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[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBahvjEUps&list=PLD2CE5FFA0835324D [youtube.com]
[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─Let's start a list of the things that Hollywood doesn't take liberties with...
[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:20] <exec> 08└─... starting with the way movies are made. Hollywood doesn't even depict itself accurately in movies.
[00:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─Not enough of the casting couch for your taste I reckon.
[00:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─How come almost every Sci-Fi set has sparks shooting out from something? After you realize this you'll see it in almost anything Sci-Fi.
[00:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:35] <exec> 08└─Fuck Jorge Cham. Isn't that terrorist scumbag in Gitmo yet?
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─This blog post spells it out: https://tritonstation.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] -- Nature is a highly reputable journal – in most fields of science. In Astronomy, it has a well earned reputation as the place to publish sexy but incorrect res...
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:39] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, I didn't realize I needed crochet hooks in my tinfoil to prevent "A"!
[00:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:11] <exec> 08└─Make the world a better place. Kill your friends. They deserve death.
[00:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:12] <exec> 08└─That depends. Can you rob the gun store while wielding a can of food?
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
[00:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:01] <exec> 08└─What? The sky is falling? Again? Quick, everybody, point fingers and blame people for not falling for it. It's all their fault. I prayed to Gaia today.
[00:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─http://www.space.com/25120-pillar-to-the-sky-book-william-forstchen.html [space.com] Space elevators are magick 100 billion dollar sticks that make energy rain. Getting closer and closer to the carbon nanofiber threads that would be needed.
[00:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Better Learning Through Zinc - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:20] <exec> 08└─Zinc makes you horny because it provides raw materials for your nut.
[00:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spinning Sail Technology is Poised to Bring Back Wind-powered Ships - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:43] <exec> 08└─You would definitely need a keel. It is just as important as the sail. For a container ship, it would have to be retractable. Then again, the keel on the little 19' Flying Scots I use to sail also have a retractable keel. You can sail upwind by taking to the left and right of the wind. It is obvious...
[00:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:41] <exec> 08└─Only the badly-informed used those terms to refer to the group to which you are pointing. The folks to whom you refer are RADICAL. That is the -opposite- of Conservative. This is like the Nazis calling themselves "Socialist" or the Norks calling themselves "Democratic". An *actual* Conservative want...
[00:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:07] <exec> 08└─...on an iPhone.
[00:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Gets Complaint for Labeling Unencrypted Login Page Insecure - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─Security by obscurity is a valid way to buy time while trying to come up with something better. But try to be really obscure, like the factors of a large prime number or something.
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[01:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─... there are specialty sires for that.
[01:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and how come the Star Trek had a black woman phone operator who was somehow a competent electrical engineer? That was just beyond belief.
[01:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─Never understood why it was even possible for consoles to explode in Star Trek. In addition to seat-belts, the also lost fuse technology, apparently.
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:11] <exec> 08└─To sire: procreate as the male parent of (Merriam-Webster)
[01:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─...you can hear a kookaburra laughing [tvtropes.org].
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:15] <exec> 08└─The fuse became lost technology during World War 3.
[01:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─Real people are bad enough. I had to beat the shit out of a person I was playing chess with because they tried to switch their king and rook around toward each other. He insisted that it was a real move but he also insisted that you can switch out a pawn when it reaches the other side -- chess isn't...
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─They compensated for that later on when Worf and his exoskeletal BBC were in the rut [wikia.com] and he broke into Troi's quarters and bit her on the neck while savagely violating her in her own bathtub. The crew may have been restored to their current evolutionary state, but that in later episodes...
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─Lexx season 4 episode 18 The Game "A grippingly executed chess game derived from The Seventh Seal." The entire episode consists of one completely genuine chess match. Parent post is a counterexample to the "news" piece. The moderator who marked it Spam is a FUCKING IGNORANT PIECE OF SHIT. Which is p...
[01:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:24] <exec> 08└─I've been advised to play a special version where you can't rip people's arms off when you lose. Makes hyperspace travel quite boring.
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBahvjEUps&list=PLD2CE5FFA0835324D [youtube.com] Lexx season 4 episode 18 The Game "A grippingly executed chess game derived from The Seventh Seal." The entire episode consists of one completely genuine chess match.
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─Rule #1: Kill Ethanol-Fueled dead.
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─I especially enjoy the episode where Ethanol-fueled gets raped up the ass and gives birth to an alien shit monster.
[01:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:33] <exec> 08└─And if you had put that all that in the post, then it would not have looked like spam. No one here is going to click on some random unlabeled youtube link.
[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:35] <exec> 08└─Incorrect bird song? Incorrect job title? Incorrectly drawn shipwrecks or sharks? And an incorrect chess move? Wow, you think that is bad? That's nothing compared to TV channels that are dedicated entirely to spewing incorrect, retarded, drivel about some made up magic sky fairy.
[01:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─My bad, sorry. After a few Billions years of random trials, in order to make the Earth form at just the right place, I had to tweak a couple fundamental constants on the universe control console. I'm glad you guys didn't notice the side effects of the cat jumping on there a few thousand years ago. B...
[01:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:26] <exec> 08└─Sometimes taking no action is the best action. If we are all screwed anyway, what is the point in causing trouble? If there is a chance of survival, doing nothing gives you time to think of a plan of action.
[01:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:27] <exec> 08└─If you are praying to a deity, presumably you are asking said deity for mercy or forgiveness in whatever form. What always confuses me is what makes you think that the omnipotent being who decided to end your pathetic existence is going to suddenly change his mind? "Prayer is violence against a god"...
[01:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:29] <exec> 08└─It depends on what the disaster is and exactly how it unfolds. Country folk can survive a week or two because they expect to have to endure a week long outage and over provisioning will get another week. But a lot of them depend on a generator to keep a freezer running as part of that survival plan...
[01:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Better Learning Through Zinc - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:35] <exec> 08└─Not surprising to see that Oysters at a highly-variable 16-182 milligrams still beat the fuck out of all challengers. Plus they are tasty and an awesome refreshing snack when you can get your grubby hands on them. I can easily eat half a dozen, but one time after a surf session I ate a whole dozen....
[01:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better Learning Through Zinc - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:36] <exec> 08└─No wonder oysters are so good for it. Oysters: Serving Size (100 grams), Zinc (16-182 milligrams), 199 calories.
[01:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better Learning Through Zinc - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:38] <exec> 08└─I dunno...as Nanny Ogg observed, the process of making more oysters happens a long way away from the oysters, so they're not exactly full of beans
[01:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better Learning Through Zinc - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:40] <exec> 08└─Uhh...I don't "nut." I'm kind of missing the required anatomy for that.
[01:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spinning Sail Technology is Poised to Bring Back Wind-powered Ships - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:05] <exec> 08└─Harness the force of the spinning sail to launch the boarding party, a pox on the ropes! "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's...a seasick pirate?!?"
[01:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─Guilt trip free
[01:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:04] <exec> 08└─That's the $64,000 question. The Blues appear to have abandoned Progressivism and continue to pander to the rich (Neoliberalism). [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [huffingtonpost.com] Lots of folks stayed home on Election Day rather that vote for The Blues. They simply couldn't get jazzed enough about...
[01:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:06] <exec> 08└─On the differences in morals between liberals and conservatives, I highly recommend The Righteous Mind [righteousmind.com]. It talks a lot about science on what morals are and how they affect our decisions, but the main political argument is that conservatives have more moral principles: liberals ge...
[01:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:08] <exec> 08└─Here's a helpful hint, J-Mo, since I'm a generous kind of girl: telling you to your twisted, evil face you're full of shit is the opposite of "triggered." The word you're looking for, or phrase rather, has been expressed in many ways, but in the current zeitgeist it's "ain't nobody got time fo' dat....
[01:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:34] <exec> 08└─/article.pl?sid=16/04/28/1516203 [soylentnews.org]
[01:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Gets Complaint for Labeling Unencrypted Login Page Insecure - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:53] <exec> 08└─Also, I know your request is not serious, but if it were, accepting a script from some random stranger in the Internet for maintaining https on your website is a sure sign of gross incompetence, the type that should get you fired and lifetime blacklisted.
[01:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Ancient Memorization Strategy Might Cause Lasting Changes to the Brain - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:26] <exec> 08└─You don't want to know.
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[02:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deformable Thermoelectric Materials Add a New Twist to the Design of Energy-Scavenging Devices - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:12] <exec> 08└─Well, to believe that increasing the distance between the ends while maintaining the value difference of the same and pretending that the gradient is maximized is... well... a credulity stretch. I have troubles thinking how the reality of a math/physics definition can be twisted to such a degree; I...
[02:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:40] <exec> 08└─It is just a question of style or etiquette. Depicting an animal with no ribs as an animal with ribs IS 'head-on-desk' misinfomration. Some other favorite movie lies: -- Sound in space. -- "Laser" weapons with light pulses that travel slower than a lead bullet. -- Young adults with no apparent sourc...
[02:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 1737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:41] <exec> 08└─If you're a specialist of something, you're bound to notice Hollywoodisms and errors when your particular area of expertise if being shown in a movie. Gunsmiths cringe when the hero fires hundreds of rounds from a single charger, operates a Minigun one-handed or when baddies fly 20 feet backward whe...
[02:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:44] <exec> 08└─http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExplosiveInstrumentation [tvtropes.org] If it doesn't go boom/zap/sparky, how will the audience know it broke? A burned-out fuse under a panel (27 hex screws to access) just isn't going to do it.
