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[00:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 1174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:20] <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...
[00:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─Or just stop using the RIAA as a middleman and buy for $2 on Bandcamp or $hostingservice.
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─After getting fucked on CD prices from the mid 80's to the mid 00's, when I bought an average of 1-2 CDs a week, I really don't care anymore. I feel kinda bad when I download a new band's CD, but IMHO when I reload my Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden, etc, you know, the stuff I bought on...
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know Marc Ribot (ace guitarist) but his point of view might be worth a few minutes of your time -- just to make sure that you have read more than one side of this argument... Here are a couple of links to get you started: http://marcribot.com [marcribot.com] https://thetrichor...
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:31] <exec> 08└─I feel that the real reason the price is overblown is supply and demand. With a plentiful supply of essentially free music, the demand and consumption skyrockets. The fair market value of course would be nowhere near that amount if it had to be paid for at the rates used to calculate the billion dol...
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─I hope this is an attempt at humor? During the 3D printing process the metal (could be aluminum) is brought to high temp, near to the melting temp. If your scissors (shears) are cutting things at temp near to the melting point of the blades, perhaps you need to use scissors with ceramic blades or so...
[00:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:43] <exec> 08└─http://vadersystems.com/ [vadersystems.com] No Star Wars connection, Vader is actually the family name of this father/son company. Here is a newspaper article about them, http://buffalonews.com [buffalonews.com] The cla...
[00:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:09] <exec> 08└─In a system the size of Earth, it's going to take centuries before the new equilibrium temperature is reached.
[00:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:10] <exec> 08└─Why do you expect scientists to waste time on your questions?
[00:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:26] <exec> 08└─They've been studying earth's atmosphere since 1989 and they have fought the science establishment to disprove the sun has anything to do with ... well, anything. In this world of noble cause corruption: its the CO2 that is the culprit. Ignore direct measurements and opt for 'proxy' measurement. If...
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[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─Why not just make the entire planet a giant metal shell that holds the atmosphere and remaining gasses in as we slowly heat it up. Added benefit is the metal shell's conductive nature would help dissipate hotspots to keep the entire planet uniformly warm (or cold, I haven't done any calculations on...
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:54] <exec> 08└─So that's why Jews are always rubbing their hands together!
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[01:14:11] <exec> 08└─I still use DDR2.
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─Make it yourself: "Pharmaceutical Hacker" Releasing Plans for "Open-Source Drugs" [soylentnews.org] About one of the only things that group has done when I submitted that article was to create "open source" plans for a DIY $30 EpiPen injector.
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─Understood. But as an old fart I realize for every penny Mr Ribot makes the record company is making a dime. So sad, too bad, I feel for you Mr Ribot but, well, damn. Back in high school (70s) we all used to borrow each other's albums and record them ourselves. I felt back then I wished there was a...
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:39] <exec> 08└─Remember how YouTube has been facing a boycott [soylentnews.org] from advertisers? Perhaps a WSJ reporter lied to exacerbate it [soylentnews.org].
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─The big concerts with big names are kinda shitty. I've only been to two: System of a Down for a friends birthday, and Nine Inch Nails with a co-worker who won two tickets to the show. Don't get me wrong, the shows were great. The driving, waiting in line (in the hot sun for SoaD), and finding seats,...
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─Another good reminder to download your favorite covers, remixes and mashups before they disappear one day.
[01:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:57] <exec> 08└─Humor? Could be. You don't get it? There is probably an obvious rebuttal for that. But on the other hand, metallurgically speaking, printing molten metal may sound like fun, but it is difficult for several reasons. One is inertia. Metal above the melting point will not tend to immediately cool enoug...
[01:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:58] <exec> 08└─> Good luck trimming the hedgefund with your aluminum shears!! Wrong application, those are for trimming hedgehogs.
[01:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:26] <exec> 08└─Will still take a few hundred years for the full effect of the new "steady-state".
[01:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:44] <exec> 08└─Why not just make the entire planet a giant metal shell that holds the atmosphere and remaining gasses in as we slowly heat it up. Added benefit is the metal shell's conductive nature would help dissipate hotspots to keep the entire planet uniformly warm (or cold, I haven't done any calculations on...
[01:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:55] <exec> 08└─So you plan on using RGB RAM in a windowed PC case, in the same building you are going to use that Miele Professional PG 8528 Lab [miele-pro.com] washer you referenced? Because you should probably be fired for that. These products are aimed at PC gamers, not servers or professional workstations. Not...
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:11] <exec> 08└─POTUS was a choice between a crook and a carnival barker/con man.
[01:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Accidentally Burns Down Parents' House, Killing Cats, Dog, in Attempt to Exterminate Ants - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:58] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea. How would you attach it so that it could be easily removed for the toilet brush (and occasional plunger)? Or maybe it is always removed when the toilet is being used and is only inserted in "clean" water in the bowl? For example, it could hang down from the lid and be lifted out wh...
