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[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─It seems to be a matter of elegant simplicity that the connection branches rather than the "brain" of the cell would perform the processing more analogous to a series of reflexes rather than all the action happening within the cell body. But I think that "computational capacity" is meaningless unles...
[00:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:20] <exec> 08└─Seems like the singularity just got pushed off awhile...
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile Antarctica keeps growing and growing and growing... Not anymore... [nasa.gov]
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:38] <exec> 08└─Is CO2 a greenhouse gas? Sure it is, if a rather minor one. BILLIONS of tons per year of something minor, is no longer minor.
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:40] <exec> 08└─Also, that if there are more than one causes to a problem, willfully ignoring one of those causes is guaranteeing that the problem won't be solved? For what it's worth, the people with real power in this country generally believe that (A) AGW is totally real, (B) it's totally going to happen no matt...
[00:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:43] <exec> 08└─Plus, a healthy does of "That's future-Homer's problem." Man, I don't envy that guy!
[00:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─> Is CO2 a greenhouse gas? Sure it is, if a rather minor one. *citation needed*
[00:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:47] <exec> 08└─And thanks to the dickheads who leverage "climate change" excessively to justify giving more money to unelected bureaucrats and authorizing unfettered immigration of savages (I didn't know riot fires were good for the environment), we have people who outright deny that dumping billions of tons of sh...
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:49] <exec> 08└─Is the climate dominated by positive feedback, so that a minor greenhouse gas has huge effects? Nope, that doesn't - and never has - passed the sniff test.
[00:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:51] <exec> 08└─Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30–50 percent of the overall decline
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:14] <exec> 08└─"Asian" has a different meaning to different countries. I wanted to make it clear here that I meant squinty-eyes rather than durka-durkas. But "oriental" isn't offensive at all. Sure, I'll give them "Nip" or even "Chinaman" as a concession, but no way is "oriental" offensive.
[00:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─They're investing in companies like Here and Civil Maps that are building the platforms and gathering the data required.
[00:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:10] <exec> 08└─Noted and fixed for my next pull. Probably will go up later this week.
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:11] <exec> 08└─Yes the css needs a tweak. Some of this is due to the collapsed state does not have bold titles. I'll get to it shortly.
[00:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:13] <exec> 08└─When we upgraded to 16_02 last year, the mod points were handed out at 00:10 UTC, but I felt this should have been closer to midnight EST. So one of the first changes I added was to make this mod points be handed out at 05:10. This was merged to master in March of 16. One of the first merges for wha...
[00:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─We had a time where links were getting mangled and ones created by the messaging system would have persisted. I believe that they are all fixed except with respect to noupdate.
[00:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:18] <exec> 08└─Our old js based code had only one set of icons that were used on all themes. We had to style them so they always worked. To keep things simple. I have only created one set of the new icons. I think we may need to create theme specific icons that fit better in terms of colors and contrast.
[00:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:20] <exec> 08└─Contrary to what RedBear stated I created the current +/- icons and the chevrons and tweaked the ones in the JS version. I had not thought of doing SVG icons, but I will look into it. It would definitely help on high res screens.
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[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─The "smarts" are in the wiring? This turns everything I've learned about how the brain works on its head (bad puns intended!) This is like saying that all the chips on a motherboard only do 10% of the work — the real processing is done by the traces!??! Just imagine what must be going through the...
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that, check out the comments from the source: So does this mean Ray will have to postpone the date when computers equal human computing capacity?
[01:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:24] <exec> 08└─Who knew that thought was so different from general brain activity on a cellular level?
[01:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:48] <exec> 08└─Methane is 20-30 times more potent in trapping infrared. Has to do with the number of vibrational modes possible with the molecule (quantized, of course) and the half-life of the molecule in an excited state (the longer the half-life, the more - usually IR - energy is trapped in the molecule) CO2 ha...
[01:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─People also get confused due to the fact that warming often causes more precipitation and if still below freezing, more snow. Antarctica can warm up a lot and still remain below freezing.
[01:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:52] <exec> 08└─Unless it is a crazy coincidence, it must be dominated by feedbacks since the temperature is the same as on earth when adjusted for pressure and insolation.
[01:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:16] <exec> 08└─Rare-Earth minerals are not mined in the US due to the Thorium "problem". Essentially, it is regulated under the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, so nobody wants to touch it. THE THORIUM PROBLEM - Manufacturing & energy sector hobbled by thorium [youtube.com] gordonmcdowell
[01:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:56] <exec> 08└─modern journalists will be unable to write intelligently about any discoveries from this telescope, so this is probably the best we'll get.
[01:16:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 2545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:11] <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...
[01:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:30] <exec> 08└─I had the same experience wondering about how the NES generated random numbers and how its generator was seeded without a clock to use as a seed. It finally dawned on me that some kind of timing since startup was going on, and in fact framecounting seems to have been a common solution. There's an NE...
[01:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:21] <exec> 08└─Well after discussing this with martyb we decided to change it back for now to UTC 00:10. After we get some of the other issues worked out we discuss it with everyone and see if we should change it.
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:23] <exec> 08└─Okay, that's a good reason. However, I'd still like the old buttons to expand all comments.
[01:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:25] <exec> 08└─Looks like SVG is mostly supported: http://svgtutorial.com [svgtutorial.com] I wonder how this would be for the older Android users?
[01:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:47] <exec> 08└─Man, you just reminded me with that trip down memory lane, that this year is my fortieth HS reunion. It was an interesting time to grow up in, Tricky Dick, Vietnam, riots on campus, pay phones, newspapers, $0.60 premium gasoline, 'lids' of weed.
[01:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03delt0r [4778] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:50] <exec> 08└─the only problem is that its all far worse than existing designs that are already 90% + efficient. And if you have a small head (small drop) then Archimedes spirals do the trick with good efficiency. Basically its a case of "look i see patterns" without running the numbers properly. That is why they...
[01:21:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06Robot Repair Tech Killed by Factory Robot: Family Suing Everyone Involved - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:39] <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.
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[02:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:15] <exec> 08└─I keep hearing that D-Wave is a sketchy company that lies about its product, and then I see Google and NASA, who should know what they're talking about, give them more and more money. I don't know the least bit about quantum mechanics to figure out who's telling the truth, and I suspect 99.9999999%...
[02:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:17] <exec> 08└─Those aren't true quantum computers, but operate on quantum-enough principles. It's a good first step for civilian announcements, even if they don't have access to the true O.G. shit, nigga. Like how that plane with all of those Freescale geeks got lost over East Asia.
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:19] <exec> 08└─Every time I hear about quantum computing, I can't help wondering what makes us so sure that when the quantum superposition collapses that we are the universe that contains the correct answer?
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─From what I've read, it's often easier to check the answer than find the solution. Suppose each hidden neuron in a neural network were a qubit. Then, train the network via quantum principals. What you get out is a thoroughly trained neural network -- immediately. How do you know it's the right netwo...
[02:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:23] <exec> 08└─I have no idea if it is legit but I do know some people tend to ridicule what they don't understand.
[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:25] <exec> 08└─In the beginning, they were very reluctant to describe what they had and they avoided discussing limitations. This smells like fraud, but is understandable. Now they are more open about things. The device is quantum, but limited. In the non-quantum world, consider the difference between Java bytecod...
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:27] <exec> 08└─I recently learned that, while true quantum computers break the common asymmetric encryption families (RSA, Diffie Helman, and related), they only effectively halve the key size for symmetric algorithms. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I used to think that...
[02:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:39] <exec> 08└─Apples and oranges. As you point out, trying to replicate the human brain is silly with our current understanding. Quantum machine learning writing it's own code (or some other approach) however... (not dismissing the brain modelling work out of hand, there is great stuff being done these days)
[02:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:41] <exec> 08└─>1014 vs. 1016 calculations per second Ridiculous. The brain don't do calculations per second it works in a fundamentally different way. It's all speculation, there is not a single person that can tell you how the brain actually figures out that 2 plus 2 is 5.
[02:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:10] <exec> 08└─TIL something that's not easy to place in a random chat. As DeathMonkey pointed out, the amount does matter. Cows and broken wells still don't make up for the CO2 we output...
[02:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:11] <exec> 08└─Troll, flamebait, blah, blah, blah. Few mods can find the "disagree" button. Few mods understand proper discourse in any venue. You toe the party line, or you're a troll. Fascists rule the forums. We need the so-called alt-right to start moderating in the same manner. Non-progressives are far to pol...
[02:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:13] <exec> 08└─As DeathMonkey pointed out, the amount does matter. Cows and broken wells still don't make up for the CO2 we output...
[02:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a 27,000 tonne destroyer (the same displacement as the USS Yorktown air craft carrier from WW2). It's not a destroyer. They just CALL it a destroyer to get around the limitations in their constitution. And this is not a 10MT thermonuclear warhead, it's a Peace Ambassador.
[02:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:40] <exec> 08└─" You can probably find all kinds of rare-earth minerals in asteroids." Wouldn't those be rare-asteroid minerals? ;^)
[02:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:46] <exec> 08└─3. Get unwanted sidebars and something other than black text on a white background. 4. Don't enjoy. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:30] <exec> 08└─all i know is what i saw in brexit: the movie but...i think it's ridiculous to act like some massive unelected bureaucracy is beneficial to the people in any overall way. We need to be decentralizing politically, not turning over all control to supranational opportunists. What a foolish way to throw...
