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[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruption(s) May Have Caused Glaciation Event on Earth 717 Million Years Ago - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:08] <exec> 08└─It was OBVIOUSLY caused by all those traitorous Commie low-energy Democrat-votin' Neo-proterozoic organisms trading their coal-rollin' SUVs for pansy-ass hybrids! THIS is what happens when SoylentNews becomes a temple to the liberal leftist gay Jew Muslim atheist Communist terr'ist Russian Mexican b...
[00:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:04] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile its La Ninia again - droughts in Australia and flooding in South America.
[00:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:05] <exec> 08└─And you are clearly sub-literate, judging only on the brief sample size in this topic.
[00:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:08] <exec> 08└─The subject of this sounded interesting. Was excited to see discussions of engineering and scientific solutions to climate change. Then read "take a stand in tackling climate change by developing a declaration imposing restrictions and requirements on members." and realised it was the same hands tie...
[00:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:28] <exec> 08└─Leave it to Microsoft to drop the guise and just outright make a business model out of being mobsters. Oh wait, they already did that. This just sounds like them being slightly more blatant about it and flagrantly stating that they fear no repercussions. How much protection can I put you down for fr...
[00:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:37] <exec> 08└─The answers seem to go from secret laser/doomsday weapons...
[00:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─From where I stand, it's more like orbiting.
[00:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:41] <exec> 08└─So... you are suggesting X-37B is the Boeing way of making popcorn. I find myself intrigued.
[00:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:09] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see a convincing argument that "Dark Matter [thomastthomas.com]" differs in any significant way from Phlogiston [britannica.com], The Aether [wikipedia.org], or The Four Humors [greekmedicine.net]. I believe that researchers will probably find the Dark Matter about the same time that t...
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[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Precision Surgical Robot for Cochlear Implantation - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:15] <exec> 08└─Researchers Develop High-Precision Surgical Robot for Cochlear Implantation
[01:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:21] <exec> 08└─> Yes, like I said, there is no approved "fix" yet. NOx is not particulate, and I am so happy that so many on SoylentNews have opinions on, stuffs. Remapping the ECU is the approved fix. However your inability to read entire sentences seems to be hampering your understanding of the above parents pos...
[01:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:00] <exec> 08└─5E is basically what you should have gotten for 4E instead of that wannabe WoW bullshit.
[01:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 2262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─The main difference that dark matter has from phlogiston, aether, and the four humours, but possibly shares with the Ptolemaic deferents and epicycles is that it agrees with observations. Phlogiston and aether were abandoned soon after observations and experiments showed that they did not agree with...
[01:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─No one took phlogiston theory seriously after Lavoisier showed how oxidation worked
[01:21:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:11] <exec> 08└─There's no signs that weed has any kind of physically addictive effects
[01:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:39] <exec> 08└─As you said "chemically addictive" I must agree, but I have encountered examples of people who where psychologically addicted, so if you can be addicted to video games or iPhones, you can be addicted to marijuana. There are reasonable arguments over whether this is the correct use of the language. I...
[01:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:41] <exec> 08└─There is reasonable evidence that marijuana is damaging to people before their late adolescent neuron pruning is done at around 23. This isn't convincing evidence, as I don't believe the study has ever been replicated. It's also true that the effect detected was not large. And I don't believe this i...
[01:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting. They gave me Vicodin after my gall bladder was removed, and I didn't find it very effective. I think I still have about half a bottle, but by now it's way past the expiration date. Now I don't know whether it really wasn't effective or not. It could be that I just had enough pain (for a...
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[02:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─With all of the poison pills shoved into W7 and the telemetry updates, you should be using offline patching tools anyway. BTW, those still work. The microcode drivers are a bigger issue. I think there are some working ones for intel but not sure about AMD despite the lack of "official" support.
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:27] <exec> 08└─It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned.
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:29] <exec> 08└─If you put a human in a pot of boiling water, it will try to climb out. If, however, you put it into a pot of lukewarm water and slowly heat it up, the human will boil to death because it doesn't act upon a gradual change. Makes a tasty soup!
[02:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:31] <exec> 08└─" It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned. "
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned.
[02:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:36] <exec> 08└─Been meaning to ask this for a while now but never felt motivated. I've never run a VM. I know what a VM is, I've used Windows since the 3.1 days, used Unix since 82 or so, was a sysadmin for a couple years, have code in the Linux kernel (couple of drivers). That said, what are steps 1-5 of setting...
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:38] <exec> 08└─Install the virtualbox package from your distro's package manager. Fire up virtualbox. Create an empty Windows VM. Install Windows on it. Profit!(?) Seriously, if you can install Windows on a real box you can install it on a fake one just fine. Just remember that virtual disks start out taking up ze...
[02:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:40] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. If there's no fish in it, water don't hold my interest very long.
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:42] <exec> 08└─1. Install VM software (VMware, VirtualBox, etc) 2. In the software, create a virtual machine (there is usually a wizard) 3. Start the created VM and install an OS to it, either from a disk or from an image 4. ??? 5. Profit In other words, just get the software and try it. The only thing you need is...
[02:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:45] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what you get for using Ubuntu, which is based on debian's testing branch - which debian explicitly says is not suitable for production use.
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Precision Surgical Robot for Cochlear Implantation - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't appreciate the avionics analogy. Must use completely different kinds of sensors (one possible commonality might be rate gyros?) and I really hope this robot isn't going hundreds of miles, at hundreds of miles/hour! Going a step further, these surgical devices are better described (imo) as h...
[02:15:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03caffeine [249] 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:59] <exec> 08└─The subject of this sounded interesting. Was excited to see discussions of engineering and scientific solutions to climate change. Then read "take a stand in tackling climate change by developing a declaration imposing restrictions and requirements on members." and realised it was the same hands tie...
[02:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:02] <exec> 08└─The VW scandal was in part enabled by the anti-CO2 crowd. The lower CO2 emissions for diesel vs. gasoline became a selling point, while the fact that Diesel is otherwise much dirtier and bad for people's health was overlooked.
[02:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:04] <exec> 08└─realised it was the same hands tied behind the back ideas applied to engineers.
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─> the fact that Diesel is otherwise much dirtier and bad for people's health was overlooked. Uh, no. The law required that VW specifically address that problem. VW broke the law, that is the scandal. The only people who enabled VW to break the law were VW employees.
[02:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you for posting, the inevitable responses calling out your ignorance really hits that emotional sweet spot!
[02:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:10] <exec> 08└─Bleh, you are a pimple on this site. Science isn't about skepticism or faith, it is about following the facts. Right now the facts all point one way, but you "skeptics" (quotes cause you're actually the faith based one ignoring data) still won't admit theybare there. Shell, framing SHELL came out sa...
[02:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:59] <exec> 08└─> [...] all you need is a perpetual motion device. I assumed readers were familiar with what I called "the aurora australis and aurora borealis." These are lights in the sky at high latitudes that are caused by, as I said, particles from the solar wind following the lines of the Earth's magnetic fie...
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[03:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention I also tried Debian stable, which had no features at all.
[03:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:29] <exec> 08└─It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned. flamebait response. dont care what you do, or why, its irrelevant to the article. deal.
[03:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:31] <exec> 08└─Yet somehow you think that we care that you don't care.
[03:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:33] <exec> 08└─Will windows based CADCAM run in a VM on Linux?