[02:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:59] <exec> 08└─The MUGS2 galaxy simulation which exhibits these kinds of falling rotation curves was done some time before April 2016 [arxiv.org], as that was when it seems the first paper describing its methodology was uploaded to arXiv. The paper referenced in TFA appeared on arXiv only last week, and before the...
[02:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─I don't really "get" that one. If the world is truly ending and no one is going to live through it, even if I wanted vengeance on someone, just how much worse could I make it for them compared to what's about to happen to them anyway? Besides, I won't even be around to feel smug about it afterwards....
[02:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:41] <exec> 08└─Nevil Shute wrote a best seller (later a movie) about this. For the most part the last people alive in southern Australia were pretty calm as the fallout cloud (from nuclear war in northern hemisphere) inexorably moved south. On The Beach is out of copyright in some countries, available as a free eb...
[02:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:43] <exec> 08└─"buy" might be the number one problem on your list.
[02:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:32] <exec> 08└─Mmmm... I see: not only the nanofibers are missing, but also superconductivity. Missing the latter, one may try to beam the energy down by microwaves. Umm.. Die another day? Speaking of Die another day... The stick's not gonna happen soon. Letting aside the materials (we'll get there eventually, wil...
[02:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:20] <exec> 08└─They aren't more moral, they have more morals. There is a difference. And it's hilarious that they think having more rules as opposed to better rules is the way to go, when their own hero Jesus broke it all down to the Golden Rule. Honestly I think this is a case of quality over quantity: you can de...
[02:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:21] <exec> 08└─Screw off, you selfish asshole. Innocent people suffer and die when these things happen, and it's *never* them who are calling for the whole works to be burned to the ground. Do you know why? Do you care why? Do you give even the smallest sputtering shit about anyone but yourself?
[02:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, you are going for the No True Scotsman, an ever popular fallacy in the Left's rhetoric.
[02:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:26] <exec> 08└─Well, we have a more than 100 year old precedent of not confirming anyone to the supreme court nominated by a president who lost the popular vote. That's bullshit. The numbers are almost equally split. 11 Important Numbers to Remember About How the GOP Stole Obama’s Supreme Court Appointment [alte...
[02:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:28] <exec> 08└─He was -already- nominated--by Trump. The word you seek is "approved". because he is obviously qualified More importantly, because there are 52 Reds and 48 Blues. The only significant thing that will come out of this is the names of the Blues who will vote to approve. ...and whether this will be tho...
[02:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:54] <exec> 08└─Oh no, not at all. In a previous thread he's gone on a looooong, spergy serial sociopathic dump as to why no one can judge the Christian God because it's like characters in a novel judging the author (and stubbornly refusing to see the category error there no matter how many times I point it out). H...
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[03:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:02] <exec> 08└─Not that any ISP is likely to be non-evil, especially the big ones, but I'd be a bit disturbed to have google as my ISP.
[03:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:39] <exec> 08└─I have seen that happen in real life exactly once. It was a tape deck from the '60s.
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:41] <exec> 08└─The moderator who marked it Spam is a FUCKING IGNORANT PIECE OF SHIT.
[03:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:40] <exec> 08└─I guess you aren't either intelligent or sane then, with that moronic screed about global warming. No one said the seas would rise 50km, just a few. It doesn't take much to turn coastal cities like NYC into places like Venice, with all the streets underwater and massive flooding. Given how much scie...
[03:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:41] <exec> 08└─So the solutions are to: - Panic and die. - Be stoic and die. - Have enough supplies to not die out until after the rest of humanity unless you get murdered by another subgroup of humanity for said supplies.
[03:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:43] <exec> 08└─He burned a bush (and killed two in his hand) to rid you of sin! Or was it that he made two tablets and told you to take them with water? I keep getting it all mixed up. Jesus Christ!!, remove your sandals before you walk on the bloody water. You want to get it dirty or something?
[03:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Bacteria as a New 'Living' Antibiotic - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:59] <exec> 08└─"Triggered" being the operative word. It will then be triggered by those who infected us by these "harmless" bacteria to become mind-controlling machines. Then we will be all but useless in fighting the system. That is what they want. I would rather live the old way and take my chances than let some...
[03:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:34] <exec> 08└─This is one thing about the free market that works very well. Huge amounts of land will become more useful. Look at a globe some time; cold regions have lots of land that just grows peat bogs and lichen. Canada and Russia are huge, even without a Mercator projection. If it is profitable to grow mang...
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[04:14:01] <exec> 08└─Why? It means there is one less company in the stream getting to see everything you do.
[04:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. They can't be worse than Comcrap.
[04:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:04] <exec> 08└─The terms of service are actually very pro-privacy. They don't track user browsing anymore than they do people using other ISPs.
[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─He'll just come back as zombie Brains-Fuelled.
[04:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:45] <exec> 08└─100% agree. My area of highest expertise is in identity documents (driver's licenses, IDs, passports). When there's a spy movie and there's a spy waiting to see if his fake passport makes it by the border guards, and there's a clearly camera-based device with flatbed scanner-style lights moving arou...
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[04:14:47] <exec> 08└─"You sneaky son of a bitch." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─The initial set up had the queens on the wrong colors. Corrected when they changed to heads. The colors of the squares were initially reversed, too. Also later corrected.
[04:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:50] <exec> 08└─But weren't the astronauts pretty pissed... (Am I remembering the right book, lol)
[04:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:52] <exec> 08└─I think it's a function of how those country folk are used to living. Farmers and ranchers would do fine. They know how to produce food from first materials and aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty. Many of them have also retained practices passed down from their grandparents like canning, sal...
[04:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:44] <exec> 08└─No, the sky is not falling. In fact, the very opposite: the sea is rising.
[04:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:38] <exec> 08└─They want to keep the country pure. You see nothing wrong with trashing it, bringing in rape culture from uncivilized cultures. The right thing would be for you to realize that conservatives have no where else to go. They are stuck here, defending this place, because they detest much of the rest of...
[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Gets Complaint for Labeling Unencrypted Login Page Insecure - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:25] <exec> 08└─Dont think Trump as a business partner would bail him out. He strikes me as the 'your fired' sort of guy....
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Gets Complaint for Labeling Unencrypted Login Page Insecure - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:26] <exec> 08└─It is fine for my at home use. For trolling through imdb for interesting info, or other 'pictures'. But for 'trusted' communications it is not designed for that. That is what https helps mitigate (note, not solve).
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[05:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:48] <exec> 08└─"I have a bad feeling about this!"
[05:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:49] <exec> 08└─I've been successfully watching Netflix on my various Linux boxes for a couple years now. It became super easy a little over a year ago when Chrome on Linux started shipping with all the DRM bits to make it work. So really, the only reason Chrome has been installed on my Linux boxes is as a Netflix...
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[05:13:51] <exec> 08└─1. games 2. income tax software 3. FUD over MS Office specific files 4. viewing or ripping copy protected DVDs 5. hardware support, especially support for 3D acceleration in open source, libre graphics drivers. Netflix was never on my list. The Pirate Bay has always been fully functional on Linux. 3...
[05:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:43] <exec> 08└─Chess also isn't fucking Dungeons and Dragons
[05:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:01] <exec> 08└─I don’t think that these guys responsible for observing the rotation curves of very distant galaxies had told the MUGS2 people almost a year ago about their findings before telling the rest of the world only last week!
[05:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:48] <exec> 08└─no astronauts in the 1957 novel -- from wiki, The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war beg...
[05:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:41] <exec> 08└─Why would environmentalists be angry about a burgeoning, green-energy-storage market?
[05:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:43] <exec> 08└─Its not equipment, its industry infrastructure. We have tons of manufacturing experience, tons of domain knowledge, tons of testing, tons of operations, etc with those kinds of designs. We have basically none of that for any other kind of design. That's a huge sunk cost that would have to be replace...
[05:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry, one has to take Fox with a grain of salt. They often spin and/or leave out key info.
[05:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:38] <exec> 08└─What does any of that have to do with nominations by a president who lost the popular vote? Bush did not nominate anyone for the court during his first term (when he lost the popular vote). The last president to lose the popular vote before Bush was Harrison in 1888, well over 100 years ago. Ergo a...
[05:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:40] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to know who you're talking to. I'm the one who gets shit from some weird anonymous stalker for supposed Islamophobia when I rightly point out that a hell of a lot of these people are uncivilized by any reasonable metric. You know, the one who gets yelled at for pointing out how comple...
[05:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:42] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have been full of shit since they ran McGovern and lost. In 1972, after losing to Dick goddamned Nixon of all people, they decided they'd rather be triumphant than be principled. The party needs a 45-year enema.
[05:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:44] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you didn't look at the article. ...and I left off the next item (which I meant to include). 84: Years since last election-year nomination. The last time there was a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year, President Hoover’s nomination was approved.
[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:13] <exec> 08└─Most likely they want to set a precedent that they can legally demand that devices be unlocked and passwords handed over. They tried the terrorism angle with the shooter in California, now they are going to try the pedophile angle on this guy. It doesn't matter that they already have the evidence th...
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[05:21:15] <exec> 08└─You don't have to go quantum on this. A simple XOR operation on any cyphertext will reveal any plaintext (of the same length) that you want - as long it's you who is providing the key. In essence, you can take the Bible and XOR it with a specially crafted stream that converts it into whatever nasty...