[02:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:31] <exec> 08└─this is the way it looks to me too. politicians fucking everything up. it makes me wonder if it's all just a way to consolidate wealth under the guise of nationalism.
[02:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:35] <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.
[02:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:36] <exec> 08└─I like that! What makes your comment even more amusing, that's a quote [typepad.com] from an unnamed English professor at Ohio University.
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[03:14:26] <exec> 08└─The D-Wave isn’t the sort of quantum computer that can do the kinds of calculations necessary to implement something like Shor’s Factoring Algorithm. It is capable of quantum annealing [wikipedia.org] which can be used to solve certain classes of optimisation problems only. It is not a universal...
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─"treat it as a "memory palace" to recall any experience?" Memory is funny. A lot of minds don't seem to work like everyone else's minds. Suppose that you attended a rally. You personally get to speak to the famous person for whom the rally is being held, for less than a minute. You do realize this f...
[03:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:42] <exec> 08└─The analogy doesn't really work because the traces on the motherboard aren't 90% of the components in/on the mainboard. I never gave a lot of thought to the metal distribution inside the computer, but off-hand, I'd say the traces are probably 40% or less. (Discounting the case, the mounts, and housi...
[03:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:13] <exec> 08└─Lol, my posts routinely get modded down almost instantly so piss off with the persecution complex. Thankfully reality has a liberal bias so mine usually end up higher than not :P
[03:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:15] <exec> 08└─"Thankfully reality has a liberal bias" That is part of the doctrine of your religion. Reality cares not one whit for biases, in any direction. Reality doesn't give a damn whether you or I survive, or whether mankind survives, and takes no notice of our opinions or preferences.
[03:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:17] <exec> 08└─That's what's hilarious about all this. Reality doesn't care what one thinks of it. Climate change doesn't care whether one believes in it. It also hates being anthropomorphized. It's become a matter of personal pride to people to be able to guarantee a worse future for their grandchildren. I don't...
[03:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:19] <exec> 08└─On March 24th, 2015, scientists at Argentina’s Esperanza research base in Antarctica recorded the day’s high at a balmy 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius). Yesterday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recognized that reading as the highest-ever temperature on the Antarctic...
[03:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:07] <exec> 08└─So has anyone written the thriller in which your face gets programmed into all the automated cars and flagged as an available parking space?
[03:16:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:21] <exec> 08└─How 'bout they design the biggest, bestest, state of the art telescope, and send it into space?
[03:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 2152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:28] <exec> 08└─I don’t know if such a telescope would be able to see the first stars though. Various estimates of when the first stars formed range from 177 million to 98 million to 44 million years after the Big Bang, which correspond to redshifts of 20, 30, and 50 respectively, which means that even the strong...
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[03:21:40] <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?
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[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─So they invented this product [amazon.com]?
[04:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:39] <exec> 08└─If you were doing, say, Shor’s factoring algorithm on a quantum computer, it is very easy to verify that you got the right answer. It is rather more difficult to factor 13469657115923730465476034829951946177950265421520366540751797776042247759687 than to verify that its prime factors are 453229321...
[04:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:55] <exec> 08└─there is not a single person that can tell you how the brain actually figures out that 2 plus 2 is 5.
[04:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:32] <exec> 08└─"My only regret will be that there will be no way to extract a pound of flesh from the AGW fraudsters," says the post you have chosen as an example of "proper discourse." I see a resemblance to what the FAQ says about "bad comments": ridicule for others with different opinion (without backing it up...
[04:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you for that link. Impressive how much ice has vanished from antartica in the time lapse satelite images.
[04:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, the negative feedbacks work...until they don't. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Your blithe assumption that the negative feedback systems have infinite capacity and can react instantaneously to perturbations of arbitrary size is the same kind of bullshit that makes economists think gr...
[04:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:04] <exec> 08└─I know you're kidding, but they're called "rare earth" because they're rare (relatively, not really *that* rare, but compared to silicon, carbon, titanium, etc. they are) in the Earth's crust. That doesn't mean they're rare somewhere else. They might be extremely plentiful in certain asteroids, thou...
[04:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:05] <exec> 08└─The US does the same thing with the new Zumwalt destroyer. It's at least as big as a cruiser.
[04:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:07] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this is what the young people call a meme. Have you forgotten that time when "all capital ships of the Russian fleet in the Pacific were sunk" by the Japanese? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:10] <exec> 08└─Cerium is as abundant (on Earth) as copper. They are not especially rare, but they tend to occur together in nature and are difficult to separate from one another. However, because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare...
[04:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, that's a good...er...well, a functioning-as-usual Ethie. Go nap now, the grownups are talking.
[04:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:14] <exec> 08└─That's what you think it is. They've actually refloated the the Yamato, outfitted it with FTL engines, and renamed it Uchū Senkan Yamato [wikia.com]. That'll certainly scare the Chinese back out of the West Philippine Sea.
[04:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:30] <exec> 08└─Went to mod up and seen its already at +5. Thank you for the informative comment. I learned something today. Its comments like this that makes this site so good. :-)
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's a strange dichotomy isn't it? Such horribly awful hair on men (though the women's hair looked great; this changed in the 80s though with the stupid "big hair" on women, but men's hair looked better except for the guys wearing mullets), such horrible cars (at least the American ones, the J...
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[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─Filabot didn't even invent these. Been around for a long time http://artprimo.com [artprimo.com] Yo grammma's been using them before you were born https://www.google.com [google.com]
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Chemical Melting Finishing Method Used to Smooth 3D Printed Resin Products - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:08] <exec> 08└─My friend prints ducts for brake cooling (rally cars) and just dips them in acetone or some similar solvent for a short time. Smooths out some of the lines from the low cost printer and also makes the part stronger. The acetone is kept covered otherwise, not much loss.
[05:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:17] <exec> 08└─Take your persecution complex and go to Hell. You people whine, whine, whine like little babies with wet diapers, and then you have the incredible fucking gall to accuse others of what you yourself are guilty of. I can't even imagine what it must be like to be that mentally deficient.
[05:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:51] <exec> 08└─There's a photo of it floating around somewhere next to a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, they're the same size. It's a full-size aircraft carrier in all but name and the lack of a ski jump.
[05:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:06] <exec> 08└─More recently, around 1100 B.C. in China, turtle shells were heated with a poker until they cracked at random, and a fortune teller would interpret the cracks.
[05:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:02] <exec> 08└─Noticed. For some reason, as much as I respect and admire the dev team here at SoylentNews, even including the Might Fuzz, I am not quite comfortable with you all messing with the space-time continuum!! UTC should be Universal Time Coordinates, so you can't just go switching it back and forth like i...
[05:18:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:59] <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.
[05:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:31] <exec> 08└─Sedlacek and his team have managed to generate power with an output of up to 10 kWh per day at 60% efficiency from a small turbine. This is enough power to meet the requirements of 5 European families or an entire African village.
[05:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─you know a WOT is going to kick ass when it starts with "Anyhow, here's a brief history of typographical standards for capitalization."
[05:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:53] <exec> 08└─oh no, the chief wasn't going to actually do anything about his little piggies he's just going to forward them the memo! way to go you fucking patriot!
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[06:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Submarine set for First Voyage - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:18] <exec> 08└─A big red ship with a bulbous round bow just cries out for a name like Boaty McBoatface. Paint a face on it, as in kid shows like Thomas the Tank Engine. A little lemon-yellow sub that looks like a drone plane... nope. Maybe something related to that Beatles song and/or Gulliver's Travels would do....
[06:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:43] <exec> 08└─Suppose each hidden neuron in a neural network were a qubit. Then, train the network via quantum principals.
[06:15:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─You do understand that this study is saying that MOST of the loss is caused by AGW, right?
[06:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:14] <exec> 08└─I know you're kidding, but they're called "rare earth" because they're rare (relatively, not really *that* rare, but compared to silicon, carbon, titanium, etc. they are) in the Earth's crust.
[06:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:16] <exec> 08└─Jeeze. It's not "the same size", either by mass or by dimensions. Not even close. Izumo: 27,000 tons, 248x38 m Nimitz: 106,000 tons, 333x77 m
[06:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:18] <exec> 08└─> [...] it is regulated under the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty [...] I watched the first 12 minutes of your video, and didn't see that claim. Merely mining and purifying thorium ought not to be relevant to the NPT; loading it into nuclear reactors--as your video, predictably, urges us to do--is...
[06:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:57] <exec> 08└─Once we enter the realm of graphics, there is no turning back. Now, Soylentils can convey their meanings by symbolic communication, this thing we call "language", and more specifically written language. Just think of it! Symbols that stand for sounds, that stand for ideas! Amazing! But if we allow...
[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─Laws can be passed without the vote of one senator, you know. What's clear is that the majority of the senate doesn't care. Your statement doesn't hold regarding him personally. Or can you show us the record of votes to show that he did indeed vote to renew it?
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[07:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:05] <exec> 08└─Woah, they have up to 5x staff, 20% online and 80% spare. We can conclude they don't have HR or MBAs.
