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[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─Insurance payout? *hmm* Anyway.. try ozone next time. Works by having lot's of HV sparking in the air.
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Matches... bah! The most efficient way to do it is to use gasoline.
[00:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two More Fast & Furious Movies Coming - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:53] <exec> 08└─Not even joking. And frankly on a strictly artless, soulless, bitter, horrible, terrible level of business they'd be kind of dumb not to make another 2 trilogies at minimum until this growth stops. 2011: Fast Five, $125 million budget, $629 million worldwide box office 2013: Fast Six, $160 million,...
[00:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Was a Sensitive Lover, New Dinosaur Discovery Suggests - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:11] <exec> 08└─This, supposedly, is the journal link. I say "supposedly" because it's giving me a page that says "internal server error." Most likely the publisher doesn't like the proxy I'm using. http://nature.com [nature.com] I found it in Gizmodo's story. https://gizmodo.com
[00:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April Fool's Day - Collect Your Best Tales Here - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:56] <exec> 08└─http://fakeupdate.net/win10/index.html [fakeupdate.net]
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:54] <exec> 08└─If this needed to come from NASA and was/is not taught in primary school, I think one should sue the school for the low quality of education it provided. I mean, really? Is this not a basic fact any child should know? I learnt this in my 3rd year in the primary, in the same chunk with seasons and wa...
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:56] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the sciencedaily.com article, but from the bit quoted here it sounds as though Mr. Mann might be saying that there isn't enough knowledge to say that any particular weather event is due to global warming, but there is enough knowledge to say that global warming will cause a tendency to...
[00:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Sales Tax Collection Nationwide Starts April 1 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah it not only is easier on the eyes but fits the theme, seems like a win/win to me and anything that cuts down on eye fatigue? Is a BIG thumbs up as far as I'm concerned. IDK what it is about the default color but it seems to give me a bit of a headache, its just unpleasant on the eyes.
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[01:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─The way this site looks right now is exactly why. Can we stop the bullshit? Please?
[01:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 2817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that few people today realize that Old Orchard Beach was once a well known airfield, used as a takeoff point for flights across the Atlantic. http://roynagl.50megs.com egs.com] The Old Orchard Beach airfield was a strip of beach, in Saco Bay, along the coast of...
[01:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stretchy Jell-O-like Silver - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─So it's colloidal silver [quackwatch.org]...
[01:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:54] <exec> 08└─here's how we test our fresh biochem students in the lab. Take a sterile dish of media - expose to air for 10 seconds. Seal and place in fermentation unit (38C) for a few days. More points if they can identify the species by their cultures as they grow. If you're immune system is functioning, you ma...
[01:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:55] <exec> 08└─Oh. You're just a troll masquerading as a person wanting a discussion. You're easy to spot since you reply with nothing to say. And then come back again with off topic attacks. If you want a discussion then actually discuss the topic at hand. Don't blame everyone else because you make no argument an...
[01:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:57] <exec> 08└─Uh, better not breathe any air then? Or maybe a little contamination is something our body evolved to deal with in most cases... If you think your body is or should be as sterile as that media, you should probably think again. If you think the peanut you dropped was sterile in the first place, same...
[01:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:00] <exec> 08└─It's like what happens when aforementioned nerds from twitter jump off the spectrum and into an uncapped post length.
[01:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two More Fast & Furious Movies Coming - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:18] <exec> 08└─The failing Soylent News has disgraced the media world. Needs to apologize to its dwindling subscribers and readers. Has been wrong right...
[01:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two More Fast & Furious Movies Coming - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:19] <exec> 08└─...from the beginning and still has not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST
[01:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:07] <exec> 08└─next time you see a spider walking across a surface, try a little experiment: put your hand on the surface about 10cm infront of the spider. It will invariably get to about 2cm from your hamd and walk around. spiders don't like human and generally avoid us if they can. ps. don't try this with poison...
[01:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Michigan Police Searching for 12 Foot Tall Inflatable Beer Bottle - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:25] <exec> 08└─FYI "tranny" is sometimes considered pejorative. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:27] <exec> 08└─> Is this not a basic fact any child should know? My intent was as much to amuse as to inform. I didn't mean to be insulting.
[01:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Unknown Objects Being Investigated in Planet 9 Search - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:09] <exec> 08└─/ AC learns about CasparCG. // AC doesn't understand the rest of the comment. )`:
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[02:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:46] <exec> 08└─I'm usually annoyed by fake AFD "prank" news too. But all of the stories we posted today are true: no one is trying to trick you here. And from the timestamp on your comment, the colors had already switched back to normal when you made it. So, in summary: what?
[02:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the comment. I didn't know that using ozone for fumigation against insects is a thing. It's been tested for use with stored grains. https://www.purdue.edu [purdue.edu] In combination with hydrogen peroxide, it was effective against bedbugs. https://ag...
[02:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:50] <exec> 08└─Works even better if you pour the gas all over the floor, then give it a couple minutes for a good amount of it to evaporate. While you are waiting, you can go upstairs and turn on (but don't light) all the valves on your stove if it is a gas stove. Then flick a lite match into the basement for a qu...
[02:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:52] <exec> 08└─I don't care about the colors. I care that I have to wonder if the stories are true or Kelly-Anne alternate facts. I care that the website looks top of the line 20 years ago. I hate top of the line 20 years ago. Just give me the site I see 364 days of the year, have your fun on leap years if you wan...
[02:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:54] <exec> 08└─Ozone is also a common way to keep hot tub and pool water clean -- the water runs past a UV bulb that generates some ozone. Often not quite enough to keep the water clear indefinitely, but cuts way down on Chlorine usage.
[02:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stretchy Jell-O-like Silver - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is the wire that can (with suitable surface treatment) be used long term for implanted brain interfaces. Silver is a known good electrical conductor. It seems like it can be drawn fine enough to not interfere with normal cell operation and the ability to stretch should help it be compatib...
