it's not some innovation that's going to replace large-scale...
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:45] <exec> 08└─It serves absolutely no purpose.
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─But title case is a half-dead printing industry practice. It doesn't matter if it predates printing originally. It's pointlessness has nothing to do with its origins.
[19:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:48] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping against hope that you're not an American.
[19:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:50] <exec> 08└─With your poor phrasing I'm left to interpret... "abuse the system" refers to Uber bypassing local taxi laws / regulations? Even if I agree with you that Uber is somehow abusing the system, I still don't see how the drivers are the ones abusing the system. That is just some level of bonkers projecti...
[19:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:52] <exec> 08└─Support the weakening of their single-word non-trademarked moniker by calling their Graphical OS "Windoze" instead.
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─Why is it that the English always want to blame bad habits on "imported Americanisms," when 90% of the time the practices originated in England?
[19:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─There are better ways to specify titles within text - italics and quotes get used on Wikipedia, albeit in odd ways sometimes. "Classic" episodes of Doctor Who get formatted one way, post-2005 episodes another. No idea why.
[19:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─your English professor comma upon seeing poorly written and formatted text comma should have returned such work to you
[19:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:01] <exec> 08└─No-one's doing that.
[19:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─Oop.
[19:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:05] <exec> 08└─Different AC here, but I'm wondering if GP meant instead that the drivers have sort of used Uber's "hey beer money on the side gig" offer and distorted it into a replacement for an actual full time job. I don't know if the implication is that the drivers are greedy, lazy slobs or whatever who are to...
[19:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:07] <exec> 08└─Gradient background makes it damn easy to identify a title, though. If you want to argue about being usable without styling there are H# HTML elements and SN happens to use them.
[19:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:09] <exec> 08└─Says the person who uses the term "grown-up" rather than "adult". Have you not noticed that people also call it "Windoze" - it's in both wiktionary and the Jargon File? It doesn't matter how much you want us to call it "Windows", people say "Windoze", so, using *your own logic*, say "Windoze".
[19:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:12] <exec> 08└─I half never herd someone say "Windoze", but I have scene them right it. Wait, did I say something wrong?
[19:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:14] <exec> 08└─Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop, Citing Made-Up Law, Forbids/Proscribes it?
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─The land of the fucked, home of the shorn. Big brother is fucking you. Too bad Canada is such a close neighbour: we hate your sloppy seconds.
[19:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─For interested readers - http://msamc.org [msamc.org] We don't even have an arc-flash policy. As a rule, we throw the doors open, and everyone in maintenance crowds around, looking over each other's shoulders. In the event of a flash, the entire maintenance dep...
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:13] <exec> 08└─Good on you for recognizing the content of the GP comment. OTOH, it's disappointing that people are allowed to mod something down to -1, Offtopic without knowing Morse Code. [macao.communications.museum] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:16] <exec> 08└─That's one opinion. Many recognize the link to Dukakis and how the Democrats (and the other big party, for that matter) manage to find candidates who can only recite a set of memorized positions and who are unable to think on their feet and, more importantly, as noted by Toby's "it's barely human!"...
[19:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:18] <exec> 08└─FTFS: Wanda Holbrook -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:20] <exec> 08└─In their defense, it is obfuscated.
[19:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:42] <exec> 08└─US ISPs are like the ugly diseased-looking prostitute left standing after the pimp wars. If you want that service without having to move, it's gonna cost you more than it should be worth (and is elsewhere), not allow choice or control, have obvious flaws you need to actively ignore all along, and wi...
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[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, and I would be willing to bet the manufacturers design their system with this mentality also. However accurate maps are another level of navigation, and ensuring the map agrees with what the sensors are seeing validates the correct path. The article deals with how companies are mapping roads wi...
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─Simply buy an object like a huge cock shaped statue to place within a few meters of the road and share with the neighbors. Every few days, relocate the cock to a different location, the cars will get confused (is the intersection 200 meters or 210 meters from the huge cock?) and hey, you will have a...
