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[00:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:06] <exec> 08└─Giant masher or giant deep-fryer solves the problem. [pomme de terre river literally translates into potato river]. The answer is not to save people from the side, but to design the seats cushions or airbags such that they can be ripped out, duct-taped, and used as flotation devices. Not falling int...
[00:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:08] <exec> 08└─In the areas by my hometown, where illegal Beaners die regularly trying to illegally swim across our canals, we have floatie lines [wikimedia.org] already installed in various spots so people who fall in can grab onto them. I think it would be more economical to install static but effective floatie-...
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[00:14:10] <exec> 08└─Carefully.
[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─Damn, I was hoping I would hit the lamness filter and have to amend it to "Mostly Carefully."
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─>The Last Chance prototype is designed to not automatically retract... Good for them. Once you've got a rope and flotation device to a person in a flooding river, their problem is pretty much solved. Adding more "features" just adds more expense and ways for it to fail. The one place I could see pot...
[00:14:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 938 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─You have always and forever been, under penalty of perjury or obstruction of justice, able to be forced to submit evidence or testimony to a court of law with a signed warrant, though case law gradually addressed edge cases, it's never been the case that you could legally refuse to allow warranted s...
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:38] <exec> 08└─That was my first reaction as well There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America; there is no place outside of judicial reach,
[00:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:40] <exec> 08└─Mendax forgot to add "because no one I know has become a victim of judicial or executive overreach"
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─You only say that because you disagree with the Judicial decisions that have been made as of late. The only ones treating our constitution like toilet paper are the Orange One and his clown cadre, oh and you of course.
[00:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:44] <exec> 08└─I would gladly Join team trump so that I could rip the liberal tumors one by one out of my beloved country. Liberal punks are so cute thinking that they can beat us. [youtube.com] We've been tolerant of your whining up until this point, but when we fight back, you're gonna be hurtin' after you and y...
[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:46] <exec> 08└─I believe it's self evident that panopticon is inevitable
[00:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:48] <exec> 08└─from a violently imposed meme-opoly? Anyway, I think I will maintain an updated list of Comey stories [soylentnews.org] on my journal soon. Maybe expand it to include Theresa May or others. Don't want to lose track of the ongoing travesties.
[00:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:51] <exec> 08└─The only ones treating our constitution like toilet paper are the Orange One and his clown cadre, oh and you of course.
[00:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:22] <exec> 08└─You are looking at it through survivor bias. MOST movies in a given year are terrible. The same year Full Metal Jacket and The Princess Bride came out, both decent movies. But "Leonard part 6" also came out that same year. Usually in 1 year only a small tiny handful of movies are worth anything. I h...
[00:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:23] <exec> 08└─"You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
[00:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:25] <exec> 08└─The Princess Bride, decent? Guffaw, the folks who think Princess Bride is worth watching are the same folks who think Vonnegut and Persig are worth reading.
[00:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─(((opinion-fueled)))
[00:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 2550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:49] <exec> 08└─The thing is, addiction is not actually physical at it's root. Yeah, the withdrawal associated with physical addiction makes it that much harder to quit, but that's not what keeps you coming back. What keeps you coming back is that you've found a way to fill a hole in your life with a drug (or gambl...
[00:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:30] <exec> 08└─As long as eBooks are almost the same ( or even higher ) priced as a real book is, many will opt for the dead tree version as they have something tangible for their money. The 'convenience fee' of an eBook with the current pricing model is hard to swallow for many, and setting up for long term failu...
[00:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:32] <exec> 08└─Unless you want something that isn't as old as dirt.
[00:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underground Ocean on Enceladus May be Close to the Surface - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:42] <exec> 08└─And now you're rock hard.
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[01:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Scans Used on People Conducting "Illicit" Activity - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:59] <exec> 08└─"Honest, I'm not a troll!"
[01:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:12] <exec> 08└─Why bother? Just send a thick rope that floats, 20 to 30 feet long, with a flotation device at both ends. Just need to get it upstream of the person, and let them catch the rope and use the flotation to head downstream until they're in a better place to be rescued. Modern version, Patent pending: dr...
[01:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─Better yet, use the drone to drop / deliver the rescue gear directly on the target.
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─So basically a giant floating bola. Sounds safe. No way the victim is going to get tangled up in the rope and drown while you watch helplessly from shore. Also, how exactly are you imagining they get this rope upstream of them, when they're a hundred feet or more away from the river bank? You still...
[01:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe with a forced brain scan one could figure out what one is thinking. but so far, that is an unreasonable search. If Comey thinks otherwise, he's not the reasonable everyman he portrays himself to be.
[01:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:47] <exec> 08└─What is your great winner's track record again? No wall, no ban, no trumpdontcare and no budget. So far we've been rather successful in stopping him. Republicans think they're going to succeed, but the infighting will prevent anything that the orange one has promised. So keep raging against the non-...
[01:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:16] <exec> 08└─Ahhh Marvel movies, the ones I never watched to begin with. Yes, I also don't have a TV.
[01:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:20] <exec> 08└─Which is why I really hate that they call agrichemical-based farming "conventional." What we call organic farming should be called conventional since it was the way to farm for >99% of the history of farming and what we call conventional should be called something else.
[01:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:21] <exec> 08└─It's a shame that what started before WWII in England and shortly after in USA as the organic farming movement has now been (mostly) co-opted by big agribusiness.
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck would invest money to "restore land back to nature"?
[01:18:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:51] <exec> 08└─I find many engineer types completely ignorant of how the world actually works and yet having a political opinion, based on what who knows.
[01:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:33] <exec> 08└─Real men don't shave. If a real man does shave, he uses a straight razor.
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[02:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03varsix [5867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain Scans Used on People Conducting "Illicit" Activity - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─A manufactured scenario like this is not going to give realistic results. Also, fMRI studies are problematic due to their perpetually small sample sizes and the software bug discovered in the past few years that could possibly invalidate a lot of fMRI results (up to 70%). I hope they updated their s...
[02:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Scans Used on People Conducting "Illicit" Activity - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:09] <exec> 08└─I also wondered if they compared it to more mundane brain patterns, like playing a video game. If they know where the guards are, aren't they just basically playing a make-believe game? I'm certain they think they've found the ever elusive truth serum. Just a matter of time until we have a brainwave...
[02:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Scans Used on People Conducting "Illicit" Activity - 1748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:11] <exec> 08└─If it was a computer game I would run up to the checkpoint vigorously strafing from left to right - holding my .50 caliber sniper rifle in one hand and the illicit items in the other - as I get closer I toss two grenades in the proximity of the checkpoint to make sure there are no enemies around. If...
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:27] <exec> 08└─What's easier to do when you're "hundred feet or more away" ? Use a hexacopter to drop a flotation device just upstream of the victim, or try to hit them with a compressed air cannon? Keeping one end is desirable, except that it means your good-enough launch point has to also be a good-enough draggi...
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:29] <exec> 08└─How well do affordable drones stand up to operating in wind and rain? Because both can be fairly common during floods. I do agree that a good drone could be a better alternative - but also a considerably more fragile and expensive one, which is an important consideration especially for cash-strapped...
[02:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:02] <exec> 08└─I wanted trump to win because I thought he was most likely to be overthrown, I still hope that is true.
[02:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:03] <exec> 08└─I'm allowed to say whatever I want, in any language. What, you can't understand me? I guess we speak a different language.
[02:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:34] <exec> 08└─Does this also apply to Costa Ricans?
[02:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:42] <exec> 08└─Koreans eat a lot of rutabagas.
[02:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:43] <exec> 08└─How much does the fruit and vegetable lobby pay you to shill for them?
[02:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:46] <exec> 08└─Rules vary by state and country. In some places "organic" has specific meanings, other places it could be almost anything. Even in places where the rules are strict, I have no idea how good the enforcement is. If an organic crop is all of a sudden hit by some disease or bugs, the temptation for some...
[02:20:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 1773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:38] <exec> 08└─Oh those millennials, they're so horrible! They don't want to carry proprietary devices that can only display DRM-laden e-books that they don't even fucking own, can't even fucking lend to a friend, can't even fucking resell, can't even fucking swap, can't even fucking donate to a library! It's the...
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[03:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:29] <exec> 08└─Don't you need Amazon Prime for that service?
[03:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:04] <exec> 08└─I would gladly support death camps for all people with IQ's less than 135 because those people are the problem.
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:05] <exec> 08└─You know - I've heard that many times. But, I've never heard or seen a reliable source for that common accusation. I'm not disputing that it happened, or even that it still happens. I'd just like to see some evidence that it's true. Photographs of half a dozen signed blank warrants in a cop's patrol...
[03:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:07] <exec> 08└─Ethanol is just mad because he hasn't come out of the closet yet. He just wants some cute liberal action. Conservatives are such bad fuckers, you know. They also suck at humor. And they are not too smart. And, they will loose. They will loose it all.
[03:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:10] <exec> 08└─> death camps for all people with IQ's less than 135 Bullied much in high school?
[03:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:12] <exec> 08└─Hahahahah...despite your shallow threats, your death rattle [theintercept.com] is close at-hand. Lies and propaganda have worked in the past, but folks are too smart for that now. We have the U.S. military and the Excalibur of truth on our side. You have nothing but a bunch of self-destructive indoc...
[03:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:14] <exec> 08└─Your mind is outside of judicial reach, outside of any method of search and seizure. Government cannot forcibly extract information from your head. Yet, at least. You can keep secrets, even in court. The judge may believe that you are being less than honest, but unless he can prove it, he has no aut...
[03:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:16] <exec> 08└─What do you suggest? If this goes too far and gets too integrated, stopping it will require essentially committing electronic suicide, blowing out huge swathes of the electric grid with homemade EMP weapons.
[03:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:18] <exec> 08└─Eth...you're starting to forget the first rule of drug dealing, which is your case should read "don't huff your own jenkem." You're trying too hard.
[03:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:21] <exec> 08└─As someone who wouldn't be sent to one of those...screw you. A person's worth is not measured solely by their intelligence, and IQ is a crap proxy for someone's intelligence as it is. It measures a specific subset of verbal and mathematical reasoning, mostly in an English-speaking and Westernized mi...
[03:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:56] <exec> 08└─You know you made my point right? Most movies are not good. Princess bride is amusing 90 min movie. Nothing more. It was good for what it was thats it. But 99% of the other movies meh...
[03:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:52] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it's time to bring back the drive-in theatre.
[03:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:12] <exec> 08└─I am quite a bit ignorant on how to do this, even to not knowing it could be done. Not knowing the potential of the devices, I just saw what was shown to me, and put it back down, sorely underwhelmed. This is the kind of thing you sell to investors. Not to customers. Investors will buy damned near a...
[03:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:43] <exec> 08└─really? to lazy too even google .... http://www.diffen.com [diffen.com] here's with colors in case you get too tired of reading: http://www.mathsisfun.com [mathsisfun.com]
[03:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:12] <exec> 08└─60 million preventable pregnancies is a better way to look at it.
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[04:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:15] <exec> 08└─Its easy to be skeptical of someone telling you something you don't want to believe. It takes discipline to doubt someone telling you something that you want to believe. Remember: If its too good to be true, it probably is.
[04:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:17] <exec> 08└─"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence." I don't buy it.
[04:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:36] <exec> 08└─You're right that it will be good... You're just mistaken as to who will prevail in the end. Yup the Republicans are doing really "good" jobs at the propaganda. Good was in scare quotes. They are failing miserably. No wall to save us from the big bad Mexican rapists, they didn't put the most corrupt...
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[04:15:38] <exec> 08└─well it's a better value than most of the arbitrary things people are murdered over it would make the world tangibly better, it would get rid of pretty much all elected officials all of the plutocrats and most people that support fascism. no kkk no fascist usa, the only way to achieve this is to eli...
[04:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:38] <exec> 08└─It's possible that the AC is a true AC (unlike you and I) and doesn't have any mod points.