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[06:14:05] <exec> 08└─Most of what you're after can be done with wine or even a vm (sure, you're still running windows at this point, but it's a lot more convenient than waiting for it to shut down and reboot). The only things you're really held by are the gaming (it's getting better, but if the games you want are window...
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:07] <exec> 08└─Prior to Chrome support there was always wine-pipelight support for various plugins (silverlight mainly) that'd make things worth smoothly. I had Netflix running back in 2011 on Firefox just because I could.
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:09] <exec> 08└─OpenGL CADCAM.
[06:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:11] <exec> 08└─I ate their livers with fava beans and a nice Chianti.
[06:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:13] <exec> 08└─4. viewing or ripping copy protected DVDs
[06:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:15] <exec> 08└─5. hardware support, especially support for 3D acceleration in open source, libre graphics drivers.
[06:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─I'll just stick to Chessboxing [wikipedia.org].
[06:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:28] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell nobody was talking about this result before it came out last week. Being able to measure the rotation curve of a galaxy 19 billion light years away is quite a feat. If you believe Philipp Lang’s group went to a conference and presented their findings far, far, in advance of th...
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[06:15:30] <exec> 08└─This is getting off topic, but... It sounds like you are saying that if someone believes that scientists communicate with each other before a paper is published, and act on the shared information, you consider them a conspiracy theorist?
[06:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:32] <exec> 08└─Read Ethan Siegel’s article on which TFS is based. He mentions just this post by McGaugh and why this new result beats it. Since you’re probably too lazy to click and RTFA, here’s the relevant part: In a new paper published in Nature, lead author Reinhard Genzel claims to have discovered exact...
[06:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:13] <exec> 08└─Not going to disagree with you on any of that. Stipulation a few points up was about our options if politics were not hindering progress. I guess regardles of anything, ITER is moving forward quite well, and the developments of that German Wendelstein-7 reactor are quite cool too.
[06:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spinning Sail Technology is Poised to Bring Back Wind-powered Ships - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:00] <exec> 08└─Ye Glorious Flying Spaghetti Monster teaches us that there is a direct correlation between the average global temperature and the number of active pirates in the world. http://www.venganza.org [venganza.org] https://trends.google.com
[06:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:14] <exec> 08└─...except that they aren't triumphant. They lost this time--to an ignoramus[1] with a severe personality disorder. ...and to another mental midget in 2000. I've heard it said this way, which I like better: - Democrats would rather lose to a Republican than support a Progressive. The Blues been mo...
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[06:21:45] <exec> 08└─3) He refuses to cooperate and is jailed indefinitely.
[06:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:46] <exec> 08└─Actually in a Constitutional system, the courts do decide if any laws such as practicing free speech or a free press is constitutional and if not, they should strike down the law. The the law makers then rewrite the law or amend the constitution. Unluckily the American courts keep falling down on th...
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[07:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:25] <exec> 08└─A person can choose to not use google, unless google is the ISP
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[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's unfair to say Google Fiber has been a failure. After about 6 years of operation they ended up with less than 500k [wikipedia.org] broadband installations and a tiny fraction of that in television subscriptions. Their potential market was in the millions. And now, prior to this, th...
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[07:17:14] <exec> 08└─Solar works fine in overcast. You can find various videos of people debunking this with practical experiments you can carry out. It's not optimal, but it's also not like you're suddenly on life support because a cloud moves in. A study a few years back from NASA on the best energy source for Mars (k...
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[07:20:15] <exec> 08└─Again what does that have to do with presidents who lost the popular vote? Hoover won the popular vote in 1928 so any nominations he made were made by a president who won the popular vote.
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[08:14:10] <exec> 08└─"at no point does semen touch the smartphone". Well, maybe not when you're using *this* app...
[08:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:33] <exec> 08└─About a year ago I tried Netflix under Ubuntu. Had to install some funky browser plugin, extra libraries and had a MS license to agree to at some point (I shit you not, think it was font related). I recall the experience was ok-ish, but very glad they've taken more steps forward.
[08:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:34] <exec> 08└─Posting AC, for obvious rebuttal. I have to use Windows, because they pay me to. Not only do they pay me to use Windows, they only pay me to use Windows if I post about how essential the Windows operating system is on forums like this one. It really has nothing to do with games, with "office" softwa...
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[08:14:36] <exec> 08└─Makes good sense. I have a desktop running open source software, and a laptop running closed source software. Guess which one is running Windows... If I need a closed source driver, guess which one it's getting installed on...
[08:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:41] <exec> 08└─If the end is inevitable ( such as good sized space rock headed straight for Earth, its trajectory and place and time of impact a done deal )... - I have absolutely no intention of settling scores, civil disobedience, lawlessness, or anything down those lines. Its all a moot point now. - I'...
[08:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:12] <exec> 08└─Free Software is software that respects your rights. Open source may or may not do so, and many advocates of open source only care about technical quality and would gladly use proprietary software if it was better in that sense. If you're looking for a movement that focuses on ethics, then that's th...
[08:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:41] <exec> 08└─My g/f and I've moved to a country that was suffering depopulation - we're good for the country's population. we bring into the country a higher level of education than its current average - we're good for the country's statistics (admittedly that would be true for any country we moved to). Most of...
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[09:14:03] <exec> 08└─Alright! I saw this on the Fake News, and that works for both of you, you pervs, and I immediately thought that this would turn into some kind of man-on-man contest. So just let me be the first to post my results: According to my iPhone 7, with Siri 95.2, I have a population of 6.384 gazillion per c...
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[09:14:04] <exec> 08└─...hands?
[09:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:06] <exec> 08└─Come back when you can output more than 1 microliter. And your output "unit" would be considered more of an atomizer than a penis.
[09:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:30] <exec> 08└─HTML 5 had a lot to do with it, too, because by enabling plugin-free video playback it meant Linux users were spared the the recurring security nightmare that is Adobe Flash
[09:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:32] <exec> 08└─Games (Don't care.)Netflix (Ditto.)I have already switched
[09:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:34] <exec> 08└─No, you need the right EME installed, with "supporting hardware" No RGB VGA connection I guess!
[09:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:30] <exec> 08└─If I could play chess (let alone, board-less speed-chess) I'd call it a mediocre game where one side goes for end-game without enough pieces to close while the other gambles everything on a single pawn not being noticed.
[09:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:32] <exec> 08└─there's a clearly camera-based device with flatbed scanner-style lights moving around inside it
[09:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:34] <exec> 08└─King-flipping is not a Hollywood invention. I was taught it by a number of people independently, some old enough to have learned it when they were children, from others who learned it before Hollywood even showed a chessboard. It's not a rule. It's a convention. Even a house rule in certain househol...
[09:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:36] <exec> 08└─I would much rather all the money spent on CGI was spent on making a movie without CGI and all the explosions and junk, and focused on cinematography that showed you that the car was broke, the person was injured, the bullet-hole doesn't kill you immediately, etc. etc. etc. Sure, action movies sell....
[09:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:57] <exec> 08└─AC, you are supporting fiddling about with one part of the Standard Model Lagrangian (gravity) over fiddling about with another part of the Standard Model Lagrangian (particle species). You claim that the former is the only way, the latter is "a degenerating research program". This is just wrong. We...
[09:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:59] <exec> 08└─Attack the science, not the journal.
[09:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:01] <exec> 08└─Traditional gravity predicts a drop off on rotational velocities. Some readings counter that. Alternative theories of gravitation are invented to explain that lack to drop off. Some readings counter that. So either the alternative theories explain that, too, or they are disproved. !!!!!
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[10:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:20] <exec> 08└─Here it is. [google.com] The page says the app shows advertisements. I wonder for what. ;-)
[10:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:21] <exec> 08└─I hope your wimmen are inflatable, cuz extruding into them a cubic meter of filler is gonna plump them up pretty good! However, some good will come of it if they were constipated it may well give then a good case of the runs.
[10:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:50] <exec> 08└─Actually plugin free?
[10:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 1737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:39] <exec> 08└─If you're a specialist of something, you're bound to notice Hollywoodisms and errors when your particular area of expertise if being shown in a movie. Gunsmiths cringe when the hero fires hundreds of rounds from a single charger, operates a Minigun one-handed or when baddies fly 20 feet backward whe...
[10:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:54] <exec> 08└─And the white king moved into check after mate was called. There's no intrinsic reason the rules should forbid that, but they do, so again, it's an incorrect representation of real chess. Which is a shame, as most of the time they were clearly trying to make it be a real game of chess. Talking to yo...
[10:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:55] <exec> 08└─The moderator who marked it Spam is a FUCKING IGNORANT PIECE OF SHIT.
[10:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:57] <exec> 08└─I occasionally play chess and if I give up, I tip the king. It isn't particularly dramatic though. If I wanted drama I'd yell, flip the board, started throwing pieces at the opponent, innocent spectators and the filming crew and finally pour my whisky all over the table and set it on fire.
[10:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:59] <exec> 08└─big-ol'-whiner.js
[10:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:01] <exec> 08└─constantly reminding one of a pet Targ. Or is that 'easily beaten like a rented Targ'?
[10:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:04] <exec> 08└─I think it boils down to that there's apparently some clique that thinks that "serious" chess players are somehow a representative sample of chess players in general.
[10:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:16] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there are people looking to create private ArcheAge servers (if they don't already exist).
[10:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:18] <exec> 08└─We should just go down to the Winchester and wait for all this to blow over.