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[02:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:24] <exec> 08└─...Linus Torvalds. Steve Ballmer must be rolling over in his grave.
[02:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:33] <exec> 08└─I have some PC-100 collecting warm dust. (But yes, using DDR2 to post this.)
[02:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:35] <exec> 08└─The big thing to look for is whether RGBU (red-green-blue-ultraviolet) makes it into the new standard. Having to choose between RGB and ad hoc RGBU is no choice at all. If that situation persists in DDR5 it will mean a lost generation for computing.
[02:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:46] <exec> 08└─If they can jack up the price 100x, they can be held responsible if the device fails to work as advertised. I get it, you can't lock these greedy bastards up for price gouging. But surely you can lock them up for not providing the services promised, or some other lawyerly thing.
[02:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─I had to look, it didn't make a lot of sense that the drug doesn't work. It's the mechanism that is defective, not the drug. From Ed's (Charon's) link, "This recall is due to the potential that these devices may contain a defective part that may result in the devices’ failure to activate."
[02:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:10] <exec> 08└─...his [Marc Ribot's] point is that YouTube and other big tech companies are making plenty of money on "content" and due to the way various laws are constructed, the artists are prohibited from unionizing to protest as a group.
[02:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:11] <exec> 08└─That's a separate issue. An issue of fair use videos getting taken down by DMCA complaints with little recourse.
[02:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:13] <exec> 08└─Understood. I love live music, but hate getting ripped off. Concerts nowdays make me feel like I'm being ripped off. 2X amount of feeling ripped off defeats X feeling of loving the concert. The MBA's sucked the life out of concerts a good 10-15 years ago.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─LOL, yes. Mars's atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's. Without a "thermal blanket," Mars can't retain any heat energy. On average, the temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees F (minus 60 degrees C).
[02:39:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 2308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:56] <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...
[02:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:41] <exec> 08└─POTUS was a choice between a crook, a businessman and several other people.
[02:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:43] <exec> 08└─This much is true. I'm one of those "screw people, people are dumb, check out this shell script" types and wouldn't do well as a manager. But on the other hand the whole premise of this article is managers don't do too well as managers either, so...
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[03:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:26] <exec> 08└─Developers! Developers! Developers! -- Steve Ballmer
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─chairs - think of chairs ;-)
[03:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:29] <exec> 08└─640k oughtta be enough for anyone -- Steve Ballmer
[03:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:32] <exec> 08└─No, That was Gates - Ballmer can't use that meme
[03:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:42] <exec> 08└─The RGBU LEDs should be able to pulse fast enough to communicate across the room (with the CIA). Also, don't forget the Twitch integration.
[03:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─This certainly matters since it will have effects on enterprise. Personally, I think capacity/density matters more than speed for the home user. And the home user can see clear benefits from having lots of RAM. I'm using a 2 GB machine right now and wishing it had 4 or 8. If you get up to 32 GB or m...
[03:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:56] <exec> 08└─The filthy rich don't have to play by the same laws the rest of us do. Red Bull heir immune from murder charges... http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:21] <exec> 08└─Also, don't give any BS from the RIAA about those poor musicians getting cheated out of their hard-earned bucks. The RIAA doesn't give a damn about musicians, at all. They see all of them as simply resources to be exploited until they aren't worth anything anymore, whether we're talking about a no-n...
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:41] <exec> 08└─Ummm no... sounds like they falsified the demand, so they are being indicted for that not exploiting the loophole like all the other MNCs or large corps where they participate in pretending there is actually a need and work with head hunters.
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[04:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:21] <exec> 08└─Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever I doubt that. There is always a crappy remake out there. This will not be the last one.
[04:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03f4r [4515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:23] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Visuals and FX were awesome. Plot was absolutely terrible. Mostly lifts from the first movie, some parts frame-for-frame, with a bit taken from the individual eleven. Then it's all blended and poured into a mould of "It's all backstory and she's ma...
[04:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:25] <exec> 08└─Most disappointing live action movie reboot to date... You are correct, based on Hollywood's continued decline beyond mediocrity into just plain garbage, there will come something worse but it WILL take effort. This was such a good animated tale, and such a BAD movie. It made Godzilla look well craf...
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─I was going to wait for the reviews before even thinking about seeing this movie, so a bad official review paired with a few other personal opinions make this a total non-starter. I don't want my love for the originals to be tainted by hollyweak garbage. So many action scenes these days I don't care...
[04:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:39] <exec> 08└─Google really needs to show more followthrough on projects, instead of starting something, getting people on board and then canceling it. What's that you say... it's who that did this?
[04:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:41] <exec> 08└─You had me going there for a second. We like to whine about Google shutting down services, but I wonder which one out of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, etc. is the worst offender.