[04:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:40] <exec> 08└─What keeps you coming back is that you've found a way to fill a hole in your life with a drug (or gambling, or shopping, or...). As long as that hole is there, you're going to keep trying to fill it"
[04:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:42] <exec> 08└─I was on various pain medications for nearly a decade for a back injury. Went through vicodin, tramadol, morphine, oxycodone, dilaudid, fentanyl, and methadone and ended up severely addicted by the end of it all. I've been off the painkillers for a few months now and have been supplementing with mar...
[04:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:44] <exec> 08└─I was on various pain medications for nearly a decade for a back injury. Went through vicodin, tramadol, morphine, oxycodone, dilaudid, fentanyl, and methadone and ended up severely addicted by the end of it all. I've been off the painkillers for a few months now and have been supplementing with mar...
[04:17:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 2275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:07] <exec> 08└─Well I do avoid theaters because of the $20. That, and they feel it appropriate to charge $6 for a drink that I can get for less than $2 at a gas station. Exactly the same. Same size cup, same quality ice, same bullshit HFCS in it, etc. Then a *small* bag of popcorn is $7. The movies costs more per...
[04:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 2132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:18] <exec> 08└─DRM sure broke me from buying licensed stuff. I paid for the experience of being entertained, not the additional frustration of being compelled to someone else's business model. In the case of movies, unskippable previews and ads ruin the mood of the moment, souring the whole presentation. The thea...
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[04:17:19] <exec> 08└─Keeping my name and address off the lists that are sure to be shared with people conducting fishing expeditions is worth a helluva lot more to me than two theater tickets!
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[05:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:59] <exec> 08└─Ask a Liberal why certain minorities do so poorly on standardized tests, you can count on getting a huffy dismissal along the lines of "tests are racist!" Yet, like clockwork, every time the Democrats lose an election, out come the articles 'proving' by sober, official-sounding studies proving how e...
[05:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:01] <exec> 08└─How many times have all of us read what is, essentially, the same article before? It doesn't matter if "facts" are real or not, all that matters is what enforces "the way I view the world." This is extremely elementary. Yet, this is why people STILL think Trump isn't involved with Russia, and why Wi...
[05:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:03] <exec> 08└─So far AI is doing the opposite: suggesting stuff matching your own preconceived notions. If you "dislike" a video you disagree with, you are telling Youtube that you don't want to see videos like that anymore.
[05:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:05] <exec> 08└─Trivial to flip that around: this is why people STILL think Trump is involved with Russia, and why Wikileaks is somehow still indefensible, why people believe the gender wage gap, why race is not indicative of IQ (or for that matter is not scientifically determinable in any means whatsoever (HINT: I...
[05:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─Here's a book review from over a year ago, new book studying con artists. Looks like nearly everyone is vulnerable if the artist chooses the right con for the mark. http://nymag.com [nymag.com] Q. Are certain types of people more skilled or m...
[05:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:10] <exec> 08└─You persecution complex is showing.
[05:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:12] <exec> 08└─That's not "AI." It is just marketing trying to maximize the number of commercials you watch. Bias confirmation is addictive, so they give you bias confirmation. Same as marketing always has.
[05:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:14] <exec> 08└─Which is why I would never "dislike" something just because I disagree with it. In fact a lot of my favorites are one that I partly disagree with. It's easy to tell me what I already know and get me to nod along, but when you tell me shit I don't want to believe in a way that combines logic and evid...
[05:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:34] <exec> 08└─Doing so would violate evidentiary rules, as all fifty states and the District of Columbia have statutes protecting confessional privilege [wikipedia.org]. There were attempts to actually wiretap confessions made to a priest and in all such cases so far evidence obtained that way was deemed inadmiss...
[05:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I'll go with that. Aren't judges required to log what warrants they issue and what those are for? Even a Notary Public has to record what it is that he's notarizing. This sounds like a good way for a judge to get censured, disbarred, and/or imprisoned. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:38] <exec> 08└─It is a good day to die when you realize that your existence is damaging to everyone around you, suicide is not only an option it is a responsibility.
[05:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:40] <exec> 08└─Then what? Mike Pence? Sure that's what you want? [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:42] <exec> 08└─If he's serious about this, he's probably not intelligent at all. He has neither wisdom nor intelligence, regardless of what his IQ (which is pseudoscience) may or may not be.
[05:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:44] <exec> 08└─Surrender, lefty. You can speak all the words you want to, but your buddies will still act violently against free speech. Let them do so. If they had been moderate and constitutionalists in the first place, we would not be in this situation. There would not be a backlash agsinst your kind, because w...
[05:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:46] <exec> 08└─We don't want to fight you, but wish to join with you with common ground to work for mutual interest. Although if you wish to fight against us, we will win. [soylentnews.org]
[05:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:49] <exec> 08└─There was, once, at least according to legend. Though it's worth noting that there's no definitive references to him in historical documents until a century after his supposed death, so it's possible he was a literary fabrication - a possibility that gains credibility in light of the many parallels...
[05:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:51] <exec> 08└─>Dealers also use MJ as a 'gateway' to up sell you to get more fucked up Dealers would use chocolate and ice cream as "gateway drugs" if they were illegal. The "gateway" problem has nothing to do with marijuana itself - the vast majority of users never move to anything more dangerous. The problem is...
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[06:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:13] <exec> 08└─Come on, it should be pretty obvious: take the drive apart if necessary, and smash each IC thoroughly with a hammer and a center punch.
[06:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:14] <exec> 08└─If you've ever wanted an excuse to make thermite, here you go.
[06:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:16] <exec> 08└─Take the covers off, and put a .223 through each chip. Put that back together.
[06:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:18] <exec> 08└─If you trust the vendor, here [thomas-krenn.com] is a tutorial which offers advise how to enable the secure-erase feature of an ssd under Linux (if supported by ssd). Of course this requires you trust the vendor to not secretly just set a flag which could be overwritten by NSA or vendor (on request)...
[06:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vokbain [2372] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:20] <exec> 08└─Shred them. As well as your regular HDs too.
[06:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:23] <exec> 08└─Darik's Boot and Nuke? [dban.org]
[06:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:25] <exec> 08└─> I don't know why deleting and re-occupying space with zeros doesn't work, Remapping and sparing means just because you write enough bytes to fill the official capacity does not mean you've overwritten every cell of storage. Its probably good enough to prevent the average user with an undelete tool...
[06:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:27] <exec> 08└─DBAN just writes lots and lots of data. As was mentioned upthread, SSDs' internal wear-leveling algorithms will just think of the incoming bitstorm as a massive but intended load and distribute it across the flash cells as best they can. Theoretically, if you were to write petabytes upon petabytes o...
[06:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:29] <exec> 08└─then why not a tried and true method that works on HHDs, deleting everything then filling the drive with random garbage? For good measure, erase and fill twice.
[06:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:31] <exec> 08└─Use full disk encryption, preferably with Linux, and use a good passphrase (dozens of characters, alphanumeric and punctuations). Never put anything sensitive on it before full disk encryption has been applied. Then do whatever you want with the drive afterward, data won't be recoverable. Throw it i...
[06:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:48] <exec> 08└─> One of the really easy things is creating a feeling of familiarity. You’re more likely to trust someone who feels more familiar to you. I experienced this one personally, quite by accident. I used to be a contractor at a defense contractor. They made us contractors go through special hoops becau...
[06:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:50] <exec> 08└─Ask a Liberal why certain minorities do so poorly on standardized tests, you can count on getting a huffy dismissal along the lines of "tests are racist!"
[06:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:52] <exec> 08└─> Trivial to flip that around: You are right, it is trivial. But only if you believe that facts are completely arbitrary. Only if you believe that there is no such thing as truth, only tribe. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there i...
[06:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 2669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:54] <exec> 08└─Isn't it odd how you're denigrating those liberals for sliding into the same sort of behavior people like you engage in reflexively? Yeah, it's dumb to ignore plain facts and data, but what they're doing is the shadow side of what your kind does. Y'see, *you* assholes, with your hyper-activated amyg...
[06:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:56] <exec> 08└─Seriously, read this book. It's short, funny and a real eye-opener. And directly answers the question using scientific research. https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca [umanitoba.ca] OK, what’s this book about? It’s about what’s happened to the American government lately. It’s about the dis...
[06:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:25] <exec> 08└─If those charts correlating IQ with GRE scores are correct mine is 145, so in your scheme I'd escape your little death camps. What you, with your presumably Promethean IQ, don't seem to have realized, is that by doing this you become precisely as bad as all those violent people you call stupid, and...
[06:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:03] <exec> 08└─The Matrix is real and this world is a computer simulation. The other-dimension beings control a few people and use them to grab real power.
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[07:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:20] <exec> 08└─Erasing free space or reformatting a drive by rewriting it zeroes is an effective way to clear data off on a hard drive, but not so much on an SSD
[07:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:21] <exec> 08└─Or take a heat gun, set it to some decent temperature, heat the board up and, once the solder melts, whack the board against something. The chips will fall off. Pick them up and put in a pocket. The board is harmless. Over the next few days throw the chips, one by one, into most secure random recept...
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[07:14:23] <exec> 08└─from the summary, Erasing free space or reformatting a drive by rewriting it zeroes is an effective way to clear data off on a hard drive, but not so much on an SSD.
[07:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─Last I had cause to pay attention, decommissioning an HDD to gov't specs [for 'secret' classification] was already at the level of 'drill the platters, toss in bonfire.' For SSDs modify to 'drill the ICs, toss in bonfire' and done. That or put it through an industrial shredder. Wood chipper, muffin...
[07:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:28] <exec> 08└─Quoting from the following link http://nvsl.ucsd.edu [ucsd.edu] Sanitization is well-understood for traditional magnetic storage, such as hard drives and tapes. Newer Solid State Disks (SSDs), however, have a much different internal architecture, so it is unclear...
[07:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:30] <exec> 08└─I'll assume you didn't use encryption from the start, or you suspect that your key may have ended up in an unencrypted swap partition. Oops, now you need to deal with the problem. First, simply clear the disk. Boot a Linux live CD or put the drive in a SATA-to-USB adapter, then do: "dd if=/dev/zero...
[07:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:32] <exec> 08└─Grinding the chips into tiny little bits still seems more reliable.
[07:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:34] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a job for mans oldest and bestest friend - fire. (sorry dogs. you're definitely number 2.)
[07:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:36] <exec> 08└─This is the thing though, it's not a trivial task to write to a sector on an SSD. Normally you send it directives as if it were an HDD but it has an internal controller that interprets those instructions as it sees fit. This is necessary in order to perform 'wear leveling' among other things. So jus...
[07:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:39] <exec> 08└─Just write a script to format, the fill up with goatse/2girls1cup images, reformat, refill etc. Anyone who then tries to delve through the available data will start to wish they hadn't.
[07:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:41] <exec> 08└─Would you want a SSD that's been through a dog?
[07:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:43] <exec> 08└─There is no component in as SSD that will survive a fire. If you want to be certain, beyond any possible doubt, use an oxy-acetylene torch, and melt it down to a little puddle of slag. But, tossing an SSD into a simple log fire should be more than sufficient. A coal fire, scrap lumber, some plastic...
[07:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:45] <exec> 08└─I want to get rid of it anyway. Encrypt it, fill it full of anything and/or nothing, and lose the encryption key. That could be the first step, as well as the last step. Encrypt, fill with data, reformat, encrypt, fill with data, reformat, encrypt, fill with data. What are the flaws? You can repeat...
[07:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:47] <exec> 08└─Prices on devices designed for SSD shredding start in the thousands.
[07:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:50] <exec> 08└─This story made me curious about the physical properties and chemical resistance of "memory chips". Unfortunately for me, typing into Google: chemical-(destruction|resistance)-of-(memory|semiconductor|electronic)-chips and how-to destroy-electronic-silicon-chip-by-chemical gave me fuck...
[07:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 3012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:12] <exec> 08└─Everybody will think it's talking about 'the other side.' And I think there's a simple explanation. Most things we have no way of knowing as a personal fact. We're left to rely on information from others to inform us. Yet the media has really deteriorated in recent years in no small part thanks to t...