[10:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:20] <exec> 08└─Buy popcorn. Find nice big empty hill somewhere. Get comfy. Occupy time with web-browsing (if still available).
[10:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:22] <exec> 08└─It raises an interesting question: If the world was really doomed from some kind of enormous, unsurvivable asteroid strike, and assuming we could actually get everybody to agree to do something about it [theonion.com] then could we, with the world's powers and resources all working in co-operation,...
[10:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 1179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:19] <exec> 08└─For all his vaunted smarts, Sir Berners Lee is missing the frickin point. If you attempt DRM as some sort of standardized plugin stuck into an open source browser it will not work. Give the user the encrypted content and the key with an open source browser sitting atop an open source OS between the...
[10:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:53] <exec> 08└─Also known as the They'll use native applications rather than the web solution. This is already how 'premium video content streaming' is done on mobile. Netflix already have a desktop Windows app, but most people use a browser instead.
[10:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:54] <exec> 08└─The user still needs to install the actual DRM extension separately.
[10:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:56] <exec> 08└─I was speaking from the point of a browser coder not an end user. It would only take three browser makers blocking any plugins with DRM and there would be no more DRM on the web.
[10:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Gets Complaint for Labeling Unencrypted Login Page Insecure - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:19] <exec> 08└─accepting a script from some random stranger in the Internet for maintaining https on your website is a sure sign of gross incompetence
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[11:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:50] <exec> 08└─My friends went AWOL after I ate pinto beans and onion... I would have went AWOL too, but I couldn't physically get away from the emitter.
[11:16:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 1618 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, dark matter was initially created to explain the lack of falloff in the rotation curves of nearby galaxies (and has since found other supporting evidence.) But it could also be that gravity just behaves differently at galactic scales, and there's *lots* of alternative hypothesis along those lin...
[11:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:17] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm sure that the world will end … eventually. I don't expect it to be in my lifetime, though.
[11:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:18] <exec> 08└─If it is truly the end of the world, then your supplies won't help you, by definition.
[11:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:20] <exec> 08└─If the world is truly ending and no one is going to live through it, even if I wanted vengeance on someone, just how much worse could I make it for them compared to what's about to happen to them anyway?
[11:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─Believe whatever you want, cunt.
[11:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:58] <exec> 08└─You actively hurt people; but they're mmmaaaalllleeesss so who cares. You bomb every culture that allows men to have female children as brides. You hunt down every man across the globe that acquires a girl for himself.
[11:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─The christian god is Jesus and "his heavenly father". Christians have rejected the law of God (the one who said "I Am" when asked his name) and God's laws. They see God as "the adversary" and pine for Jesus and Jesus' "Heavenly Father", whomever that is.
[11:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:02] <exec> 08└─>Going after youngsters is abuse of an underdeveloped personality. Given the current state of affairs the age of reason is around 25. Let youngsters go with other youngsters if you feel they need to be sexually liberated. A pity sexual liberation is being documented as an utter failure. The God of t...
[11:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─Never talked to you in my life. I do hope all feminists die however and celebrate when Putin or the Taliban murder one.
[11:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:07] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Females are not members of the militia: only abled bodied men were. Females do not have the right, but they have taken it. In modern christian societies women have more of a right to arms then mmamamaahaaaalalllleeeesssssss since mmmmmaaaaaaalllleeesss are easily denied the right via a po...
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[11:23:09] <exec> 08└─The people persecuting men for viewing child porn are persecuting the men because the existence of the child porn proves that the man is attracted to (usually female) children rather than adult women. A pillar of control over females by men is to marry them off "good and young". White, Proud, Christ...
[11:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:11] <exec> 08└─Nope. I wish to have an actual child bride. I do not seek out, view, or collect contraband. However if attacked, God willing, I will attack back; only it will be found that I and my adversary died for nothing.
[11:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:13] <exec> 08└─The crux of the matter is to suppress men's desire for child brides and to uphold Jesus' will that women be the ruler and the man the servant. The cop will be punished either way. Why do you think all the wedding parties are bombed? The families are marrying their female children to men. Thus the Je...
[11:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─"One could argue this is thoughtcrime" It is thoughtcrime and is aimed at suppressing the normal practice of men to take child brides. Women's power, and men's subservience, is based fully on a woman's sexual market power. It requires the women to be shrewd, unattached, professionals. When men take...
[11:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:17] <exec> 08└─>What about the problems associated with the production of the child porn? Exploitation. All sorts of questions. Solution: The man keeps female child as a bride of his for life. Dt 22, verse 28-verse 29, hebrew >Where are the models coming from? Immaterial (Dt 22, verse 28-verse 29, hebrew) >Can the...
[11:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─He should never cooperate with those who would have him follow a Ruler/Judge/God other than the Eternal One; he should actively seek to destroy them. This cop, who you here claim knows that it is man's right to have a child bride, has the correct beliefs (if your claims are correct).
[11:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Gets Complaint for Labeling Unencrypted Login Page Insecure - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:42] <exec> 08└─That only works if your service is one of a small handful of common services that listens on the standard ports...
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[12:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches "Distill", a Peer-Reviewed Machine Learning Journal - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:12] <exec> 08└─Ummm... distill.pub... are you sure it's a good name for a scientific journal? I mean, would I be to say "I'm heading to distill pub, who's coming with me?", what is the most likely meaning you'll get from it?
[12:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pollination Mystery Unlocked by Bee Researchers - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:19] <exec> 08└─a technique where bees hold onto the flower and vibrate to shake out the pollen – require a close physical interaction between their floral sexual organs and their visitors. "The closer the bee fits to the flower, allowing it to touch both the male and female sexual organs, the more efficiently th...
[12:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:04] <exec> 08└─I've been successfully watching Netflix on my various Linux boxes for a couple years now. It became super easy a little over a year ago when Chrome on Linux started shipping with all the DRM bits to make it work. So really, the only reason Chrome has been installed on my Linux boxes is as a Netflix...
[12:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:05] <exec> 08└─Try this game: http://www.moddb.com [moddb.com]
[12:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:07] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is you can view Netflix on Linux using Chrome, and screenshot as much as you like. The EME binary-blob doesn't seem to do a thing to prevent capture.
[12:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:19] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you need to adjust reality slightly for narrative purposes. Sometimes you do it simply because you're lazy. The first kind is fine, even laudable. We watch films for entertainment and that always includes some fantasy and escapism: if we wanted to experience a world exactly like the one th...
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[12:17:57] <exec> 08└─Exactly. A mutation to allow it to eat human cells might be quite unlikely, but a mutation to allow it to eat beneficial (even essential) bacteria in our bodies is much easier. Most of the bacteria in our bodies evolved from similar strains to the ones that we're infected by: they're both well adapt...
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[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:21] <exec> 08└─... had Google concentrated on power savings from the very beginning. I mean, it is supposed to be a mobile device—that implies there is extreme value in managing energy usage. Why does it always feel like technological innovations happen in an order that is reverse from correct?
[13:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:23] <exec> 08└─It could have been like iOS. And then people would have complained that it didn't do proper multitasking and sucked as an operating system.
[13:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google Launches "Distill", a Peer-Reviewed Machine Learning Journal - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─that you're going to a pub to get even more wasted than you already are. I mean... you'd have to be wasted to say "I'm heading to journal aps org prl, who's coming with me?".
[13:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pollination Mystery Unlocked by Bee Researchers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:40] <exec> 08└─Birds knew it, bees knew it, now we have a study published about it.
[13:14:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:48] <exec> 08└─"at no point does semen touch the smartphone". Well, maybe not when you're using *this* app...
[13:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:55] <exec> 08└─From the data that will be sent back to him, he can create a map of fertility demographics.
[13:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:03] <exec> 08└─I imagine it would be better just to accelerate interstellar dust as in an ion drive...
[13:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─...there's electricity. ;)
[13:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:34] <exec> 08└─Sure, but setting up dual boot is easier than extracting the preconfigured windows into a virtual machine. A typically live-boot distro will cater for this. I'm sure that converting the install into a vm isn't unbelievably hard, but it's not as push-button upon install as dualboot is.
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[13:16:46] <exec> 08└─Mad Max: Fury Road
[13:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:47] <exec> 08└─Say what you will, Sky News has been around for 28 years.
[13:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:08] <exec> 08└─I mean theres a lot of insanity and they don't necessarily have […] irrational fear […]
[13:19:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Spinning Sail Technology is Poised to Bring Back Wind-powered Ships - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:42] <exec> 08└─With the New Age of Sail also comes the New Age of Piracy. Which means that we'll soon have New Age Pirates everywhere, talking something like this: "Now, a bit of yoga will help warm you up when you're firing 10-pounders into the hulls of your enemy. Also, be sure to get in a solid 15-minute mindfu...
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Jailed Indefinitely for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives Loses Appeal - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─Never thought I'd wonder this, but what about ad-funding? Is that something criminals can get away with?
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[14:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:21] <exec> 08└─I recently got a new Android phone with a huge battery and to my surprise it lost 25% overnight, just sitting on my desk. After some investigation it appeared that Google had kept the microphone open all that time. After switching off that eavesdropping service and some other unneeded stuff, I now o...
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches "Distill", a Peer-Reviewed Machine Learning Journal - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─What happened to code.google.com? [*] What happened to Google's not-invented-here syndrome? [*] I know, it got canceled, like many other Google products. Google is a company you can't just rely on.