[04:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:43] <exec> 08└─M$ does it a lot too, maybe more. Here's a list of M$ cancelled (failed) projects for the few years preceding 2013 [techrights.org].
[04:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:56] <exec> 08└─I think "density" when it comes to memory modules refers to how much capacity is allowed in each module. DDR - 1GB DDR2 - 2GB --- not sure of the limits of the newer ones.
[04:37:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03patrick [3990] 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:15] <exec> 08└─YouTube should be paying nearer the same kinds of royalties per spin as its subscription-based rivals do
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:34] <exec> 08└─That much of the music on YouTube was not uploaded by fans, there are sleazy companies involved that are scamming the artists and taking home all the advert money.
[04:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:49] <exec> 08└─Good luck trimming the hedgefund with your aluminum shears!!
[04:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:18] <exec> 08└─So I have read a number of times about the Ocean becoming more acidic due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere. So with continuous increases in CO2 we have the continuous acidifying of the Ocean. The solution to polution is dilution so the melting sea ice should make up for some of that shift with mel...
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[04:38:20] <exec> 08└─My initial thought is that you aren't considering alternative factors, and Jim White probably did not specify or account for the full system. The excess heat in the atmosphere is being absorbed by all the glaciers and arctic ice. I haven't done the math myself but the 20m sea rise predictions seem p...
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[04:38:22] <exec> 08└─They have, it isn't their fault that a lot of uneducated fools (and greedy bastards deliberately casting doubt) are too ignorant / stubborn to understand. Some of the most basic facts are staring us in the face, the last decade has seen extreme weather patterns and record after record of "hottest ye...
[04:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:24] <exec> 08└─I said this point in another comment above but I'm late to this party soooo one more time! Most likely Jim White was referring to 1 degree change in equilibrium temperature and we are currently in the midst of that equilibrium change. Glaciers have retreated and sea ice isn't as pervasive, but we ha...
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[04:38:43] <exec> 08└─WTF with insightful? These are obvious joke comments, is this insightful cause it makes you climate deniers feel vindicated somehow?
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[04:38:44] <exec> 08└─I would have thought this was satire if I hadn't seen the author post highly questionable comments before.
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[04:42:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it seems like years of "bigger and faster" have bred the taste out of poultry just as surely as it did from tomatoes. Your tofu mention is a good one, I think, because tofu is also a largely tasteless protein that absorbs flavors like a sponge. Chicken does great both with big flavors and deli...
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[05:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:26] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with Scarjo being white. A beautiful white woman could play Motoko. The adaptation falls flat for being completely culturally unaware, and that means not understanding that the message of the original work was culturally specific. It wasn't racism, because the original animation...
[05:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:28] <exec> 08└─Addendum: I just tried to re-watch the trailers and: ready to laugh off rumors of cast white-washing, I left the theater aghast at how blatantly that issue figured in the final product.
[05:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:30] <exec> 08└─You are aware that a lesbian scene was in the original manga and censored out for American audiences [bleedingcool.com], right? Also, the Mamoru Oshii, director of the Japanese film [vulture.com] is okay with casting a white person, and the publisher never imagined a Japanese actress in the role [ko...
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[05:36:32] <exec> 08└─Agreed, I don't think "white washing" is primarily a race thing anyway. Most anime characters look white anyway. The cultural differences are bigger, and personally I just don't think Johannson was the actress they should have gone with. I'm still not sure how she got a reputation for kicking ass, I...
[05:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:34] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather see a Naruto remake (but not anime type) than this kind of crap coming out of Hollywood.
[05:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:36] <exec> 08└─I had no problem with the concept of a lesbian scene, and knowing there was one originally makes it fine. At first I thought it was being thrown in as some "contemporary culture" thing. As someone else commented it is a cultural problem. I don't care about the race part, I do care about the proper f...
[05:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:38] <exec> 08└─It's like a trailer trash version of the Mona Lisa put on display at the Museum of Fart.
[05:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:54] <exec> 08└─Facebook is the worst. It acquires companies with working products, shuts them down, and replaces them with nothing. At least the rest gave their closed acquisitions and canceled projects at least some semblance of actually trying to make them work.
[05:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:56] <exec> 08└─This Codeplex fiasco isn't the worst of it. Microsoft are about to end support for Windows Vista. Shameful! https://www.neowin.net [neowin.net]
[05:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:10] <exec> 08└─Seems to be 16 GB for DDR3 [wikipedia.org] and 64 GB for DDR4 [wikipedia.org]... but I think manufacturers have exceeded those limits for both DDR3 and DDR4 [thememoryguy.com]. I guess you could call that non-JEDEC standard.
[05:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:12] <exec> 08└─in other words, the number of address lines present in the DIMM slot
[05:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:25] <exec> 08└─Kid's dead, and lawyers are sharpening pens, either way...