[07:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, dealing with deplorables is a complicated task. Sadly the people who don't like deplorable folks also look down on eugenics and other such methods of correcting humanity. Thankfully for you I don't believe eugenics is a good idea.
[07:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:43] <exec> 08└─As technology progresses, surveillance only becomes cheaper and easier. Also, it's not up to me what the TLA's spend my money on.
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[08:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:01] <exec> 08└─AP is up to to some tricks... here's another link to the same thing from what I can tell... http://hosted.ap.org [ap.org]
[08:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:02] <exec> 08└─At least they were trying, according to their beliefs. If we aren't going to allow that, then how about parents who sexually mutilate their sons a week after birth? What if the mohel performs metzitzah b’peh, causing the child to die of neonatal herpes? FYI, that is... some kind of cannibal pedoph...
[08:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:05] <exec> 08└─Now it is a serious issue, but to equate ancient medical practice with cannibalism? Sheeeit, you must be one hell of an Aryan brother!!
[08:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:07] <exec> 08└─Saying "a couple of months" is too vague since the viability can change drastically in a week. The chance of survival at less than 23 weeks is close to zero, while at 23 weeks it is 15%, 24 weeks 55% and 25 weeks about 80%
[08:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:09] <exec> 08└─Nope, it shows some kind of map. What is wrong with this site?
[08:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:11] <exec> 08└─---- offtopic comment - but this is the first time I have seen something like this happen... ---- Ok... now I am really confused. The original link kept routing me to "http://hosted.ap.org/specials/bluepage.html". I cut and pasted some stuff into Google, and got what Google returned... and posted...
[08:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:44] <exec> 08└─120 VAC where 5 VDC belongs will do a total low-level format.
[08:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:45] <exec> 08└─No, the stupid here burns. If you are trying to fill the empty spaces with zeros, yea the drive firmware might get clever on ya. But if you fill the entire drive with random data and then zeros it is done. There might be a few random bits in spare blocks the NSA could recover but the odds of those c...
[08:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:47] <exec> 08└─Try "decapping IC" for a starter. Here's an example [youtube.com]
[08:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:49] <exec> 08└─it's not google, you silly paranoid little person you. it's skynet that's deleted all the references to destroying silicon chips.
[08:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:52] <exec> 08└─Remapping and sparing means just because you write enough bytes to fill the official capacity does not mean you've overwritten every cell of storage.
[08:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:54] <exec> 08└─Many mentioned fire, but throwing it into an active molten lava lake would be better.
[08:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:56] <exec> 08└─Thermite is more fun...
[08:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:58] <exec> 08└─Give it to a 5 year-old. Advanced method: give it to a bunch of 5 years-olds. Super-exclusive method: Give it to my mom. Files will disappear, never to be found again. Cheap method: Zap with AC. Give to metals-recycling latino guy in beat-up pickup truck. He'll take it apart thoroughly.
[08:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:00] <exec> 08└─To expand on ACs comment - SSDs typically incorporate a fair sized buffer of reserved capacity with which to silently replace any failing cells (e.g. a 256GB SSD may actually contain 300GB of capacity). Those reserve cells cannot be directly addressed - as far as the computer is concerned they don't...
[08:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:02] <exec> 08└─The flaw is if you didn't encrypt *before* writing the sensitive data in the first place. Because, as the most-extreme example, it's possible that that sensitive data was written to an about-to-fail cell, which was subsequently retired by the wear-leveling algorithm and completely removed from use....
[08:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 2336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:27] <exec> 08└─4 out of 5 can be fixed. The situation with wikileaks is complicated, so not really fixable. There is no evidence that Trump is unusually involved with Russia. On the other hand, Bill Clinton got a 1/3 of a $million for a speech to a Russian bank that was financing the purchase of 20% of our Uranium...
[08:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:28] <exec> 08└─I also avoid the dislike button for that reason. However, the implications of those buttons are not made clear. Then just about every Youtuber tires to game the system by asking you to "like". That is why they moved to watch minutes.
[08:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:31] <exec> 08└─When you start to see things from the 'other side's' point of view, you generally reach the medium between two extremes where the truth actually lay.
[08:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:01] <exec> 08└─But does anyone actually have EMP weapons that will destroy rather than disable sufficient quantities of electronic devices to render digital society crippled? The majority of permanent EMP disruption I have read about required it to be absorbed into the power grid and cause a voltage surge through...
[08:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe the raging success of the first movie lead them down paths that compromised their visions for the 2nd/3rd. From what I'd read the original plot for the 2nd movie was dramatically different from what ended up getting produced, and might in fact have been due to either psychological issues, or c...
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[09:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:00] <exec> 08└─They say reducing albedo by 1% increases the temp by about 1°C in their model. Hmm, there doesnt seem to be good albedo or cloud cover data out there.
[09:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:01] <exec> 08└─We love our asphalt roads and shingles. We love our bricks and black cars. We love our windows, which look black as seen from outside. Yeah, that'll do it. :-(
[09:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:14] <exec> 08└─I do not understand... that very link was working for me, and posted it. I get the map too now. Lemme try this one? Same link and I did not trim the crap after the "?" in the URL [ap.org]
[09:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0616781dfb5f4b339671501c61e6fe8d/autopsy-newborn-faith-healer-group-died-prematurity [ap.org] http://www.eastoregonian.com [eastoregonian.com] Since...
[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:18] <exec> 08└─We should ban circumcision for anybody under 18. Male, female, trans, etc. Unless they are a conjoined twin, no cutting down there.
[09:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:20] <exec> 08└─That one worked
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:22] <exec> 08└─Thanks... I'll betcha this mess has something to do with cached pages - because I got it once through Google, it was in cache and subsequent hits were locally redirected to get from cache... I normally trim off any crap after "?" in the link I get from Google because its so commonly used for tracki...
[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─>Honestly, this looks like healthcare providers attempting to make it illegal not to pay for their services. It kind of does. When exactly did it become illegal to *not* employ extreme measures to keep someone alive?
[09:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:07] <exec> 08└─It's the only way to be sure.
[09:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:08] <exec> 08└─As said by other people in this topic, this bearsmay or may not work because of wear leveling systems in a SSD. Not anymore writable cells may hold important data, but are not accessible anymore through normal means, and not writable. By design, you cannot fully erase a SSD.
[09:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:10] <exec> 08└─As you can see I overwrote 'test.file' with random (okay, pseudo-random) data.
[09:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:13] <exec> 08└─Bitch, please. 223 is a girl's round for toy guns. If it ain't 7.62 it ain't shit.
[09:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:15] <exec> 08└─Bingo!
[09:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:17] <exec> 08└─True, but tannerite is even funner. Problem with that is, the blast might just scatter wounded chips all over the place. So yeah, thermite.
[09:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 2402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:19] <exec> 08└─As others said, SSDs work fundamentally differently than HDDs. Most importantly in the fact that HDDs use physical addressing - when you say "access sector 17" it goes out to sector 17 and accesses it. A SSD though uses logical addressing and instead goes to a lookup table to find out "okay, logical...
[09:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:46] <exec> 08└─"TRUMP BANS MEDIA HE DOESN'T LIKE FROM WHITEHOUSE PRESS BRIEFINGS"
[09:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:47] <exec> 08└─Like all things, there is another side of what you say. While you pin-point the flaw of individual, I will point out a flaw in the whole society - that we seem to constantly have a bunch of people who are powerful and are good at commanding power, while rest of the people are powerless in their life...
[09:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:50] <exec> 08└─You would have made a better statement if you had written also cases of "coincidences" from replublican . But I think that in your opinion liberals and democrats and a perfect example of beliefs over fact and republicas are the paradigm of rational thought.
[09:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain Scans Used on People Conducting "Illicit" Activity - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:06] <exec> 08└─The best ones are the ones that don't realize they are.
[09:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:29] <exec> 08└─An even more important question, did these people try placebos or hypnosis? They both excel at pain management and are vastly cheaper than everything else. When you're in a fight, your brain ignores the pain and focus solely on the fight to survive. You can learn to use that ability to block chronic...
[09:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:05] <exec> 08└─I take it you've never heard of projectors or whiteboard paint. You're not required to eat food while watching a movie. How much does that' 80" TV and sound system cost? The TV itself, the stand, the electricity, the time taken to keep it clean, the cost of the space in your apartment, etc... At lea...
[09:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:06] <exec> 08└─Worse, Romaly is going to be sued because he doesn't own the copyright to those trailers. Sharing trailers is still copyright infringement and everyone requesting the tickets is identifying themselves.
[09:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underground Ocean on Enceladus May be Close to the Surface - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:40] <exec> 08└─YOU WERE TAUGHT THAT THE EARTH HAS ONLY ONE EQUATOR AS IF THE EARTH WAS FLAT. YOU WERE TAUGHT IGNORANCE CREATION HAS TWO SEX POLES & 4 CORNER RACES OF HUMANS. GOD IS CORNERED AS A QUEER.
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[10:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:00] <exec> 08└─You can bet this will at best be like injected meat. More likely, it will be like McNugget filling. The nutrient solution probably contains corn and soy that is not even processed by a stomach.
[10:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:09] <exec> 08└─While that effect certainly exists, I am skeptical it can amount to a 1% change. I'd like to see good historical data on cloud cover near the equator, especially over the (low albedo) oceans.
[10:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:11] <exec> 08└─If we were to strip the atmosphere away entirely, our planet’s typical temperature would be 255 Kelvin (-18 °C / 0 °F), which is most definitely colder than what we observe. In fact, it's about 33 °C (59 °F) colder than what we see, and what we need to account for that difference is an accurat...
[10:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe more of a vampire thing? Dude, they SUCK BLOOD FROM THE PENIS. Some old man puts his mouth on the baby's dick and... seriously, WTF is wrong with him... and how is it that mom and dad don't beat him to death for molesting their baby? These newborns are getting STDs from cocksucking. It's about...
[10:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─This shows the primitive nature and limitations of the for-profit hyper capatilist health care system.
[10:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:23] <exec> 08└─Toss on freeway during rush hour....
[10:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:24] <exec> 08└─I guess if a blender can make smoothie out of an iphone it can probably do the same for an SSD..
[10:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:26] <exec> 08└─All modern SSD's are encrypted by default, with a unique key that is automatically applied at boot (unless you apply a secure passphrase in the BIOS, which actually changes the encryption key). This is to prevent wear on the cells when the drives are re-formatted. "Formatting" a modern SSD seems ins...
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[10:15:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, you missed this: "Having cleared the disk, nearly everything is unrecoverable outside of a very high-end government lab. There might be a few chunks due to block replacement stuff, so on to the next step..." Wear leveling likely won't be more than a few smallish chunks, and normal tools can't...
[10:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:31] <exec> 08└─"built-in secure erase commands is unreliable and sometimes results in all the data remaining intact. " Yes, the secure erase command just tosses the encryption key. All modern SSD's are encrypted by default with a unique key that is changed when you invoke the secure erase command at firmware level...
[10:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:33] <exec> 08└─Normally you send it directives as if it were an HDD but it has an internal controller that interprets those instructions as it sees fit.
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[10:15:35] <exec> 08└─The only commonly available thing that will work is sulfuric acid, which you can get from ACE hardware. You'll need an acid-resistant container that can be heated. Add the acid, then dump the chips in, then heat it. Do be careful about sudden splatters. That should get you down to bare chips. I thin...
[10:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:06] <exec> 08└─That's not "AI."
[10:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:43] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America; there is no place outside of judicial reach,
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[11:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:04] <exec> 08└─Never! If we don't eat them, who's gonna keep the dinosaurs down? Them Chicken sumbitches still got another 50 million years of payback comin' for eatin' great grandpappy.
[11:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:15] <exec> 08└─In the 1970s the world was led to believe that a new ice age was on its way https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]. I still remember how the media tried to scare us, we'd get acid rain, followed by an ice age. That's about a decade later than TFA's climate model. I think that t...
[11:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:16] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know where we can find some code for this model? It doesn't look that complicated, and it is apparently the most influential paper, so it should be out there somewhere. My searches are coming up empty though.