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pollination Mystery Unlocked by Bee Researchers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─Sure. Bees know that you can just grab them by the pistil!
[14:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:55] <exec> 08└─Or market the data to dating-websites, matching the sperm-count against the women desire to have children in the future.
[14:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:35] <exec> 08└─So you only need a closed source blob for the DRM, but it just handles the DRM not 101 other things like flash (or silverlight) does. It seems like there is a lot less potential for vulnerabilities with this set up.
[14:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:37] <exec> 08└─editors note: the game situation isn't all that bad now, with over 3,000 games now available for Linux on Steam
[14:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:53] <exec> 08└─Backwards boards? Last I checked, turning around a board by 180 degrees made it look exactly the same as before. Maybe they mean 90 degree rotated boards?
[14:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:54] <exec> 08└─Pieces gain experience and level up? A pawn with two kills can be knighted?
[14:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:57] <exec> 08└─That's no way to talk about Superman just because he wears tights and a cape.
[14:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Chess players think chess in movies is bad? Well, just look at the physics [intuitor.com] in movies!
[14:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:24] <exec> 08└─Those journals are awful though. Sure, there are the journals filled with straight up nonsense that are worse, but next step up we have the "tabloids" (nature, science, pnas), and then normal respectable journals. I cringe whenever I see a paper that sounded interesting is published in one.
[14:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:26] <exec> 08└─We choose the model that best fits the evidence.
[14:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:25] <exec> 08└─plenty of frozen eggs & sperm and a pan to fry them in
[14:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─Ah... a variation of the Kobayashi Maru scenario :-)
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[15:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─I switched to eating people. Mmm, tasty.
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:39] <exec> 08└─It's only good when it's mostly fat, it's hard to chew unless it's basically still uncooked, and it doesn't digest easily. It's junk meat. Anytime people worship a food as being the pinnacle of good eats, you know it's got to be crap; humans have this strange affinity for making nonsense out to be t...
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of it is due to money - I bet a more detailled look at the figures would see consumption dropping off in 2008 after the financial crash. Meat is expensive, plenty of people in the US now living off microwave noodles and beans.
[15:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:44] <exec> 08└─The way it's raised, in a feedlot, on grain, is the problem. It doesn't have to be that way. There are breeds of cattle that produce fine tender meat on grass alone. That's how it should be. http://blog.americangrassfedbeef.com [americang...
[15:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:46] <exec> 08└─That probably has a lot more to do with it than anyone would care to admit.
[15:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. I've eaten Eland [wikipedia.org] and after the first bite I understood why an entire race of people worshipped it.
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:50] <exec> 08└─A common misconception. Kiwis taste like mutton, Britons like cod, and Americans like bacon. Chinese are the best but you're hungry again an hour later.
[15:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─Android is an awful system that quickly exposes the humorous assumptions of its developers. There is no multitasking, or any real control of what's going on. It was apparently inconceivable to the developers that multiple people could use the same device. I can't pick up one of these phones (includi...
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:03] <exec> 08└─I woke up to a phone that had auto-updated without my giving the OK. All of a sudden, my personal-photo desktop background of many years was gone (and I can't find it anymore), and it was replaced with an animated background that just sucks up the juice like nobody's business. Just... just..... JUST...
[15:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:35] <exec> 08└─Put the sensor chip into a robot, but keep it away from E.F.
[15:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:17] <exec> 08└─Then you have missed that unlike Flash, this plugin will be written by people with intent to cause harm. See the Sony root-kit. Adobe is just incompetent, they are not intentionally destructive, even though at times it may seem like they are.
[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This isn't news at all; I've been watching Netflix on my Linux machines for ages now with Chrome, and like you, it's the only reason I even have Chrome installed. I honestly don't care if it wasn't "official"; official according to whom anyway? Either it works or it doesn't, and Chrome has...
[15:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:21] <exec> 08└─2. Everyone's moving to web-based tax software these days. 4. Viewing DVDs on Linux has worked fine for many years now with VLC. What are you talking about? Besides, since you like Pirate Bay, you can do better by just downloading Blu-Ray rips from there; you'll get better resolution and quality tha...
[15:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:23] <exec> 08└─All you had to do was install Google Chrome.
[15:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but what if you want to play games X, Y, and Z, and X only works on N64 and Z only works on Playstation 2? And what if the PS2 somehow maliciously causes problems with your N64, and in general is extremely unreliable, and on top of that is just a PITA to use, with horribly designed controllers...
[15:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:27] <exec> 08└─numbers numbers numbers tl;dr
[15:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:45] <exec> 08└─Think 3D. Flip your board over and see if it looks the same.
[15:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─how is the road furious?
[15:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─-- Young adults with no apparent source of income living in luxurious apartments in New York and San Francisco.
[15:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:51] <exec> 08└─If you're bored with regular chess, you should check out Baroque/Ultima. It's kind of an inversion of regular chess and requires more concentration IMO.
[15:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:53] <exec> 08└─It's not just fuse technology, it's bizarre electrical design. Why would you route so much power through a bridge console? These are control devices; they only need a minimal amount of power for lighting up and displaying information on the screens. The high-power stuff is located elsewhere on the s...
[15:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:55] <exec> 08└─There's no way in hell they could afford *luxurious* apartments on those paychecks. Perhaps the news anchor, *maybe* (maybe) the architect, but definitely not a masseuse, actor (he's not an A-list one obviously), paleontologist, kindergarten teacher, or random office drones. However, the OP did call...
[15:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:22] <exec> 08└─Hopefully Astrophysical Journal makes them share the data and code because this "stacking" process looks pretty complicated. English is simply not the appropriate language to describe it.
[15:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─If you are praying to a deity, presumably you are asking said deity for mercy or forgiveness in whatever form. What always confuses me is what makes you think that the omnipotent being who decided to end your pathetic existence is going to suddenly change his mind?
[15:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spinning Sail Technology is Poised to Bring Back Wind-powered Ships - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:09] <exec> 08└─Inserted a jab at Trump into a story that is completely unrelated? Success! We are all now aware that you dislike the president even though none of us asked. Good job!
[15:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:00] <exec> 08└─A distinction which I am aware of. I usually use the term "open source" as a catch all because "free software" implies "free as in beer". Which is also similarly misleading, because it doesn't make sense unless you say "free as in 'free beer'". Anyway the difference is usually moot for consumers; op...
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 2032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─What is protecting us right now are the constitutional separations of powers put in place for this exact situation. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches are all supposed to have different, non-overlapping functions. The branches of the military are all meant to remain separate and unint...
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gorsuch Won Broad Democrat Support in 2006 – Now Things Are Different - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─I was more referring to the growing legislative slant of the judiciary as a response to gerrymandering. The fight right now is about expressing rage over the whole Garland debacle, knowing that they have no power to actually do anything. The difference is that Congress no longer appears to have any...
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[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:36] <exec> 08└─When you buy something physical—a toaster, a book, or a printer, for example—you expect to be free to use it as you see fit: to adapt it to suit your needs, fix it when it breaks, re-use it, lend it, sell it, or give it away when you're done with it.
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdWHFwmd2o [youtube.com]
[16:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─Asked what prompted them to eat less beef, 37 percent of consumers surveyed cited its price as the No. 1 reason in research published in January by Mintel, a consumer research firm. Thirty-five percent of the respondents said they were eating more protein from other sources, like chicken or tofu. Bu...
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─Price is a huge issue. The last 5 or 10 years prices have gone through the roof. Even a small package of market hamburger costs a fortune compared to other meats at places like Publix. It's no surprise that people don't buy as much any more. What will happen next is the industry will probably pull a...
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:56] <exec> 08└─Having recently gone to the US for a weekend vacation and picking up some lean ground beef to make some food with. It was quite a bit more expensive. Canada, for pound of lean ground I pay about $4. In the US cheapest I found was $6.40. This was in Vermont.
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─Just because you don't agree doesn't mean my comment is trolling. ------------ It's only good when it's mostly fat, it's hard to chew unless it's basically still uncooked, and it doesn't digest easily. It's junk meat. Anytime people worship a food as being the pinnacle of good eats, you know it's go...
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─One way to eat 19% less beef is if burgers contain 19% less beef. Replaced by cheap fillers like grains, flour, cereals, styrofoam, old shoes, etc. Another way is to have 19% less meals on wheels (starve seniors). 19% less school lunches (starve kids at school). 19% less food stamps (starve kids at...
[16:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:47] <exec> 08└─"at no point does semen touch the smartphone".
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─You can turn a phone into a microscope?! That's the news here. There has to be a ton of uses for a hand-held computer with its own microscope attachment. Discovering not being able to make babies should be way down the list. And yes, I have (indirectly) experienced the misery of infertility so don't...
[16:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─How many of those 3000 games help me in my daily workflow of collecting Mario 64 stars?
[16:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:39] <exec> 08└─Graphics drivers aren't the only hardware issue keeping users off Linux. The other issue is Linux's poor support for things like the camera, Bluetooth, and suspend in Bay Trail laptops such as the ASUS T100TA and X205TA. And that's after years of improvement; it used to be even worse, with not even...
[16:16:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 2393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's unfair to say Google Fiber has been a failure. After about 6 years of operation they ended up with less than 500k [wikipedia.org] broadband installations and a tiny fraction of that in television subscriptions. Their potential market was in the millions. And now, prior to this, th...