[02:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:25] <exec> 08└─I agree that the other commenter here could have been a little nicer, but I don't get your animosity. It is a bit unclear why you replied to the first post in this thread; it might have made more sense to just begin a new thread. The OP then replies to say he didn't understand how your post connecte...
[02:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:27] <exec> 08└─Well, to be quite honest and with sincere and great apology to those that must read this shit. It's a catharsis for me to react to pointless viciousness and hostility with passiveness in return. And yes i do believe I was being passive from moment 1 since it started as a legit question to drive disc...
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the validity of TFA, but I'm also not sure of the relevance of your point. People here aren't dropping food and then letting it ferment for "a few days" in ideal growth conditions BEFORE consumption. Instead, presumably most are consuming soon, and only certain toxic bacteria can...
[02:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:36] <exec> 08└─"Your Home is Teeming With 'Quiet and Benign Roommates,' Say Scientists " /article.pl?sid=16/01/19/1432214 [soylentnews.org]
[02:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Uses Toys to Reenact NCAA Basketball Clips - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:29] <exec> 08└─If the NCAA doesn't want to allow news to report their sport, just make up some crap and report it. Fake news is all the rage, go full on satire and make up some 'colorful' stories about the games, report false winners, report Dick Vitale quotes http://bleacherreport.com
[02:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April Fool's Day - Collect Your Best Tales Here - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:58] <exec> 08└─Reeeeeeee [cbsnews.com]
[02:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sales Tax Collection Nationwide Starts April 1 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:36] <exec> 08└─the sdame method , since the tax rate varies by item. there are even items with 0% not to confused with no tax and non-taabe. Been doing it for 30 years. Made good living at it.
[02:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Sales Tax Collection Nationwide Starts April 1 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:38] <exec> 08└─Zip + 4 for the win (or for the loss, if you think taxes are for losers...)
[02:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Are Some People More Gullible Than Others? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:14] <exec> 08└─It's usually written "System D" or "Système D," if I'm not mistaken. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─On further reflection: they would probably be more discreet about it, if those were their intentions.
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[03:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:22] <exec> 08└─Where's that invisible hand at? Did it get drunk or something?
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to defend MBA degrees, but to me this sounds more like the problems created by a culture around CEOs than a criticism of degrees. Basically, above average performance is rarely consistently possible, given the unpredictability of markets. But businesses frequently promote based on outl...
[03:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:26] <exec> 08└─John Clifford "Cliff" Baxter (September 27, 1958 – January 25, 2002, suicide) Enron executive MBA Columbia 1987 Richard Alan Causey (9 January 1960-) Enron Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer MBA University of Texas at Austin wire fraud and conspiracy, Federal Correctional Instit...
[03:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule Released - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:34] <exec> 08└─Right next to the Blue Origin capsule photo, I received an ad for WeatherTech Floor Mats (picture of a truck with rubber mats in cab and bed) -- perfect to collect all the vomit when gravity returns.
[03:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule Released - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:36] <exec> 08└─How bad can a few minutes of weightlessness be? Surely not as bad as ascent and descent?
[03:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:53] <exec> 08└─I won't address your pref's, as they are your pref's, and not mine. :-) But just because you make demands, does not mean we have to comply. Relax, it's just one day of the year, and a weekend to boot. Drink some beer, commune with friends, fire up the grill and carbonize something, but not in your M...
[03:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:55] <exec> 08└─The green theme was basically the default theme... except green. Does the color really make the site look 20 years worse?
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Stretchy Jell-O-like Silver - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe they can use nanowires to automatically repair microscopic normal wires? Spray-solder little Goldilocks-size nanowire fragments on 'normal' wires -- perhaps even using concentric 'normal' wire layers. So they conduct well, but still diffuse into defects that occur over time.
[03:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cyclone Just Left a Shark on the Streets of Australia - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:19] <exec> 08└─I was going with "Candy Gram", but any will work admirably here. Bird-eating spiders, drop bears, and now land sharks! What isn't trying to kill you in Oz?
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─I suppose the other commenter won't answer. At a guess, what may have been meant was that the defendant's choice of an alias, and choice of Web forum, could be prejudicial against him because they contain the word "hack." Another possible meaning is that the online post by Mr. Huddleston, found by t...
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[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─They seem to only be taught how to manage for the next quarter, to make the stockholders happy in the short term. There seems to be a near complete lack of long-term planning. or vision. Of course, I guess the CEOs figure they'll be moving along to their next gig in a year or two max, so even if the...
[04:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:30] <exec> 08└─A sample size of 19 ain't enough to draw any conclusions. And then saying things like, "case studies teach them how to pronounce cleverly on situations they know little about" make the bias evident. I've got no idea if MBAs are good or bad, but this article ain't very good.
[04:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:32] <exec> 08└─MBAs are good for you personally, but bad for companies, bad for the economy, and bad for the country.
[04:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:35] <exec> 08└─1. What does an MBA have to do with committing terrorism or becoming a turncoat? 2. Are MBAs bad because they create financial criminals, or because they create financial criminals that get caught?
[04:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:37] <exec> 08└─Suppose a decision has a 50% chance of killing the company, a 40% chance of little change, and a 10% chance of a big win. Take the initial value of the company to be V. The simple and wrong way: 0*V*.50 + 1*V*.40 + 6*V*.10 comes out equal to V, so the required "big win" is a factor of 6. If the comp...
[04:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule Released - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:47] <exec> 08└─I think the problem comes from the effects of microgravity on our inner ear. That sensation of falling associated with roller coasters is too much for some people to deal with as a constant condition. I am speculating that more people can deal with a 'steady pressure', than with constantly 'falling'...
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[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─NASA's zero g airplane isn't called the vomit comet for nothing, and it only gives short periods of weightlessness. As far as I know the problems of simulator sickness and also space sickness are not fully understood, and there aren't good ways to predict who and when they will occur. But if you get...
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[04:15:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I didn't know that, either. According to one article about the topic, Corona discharge generators produce a much higher concentration and quantity of ozone as compared to the ultraviolet ozone generators.