[03:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03magamo [3037] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:35] <exec> 08└─I hate to break it to you, but Ubuntu 10.10 wasn't an LTS version. 10.04 and 12.04 were, but not 10.10, 11.04 or 11.10
[03:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:38] <exec> 08└─So you tried Ubuntu, then tried Mint (based on Ubuntu) and Xubuntu (self-explanatory), and in another comment, mention you also tried Debian (which Ubuntu is based on)? I can almost see a pattern here... I'm not saying you necessarily would have had better success with any other distro, just that if...
[03:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:57] <exec> 08└─Which part of particulates and NOx do you not understand? As already stated, the CO2 alone was enough to create a scandal. All three pollutants combined made a scandal into a helluva big scandal. It isn't JUST the CO2. Do you remember "acid rain"?
[03:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:19] <exec> 08└─Does it run UnixWare?
[03:16:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:40] <exec> 08└─I told you bastards the Oxford comma was the proper way to do it. Now I got legal precedent to point to.
[03:16:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 1362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:42] <exec> 08└─I've read about this on a couple of different sites. The most amusing thing is this: In the sentence given, commenters vehemently protest that there is no ambiguity. They are split about 50/50 on which way is the only possible way to interpret the sentence. The fact that other people are just as con...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─McCulloch has a number of papers on this idea, which do not seem to have such high impact. One such paper from 2012, “Testing quantised inertia on galactic scales [google.com]” has 13 citations, only three of which are not by his own papers or papers co-authored by him. Another paper from 2010,...
[03:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:18] <exec> 08└─I think you meant to write "and is in" rather than "and is," am I right?
[03:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:20] <exec> 08└─A leopard? In America?
[03:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:22] <exec> 08└─At least it will be a slow, painful death, due to some random poison in the air, water or dirt, because it is WAY cheaper for energy companies to just dump their waste wherever they happen to be rather than trucking it somewhere to be contained/treated in a semi-responsible way. And who cares about...
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[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Seal Whiskerers: Navy Looks to Sea Life for New Ships - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:14] <exec> 08└─People hate seals. Not me, but the serious fishermen. Seals are competition. They eat fishermens' catch. What your leftist media don't tell you is that fishermen when out at sea or otherwise given the chance shoot seals to death out on the open ocean. And if they can get away with it, they shoot muc...
[04:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:38] <exec> 08└─I started with 10.04, but went downhill from there.
[04:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you just lost me on step 1. Which VM? Should I install it on Windows or Linux? What do I look out for?
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─When I'm ready to fiddle then I'll run Slackware and/or BSD, while touching upon SELinux for that paranoid user experience.
[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─Almost guarenteed. Pretty much everything will run in a VM, including many of the high-end games. The only place you run into problems is where software insists on talking directly to the hardware, which is fairly rare these days.
[04:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:46] <exec> 08└─Been meaning to ask this for a while now but never felt motivated. I've never run a VM. I know what a VM is, I've used Windows since the 3.1 days, used Unix since 82 or so, was a sysadmin for a couple years, have code in the Linux kernel (couple of drivers). That said, what are steps 1-5 of setting...
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:48] <exec> 08└─oh right, blame it onnthe CPU: " Tah shitty modern cpus need extra careful attention to be able to run our super cool top notch operating system and we cannot be bothered to make it run on those totally non conformal processors." no word about m$ not being happy about AMD supporting the linux openso...
[04:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:51] <exec> 08└─Mileage varies. Depending on the alignment of the stars, how the old woman throws the bones, whether you've been laid recently, whether you'll ever get laid again . . . I attempted Linux several times, before it "just worked". After at least half a dozen failures, I downloaded the then-current Suse...
[04:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:53] <exec> 08└─He just said virtualbox. Since the whole point of the exercise is to avoid Microsoft's shiny new policies, you should install it in Linux. There's nothing to look out for, step 1 is literally the same as installing any other package from your package manager.
[04:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:55] <exec> 08└─Now, Dunbal, it's not AC's fault that he was born an ugly baby, and his parents and grandparents abandoned him. Nor is it his fault that his shoe size is greater than his IQ. He didn't ask to be born that way. Poor little special snowflake - nobody appreciates him - SOB!! Let me get that world's sma...
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:57] <exec> 08└─And Kaby Lake? What has Intel done to earn their wrath? No, I think it's real simple. Microsoft hasn't sold enough Windows 10 licenses (because people don't want Windows 10), so Microsoft is trying to subtly encourage people to buy more Windows 10 licenses.
[04:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:59] <exec> 08└─step 3) is what most people dont understand: you can either connect the real physical dvd drive with install media to the new virtual maschine to install -or- if you have iso image file (file ending in .iso) you can "insert", as in select the iso file, to be "inside the virtual dvd drive of the virt...
[04:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:01] <exec> 08└─Also, you can download ISO files directly from Microsoft now, so no worry about any viruses added by parties not Microsoft.
[04:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:22] <exec> 08└─does "climate change" include antropogenic caused increase in "background" radiation? oops we made the planet warmer everybody notices that because humans have a temperatur sense. instaed lets keep wasting one-way energy and dumpnthe waste as radiation instead. humans wont notice because they dont h...
[04:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:23] <exec> 08└─It's pretty clear that any fix that requires a lifestyle change is never going to work, which means that active solutions are the only way to save the planet. Most options are either beyond our current capacity (like orbital sunshades) or have serious potential negatives, like adding iron to the oce...
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─I think there's a small distinction (beyond paid lobbying) in that this classification of jobs include ones that result in food going to waste if it's not processed in a timely fashion, so we don't want to burden employers for trying to handle a burst in fresh produce. It's not a good rule, but I ca...
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[05:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Seal Whiskerers: Navy Looks to Sea Life for New Ships - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:11] <exec> 08└─...seal's whiskers may be drunk as a general tonic, as it is said to purify the blood and cleanse the kidneys. A not-so-well-known fact that is that seal's whiskers are also helpful for relieving stress and tiredness.
[05:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Seal Whiskerers: Navy Looks to Sea Life for New Ships - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:13] <exec> 08└─Alternative medicine! Where's my powdered tiger's penis?
[05:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:50] <exec> 08└─Every year hot tubs look less attractive to me, but I'm just not ready to switch to cold showers even though I hear they are better for your skin. I've tried cold showers a few times, buy they still felt crude and unfinished. I'll switch to cold showers fully when they have the ease of use, bubble b...
[05:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:51] <exec> 08└─"Just remember that virtual disks start out taking up zero-ish space and only grow as necessary, so don't set a low size value for them." Depends how you set it up, but yes, i would recommend adding a dynamic virtual HDD.
[05:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─Hey so ethanol, where can i get those buffalo burgers in or near Long Beach? Remember, you promised to tell me.
[05:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:56] <exec> 08└─When Xubuntu 12.04 was 6 months old, I put it on everything; AMD desktop, Dell mini 9, 32-bit Via C7 Eden, Intel P4, Intel i3.... It didn't matter, it ran perfect on everything. But now I'm starting to see the repository rot and software get slower just like EF saw on 10.10. I've switched the file s...
[05:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:58] <exec> 08└─But was the lack of features stable?
[05:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:00] <exec> 08└─The Linux flag wavers can get pissed but the simple fact is there is zero point in Linux on the desktop because if they are one of those users that Linux often touts, the ones that ONLY surf the web, use email, etc? They are much better off with a tablet as they are more secure, easier to use, and d...