[16:17:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:28] <exec> 08└─Incorrect bird song? Incorrect job title? Incorrectly drawn shipwrecks or sharks? And an incorrect chess move? Wow, you think that is bad? That's nothing compared to TV channels that are dedicated entirely to spewing incorrect, retarded, drivel about some made up magic sky fairy.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─On some, it looks like a checkers board on the other side.
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─But they *do* have an answer for that. "an overload". You see, the consoles are not designed to route that much power. Or are us saying any overload should only blow the relays that will obviously be needed?
[16:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:09] <exec> 08└─I wasn't contesting the "luxurious" part; I was contesting "no apparent source of income." Fair enough.
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:11] <exec> 08└─perhaps the inertial dampers failed or had a brownout during a torpedo hit
[16:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightmare_Chess [wikipedia.org]
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the inertial dampers can't fail that badly or else all the humans will be dead, and probably the ship will be crushed too. Even in ST:TNG, they had the concept of the "structural integrity field", which you can read about in the Technical Manual, and actually has to be running any time the shi...
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, an overload should only blow out relays. There shouldn't even be any power connections to the consoles capable of routing anywhere near that much power. Fiber-optic cabling can't route any power at all, at least not electrical power, only a tiny amount of light used for signaling. Even if you d...
[16:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:45] <exec> 08└─Hooray! You got your sarcastic comment about Trump in! Only 10 more to go for the daily quota! Of course this article has nothing to do with politics, but you inserted yours anyway.
[16:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─Soon, all content was DRMed because DRM was ubiquitous and easy.
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[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─T: "Toldja there was a landslide during my election. Fake News failed to cover it, as usual."
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─What isn't physical? I've never understood what "physical" means. EVERYTHING is physical.
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─Patents. IP.
[17:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:43] <exec> 08└─The same is true of land. If there are construction codes that apply, you don't own it.
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:45] <exec> 08└─When I buy a printer, the #1 factor is how much is the ink going to cost me? I don't care if I have to pay twice as much for the printer if the ink is relatively cheap, because over the life of the printer ink will be the dominant cost. If a printer maker prevents me from buying cheap ink, I'll simp...
[17:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:48] <exec> 08└─And if there aren't codes, maybe you shouldn't buy it, because $deity knows what the previous owner did there with all that freedom. Also, you still rent it from the government, not own it, unless you live in one of those (rarefying) places without property taxes.
[17:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:50] <exec> 08└─When I buy a printer, the #1 factor is that it is not a Lexmark. They acquired notoriety for this kind of business practice since years ago.
[17:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─I actually bought a Lexmark years ago because I had forgotten about their shady practices. I returned it unopened after the "Patent license" printed on the box was kind enough to remind me. Essentially, It claimed that I did not own the print cartridges.
[17:15:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of it is due to money - I bet a more detailled look at the figures would see consumption dropping off in 2008 after the financial crash. Meat is expensive, plenty of people in the US now living off microwave noodles and beans.
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:13] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. Around here it's hard to get ground beef for under $5/lb, a decent steak starts at $7/lb. I can get pork for $2-3/lb, and chicken for $1/lb.
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─When I started cooking for myself I found that it was a lot easier to work Pork/Chicken into dishes than it was to do so with Beef. I also find the taste of Beef less satisfying than the other two. That Beef is more expensive makes the decision all the easier. I can only speak for myself and those I...
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:18] <exec> 08└─No doubt. A pound of beef is about $5.00 here I think, give or take for how lean it is. Assuming two people could eat a pound worth of meat each in a day, split across meals, that's $300 a month. USDA average for a food budget for two is 550. That's over half of it. So, there's issues with that esti...
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:20] <exec> 08└─Your other prices match my area's cost of living, so I gotta ask: Where are you finding chicken for that cheap? Is it real chicken, or that mulched and pressed stuff that's like 40% filler?
[17:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:22] <exec> 08└─The steak dinner used to be one of the ways to show off your wealth. Tallness, and to a lesser extent heaviness was a mark of higher status. The correlation with being able to afford quality nutrition was pretty strong. Thinness was definitely a negative. But now the obesity epidemic has changed thi...
[17:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:24] <exec> 08└─Additionally, most restaurants are serving less absurdly ginormous portions. That's a way to improve the bottom line without raising prices. (they still raise the prices of appetizers, drinks and desserts, but customers are sensitive to the price of main dishes)
[17:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:26] <exec> 08└─This. I can make a bunch of meals from one decent sized whole boneless pork loin, and those can be had from Sam's for about $15 give or take. Chicken runs about $1.50-$2 per pound depending on sales. Beef I can get maybe 2 decent steaks for the $15. Ground beef is around $3/lb. Just not worth it for...
[17:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:28] <exec> 08└─I've read twice that when asking cannibals what humans taste like (it is probably a common question for them) they say pork. Humans taste like pigs. figures doesn't it?
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:31] <exec> 08└─There's a huge variation in quality of beef. I suspect that part of the reason for the decline has been the focus on size at the expense of quality in a lot of places. Lots of people who will enjoy a decent steak would be put off beef if they're only offered poor-quality meat. When it's bulked out b...
[17:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:43] <exec> 08└─This. My phone didn't last the day right out of the box. Went around and disabled every useless setting (voice commands, tap-to-wake, screen-off displays, animated wallpaper, 30-second e-mail polling, and at least I don't have the social apps bundled).. I also do something that's oddly getting rare:...
[17:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:20] <exec> 08└─On top of that, standard methods often require a specially trained technician
[17:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:46] <exec> 08└─What is with all the hate for tights anyway? As any remotely-serious cyclist or runner these days will tell you, tight-fitting pants are great for wearing during exercise. They allow freedom of movement, they don't get in the way, they're comfortable, they help regulate your body temperature and kee...
[17:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─Gunsmiths cringe when the hero fires hundreds of rounds from a single charger, operates a Minigun one-handed or when baddies fly 20 feet backward when hit by bullets. Car designers cringe when all cars invariable explode 2 minutes after an accident. I don't have to be a gunsmith to understand the ba...
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, they are playing chess on a three man's morris field? :-)
[17:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─I mean, ultimately, given enough time, no one survives, even without some extinction event. Everything dies. My mind just boggles to contemplate the hillbilly living in his 150 year old farm house thinking that, because he dumps money into canned food (and sodium rich "survival" meals) and bottled w...
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM in HTML5 Takes its Next Step Toward Standardization - 1648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─"That seems like a contradiction to me" There's nothing contradictory about it at all. "The fact that it's open source means that you (or anybody else) can fork Firefox and remove the EME code if you really want to. I'll bet somebody will." That remedy remains legally available, in theory, but it's...
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[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─And here I thought Armageddon was overly dramatic when it came to comets blowing up when walking on them, but I suppose it was a real life documentary!
[18:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know. It seems to me that someone intentionally moved the equivalent of 1.3 million Real Men to skew the balance of the system. Having the weak link between the two main pieces show signs of fracturing under external tugging forces isn't exactly a surprise. The Europeans are just observing,...
[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─IP is just the name that we give to sufficiently complex phenomena in the universe; IP describes "physical" things. When I say I own rounded edges on a smartphone, what I'm saying is that I am the one who gets to decide who gets to make rounded edges on a smartphone; that act of deciding is a proces...
[18:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:45] <exec> 08└─There are 2 sides: the seller and the buyer; both what guarantees. There's no reason for coercion; all of the goods and services "provided" by a government can be provided by organizations that emerge from voluntary interactions, webs of contracts, conventions, cultural norms, etc. A government is j...
[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:47] <exec> 08└─And there'll be no dishonest involved in or disagreement over these interactions and we'll have unicorns that shit our favorite flavor of ice cream.
[18:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 2111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─There are so many screwy laws and contracts that are nothing more than outrageously unfair transfers of public wealth into private pockets. Feels like America has become more corrupt. Our publicly funded law enforcement is routinely used against us. I'd really rather not be a law breaking rebel pira...
[18:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:51] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the Supreme Court seems to be heading in the wrong direction regarding IP law: Expanding copyright to cover apparel. [bloomberg.com]
[18:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:53] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and try it. I'll keep my inefficient, imperfect and occasionally abusive government, until you prove that actual humans can operate at medium-scale under your system. Tribal councils are a great way to administer local justice by agreement, until it's your relatives who get sentenced to get...
[18:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry we patented the V neck, you'll have to make a W neck or some stupid bullshit. Also, god help you if you want to put buttons on the right side, Disney owns that one.
[18:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:58] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump! The sound of the swamp being drained into my bank account is glorious!
[18:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:29] <exec> 08└─This getting less for the same price is sometimes called shrinkflation. We see this a lot with things like chocolate bars. I very much doubt that the inflation statistics pick this up fully.
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:30] <exec> 08└─Better not to talk about it, since you get health benefits from chugging your only-14-once ice-cream pint!
[18:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:32] <exec> 08└─"Oooh yay! People are saving the environment!" "No, you idiot, they're eating dog food and ramen because the dollar menu at McDonald's became the $2.50 meal and that's all they could afford."
[18:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:35] <exec> 08└─Another way is to have 19% less meals on wheels (starve seniors). 19% less school lunches (starve kids at school). 19% less food stamps (starve kids at home).
[18:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:37] <exec> 08└─At least 2 people. And I have to say, it makes a lot more sense to quit meat for environmental reasons than for "oh the poor animals" reasons. Domesticated animals basically made a deal with humans: The humans help keep them alive, in exchange for being able to eat them later. And the health benefit...