[04:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:41] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry. I didn't realize your intent was to pick a post at random and make the person you replied to explain why the immune system was not referenced in the articles and has no bearing on what the poster's article and the OP was about. And to be quite frank, if asking what your point is and why y...
[04:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─From the summary [quote]..the science shows that food is unlikely to have picked up harmful bacteria from a few seconds spent on an indoor floor.[/quote] So yes, I would say the point of the article is pretty close to what you are saying. The food spends so little time on the floor that it doesn't g...
[04:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:45] <exec> 08└─and there's where you go off and turn the ADHD knob to 11 again in not understanding how to correlate topics. I would challenge you to explain how resistance would not be related to bacterial contamination. And honestly I'd challenge you to back your original nonsense about debunking in the first pl...
[04:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:47] <exec> 08└─See my second reply to your first reply for the answers to your questions.
[04:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two More Fast & Furious Movies Coming - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:06] <exec> 08└─If they want to make serious money, the content creators ought to adapt this story to the stage. As of 2014, more than $6.2 billion in tickets had been sold to the theatrical version of The Lion King. http://bigstory.ap.org
[04:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Dylan Caves, Fetches Nobel Prize in Literature - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:36] <exec> 08└─They couldn't find a jewish writer so went for a musician instead.
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[05:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:25] <exec> 08└─If there were more corporate governance laws and personal consequences, then executives would change their behavior. Alas, boards and shareholders sort of encourage executive short term non-strategic thinking. I think Peter Drucker is known to have said that in the last 50 years, the only consistent...
[05:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:27] <exec> 08└─1. Potentially, training to do whatever it takes to get ahead, setting aside ethical concerns is a pretty good start for making a terrorist or a turncoat.
[05:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:29] <exec> 08└─Attracting certain kind of personalities ?
[05:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 2693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:31] <exec> 08└─We're bad at picking leaders. Just look at the current POTUS. Yet there have been worse. The medieval monarchy method of passing leadership to the offspring of a good leader missed more than it hit. One huge problem was that the heirs' were often spoiled rotten by their upbringing in wealth and priv...
[05:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:34] <exec> 08└─http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/03/the-church-of-scionology-full-transcript/ [freakonomics.com] Fun read/listen. Especially the part about Busch.
[05:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:36] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree, but I think these can be complementary explanations. There's certainly a significant element of nepotism/cronyism/old boys club/whatever to success. And some CEOs clearly end up there ONLY because of such factors. But I'd guess those people feel less of a need to get the MBA, if t...
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[05:15:04] <exec> 08└─While the nitrogen oxides aren't a great thing, a corona discharge in a pure oxygen environment can have some fairly unfriendly side effects as well.
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[06:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 2308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:12] <exec> 08└─"recognize that leadership is not absolute dictatorship." True, and false. I learned leadership in the Navy. Among other courses, I took the LMET class, developed jointly by Princeton and the Navy. There are different styles of leadership, and a couple of those styles lend themselves to dictatorship...
[06:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:14] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the title doesn't really suggest any conclusions are to be drawn. The title says "some troubling evidence". The same author might publish a similar story tomorrow, which might add more evidence, or refute his evidence, or might even draw conclusions from this and more evidence. Personall...
[06:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:16] <exec> 08└─POTUS was a choice between a crook and a businessman. Hard choice.. Once Sanders were eliminated by fraud the outcome was quite clear.
[06:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:18] <exec> 08└─There are two troubling aspects to having MBA-types as leaders. Obviously the plural of anecdote is not evidence, but these anecdotes I have seen: - Spreadsheets are not reality. People just will not behave the way that cell in your beautiful business model says they should. The answer isn't buildin...
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[06:15:48] <exec> 08└─It's probably not a thing. It just happen to kill things and damage (human) lungs. But it can be produced without source chemicals and has high potency. Production rate is perhaps low however. As for practical production one could use zeolite [wikipedia.org] to filter out oxygen using pressure swing...
[06:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rapping Teacher Turns Social Studies Lessons Into Songs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:02] <exec> 08└─Good luck getting that on the curriculum at Edwards Middle School. It's a government-run school. [schooldigger.com]
[06:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michigan Police Searching for 12 Foot Tall Inflatable Beer Bottle - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─Goes well in relation to eth, doesn't it?
[06:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Dylan Caves, Fetches Nobel Prize in Literature - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:18] <exec> 08└─Go away, you paper clip! No one likes you!
[06:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:02] <exec> 08└─I was modelling the Earth as a zero-dimensional point, totally ignoring its rotation. The rotation brings us closer and farther from the Sun daily, not yearly. So he's partly right about that, too.
[06:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:03] <exec> 08└─> I didn't mean to be insulting. You reckon Scott Wagner reads SN? (grin)
[06:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:05] <exec> 08└─What's this "we", Mr. Pedarast? You have a little boy under your skirts?
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[07:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:27] <exec> 08└─I read the article but I'm still missing it. Why bother doing this? Does anyone really sit and look at DRAM?
[07:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:29] <exec> 08└─It's computer parts for guido nerds to show off to vinnie nerds.
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:31] <exec> 08└─> Why bother doing this? Data exfiltration. > Does anyone really sit and look at DRAM? Your scanner, and every other camera in the vicinity: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com [bleepingcomputer.com]
[07:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:33] <exec> 08└─Come on, don't you remember what you learned in high school? Red LEDs make your stuff go faster, blue ones shave off up to 5*C from operating temperature under load, and green ones decrease power consumption.
[07:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:04] <exec> 08└─act decisively, regardless of the merits of your decisions.
[07:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:06] <exec> 08└─You're an engineer, aren't you?
[07:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:08] <exec> 08└─It's whacking off the invisible cock of the top 0.01%, same as it ever was. Anyone who thinks such a thing as a "free market" can or does exist is a rube.
[07:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:10] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have an engineer running things than an MBA. Engineers have to be almost frighteningly realistic, practical, and grounded.
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[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:37] <exec> 08└─Now I am missing it. What does that so called "research" have to do with DRAM vs any other type of RAM? Is that why you post as AC?