[05:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:02] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is trying to subtly encourage people to buy more Windows 10 licenses.
[05:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:04] <exec> 08└─I don't live in Long Beach. Get 'em in San Diego at Stone or any burger joint in North Park. But those are Bison, rather than Buffalo, burgers.
[05:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:07] <exec> 08└─We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates)
[05:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:09] <exec> 08└─Intel are Jews. After having been told that it shouldn't have to sink in -- Jews are all about making more money and controlling the Goyim. Now look what Microsoft are doing, compare the two, and let that sink in.
[05:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:11] <exec> 08└─I too moved to Linux about 15 years ago.
[05:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruption(s) May Have Caused Glaciation Event on Earth 717 Million Years Ago - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:26] <exec> 08└─1815 eruption of Mount Tambora [wikipedia.org] One of the most powerful eruptions in recorded history and is the most recent known VEI-7 event. [wikipedia.org] 1816: The Year Without a Summer [wikipedia.org] Impact: Caused a volcanic winter that dropped temperatures by 0.4 to 0.7 °C worldwide. Effe...
[05:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:34] <exec> 08└─Dude. No need for any of that crazy shit. Renewable power is already the cheapest source of new power in the majority of countries and is expected to be the cheapest source of new power in every country by 2025. Save the money from that pie-in-sky stuff and spend it on converting existing infrastruc...
[05:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 2033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:57] <exec> 08└─Just think of all that goes into typical EULAs. They try to convince us that we aren't allowed to reverse engineer their product, we can't even create something similar ourselves, we don't have any fair use rights, we can't sell it on the used market-- no first-sale doctrine, we have to ask their pe...
[05:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:52] <exec> 08└─Khalliw as usual knows more than judges about ruling on law.
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[06:15:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you need to go into this stuff in a little more depth...I believe the children refer to this process as "git gud n00b." Seriously; Arch is *easy.* Slack is a pain because it has no dependency checking, but there's something very soothing and old-school about it. Gentoo should run fine on...
[06:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:14] <exec> 08└─Lies. Windows works just fine from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Microsoft are Cthulhu cultists, because everything they do is ratshit insane and would be evil if it were more coherent.
[06:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:17] <exec> 08└─Common -- they support MRI machines [debian.org]. You can't complain it lack features, just because your hardware costs less than $2 million.
[06:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─And unlike the reinstalls directly on the hardware, you can keep using the PC as usual while doing it :)
[06:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:21] <exec> 08└─I have to look up when I stopped using Ubuntu. It was around the 12.0 release. I was forcing the TV I was using at the time to work in 16:10 mode. Upgrade only let me choose the 16:9 and 4:3 modes it actually advertised :P Currently using Mint. Don't like it. Plan to try Slackware (And FreeBSD -- I...
[06:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:23] <exec> 08└─The Linux flag wavers can get pissed but the simple fact is there is zero point in Linux on the desktop because if they are one of those users that Linux often touts, the ones that ONLY surf the web, use email, etc? They are much better off with a tablet as they are more secure, easier to use, and d...
[06:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:25] <exec> 08└─A tablet operating system's window management policy is on the whole less flexible, in many cases allowing only one window to be visible at a time. Want to read a document in half the screen and write a review in the other half? Too bad.
[06:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:27] <exec> 08└─Buy buy buy some more. My girlfriend uses a windoze computer. One evening she decided to rent a movie. [I don't condone or support either of these acts.] The kicker is that the movie would not play normally but instead it would every was it 5 or ten minutes freeze for a long time to inform her that...
[06:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruption(s) May Have Caused Glaciation Event on Earth 717 Million Years Ago - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:43] <exec> 08└─So, what I'm hearing is, we could combat global warming by dropping a few nukes in a volcano? Does anyone have Elon Musk's [space.com] phone number?
[06:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:09] <exec> 08└─Instead, "distribution" matches "shipment", suggesting that "packing for shipment or distribution" should be read as one item in the list and "distribution" is not a separate item.
[06:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:10] <exec> 08└─expanding a long sentence into a vertical list for readability doesn't waste paper.
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[07:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:13] <exec> 08└─Good news for corporate users also - looks like WSUS should be fine as well - https://www.ghacks.net [ghacks.net] Still, glad I already quit dealing with Microsoft for personal use. Generating slipstreamed custom...
[07:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:15] <exec> 08└─Here is an illustrated guide (probably one of many): http://askubuntu.com [askubuntu.com]
[07:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:17] <exec> 08└─You're so full of shit it hurts, where to even begin. Sigh. Are you saying there are more "Linux users" that only surf the web? Actually usually the users that are more knowledgeable tend to do more on computers. You really think a random tablet is more secure, really? Without having any idea what k...
[07:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:19] <exec> 08└─No the answer for the casual web surfer and emailer is a Chromebook. Costs less than an iPad and has a full keyboard and long battery life. The OS is just about unbreakable.
[07:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:21] <exec> 08└─It's not often I say this, but the world would be better off without you. Heck, you would be better off without you.
[07:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:47] <exec> 08└─Nuclear power with a Molten salt reactor can be a game-changer. It becomes practical to synthesize jet fuel by pulling CO2 out of the oceans, for example.
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[08:14:29] <exec> 08└─A democracy did the holocaust without this tech. What can this new advanced collective delusion accomplish? Perhaps something worse, or maybe many more things of smaller scale? Maybe ignoring global warming? These kinds of collective delusions are very dangerous. We need to be careful here. I recomm...
[08:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:31] <exec> 08└─“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984.
[08:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:33] <exec> 08└─All this news is meaningless. You're going to get the AI apocalypse, or the bio apocalypse. That's the real two party system. Your choice is to pick one and help it along.
[08:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:35] <exec> 08└─Do what now? We have things called "institutions" that arose out of the muck as beacons of enlightenment. Unfortunately 1/2 the anglo populations of UK, USA (the bottom half in just about every metric) decided the institutions need to be torn down. Not coincidentally that's what the very greediest a...
[08:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:50] <exec> 08└─I took the dive into linux back when vista came out with it's audio piracy paranoia system.
[08:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:52] <exec> 08└─Will windows based CADCAM run in a VM on Linux?
[08:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruption(s) May Have Caused Glaciation Event on Earth 717 Million Years Ago - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:10] <exec> 08└─Why waste time looking for a volcano? Launch the nukes already.
[08:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruption(s) May Have Caused Glaciation Event on Earth 717 Million Years Ago - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, yes, if You do not mind the volcanic ashes to be quite a bit radioactive. But generally, the main problem with this solution is lack of direct control over the volcanic emissions. Once You pop, it just won't stop.
[08:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:22] <exec> 08└─Why link to propaganda websites? You guys never have links to a major site or a university with a reputation worth losing. Spare us the Koch.
[08:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:23] <exec> 08└─I've got a lifestyle change that many Americans can do. Stop getting healthcare - 24 million are signing up for that RIGHT NOW.
[08:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, where is "violently imposed monopoly" guy when you need him??! This will be the libertarian utopia he's dreaming of.
[08:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:28] <exec> 08└─As a medical researcher, the "full consequences" of using liquid He to diagnose your cancer is a lot of extra CO2 in the air. Not gonna do it, you'll have to walk it off.