[05:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:06] <exec> 08└─We need to talk about the new printer. It's just that it uses metal now and I'm putting you in charge of refilling the ingots. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. http://i.memecaptain.com [memecaptain.com]
[05:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:38] <exec> 08└─My initial thought is that you aren't considering alternative factors, and Jim White probably did not specify or account for the full system. The excess heat in the atmosphere is being absorbed by all the glaciers and arctic ice. I haven't done the math myself but the 20m sea rise predictions seem p...
[05:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:40] <exec> 08└─They have, it isn't their fault that a lot of uneducated fools (and greedy bastards deliberately casting doubt) are too ignorant / stubborn to understand.
[05:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted for H-1B Visa Fraud - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:21] <exec> 08└─As an Indian, I completely welcome this event. These kind of companies don't just harm USA, they harm India also. Not only they create an artificial barrier for the actually talented people by converting a skill based market into a money based market where a rich asshole, who is non-chalant about pa...
[05:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Shuts Down Diapers.com as Founder Runs Walmart's E-Commerce Operations - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─Death by snu snu, I suppose :/
[05:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book-Sized Device Can Replicate a Woman's Reproductive Cycle - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:54] <exec> 08└─The cervical tissue isn't HeLa cells, so it will probably die.
[05:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:37] <exec> 08└─Really? That's the connection? I suppose its good enough if you really want to say "terrorism".
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[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─Unless we act fast to kill the branding and lifestyle marketing before it starts, we'll lose our chance. Lobbyists will be well-funded by the pot industry, preventing any action. Australia's tobacco packaging (mandated font, colors, size, and vivid graphic warning pictures that vary) is making a hug...
[06:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:44] <exec> 08└─Many of the Japanese live action movies I've seen look like campy trash to me. Hollywood knows how to gloss up its trash, spray some Febreze on it, etc. That can end up being better or worse.
[06:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:45] <exec> 08└─I'll point out here that the Earth has heated up something like 0.8 C since 1850. In addition, sea level rise over that time has been around 12 cm. While a considerable portion of the warming has happened in the past half century, it's still a very small amount of warming for the claimed 20 meters p...
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[06:38:47] <exec> 08└─> The monitoring station in Hawaii has already detected this level. Yes, in 2013. https://scripps.ucsd.edu [ucsd.edu] Current readings are a little higher: Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 February 2017: 406.42 ppm February 2016: 404.04 ppm
[06:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:49] <exec> 08└─> After all, at least half the predicted temperature change has already happened. Whose prediction are you alluding to? Or are you referring to the goal of the Paris agreement? The IPCC attempts to predict through the end of this century under various scenarios; the graph of their predictions shows,...
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[07:36:47] <exec> 08└─Sad
[07:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:15] <exec> 08└─Slightly disappointed that mr. Vader didn't name his son "Luke"
[07:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:53] <exec> 08└─AR4 projections of sea level rise were almost certainly too low. They ignored glacial melting since it wasn't really known. The revised figures for AR5 were 26-82 cm. 2100 is not nearly long enough for the sea level to reach equilibrium even if we held greenhouse gasses steady, which we have no hope...
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[08:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:26] <exec> 08└─All so that their cops can brag [imdb.com]... I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do not wanna fuck with me. Check it out! ... Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase...
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[08:36:53] <exec> 08└─I've seen the original movies and serials, and I've watched enough Japanese and "American" Anime to see that the target audience is interested in different things. That's what has happened here. Hollywood made a Hollywood movie and everyone is surprised the movie has a different texture and feel to...
[08:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:11] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough I know Google does this and I know that they've done it on several occasions. But for some reason the only high profile shutdowns I remember were codesearch, google code and wave. I think in practice they aren't that bad because they go after things that don't have a large userbase. P...
[08:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:41] <exec> 08└─As I pointed out previously [soylentnews.org], the original EpiPen design dates from the 1970s and the design was FDA-approved in 1987. The patent for that version of the EpiPen should have expired in 2007 at the latest, leaving a generics manufacturer or other competitor able to develop an EpiPen u...
[08:37:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─After getting fucked on CD prices from the mid 80's to the mid 00's, when I bought an average of 1-2 CDs a week, I really don't care anymore. I feel kinda bad when I download a new band's CD, but IMHO when I reload my Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden, etc, you know, the stuff I bought on...
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[09:36:19] <exec> 08└─I thought QuickTime was dead.
[09:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:20] <exec> 08└─Installed it. Inserted an MP4. Pressed play on the preview. 10 seconds in it crashed with no useful error, and took out the entire program. Is video-processing really that difficult that we still get this in VLC, OpenShot, etc.? Even if the video file is damaged in some way (it's not), why aren't su...
[09:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:30] <exec> 08└─"Four...three...two...one...I am now authorized to use physical force." (ED-209 in Robocop)
[09:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:15] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Apple is almost as bad as Facebook, and Microsoft used to be good at it too (maybe they still do).