[07:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:06] <exec> 08└─FTA: Yet insect societies, similar to humans, compete on efficiency and productivity. Meanwhile, when things go south for humans, the slackers just put their hands out and beg the Government to help them.
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[07:14:39] <exec> 08└─Because all those symmetric algorithms are protected by either the asymmetric key exchanges you note, or by obscurity (each endpoint having preshared symmetric keys or plaintext passwords used as seeds for keys.) While the symmetric keys are not cryptographically compromised as a result of quantum c...
[07:15:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 794 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:32] <exec> 08└─Sure, the negative feedbacks work...until they don't. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Your blithe assumption that the negative feedback systems have infinite capacity and can react instantaneously to perturbations of arbitrary size is the same kind of bullshit that makes economists think gr...
[07:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Answer Some of Humanity's Biggest Questions - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:53] <exec> 08└─People should define largest...
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[08:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:19] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, when things go south for humans, the slackers just put their hands out and beg the Government to help them. I think this refers to the Too-Big-To-Fail banksters.
[08:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:53] <exec> 08└─Simple. 42.
[08:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:26] <exec> 08└─The political problems are discussed at 20:40 [youtube.com] The video does not actually use my exact wording.
[08:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:27] <exec> 08└─There was a survey done of how the EU migrants voted in the last attempt, not unsurprisingly they voted in the main to keep Scotland in the UK thanks mainly to the threat of Scotland being kicked out of the EU...fast forward to now, the UK is on its way out of the EU and these migrants may now have...
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[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:23] <exec> 08└─I think this refers to the Too-Big-To-Fail banksters.
[09:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:57] <exec> 08└─Yeh, but a lot of us have sure had our share of supposedly "intellectual superiors" misleading us on... Religion Investment Opportunities World Conditions Free Energy Machines E-Cats ... and so on ... That if it won't pass our bullshit detectors, past experience shows its likely a scam.
[09:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:54] <exec> 08└─With the automation and level of details in these maps, I don't think a map mistake is the most likely thing to cause this. It's much more likely to be a "reality mistake", i.e. reality was changed since the map was made. E.g. road works, sink holes, floods...
[09:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:56] <exec> 08└─That's not how it works in reality. Yes, you can navigate familiar roads more efficiently, but that's because you "know" that there's never a train coming at this time of the day, you know the speed limit is 65 and don't even notice the new signs that were put up six months ago, etc.
[09:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:58] <exec> 08└─OpenStreetMap doesn't have the resources to build this kind of map, it relies on people and GPS receivers, not automated systems that costs millions a piece. Neither does the project have the server resources to store maps with that level of detail. And none of the companies that are building this s...
[09:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:54] <exec> 08└─And related proof that life imitates art https://www.schneier.com [schneier.com] (debian rng snafu)
[09:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:55] <exec> 08└─Is how bad RAND's numbers are. They're, by dumbass design, missing 50 bits of entropy. OK, that's only a fraction of a percent loss, but there was no reason for them to be so sloppy. Basically they attempted to unbias the numbers from their source by summing consecutive numbers in each column, and d...
[09:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:38] <exec> 08└─It's GNU/Textbooks.
[09:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:40] <exec> 08└─You're wrong again, there are no facts relevant to my point that I am missing. You're good at being wrong, probably because you get a lot of practice.
[09:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:41] <exec> 08└─They pay more than they get back directly, but it is hard to measure the benefits of bringing other countries up to the level where they can afford you high end goods and services. Look at Ireland. Massively benefited from EU membership. Wages and living standards came up. The UK benefited too becau...
[09:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:44] <exec> 08└─The UK government has already had to admit that fishing rights are unlikely to change much, if at all, and we will probably have to sign up to the existing rules anyway. The stocks have to be managed and since all the other interested parties are in the EU, the UK isn't going to get an exception. Th...
[09:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Science of Liquorice - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:00] <exec> 08└─Actually both are:)
[09:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:31] <exec> 08└─It's funny because it's true! I remember seeing a breakdown of energy usage once, and one thing that shocked me was the amount of electricity Americans used for air-conditioning. You're using externally-sourced energy because you have too much local energy? (Though not as much as Germany, as Fox hel...
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[09:21:33] <exec> 08└─"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" What's the exact quote (translation thereof) which gives you that impression? What you've reported is even worse than perpetual motion, as it's over unity. I heard...
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[09:21:35] <exec> 08└─I've watched 3 minutes, and it's complete non-scientific woo-woo so far.
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[10:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:05] <exec> 08└─Heard that one broadcast many, many years ago while on the road, so I couldn't capture it. It's The Beatles, playing under a pseudonym, at a place in Sweden (IIRC). Truly cool the way the audience shut up during each song.
[10:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:22] <exec> 08└─Slackers Turned Saviours...insect societies, similar to humans, compete on efficiency and productivity. So what explains the existence of lazy workers?
[10:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:16] <exec> 08└─That is because Bill Clinton is a reptile. They have many times the memory capacity of a human being.
[10:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:56] <exec> 08└─it must be dominated by feedbacks since the temperature is the same as on earth when adjusted for pressure and insolation.
[10:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:58] <exec> 08└─"Civilization has a liberal bias" should be what that person said. This has been known for quite a long time. Civilizations that switch from common good to individual centric, well, those fall apart rather quickly. Reference: HISTORY.
[10:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:39] <exec> 08└─"Rare-Earth metals" ... are NOT rare. News at 11. stop panicking about things you don't understand.
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[10:17:04] <exec> 08└─the ability to drive themselves
[10:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:37] <exec> 08└─It took 3015 seconds of listening to sometimes not-even-wrong non-science before it all became clear - "Hal Puthoff", one of the kings of woo-woo, came into the story. At least he was prepared to say "shit don't work", and if he's prepared to dismiss something, you can be pretty sure that there's le...
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[11:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:09] <exec> 08└─It seems that something is fundamentally broken with the current phone system, if this spoofing is even possible.
[11:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:10] <exec> 08└─Some companies pay their telemarketers a small fee if the user "cannot be reached". The telemarketers probably know that you're not interested, but want to make a little bit of cash for the call.
[11:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─Thug Niggers
[11:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:21] <exec> 08└─I had it on vinyl many years ago, and played it till the grooves wore through. If you've never heard it and you like the Beatles, it's a treat.
[11:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:30] <exec> 08└─That's a fast star; 1M km radius in about 28 minutes is ~ 1%c. Considering how big a star is, that's a lot faster than I though stellar objects were moving around. Also, if the black hole is already pulling material away from the star, will it not eventually pull in the star itself (or given a few m...
[11:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:18] <exec> 08└─Google makes money hand over fist and the founders like to spend it on far-out research. NASA wants to be in the news for "cutting-edge" research. Neither is serious about quantum computing or has expertise in the field.
[11:16:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:06] <exec> 08└─As DeathMonkey pointed out, the amount does matter. Cows and broken wells still don't make up for the CO2 we output...
[11:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:18] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Underneath this "feedback loop" assertion there seems to be an underlying assumption that the world is under some kind of obligation to maintain a nice, comfortable, convenient environment for humans. That somehow the laws of physics are conspiring in our favour, which suggests belief in so...
[11:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:18] <exec> 08└─If it's the same problem I have, then that will only alleviate the problem plus make it harder to read the black text. It's pretty much a persistent variant of the photosensitivity that most people only experience with nasty hangovers or migraine headaches. My usual solution is to use Stylish to rew...
[11:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 3852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:07] <exec> 08└─The most helpful thing I had while learning math ( especially Algebra, Linear Algebra, and Calculus ) was having my copy of what was, at the time, DOS MathCad. Now, MathCad came way after I paid my dues. I sure would have liked to have had those tools. But MathCad did allow me to investigate in fa...
[11:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Scottish Independence Referendum Coming - 2237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:13] <exec> 08└─I definitely think the government is chasing a pipe dream with BrExit, but that's a given in negotiations - you aim high and end up somewhere in the middle. They do seem to be aiming unreasonably high though, and that's almost certainly going to backfire when they are being seen to be giving so much...
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[12:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:21] <exec> 08└─It is ridiculous that caller ID spoofing is so easy. I understand that some organizations have legitimate reasons to report a different number than they're calling from, but there should at least be some kind of check that the number reported is owned by the caller. When these systems were designed...
[12:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:22] <exec> 08└─This is a problem. The telemarketers try real hard to catch you, so that generally is at supper time - to maximize their catch. I had enough and implemented Asterisk as a small home PBX on some fairly power efficient gear. I have a number white-list for friends and family, blacklist for 800,866,855,...
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the rob-dialers dial make multiple calls at a time, only the first one to pickup gets connected to the human the others are just left to ring. When/ if those others do pickup they get the 'dead air. We have FiOS so the caller ID is displayed on the TV, if we recognize the nu...
[12:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─On a side note, I get lots of telemarketer calls, but what boggles my mind is that when I happen to pick up the phone it is very often "dead air", eventually followed by a "bweeep" and then a "click" as the system hangs up. WTF? If they are trying to sell/scam/whatever shouldn't they have their pitc...