[08:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:38] <exec> 08└─Because Corsair just succeeded in putting a product onto the market place that enables easy and fast data ex-filtration. One could call it a DRAM with a vengeance .. These kind of features defeats air-gaped networks as if dishwasher backdoors [soylentnews.org] isn't enough. The intent is probably to...
[08:15:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:14] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have an engineer running things than an MBA. Engineers have to be almost frighteningly realistic, practical, and grounded.
[08:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:15] <exec> 08└─It is mainly the incapacity to evaluate objectively these percentages that are likely to cause grief. Those statistics risk being slanted to reflect wishful thinking, self serving greed and serve the MBA far more than the "company".
[08:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:18] <exec> 08└─True, some find security and comfort in not having to think for themselves much, not having to make hard decisions, and like following someone who does a seemingly decent job of making those hard choices. But I was getting at whether a hierarchy with one person on top is appropriate for complicated...
[08:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:20] <exec> 08└─One may think that their code of conduct is all about getting ahead and that is a form of ethics, the other has been taught that violence is an answer to oppression, but I don't see what they have to do with each other.
[08:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:22] <exec> 08└─FTFY, a sample size of 19 is not evidence so much as anecdote.
[08:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:24] <exec> 08└─Actually no, because there 19 were selected based on MBAs who achieved high positions and were showing good results initially, then the outcomes were bad. It is selection bias in the opposite direction to the findings, which actually greatly strengthens the findings. Of course you are probably an MB...
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[08:16:35] <exec> 08└─"I wonder though, do those nuclear-bomb level bacterial cleaners we use now actually make some surfaces more dangerous?" In theory. In reality, our appendix shrinking with the advent of cooking and sanitation in foodservice is part of what makes us more vulnerable.
[08:17:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:36] <exec> 08└─Imagine an Earth without spiders. You'd be eaten by "between 400 million and 800 million tons" of flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, etc.
[08:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:48] <exec> 08└─What I really would not want to be eaten alive by are HOUSE CENTIPEDES.
[08:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Dylan Caves, Fetches Nobel Prize in Literature - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just me, but every time I've tried to listen to Dylan, I didn't see what everyone raves about. If it's lyrics/songwriting, can someone point me to some examples where this is on display? I'd like to give the guys a fair chance, and that seems like a reasonable way. I feel like I'm somehow...
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[09:14:29] <exec> 08└─Now, if they make these fun to use, we will finally have complete gender equality. N.B. I deliberately mis-spelled the subject so I would not render this topic NSFW...
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[09:14:43] <exec> 08└─The light could actually be useful to identify modules with ECC errors: green for OK, yellow for correctable, red for uncorrectable. Once you have gigabytes of RAM, non-ECC is a huge mistake. You will have errors. Without ECC, your data will be corrupted. This messes up your filesystem, your family...
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[09:15:00] <exec> 08└─They seem to only be taught how to manage for the next quarter, to make the stockholders happy in the short term. There seems to be a near complete lack of long-term planning. or vision. Of course, I guess the CEOs figure they'll be moving along to their next gig in a year or two max, so even if the...
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[09:15:24] <exec> 08└─Me too. But they tend to underpromise. Which doesn't look good for the shareholders. Well... maybe the shareholders need to learn the lesson. The trouble is... my superannuation pension fund is a shareholder: will it learn it in time to stay away from blatant over-promising?
[09:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:25] <exec> 08└─I think that human nature *almost* requires that someone be "in charge". There are some notable exceptions, where a cooperative atmosphere prevailed, and no one was really "in charge". But, for the most part, people require a leader. In a development or technical atmosphere, I think a coach type lea...
[09:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:57] <exec> 08└─I gotta admit you guys made a wise color choice when you picked these. I can't explain why, but I found the green version to be difficult to read.
[09:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, okay.. [nocookie.net]
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[09:19:09] <exec> 08└─Recasting the bell would be best. Better removal of oxide crud and more-even cooling would probably help a great deal. We could also just weld it or even solder it. Put out a "whitepaper" extolling the virtues of your proposed solution, help a government employee put out a "call for proposals", subm...
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[10:14:30] <exec> 08└─I dub it "Sleevatar"
[10:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─Begin production of artificial wombs.
[10:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:46] <exec> 08└─I recall the spontaneous bit errors due to alpha emissions is on the order of 1 bit flip per gigabyte of DRAM per hour. And of course it gets worse with higher density. So ECC might be a very good idea.
[10:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:47] <exec> 08└─I can't recall the last time I've seen a real complication from bit flips causing data corruption or a broken webpage. Maybe if I created a million unsaved text files? Is there a virtual ECC? Unsaved small files could be mirrored in RAM several times.
[10:15:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:11] <exec> 08└─1. Potentially, training to do whatever it takes to get ahead, setting aside ethical concerns is a pretty good start for making a terrorist or a turncoat.
[10:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule Released - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:42] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin has rethought their marketing as to be more true. The capsule will now be called "Puke Capsule". The fastest ride your breakfast will ever make(tm).
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[10:16:43] <exec> 08└─Your food can't do that, Musk has a patent on that. :p
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[10:16:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly, once contact has been reached. The time is often too tight for anything to grow in any way that makes a difference. If there are any harmful bacteria, virus or parasites on the floor. It's already there or not at all. And people might get say poo or spit from public areas, walk home with it...
[10:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:28] <exec> 08└─Poor khallow! We will all miss him when the natural caused "earth circling the drain that is the sun" global warming toasts him, since he cannot git free of the goldurn tarbaby! Of course, if things do heat up enough, perhaps the tarbaby will soften, and allow khallow to get away! I just hope he d...
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[11:14:29] <exec> 08└─Where will I get my diapers, soap and wag now? WTF is wag anyway?
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com as Founder Runs Walmart's E-Commerce Operations - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─Wag.com: Buy Dog Food & Treats, Cat Food & Litter, Pets Medications from the title attribute of the not yet dead website
[11:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:42] <exec> 08└─More research to bump up human fertility. Like planet Earth isn't overpopulated as it is...