[09:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:17] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is only conditioning those of us who actually DO this stuff just how reliable "cloud" services are. Then businessmen wonder why many of us are so leery of depending on "the cloud". Funny thing about a lot of businessmen.... they are so gullible to a smile and handshake from some guy wearin...
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[09:40:21] <exec> 08└─That depends on how fast you read it. :-)
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[09:40:46] <exec> 08└─jim did you smoke before posting? nothing in tfa nor the AC's fa nor the comment chain, except for you, mentions DRAM vs. other RAM.
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[10:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:19] <exec> 08└─So putting them in the hold, where they can explode, catch fire, and become uncontrollable far easier out of sight. Yeay.
[10:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:21] <exec> 08└─TSA havnt had much 'We are saving your lives! fear the rampant terrorists!' media lately. So they thought they better stir the pot a bit, and what better way that something that really gets in peoples faces. Theatre should be emotive! People must feel how hard it is to protect them, so they dont get...
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[10:36:23] <exec> 08└─US intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that FBI testing shows can evade some commonly used airport security screening methods, CNN has learned.
[10:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:25] <exec> 08└─The TSA definitely knows about that cartoon. [tsa.gov]
[10:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:35] <exec> 08└─Commercial stuff like Sony Vegas is unstable trash too that can't even handle common codecs. The only video editor I've not hard crash in arbitrary ways yet is vdub (which is very limited in what it can do and windows-only) and kdenlive (linux-only). I prefer to do my video editing with avisynth scr...
[10:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:37] <exec> 08└─As for a decent video *player* on windows, the only real choice here is MPC-HC (combined with MadVR of ffdshow if more output options are desired). Used it for many years and never had it not play something or misbehave in other ways.
[10:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:39] <exec> 08└─Try shotcut or lightworks. Also an mp4 container doesn't really tell us anything about the codecs, we can guess the video codec is h264 long gop [pcmag.com] which isn't ideal for editing.
[10:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:54] <exec> 08└─Of course this now opens the door to multinationals taking control of the pot industry, introducing GMO strains, and driving the craft industry out of business.
[10:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:28] <exec> 08└─If DMCA is so bad you might just let it die. No? Thought so.
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[11:36:30] <exec> 08└─Be interested to see... how much "safer" is the hold anyway? If someone blows that up, what happens to the airplane? Apart from, what, millions of dollars of expense if it does happen, can't it be just as likely to bring down the plane? And how many times has that happened compared to in-cabin thing...
[11:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 2188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─The policies are just getting dumber and dumber. In the case of the 10 airports, passengers now have to check their laptops, tablets, etc. BUT, existing policies prohibited putting LiIon batteries into the hold and required that they be in carry on, including spare batteries for devices that support...
[11:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:33] <exec> 08└─We've seen one plane crash in recent years from a LiIon battery catching fire in the hold. The result: a ban on laptops in the hold. Now that's reversed because of 'ooo, terrorists!'. There are so many weak links in airport security that the only thing protecting us at the moment is that terrorists...
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[11:36:45] <exec> 08└─try it on linux? I never used it much but it wasnt that bad.
[11:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:03] <exec> 08└─Does that mean they can engineer it to not smell like freshly steamrolled skunk on a hot summer night? That would be great, because it's my one objection to the stuff.
[11:37:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 1892 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:23] <exec> 08└─I've seen the original movies and serials, and I've watched enough Japanese and "American" Anime to see that the target audience is interested in different things. That's what has happened here. Hollywood made a Hollywood movie and everyone is surprised the movie has a different texture and feel to...
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[11:39:55] <exec> 08└─So what happened to the old Martian atmosphere that was stripped away by the solar wind? Was it accelerated on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, or did it re-accrete in the asteroid belt or around Jupiter, such that we can recapture it and tow it back to Mars so it can have an atmosphere again? I do...
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[12:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:18] <exec> 08└─Subcritical? Requires neutrons to activate? Sounds like a thorium reactor. I don't see the word "thorium" in either article though. I wonder why that was excluded?
[12:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:20] <exec> 08└─"Fuel-agnostic" is another possibility…
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[12:36:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know about being dumber: it is a question of balancing risks. You may have missed this news report: http://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] The laptop used to carry the explosive device in that report went through X-ray screening. The explosion was no...
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[12:36:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm aware of the Somalia bomb, it was cited several times in the justification of the latest escalation in the security process after all, and I know how airport security works having deployed IT systems, including the security systems, during the construction of an airport terminal. My point...
[12:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─All we're missing is tryptophan-addicted genetically-engineered supersoldiers and the future predicted in the year 2000 [imdb.com] will have arrived. The Powers That Be (TM) should consider that in Dark Angel the country was struggling with political, economic and moral collapse. The "civil rights a...