[12:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:29] <exec> 08└─If you want a serious suggestion, the best I can come up with is this: Find out if some enforcement agency - FCC, or maybe even the local police - is interested in pursuing this case. If they are, then offer yourself as a willing victim. I.e., under the direction of the enforcement folks, you would...
[12:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:31] <exec> 08└─Wonder if the asterisk is suitable for a Raspberry Pi? Or is there cheap pre-packaged telephone "private PBX" systems out there which serve as base stations serving several wireless phones - that have whitelist/blacklist and configurable answering protocols like asterisk? I get so many telemarkete...
[12:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:33] <exec> 08└─I agree with other commenters here: It would be technically pretty easy for the phone companies to eliminate spoofing. The fact that this is still a problem shows that they earn good money from this stuff.
[12:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:35] <exec> 08└─It will take some doing from all of us, but there is a lot more of us than them. So if you get a telemarketer's call... and we really want to put an end to this. Waste His Time. This will make telemarketing so prohibitively expensive they will stop doing it. However, the drawback is that you may get...
[12:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:46] <exec> 08└─imagine deconstructing ... then mixing ... again from scratch.
[12:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:55] <exec> 08└─I can’t find from TFA what the mass of the black hole is, but supposing it to be, say, 10 solar masses, it would have an event horizon of 30 km, giving it a density of 1.78×1017 kg/m3, while a white dwarf would have a density of 109 kg/m3. Since the white dwarf isn’t exactly of low density eith...
[12:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawyer Films His Traffic Stop, Even After Cop Says Not to, Citing Made-Up Law - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:49] <exec> 08└─Do grammar police have a legal obligation to tell the truth?
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[13:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:36] <exec> 08└─If this is a smart phone, you can use an app like "Should I Answer?" that keeps a user database of legitimate vs telemarketer numbers - granted if the spoofers are truly random all this will tell you is "unknown" vs a whitelist, but it seems to work really well against the telemarketers that call me...
[13:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:37] <exec> 08└─"When these systems were designed that may have been too complex for the technology of the day" Nope. Simply no reason to do so. Phone companies make lots of money from telemarketers and telescammers. You expect the phone company to work against their best customers?
[13:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:40] <exec> 08└─Happy belated Pi day. Asterisk is fast enough on a Rpi, as long as you don't need to transcode - for instance G711u to GSM. I don't generally transcode - but I do end to end G711u. I use a voip carrier and ported my number there, but for a time I used POTS with a SPA3102. It worked generally well....
[13:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:42] <exec> 08└─Just answer: "Ooh.. that sounds interesting, can you hold one minute, I just have to put the baby in bed..." And continue with your usual tasks (which may or may not include putting the baby in bed :-) ). Eventually they will get the (non-)message and hang up. It nicely takes care off 'accidentally'...
[13:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:44] <exec> 08└─It seems that something is fundamentally broken with the current phone system, if this spoofing is even possible.
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─Done this. I have used Asterisk PBX to create a smart answering machine, Whitelisted numbers get to talk to us (rings then voicemail, blacklist numbers get played a SIT tone). There is lots of all in one distributions that allow you to do this. You'll need an old pc or RPi, and an ATA (analog teleph...
[13:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:48] <exec> 08└─Not going to get much identity out of them if they just ask for a charge card number. It won't even show up on your bill if you give the a fake one. And who's to say they aren't giving you fake identity information too?
[13:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:50] <exec> 08└─I don't have a landline any more, so most of the time I deal with telemarketer calls by having my cell-phone not ring if the number isn't in my directory (the default ringtone is silence - I set a ringtone when I create a new contact). But I was recently driving across the country and got a telemark...
[13:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:53] <exec> 08└─The ones providing real identity information probably aren't fraudulent.
[13:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:55] <exec> 08└─No solution there either, except fascist whitelists that only accept 5 or 6 fake news suppliers in the world. Looks like it must be a fairly common occurrence but perhaps changing your phone # might help retain your sanity. The technical system is broken and it's enabled by the broken legal system....
[13:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:57] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago I bought one of these [truecall.co.uk] and it has reduced my nuisance calls to almost zero while always letting legitimate callers through. If the incoming number is on the whitelist the phone rings as normal (it will take a message if we don't pick up); for other numbers it wi...
[13:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:59] <exec> 08└─The incoming chairman of the FCC recently proposed new restrictions [arstechnica.com] that would address spoofed ID robocalls. An NPRM (Notification of Proposed Rulemaking), which is the first step in putting new regulations in place, is currently pending. [fcc.gov] I don't agree with the new FCC Ch...
[13:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:10] <exec> 08└─What makes the article interesting to geeks is how the the sound engineers were able to eliminate all that spectator noise: To get a sense of what the team at Abbey Road Studios did, imagine deconstructing a smoothie so you're left with whole strawberries, peeled bananas, and ice cubes, then mixin...
[13:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:31] <exec> 08└─Is it really that hard to fathom? If every ant has to operate at 100% for the colony to function, anything out of the ordinary will wipe out the colony. If a few ants (not every one) are able to slack off, rest, recuperate, then it's beneficial to them when they are chased, hunted, exhausted, ill, e...
[13:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Chemical Melting Finishing Method Used to Smooth 3D Printed Resin Products - 4209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:49] <exec> 08└─I actually read, well, deeply skimmed, the report and the scientists are not guilty but the journalists are extremely guilty. The report itself glosses over the invention and focuses on the "D" part of R+D the development. They went to enormous effort with some interesting technology to simulate and...
[13:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:10] <exec> 08└─Please don't add any facts, this is republican thread!
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Detailed Maps of the World Will be for Cars, Not Humans - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:18] <exec> 08└─These clowns may have more details but OSM definitely has more useful details. You know drinking from the fire hose and all that. Wake me up when AI can do something actually interesting.
[13:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:38] <exec> 08└─I will absolutely second the motion. Any time the weather is fluctuating around 70 degrees F (about 5 months of the year for me, coastal SE US), I wish there were more passive ways to maintain the interior temps where I like them.
[13:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:05] <exec> 08└─Are you disagreeing with the idea of inflation, or with the current measurements for inflation. Because I will assure you that inflation is a thing that happened, and continues to happen. Conflating technological advances with inflation does little to explain the issues, imo.
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inventors and the Invention: the Rolling Fluid Turbine - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:01] <exec> 08└─Bad wording on my part... What is available is not 100% of the kinetic energy of the stream. In order to get 100% of the kinetic energy out of the stream, it would have to be stopped. Obviously that's a problem for any system. So, "more energy than there is to begin with" is a reference to that amou...
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[14:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─A spontaneous chemical reaction that forms the first iteration of the process of evolution by variation and selection. 'Nuf said. From a theoretical point of view, the phenomenon known as "life" is now a solved problem.
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:38] <exec> 08└─a good read I recommend for those that enjoy some solid chemistry.
[14:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:40] <exec> 08└─(cf MC Hawking [youtube.com]) This is all further demonstration that the key processes of life can arise from normal chemical interaction among those elements that were present on Earth when life began. Which would be a pretty good indication that no deity is necessary, just add water.
[14:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:42] <exec> 08└─Now that they've got the stage1 figured out comes the really fun part: building the stage2 and making sure nothing's accidentally linking against the sulphate radicals.
[14:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─The article summary seems to be all about the South Dakota law and its implications, which is fine and interesting in itself; however, the article title puts the major focus on the fact that there is only one US state remaining where mug photos are not public record, and unfortunately, the article s...
[14:15:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:04] <exec> 08└─On a side note, I get lots of telemarketer calls, but what boggles my mind is that when I happen to pick up the phone it is very often "dead air", eventually followed by a "bweeep" and then a "click" as the system hangs up. WTF? If they are trying to sell/scam/whatever shouldn't they have their pitc...
[14:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─It will take some doing from all of us, but there is a lot more of us than them. So if you get a telemarketer's call... and we really want to put an end to this. Waste His Time. This will make telemarketing so prohibitively expensive they will stop doing it.
[14:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─put that on your number. If it fails the "do I know this person", they get a load of fax noise. I have yet to get a junk fax...
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:25] <exec> 08└─If they expect you to give a charge card number without identifying themselves, then they really are fishing for suckers. As someone else said, you could work with an enforcement agency, give them a honey-pot card (attached to a free to open Capital One bank account with $2 in it), and play other ga...
[14:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:27] <exec> 08└─Who actually gets junk calls on their cell phone anyway? I don't think I get any other than from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Charter, both begging for more money. I have them set to block on my phone. Only calls I've had for years are from the doctor's office and people who I actually want...
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 6105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─I would send off a complaint to my state's Attorney General and include as much information as I could. The phone company has more information on the caller than is provided by caller ID and will provide it to law enforcement. That can be used to track it back to the originator who unfortunately wil...
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 1961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─I did exactly the same thing as I realize that 99% of telemarketers and political campaigns use robo-dialers as described above. As a result I have implemented my version of CAPTCHA by doing the following: -- numbers in my callername DB (aka Whitelist) ring through to the house phone -- numbers in t...
[14:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:34] <exec> 08└─http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/ [raspberry-asterisk.org]
[14:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:36] <exec> 08└─If it had dialed you, and the telemarketer wasn't ready for you yet, you were simply dropped for a fresher head that may be more receptive to the telemarketing call, as that head hasn't had time to get pissed off waiting for the telemarketer to complete his previous call.