[08:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:37] <exec> 08└─How exactly does this address the issue in my comment?
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[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─A democracy did the holocaust without this tech.
[09:14:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:40] <exec> 08└─It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned.
[09:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:17] <exec> 08└─If you have to add imaginary stuff in a non-predictable way JUST in order to make the data work, SOMETHING IS WRONG!!!!
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[10:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology Reveals 16th Century Edinburgh - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:04] <exec> 08└─This is retarded. Why would anyone want to squint their eyes to view this on the small screen and to clumsily poke at a slab instead of using a more precise pointing instrument?
[10:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:11] <exec> 08└─I have an intel e2180 CPU, and Radeon HD3450 video. Chrome can't play 1080p YouTube videos under Windows or Linux (open source drivers fedora 25). Works if I youtube-dl a 1080p video and play it in totem. Very sad.
[10:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:13] <exec> 08└─Play inaudible music in your tab as well if the user agent betrays a google follower...
[10:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:13] <exec> 08└─I think you missed my point. The article suggest no such thing. It says that engineers need to start paying attention to the impact their designs have on the climate. That it is unethical to ignore the full consequences of their work, just like it is unethical for medical researchers to ignore the...
[10:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:14] <exec> 08└─Remapping the ECU is the approved fix.
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[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─Why indeed, you ask? [harryallen.info]
[11:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:20] <exec> 08└─They are preparing you for austerity measures.
[11:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks facebook, thank you google.
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─Where's the fundamental difference?
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:49] <exec> 08└─Notice a pattern how it always includes lawyers?
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[12:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not buying it. If Grandma has an Administrator account, no amount of hardening is going to help.
[12:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:15] <exec> 08└─I believe it relates to ease of use and to stomach.
[12:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:33] <exec> 08└─and if google checks the output level of the played sound to avoid that trick of yours, play the sound of laptop fans. Especially funny if you are on a chromebook.
[12:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:47] <exec> 08└─Oy Vey! Dis iz anuddah Shoah! An anti-Semitic canard!
[12:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:07] <exec> 08└─I switched to Ubuntu 16.04 for the one-size-fits-all-NFW-will-I-run-windows-10 aspect. So far, so good. Not wild about a couple of things. Interface needs tweaking. For all intents and purposes it replaces Windows except for Windows only games. I have dual boot for that. IMOHO I cannot see why anyon...
[12:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:08] <exec> 08└─Unsupported Hardware Your PC uses a processor that isn't supported on this version of Windows and you won't receive updates.
[12:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:10] <exec> 08└─I wanted to mod you kick ass Tenacious D awesome! But, I had to give an insightful.
[12:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:45] <exec> 08└─For many years, Diesel emissions standards in Europe were looser than for gasoline. Combine that with lax enforcement, and it's obvious that governments were giving Diesel a pass. If you're an engineer who's priority is reducing CO2, Diesel looks good. If you care about health and air quality, it do...
[12:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:46] <exec> 08└─How can I contribute to the solution when most people appear to want to believe that there isn't even a problem? A few lowly individuals can't fix this. It requires organisation, a consensus of the majority, funding, research...
[12:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:48] <exec> 08└─Your trolling is discriminating against people who don't do JavaScript!
[12:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 4349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─That's quite a "burn the heretic" inquisitional response for something that's supposedly not a religion, but obviously in practice is. I find the argument hilarious given the usual response to creationism. Well, obviously something created the earth, and its not a signed legal statement in a court o...
[12:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:26] <exec> 08└─Orbital weapons program.
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[13:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:25] <exec> 08└─The first issue is know and will be working on that soon. The second issue is an admin to user message. The editors use this the most and are supposed to let the user know how to contact them. When we added this feature, we were not sure how to add the reverse messaging without creating a whole spam...
[13:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:08] <exec> 08└─Religious texts spread harmful "fake news" for millennia and now you're worried about Facebook? If anything we've gotten out of the old rut of being stuck with a single text telling us what's Good and Bad and now have several facets to get as factual information as we can. Facebook and Google are co...
[13:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:09] <exec> 08└─So, all religion have been disproved. Because you said that, right?
[13:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:11] <exec> 08└─what's more dangerous is inability to tell truth from lies because your input feed has been filtered. This article is just fodder for furthering censorship of the internet.
[13:16:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:41] <exec> 08└─Install the virtualbox package from your distro's package manager. Fire up virtualbox. Create an empty Windows VM. Install Windows on it. Profit!(?) Seriously, if you can install Windows on a real box you can install it on a fake one just fine. Just remember that virtual disks start out taking up ze...
[13:17:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:30] <exec> 08└─Unsupported Hardware Your PC uses a processor that isn't supported on this version of Windows and you won't receive updates.
[13:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:32] <exec> 08└─Won't this use up the Internet activations associated with your product key
[13:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah i find this attitude perplexing, especially on a site where users are presumably more technical. Linux is superior in every way for the technical user. Its development tools are superlative. Every layer is robust enough to handle the most intensive tasks in the world. You can optimize your syst...
[13:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─Copied from this Slashdot Post [slashdot.org] How to Install Windows 7 on Kaby Lake/Cannon Lake New Intel CPUs do support Windows 7, all you need is: 1. A PCIe USB3 expansion card (to get the USB mouse/keyboard working, or use a PS/2 keyboard/mouse) For Intel graphics support: 1. Download the lates...
[13:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Precision Surgical Robot for Cochlear Implantation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't appreciate the avionics analogy.
[13:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:20] <exec> 08└─Some motherfucker came up to me with a stack of "climate change responsibility" papers to sign
[13:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:21] <exec> 08└─major decisions impacting such things are usually make at
[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:23] <exec> 08└─Basically he described the 99% of the USA landmass that voted for Trump. Its actually kinda funny when viewed that way. As a percentage of USA surface area roughly 1% of the acres of land voted for Hillary. The problem with the "roving gang" theory is its always assumed a multicultural multilingual...
[13:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:26] <exec> 08└─we should do is smart to do *anyway* for completely unrelated reasons.
[13:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:28] <exec> 08└─It says that engineers need to start paying attention to the impact their designs have on the climate
[13:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:30] <exec> 08└─> some dude confessed to creating the earth in a week They don't teach religion anymore at school, I guess? Psalm 90 Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. You turn man back into dust And say, "Return, O childre...
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[14:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:47] <exec> 08└─the m$ ceramic brick house with 10 windows already is totally transparent to all your privacy. it soo transparent you don't even need windows anymore. as the for the "hardening" effect is is mostly to harden the grip on the market and to turn your regular jell-o like brain into a solid hardened mass...
[14:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:49] <exec> 08└─At approximately 156,000 times the atmospheric pressure (15.6 gigapascals) and a temperature of 1800 degrees Celsius a transparent piece of cubic silicon nitride formed with a diameter of about two millimetres. "It is the first transparent sample of this material," emphasises Nishiyama.
[14:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:25] <exec> 08└─warped the US president electn
[14:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Seal Whiskerers: Navy Looks to Sea Life for New Ships - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:41] <exec> 08└─Give me Whiskery McWhiskerface!
[14:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:51] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, didn't get virtualbox was the name of the package, thought it was a generic term.
[14:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:52] <exec> 08└─while touching upon SELinux for that paranoid user experience.