[12:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:27] <exec> 08└─Not so much a reboot but a live action atrocity: Aeon Flux.
[12:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:29] <exec> 08└─Go see it for yourself, or don't. I feel that movie critics sometimes dig too deep and that the average moviegoer often just isn't as much into movies as they are and thus get the wrong impression from the review.
[12:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:50] <exec> 08└─But isn't Ballmer still... alive? Wait... holy shit I knew it! He's the walking dead!
[12:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:42] <exec> 08└─Even if we buy that, it still means that we should be seeing significant effect now rather than two orders of magnitude less. The last few decades should be enough to see a significant effect, not some convenient far future.
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[13:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:24] <exec> 08└─Let the comments about millennials commence! Here, let me start. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
[13:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:32] <exec> 08└─Subcritical is the fancy way of saying "can't sustain a chain reaction". 'Requires [externally sourced] neutrons to activate' just means it is subcritical. No need for it to be thoruim - it can simply be kept below critical mass (ie, neutron absorbtion and leakage is too high), unmoderated (will mak...
[13:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:49] <exec> 08└─If 300g of plastic explosive can take down a plane, do you really think that knee-jerks to device types used is in any way security rather than theatre? It's not at all unimaginable that 300g of something can be put in just about anything whatsoever. Even the jacket you wear through security.
[13:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:50] <exec> 08└─terrorists appear to be universally incompetent. Or there just aren't that many people willing to blow up planes, or kill people in western countries. Driving down a sidewalk is about as easy as it gets (1). In the US you can buy a few guns, walk down to a children's playground, or shopping mall, fi...
[13:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:52] <exec> 08└─Also, plane tickets are expensive.
[13:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:55] <exec> 08└─Trying to figure out how to do that with my sealed tablet, phone, and laptop.
[13:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:16] <exec> 08└─"What happened to all of those people?" *points to a pile of dead bodies* "It was a malfunction. We're deeply sorry for what happened." *life goes on, no one punished, it was just a malfunction and couldn't be helped*
[13:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:18] <exec> 08└─Military age males hanging out in a group is probable cause for death by drone.
[13:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:28] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it was in fact weed? I am guessing it was either laced with something that made you sick or it wasn't weed. If they were random people at a party or wherever and offered, it could be anything and they told you it was weed. Whats worse, if you were drinking before and smoked some laced c...
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─How about people use a vape and don't burn it? So much better and it doesn't stink up the place. No engineering or government/corporate meddling necessary.
[13:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:33] <exec> 08└─Great. Here comes big industry swooping in on profit opportunity and ready to carve up the market. What these steps are is nothing more than preparation for eventual commercialization of the weed industry. Next thing is we are buying generic "budweiser" strains at the corner grocery store. Fuck off....
[13:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:17] <exec> 08└─That's what you need for follow through. And be quicker to the loo next time.
[13:38:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 1362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:46] <exec> 08└─As I pointed out previously [soylentnews.org], the original EpiPen design dates from the 1970s and the design was FDA-approved in 1987. The patent for that version of the EpiPen should have expired in 2007 at the latest, leaving a generics manufacturer or other competitor able to develop an EpiPen u...
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[13:40:10] <exec> 08└─> After all, at least half the predicted temperature change has already happened.
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[14:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─The UNDP wasn't quoted by NOAA, so the two quotes shouldn't be nested. The Canadian Press is a wire service, so I didn't write its name in italics.
[14:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:42] <exec> 08└─A 1961 coloring book "helped launch" the current fad? Really?
[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─My wife gave me a colouring book for my birthday. The "Divorce and Breakup Coloring Book" by Kate Harper. Yes, it's real. I'm glad my wife has a healthy sense of humour.
[14:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:54] <exec> 08└─Probably on purpose. The industry would not want to have anything happen to their 25+ year contract to build custom fuel pellets for their reactors. Meanwhile the government doesn't want to upset armchair environmentalists over new reactors being built.
[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:14] <exec> 08└─Also, plane tickets are expensive.
[14:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─This is just a way for authorities to grab someone's laptop and search / copy the contents. They don't want another Snowden and its convenient for catching corporate thieves. Repeat after me: unconstitutional buulllshiiit, brought to you by the real terrorists.
[14:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─We should dress up some terrorists as TSA agents, with the idiots in power, that may actually lead to TSA's removal faster than anything else ...
[14:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Burz [6156] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:30] <exec> 08└─KDEn Live works great for me. I've been using it on Linux.
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─Of course this now opens the door to multinationals taking control of the pot industry, introducing GMO strains, and driving the craft industry out of business.
[14:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:56] <exec> 08└─Great. Here comes big industry swooping in on profit opportunity and ready to carve up the market. What these steps are is nothing more than preparation for eventual commercialization of the weed industry. Next thing is we are buying generic "budweiser" strains at the corner grocery store. Fuck off.