[11:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 1654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:18] <exec> 08└─Really no need for code. If you boil their calculations down to their simplest form, it's what they have in the abstract: "A doubling of the CO2 content in the atmosphere has the effect of raising the temperature of the atmosphere (whose relative humidity is fixed) by about 2C." As far as I can see...
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[11:14:39] <exec> 08└─Im not sure they would care where the money comes from, if taxes paid for the care they would want to force people to use it just as much. But let's say the premature twins were ~24 weeks old, then (assuming those numbers from wikipedia are accurate) even with the care we would only expect one to su...
[11:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:40] <exec> 08└─Definition of "a couple" : https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[11:15:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:12] <exec> 08└─Prices on devices designed for SSD shredding start in the thousands.
[11:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:38] <exec> 08└─When in doubt, C4.
[11:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:40] <exec> 08└─If you're gonna play with chemicals anyway, you should just go straight to FOOF, a.k.a. Satan's kimchi [sciencemag.org]: “Being a high energy oxidizer, dioxygen difluoride reacted vigorously with organic compounds, even at temperatures close to its melting point. It reacted instantaneously with s...
[11:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:12] <exec> 08└─It was not a press briefing. Note how your CNN URL refers to it as a "gaggle" which is what the event was called to clearly distinguish it from a press briefing. Yet they ran the headline as a press briefing. It was an atypical no-camera brief session held not in the press room, but in Spicer's offi...
[11:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:13] <exec> 08└─I do completely agree with you. I think there are a lot of possible solutions here, but many are so revolutionary that they probably cannot really be patch-worked into our current system even if we wanted to. And in reality they obviously never would be since it would entail the current power-system...
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[12:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:11] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't say anything. Skimming the Eurotapes website - they seem to have been fiddling with industrialisation of existing technologies e.g. YBCO. US DoE tried something similar about 10 years ago but did not really get very far. But there is no "breakthrough". It's all about pushing manu...
[12:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:12] <exec> 08└─Can someone more knowledgeable than me elaborate? Where does the power loss come from in this case? Is it the magnetic field cast by the current?
[12:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:23] <exec> 08└─Does it taste like chicken?
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─Fast forward to 2021. If they can get the store price down to $10/lb ($22/kg) or less, will you try half a pound of it?
[12:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─The nutrient solution probably contains corn and soy that is not even processed by a stomach.
[12:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:29] <exec> 08└─I expect there will be different brands, where some will have all kinds of cheaper ingredients mixed in and others will be pure synth meat and sold at a premium.
[12:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how inflation will adjust the price of chicken within the next five years but unless it's about to double that will be quite expensive. You can get chicken for less then half that today. So unless this lab-grown stuff is substantially cheaper (and better) then real chicken I really don'...
[12:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:45] <exec> 08└─I plotted using gnuplot the number of citations per year. Anyone know how I can get this into a post? It looked pretty on my console...;-)
[12:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:46] <exec> 08└─The media tried to scare you about an ice age, but from what I've gathered that was always a fringe idea within the scientific community. The media's reporting of science tends to be simplified to the point of uselessness at best, and just flat out wrong at worst. Don't dismiss good science because...
[12:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:10] <exec> 08└─I think it is dangerous to base opinions on so little information. First off, the article states it was probably more like 8 weeks premature. And you can bet the being a twin completely changes those statistics.
[12:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:11] <exec> 08└─There are devices that shred hard drives. That should work on SSDs.
[12:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHu_EJVZm58 [youtube.com]
[12:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:15] <exec> 08└─I have a data center buddy who says this is SOP for them because if the NSA/CIA/KGB can freely decrypt AES or whatever they use, then the IT world has a bigger problem than one little boutique data center. If there's no way the key can be on the disk, you can just torrent upload the encrypted FS wit...
[12:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:00] <exec> 08└─What new angle, what new facet could they bring out of the story?
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[13:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:08] <exec> 08└─If you purchase IoT stuff, and then your devices become part of a damaging botnet, you should be sued by the person damaged. You'll say "Hey! I didn't know that would happen! It's not my fault!", but guess what? It was your negligently setup property that established the conditions to cause harm, an...
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:17] <exec> 08└─i thought the "deal" with lots of AMPS was always to generate a strong magnetic field. having lots of voltages gives you less resistance but (and?) not much in the field of ...errr ... generating magnetic fields (though giving birth to charged "free space" particles likes lots of voltage). so the "b...
[13:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sea [86] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:20] <exec> 08└─Magnetic field strength falls off very, very quickly with distance, so if you can make a more compact generator, you can put the thing you want to influence much, much closer to the cores and therefore put it right in the center of a terribly powerful magnetic field. So basically we can now influen...
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─Go to the store and look at organic meats or vegetarian/vegan meat alternative products. They are priced quite high. For example, organic chicken breasts are $5-6/lb at Costco [practical-stewardship.com], and that's a bulk buy. Obviously, in challenging the AC, I am setting an upper bound on the pri...
[13:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:50] <exec> 08└─Upload to your favourite image host and link?
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─Use GNUplot's terminal output mode?
[13:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:53] <exec> 08└─The correct DOI link is: http://dx.doi.org(1967)024%3C0241:TEOTAW%3E2.0.CO;2 [doi.org] Actually Firefox encodes it correctly if I ask it to copy the link address.
[13:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:55] <exec> 08└─I did - but soylent interface complains about "too many repeated characters". It really was very pretty and took little time ;-)
[13:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:57] <exec> 08└─Oops, pressed submit too early … obviously Rehash cripples the link even if correctly encoded. Even as href target it doesn't work. Anyway, copy/paste of the DOI link address works fine.
[13:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, just read the post article. That person isn't Aryan, he/she is just opposed to newborn's getting STDs from old men's mouths. Which seems like a perfectly valid concern for any human being who respects the rights of others.
[13:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 2246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:25] <exec> 08└─Everyone is giving you the long answer but the short answer is the world is analog and based on experience with magnetic media like cassette tapes and UV erased eproms, everything is analog fundamentally and its "easy" to mess with stuff at the analog level to apply your own ratio of signal to noise...
[13:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:27] <exec> 08└─Will it Blend [willitblend.com]
[13:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:29] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that there is slack/spare capacity on SSDs that are used for wear leveling. so by just writing a disk of all 0s or all 1s you may not get every location as some will be swapped out for wear leveling. I think the only way that doesn't involve physical destruction is making use of...
[13:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:31] <exec> 08└─And that would be the same for a HDD. There are spare sectors (up to the full capacity) in HDDs, too, and the sector mapping is abstracted in a comparable way to SSDs. The difference being that physical proximity matters more in HDDs than in SSDs.
[13:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:05] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence that Trump is unusually involved with Russia
[13:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:07] <exec> 08└─It was not a press briefing. Note how your CNN URL refers to it as a "gaggle" which is what the event was called to clearly distinguish it from a press briefing.
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:44] <exec> 08└─I guess no one has ever heard of a Lyle gun. Now get off of my lawn.
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─My issue is not with the appropriate due process where individuals can be compelled to testify, or the legal granting of warrants for search and seizure but instead with his blanket statement that appears to exclude attorney–client privilege [wikipedia.org], spousal privilege [wikipedia.org], or 5...
[13:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─From the article: "Any time you see a fight scene that moves between fast and slow motion, viewed in 360 degrees, you are looking at a special effect that the Wachowskis invented." Am pretty sure Sam Peckinpah would have used 360 if in his time the technology to produce it was affordable. His use...
[13:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:42] <exec> 08└─I had an image of the rover rolling right past the living, breathing, thinking scientists and reporting: "No life here. No intelligence detected." If it functioned as advertised it would get the BEGIN signal, spin about, and point at the scientists.
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[14:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:13] <exec> 08└─All that is required to make your robbery legal, is a badge, and the blessing of some old bastard wearing black robes.
[14:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─If you build your society with nearly religious reverence for an organization that is founded on violent imposition, then what you will get is violent imposition. I don't understand why people act surprised when the government does what a government is designed to do: Take your resources through dic...
[14:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─The knock on Thomas for a very long time was that he wasn't much of an original thinker and that he largely stayed in the background and concurred with whatever position Scalia took. It will be interesting to see if his positions change over the next several years, or whether it has always been the...
[14:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:19] <exec> 08└─It's because people like Runaway worship authoritarianism. I just pick on him because he commented, and it just so happens he's on the side of liberty today. There are many, many like him. Men are not angels. No agreement in the world is going to stop them from using violent force to take what is ri...
[14:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─It could also be that they have no idea what regulations would help. It's clear that the IoT software has to be updatable to keep up with new attacks on hitherto unsuspected flaws. But doing it in a way that untrained consumers are capable of their own updates may be impossible. And making the updat...
[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:32] <exec> 08└─Once enough damage has been done to get the lawmaker's attention, what makes them so sure they can _undo_ the damage? There will probably be hundreds of millions of IoT devices out in the wild by then. Surely there are at least one or two statements they can make to protect consumers just a little b...
[14:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:43] <exec> 08└─"that conducts 100 times more electricity than copper..." No shit, that's why it's called SUPERconductor. No comparison with other superconducting materials No reasons given for calling it "breakthrough" Most likely, possibly a minor improvement blown up to seek more funding.
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:20] <exec> 08└─2/3rds of the Earth surface is water. Now we're down to 33% Of that, the human visible roads and cities visible from outer space = 0. In fact, according to certain papers I just googled, only 2.7% of the world's land is urbanised. You're now down to 0.9% of the Earth already. How much of that urbani...
[14:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─I don't really think that anyone was done a disservice by mentioning drastic consequences that were potential outcomes, especially as it did motivate people to at least be aware. The big problem I have with yesterday's and today's media - and science - is: Let's assume this is happening. 100%, as de...
[14:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─WTF does "almost perfectly" mean, when the chief cheerleader showed off that preposterous graph?
[14:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know how to resolve global warming, or climate control in general. But I agree that current methods aren't doing much. Leaving it to the politicians doesn't work because they mostly have a limited view (up to the next election) and, probably more than average, are opportunists. I live in Eur...
[14:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─As usual Runaway gets his jollies off of beating straw men. Manabe and Wetherald didn’t show that “preposterous graph” whatever that might be. They predicted that doubling CO2 in the atmosphere would increase the temperature by 2°C. We didn’t double it, but increased it by 50%, so the tempe...
[14:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:52] <exec> 08└─Oh where do you guys get this BS? Don't answer that I do know where you get it. I'm sure Jesus would have approved of these peoples actions.
[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:01] <exec> 08└─There is always hydrofluoric acid [wikipedia.org] once the chips are decapped.
[14:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:02] <exec> 08└─I try to encrypt most of my drives, but regardless of encryption or not when erasing an SSD I first write random data to the whole drive, then I do an ATA secure erase with hdparm, which in theory (unless the controller cheats, and documentation is lacking) will erase all data including that in the...
[14:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:05] <exec> 08└─I did that just the other day. I wanted to dispose of a USB flash drive. I spent way too much time trying to figure out how to securely erase it, then finally said "screw it" and tossed it into my fireplace.
[14:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:07] <exec> 08└─then I do an ATA secure erase with hdparm, which in theory (unless the controller cheats, and documentation is lacking) will erase all data including that in the inaccessible wear-leveling areas.
[14:17:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:17] <exec> 08└─Ask a Liberal why certain minorities do so poorly on standardized tests, you can count on getting a huffy dismissal along the lines of "tests are racist!" Yet, like clockwork, every time the Democrats lose an election, out come the articles 'proving' by sober, official-sounding studies proving how e...
[14:17:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:35] <exec> 08└─"TRUMP BANS MEDIA HE DOESN'T LIKE FROM WHITEHOUSE PRESS BRIEFINGS"
[14:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:43] <exec> 08└─Yet, this is why people STILL think Trump isn't involved with Russia
[14:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder what his sufficient(!) evidence for this claim of an absolute was.