[11:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─Those who can afford those methods don't have too many children.
[11:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:46] <exec> 08└─If they haven't produced a full grown baby yet, it's impossible to know if the system is effective. One missed variable and the baby has birth defects.
[11:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:48] <exec> 08└─Does that book get irritable every month?
[11:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:04] <exec> 08└─Because Corsair just succeeded in putting a product onto the market place that enables easy and fast data ex-filtration. One could call it a DRAM with a vengeance ..
[11:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:06] <exec> 08└─Once you have gigabytes of RAM, non-ECC is a huge mistake.
[11:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:50] <exec> 08└─bearing in mind that the pilot who started all the shit was a young man named John McCain
[11:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:52] <exec> 08└─Is your superannuation pension fund run by an MBA?
[11:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:54] <exec> 08└─Where's that invisible hand at? Did it get drunk or something?
[11:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:56] <exec> 08└─Is your superannuation pension fund run by an MBA?
[11:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:58] <exec> 08└─(achhh... it should have been "it matters less if the decision is good or bad")
[11:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule Released - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:10] <exec> 08└─Sunny side up?
[11:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two More Fast & Furious Movies Coming - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:32] <exec> 08└─It was the 'sport driving' training in either F&F or 2F2F that got him into it, eventually leading to him buying an R34 skyline while Motorex was still importing them (similiar to his car in the movie. It later came out they had only crash tested the 96+ R33s, and were not in face retrofitting them...
[11:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rapping Teacher Turns Social Studies Lessons Into Songs - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:50] <exec> 08└─We need to teach minorities that social sciences, much like history, are written by the victors and in order to become victors they have to outbreed white people while also becoming high school and then college educated, before eventually climbing over the bloated bureacratic corpses of the crackers...
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[12:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:16] <exec> 08└─Even ECC done in hardware has a performance penalty. You might as well buy an old Xeon server with all the extra CPU cycles you are going to burn trying it.
[12:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:17] <exec> 08└─They're busy screeching about the Intel Management Engine.
[12:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:09] <exec> 08└─The editor just did a terrible job of presenting the article. In the original post linked, the 4th paragraph onwards talks about study of the 444 executives who appeared on the cover of Fortune and Forbes over a 38 year period. It then talks about a study of 5004 executives which shows the same corr...
[12:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:10] <exec> 08└─Of course you are probably an MBA, hence actual statistics mean nothing to you.
[12:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:12] <exec> 08└─But you need the right kind of engineer. Most engineers and technical people don't make great managers as they tend to focus on technical and more interesting tasks at the expense of critical management functions like team building, setting and communicating vision, establishing corporate culture, e...
[12:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:47] <exec> 08└─Can't use gasoline- ruins the taste.
[12:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:49] <exec> 08└─What's worse - it ruins it for life (grin)
[12:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:51] <exec> 08└─I think "Aprils Fools" or "Poission D'Avril" is a useful reminder that you should not believe everything you hear.
[12:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe the afterlife? Could this be the ultimate atonement for sin - offering *yourself* as a burnt offering! .
[12:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06April Fool's Day - Collect Your Best Tales Here - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:11] <exec> 08└─Ok... is this for real or did I get sick for nothing.... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06April Fool's Day - Collect Your Best Tales Here - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:13] <exec> 08└─Finally, a use for the "full-screen" button >_>
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[13:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:26] <exec> 08└─BBut... but... free trade... the invisible hands of the free market fairy, (no, silly, not Aphrodite of Milos)... globalization and raising people from poverty.... (shit... my profits!) (grin)
[13:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:27] <exec> 08└─Could this be the first hint from the current administration that the H1-B fraud scheme is over and that anyone involved with it better divest from it speedily before they themselves come to the attention of the justice system? Why hasn't these kind of prosecutions been more frequent previously? and...
[13:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com as Founder Runs Walmart's E-Commerce Operations - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:37] <exec> 08└─Even if it's Walmart, I'm glad to hear that *someone* is taking on Amazon head on.
[13:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com as Founder Runs Walmart's E-Commerce Operations - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:39] <exec> 08└─is taking on Amazon head on.
[13:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:53] <exec> 08└─A key problem here is that we don't have good modeling of the human body. We'll need that if we're ever going beyond null hypothesis significant testing. This is a big deal because a successful model no matter how crude of the female reproductive system is a piece of a far bigger and more important...
[13:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 5127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:05] <exec> 08└─I think you're oversimplifying this a bit too much. I'm not formally educated (college dropout), and having operated as both an engineer and as a manager (both here at SN, and in other places) I think gives me a fairly unique insight into the problem. In my role here at SN, I primarily operate as a...
[13:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 4222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:07] <exec> 08└─McCain just happened to be nearby. The real problem appears to be bombs in extremely poor condition. From the Wikipedia link that AC posted: The day before the accident (28 July), Forrestal was resupplied with ordnance from the ammunition ship USS Diamond Head. The load included sixteen 1000-lb AN/M...
[13:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:09] <exec> 08└─Is there a point to your post? You still have yet to say anything about the two studies over much larger sample sizes. And none of the studies are about analyzing risks from "known" factors.
[13:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:11] <exec> 08└─Employing mass violence to achieve a goal is a lot more likely if you feel no ethical duty to the random people you will hurt or kill.
[13:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:51] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the gods won't like the offering's gasoline aftertaste, but otherwise... why not?
[13:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:52] <exec> 08└─$50 will get you a couple watt "EPROM size" UV lamp for your tropical fish tank aquarium mounted in your box filter. There are also specifically ozone generating machines for $250 or so. The Chinese being who they are, I suspect some fraction of "UV aquarium lights" are just blue LEDs that do nothin...
[13:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:54] <exec> 08└─Somehow my preferences went to VT-220, that was the layout I hated. Had to wait until April 2 to fix it, I didn't know what was my doing and what was April fool's tomfoolery.
[13:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:56] <exec> 08└─Another method is hydrogen cyanide which can be had from ammonia. Efficient, but it's extremely toxic and more complicated to make and probably to be sure it's gone later.