[14:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:55] <exec> 08└─The explanation is the usual one, follow the money. Hairy is a MS guy through and through. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! -- Upton Sinclair
[14:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:41] <exec> 08└─It means they upward adjusted their guess of the age of the earth by 7000 years, but still were way off.
[14:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:30] <exec> 08└─My friends & I found a great way to reduce the wear & tear on our sheets, dispite all the corrections & updates you make during a session. Fill the sheet out in pencil, slip into a plastic "sheet protector" like what you would use for a high school book report, & then mark on the plastic with wet er...
[14:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:59] <exec> 08└─You mean, like the introduction of quantised inertia just might be what that 'dark matter's really is? 'Dark matter' solves nothing, but hopefully it will lead the bright, inquisitive and intelligent to the RIGHT answer. Homer J Simpson said "D'oh!" !!!
[14:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:00] <exec> 08└─it proposes a new model of gravitation based upon "quantised inertia" (an interesting idea if nothing else) , that accounts for the distribution of visible mass in the universe. That may add some value to "avenues for research in better understanding both dark matter and large-scale cosmic structure...
[14:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:02] <exec> 08└─Please no general blah-blah. Please tell me how that theory deals with the specific issue I described in my comment.
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[15:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:18] <exec> 08└─Rating a video is non-obvious in the Apple TV, Roku, and Android apps. Perhaps they'd get more stars if it was easy to do in the first place.
[15:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─* make it a user preference whether to auto-preview a movie when I hover over it. I just want to read the description in peace, not be constantly shown movie clips while browsing. * let me eliminate entire genres from what is suggested to me. I don't like horror movies. * give better parental contro...
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─broaden support for the offline downloading feature.
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─The funniest meme which may or may not be true is Amy Schumer was getting made fun of, so they had to change the ratings system. It doesn't even matter if you think the meme is true or not, its just as funny either way.
[15:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─Load times seemed fine to me...then again, I use Tor. If there are many comments on a page, I will typically spend much longer than a minute with it.
[15:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:48] <exec> 08└─How about finally changing Anonymous Coward to anonymous?
[15:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:00] <exec> 08└─Listening to the news this morning, there was a discussion of the requirements for "Trump's Wall". As well as height (18 - 30 feet tall) there was also a request from border patrol for a transparent wall...so they can see what is happening on the other side. I see a match made in heaven, at least fo...
[15:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─I expect the uptake will be quick among manufacturers of mobile phones.
[15:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:21] <exec> 08└─I have been having trouble with Youtube AD loads on my over-clocked Pentium 4. With the help of hardware acceleration, I can play 720P video. However the pre-roll Ads often block themselves by using too much CPU time. The quality is automatically reduced several times. It then gives up and tells me...
[15:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:41] <exec> 08└─Show me a religion that has been proven... While religion is not the same as faith, in most cases of how they are practiced, they can be equated, and faith... well, is -by definition- blind belief in something despite the absence of evidence. I think it's fair to say all religion is false. *EVEN* if...
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─Umm, most tablets run Android/Linux these days.
[15:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 2443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─Wasn't sure whether to respond here or above, but this thread has gone a bit further down the line, although at a bit of a tangent. > I can't tell you how I know, but this is factually incorrect. So evidently you do not know whereof thou speaks. Right, so "somehow" you just know it isn't. If this wa...
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:20] <exec> 08└─If it can be read many ways, it is ambiguous. That is what ambiguous means. The rest is argument, not fact.
[15:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:21] <exec> 08└─That argument was addressed in the opinion. TLDR, the text is ambiguous because it can be read more than one way, and thus, the court must resort to examining the underlying purpose of the statute (preventing workers from getting screwed on wages). Here's the long way: Still, the drivers' textual po...
[15:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:23] <exec> 08└─This was directly addressed in the opinion. See: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:26] <exec> 08└─Oakhurst is a dairy operating all the year round. It isn't like raspberries where the fruit comes ripe once a year and is very fragile. Oakhurst could easily hire the requisite number of drivers to be able to do the work it has in 40 hour chunks. That might mean having some extra trucks which costs...
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 2698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:53] <exec> 08└─Given that the D&D Wiki already lets players & DM's access tons of Open Game & Homebrew content, that's a "we've already GOT that!" function. Given programs like Hero Labs & Hero Machine, we've been able to create our characters, track them, & even make portraits if we like. Considering that there h...
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[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't it easier to just click a couple times at amazon and not have to drive to the store and wait in line and argue with the cashier about extended warranties etc? Tango was new about 3 years ago and it is kinda cool to see it get used.
[16:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:35] <exec> 08└─And Google gets to know your shopping list.
[16:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:43] <exec> 08└─Russia is... Russia. Here is what happens when you don't understand Russia: http://www.zerohedge.com [zerohedge.com] Russia likes to feel power. Russia is paranoid. Russia has a pitiful economy the size of Spain, mo...
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:45] <exec> 08└─and the crack around europe is extending from Libya to Egypt to middle east (dare i say israel?) to Syria and now even further to the Belarus Ukraine. soon europe will be surrounded by a huge crack of peace ...
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─Tatyana Muntyan, a library employee, said that even before the transfer its director had reduced opening hours, stopped home lending, halted acquisitions, and made readers show passports to gain entry.
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─It is indeed true and it is indeed funny. Fat, unfunny gurl gets bad reviews so they have to alter the rating system to appease her, I mean it's not like she could just go on a diet and work on her material.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing it's the variety of licenses each different movie studio requires.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 4177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─I'll fully admit that I'm an outlier in my tastes, for whom a mass-market rating system is probably never going to be a good fit. My first reaction to this headline is: "Isn't that removing some granularity in ratings which will make the recommendations worse?" But on second thought, it's probably f...
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─* let me eliminate entire genres from what is suggested to me. I don't like horror movies.
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─Seriously, does this too need to be dumbed down? Things are more complex than thumbs up, thumbs down.
[16:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─Even after repeatedly trying to explain this to my parents, for example, my father still frequently will say, "I watched this movie last night, and it was terrible. But it had five stars!" And I yet again try to explain that isn't some sort of rating by educated critics or even a summary of all Netf...
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─I couldn't tell if the ++ button has changed in this version (I browse at -1). It looks like there is still no "one click expands all" solution. Clicking on comment titles looks decent. Probably more useful for mobile users. I think the spoiler would be better as an inline (span) rather than block (...
[16:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─Why?
[16:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cpghost [4591] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:50] <exec> 08└─Now the famous Glass Ceiling [wikipedia.org] has become even harder to break through...
[16:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:52] <exec> 08└─If you look at the sample the created, this is totally ready for prime time...for ants.
[16:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:14] <exec> 08└─https://ark.intel.com/products/31733/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E2180-1M-Cache-2_00-GHz-800-MHz-FSB [intel.com] It's somewhat sad, but not very sad. It is a 9-10 year old CPU and GPU. VP9 wasn't even a twinkle in Google's eye back in 2007, so no hardware acceleration. So your kitchen sink web browser v...
[16:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─It has to be audible. If there is a stretch of silence during audio/video playback, the indicator on the tab goes away.
[16:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Intel has already launched austerity measures. Moore is dead.
[16:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─i wonder how firefox manages this problem b/c firefox bogs down my whole computer with many tabs open, especially if amazon or other angular/js heavy site in amongst them. At least the latest release now blocks my log in form fields with a poorly implemented warning about the dangers of no https. If...