[14:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:38] <exec> 08└─I do this on occasion when I am bored, but the problem is that wasting his time generally is a waste of my time. I normally don't have 45 minutes to string them along. Before I setup my Asterisk box to avoid them, I use to do "hold on for a second" and log how long it took for them to hang up. Most...
[14:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:40] <exec> 08└─It will take some doing from all of us, but there is a lot more of us than them. So if you get a telemarketer's call... and we really want to put an end to this. Waste His Time. This will make telemarketing so prohibitively expensive they will stop doing it.
[14:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:43] <exec> 08└─I use one of the BT phones with that built-in. It's pretty good overall. It's not 100%. For example, I often get calls from a family member whose workplace sends no ID. So I can't just block calls with no ID. Similarly, I occasionally get calls from my employer's office in another country, so...
[14:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:55] <exec> 08└─To do that, James Clarke, a systems analyst at Abbey Road Studios, developed a “demixing” process to separate each instrument and vocal track from the cacophony. He isolated everything Ringo, Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon played and sang, separated it from the din of the crowd, and e...
[14:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:57] <exec> 08└─What kind of mental disorder do you have?
[14:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:59] <exec> 08└─and if I may say, unimaginative. The whole point of Matlab is to stick a gui on it. Other than that, very nice. I like any mention of Fourier analysis being used in anger, even when dressed up as "scripts".
[14:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:01] <exec> 08└─Is this the type of explanation that impresses "geeks"?
[14:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:03] <exec> 08└─Since the crowd noise would exist on all three tracks and be virtually identical, wouldn't it be easier to just correlate the crowd noise between the tracks and then remove it?
[14:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:14] <exec> 08└─at a distance of around a million kilometers
[14:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:16] <exec> 08└─This is a odd thought perhaps.. If we find there are no closer black-holes (a few tens of lyrs ), perhaps there is something in the energetic "violence" of their neighbourhood the prevents life persisting...?
[14:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Submarine set for First Voyage - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:36] <exec> 08└─So now a submarine is named Boaty mcBoatface. How does this make any sense?
[14:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Chemical Melting Finishing Method Used to Smooth 3D Printed Resin Products - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:48] <exec> 08└─in a research project I did last year for the local uni, I compared some 3D prints of different sorts for a functional shape I designed. One of the attractive (and reasons for expense) of Shapeways, is that they make a nice finish. Even their default "scrubbed" one was quite effective. I'm curious a...
[14:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:28] <exec> 08└─Bumping into a president long enough to have a conversation would be a fantastic oddity. Bumping into the president a second time years later and the president knows you by name and asks "how's your home town" is nightmare fuel. You are living on the outer limits of the twilight zone. http://shieldh...
[14:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:30] <exec> 08└─dendrites are in fact electrically active — generating nearly 10 times more spikes than the soma (neuron cell body). [...] "Knowing they are much more active than the soma fundamentally changes the nature of our understanding of how the brain computes information. This is a major departure from wh...
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─OH I'M OFFENDED!! says every fucking progressive twit in the world. I point out that no one gives a flying fuck that Twinkie is offended, and you mod me down? You curse me? Fucking snowflakes. Accuse others of what I am guilty of? Oh, please, elaborate. You'll have to imagine something pretty good t...
[14:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:56] <exec> 08└─My ex-wife is Japanese. Crazy as fuck. She'd of rather stayed married, miserable, than to get divorced and admit "defeat". Japan as a country is a fun place to visit, as a tourist, but I think their culture (or certain aspects of it at least) is disgusting. At first I was impressed with how polite e...
[14:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:22] <exec> 08└─none of us has ever heard of anyone arguing about which type
[14:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:45] <exec> 08└─remember patent leather jackets
[14:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:47] <exec> 08└─70's hairstyles are what people are wearing today. Lots of hair on the top of a man's head. They're sporting beards though and not the manly Burt Reynolds/Ned Flanders hairy 'stache. Ah, the 70's, when men were manly and hairy. Remember all the gratuitous displays of manly chest hair (in some cases...
[14:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Knowledge Textbooks On Track to Expand in Maryland Colleges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:14] <exec> 08└─Inflation happens, but it is not a one-dimensional number.
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[15:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─Of course, the response will be that the Universe had to come from somewhere; here's the as yet unproved insight: This Universe is also the result of evolution by variation and selection, as applied to the potential set of laws of physics that can exist within a multiverse, which at its foundation i...
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─http://adam4d.com/science-disproves-god/ [adam4d.com]
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I've come to a similar conclusion. Cosmos is simply a stable bubble that's one of many possible stable configurations of chaos. By stable, I mean that it changes according to knowable and regular rules at a pace that's neither too slow nor too fast to allow for more complex structures like s...
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not a creationist but I can guess their response, so I went to the vatican online bible to check some Genesis stories, because I figured their angle would be God created that water, it didn't create itself, and surprisingly the way I read the first lines of Genesis, the ocean water existed befor...
[15:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─What is it with ideological comics where their only two jokes are "Look at this strawman argument. Isn't it dumb?" and "Look at this ideological opponent being all opponentish, and in panel 4 they suffer terribly while protagonist deadpans to the camera"? Like, even when I agree with the perspective...
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─It is much easier to construct an invalid argument than to construct a valid argument. Furthermore, it is rare that one person understands exactly what another person is saying. Hence, the straw man fallacy is prevalent. /r/iamverysmart; hence, the dead pan "Can you believe what my opponent is sayin...
[15:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─Wow, state enabled blackmail. We'll respect your privacy if you continue to pay us more than the other guys. Anyone still wonder why so many people hate the government? Big banks get bailed out, little people get kicked out. Punishment is supposed to end, though in practice once tarred with a felony...
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:03] <exec> 08└─Not only is it in the article, it's in the summary (emphasis added): The only other state in the union where they're not public records is Louisiana.
[15:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:05] <exec> 08└─How about adding a few choice mug shots of bad corporations and the corporate officers responsible?
[15:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:07] <exec> 08└─The South Dakota measure is certain to provide fresh material for the online mug shot business racket. These questionable sites post mug shots, often in a bid to embarrass people in hopes of getting them to pay hundreds of dollars to have their photos removed.
[15:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:50] <exec> 08└─Why go to the trouble to set up a Capital One account when you can just use one of the many ones that Wells Fargo already opened up on your behalf?
[15:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:51] <exec> 08└─Had a debt collector on me for a few years. They would call, refuse to identify themselves, but demand my social security number. I only know it was them and not some scam (well, not that they aren't part of the scam we call free market medicine anyway) because they didn't spoof their caller ID. I t...
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:53] <exec> 08└─You sound like kind of a dick.
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:56] <exec> 08└─I've been getting "Rachel from cardholder services" scam calls from random spoofed numbers. (I though "Rachel" got shut down in 2012 or so... apparently she's out of jail now.) And once a month or so, I get a fake tech support call from "Microsoft" about my poor virus-riddled PC.
[15:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:58] <exec> 08└─In any case, the caller had finally had enough. I guess a half-hour was the most they were willing to spend, and they hung up on me. But the interesting part is that the number of calls I've gotten since then has been way down. Maybe it's just a blip in the statistics, but I'm sure hoping it's becau...
[15:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:00] <exec> 08└─> ... the baby in bed Careful, this might result in a baby bed being delivered to your house...!
[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─That is pretty geeky. Except for the ghost-hunting part. But good enough.
[15:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:30] <exec> 08└─2.5 times however many (American) football fields the separation between the Earth and the moon is.
[15:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Submarine set for First Voyage - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:51] <exec> 08└─So now a submarine is named Boaty mcBoatface. How does this make any sense?
[15:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 063D Chemical Melting Finishing Method Used to Smooth 3D Printed Resin Products - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:04] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to whether hot-air could be used to smooth the lines?
[15:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:29] <exec> 08└─You're off the handle, man. Since moderators are also normal readers it's easy to get modded into oblivion, deserved or not. I don't always have the "mainstream opinion" but can usually get away with it by using a little tact. But people here are really into fact and not just opinions and feelings....
[15:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:30] <exec> 08└─When our major cities that started as ports, and our shipping infrastructure, and our transportation systems to all of the commercial and vacation-industry sites that depend on being near the ocean shore, not to mention *everything* on various islands, start getting washed away, "precisely why" is n...
[15:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:32] <exec> 08└─Kinda makes sense - except, look above. Azumi at +3 insightful for HER post? If that's not flamebait, then I've never seen flamebait. But, partisan bullshit. The twinkies mod non-twinkies down, and fellow twinkies up. Which was the exact purpose of my original post. All the rest of us need to modera...
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Brief History of Random Numbers - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:43] <exec> 08└─Its still a "thing" a couple weeks ago I was trying to use a ESP8266 (basically a microcontroller that is a wifi, or a wifi that is a microcontroller, kinda) to send MQTT data and I had the bright idea of using the random number function in micropython (which runs on a ESP8266 and is pretty much wha...
[15:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:41] <exec> 08└─I wonder how this would be for the older Android users?