[18:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:50] <exec> 08└─I think you either haven't used android in a long time or have only used crappy phones, maybe both. It was apparently inconceivable to the developers that multiple people could use the same device.
[18:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pollination Mystery Unlocked by Bee Researchers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:10] <exec> 08└─Research, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows the right size of bee is needed to properly pollinate a flower.
[18:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:30] <exec> 08└─Came here to say something like this, and you're already +5, so I'll just say bravo
[18:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:19] <exec> 08└─640k copies of Tux Racer should be enough for anybody.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─Ham radio operators cringe when they hear bullshit morse code
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:56] <exec> 08└─King-flipping is not a Hollywood invention. I was taught it by a number of people independently, some old enough to have learned it when they were children, from others who learned it before Hollywood even showed a chessboard.
[18:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─Well SuperGIRL, on the other hand, hmmm I would watch and wank a 24-hour a day TV channel about her and her Super Tits. Bullet proof but still bleeds for three days a month? Go figure.
[18:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─That blog is great, it actually goes into what the current issues in cosmology are (not just theory but also data analysis!) rather than assuming you are an idiot that needs to be told what to believe.
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:27] <exec> 08└─Why didn't they claim dark matter had these properties originally?
[18:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Galaxies Show Falling Rotation Curves - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, that property. Let's just stick with my last (positive) point, surely this has consequences beyond the rotation curves of a few galaxies. The important thing now is: What predictions can we deduce from this new model?
[18:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03piss_drinker [6536] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Better Learning Through Zinc - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:52] <exec> 08└─That was an interesting article about kidney stones. A good comparison between men's and women's different urine content levels, in contrast to who had stones and who didn't. It might help explain why men have a greater chance of getting stones (7% more chance during lifetime). It was interesting th...
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[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─I generally like the idea of global freedom, anyone can go anywhere and participate. However, a lot of things are disturbing about multinationals, specifically local goods and services are no longer local. Beyond just the concerns of local citizens going unanswered I find the insanely huge multinati...
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─"a 282-million-pound (130-million-kilogram), 100-feet-wide (30-meter) space rock". On earth, maybe, but not on a tiny comet. And anyhow, weight and mass are on different sides of the equation F = MA.
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─It should be easily and implicitly understood that the pounds figure is if you were to move the entire mass of the comet to Earth's surface at sea level, because that's where the kg-to-lb conversion is valid. They could have stated the mass in slugs, but no one knows WTF a slug is outside of a physi...
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:07] <exec> 08└─I am the one who gets to decide who gets to make rounded edges on a smartphone; that act of deciding is a process in this universe
[19:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─I don't even know where to begin.
[19:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:44] <exec> 08└─Even old shoes, the leather ones anyway, are beef technically.
[19:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:45] <exec> 08└─I am a filthy omnivore, and something about red meat reaches deep into me and flicks some weirdly calming switches, but I also almost never eat beef or similarly large animal anymore. It's not necessary, it's WAY too expensive for me, and if what they say about colon cancer is true it's best to avoi...
[19:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:47] <exec> 08└─The Ministry of Truth says that the chocolate ration has been increased to 20g. (An increase of -4g.)
[19:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:50] <exec> 08└─You post the same comment two, three, or even four times, then you wonder why you get modded down.
[19:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:52] <exec> 08└─I mean, the environmental issues are about the only reason (other than price) I could think of that would be why I'd consider changing. And I don't doubt there are people like you and CoolHand, I just really doubt they're any sort of significant majority. I have cut back on beef as well. I have a st...
[19:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:54] <exec> 08└─San Diego. The $1 chicken is on sale in value packs. Thighs/drumsticks are pretty much anytime, breasts get to $1/lb maybe once a month.
[19:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:56] <exec> 08└─Bumped you up because i don't think you're trolling. Unpopular opinion maybe, not but trolling. Perhaps you haven't had a good steak yet? Or good ribs (with BBQ)?
[19:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:58] <exec> 08└─Are you the electric universe guy? Do you know where he is? This is his big chance!
[19:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03budgenator [1529] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:59] <exec> 08└─Not being An Astrophysicist, I found a clearer explanation at the Max Planck Institute Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe [mpifr-bonn.mpg.de]. The interesting thing about the magnetic fields is it seems to imply the Universe has a direction.
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─Sure, but setting up dual boot is easier than extracting the preconfigured windows into a virtual machine.
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─Better, yet. Let's worry about the whole "it's OK to violate the Constitution, Due Process, and the Geneva Convention 'cause you're really sure that's the bad guy" trope, first. Normalizing that abuse is a bit more of a concern that a miss-aligned chessboard.
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:22] <exec> 08└─Well, not exactly lost, but the fuses became that expensive that they figured it would be cheaper if they just replaced the screen. ;-)
[19:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─For me, it was when the road had to put out the fire on the War-rig, by dumping sand into the intake manifold. Seemed like a bad idea to me, but, hey! The rig kept running!
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:27] <exec> 08└─Well, some PHB might have overheard that "standardizing makes everything simpler" and later asked if the panel's power-req could be routed via the turbolift power system cables... or maybe they decided on using phaser-grade electrical system. I mean, we are talking about a universe where most stuff...
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:29] <exec> 08└─I occasionally play chess and if I give up, I tip the king. It isn't particularly dramatic though. If I wanted drama I'd yell, flip the board, started throwing pieces at the opponent, innocent spectators and the filming crew and finally pour my whisky all over the table and set it on fire.
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[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:24] <exec> 08└─Their high end chips had an old ARM (7?) for low level stuff, an ARM9 driving the phone, and an ARM11 for apps. All on 1 chunk of silicon. Haven't been there in 7-8 years, dunno what's in their new chips.
[20:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─General-purpose programming languages cannot keep up with these special-purpose designs; have you read the latest C++/C thread model? It makes no sense! It's as understandable as Quantum Mechanics. Add to this increasingly complexity the looming specter of proprietary computing "fabrics", and there'...
[20:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─If it was a phone SoC, it probably had up to 7 arm cores on it. The modem would have had an arm, the wi-fi would also have had an arm too, ...
[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:30] <exec> 08└─You gotta learn to app! Only apps matter. You also need to let go of control and also IoT more.
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─My understanding, from people who do little things like maintain (as in the real official maintainers of) the linux kernel for arm-based chip families, and power-management subsystems, is that big.LITTLE isn't even fully working yet, despite it being several years old, and that the more complicated...
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Beowulf ARM cluster.
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─What I find ironic is that 20 years ago, the "left" was opposing globilization in the form of Free trade agreements. Now, the "right" is all upset that the manufacturing jobs went overseas. (as if that was not predictable)
[20:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─The tax implications are legendary. Multinationals are mostly not taxable. The legal implications are loads of fun. Microsoft got told to reveal user data held in Ireland. This question wouldn't exist without the multinational problem. Trade secrets are leaking. China got fighter jet designs from st...
[20:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:26] <exec> 08└─What I've said doesn't depend on there being no dishonest or no disagreement, or magic. Those very problems are, again, selective forces which induce the evolution of the very insurance/certification organizational structures about which we are talking. How does your "government" solve this problem?...
[20:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─Humans already do operate largely in the way that I specify; the vast majority of interactions take place without the aid of a government—even humongous "corporate" deals form, evolve, and end up in dispute resolution solely within "private" structures of contraction negotation, arbitration, and e...
[20:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:29] <exec> 08└─That absolutely did not used to be the case - pre 1990, if you owned a computer, it was yours - yours to make work, yours to maintain, yours to modify as you please. Even when the early internet was creeping in through 38.4Kbaud modems, your computer was still your own. Corporate ownership of your e...
[20:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─All levels of "rule by proxy" "elected officials" etc. can lead to nasty surprises. I was pretty shocked at how sideways our HOA got when a few loose cannons got themselves elected - we were a self-governing group of 104 homes, but our charter basically put all decision-making power about the genera...
[20:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:34] <exec> 08└─That's what I get for trying to meet you halfway.
[20:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:36] <exec> 08└─The funny thing about the "digital theft" messages embedded in DVDs - when my kids were little they were untrustable with DVDs, so I copied all of ours to a server. The copies remove the Piracy lectures, by default - no special effort - it's actually how Hollywood packages the files on the disc. It...
[20:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:38] <exec> 08└─You want to own your computer again? Just install Linux - any flavor.
[20:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:40] <exec> 08└─Essentially, these the problems your HOA had, and they are the problems that government has: There is no well-defined agreement; nobody really knows what is permitted—that's why the outcome was a surprise. An agreement that says "one party to this agreement can change the agreement at any time, un...
[20:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:42] <exec> 08└─... meet me ALL the way.
[20:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:29] <exec> 08└─Completely with you. I find it hard to think how I love my pets and yet subject similar animals (pigs for example) who have family bonds and love for eachother to lifetime of torture in order for me to be able to eat them. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Once they get petri...
[20:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:30] <exec> 08└─Now i feel stupid for modding your other post back up. Please don't repost because you were modded down. It only makes things worse. Just comment on your comment or something if you feel like a mod was unfair. Maybe explain why you have a valid point and not trolling?
[20:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:32] <exec> 08└─The fancy steak restaurant with $100 steaks, waiters and servers in tuxedos, and all this stuffy etiquette never gave me a positive impression. So crass. Went to one once with a 50% off coupon, and still felt like I overpaid.
[20:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:35] <exec> 08└─Tenderized by making children massage the beef with their feet for several years.