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[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─Several perspective checks to be made First of all I wipe my floor more recently than I clean my utensils. For obvious reasons I wash a cutting board after use and then it sits and collects dust and some fingerprints for perhaps weeks depending on the luck of the draw. So yeah the center path of the...
[13:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun' - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the sciencedaily.com article, but from the bit quoted here it sounds as though Mr. Mann might be saying that there isn't enough knowledge to say that any particular weather event is due to global warming, but there is enough knowledge to say that global warming will cause a tendency to...
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[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─Because exploiting loopholes and/or breaking laws in a heavily regulated immigration market is all about the free market.
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:38] <exec> 08└─At first glance I was presuming this comment to be a stab at the "Enlightened" Tech Executive class including the likes of Zuckerburg, et al. who profess to love diversity and low-income, uncivilized (i.e. illiterate, unskilled - not "bad") people, yet would never think to live or work in a ghetto o...
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─Could this be the first hint from the current administration that the H1-B fraud scheme is over and that anyone involved with it better divest from it speedily before they themselves come to the attention of the justice system?
[14:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:43] <exec> 08└─When a people are being exploited, and those people band together to "protect" themselves, that is indeed "protectionism". In this case, the "executives" were exploiting the US citizens. Burn 'em at the stake.
[14:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Tests Robotic Ice Tools - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:38] <exec> 08└─"Temperatures can reach hundreds of degrees below freezing." Last time I checked, they could go as low as -273 degrees Celsius, or 0 degrees Kelvin... But, I admit, "hundreds of degrees" is a bit vague.
[14:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Tests Robotic Ice Tools - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:39] <exec> 08└─It's very cold on the moons the of outer planets.
[14:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:32] <exec> 08└─But a sample size of more than 5000 is. [soylentnews.org]
[14:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:33] <exec> 08└─Winterkorn, the ex-CEO, has a technical PhD and started his career as an engineer. Maybe and MBA would have been useful. Harvard Business school does require "Leadership and Corporate Accountability" nowadays.
[14:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:36] <exec> 08└─Watch the first few minutes of the video. There is a jet that guns it's engines, only moments before that first weapon leaves it's cradle, and lands on the deck. That wash of fire is what starts the whole thing going. And, McCain is sitting in that pilot's seat. There is a lot of truth in the articl...
[14:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stretchy Jell-O-like Silver - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe this material could make a good thermal paste that will maintain contact in spite of thermal cycling. Silver particles are already used for this purpose because of silver's good thermal conductivity.
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[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─The only commentary besides links was "it's time to stop it.". Stop the atmospheric loss? Stop trying to send humans there? Cause I've heard some of the ideas of how to protect the atmosphere and they sound so energy intensive that I don't think they're a very good idea.
[15:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─My virtual vagina is wet at the prospect.
[15:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─Hang 'em on screen during Superbowl halftime.
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─The divisions in the US are out of control. Please stop making death threats on here, we already have enough anger rolling around here without literal death threats. I'd be fine with some good jail time!
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com as Founder Runs Walmart's E-Commerce Operations - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Chewy.com can get you wag.
[15:15:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:23] <exec> 08└─Come on, don't you remember what you learned in high school? Red LEDs make your stuff go faster, blue ones shave off up to 5*C from operating temperature under load, and green ones decrease power consumption.
[15:16:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:07] <exec> 08└─There are two troubling aspects to having MBA-types as leaders. Obviously the plural of anecdote is not evidence, but these anecdotes I have seen: - Spreadsheets are not reality. People just will not behave the way that cell in your beautiful business model says they should. The answer isn't buildin...
[15:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:36] <exec> 08└─Watch the first few minutes of the video.
[15:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:02] <exec> 08└─My point is that 10 seconds capture from the air is sufficient to contaminate a sample. And can be provably and repeatably examined. The fermentation is to make it easier to see without a microscope - you could look 1 hour later to see with a microscope.... Dosage is important - most people probably...
[15:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:18] <exec> 08└─That probably won't happen, but if you threaten them you may regret it: Although house centipedes are not aggressive, and their jaws are not powerful enough to break human skin easily, they will sometimes bite in self-defense. Severe swelling and pain can result from the venom injected, but in most...
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[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? A legislation needs to be passed to make martian atmospheric loss illegal. We will most likely also need a War on Martian Atmospheric Loss. Write your congressman, folks, the time is ticking.
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com as Founder Runs Walmart's E-Commerce Operations - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─???
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:39] <exec> 08└─won't use your stupid slaveware, corsair. also, this is not 1990. if you're going to make some bloatware it needs to be cross platform and F/OSS. otherwise, you can shove it.
[16:16:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 2693 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:08] <exec> 08└─We're bad at picking leaders. Just look at the current POTUS. Yet there have been worse. The medieval monarchy method of passing leadership to the offspring of a good leader missed more than it hit. One huge problem was that the heirs' were often spoiled rotten by their upbringing in wealth and priv...
[16:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you. My first thought was "the sample size is too small to mean anything", this even though I thought there were reasonable grounds to believe the conclusions correct. N.B.: Even 5000 is really too small a sample, but there *aren't* that many CEOs, which poses a problem for a statistical study...
[16:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:45] <exec> 08└─So you missed the larger study mentioned in the article?
[16:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:47] <exec> 08└─Where's that invisible hand at? Did it get drunk or something?
[16:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:49] <exec> 08└─It's still drawing conclusions about the general case "MBAs", from 19 hand picked specific cases and calling it evidence. There was no attempt to follow up on the group of MBAs as a whole, no attempt to look at broader group, no attempt to examine causes of failure, no attempt to compare vs other bu...
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[16:17:32] <exec> 08└─what kind of @#$% sets a fire on accident then runs away without saving the animals. pitiful.
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[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─My understanding of this was that sputtering is like a cosmic bitchslap that tears away hair. Our core basically acts as its own magnetic shield to deflect most of the bombardment. It's going to turn the planet into something like Mars when the core cools I guess. But we'll probably have other thing...