[15:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:42] <exec> 08└─What about setting the maximal number of mod points to 6, and handing out a new one every 4 hours for any account that is below 6 points at that time? That would evenly spread it out across the time zones. Note also that calculation of mod points could be done lazy (assuming that isn't already done...
[15:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:44] <exec> 08└─And how is that not a "−" Icon? (Well, the second one is a "two-minus" icon, but it would be very confusing if the same icon would be used for different functionality!)
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[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a solution in search of a problem to me. I get wanting to use renewal energy (such as solar) to create combustable fuel, for example by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen (though I'm more than a little suspicious about hydrogen as a long-term motor fuel option). And, from TFA,...
[16:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─I admit to the same mystification, but medium length hydrocarbons are just another boring organic chemical so presumably some later engineering breakthru would result in direct conversion of sunlight into THC or LSD or perhaps into synthetic meat. "Honey turn the dials on the solar panels to steak;...
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─There are a number of atheists who are effectively creationists since they believe the universe is a simulation: https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] http://www.space.com [space.com]...
[16:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:27] <exec> 08└─I'll provide an alternative surprise interpretation. In the old days people believed in a lot of stupid stuff, like clearly baby humans only come from mom (not storks, back then before the concept of "nerd" was invented by a certain group of people in the 1970s scientists used to get lots of action...
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:29] <exec> 08└─Thats a derivative of brain in a vat which goes all the way back to Plato. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I still think Dennet did it best in '78 and it appears nothing since then comes close. Something to google for a copyright violation of: "Where am I" from Brainstor...
[16:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─Very well stated. When one speaks of "nothingness", one implies that there is "somethingness" against which to make the differentiation; one cannot speak of "darkness" without tacitly speaking of "light"; one cannot speak of "0" without there being the concept of "1". There is a yin and yang to bein...
[16:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:34] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make them necessarily crationists. They still probably believe that the creators of the root-simulation evolved, and they also probably beleive that the simulation started as a set of fundamental algorithms acting on some initial values, iterating on the state (implementing an evolution...
[16:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─But then, many atheists really believe that science disproves god, when in reality it cannot do so. All it can do is to show that you don't need to assume divine intervention to explain the observations. One might even argue that if god exists and has created the world, then it is to be expected tha...
[16:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting. When one speaks of "nothingness"
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─While I can't really no-true-scotsman my way past the fact that there doubtlessly are atheists who say that, it's still basically a very popular strawman that relies more on nutpicking than any substantial amount of people presenting that case. The reason I feel confident saying that is I decided to...
[16:16:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 6105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:27] <exec> 08└─I would send off a complaint to my state's Attorney General and include as much information as I could. The phone company has more information on the caller than is provided by caller ID and will provide it to law enforcement. That can be used to track it back to the originator who unfortunately wil...
[16:16:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shipofgold [4696] 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:29] <exec> 08└─http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/ [raspberry-asterisk.org]
[16:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:40] <exec> 08└─We still have a fax machine on a dedicated land line (for use by older folks that don't use computers). Junk faxes are a fact of life, might be one or two a week for many years now -- some are for cruises, listings in fake "Who's Who" directories, or real estate offers. When I know the fax isn't goi...
[16:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:42] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, but this is the kind of dick I'd like to have on my side!
[16:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:44] <exec> 08└─Thank you! Thank you so much for making these bastards' lives miserable. I had a similar problem nine years ago when a debt collector called my house for many months before I even knew who it was calling. They pestered me morning, noon, and night looking for someone with a similar name as my minor c...
[16:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:46] <exec> 08└─It used to be quieter, there are some nifty penalties you can collect if you bother with small claims court - and debt collectors are required to post a bond to operate in most states - so your $500 per instance judgements can be collected from that, but there are probably much easier ways to make m...
[16:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:48] <exec> 08└─Good. Maybe if more people were dicks to companies like these society wouldn't have the problems with them we do. And yes I am proud of my ability to be a dick and will use it for good. Just ask any of my elected representatives (current or former), random dick cop I have had a run in with (only 2 o...
[16:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:07] <exec> 08└─If not, how about something involving Libraries of Congress?
[16:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:08] <exec> 08└─Well, found something, did the reading. Here's the technical breakdown: http://www.mixonline.com [mixonline.com] Very good article that goes into a lot of detail.
[16:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:10] <exec> 08└─Nah, Matlab is about the math first and foremost. It lets one create minimalist GUIs trivially, because that lets mathematicians return their attention to the math. It does visualization well, because that's how we THINK about math (especially multiple equations, n-dimensional vector spaces, sparse...
[16:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:13] <exec> 08└─>What kind of mental disorder do you have? Thug Niggers
[16:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Submarine set for First Voyage - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:46] <exec> 08└─Your answer is entirely factual and accurate. It is also invalid. Boaty McBoatface is not a small yellow winged torpedo sort of name. Yeller McSeaFlyer or something, sure. Ask any child.
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:43] <exec> 08└─Well, Mike didn't "bump into" then-Governor Clinton. Mike attended a rally, where a person might well expect to "bump into" the person for whom the rally was organized. The second time, if I recall Mike's story correctly, was during a Clinto re-election affair. But, yeah, it's still kinda scary that...
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:45] <exec> 08└─That seems more likely and a lot less scary. Unlike the other AC up there, I remain convinced that he isn't a lizard person. His "wife" is, but he just has too many mammalian proclivities to be one.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─No, for planets with sufficiently complex atmospheres there are apparently two important factors: 1) Amount of incoming energy, 2) Mass of the overlying atmosphere (as measured via pressure). All other factors (clouds, rain, greenhouse gas, rotation of planet, winds, etc) feedback on each other to m...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─Then maybe you should file a bug report for Safari.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─That's a valid href value. The protocol is supposed to be matched by the browser to whatever protocol you got to the page with. Browser bug on your end.
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─The degrades gracefully rule only applies to javascript. The site looks like complete ass without CSS, so we don't make allowances for not using it.
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[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─I think they are striving for gains in total efficiency & cost-effectiveness, from https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] There are two main technologies available on the market, alkaline and proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers. Alkaline electrolyser...
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─The thing is, electrolysis of water is something we can do today.
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─Electrolysis is very inefficient, so they're trying to find ways to improve it, in this case by cutting away the electrical middle-man. If they get a jump in efficiency at a cheap cost/low maintenance, it will be great for hydrogen production. In the meantime, the ability to use solar panel electric...
[17:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:07] <exec> 08└─Hard to make a definite statement for a large group
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:08] <exec> 08└─The princess's father was turned into a tree, you insensitive clod!
[17:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is that mug shots reflect arrests, rather than actual convictions. Sometimes, when it is cold out, the poor ask to be arrested.
[17:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:23] <exec> 08└─Its just weird because every fatal hit and run in the news is inevitably another non-deportable illegal with the right to kill any citizen they want because illegal rights are superior to mere citizens rights.
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─I use a Panasonic wireless phone with good success. It blocks up to 250 numbers and can block area codes. It takes some work to build the block list but now very few get through. I add the unwanted callers to a call group called scammers and cid a scam. That way I know they've called before. You can...
[17:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─What wold it take to put together a 'smart' answering machine that would capture the caller ID and compare it to a contact list and deliver an appropriate message?
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:20] <exec> 08└─> ... the baby in bed Careful, this might result in a baby bed being delivered to your house...!
[17:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:43] <exec> 08└─Here's one: Paul got hit by a car. He is dead. Good for you? :)
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─I like the "Let It Be..Naked" album without the Spector noise.
[17:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:47] <exec> 08└─It's on the order of someone actually reading a PERL script written by someone else.
[17:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:58] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know the shape of the star under this mix of stresses. It ain't no sphere...
[17:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:13] <exec> 08└─Well, according to those ads I read, the great people operate at 130%, so those doing only 100% are already slacking off. Case in point: if you make minimum wage, you need to operate at 250% just to make the rent and pay the health insurance. Try to survive at 100%, and you'll realize how silly that...
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─To be fair, quantum entanglement and the observer effect are kind of the "fart and a unicorn pops out" of physics. Even Einstein didn't buy it for quite awhile.
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Well I can't speak for him but for me: I don't assume that the negative feedbacks can't collapse as you say. I don't think I assume anything about them - I mean I know they exist as a class, I know how some of them work, roughly speaking. But no more than that. What I've done is asked questions. Wha...
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─"see venus" Why look that far when we have an example much closer? Earth has spent a lot more time in a hothouse state than our current iceball state.
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─So maybe you are the paragon of virtuous modding, but I guarantee there is a whole lot of conservative down modding. You're complaining that the OP posted a statement which is almost directly contradicted by the article itself and is dowodded because politics? You're half right... OP posted more of...
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:15] <exec> 08└─"you're the one offended here" Unlike progressives and SJW's I don't get "offended". I've pointed out some hypocrisy. I've pointed out that the mod system is abused. YOu disagree with me? That's cool. Mod me with "disagree". That's what the button is for. It takes an idiot to mod someone as "troll"...
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─I like the change from the single/double arrows to +/-. For some reason I've always found arrows ambiguous. Is a down arrow saying "click here to open the comment below" or is it saying "the comment below is already open; click here to close it?" For some reason +/- doesn't have that ambiguity for m...