[14:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─Competition for that title will be hard, since 120 more reboot movies are on the way [denofgeek.com].
[14:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:45] <exec> 08└─The difference is, looking at that list, it's pretty unlikely anyone would miss them. In contrast, Google cancels things that people actually like, because they can't work out how to put enough adverts on them to make them profitable.
[14:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─Why no competitor? Small, limited market, and Mylan may implicitly threaten to price any new competitor out so it's not terribly tempting for new comers to come in.
[14:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:42] <exec> 08└─Oh piss off. Yes, more CO2 technically means more food for plants. Warmer temps mean previously too chilly areas may become agriculturely-friendly. Less sea ice means new fishing, oil, and gas grounds. Will any of those out weigh the droughts, the floodings, and greater than average storms? The loss...
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[15:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:38] <exec> 08└─Here, the "acidified waters" of the article refer to water in which aragonite, a more soluble form of CaCO3 than calcite, will dissolve. From the abstract: The Arctic Ocean is particularly sensitive to climate change and aragonite is expected to become undersaturated (Ωarag < 1) there sooner than i...
[15:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─everything paid for by tax payers monies and then pay-walled off the bat is a lie. maybe i should find a (short-lived) job in the CO2-free nuclear industry so i have MONEY to BUY this information and feel vindicated?
[15:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:41] <exec> 08└─Good point. This is about seawater with a lower pH than what's typical but (perhaps with some exceptions) it isn't what we'd call acidic. It's still alkaline (pH > 7), but less alkaline than it was. As another article puts it: The ocean, thankfully, is not anywhere near acidic. Chemically, it remai...
[15:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:43] <exec> 08└─I really appreciate this article. I ask about the melting of sea ice and how it will dilute the ocean acidification and you provided. Thank you very much. I am at work and have not rtfa'd yet but it looks like if they are detecting changes in the arctic already it would seem to me that the acidifica...
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─I was expecting a bit more tits and ass in the adult coloring books. Very disappointing ...
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:56] <exec> 08└─"Adult Lifestyle Community" does not mean what you may think either. Colour me disappointed.
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─I'm glad my now estranged wife has a healthy sense of humour.
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─Oh-kay - millenials blah blah blah. I think coloring books are a little silly, but there was a time in my young adult life when someone bought me a paint-by-number set. Then she bought me another. They were kind of relaxing, so I'd smear some paint around in the evenings now and then just to make he...
[15:37:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:10] <exec> 08└─Subcritical is the fancy way of saying "can't sustain a chain reaction". 'Requires [externally sourced] neutrons to activate' just means it is subcritical. No need for it to be thoruim - it can simply be kept below critical mass (ie, neutron absorbtion and leakage is too high), unmoderated (will mak...
[15:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:14] <exec> 08└─wow. there's soo much wrong with this. first off the "arm-chair" MIT scientists should get off their butts and go dig out the freaking uranium or thorium themselves instead of relying on sub-human work force in some red-mud village in africa, got it? the "remote village" which will profit from this...
[15:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─I am not sure what came to your mind when you hear "remote village" but to me I thought "north slope drilling operations" , "native alaskan villages" , and "remote mining operations" . A small scale nuke reactor would replace the baseline need for coal and diesel generators when working on commercia...
[15:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─I have never believed the printer bomb story. The UK authorities couldn't find the bombs when they searched the packages? It doesn't pass the sniff test. I think that the whole thing was something like a false flag operation. The explosives were only "discovered" after further involvement from the U...
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:40] <exec> 08└─The result: a ban on laptops in the hold
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Be interested to see... how much "safer" is the hold anyway?
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─This is just a way for authorities to grab someone's laptop and search / copy the contents
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─so now, not only has development for linux been slowed because of windows using slaves but when you want to read about openshot you have to trudge through hordes of windows using idiots whining about shit that might not even be relevant to real people.
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─said just before opening fire on an unarmed man [imdb.com] :)
[15:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:12] <exec> 08└─Is that better or worse than Oracle acquiring Sun and 75% of the important people quitting?
[15:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:43] <exec> 08└─I don’t think it’s such a small, limited market given the billions of dollars Mylan makes every year from EpiPen sales. They have a 95% share of the market of around 3.6 million Americans (around 1% of the total population) who have been prescribed epinephrine autoinjectors, which translates to...
[15:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reinventing Metal 3-D Printing With New Direct Writing Process - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:28] <exec> 08└─"heated until it reaches a semi-solid state" Is this the glass transition [wikipedia.org] temperature that they exploit? The material is Bi75Sn25 extruded at circa 190 ⁰C with a force of 100 Pa (reservation for errors). Anyway it kind of seems like an inverse Newtonian fluid. So do metals in gener...
[15:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:11] <exec> 08└─What's the latency time before this 400 ppm => one Celsius => 20 meter sets in?