[20:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:36] <exec> 08└─How is this any different than your own commute home? Don't you remember everything from previous trips? So on rainy or foggy or snowy days you still have a much better idea where you are, where the road is, where the lanes are, etc than people who don't use that road much? Of course you should be a...
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─At least 50% odds I saw this on zerohedge but maybe somewhere else, I saw the most recent dashcam of the most recent autonomous vehicle crash and the cars cameras were tricked by a very gray concrete sky plus gray concrete barriers closing a lane and the car stayed in its lane and drove right into t...
[20:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─How 'bout they design the biggest, bestest, state of the art telescope, and send it into space?
[20:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:20] <exec> 08└─The wikipedia article on long dice [wikipedia.org] has a decent picture of them. They're definitely a bit confusing the first time you see them.
[20:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:22] <exec> 08└─I remember a professor back in uni describing random number generation, and bringing up the book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. As he described it, not the most fascinating read, except for one racy part that reads "696969 74".
[20:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:24] <exec> 08└─Got some of those, but if they are not perfectly made (balanced), they're useless above 10 sides.
[20:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:56] <exec> 08└─However, I find bright text or high contrast between text and background almost painful to read
[20:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:36] <exec> 08└─Howard Zinn is best known for his 1980 book "A People's History of the United States". [historyisaweapon.com] In writing it, he used references not normally used. He mentions e.g. how Europeans invaded (not "discovered") the Western Hemisphere and immediately started enslaving, abusing, and murderin...
[20:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:38] <exec> 08└─The fact that the cost is going up faster than inflation is not a big deal. The real problem is the content. You would think that the education world would have figured out the best way to teach some things like math. But if this were true, then an old textbook would be as good as a new one. Which w...
[20:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:40] <exec> 08└─N.B. It bugs me when I encounter the term "Open Source" applied to things which don't have source code. I do wish that people would stop trying to glom onto the term and its increasing popularity and would instead find the correct term for the project being described. ("Open License" is broad enough...
[20:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The scale, for as long as I've been alive, has been "least bad". Jim Hacker^W^WJohn Major was probably the closest to neutrality on that scale. I'll pin my colours to the mast and say that probably the only good PM would have been John Smith. He was Modern-Old, but not New. I might well be v...
[20:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:24] <exec> 08└─Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wan...
[20:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:26] <exec> 08└─Hmm. Lets look at exchange rates and stock markets for a moment, shall we? Sterling Effective Exchange Rate Index (the 'Trade weighted index, with Jan 2005=100) (XUDLBK67 on Bank of England website) 23 Jun 2016: 87.9268 13 Mar 2017: 76.1837 (down 13.4%) FTSE 100 - from London Stock Exchange website...
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─The oil output of the Scottish oil fields has been diminishing since the 1970's, and it's quite low at the present with no hope of recovery. At least half, and possibly three quarters, of all the oil has been taken already. Oil prices have plunged and are hovering around $50; Scotland probably needs...
[20:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:31] <exec> 08└─Here's an exercise for you - work out the difference between "You're wrong and your are a grotesquely ugly freak" and "You're wrong because you are a grotesquely ugly freak".
[20:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:33] <exec> 08└─Is your experience dated? There are far fewer Scottish Infantry Regts than there once were.
[20:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 2050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:35] <exec> 08└─While there is no question that the richest countries pay more than they get back (same for US states), they do pay their access to the biggest market in the world. The middle-class gets shafted as their jobs move to Poland/Romania/Bulgaria ([Mexico]), but the companies do pocket most of the profits...
[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─If they have to punish countries for leaving to prevent others from doing the same, isn't that already a sign things aren't great? Shouldn't it be better IN the EU so countries won't WANT to leave? If you have to directly make things hard on a country to "set an example" that signals to me that it i...
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─I noticed this bit - "one symptom of which is muscular weakness" - mostly via the symptoms of a hindered and irregular gate, and later a supine-dominant posture.