[14:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:48] <exec> 08└─If you say that a tree is no Scotsman even if it is located in Scotland, that's not an example of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
[14:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:50] <exec> 08└─"Okay, yeah, the data show Group X has a lower collective IQ than Group Y. And...so fucking what? Where do you get off claiming that members of X are somehow undeserving of life compared to Y because of that? That is a blatant non-sequitur."
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[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─The origins of the highest energy cosmic rays has been a major mystery for decades, really ever since they were observed. There are not a lot of known energy sources to get particles moving with the momentum that these have, and it is expected that these sources (various flavors of supernovae, activ...
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:19] <exec> 08└─Really people, the best background info on SCOTUS issues is the SCOTUSblog [scotusblog.com]. It should be obligatory to include relevant links from that site in any article that summarizes a case. The case [scotusblog.com]. Thomas's opinion [scotusblog.com]. And a brief blog summary [scotusblog.com]...
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:21] <exec> 08└─If you REALLY want to understand where modern civil forfeiture comes from, you should read Thomas' opinion. It is very clear and well written on what the legal basis is, and questions how firmly that basis really is.
[15:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:23] <exec> 08└─You know, the words that you use ("warlord", really?) and the way that you use them, it should be no surprise to you why people just tune you out. "Oh, he's one of THOSE guys." You think you're the most insightful and smartest guy in the room, but everyone else sees you as just a reactionary babbler...
[15:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:25] <exec> 08└─It's a shame the SC was able to slither out of ruling on this. It is categorically such an obvious wrong that one must question if any participant should ever be allowed to work in law enforcement (or other position of authority) again.
[15:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─*In some states. The problem with civil forfeiture is purely a matter of standards of evidence. Any state where the rules for retention are "preponderance of evidence" or laxer(some, like Alabama, only require primae facie evidence of wrong doing), you're right, it's basically completely arbitrary....
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03What planet is this [5031] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─(Auto comparison) This reminds me of the way traffic lights and stop signs won't be added to dangerous intersections until enough accidents or deaths have occured to justify it. In "their" minds anyway.
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─The "owner" of the device couls as easily blame the manufacturer on the grounds that the device sold was not fit for purpose in spite of representation to the contrary and that as a result it created a huge liability. We can either let the lawsuits fly and make the lawyers rich playing the blame gam...
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:42] <exec> 08└─So I guess they're either ignorant of or studiously ignoring one of the largest DDOS attacks in history launched from an army of IoT devices when they ask themselves about damage done.
[15:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─> faster jet engines (the air intake turbine can spin faster now) How would this help? Air intake compressors are mechanically linked to the rear turbines of the jet. There is no need for motor/generator setup there (you would just add reliability issues and energy losses)
[15:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not a specialist, so please correct me if I'm wrong. The article mentions nitrogen for cooling, and emphasize that they created a 600m wire. From what I understand, most high-temperature superconductors are ceramics, and therefore brittle, which is hard to handle for wires. Not sure, how many co...
[15:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:11] <exec> 08└─I see your point.But then it's a very niche product as alternative "chicken" meat for vegetarians and then the price range as noted is quite different. I have not tried a lot of the meat substitutes besides Quorn (which is some kind of mushroom proteins as far as I can recall - it was mostly tastele...
[15:15:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magneto [6410] 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─The media tried to scare you about an ice age, but from what I've gathered that was always a fringe idea within the scientific community. The media's reporting of science tends to be simplified to the point of uselessness at best, and just flat out wrong at worst. Don't dismiss good science because...
[15:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:38] <exec> 08└─...assuming the function is linear.
[15:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:39] <exec> 08└─there are several points, not necessarily in this order: 1) research how agriculture can work best in the new climate 2) relocate people that need it: for instance coastlines will be much more vulnerable to flooding, some of them will go under water anyway due to sea-level rise. 3) make sure vulnera...
[15:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:42] <exec> 08└─In the 1970s the world was led to believe that a new ice age was on its way
[15:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:07] <exec> 08└─How do we mobilize outrage about this issue to the level feminists displayed when the American Academy Pediatrics, the current body that recommends that infant males be universally sexually assaulted at birth as a cervical cancer control measure (!!!!%$@#%$!!), recommended that US hospitals should p...
[15:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Valkor [4253] 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:17] <exec> 08└─If you've ever wanted an excuse to make thermite, here you go.
[15:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:19] <exec> 08└─but would assume that the excess-capacity is somewhere in the < 10% range
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:20] <exec> 08└─With a good FTL doing de-dupe of 0'd blocks you will write exactly 0 blocks to flash. You will only record to the lookup table that N blocks are not active as accessing the block should return a 0'd block. You would have a better chance of wiping the flash blocks by sending a TRIM to the entire driv...
[15:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:22] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? I've found precious little documentation about the subject, and it would be good to know. On the general subject, it's also worth noting that the ultimate security of "erasing" in this manner is entirely dependent on 1) the drives flawless implementation of a flawless encryption algori...
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─- Or by having more storaga capacity on the disk than is available to the user. I can see the point to have some redundant chips in order to compensate for failing ones, but would assume that the excess-capacity is somewhere in the <10% range (I might be wrong, would appreciate to get some actual fa...
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─So how do you counter the others that are unsurprised by the test results given years of inferior schooling and parents too busy working too many jobs to provide adequate educational support?
[15:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:05] <exec> 08└─There any update to the "whole book" link on that page? The pendulum has swung further towards authoritarianism in America. What's to be done about it? Many of us would rather do something other than watch helplessly as they seize the wheel and drive us all over a cliff, all while insisting there is...
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:08] <exec> 08└─Good call. I'd like to add that even if ~250 pages may make somebody balk at it anyway, easily half of that are notes at the end of each chapter that aren't necessary for casual read.
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─What's to be done about it?
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─I think they think that because so far there's been very little hard evidence to that effect,
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─> Buy guns. That's the last option, only useful when we've already gone over the cliff. The flipside of the same authoritarian coin.
[15:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:16] <exec> 08└─What's to be done about it?
[15:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineering a Rescue - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─Excellent tool, but I can understand why its not standard issue on fire trucks. It's a bit overkill for river rescue. I wonder if it served as inspiration for this cannon, or if they invented the same basic concept independently. Certainly this seems far better optimized for in rivers and by a fire...
[15:19:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:25] <exec> 08└─The only ones treating our constitution like toilet paper are the Orange One and his clown cadre, oh and you of course.
[15:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:55] <exec> 08└─Then stop advocating directly for violence... Pretty sure your mother would cry for a week straight if she saw the shit you post online.
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:37] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 must have a crush on Analee Newitz or something. He submits virtually every story of hers from Ars...
[15:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:38] <exec> 08└─Came to say the same. The Matrix was awesome and fun but just about the only thing original in it was the bullet-time camera style. It was basically Total Recall meets Tron/Terminator.
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[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is that the property is treated as its own legal entity, which the owner has no rights over.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─There are some sentences one never expects to read. And I'm gonna level with you: "[Thomas' opinion] is very clear and well written on what the legal basis is, and questions how firmly that basis really is." definitely falls into that category for me. I guess he's now free from the icy grip of the "...
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─That's not the actual problem of asset forfeiture at all. That's a popular internet metaphor, but none of the legal basis takes that framing at all. The laws aren't written that way. The legal rulings aren't written that way. The police reports aren't written that way. Please don't get a law degree...
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─There's no slithering. It is all procedural. The petitioner was raising an issue for the first time in the SC when it should have been raised in a lower court for consideration: Unfortunately, petitioner raises her due process arguments for the first time in this Court. As a result, the Texas Court...
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─That must be why I have an informative mod and you don't. Yes. Warlord. Really. Men are not angels. Men are warlords and soldiers.
[16:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─AC is right. All governments rule by force and the threat thereof, and usually gain their initial power through war.
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:10] <exec> 08└─The knock on Thomas for a very long time was that he wasn't much of an original thinker and that he largely stayed in the background and concurred with whatever position Scalia took.
[16:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:24] <exec> 08└─It was your negligently setup property that established the conditions to cause harm, and so you should take responsibility. Sure, go ahead and try to sue the IoT company in turn. These court cases will definitively establish the chain of liability as a matter of common law. And, you will think twic...
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─Jeffrey Deaver, The Steel Kiss. Baddie murders people with IoT hacks.
[16:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─zero: limit n->inf 1/n If they found a way to make it be absolute 0 resistance, we would be reading about that instead.
[16:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:30] <exec> 08└─I don't really think that anyone was done a disservice by mentioning drastic consequences that were potential outcomes, especially as it did motivate people to at least be aware. In the case of acid rain it did more than just make people aware. It led to the regulations that directly prevented the p...
[16:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:32] <exec> 08└─...assuming the function is linear. You know what's definitely not linear? A hockey stick.
[16:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah - you've got something there. Hell, think about all the food nonsense we've been fed. First, eggs would kill you - then eggs are the food of the gods. Then, alcohol will kill you in infinitesimal amounts, few months later, the longest lived people drink one or two drinks per day. Bacon, red mea...
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:36] <exec> 08└─What, precisely, is our plan?
[16:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─That's about a decade later than TFA's climate model.
[16:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:41] <exec> 08└─When you're measuring albedo you need to consider that dirty snow reflects less light than white snow, and that ocean water reflects less light than ice. Etc. Another thing is that just because you can't see a change from space doesn't mean it has no effect on reflected light. People are only sensit...
[16:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:43] <exec> 08└─It is just surprising that no one has bothered sharing code for the most influential paper about the most controversial scientific topic. They should use some of their public outreach funds on that if they care about convincing other scientists/engineers (rather than people who can do nothing but li...
[16:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:11] <exec> 08└─Where does it mention eight weeks? Also if being a twin affects the expected viability, the medical examiner should be mentioning that and using it as part of her assessment. Right now her reasoning seems too flippant for this story to even be believable. I think you were suggesting otherwise, but I...
[16:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:12] <exec> 08└─There are real benefits to circumcision, both for the man and his partner, and I'm glad mine was done when I was too young to remember.
[16:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:14] <exec> 08└─Pharma and doctors have been getting away with brain damaging kids all over the country for years now. The CPS (actual nazis) steal kids from safe homes and keeps them locked up with kids who have been abused and don't keep them from being abused. Or pass them off to scumbag foster parents who abuse...
[16:17:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:34] <exec> 08└─Use full disk encryption, preferably with Linux, and use a good passphrase (dozens of characters, alphanumeric and punctuations). Never put anything sensitive on it before full disk encryption has been applied. Then do whatever you want with the drive afterward, data won't be recoverable. Throw it i...
[16:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:31] <exec> 08└─DBAN just writes lots and lots of data. As was mentioned upthread, SSDs' internal wear-leveling algorithms will just think of the incoming bitstorm as a massive but intended load and distribute it across the flash cells as best they can.
[16:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:33] <exec> 08└─Realized I forgot to address an important point: >Encrypt, fill with data, reformat, encrypt, fill with data.... Encrypting during the attempt to overwrite is completely pointless - you're encrypting random noise to get...other random noise, which you then write to disk. The added layer of "randomne...
[16:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─Would you want a SSD that's been through a dog?
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─Then push the planet the volcano is on into the sun
[16:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:39] <exec> 08└─>Typically, having more than zero remapped sectors on a hard disk is an indication of imminent failure. Is it? That's not my experience. My understanding was that the are a number of highly localized manufacturing flaws that can be present on a platter that may cause small clusters of sectors to fai...
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─80% to pass a law, 30% to overturn one.
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 2374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:28] <exec> 08└─As others have said, this article isn't new or surprising. One thing I'd add to the summary is that "facts" don't exist as atomic nuggets of "truth" by themselves. They need to be seen in context to make sense. There are certainly lots of reasons why people continue to reinforce their beliefs or hol...
[16:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:30] <exec> 08└─saying you don't believe in evolution is just another way of saying you're religious
[16:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if "facts" are real or not, all that matters is what enforces "the way I view the world." This is extremely elementary. Yet, this is why people STILL think Trump isn't involved with Russia, and why Wikileaks is somehow still defensible, why people deny the gender wage gap, why race...