[16:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:22] <exec> 08└─Not silence but less than 50 Hz or more than 15 kHz sound for example etc.
[16:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─Are you really that naive, or is this just Poe's Law at work?
[16:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─I'm really not sure if this post is meant to be serious or is just sarcasm of some sort. But assuming it is serious: Stomping out fires before they spread is an incredible task that will without a doubt prevent the next Crusades or Holocaust from taking place. If only we had this technology sooner,...
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RoxTeddy [6500] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─I ignore commentary, seek out the facts. Social media is all propaganda. If you don't think so, think again.
[16:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:00] <exec> 08└─Good news for corporate users also - looks like WSUS should be fine as well - https://www.ghacks.net [ghacks.net] Still, glad I already quit dealing with Microsoft for personal use. Generating slipstreamed custom...
[16:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:18] <exec> 08└─nobody was talking about installing virtualbox on fucking windows. the whole point of the question was how to use some slaveware on linux, ffs.
[16:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:19] <exec> 08└─Good grief, and people used to complain about Linux being hard to install. How the tables have turned! Last time I installed Windows (on a VM), I was shocked at how crummy the process design was. It would ask for input, then churn for an indeterminate time, then ask for input again. Contrast with in...
[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─you're a fucking idiot and no one trusts your opinion. everyone i know uses Gnu+Linux, great grannies and all.
[16:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Precision Surgical Robot for Cochlear Implantation - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─Eh, you're probably right. So much for descriptive names of different technologies. Happened to numbers a long time ago, counting turned into -- 1, 2, 3, many.
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─.... Your fear is so irrational it is kinda scary. "The big bad scientist is gonna tell me to sacrifice my first born child nooooo!" Are you just mad that trump is compared to Hitler therefore you'll try the same thing??? Crazy VLM, crazy.
[16:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:14] <exec> 08└─Yaaa, that point was 100% lost in your original post.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─If it can be read many ways, it is ambiguous.
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Thus, the drivers' reading of the text is hardly fully satisfying.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─Read the exemption. It's for food-based goods. Perhaps it was because supply often comes in vast surges. Perhaps the legislature decided that the special needs of the sector warranted some protection from the regulation. Or perhaps the right palms were greased. In any case, that exemption is in law....
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[17:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:30] <exec> 08└─As a kid, I always wanted to be on the TV show "Supermarket Sweep." In the middle of a Lowe's store in 2017, my dream almost came true. Do you realize how sad those two sentences are? You deserve Google. They make products exactly for people like you...
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:32] <exec> 08└─Why something is at a particular location in a shop is carefully decided in such a way that you see as much of the store as possible. This is to increase the amount of money you'll spend in the store. Like fuck are they going to 'optimize' your path to the store so that you 'get in and get out' as q...
[17:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:34] <exec> 08└─A lot of times of an odd job at home, I just need one or two $5 parts, and it's nice to be able to just go and grab what I need. I can see this being a help, although I'm wary about apprising Google about every spare part I need. There's also an app called Google Goggles I gave a spin a few times. I...
[17:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:36] <exec> 08└─This strikes me as a different kind of reason to drop the oblig Manna reference. Instead of the fantasy about hot chicks come to save the protagonist from his terrafoam prison and whisk him away to a post-scarcity utopia, this reminds me of the employees following Manna's commands over their headset...
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:38] <exec> 08└─I suspect google already knows some of my shopping list! I showed one of our interns the difference between searching "google" and "duckduckgo". identical search terms and the difference in the result. If I understand correctly, DDG aggregates queries to google to make it less identifiable and hence...
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RoxTeddy [6500] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─The I can add my own ratings to movies and tv. Them they won't be erased by some jerk that has decided that it is to helpful. I already dislike netflix for not providing simple lists, I have to scroll through numbers of pictures to find a movie
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:05] <exec> 08└─We could call it the "Electoral College".
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:07] <exec> 08└─Only a very small subset of the genres that Netflix uses show up like that. They're ones that most people are likely to consider watching. I'm guessing the code for that would be rather problematic as some platforms like the set top boxes and Android don't give you a way of directly selecting one of...
[17:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really make reviews worse unless you were somebody that regularly rated things using all of those stars. I have a feeling that people either weren't using it at all or they were only using some of the stars in most cases. A simple up or down vote is more likely to be used and when analyze...
[17:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:36] <exec> 08└─We are Anonymous Coward. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us to run in terror.
[17:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:38] <exec> 08└─Where's the fundamental difference?
[17:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:39] <exec> 08└─The Buddha himself instructed people to challenge what he taught, that if they followed it blindly they were... blind. Though there are millennia of localized traditions added on to its core, the four "noble truths" of buddhism are iron clad. The closest thing to a flaw is that the fourth one, "here...
[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─If you think anybody should be a slave, you don't deserve discussion. History has shown this over and over, that some ideas are worth punching you in the face for expressing, rather than allowing the poison to spread. And no, it's not possible to absolutely prevent a silencing tech from being used t...
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─nobody was talking about installing virtualbox on fucking windows. the whole point of the question was how to use some slaveware on linux, ffs.
[17:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─I love that Microsoft keep handing Linux opportunities to grab some of their pie. Now if only the various communities can stop reinventing shit long enough to grab a piece...
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:18] <exec> 08└─Buzzard's instructions for Windows are spot on.
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─I guess you totally missed Douglas Adams' follow up to the B ark. Everyone on the A ark ended up dying from a virus contracted from a dirty phone headset... I guess you're the type of idiot that would cheer on Rorschach from "Watchmen" too when in reality the author meant for him to be an absurd cha...
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─And you again ignore that Oakhurst's reading is also unsatisfying (parallel construction). That leaves us with an ambiguous phrase.
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[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing with Google, I think. They do things for people that people want, and they do it at no monetary cost. In the process of doing this, and to help them perform these services, they acquire a lot of very detailed information about people, basically trading your private information for f...
[18:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─It's bad enough that we have people that walk with their heads down, eyes glued to their phone. Now we have to arm them with shopping carts in crowded store aisles? The few times I shop in Home Depot I'm glad there are people there to answer my questions and guide me to my destination. This is just...
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─> The danger is that they start using that information *against* people, but I think for the time being, they're pretty good Many years ago it was shown that the prices of items listed on google's price-comparison system were higher than the average of a representative sampling that excluded those m...
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:45] <exec> 08└─That's not using people's personal inmformation against them. That's basically the same as searching for the best price on Amazon and finding that a local bricks and mortar retailer has it cheaper .... which actually happens a surprising amount. Hasn't hurt Google? If it was a better, more valuable...
[18:15:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driven [6295] 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 1041 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:02] <exec> 08└─* make it a user preference whether to auto-preview a movie when I hover over it. I just want to read the description in peace, not be constantly shown movie clips while browsing. * let me eliminate entire genres from what is suggested to me. I don't like horror movies. * give better parental contro...
[18:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:48] <exec> 08└─Somebody should make a note of this, it comes back at every new version deployment lol ;-)
[18:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:49] <exec> 08└─Expand all is in testing on dev. That set of updates also kills off a lot of unused and broken JavaScript from the page loads, so it will need some testing before deployment.
[18:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:05] <exec> 08└─Transparent aluminum would be aluminum oxide, which is already in use for windows on armored vehicles.