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Fisu's already available pre-mixed though. "Fisherman's Shot" I believe the bottle says. I wouldn't know, I've never been able to read the label.
[20:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:26] <exec> 08└─Theoretically, with my RP accent, the 'ow' in 'Windows' is a glide /əʊ/, but the 'o' in "Windoze" is a simple /ō/. In practice, to, or from, a moron in a hurry, they're indistinguishable, but it's not hard to make the difference clear if so desired.
[20:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:27] <exec> 08└─Cleanse civilization with nuclear fire and maybe try again in a thousand years or so.
[20:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but nitpicky people get grumpy when you end a sentence with a preposition.
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:31] <exec> 08└─Typographic convention is italics for names of works in your example titles. I try to always use the ASCII equivalent. If you mention /Mr and Mrs Smith/, you are referring to the movie and resumably, /Lark Rise to Candleford/ is a TV series. People who like HTML in their posts can, I am led to belie...
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─Says the person who uses the term "grown-up" rather than "adult".
[20:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:36] <exec> 08└─I am in no way fluent in Morse. I'm merely aware of its existence and know only two phrases: SOS and YYZ ;). Even I caught that it was probably Morse. Disappointing to see it on this board of all places at -1. I'll log in and bump you up to zero at least.
[20:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:38] <exec> 08└─Also - does this mean that escalators should stop working? Cars refusing to drive less than a few miles?
[20:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:40] <exec> 08└─When I was but 12, a theater's deal with the junior high school; was run once a month, a film, a classical jewel. One had a scene I really remember. 'Twas a military town, South, in December. Things were quite regimented, conformist to boot. (You never would have guessed that, am I right, you fruit)...
[20:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─Actually most SCSI controllers, with system-level BIOS ("visible" in 1st meg. real-mode memory map), honor standard AT (MFM/RLL) system BIOS calls, so no special drivers needed. And you can toggle DOS (legacy) CHS translation- certainly in most Adaptec controllers. (I have some SCSI controllers whic...
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[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─Someone should sink it. It's traditional.
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─Does China care? They'll just keep doing as they're doing, expanding islands and building bases in the area and ignoring all the sabre rattling. Expand, build, ignore. It's going to take Japan or the US going and building a base on one of those islands as well: then see if China responds or not. Non...
[21:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─The Japs are a determined fighting force of extraordinary magnitude, itching for Nanking 2.0. If you thought the Okas were bad, wait until they get their suicide pilots behind explosives-laden 747s. " B-but they could just build big suicide drones..."
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:31] <exec> 08└─Rare-Earth metals. When the Chinese get their grubby hands on all the world's rare-earth metals, they will have everyone by the balls. Meanwhile, America shut down their only rare-earth mine only to re-open it [gizmodo.com] fairly recently.
[21:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─FYI, this ship is a helicopter destroyer. This means no turrets like the destroyers of WWII, but rather it has surface to air missiles and point defense against anti-ship missiles. More importantly, it has 5 helicopter landing pads, useful for the primary role of anti-submarine warfare and the secon...
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─Simple solution (well, maybe not that simple): Asteroid mining. You can probably find all kinds of rare-earth minerals in asteroids. We'd need to develop the infrastructure to prospect and capture them, and then mine them in orbit and transport the refined ores down to Earth. But if there's a lot of...
[21:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:38] <exec> 08└─I'm definitely more worried about Trump having an impulsive moment than about any of the others crossing a line they can't walk back. I also wish they would stop calling the US meddling "freedom of navigation". Ships can go through the disputed waters without any problems. The only ones bumping head...
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:40] <exec> 08└─You say ships can go through, but this isn't real unless you do it. If you are afraid or otherwise inhibited, then you have accepted the territorial claim and no longer really dispute it. As best you're still whining. We do this all around the world, except for a weird agreement with Canada. We did...