[16:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:35] <exec> 08└─You're seriously going to say there's no conceivable circumstance where immigration could be a problem whatsoever?
[16:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:37] <exec> 08└─Making it a numbers game does not disprove "somehow bad whatsoever." What you mean is "not worth the effort," which is a totally different argument.
[16:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:39] <exec> 08└─> Making it a numbers game does not disprove "somehow bad whatsoever." So your entire problem with the OP's statement boils down to their use of hyperbole. That's about as shallow and empty a criticism as you can make because it completely sidesteps the intent of the statement. Its one step up from...
[16:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, Buzzard, why are you posting as AC? We all know this has to be you. And who the hell modded this shit up as "Insightful", of all things? Would somebody care to step forward and defend that upmod? Anybody?!?
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:21] <exec> 08└─2 things: - being offered immunity "takes away" (as in "renders moot") your reasons for taking the fifth - contempt of court is a real thing that can land you in a real prison
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:23] <exec> 08└─Well, being offered immunity doesn't grant the judge the power to read my mind. The cops don't become mind reading super heroes. What is in my mind, stays there, unless I decide to share it. That contempt stuff can be a good thing, and it can also be abused, like any other law. Let's suppose that I...
[16:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─Carrie-Ann Moss's character was already way more competent than Neo. Other than this magical 'destiny' he had for unexplained reasons, she could have done everything he did and more.
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─Why point, when it can analyze them with its laser and digging tools? It's also built to be highly autonomous and long-lasting. Hollywood lied to us! The machine uprising doesn't start with military drones, but with interplanetary rovers!
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[17:14:11] <exec> 08└─Those equations could be put to good use, now that Google has 3D models of every single building (except that I cut my big dead tree two years ago, slackers!). I'd be amused by the confirmation that one should fill Chicago's Daley Plaza with windmills, given how the chilly wind is a permanent featur...
[17:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Measuring the Impact of a City's Buildings On the Weather - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:12] <exec> 08└─We have massive tornadoes here in Oklahoma, and they have been getting bigger every few years. Maybe this is part of that influence. I have noticed in the past that storms seem to form a line along I35 and I44.
[17:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:45] <exec> 08└─By the way, if anyone doubts what I said, here are a couple [politico.com] articles [usatoday.com] from the past year talking about the problems with the common myths around Thomas.
[17:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:47] <exec> 08└─There's no slithering. It is all procedural.
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─That is what I assumed, and why I checked on wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (which is usually accurate in those things) Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─TFA left most facts about their research out. Most critically the article didn't mention what temperature their tape goes superconducting. Room Temperature? Liquid Nitrogen required?
[17:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:37] <exec> 08└─Having invented both fake ivory and the little blue pill is sadly not stopping demand...
[17:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:14] <exec> 08└─FWIW, you should still expect a new glaciation. (Unless the current warming flips the climate into a really new region.) The problem is you don't understand the likely time frame. I believe that the current warming trend is required for the glaciation to happen, as that only happens after the oceans...
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─You don't need any volcanoes. Increased moisture over the poles can trigger it: It has been shown using computer hydrological models that this strengthened the Gulf Stream by diverting more equatorial (warm) currents northwards towards Europe. In doing so, warm waters at high latitudes led to increa...
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[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─Indeed; or to use an example closer to SN's audience's heart, the media seriously overhyped the Y2K problem. Doesn't mean it wasn't a real and serious problem, doesn't mean it wasn't worth (most of) the money and effort to fix it. Just means the media reported it badly, and the public gobbled it up...
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─I can't believe all the uninformed speculation on this topic when we already have The Correct Answer right here. Full Disk Encryption before writing any data! Strong passphrase! Done. I recently had to return an SSD to my employer. Since I use a password safe, even I did not know the pass phrase. On...
[17:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─The main problem with SSDs should be the fimware, which redirects write access to specific locations on the disk. Therefore tools like wipe will not work reliably. By completely filling the remaining space of the disk, the blocks marked "unused" should all be overwritten once the capacity limit is r...
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[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─> Using the word "believe" is just another way of saying you're religious. Then everybody is religious because it is impossible to function in life without accepting unverified knowledge from others. For example, do you "believe" in electricity? Have you ever seen an electron? What about nuclear bom...
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Somebody making a bold claim and then, when called on it, immediately backing off, is rather disappointing. But if nobody calls them on it, people incorrectly take it at face value. Their entire argument revolves around the claim that the issue...
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─Abortion is a good example -- you're never going to win an argument with someone on the other side by arguing YOUR case according to YOUR facts.
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─For example, do you "believe" in electricity?
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:15] <exec> 08└─yes but demonstrate how his argument is metaphorically a tree.
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:17] <exec> 08└─"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
[17:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Scans Used on People Conducting "Illicit" Activity - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:34] <exec> 08└─I'm so sure. Like that would work on James Bond.
[17:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─And now you've done it - you've completely given away the plot of the reboot.
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[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─Let me be the first in this thread to congratulate Drugs on winning The Drug War.
[18:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─"Suckit Sessions"
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─You hippies think you're all so clever with your "facts" and "evidence" and "proof". What about COMMON SENSE? Hmm? My ill-informed, hollywood-fed, semi-literate reactionary hindbrain knows more about complex social and medical issues than your "experts" and "doctors" and "people with direct and exte...
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─Drugs haven't won yet. People who cannot live without cannabis will need to think about whether they would rather die from big pharma “treatment” or die defending their right to grow plants. Good guys with guns are the only thing that can keep cannabis legal where it's been legalized, because Re...
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─I think that sounds crazy, but fine then: Let's also preemptively congratulate the Democrats on winning the War on Guns to defend small business owners. :D
[18:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:55] <exec> 08└─On-topic, I'm glad someone still has the ambition to fund long-term research with no obvious short-term financial returns.
[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:56] <exec> 08└─It takes the courage to defend a budget line item (often a big one) against people who think like you and are on the prowl to cut stuff. it takes seeing further than the tip of one's nose, and being bale to convince others that dismissive one-liners are not gonna keep the US ahead of international c...
[18:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:26] <exec> 08└─That's not the actual problem of asset forfeiture at all. That's a popular internet metaphor, but none of the legal basis takes that framing at all. The laws aren't written that way. The legal rulings aren't written that way. The police reports aren't written that way.
[18:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:28] <exec> 08└─While it's a few years out of date, I'd suggest this article [slate.com] for some examples of where Thomas sided with liberals. Stats and breakdowns for rulings are easily found on SCOTUSblog too, so you can look up the other weird alliances between Thomas and some liberal justices. Basically, Thoma...
[18:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:30] <exec> 08└─What is your opinion on judges like Thomas and Scalia thinking or saying they are "originalists"? Do you think they really think of themselves that way? Because it is impossible to consistently hold and apply those views 200+ years later. Scalia was certainly not shy to go against his originalist ob...
[18:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:01] <exec> 08└─From TFA: To achieve zero-loss power transmission now, cables encased in tubes can be cooled with liquid nitrogen to make them superconductive—but the complex and expensive technology has not been commercially used on a large scale.
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:02] <exec> 08└─They have three slides in that presentation that do the up to the right thing. I hope they'll be able to afford more arrows for their next presentation. That'll mean the funding is working!
[18:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:21] <exec> 08└─Cause the billion+ Chinese people isn't enough?
[18:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:01] <exec> 08└─It isn't linear either. Reduced albedo of snow has much less effect because snow tends to happen where sunlight is least dense due to the tilt of earth's axis, aka "winter."
[18:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:03] <exec> 08└─Just means the media reported it badly, and the public gobbled it up because they couldn't know any better.
[18:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:57] <exec> 08└─If you already have the heat gun out, just bake the chips with it until the FLASH cells are erased by thermal effects.
[18:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─Use full disk encryption... Zero the drive first. Then, encrypt the crap out of it. Put a sticker on it: Property of Ed S. Man-years later: Congrats, you just trolled the crap out of the NSA!
[18:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─For how long? To paraphrase, how do you know when you've heated the chips sufficiently?
[18:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 2669 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─Isn't it odd how you're denigrating those liberals for sliding into the same sort of behavior people like you engage in reflexively? Yeah, it's dumb to ignore plain facts and data, but what they're doing is the shadow side of what your kind does. Y'see, *you* assholes, with your hyper-activated amyg...
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[18:20:04] <exec> 08└─> Does that help? No. Not a bit. You told some stories about yourself in response to a bunch of rhetorical questions while completely sidestepping the thesis of my post.
[18:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:05] <exec> 08└─The thesis of your post seems to be that everyone suffers from belief because "it is impossible to function in life without accepting unverified knowledge from others." I gave you examples of how I function in life without accepting (believing) unverified knowledge from others. Did I misidentify you...
[18:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:07] <exec> 08└─Press gaggles [whitehouse.gov] are not the same thing as press briefings. It's a term that has been used for decades now. They're smaller, informal, off camera, and generally come with minimal content from the white house. This event was not scheduled as a press briefing, but as a gaggle. CNN intent...
[18:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:09] <exec> 08└─> I gave you examples of how I function in life without accepting (believing) unverified knowledge from others. That's not at all what I read. What I read was you admitting that there are different standards of evidence that you accept. And you implicitly saying that some sources are of higher quali...
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[18:20:11] <exec> 08└─Dude, you are out of straws.
[18:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:14] <exec> 08└─So how do you counter the others that are unsurprised by the test results given years of inferior schooling and parents too busy working too many jobs to provide adequate educational support? He seeks out agreeable information and learns it more easily; and he avoids, ignores, devalues, forgets, or...
[18:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:16] <exec> 08└─Syria can fix Syria. We have our own problems. Our problems may be less awful, but they are more relevant to us. We get Syria's problems too if we invite them to live here. You can take the humans out of Syria, but you can't take the Syria out of the humans.
[18:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:18] <exec> 08└─So we agree, except I am saying you can do all that without "belief". Believers fasten to some outlandish claim as Absolute Certainty, totally devoid of supporting evidence. Even questioning the belief can get you blackballed or worse. Scientists recognize that all knowledge is tentative, nothing is...
[18:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:20] <exec> 08└─There's something else going on that's more complicated than that. This is the concept known as the "Overton Window", which is the range of ideas deemed reasonable and acceptable. If you're trying to change what happens, you change what the Overton Window is. The way most organizations try to change...
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[18:22:05] <exec> 08└─But there is such thing as a strawman argument in the USA.
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[19:14:14] <exec> 08└─Living the dream, Diego.
[19:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─When you are a star turtle, all you have to do is grab them by the under-shell.
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[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─For Diego, it literally is lady turtles all the way down.
[19:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─Let me be the first in this thread to congratulate Drugs on winning The Drug War.
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[19:14:32] <exec> 08└─If you think scientific studies can change these people's minds, or even make them think, you haven't been paying attention.
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─Oh don't worry, evidence contradicting their beliefs will do very little to this administration. Sessions will be more than happy to reinvigorate the opioid epidemic if it means sticking it to potheads.
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─This seem like an odd story. They seem to be grabbing things left and right and moshing them together - perhaps it was written while high on weed. Weed isn't an opioid so what they are trying to say that getting stoned on weed is better then getting high of something else? I guess that is it - or th...
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[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─Your comment is very accurate, except for one thing. I don't believe that these idealogues get their information from Hollywood. Instead, it comes from the mouths of their pastors.
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─I hope Democrats may come to understand the error of their ways now that they've allowed an administration into power that is a threat guns may be needed against.
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─You have the comprehension of somebody who's been drinking too much.
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─Hehe it's really really hard to die of a Weed overdose
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:47] <exec> 08└─... or that it's really really hard to die of a Weed overdose.
[19:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:49] <exec> 08└─> Basically impossible, I don't think there is one recorded case of death by marijuana. What if a 200-pound bale of the stuff falls on your head? What then, ese?!
[19:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:09] <exec> 08└─It takes the courage to defend a budget line item (often a big one) against people who think like you and are on the prowl to cut stuff.