[20:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is a reason that human meat is sometimes called 'long pork'.
[20:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:39] <exec> 08└─I will never eat the products of slaughter again.
[20:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:41] <exec> 08└─You are ignoring braised cheap cuts of meat. Put a pot roast with veggies into a crock pot and cook it for hours. It will be fall apart tender and full of flavor.
[20:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:43] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the original deal was "Feed and shelter me. Let me live a happy animal life, and then you can eat me". Now it seems to be "Keep me in a cage that is too small for me to turn around in. Torture me every day of my life, and then sell my diseased carcass to someone else so they can eat...
[20:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alias [2825] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:57] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I keep waiting for the open device that is the Linux equivalent of a smartphone but it hasn't happened yet. I guess we need to fix the last mile problem first. All the power struggles come back to the last mile eventually.
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─We need some of the guys struggling to get funding for $100B telescopes to come back into the terrestrial sphere and solve some practical problems. I love this stuff - polarized fields due to ... something - but on the ground where I am the people are struggling with long division. Help!?
[20:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─How many of those 3000 games help me in my daily workflow of collecting Mario 64 stars?
[20:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─The Immortal Game [wikipedia.org] is one of the most famous games in chess history. Though, to be far, in modern times this would almost certainly not work between two masters. The all out attack kind of play that you would see from Paul Morphy would be defended against. The game has evolved since t...
[20:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Remain Calm As the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:46] <exec> 08└─I'd go to the grocery store promptly, in hopes of finding fresh fruit. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─That design does not seem very generalized. The workload should be able to shift to different cores if a significant number of ARM cores are destroyed within a Borg vessel.
[21:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─If you do industrial embedded designs, you customize your tasks and scheduler to properly use the right cores. BIG.little and similar schemes are great. If you do general computing, good luck figuring out the universal rule for Extremely Varied Apps With Greedy Coders ("I'll run the clock on the A72...
[21:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 1921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─Don't think about language first. Think in terms of Map and Reduce frameworks. Look for problems that can be decomposed into much smaller pieces. Ideally the class of problems that are "embarrassingly parallel". For example, computing each pixel of an image of the Mandelbrot set. Or any other pixel...
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:31] <exec> 08└─Sir, your imagination is limited. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters. It's Beowulf clusters all the way down. An infinite recursion. The final cluster of that infinite fuster cluck is built on ARM chips.
[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─The understanding of the details on which are built those high-level frameworks is slowly being locked away in the in the walled gardens of giant corporations. The only way to solve problems will be to do so within their set of concepts, because it will be too complex to reverse-engineer just what's...
[21:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:53] <exec> 08└─...and you still got it wrong.
[21:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:30] <exec> 08└─And why do they do that? Because they know that failing to do their business within their private confines, brings the trouble and costs associated with the State which looms overhead. The government doesn't need to be explicitly a party to an agreement, when it's understood that's it's always there...
[21:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:31] <exec> 08└─There is no reason why there must be a monopoly on violent enforcement of a contract. Indeed, it seems quite obvious that a monopoly would be a BAD thing; better to have competition (a separation of powers, if you will) when it comes to the service of enforcing contracts.
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─Where's the government to protect us from the selfish bastards abusing the government? You've reached the conclusion yourself: You cannot just keep vertically stacking authority; you've got to have horizontal competition; you've got to have a separation of powers, which is provided best by competiti...
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:36] <exec> 08└─Start a war between my Contract Enforcer and your Contract Enforcer? "Today, 5 more buildings were burnt down as the dispute over Alice or Chris paying Dominic for the pizza enters its second month."
[21:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:38] <exec> 08└─Ask the French (and less spectacularly other Euro countries). The people working for the entity called government should be afraid of the People. If your government is not afraid of the people it serves, and feels impunity for the shit it does (like 95% re-election rates), then you are right to call...
[21:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:27] <exec> 08└─Not just quality of product, but quality of preparation. Some cheap cuts braised or smoked and it is delicious eats. A lot of people that hate a certain kind of food just don't know how to prepare it. Or, rarely eat that food because they know they can't prepare it right. I love sushi, but I know no...
[21:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah this and tibman's comment. I cook ribs at 250 degrees for 2 or 3 hours depending on the size of the rack, wrapped in foil. Also make sure to get a bbq sauce that's not corn syrup crap like Open Pit is. Sticky Fingers is pretty good. Ribs aren't good unless the meat slides right off the bones. O...
[21:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:31] <exec> 08└─Which is why politicians subsides the fuck out of beef production. You keep people with shit-tier burgers and they will vote.
[21:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:33] <exec> 08└─No bitching about millennials and how they're too stupid to even know how to make grilled cheese so how are they going to make a hamburger and how their teeth will fall out from their new-age hipster progressivist vegan diets and how they're not having enough sex?
[21:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:35] <exec> 08└─We all taste like pork. Three are also reports from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, where human flesh was called "long pig." [wikipedia.org]
[21:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:38] <exec> 08└─Well, that serves them for not taking out a patent on their genetics!
[21:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:43] <exec> 08└─on the ground where I am the people are struggling with long division. Help!?
[21:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:39] <exec> 08└─Easy solution!!! Anything using public right-of-way becomes publicly owned, and companies rent to use. If a company spends their own money for upgrades / maintenance they can discount that from their rent.
[21:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:11] <exec> 08└─How come the anti-gravity control never gets knocked out?
[21:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─You don't need to be a master to cringe over the material losses or the weak ass play going in for end-game with only a queen. And sure, it's history. But it's about as praise worthy as the repetitive charges of the knights of Agincourt as they were being mulled down by arrows time and time again. I...
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[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─Never understood why it was even possible for consoles to explode in Star Trek. 'Cause the Heisenberg Compensators failed to reverse the polarity of the dilitium crystals, DUH!!
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[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─In yet another bid to outdo Obama he already has a higher record of lead in the water supply.
[22:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:04] <exec> 08└─Presumably the article means pound-mass not pound-force.
[22:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:41] <exec> 08└─Full stop.
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:42] <exec> 08└─------------------ It's only good when it's mostly fat, it's hard to chew unless it's basically still uncooked, and it doesn't digest easily. It's junk meat. Anytime people worship a food as being the pinnacle of good eats, you know it's got to be crap; humans have this strange affinity for making n...
[22:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─Genius! If you want to do stuff properly... stop doing it at all. Mark solved - thanks.
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:33] <exec> 08└─I think I was using Chromium or a Firefox-based browser, hence the additional steps.
[22:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:48] <exec> 08└─In other words, it is a Natural Monopoly [wikipedia.org]... which "free market is always universally good, remove all regulations" libertarians always seem to forget, ignore, or disregard.
[22:19:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 792 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:39] <exec> 08└─King-flipping is not a Hollywood invention. I was taught it by a number of people independently, some old enough to have learned it when they were children, from others who learned it before Hollywood even showed a chessboard. It's not a rule. It's a convention. Even a house rule in certain househol...
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─> Warming will be bad for some people and good for others. It's certainly been a boon for Siberian ivory miners. http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk] People whose enzymes function above 37 Ce...
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─Bog converts to fertile land really fast - just a few thousand years! We'll be laughing.
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─Fifteen. It's going to be fifteen years.
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Carbon Emissions Continue to Stabilize, US Has 3% Drop - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:01] <exec> 08└─So have a tax, or a tariff, on PV panels.
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[23:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:01] <exec> 08└─Hooray! You got your sarcastic comment about Trump in! Only 10 more to go for the daily quota! Of course this article has nothing to do with politics, but you inserted yours anyway.
[23:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:03] <exec> 08└─I would recommend looking for John Oliver's story on lead on YouTube. It is an easy watch detailing an important environmental concern.
[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Flint lead poisoning crisis ongoing? "Recent" implies "in the past"
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─> this article has nothing to do with politics Sure, it doesn't. Because refusing to pay enough taxes to maintain infrastructure, or replace dangerous bridges and pipes (especially in impoverished neighborhoods) has nothing to with politics.
[23:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─Always pissed me off when the phrase, "unacceptable levels of lead," is used. This is common when products are recalled that tested positive for lead. Such a phrase begs the questions, "What is an acceptable level of lead?" Congrats to the FTA for including the following: No level of lead exposure i...
[23:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─Is there anywhere outside of a laboratory that does not have a few molecules of lead around? Lead is in dirt all over the goddamn place. So unless you want to spend $100 trillion to collect all the molecules, there has to be an acceptable level of lead, because you are consuming it and breathing it...
[23:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:13] <exec> 08└─I used to chew Xmas tree tinsel back in the 60s that was made from lead at that time. I didn't suffer from any consequences.
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─Like this [clusterhat.com] or like this [networkworld.com]?
[23:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:37] <exec> 08└─Hence the wink.
[23:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─because he thought stars and galaxies were shaped by electric fields and the orthodoxy did not want that studied: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.nytimes.com [nyt...
[23:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:23] <exec> 08└─Everything in my Asus X551M works with Linux...although it doesn't have Bluetooth and I seldom use the camera or suspend.
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Years Waiting for Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation E-Mails - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─Brilliant! Why hasn't anyone thought of that?
[23:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:13] <exec> 08└─And the white king moved into check after mate was called. There's no intrinsic reason the rules should forbid that
[23:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:15] <exec> 08└─Robin Hood, is that you?
[23:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:17] <exec> 08└─It must be worse for physicists, because every movie has physics in it but only a few have chess.
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