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:42] <exec> 08└─The Chinese want the islands, and the exclusive fishing and mining rights around them. I may have missed every single report that random cargo ships weren't allowed "freedom of navigation" nearby, but it doesn't fit the Chinese needs, so why would they bother?
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─Along the lines of sharing data, there is some interest in self-driving cars platooning (drafting, tailgating) on the freeway to get better fuel mileage. But you wouldn't want to join a platoon where one car had a bad tire that might go flat. So the next step is for all the cars to share around thei...
[21:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:00] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, this is exactly what common people fail to understand. Driving visually, as humans do, is extremely complicated. Even the most powerful computers do relatively poor visual recognition and will always be completely incapable of making real judgments. A system like this would be very la...
[21:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:46] <exec> 08└─Looking back on it, I am forced to wonder how that poor TRS-80 determined "true random" numbers, given the difficulty of generating truly random numbers and the limitations of the hardware and software of the time.. (Just looked it up--apparently the function returned a "more-or-less random" value b...
[21:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:20] <exec> 08└─I second that. Great job people. Thanks for all your effort, time, sweat, tears, ...
[21:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:21] <exec> 08└─You finally broke something WRT the Degrades Gracefully paradigm. (I don't download any CSS.) Something containing label class="commentTreeHider" will display the comment subject twice on the same line (duplicating what is mated with label class="commentHider"). . Typo spotted in summary: s/feeback/...
[21:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:55] <exec> 08└─> if the EU has to resort to threats and intimidation If put that way, it sounds pretty bad. But the same thing could be put as "if you start a book club and you sell the books to non-members for 1 EUR, but to members for 2 EUR, you will not have many members" it's just common sense. The other part...
[21:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:57] <exec> 08└─The money to exploit the North Sea oilfields was not provided by Scotland, but by the UK.
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:59] <exec> 08└─AKA Airstrip One
[21:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:01] <exec> 08└─Shut your condescending mouth, Phil. I know very well what an ad-hom is, thank you *very* much. If you look at my posts closely, I make sure to insult people *in addition* to pointing out why they are wrong, not saying they are wrong *because* of $INSULT. In this case, for example, you are wrong bec...
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─There are only 3 1/2 big EU countries supporting all the small ones. If Britain leaves, there will only be 2 1/2 big countries, and 1 of those is Germany and is not happy about paying for all the rest.
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─As I already replied above, people are angry for many reasons, some homegrown, some EU-based, some totally foreign, and leaving is he easiest knee-jerk reaction but not the wisest. The extent of "punishments" for someone leaving is limited to treating them no better than Somalia on trade/customs/imm...
[21:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:59] <exec> 08└─The ambiguity I mentioned isn't removed by your reordering. And looking at your replacement, it seems that it's rather the removal of ambiguity that requires bending of the language.
[21:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:00] <exec> 08└─They can't give legal advice but they often do. But I could be wrong, as you know I am not a lawyer.
[21:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:30] <exec> 08└─The past is done and gone, don't bring it up unless it is actually relevant. As in, did anyone mention Obama? Did anyone say Democrats would have fixed AT&T? No? Then shaddup with your wimpy defense of Agent Orange.
[21:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:32] <exec> 08└─Blame the victims! It is their own damn fault they are broke!! So, if it is a poor person's fault for being born into a bad situation and they must work to pull themselves out of it, then what should we do with the spoiled brats who are given everything? Elect them president? Your world view is too...
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3) - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─CHS translation only works if your kernel talks to the BIOS. Xenix directly talks to the the I/O port interface for ATA; that's why we had to patch it to be less idiotic back in part one to get it work on modern hardware. There's no support for V8086 mode, and Xenix setups the GDT very very early in...
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[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:26] <exec> 08└─Finally, a first step. I do wonder how this got published,though. Eventually, "catastrophic anthropogenic global warming" will finally have been debunked. Mostly natural, some CO2, but - who would have guessed - natural systems are dominated by negative feedback. My only regret will be that there wi...