[19:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:40] <exec> 08└─It seems to me it would be really valuable for the Supreme Court to be able to simply step in and say "We believe this law/policy may be unconstitutional, and so are going to put the law itself on trial using court-appointed lawyers to dig into the details for both sides". Especially in the case of...
[19:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:41] <exec> 08└─Please ask any one of these originalists where the word "affects" appears in the Commerce Clause.
[19:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:43] <exec> 08└─You liberals just hate him because he is black. Well that and him not acting the way he is "supposed to" act.
[19:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:46] <exec> 08└─2/3 of the nerve endings are in the part you lost. Long-term contact with cloth affects the remaining part, which is now exposed. Be a man about it. Admit that you were harmed, causing loss of sensitivity. Also remember the mistakes leading to amputation, bends, etc.
[19:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:14] <exec> 08└─Sensitive data should never be stored or transmitted unencrypted anyway.
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─This advice doesnt help me when I already have drives to ensure safe disposal of. Worst yet, the drives are not mine, and I was not there to repeat your advice when they bought them 5 years ago. I am now supposed to eliminate the risks involved in their disposal, though. Your advice is, unfortunatel...
[19:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:17] <exec> 08└─Ask JEDEC, I guess. Reflow profiles in ovens are a matter of seconds at the max temp (which was a problem with RoHS chips at 260C), and taking chips through the oven more than 3 times is considered asking for trouble (not sure whether the package or the Si is the first to fail). If you get >300C out...
[19:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─That says how things *can* work, but from what little I've read it sounded like a great many drives don't actually implement them properly.
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:22] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you can drive with only one hand, but after you finish tossing you'll need to do something about that SSD...
[19:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─I usually tear my HDs apart to harvest the magnets, then let my 3 year old kid play with the disks. A few minutes in his hands and they're pretty well destroyed.
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─That's the standard technique for HDDs, but unfortunately you can't count on it working on an SSD. An SSD that says it holds 100GBs will only let the PC you access 100GB, but internally it has maybe another 10+GB of storage that gets rotated into use by the wear leveling algorithm. Rewrite the entir...
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 2571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─FTFS: take a hammer and nail or even a drill to the [spinning-rust] hard drive and pound holes through the top. That's an almost surefire way to make sure your data won't be read by anyone else First, that will probably leave readable data (for someone who is REALLY determined). Next, it really bugs...
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─I guess it is a matter of the required confidence-level... For normal use, after filling the disk 2-3 times with reasonable small files, I'd consider it safe enough. Someone actually opening tge device, unsoldering the chips and so on is probably not even for a criminal investigation realisti; maybe...
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─The only reasons to ever destroy a spinning-rust drive are: 1) the device's workings are already non-functional.[1] 2) a (DoD[2]) contract requires that. [1] You can get some bitching magnets out of them before destroying the rest. [2] The most ridiculously wasteful entity on the planet. . These day...
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:35] <exec> 08└─This has been mentioned at S/N before--several times, in fact. When posting a URL which doesn't contain significant text which indicates WTF you are linking to, do use proper link text or at least cut and paste the title of the page. Don't be a lazy putz. Will it Blend - Blending a Solid State Drive...
[19:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:46] <exec> 08└─Trump himself has accepted the classified evidence.
[19:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:47] <exec> 08└─There any update to the "whole book" link on that page?
[19:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:49] <exec> 08└─official-sounding studies proving how everybody who didn't vote the right way is a maladjusted inferior buffoon, worthy only of scorn.
[19:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─Reloaded/Revolutions was released in 2003 and Matrix Online went from 2005-2009. That's only eight years ago. Fourteen years to Revolutions and Seventeen to the original. No, it does not need a relaunch, reboot, or even sequel. Coming next year: The remake of La La Land!
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[20:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:09] <exec> 08└─This is about as believable as porcupines having sex. How...?
[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:11] <exec> 08└─also: stegosaurus, and anything with a thick or inflexible tail
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─I guess slow and steady really does win the race.
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks to some of the posters on this site, along with other life experiences, I have switched from "mildly pro gun control" to "anti gun control". Now that conservatives are literally talking about murdering liberals I am tempted to become a gun owner so I can defend myself from the likes of EF. Th...
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:36] <exec> 08└─Call OSHA!
[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─The opioid epidemic is profitable for some of the corporations that run the US government. Pot is too easy to produce at home for them to decriminalize it. Does anyone really think the overlords really care about individuals?
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with that logic is that a great many of the people who were addicted to Oxy switched to heroin because it's way cheaper, and, once you have a contact, easier to get. I don't know if that's an indictment of how expensive the American medical system is, how much the drug war failed to stop...
[20:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:42] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but you are perpetuating a myth. Weed is not addictive at all, beyond the possibility of psychological addiction. So if weed addition is an actual thing, so is sex addiction, chocolate addiction, and addiction to soap operas. Dunno about you, but I'm pretty "addicted" to sex and chocolate. No...
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─I suspect most conservatives would defend their liberal brothers and sisters, and vice versa.
[20:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:46] <exec> 08└─Call it a gift from 'heaven', and find a truck? Is this a trick question?
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─Indictment of both. Having a relative that was addicted to heroin, I learned first hand that the biggest problem.... was how cheap it was. That truly surprised me. I always thought heroin was one of the more expensive drugs that forced you into petty crimes and shitty lives like crack-whorin' for cr...
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─Dude. It's Michigan. It's like Texas with a higher failure rate. I've literally never heard of anything good happening there outside of, like, one band I can think of off the top of my head. I get that you hate it. But seriously, you could have walked out of there by now. Get a backpack and a sleepi...
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:53] <exec> 08└─Then you call Cheech & Chong and get some XXL Zigzags... And some munchies.
[20:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:55] <exec> 08└─Um, ex-Michigan native here... Michigan's largest contributions are historical. Look up the importance of the St. Lawrence river and shipping some time. Water way from the Atlantic ocean to places like Detroit, Chicago, Duluth, etc. And depending on your interpretation, Ford and GM came from there.....
[20:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─I'm aware it sounds inherently weird to say "Hey if you take drug X you won't want drug Y". Obviously that's not a fact. But if you want an explanation of what exactly weed does for an addict and how precisely it saves lives. Here's my testimony. [soylentnews.org] Long story short its effects are hi...
[20:16:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:02] <exec> 08└─So I guess they're either ignorant of or studiously ignoring one of the largest DDOS attacks in history launched from an army of IoT devices when they ask themselves about damage done.
[20:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:06] <exec> 08└─What else do you expect from a violently imposed monopoly???
[20:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:08] <exec> 08└─Why would you protect customers beforehand, adding development costs, when profit growth requires you to sell them a new safer thermostat every other year?
[20:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:10] <exec> 08└─Mandate that all the software be Free Software and that users could install whatever software they please, for one. That doesn't mean everything would be perfect, but at least more control would be in the hands of users and they'd have a chance to stave off exploits. I don't trust manufacturers or t...
[20:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:48] <exec> 08└─More like Tasty Wheat.
[20:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:30] <exec> 08└─And, I'm wondering if they even teach about interglacial periods in school anymore. I knew when I was about 6 or 7 that the earth was supposed to warm up. Then, we had that mini-ice-age thing, then all of sudden, the earth is warming and it's all man's fault.
[20:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:32] <exec> 08└─Plus, you have to remove all other (natural) effects, such as solar cycles.
[20:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:34] <exec> 08└─The hockey stick graph that we are following exactly?? That one? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:05] <exec> 08└─I'm glad mine was done when I was too young to remember.
[20:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, but x39 or x51?
[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:58] <exec> 08└─Syria can fix Syria.
[20:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:59] <exec> 08└─The internet is a curious monkey wrench there, wouldn't you say? I think it's working to chip away peoples' concerns of appearance and simply to pursue what they think is correct. Even if you choose to believe something that's objectively wrong, you can probably find millions that would support you...
[20:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:01] <exec> 08└─This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─Even a Notary Public has to record what it is that he's notarizing.
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[21:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:07] <exec> 08└─The orbit of this thing will be thousands of years, so you are probably right. For comparison, Pluto is only 40ish AU away.
[21:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─Until we have FTL this will never be done. It is a cool idea though!
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─Even at 550AU, it will need some orbital velocity or a constant fuel burn to stay in place, so it won't be targeting any one image for long. If it is in a circular orbit, that will be a period of millenia (Neptune orbits in 165 years at 30AU). More concerning to me is the unknown amount of dust, com...
[21:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:13] <exec> 08└─You'd better be sure that the thing works before it gets there, because I ain't debugging it through a connection with 152.368 hours ping time.
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─Among giant tortoises, Mating is a noisy process, with the males bellowing like a bull, and chasing after the females. The male’s tail guides his penis into position, and copulation lasts for 10-15 minutes.
[21:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1063 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:55] <exec> 08└─Indictment of both. Having a relative that was addicted to heroin, I learned first hand that the biggest problem.... was how cheap it was. That truly surprised me. I always thought heroin was one of the more expensive drugs that forced you into petty crimes and shitty lives like crack-whorin' for cr...
[21:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:00] <exec> 08└─As a long term patient on strong prescription painkillers, I'll add this... I started weaning myself off the prescription crap due to near ineffectiveness and switched to weed. It's the best pain relief I've had in 15 years. I have absolutely no withdrawal symptoms with weed, as opposed to the very...
[21:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:02] <exec> 08└─I would like to see studies done to see which natural but effective substance is more helpful with opiate-family problems, cannabis or mitragyna [wikipedia.org]. I know that cannabis gives me a headache (as of 20-some years ago when I last tried), but mitragyna seems to provide pain relief + slight...
[21:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:04] <exec> 08└─Umm, is this the real EF without the fake troll persona??
[21:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:06] <exec> 08└─It must be nice not to have any obligations.
[21:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:09] <exec> 08└─Nooooo. I live in the good part of San Diego county. And I don't drink alcohol.
[21:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─Precisely. I doubt very much that they don't know these things to be true, they just don't care. It turns out that they like money more than the problems that will come after they've died. And, yes, with global warming, the worst effects won't happen until after these 60 and 70 year olds are dead. I...
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─In order to overdose on weed you'd have to either purposefully do it or you'd have to be caught in the middle of a field as it burns. I'm not personally a supporter of legalization without appropriate studies being conducted about the various pros and cons being done, but saying that it's going to c...
[21:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:15] <exec> 08└─What should I do differently this time? 4/20: StonerNews is People [soylentnews.org] 4/20: Half-Baked Headline [soylentnews.org] Looks like "lumping cannabis with opiate drugs" (read: writing about the "heroin epidemic") was time well spent in last year's version.
[21:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 2181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:17] <exec> 08└─>Weed isn't an opioid so what they are trying to say that getting stoned on weed is better then getting high of something else? No, they're saying that legal marijuana one of the first truly effective thing we've found to fight the epidemic opioid addiction. Presumably, because pretty much every add...
[21:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:10] <exec> 08└─It seems to me it would be really valuable for the Supreme Court to be able to simply step in and say "We believe this law/policy may be unconstitutional, and so are going to put the law itself on trial using court-appointed lawyers to dig into the details for both sides". Especially in the case of...
[21:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:11] <exec> 08└─My main issue with Justice Thomas is that his vote is so predictable. If there is a conservative way to view of a case, he will always* vote for that view, pretty much regardless of the other factors involved.
[21:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:13] <exec> 08└─It seems to me it would be really valuable for the Supreme Court to be able to simply step in and say "We believe this law/policy may be unconstitutional, and so are going to put the law itself on trial using court-appointed lawyers to dig into the details for both sides". Especially in the case of...
[21:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:49] <exec> 08└─There is no power loss in the superconducting state. There is, however, a maximum current you can send through before superconductivity breaks down. AFAIK this is, indeed, because of the magnetic field of the current.
[21:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:11] <exec> 08└─Neither chicken nor duck are at their best as boneless, skinless wads of flesh. If all you're trying to do is check off a protein content box on your standard issue carboniferous lifeform intake schedule, then have at it. If you actually want to like what you eat, you'll need skin as well, and proba...