[17:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:28] <exec> 08└─It is #FakeNews. I hate John McCain, do not think he is a much of a "hero" (suspect his prisoner nickname of "songbird" is probably apt) and his constant need for affirmation by his nominal foes and urge to betray his nominal allies is pure Stockholm Syndrome acquired as a result of surviving being...
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[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─The deal with this is the the bacteria that cause serious problems usually require time to replicate. If the food was safe prior to being dropped, it's unlikely to pick up anything particularly dangerous just by being dropped on the floor. Also, most bacteria are just not that dangerous, for every o...
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[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─Dogs are disgusting hell-beasts that are hardly a model for food safety. These are the same animals that are too stupid to know what is and isn't food.
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 1864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─Most of my food safety rules actually came from high school photography class, as weird as that seems. When developing prints -- obviously this predates digital photography -- you need to move a print through a series of three (or more) chemical baths. If you "cross-contaminate," you ruin your print...
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[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─There are too many assumptions being made. What says that you aren't dropping the food right onto a bacteria colony that's been replicating. It's not like all bacteria just sit there waiting for a piece of toast dropping on them before starting to replicate. I can kind of see the argument about dang...
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─So simply breathing for 10 seconds is enough to be contaminated, by that logic ? Seriously, if you get sick just by eating a fry dropped on the floor for 5 seconds, you should probably have been eliminated by natural selections years ago.
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[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─Hey! Thanks for the link -- story updated! community++
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[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:10] <exec> 08└─There can be no nuanced discussion of the effects of a shifting climate. We must only shout endlessly about the anthrocentric causes and nothing else. Delete this.
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been pounced on by a neurotoxic jellyfish?
[18:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:14] <exec> 08└─Melting oil profits would lead to cleaner and more stable environment :P
[18:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:16] <exec> 08└─The open passage will result in stuff getting dumped overboard intentionally and otherwise so it'll be interesting to see how that ratio works out. I wonder if it would become a useful fishery region.
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:18] <exec> 08└─I recently heard a recording[1] of Jim White, PhD from over a decade ago. The presentation is as informative now as it was prescient when it was initially delivered. One degree Celsius of atmospheric temperature rise equates [google.com] to 20 meters of sea level rise. (It's not a linear thing but i...
[18:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:30] <exec> 08└─Thus we shall not terraform Mars until there's a workable technology that can make sure the new atmosphere stays. Otherwise it would just be a giant waste that perhaps can't be attempted again. Perhaps in the future it will be possible to power giant wires around the planet with nuclear plants as a...
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─Stop the solar wind and radiation, of course. Switch off the sun, it's proven dangerous.
[18:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─This is clearly more evidence to support man made climate change/global warming. It's time to stop it.
[18:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:51] <exec> 08└─You going full enlibtenment now??
[18:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:52] <exec> 08└─Haven't that been the order of the day in the USA since it's inception?
[18:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:54] <exec> 08└─It's easy to be "good" when someone else is force feed the bill and violence. It's not the first time top of the society screws everyone else.
[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─Meh, tbh it does tend to give him credibility. What I can't stand are the posters here who obviously get their material from the Monday afternoon sermon of the Church of El Rushbo. (Or is it Father Hannity of the Breitbart Supplicants now?)
[18:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:45] <exec> 08└─I think a good way to defeat this is to put the memory in computer chassis not designed by blingy hipsters. wait no one would put this or any RGB lighting in a server. this will only allow for porn to get stolen from parents basements
[18:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's JPL Tests Robotic Ice Tools - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:54] <exec> 08└─I've got a bad feeling about this. Could be misinterpreted by the locals.
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks so much for your perspective on this. Just to be clear -- I wasn't claiming that my ideas explain ALL of the crap that happens with MBAs and CEOs, just noting a sometimes underappreciated issue in corporate structuring these days. Maybe it's my internal biases coming to the surface, but when...
[18:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 3876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─I think you are close to the truth here, that it is, at the root, a math problem with the publicly traded corporation model. You can have a negative net worth, a company can have a negative net worth, a corporation can't. If you buy a thousand shares of [evil corp] it doesn't matter what they do, yo...
[18:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─You should watch Marvel's Iron Fist - this is "The Hand" at work, sowing chaos in the corporate economy to give them more opportunity to grow, influence and control.
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[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─When you care about the metal being used, you use lost wax casting. 3D-print the object in wax, coat it with something to resist heat, pack it in fine sand, cook out the wax, pour in molten metal, let it harden, and then break it out of the mold. This is good enough for making hollow jet turbine bla...
[19:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:18] <exec> 08└─Yep. Most applications where porosity would be an issue would not tolerate using their special alloy.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─Jellyfish mostly just float around or slowly swim. I've never seen one even hop, let alone pounce.
[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:32] <exec> 08└─One degree Celsius of atmospheric temperature rise equates to 20 meters of sea level rise. (It's not a linear thing but it's a useful approximation.)
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[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─Just last month, folks over at NASA proposed [phys.org] a magnetic shield to be located at Sol/Mars L1. More discussion can be found here [stackexchange.com]. Solar energy could certainly power such a shield. Way back in 2008, scientists at Japan's NIFS looked at the feasibility of a terrestrial geo...
[19:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:31] <exec> 08└─First, I have noticed that the people who talk about overpopulation tend to be self-loathing types in the better areas of the world. With the exception of Mao's China, it's always white people, who are already a tiny sliver of the world's population. Hmmm. This is oddly self-destructive. I suppose i...
[19:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:33] <exec> 08└─This is an important step towards being able to decant children like decent civilized people rather than having to give birth to them like those weird Savages. Combine that with airborne birth control, and we'll be able to do away with such vulgar concepts as "family" and "parent". Next, of course,...
[19:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:06] <exec> 08└─ https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] At 3:30 the Zuni takes off. The narrator says, "There, somehow a Zuni rocket has been ignited" which is bullshit, because everyone knows how the rocket was ignited. Unfortunately, this is a public release version, and it fails to show the...