[22:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:28] <exec> 08└─You do understand that this study is saying that MOST of the loss is caused by AGW, right?
[22:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─*Ohka Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:46] <exec> 08└─The only reason China's the main exporter for those is that it's currently cheaper to have them do the mining, we have plenty of that stuff ourselves. 'Rare' in 'rare' earth is a misnomer, it doesn't mean that it's rare, just that it's rare as opposed to other kinds of dirt.
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─"Oriental women" That's like something an 80 year old man says. Holy shit you're a dick dude. My (asian) wife is probably the nicest person I've ever met.
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:51] <exec> 08└─B8. Did I hit?
[22:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─Agreed. And same here: my Japanese girlfriend is also probably the nicest person I've ever met.
[22:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:11] <exec> 08└─Shonash Ravine? The bridge hasn't collapsed in 1985, so we'll be fine. You're just not thinking 4th dimensionally.
[22:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:13] <exec> 08└─Driving based on cameras is stupid anyway. Use radars, or echolocation, or something like that. Maybe combine with cameras for greater accuracy, but for the love of Cthulu, don't rely exclusively on visual data.
[22:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:28] <exec> 08└─And when it does, you'll have something to write an article about. Of course, our poorly educated modern journalists will be unable to write intelligently about any discoveries from this telescope, so this is probably the best we'll get. At least they used meters instead of school buses to describe...
[22:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:29] <exec> 08└─Also in the pipeline European Extremely Large Telescope [wikipedia.org] - segmented, primary mirror of 39.3m (vs 24.5m Magellan - the collecting area is roughly 2.6 bigger), with a secondary monolithic mirror 4.2m diameter and a curved [wikipedia.org] tertiary mirror 3.8m in diameter; to provide ima...
[22:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:02] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty the motivation and common use case for PRNG isn't to reproduce "randomness" for testing, but rather to supply enough good randomness (potentially cryptographically secure) out of the small amount of "real" randomness available to most computing devices. Cool fact: /dev/urandom and /dev/ra...
[22:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:38] <exec> 08└─Someone seems to have moved UTC back by 5 hours, at least as far as mod point distribution time is concerned. Anyone else seeing this?
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:39] <exec> 08└─Re: click to collapse/expand titles. Love it. A note: there's a "gutter" a few pixels high at the bottom of the clickable area. If I click the bottom of a title, and the UI collapses, I can't click again to expand without moving the mouse. The height of the clickable area (and position) should be th...
[22:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:42] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should dial down on the brightness or contrast of your monitor.
[22:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:44] <exec> 08└─I like using the "Grayscale" theme, but if you try to reply with it active, you get to type unreadable, almost black, text into a black box. (Both subject and comment)
[22:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:46] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with SVG icons?
[22:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:48] <exec> 08└─Instead of image based, why not just text? That should get the same rendering treatment than the phrases, titles, etc.
[22:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:21] <exec> 08└─We are even better. A lot of modern fleet management systems here include (pretty cheap, it's EU w/ it's near total 3G/4G coverage) video upload feature so the cops are already used to it. Trucks, buses, taxis and a lot of unbranded cars have them installed. Sorry, officer, I cannot delete it and I...
[22:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:22] <exec> 08└─Here, cops have much less "qualified immunity" than in US and a lot of cases when they have to tell the truth or at least have a damn good reason not to. They lie anyways. They also have a lot of cases when they DO have a legal obligation to protect you when you are in danger. They sometimes do. Tha...
[22:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:53] <exec> 08└─Because it DOES work. Ogden, UT got tired of Clearwire fucking them over and refusing to cover that last mile. So they built a community fiber network and invited any ISP that wants to use to do so. Clearwire refused, 4 other ISP's decided to play. It worked, very well. The ISP's compete with each o...
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[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─No :) Meanwhile Antarctica keeps growing and growing and growing...