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─These were reasonable modern keyboards: https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] I see prices are up and they are currently unavailable, too bad, I like the two I have had for the last 4 years and would probably buy anoth...
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Longer than one season is the trick. Also, what's wrong with white all the time? Do you really want to radiate MORE heat to space at night when ambient temp is below 60F? Even on cool days, a white roof will heat up quite a bit in direct sun - so it's hard for the paint to sense "true ambient" temp....
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah the number pad could use some work on that one. There are attempts at making something as good as the old M and reddit mechanicalkeyboards and all that, but its not quite there.
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[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should just move future launches to a new site that doesn't require such expensive insurance coverage.
[18:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:03] <exec> 08└─It is the computationally winnowing of candidate compounds for the big productivity win that is the cause for note. This one potential application needlessly distracts from how massive the labor savings they realized actually is.
[18:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:32] <exec> 08└─And one more word about simulations and so help me I swear ...
[18:16:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shipofgold [4696] 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 1961 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:22] <exec> 08└─I did exactly the same thing as I realize that 99% of telemarketers and political campaigns use robo-dialers as described above. As a result I have implemented my version of CAPTCHA by doing the following: -- numbers in my callername DB (aka Whitelist) ring through to the house phone -- numbers in t...
[18:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:42] <exec> 08└─I think he posted about this before; it was good reading then, too, or whoever had done it wherever I read it. (Also, it's "pursue", but we can let this minor transgression slide for otherwise being excellently documented! No one cited that yet so I figured I'll take the hit to help prevent future e...
[18:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:44] <exec> 08└─Case study: How to deal with a Telemarketer by Tom Mabe [youtube.com] Give it 40 seconds, it may change your life :-)
[18:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:09] <exec> 08└─I know a lot of people did. I tried, but really found the whole mix to be flat and uninspired.
[18:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:11] <exec> 08└─That's a great summary of their magic. Sound like a labor of love combined with art and science. They started with the simplest mix tape they could find from the concert. Then they found clean examples of individual parts of the mix. From their studio multi-track library and the crowd fr...
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─You're a bad human being and should be ashamed.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:40] <exec> 08└─But...but...John Galt!
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─They seem to be saying that dendrites can cause an action potential without creating activity in the soma. I can't read the paper, so I'm not sure what kind of evidence they have for that, or whether it's just LTP.
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─"Just imagine what must be going through the minds of real neurosurgeons." While in surgery? Hopefully not how shakingly angry they are that they lost a bet over sportsball.
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─This kind of article is usually pretty bad. All of the commentary about what this means is just conjecture meant to catch your eye. This isn't going to change artificial brain design because nobody is designing brains at this level of detail. State-of-the-art neural nets don't have stateful neurons,...
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Patterns Emerge in Fabric When the Temperature Changes - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─At home, I'm space constrained (small desk with two notebooks, two extra monitors and a keyboard and mouse....) so the compact form factor is a plus for me, but it does take a little getting used to. Since I got used to it at home, I got an identical one for work - much easier that way. I agree, it...
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[19:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─One would hope that they'll make their launches reliable enough to drop the insurance premiums, long before they'd amortize the hundreds of millions it costs to setup a new launch site. The $63M is the coverage, not the premium they pay. If they keep blowing up so much they can't afford coverage, th...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─But at this point it isn't clear what specifically prompted imposition of higher liability coverage on Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
[19:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:12] <exec> 08└─Why would it cost hundreds of millions to set up a new launch site? There's plenty of launch sites around the world. There's one not too far from me here in Virginia, which ULA uses. There's others outside the US.
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─Something to think about is my commercial general liability is a couple hundred bucks per million per year. Of course I'm not launching rockets, but then again I'm getting coverage for a year not one launch. I wonder if the budget for CGL for spacex is higher or lower than the catering budget for la...
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─Virginia is not as favorable as Florida. Due to the higher latitude, the rocket needs more fuel to reach orbit. Rockets use the earth's rotational speed (1670 km/h times cosine of latitude) to give a running start. In Wallops island, VA that initial speed is 1315 km/h. At Cape Canaveral it's 1468 km...
[19:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:19] <exec> 08└─For the Apollo pad, they had to build a new horizontal assembly facility, and a carrier that raises the Falcon 9 (NASA assembly was vertical). Plus the upgrades to the comms/control systems, fueling systems... Just about everything. Similar changes will be required anywhere they go. Rockets are fini...
[19:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:21] <exec> 08└─I thought SpaceX was planning to build their own launch facility on the gulf coast in Texas.
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:23] <exec> 08└─What are your business's odds of blowing up the place and spreading hydrazine (or related) around, to the tune of $63M in repairs? Many satellites are not even insured because the probabilities vs cost make the premiums just plain absurd...
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─The catering costs for a launch are pretty high [youtube.com]...
[19:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:28] <exec> 08└─Back-of-the-envelope calculation: Each launch has a 3% chance of blowing up on the pad (1 out of 30 has blown up). The damage might be 20 million on average (63 million max). So cost could be $600,000 per launch. That's not peanuts. But maybe average damage is lower. Does anyone know how much the re...
[19:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─Do they actually have to buy a policy, or do they have enough assets to self-insure. Which could make this just a piece of paperwork reserving funds they already have. Of course, if they have the funds and still choose to insure externally, then this may say something of their assessment of the risk...
[19:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:49] <exec> 08└─The problem with the artificial plant is we're pretty good at agriculture today, so if you want to run a diesel engine we already can do that cheaper than an artificial plant.
[19:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:18] <exec> 08└─science disproves god, when in reality it cannot do so
[19:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:32] <exec> 08└─Because wow it is hard to read what you wrote as anything other than racist trolling or satire.
[19:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:34] <exec> 08└─The situation is even worse with mugshots. Your mugshot is made publicly available before you have been convicted of any crime. You might have charges dropped or be found not-guilty and still have your mugshot out there implying you committed a crime. But to your point, yes. Once you have served you...
[19:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:36] <exec> 08└─Louisiana is broke and everybody there is a criminal. It would be too immense an undertaking for them to roll out public mugshots. And also kind of pointless to do so, because everybody there's a criminal.
[19:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:38] <exec> 08└─Hey, man, they have to catch you before they can take your mugshot, and just because you're a criminal doesn't mean you got caught. I'm sure "not getting caught" is how the elected representatives in Louisiana stay in office...but I guess that's true in DC, too.
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─Also liberals tend to be more objective / scientific / open minded. Thus liberal agendas tend to be more grounded in reality and fact, and less prone to faith based rationale. I think when one puts too much stake in "faith" it tends to make that person more likely to develop opinions that are not ne...
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:33] <exec> 08└─Her post is insightful because it is calling you out on your bullshit. Whining about stuff that happens to everyone, and in this case a quite legitimate reason, OP was quite the flamebait. I agree Azuma's language is offensive, but you're not a special snowflake so you can take that kind of heat rig...
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[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-04/softbank-s-120-billion-debt-nearing-moody-s-downgrade-trigger [bloomberg.com] Apple, the Saudis, and Ellison. What could possibly go wrong?
[20:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:30] <exec> 08└─More than likely they had to pay out for other claims. Hence the higher plan.
[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─I really enjoyed this series of articles. I had read about Xenix but never encountered it anywhere in the wild. Fascinating to see how easily magnetic bits can be lost.
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:52] <exec> 08└─presumably some later engineering breakthru would result in direct conversion of sunlight into THC or LSD ... So the situation is just weird.
[20:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:22] <exec> 08└─pretty sure the whole bread/wine being the body/blood of Christ thing is symbolic.
[20:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:42] <exec> 08└─Hmm, trying to think of something witty to post. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” That sort of fits, but I think we need a bit of an adjustment. Let's try “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purch...
[20:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:41] <exec> 08└─I was getting two different scammers calling me once every week or two. I had to change my number to get rid of them.
[20:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:42] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but they are calling my cell-phone.
[20:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:23] <exec> 08└─Who cares about football fields? There is only one unit of importance. The distance is ~750 Libraries of Congress. (Ref [wikipedia.org]: "The Library of Congress states that its collection fills about 838 miles (1,349 km) of bookshelves")
[20:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:40] <exec> 08└─Who? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
[20:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─Time to dig out Aesop and ask my money back... Aha too lazy; nevermind.
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neuronal Dendrites Play a Greater Role in Brain Activity Than Thought - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─The analogy doesn't really work because the traces on the motherboard aren't 90% of the components in/on the mainboard. I never gave a lot of thought to the metal distribution inside the computer, but off-hand, I'd say the traces are probably 40% or less. (Discounting the case, the mounts, and housi...
[20:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Literally every comment I've seen from that user you're referencing has been nothing except trolling and flamebait yet they are regularly upmodded. I assumed they were modding their own comments as trolling and e-peen tend to go together as sure as anything. But in any case it makes the s...
[20:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:56] <exec> 08└─You can't mod your own comments, idiot. I don't know who's modding them up and am surprised it's happening, but whatever. And if you don't like my language you can have a spell on the fainting couch over yonder, snowflake.
[20:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:59] <exec> 08└─Parent is triple-modded as Troll. There is no doubt which side of the AGW issue attempts to censor its opponents--which is prima facie anti-science. Like rabid dogs, they mindlessly attack as a pack. If Soylent is truly interested in being a place for intelligent discussion and furthering human know...