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─The real problem is what happened a couple decades later when the anti-warming folks tried to take this old (and largely forgotten outside of specialist circles) story (i.e. global cooling) and make it seem like it was a bigger deal than people at the time thought it was.
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:58] <exec> 08└─Solar cycles? You know, the ones that have been shown over and over and over and over again as to play very little role in warming? I keep hearing that claim, but the people making it never seem to show any evidence to back up their claims...
[21:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:00] <exec> 08└─A hockey stick? That reminds me of a certain hockey stick graph [wattsupwiththat.com]... Funny that we don't seem to see it around anymore.
[21:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:02] <exec> 08└─It's not because acid rain was alarmist. It's because we FIXED THE PROBLEM.
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─you dismiss it as "no one knows anything". Reality is, little knowledge is very dangerous.
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─Somehow I read this post as: Runaway gets his jollies off by doubling CO2 in the atmosphere
[21:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─Smash the chips using patented Hamsterdan's mighty hammer, bring Ziploc bags to recycling center... The look on his face when I told the clerk it was a hard drive. (note to self, next time put the chips in bags *before* smashing them, less of a mess)
[21:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:35] <exec> 08└─The current website for the book is theauthoritarians.org [theauthoritarians.org] which has working PDF and ePub links (as well as a handful of blog articles about events after the book was written). I just finally read that book myself after seeing it recommended on threads like this for years, par...
[21:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:36] <exec> 08└─I also avoid the dislike button for that reason. However, the implications of those buttons are not made clear.
[21:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:38] <exec> 08└─I looked. The evidence is piss-poor for Trump being unusually involved with Russia. (never said "zero") The evidence shows that Trump is, oddly, less involved than Clinton. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Your "expert" is Timothy Snyder, a Yale professor being interviewed for Alternet. I'l...
[21:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:40] <exec> 08└─When we go over the cliff, you won't be able to buy guns anymore if you're an undesirable. Maybe we're not as close as I think we are. Don't give up on the ballot box just yet. In four years, maybe this will all seem like a bad dream. But be ready for the ballot box not to be enough. The jury box an...
[21:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:42] <exec> 08└─But your generalization from "some people need belief to get through the day" to "everyone does" is what I tried to show as false, by example of someone who doesn't.
[21:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:45] <exec> 08└─I don't believe there was any credible evidence that Russia hacked anything either, but in the instance of Iraq, there WERE WMDs. The CIA bought some: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
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[22:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:06] <exec> 08└─This raises critical questions about whether we can be confident that all these cameras are being used in a way the public would approve of
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─So we would need a spacecraft that is at least 10 times faster
[22:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─Even at 550AU, it will need some orbital velocity or a constant fuel burn to stay in place, so it won't be targeting any one image for long. If it is in a circular orbit, that will be a period of millenia (Neptune orbits in 165 years at 30AU).
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─The "pointing mechanism" could be a "grand tour" of local interstellar space designed to pass through focal points of promising targets. I have no idea how good an exposure we would get at 10X Voyager speeds before moving out of the target zone. The math on this is beyond me...
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─If it is powered by an RTG, for example, the spacecraft has a certain life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.newscientist.com/article/2074961-how-planet-nine-may-have-been-exiled-to-solar-systems-edge/ [newscientist.com] We might even send a probe there one day. “It’s not as crazy as it sounds,” says Brown. “The way you do it is head straight for the sun, and as you swing around the sun...
[22:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─True, but that life expectancy is determined largely by the isotope chosen. A low power rtg could last hundreds of years.
[22:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:31] <exec> 08└─Focal length: very good, but fixed Bokeh: way milky Notes: too much prone to flares, problematic in low/artificial light, limited mount options (space shuttle only, no Saturn V), good weather sealing, excellent factory support, awful portability, autofocus terribly slow, no flash sync, a bit pricey....
[22:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:34] <exec> 08└─At that distance, orbiting starts to get a lot less relevant for anything not completely inert. Orbital speed is proportional to the inverse square root of the radius - Earth is orbiting at 30km/s and is 550 times closer to the sun, so the telescope would be orbiting at 30km/s * 1/(sqrt 550) = 1.3km...
[22:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:36] <exec> 08└─I suspect building an 8.4km diameter optically perfect lens would be a lot more difficult than getting a telescope out to 550AU. Assuming your math is correct though, and the the Khallow Superscope would have a comparable resolving power, it would indeed be a lot more useful.
[22:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─A human male managed to have 867 direct descendents in less than 1 century [wikipedia.org] - verifiable. Another one was so prolific that DNA evidence suggest he is the ancestor of 8% of asian males and 0.5% of worlds' population [wikipedia.org]
[22:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:00] <exec> 08└─You hippies think you're all so clever with your "facts" and "evidence" and "proof". What about COMMON SENSE? Hmm? My ill-informed, hollywood-fed, semi-literate reactionary hindbrain knows more about complex social and medical issues than your "experts" and "doctors" and "people with direct and exte...
[22:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:33] <exec> 08└─No. They have think tanks to think up all the stupid shit they say. Think tanks inventing alternate realities. Aka lies. Its what keeps captain chaos doing his crazy train.
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:35] <exec> 08└─There's no signs that weed has any kind of physically addictive effects
[22:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:37] <exec> 08└─No, as they pointed out, but I never understood the appeal of painkillers either. I was prescribed Vicodin after hurting my back and although it put me in a different headspace it did nothing for the actual pain, which is the only reason why I took it. Over-the-counter anti-inflammatories and pot we...
[22:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:39] <exec> 08└─Ok, how long before the magic happens? I've hit water and I must have been, like, 8 times round this pond.
[22:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:42] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about compartmentalized thinking. Tell a lie enough times and you believe it.
[22:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:44] <exec> 08└─Tell a lie enough times and you believe it.
[22:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:46] <exec> 08└─Pot is too easy to produce at home for them to decriminalize it.
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:42] <exec> 08└─Good point! It is a problem of perception indeed, where it's a lot easier to rationalize someone making the decisions you approve of. I do have more examples in my head of Justice Sotomayor (or the other liberal-minded) siding with the conservative side, which I usually can put on the strict interpr...
[22:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:44] <exec> 08└─"Checks and balances"
[22:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:46] <exec> 08└─How could they pass a law? Laws can only be created by congress, and the potential for interpretation is limited - and could be made much less so if Congress knew the Supreme Court could immediately try to twist the words to mean something different. What the Supreme Court could do is prevent a law...
[22:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is that standing tends to be rather narrowly interpreted these days and the DOJ (executive) is left way too free to avoid giving people standing by selectively dropping charges (or reversing actions) against any person with the wherewithal to push the matter up to the Supreme Court. They...
[22:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:50] <exec> 08└─I believe I clearly indicated that the idea is to give the Court the ability to ignore issues of standing altogether - there are no individuals involved at all, as accuser or defendant - it would be the law itself on trial for crimes against the constitution based on nothing more than judicial suspi...
[22:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:28] <exec> 08└─which could one day be used to double the potency of wind turbines.
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─1) Grow hemp. It can grow pretty much anywhere and outproduces any other plant. Before USA.gov completely stuck its head up its ass, it was celebrating this miracle plant. Hemp for Victory (1942) - US Government asks farmers to grow it [youtube.com] 14 minute video 2) Relocate NYC's 8.4M inhabitants...
[22:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─I do tend to have a "wait and see" attitude.
[22:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:16] <exec> 08└─Why is this marked troll for someone who believes differently? I don't think he's saying these things to get attention or cause mayhem. This forum unlike Slashdot, does have a "disagree" mod. Be an adult and use it rather than going for the most insulting mod you can find.
[22:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─x39 or x51?
[22:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─If the dust is disposed of properly, sure. You would absolutely not want to inhale that stuff...
[22:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:03] <exec> 08└─Sir, I would like to buy some of your hammer-proof chip-smashing bags. The last full bags I laid hammer to punctured and split, getting schmutz all over the place.
[22:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─Btw, the original pdf is easily found on yandex, but not on google.
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[23:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─Here in San Diego (specifically Ocean Beach) a couple of bums got into a fight and one of them got stabbed, so a measure was proposed to put cameras fucking everywhere, notably facing the beach as well. All of the hysterical housewives and other cowards voted for it, and now law enforcement has cart...
[23:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:12] <exec> 08└─I'd expect guys to want the cameras, while women would wall off or bulldoze the beach...
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[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─At that same beach, actually, there's a spot south past the rocks that's known as a makeout spot -- and hanging out there are pervs with telephoto lenses who wait until dusk to snap couples in the act. Source: I caught one of the motherfuckers standing on a rock right above my friend and I recording...
[23:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─Not really. The longer the duration of the mission, the greater the probability of failure. Extremely high latency comms combined with zero potential for physical maintenance means that the telescope needs extreme durability and suitable redundancy. If we can wait 200 years to see it in place, then...
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─At that distance, orbiting starts to get a lot less relevant for anything not completely inert.
[23:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:39] <exec> 08└─a constant fuel burn to stay in place
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─Didn't say it couldn't be done, but I don't think anyone will unless it can be done with some microsatellite that is cheap enough. The cost to get it in place along with the limited targets it could observe make this a project that likely won't happen unless there is a specific target worth the effo...
[23:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:44] <exec> 08└─Cons: Astoundingly expensive cost, multi-thousand year mission duration, with no guarantees of mission success Pros: Finding more rocks in space that are also impossibly far away.
[23:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─Hawt.
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[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─" Diego has fathered hundreds of progeny... "
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[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─Jesus, the noises the male makes in the second link vid are fucking hilarious, and disturbingly human-like. And the part of the video that shows the female's face is pretty funny too because she looks like she's not havin' it. And 'dem shells knocking.
[23:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─Yep. Here too. I'm getting on in years and have my own set of medical issues. Heart, arthritis, and have found cannabis a life saver. Alcohol is poison to me and has destroyed most my heart's nerve bundles. Got a pacemaker ICD now. Cannabis has also been helpful in weight loss and even getting my bl...
[23:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:55] <exec> 08└─You gotta hand it to the dems, they are the gun industries best marketing agency. All they gotta do is mention "gun control" and boom! Huge surge in gun and ammunition sales.
[23:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:58] <exec> 08└─Nah, it comes from their peers.
[23:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:00] <exec> 08└─You call Dominoes. Duh.
[23:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:02] <exec> 08└─> Michigan's largest contributions are historical. Look up the importance of the St. Lawrence river and shipping some time. That seems to still be of some importance: One of Canada’s most important transportation and trade networks, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, is undergoing a transformat...
[23:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:05] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is aware of the Dubya/Cheney White House. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:07] <exec> 08└─Friend of mine did the same thing. They gave him something along the lines of Vicodin or hydrocodone. It made him nauseous and disoriented. Just completely shitty. He switched to smoking weed and took advil. Not only did it numb the pain, but he could also eat. The choice between the overpriced "leg...
[23:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:09] <exec> 08└─Lets see... $360 for a 30 day supply of fentanyl patches which comes with addiction, side effects, withdrawals, shitty pain relief, and possible death... or $90 for a 60 day supply of weed which almost cuts the pain level to nothing, no withdrawals, and is not addictive. No brainer.
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:27] <exec> 08└─until there is an event which "harms consumers right now", according to its acting head.
[23:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:03] <exec> 08└─I have a magic rock which keeps tigers away... Good for you. I have scrubbers. [wikipedia.org] They're a bit more effective at keeping corrosive compounds out of the atmosphere.
[23:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:04] <exec> 08└─Has anyone looked into how much pollution is generated by the manufacture of these scrubbers and extra testing, inspections, etc they entail? The advantage will be offset somewhat, but it may be negligible. I just don't know.
[23:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─Also Jesus didn't return to lead a jihad against the unbelievers. :(
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─Am I supposed to care if non-Americans despise Americans? The goal is to win. The leaders of most countries don't give a shit about Americans, and that is OK. It's expected. They do their job, or not, and the American president does his job. Emma Lazarus' poem is pretty offensive. Put the Declaratio...
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