[23:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:08] <exec> 08└─natural systems are dominated by negative feedback
[23:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:10] <exec> 08└─Growing indeed - for some values of growing*. Mainly by the mean of cracks [bbc.com] and iceberg shedding. * like "apparent area". All the while the thickness is decreasing and the thinning will accelerate with the gradual loss of the ice shelves (the stuff which keeps the continental ice from flowi...
[23:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:12] <exec> 08└─Then read again: Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30–50 percent of the overall decline
[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─As I said, a first step. Now, it's 30% to 50%. Next year, it will be raised. Is the planet warming? Of course it is. Is CO2 a greenhouse gas? Sure it is, if a rather minor one. Is the climate dominated by positive feedback, so that a minor greenhouse gas has huge effects? Nope, that doesn't - and ne...
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─Wow, not sure what you are sniffing but you probably should stop.
[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─All aboard the clueless train!! CHOO CHOOOOOO
[23:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:40] <exec> 08└─Also agreed. Amusingly, the GP's racially bent rant has enough holes in it to sink a large Japanese warship. I get the grumpy old man thing*, but geeze, he'd have to have served in WWII for that screed to make any kind of sense. * I want him off my lawn! :)
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─He's acting. Eth is a professional (well, "professional") troll, and I doubt he believes even a tenth of the stuff he says. He does it for the attention and what I am reliably informed are referred to as "teh lulz." Is he a sick bastard? Kinda, but unlike several other people i can name, he probably...
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:18] <exec> 08└─They mean optical telescope. There are lots of ways to measure a telescope's size - resolving power, field of view, etendue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue), collecting area, etc.
[23:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:19] <exec> 08└─If you're willing to wait till it's ready, SpaceX's ITS (previously MCT) may be the most economical choice -- with 12m diameter stages and a maximum diameter of 17m for the intended spaceship, a cargo fairing of 20m might be feasible, and it will lift 300t to LEO in fully reusable (=cheap) mode. Sti...
[23:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:33] <exec> 08└─This is what I see - https://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[23:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:35] <exec> 08└─This is what I see - https://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[23:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:37] <exec> 08└─Buy a 56k modemDownload CSSEnjoy!
[23:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:58] <exec> 08└─The first time our daughter saw a photo of my wife and me at a college party in 1971, she burst into laughter and asked what our costumes were. The 70's fashions thankfully disappeared but I am still listening to the music.
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:20] <exec> 08└─As Bill Gates once said: paper has several hundred years of development, computers are still playing catch-up. As for layout of graphics, that's all done on computer, the problem is formatting for small screens, and some content just doesn't lend itself that well to small screen display. As for that...
[23:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:22] <exec> 08└─It's an old, well developed, deeply entrenched game, one that should be nearing the end of its run. Already in my professional life I have gone from having 50' of library shelves in my office to being 100% reference "book" free, but with easier access to far more than 50' of curated library content...
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─What broken promise? "Not being an EU member after independence" does not imply that "not having independence guarantees remaining an EU member". Both the independence referendum and the EU referendum were a long time in coming. While not finalised by the time of the independence referendum, the EU...
[23:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:35] <exec> 08└─This. I discovered it with Glenmorangie Lasanta, which is rather... characteristic.... Chewed a Terva Leijona and had a sip of the whisky, and all of a sudden it was this wonderful, smooth drink.
[23:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:02] <exec> 08└─but aruba said they would be feeeelthy, dirrrrrrty pictures ! ! !
[23:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:19] <exec> 08└─Finally, a highly commented article and it's mostly off topic. Moonlighting lawyers and grammar police.
[23:21:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06AT&T Allegedly “Discriminated” Against Poor People in Broadband Upgrades - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:41] <exec> 08└─It may be a luxury where you live, but in parts of the western world it's become a necessity. No internet means no means of reaching your government or banks. It means less chances for education, getting cheap second-hand appliances or finding a job. It's about time you stop with the lazy poor line....
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