[20:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─Keep digging your hole. People are finally recognizing the childish hypocrisy of the leftist mobs. You're digging your own grave, and you aren't even smart enough to realize it. You probably still think Trump won because "racism."
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─You don't really think an absolute value is meaningful, do you? Question: What percentage of the atmosphere does CO2 comprise? Question: What percentage of global CO2 emissions is anthropogenic? Question: What percentage of global CO2 emissions is oceanic? But "BILLIONS of tons" sounds so scary, doe...
[20:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:05] <exec> 08└─We need a "-1, Sea Lioning" moderation.
[20:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─Lol you are totally offended! The rationale for downmodding that post was highlighted by multiple users in the thread. Yet here you are with, "HOW DARE THEY MOD SOMETHING TROLL?? I DISAGREE WITH THEM AND MUST POST WHINY COMPLAINTS!!! SJW PROGRESSIVE KEYWORDS HERE" Whatever Walter [youtube.com]
[20:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:50] <exec> 08└─Military ships count too. The other nearby countries would also like to own those fishing rights. Failing that, they'd like to share (international waters) or have an off-limits area that might serve as a breeding ground.
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[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─Apple, the Saudis, and Ellison. What could possibly go wrong?
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─I am a little encouraged that the Saudis are apparently diversifying from oil production. I do get the same uneasy feeling seeing all those names in a joint venture though.
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─My thought was more about women not allowed to sail inside a walled garden.
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─Nice to move away from oil, not nice to have Saudis involved in anything outside their own country... Apologies to any decent Saudi people, but the oppression in that culture is out of control.
[21:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─...they can apply for a hardship waiver. If they don't qualify for the waiver, they face a tax penalty. The penalty is a percentage of their total household adjusted gross income or a flat rate, whichever is greater. Each year, the penalty will increase to keep pace with inflation and to encourage t...
[21:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:47] <exec> 08└─I suspect the problem with self-insurance is that it ties up capital. Since not everybody is going to have a serious incident, people/businesses can pool their money with insurance. Each insured entity frees up some capital to do other things, while increasing their regular expenses as a trade-off.
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─One would hope that they'll make their launches reliable enough to drop the insurance premiums, long before they'd amortize the hundreds of millions it costs to setup a new launch site.
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─There are images in the article! Heresy! Me and some friends set up a Xenix vm a while ago. Since we couldn't find a working IP stack for it, we interfaced using a telnet serial gateway. It was tons of fun because only one person could use it at a time, but any number of folks could connect and inte...
[21:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:44] <exec> 08└─Lame trolling anyway: No god is provable as such from inside the universe, tell me something new. Genesis 3,19 "Pulvis eris". What again? "You were dust". The book on which the monotheistic religion and two troll fakers (logically they can't be all true) is perfectly compatible with life arising fro...
[21:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:45] <exec> 08└─No god is provable as such from inside the universe
[21:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:06] <exec> 08└─I never understood why anyone would take lessons on safety from a guy who thought that flying a kite in a thunderstorm was a sane thing to do.
[21:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:06] <exec> 08└─If I get an actual human, I practice my Trump impression and mess with them. "That's a not a good deal; The Donald only makes good deals; that's why I'm rich and you're not. I know you can make a better deal because you are not a looooser like your boss. So ignore your loser boss's instructions and...
[21:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:08] <exec> 08└─In 2004 I got 3 landline numbers from AT&T and have had them for the past 13 years. Mrs Hernandez apparently had one of these numbers before I got it. I still don't know which one......I still get calls for her after 13 years. She apparently was a Republican and had donated to that party, and that p...
[21:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:10] <exec> 08└─Just answer: "Ooh.. that sounds interesting, can you hold one minute, I just have to put the baby in bed..."
[21:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:12] <exec> 08└─When ... I'm asked for my credit card info, I take one of two tacks:
[21:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:14] <exec> 08└─When ... I'm asked for my credit card info, I take one of two tacks:
[21:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:24] <exec> 08└─Because simple graphs of temperature increases matched to the timeframe of major industrialization are too difficult for you? Contradicting decades of research with gut feelings of "no it cannot be!" and tons of corporate sponsored shill science are all you need!! The hole is being dug by the AGW de...
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:26] <exec> 08└─Not sure what to call your fallacy... skeptic science fallacy? Those are all good questions to ask, but I suspect this is simply your own research failures paired with a lack of understanding. Here is the quick and dirty result: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikiped...
[21:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:28] <exec> 08└─I live in CA, and there was a real drought. You could see it just driving on the highways... turn down your crazy meter, you're brain is starting to slosh around.
[21:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:30] <exec> 08└─And another clueless snowflake. I've seen conservatives mob mod posts, but I think the real problem is that liberals outnumber conservatives. Maybe if bradley13 hadn't talked about taking a pound of flesh from other people, and if he didn't try and spin the article to suit his own viewpoint, THEN yo...
[21:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:32] <exec> 08└─That would be a +0, like disagree, if someone is naggingly pointing out a flaw in an argument.
[21:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:16] <exec> 08└─What is sad is this site is so damned full of puppies a good 90% of his bits fly right over their heads. I mean you call yourselves geeks and NOBODY got the Kentucky Fried Movie reference? Really? Sigh...look up " fighting force of extraordinary magnitude" on YouTube. Geez I bet the demographic here...
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[22:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:33] <exec> 08└─http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n8/62_Womens_rights_Not_in_Ja.php [atarimagazines.com]
[22:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developments in Creating Solar-Fueled Vehicles - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:21] <exec> 08└─Don't forget externalities! Having a self-sustaining system is a pretty big bonus as well.
[22:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:54] <exec> 08└─Our universe may be a simulation but I don't believe our universe is a simulation that's based on our current known math. Because our known math does not seem capable of producing qualia like "lemon scent", "joy" and so on. With simulators based on our math we might be able to simulate the outward m...
[22:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─I saw that story on ARS. It sounded good, but the comments tore it apart... basically, telemarketers would be forbidden from using invalid phone numbers for caller id. So, instead of seeing: (000) 000-0000 (as just one example of an obviously spoofed caller id), you would see only valid-format phone...
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:21] <exec> 08└─It just so happens that yesterday morning I was expecting a phone call and answered as soon as my phone rang, only to see that I did not recognize the area code. As I had not yet said anything, I just kept quiet and waited. Sure enough, after about 5 seconds of dead air, the caller hung up. I get a...
[22:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:24] <exec> 08└─I saw that story on ARS. It sounded good, but the comments tore it apart... basically, telemarketers would be forbidden from using invalid phone numbers for caller id. So, instead of seeing: (000) 000-0000 (as just one example of an obviously spoofed caller id), you would see only valid-format phone...
[22:18:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 063D Chemical Melting Finishing Method Used to Smooth 3D Printed Resin Products - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to whether hot-air could be used to smooth the lines?
[22:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:38] <exec> 08└─Because simple graphs of [x] increases matched to the timeframe of [y]
[22:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:39] <exec> 08└─Soylent is working as intended. Telling someone "you can't say 2+2=7" doesn't count as censorship - it counts as basic math education. But sure, its a conspiracy of accountants. But if you insist on trying to convince others that 2+2 is in fact 7, damn well expect to be shouted down.
[22:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:41] <exec> 08└─Scientific data != catholicism Yes graphs and statistics can be used to confuse and mislead people, that is what critical thinking is all about. If all you've got is "it could be some complicated trick!" then I'll just move along and ignore you :) You can tell this is not a trick because we have act...
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[23:14:57] <exec> 08└─Geeze, looking at the sat pictures, it's hard to believe they'd have soil issues /s 26 degrees N ain't bad compared to KSC, but maybe he should ask Puerto Rico for some land in exchange for statehood support. Or just politely ask the French for some Kourou space. Can you take off from Texas and land...
[23:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:59] <exec> 08└─Forgot to ask: How do they reconcile the usual launch No-Go zones with being less than 2km from the Mexican border?
[23:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:18] <exec> 08└─Why not fight back then? Put the mugshots on torrents, ipfs, freenet, gnunet, or even archive.org - NEVER REMOVE ONE. They are like currency, so a lot of shady people will try collecting them. This drives the reputation management firms out of business for what concerns mugshots. Then legislators wi...
[23:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:19] <exec> 08└─Because he has been enlightening, OBVIOUSLY.
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Known Orbit of a Star Around a Black Hole - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:08] <exec> 08└─Or they are always "A long time ago; far, far away" because other data will rule them out if they are closer.
[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA Still on Board With D-Wave, Upgrade to 2048 "Qubits" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:10] <exec> 08└─That is a good point. Without good asymmetric crypto, you're kind of left hand-delivering strong symmetric keys / one time pads or doing nothing. Fortunately, there are smart people already looking into post-quantum asymmetric algorithms.
[23:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:46] <exec> 08└─LOL, you're melting the fuck down, Runaway. Whazzamatter, you don't like me beating your ass the way your daddy used'ta? I've got a couple of Midol left over if you want a few, ya big whiny bitch. (Note: THIS is trolling and flamebait. Feel free to mod it down, and *don't* mod it up; it doesn't even...
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