[19:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:08] <exec> 08└─I do not understand how it is that if an engineer does something wrong, perhaps due to overpromising, he is terminated. But if a different person, such as sales or marketing, deliberately lies and then tosses the promise to engineering, sales or marketing is rewarded for having closed a sale and it'...
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─If they used "responsive web design blue" I'd have stopped returning.
[19:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a UV LED in the toilet bowl could do the job of a chlorine tablet in the water tank without having to worry about chlorine degrading all the other parts in the tank.
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:43] <exec> 08└─And for chicken and turkey in particular
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[19:18:45] <exec> 08└─I remember a bio teacher going on about how he was at the school when the building opened and that trick didn't work so well but after decades of bio lab the colonies were much more interesting. This seems highly likely. In that way I'm kinda "eh" about insane grade antiseptics because most of whats...
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[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like inkjet printing all over again. How long before I can buy the printer for $12.99 but the metal is copyrighted and we legislate molecular DRM? (Digitally Restricted Metal)
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─Warming is energy. Energy they can thrive on, increasing their numbers. More numbers means more mutations. More mutations means evolution. They will harness the increased energy and come out of the water. They will come for your families.
[20:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:35] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been pounced on by a neurotoxic jellyfish?
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─Should we wake the Sheeple from their ten thousand year slumber?
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─Did Jim White, PhD ever explain why present sea level rise is two orders of magnitude shy of his predictions?
[20:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─obviously, there can be no delay. I mean, the equinox is right smack in the middle of spring because the longest day is the hottest day of the year, and the shortest day is the coldest day of the year. because all variables of all dynamical systems react instantly to changes in the other variables.
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─And will they be orange with small tentacles/tendrils, or will they be slimy and made of cardboard (and have a mate who runs onto the tarmac to meet with King Neptune)? Yeah, yeah... Off topic politics...
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─What kind of delay are we speaking of? Thousands of years? Forever?
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:48] <exec> 08└─It's called equilibrium. Similarly, turning the flame up on a pot of water doesn't instantly raise the temperature of the water appreciably. In a system the size of Earth, it's going to take centuries before the new equilibrium temperature is reached.
[20:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:50] <exec> 08└─I don't have money to bet, but my guess would be the following analogy: It's winter, and your bed is freezing cold, and you are a bit stupid and put all 10 of your blankets on top of your bed. You close the window, take off your clothes and crawl in your bed. The bed is freezing cold! The 10 blanket...
[20:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:52] <exec> 08└─Why do you expect scientists to waste time on your questions? They are busy, and it is all open source ... http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr [jussieu.fr]
[20:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:53] <exec> 08└─There will be an evolution of class. Money is the new fitness. Those with money will continue to divide up the world's resources for themselves, and resist the squalid poor with militaries, well-paid security guards, or robots.
[20:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:15] <exec> 08└─At work, the machines with ECC do catch errors. On the non-ECC machines, we've seen weirdness like corrupt *.h files causing compile fails. Sometimes the corruption is only in memory; the copy on disk is good. We've gotten rid of most of the non-ECC machines. New developers get 32 gigabytes of ECC m...
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[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─I think you're oversimplifying this a bit too much. I'm not formally educated (college dropout), and having operated as both an engineer and as a manager (both here at SN, and in other places) I think gives me a fairly unique insight into the problem. In my role here at SN, I primarily operate as a...
[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:15] <exec> 08└─Autistic man-child who lives in his parent's basement?
[20:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reporter Uses Toys to Reenact NCAA Basketball Clips - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:14] <exec> 08└─Hmm... Thanks for the input. Not sure if it's a useful data point, but mostly your response sounds as though such problems are not being widely reported, which makes me speculate that it might be "personalized" at some level. Then again, it seems that the readership of Solvent News is rather small,...
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[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─I use a number of computers and different OSes (as well as different browsers), but the problem affected all of them. I do see below an AC report of something that might be related, though it's hard for me to take ACs seriously. I wrote a longer reply to the other reply... For now I'll just keep col...
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[21:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─YouTube should be paying nearer the same kinds of royalties per spin as its subscription-based rivals do
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's what you don't want when you are out thinning and the blade of your shears just turns liquid. Even if it is just the edge, kinda defeats the whole purpose of having metal. So yes, they might be able to say they are actually printing metal, but it does seem like back in the day when thing...
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[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─Project much?
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[21:15:00] <exec> 08└─Think of the (future) Martian children! Stop atmospheric loss today!
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[22:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:07] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a perfectly fair and independent study ... ... financed by the RIAA.
[22:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:09] <exec> 08└─I would be shocked if I actually gave a damn. The music industry is overly greedy. Let's suppose that they start getting that $0.008 per track. What will that mean to users? Google will put up 8x the ads they already put up? Will Youtube go to a subscription model? More people will download and stor...
[22:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─Greedy nothing, they endorse legislation and technology that is invasive, grossly violates privacy, and amount to essentially censorship, all the while pushing copyright to lengths it was never intended to even approach. Frankly, fuck the RIAA. They're an active danger to innovation, freedom of spee...
[22:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:23] <exec> 08└─"I'm Buzz Lightyear! I'm always sure!"
[22:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human on Earth in One Year - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:14] <exec> 08└─Lucky for me I don't threaten bugs - I will capture and remove them from my home at worst.
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[23:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:03] <exec> 08└─Not only a rip-off, but defective...
[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─Expect a 25000% price increase to cover the recall.
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─If rationality played into this at any part they probably would have had better foresight instead of shotgun-litigating fucking IP addresses and instead pursued aforementioned policies in the first place. But now it's at the point where spite is just as valid an excuse to download as convenience. An...
[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─Will no one rid me of this turbulent mafiAA?
[23:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:56] <exec> 08└─Does it bleed for 3 days and not die?
[23:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food Dropped on the Floor Approved by Germ Scientists - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:09] <exec> 08└─If it hits the ground and the dog won't eat it, its not edible so don't eat it even if it doesn't hit the ground.
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