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:31] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly some tabs with ads on Chrome use about 10-25 watts (based on my UPS load). Might save a fair bit of power worldwide, maybe more than hunting down 1W wall warts ;).
[18:17:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:54] <exec> 08└─Where's the fundamental difference?
[18:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─> what's more dangerous is inability to tell truth from lies because your input feed has been filtered. That is literally the article's very thesis. You could not be stronger agreement.
[18:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:35] <exec> 08└─I think my fellow AC was trying to point out when spittle-flecked rage overcame him that The Mighty Buzzard only posted instructions for Linux host / Windows guest, whereas you seem to think those instructions are about Windows host. (Note that "for Windows" isn't terribly specific, so I'm inferring...
[18:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:32] <exec> 08└─You don't know what "skeptical" even means. You don't know what "wrong" means. http://chem.tufts.edu [tufts.edu] There are these people, called "climate scientists", who are paid to measure things and determine other things. And they kind of 95%+ agree that HUM...
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[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─Supermarkets alleys are organized so that the customers spend plenty of time looking at products they were not actually going to buy. It is made to maximize the "oh, I need/want that too" effect. With such a Google tool where people would look constantly are their phones, it would just destroy the w...
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─It knows when your kids birthday parties are - and how many you have. It knows if you're on a diet. If you're buying ammonia and nyquil or some shit now you're getting stopped at airports.
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─Mexico and Canada actually check ID for voting. In most of the USA we only bother for alcohol, tobacco, driving, getting on a plane, getting questioned by cops, paying by check, going to the dentist, getting a normal job, getting admission to theme parks and big events... but non-fraudulent democrac...
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:06] <exec> 08└─Entertainment Weekly [ew.com] isn't exactly a bastion of the alt-right and they mention it in their reporting too. The spergs from [48]chan and /pol/ made fun of a special princess who happens to be a close relative of the Senate Minority Leader so "Something Must Be Done!" I suspect Netflix, like e...
[19:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:37] <exec> 08└─If you are Legion, does that make us Phalanx?
[19:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:38] <exec> 08└─If I click on the "Home" button at the bottom of the page, I get the section home and not the main page. As an example, the "Home" button for this article takes me to https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─I'll probably butcher this explanation but I think I understand the gist of it. The reason this happens in Firefox is there's a single process that handles every tab and the GUI, so if one tab is doing a lot of work in the background it makes the entire browser unresponsive until its done. Chrome sp...
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─I think stopping the spread of 'unacceptable' information is exactly how to get another "crusades or holocaust" to happen. The thing people miss out about what effectively boils down to censorship is that it doesn't just stop 'bad' things. Censorship is invariably a top-down affair. And when we open...
[19:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─Welcome to history repeating itself. Sure, you get news and information from sources that reflect your beliefs, but what this ultimately comes down to is someone (company, etc) exploiting this for their own gain. http://www.defenseone.com [d...
[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─Where's the fundamental difference?
[19:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:24] <exec> 08└─The VW scandal was in part enabled by the anti-CO2 crowd.
[19:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─Was excited to see discussions of engineering and scientific solutions to climate change.
[19:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:28] <exec> 08└─Climate change is not, in any way, a religion. Your insistence that it is doesn't make you look like the "true" skeptic in the room. It makes you look like the smug teenager in a fedora who thinks he really knows what's going on because he watched the Zeitgeist video on Youtube and read some Ayn Ran...
[19:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:30] <exec> 08└─Looking back, you were not wrong, just unclear, Unixnut. Well, I was the one who said that, so to respond: "However, the lean-burning nature of diesel engines and the high temperatures and pressures of the combustion process result in significant production of gaseous nitrogen oxides (NOx), an air...
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─And you again ignore that Oakhurst's reading is also unsatisfying (parallel construction).
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[20:14:42] <exec> 08└─It's bad enough that we have people that walk with their heads down, eyes glued to their phone. Now we have to arm them with shopping carts in crowded store aisles? The few times I shop in Home Depot I'm glad there are people there to answer my questions and guide me to my destination. This is just...
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─I think you are splitting hairs. Google is using their position of convenience and trustedness to exploit people by providing a service that advertises that it will help them. And despite exploiting that trust, they aren't paying a price for it.
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─The few times I shop in Home Depot I'm glad there are people there to answer my questions and guide me to my destination. This is just one step closer to fewer employees. I kind of like the social interaction....
[20:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:00] <exec> 08└─I have recently seen a couple of critiques of the USA-made movie "Bitter Harvest". Those note that the film was produced by Reactionary (Fascist) Ukrainian nationalists. The story claims (or implies) that the 1932 - 1933 Ukrainian famine 1) affected only Ukraine. 2) was purposely created by Moscow,...
[20:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:01] <exec> 08└─They have had some really smart folks in North Dakota. They have a publicly-owned state bank, [google.com] established in 1913[1] which has weathered both Hoover's Great Depression and the Dubya/O'Bummer/Trump Depression much better than the other 47/49 states and their private banking systems. [1]...
[20:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:25] <exec> 08└─Seriously, does this too need to be dumbed down? Things are more complex than thumbs up, thumbs down.
[20:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─This is just going to be a disaster. Parents will not agree. Me: ban La La Land, Moonlight, Brokeback Mountain, Apocalypse Now, Cars 2, The China Syndrome, JFK, Midnight in Paris, Milk, SiCKO, Truth, V for Vendetta, Avatar, 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Elysium, Good Will Hunting, Lethal Weapon 4, Leth...
[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps my understanding is incomplete, so fill in my gaps: 1. Personal anguish is a real thing. 2. This real thing has causes. 3. Removing the causes removes the anguish. 4. The eightfold path removes the causes. I mean, really, it reads something straight out of a beginner's Boolean logic class.
[20:19:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number6 [1831] 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 947 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:39] <exec> 08└─Copied from this Slashdot Post [slashdot.org] How to Install Windows 7 on Kaby Lake/Cannon Lake New Intel CPUs do support Windows 7, all you need is: 1. A PCIe USB3 expansion card (to get the USB mouse/keyboard working, or use a PS/2 keyboard/mouse) For Intel graphics support: 1. Download the lates...
[20:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─Poor Hairyfeet! I have a nice warm blankie and cup o' hot chocolate for him! This is only a relapse, he'll get over it as soon as the next Micro$oft patch comes out. But it does look like he has taken to hawking tablets for a living, rather than attempting the impossible, fixing Windows machines....
[20:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:52] <exec> 08└─I believe he meant to say that this must be your crazy person, since ours (Hi, Eth! Howzit, Runaway! Good Day, jmorris! Bueno Dias, khallow!) are all right here were we left them.
[20:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:53] <exec> 08└─Can we stop trying to destroy capitolism...?
[20:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:56] <exec> 08└─Gasoline is much cleaner and this was known back in 1950s. So some places thought that diesel would lower CO2 emissions.
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[21:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─Frozen and freeze-dried products...are nearly as effective as fresh product
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:10] <exec> 08└─My doctor made me take that pill. It tastes like shit.
[21:14:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─And Google gets to know your shopping list.
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:44] <exec> 08└─It reads barcodes/QR codes and attempts to present information
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─they acquire a lot of very detailed information about people
[21:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─I completely agree with the first paragraph -- except the last sentence. I'd really like to know if they're buying cocoa futures [bbc.co.uk].
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─That's what Uber and Ashley Madison are for
[21:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:26] <exec> 08└─Viewing the cover pics is supposed to be enticing, plus i am sure it helps with the appearence of more choice with all the swiping,scrolling you end up doing. I have seen this "picture" system envaigle its way into it support "catalog" but every pic is the same unopened box. Helpful not!!! Ratings s...
[21:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology Reveals 16th Century Edinburgh - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:23] <exec> 08└─... But they will never take our topography!
[21:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─There is enough in that short post that if I had the time and inclination I could get a really big takedown out of it, it is so pure in the oblivious evil that shines forth from it that it approaches an ultimate Platonic Form. First we should all be able to imagine the wild eyes of a religious zealo...
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─That half would be the one which welcomes third-world savages with their no-joke actual 100% real rape culture. That half would be the one that thinks the Tower of Babel is a story with a happy ending. That half would be the "antifa" (anti first amendment) supporters, silencing Milo (a foreign-born...
[21:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─"Slack is a pain because it has no dependency checking" No, slack is LESS of a pain because it has no dependency checking, and because it 'lacks' a lot of other misfeatures as well.
[21:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:56] <exec> 08└─For best results you want: 1) A CPU with Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU, both of which are forms of "directed I/O" which allow a hypervisor to give exclusive access to a given PCIe device to a single VM 2) A separate dGPU, one which is *not* being used to drive your monitor 3) The know-how to configure thi...
[21:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:58] <exec> 08└─There is a thin line between elitism and masochism, Arik :)
[21:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─Climate change is not, in any way, a religion. Your insistence that it is
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:03] <exec> 08└─What. The. Fuck. That is deranged. You're trying to couch this in terms of rational, well-deserved caution, but it came out sounding half like a petulant teenager and half like the crazy guy on the R train I used to run into who would tell all and sundry about the chip in his head. Personally I don'...
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[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─Eat shit and live!
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─In the 65th scariest film ever made, "Oral Fecal" is available without prescription. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration: Conflicting Reports - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─The story about the 3 blind women isn't really about stem cell treatments. Its about medical scammers. It could happen with any 'experimental' treatment where the scammers present the treatment as medical trial, but then turn around and charge money for access which no legit trial would do. They lev...
[22:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─Have you read Stalin Ate My Homework and Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle? When he was a small boy, they wouldn't take him to the cinema to see Bambi. Instead they took him to see a film made in 1938 by Sergei Eisenstein called Alexander Nevsky. A fine piece of Soviet propaganda, apparentl...
[22:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:08] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that if we want to make america great again we need to become just like mexico?
[22:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:10] <exec> 08└─That's quite the way to put it. Yes indeed, some people are not supposed to vote, and thus need to be suppressed. Keeping me from walking into the Capitol Building and self-identifying as a senator is also voting suppression. Locking your car is driver suppression. There might be people who want to...
[22:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:07] <exec> 08└─Being anonymous is an act of necessity, not cowardice.
[22:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:24] <exec> 08└─I hear that many people were upset that America supposedly just wouldn't vote for a woman. (America is so sexist) Those same people will all come out to vote for Sarah Palin, right?
[22:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:06] <exec> 08└─This was a fairly simple easy Google. [google.com] They even give a top recommendation. Jim's Burgers, 3639 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA (@ Euclid Av.) [googleapis.com] The Google-phobic who use a proxy server will get results that are a bit less useful. archive.li's server is in the Netherlands. [archi...
[22:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:08] <exec> 08└─For best results you want: 1) A CPU with Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU, both of which are forms of "directed I/O" which allow a hypervisor to give exclusive access to a given PCIe device to a single VM 2) A separate dGPU, one which is *not* being used to drive your monitor 3) The know-how to configure thi...
[22:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:10] <exec> 08└─Used to see this guy at the Linux Mint forum regularly. After switching to Linux, this (now retired) architect used FOSS exclusively. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [linuxmint.com] ...and with the folks who use tablets, there's an 80something percent likelihood they're running Linux. It's been that...
[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─I'll keep that rule in mind, magister; if inadvertently I'm so successful, who knows what I can do on porpoise? (grin)
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─> For many years, Diesel emissions standards in Europe were looser than for gasoline. But that was not about CO2. That was about diesel being cheaper than gasoline.
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─> Pragmatically voting by snout seems to give very poor results on long term average and voting by owned acre of land is an interesting idea to contemplate. Yeah, voting by only the land-owning gentry is the totally the best way to go. Maybe you should just permanently move to that alternate univers...
[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─Oh please. Your post said nothing of the sort. And your post-hoc rationalization doesn't even make sense - nothing the article suggests prevents anyone from "tackling the problem head on." Just hang your head in shame for posting random idiocy and then trying to baffle us with bullshit instead of ad...
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[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─For the love of FSM, why is JPEG compression still a thing in this millennium? PNG is more than two decades old now, provides flawless (lossless) compression, and is not patent-encumbered. I'm not aware of any technical reason why JPEG is better, leaving momentum and ignorance as possible explanatio...
[23:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─Uhhh... no? Imagine using lossless PNG's instead of JPEG's that have been compressed into oblivion. The load times will be much higher and bandwidth costs will be crippling. Compare a PNG and a JPG that have both been compressed to the same size ... the PNG will be essentially garbage.
[23:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:23] <exec> 08└─For the love of FSM, why is JPEG compression still a thing in this millennium?
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:25] <exec> 08└─For every individual or corporation looking for a way to save bandwidth, there are a hundred more searching for ways to waste bandwidth. It's an arms race. At the same time, for every gain in available bandwidth, more stuff is forced into the line, squandering whatever is available. It's a never end...
[23:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:27] <exec> 08└─Give me a camera that converts the picture straight to PNG
[23:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we should never even have built the internet, it just gets used by advertisters. ::rolleyes::
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─Google serves up thumbnails that they have created using a JPEG encoder. These are accessed billions of times (youtube, search, google images, etc.) They are in a key position to optimize the amount of data they send. On that scale, this does matter, and it is not an arms race. Netflix, Amazon, and...
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─I agree with the need for lossless algorithms to be the standard choice. What baffles me even more is the obsession with using compressed JPEGs in an era of data bloat and excess. In just about every other electronic situation, we see data bloating more and more. From the size of basic desktop appli...
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─The load times will be much higher and bandwidth costs will be crippling.
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:38] <exec> 08└─You jest, but your statement is not necessarily invalid...
[23:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:40] <exec> 08└─This is one unfortunate, and perhaps unforeseen, consequence of the internet infrastructure itself being as close to "agnostic, dumb pipe with as little overhead as possible." I'm not sure it's the worst possibility though, and it may even be the best possible one, something like that old saw about...
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─why can't they just make a suppository?
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration: Conflicting Reports - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:59] <exec> 08└─And here I thought that this would, in obvious rebuttal science fashion, mean that anthropogenic global warming was not real, because of these conflicting reports. But it does suggest that tRump and Ryan are on the right track, we need to let private enterprise and the market blind more innocent peo...
[23:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:03] <exec> 08└─> I ignore commentary, seek out the facts. Facts without context are just as much tools of propaganda as commentary. And if you think you are educated enough to know the context of even just 1% of the facts in the world, in you are delusional.
[23:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:05] <exec> 08└─I fit in my suit, my suit fits in my plastic bag, therefor I fit in my plastic bag... You're still making some leaps there, friend.
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