[15:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:13] <exec> 08└─Currently we've seen around a 30% increase in CO2 since the industrial revolution began, with most of that having been added in the last handful of decades. Meanwhile it will take centuries for the planet to reach a new equilibrium state, so most of the warming we're currently seeing is due do the C...
[15:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:36] <exec> 08└─It's probably gone for good. The Solar Wind would push it out to the heliopause [wikipedia.org]. At that point, it becomes part of the trail of gas that the Sun leaves behind it as it travels through the galaxy.
[15:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:37] <exec> 08└─I think the capabilities will come when extraterrestrial/asteroid mining takes off and nuclear energy takes another leap. I suspect the main benefit from mining outside earth will be the enabling of gigantic projects outside earth.
[15:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAVEN Results Find Solar Wind and Radiation Responsible for Stripping the Martian Atmosphere - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:39] <exec> 08└─Oops.. didn't think of that :-)
[15:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Corsair Launches Vengeance DRAM Modules with Dynamic RGB Lighting - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:00] <exec> 08└─Light transmission can be fixed with system management code, BIOS etc. And no one knows what all these integrated chips really do anyway.
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[16:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:37] <exec> 08└─This isn't evading the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The journal has a decent Editor's Summary for this paper: Many quantum systems that are currently used to enhance metrological precision obey the regular Heisenberg uncertainty relations that apply to conjugate variables such as position and m...
[16:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:38] <exec> 08└─At last! We're inventing Heisenberg compensators!
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:50] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine#History [wikipedia.org] Here's health to the Pope, may he live to repent And add just six months to the term of his Lent And tell all his vassals from Rome to the Poles, There's nothing like pilchards for saving their souls!
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─This suggests the ocean's pH is buffered. As you might remember from chemistry, diluting a buffer will not change the equilibrium of the components.
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─between the 1990s and 2010
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─Really dumb generalization you've got there. I don't like tax payer funded research being paywalled, but it doesn't mean it is a lie. If it was a lie I would expect the paper to be free so it could sway public opinion with its dubious research. We already know that blatant lies and shoddy research m...
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:10] <exec> 08└─I would imagine there's a photoshop filter to turn rando pr0n on the internet into coloring sheets. I donno about the dutch masters (although I did day trip some distance to see actual pix like 10-20 years ago and they are super cool) but the Monet/Impressionist book came out last spring and my wife...
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─I would imagine there's a photoshop filter to turn rando pr0n on the internet into coloring sheets.
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─VLM [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: I will confess if they had "classic 1960/70s minicomputers from DEC/HP/IBM" I'd probably buy it and join right in.
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─I can remember when I was about 10, my parents (I'm 57) having a Hospital Colouring book that had pages like "Here's your evening meal. Colour it grey" and "Here's the doctors' parking lot. They are all Cadillacs. Colour them black", etc. Dave.
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─She was always strange - that's why they got along as well as they did.
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:31] <exec> 08└─So MIT thinks they can rules-lawyer around regulation. Is that a good thing? Regulations are created for a reason. Imagine the article instead said: Since the toxic waste has no special color, the researchers believe they could avoid building a waste treatment plant prior to dumping it into the riv...
[16:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:59] <exec> 08└─The device goes in the hold, batteries and all, apparently. Hence the problem with the conflict with the LiIon battery rule. I do hope everyone who was using their device prior to checking-in remembers to turn it off properly, rather than putting it into standby or even just turning the display off,...
[16:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─From now on before you enter an airplane, you have to hug and pet this [ytimg.com] little guy. Following that you can have a laptop, water, and even keep your shoes on during processing! Thanks Wilbur!
[16:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:02] <exec> 08└─Customs can only grab your devices when you come into the country (yes I know and am momentarily ignoring the "100 mile from border" thing). This latest BS is to let the TSA seize stuff when it is leaving the country, or even just heading over to the next state for vacation.
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenShot 2.3 Released on March 31st - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─Horde of comments = single digit number of comments. Sad!
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:31] <exec> 08└─We all know the security of these Internet-of-Things (-of-death) will be very secure and not have any p0wn1ng.
[16:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03remoteshell [3182] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:47] <exec> 08└─Although this is tangential to the OP, I'd like to see weaker "3.2" immature bud mixes. For those of us who started this in the 70s and used pot a few times a year thereafter, weaker pot would be nice. And tangential points are germane in the context of cannabis. Emojis delenda est
[16:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─The original movie is still out there and (with version 2.0) still perfectly watchable. I seriously think this is a case of "they changed it, now I hate it" while I'm certain that "it's the same, now I hate it" would just as equally have happened.
[16:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:37] <exec> 08└─Ie using someone elses machine and pretending you have control .. *oops* *no carrier* ;-)
[16:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─If they increase the minimum DRAM prefetch to 16n. Then there will be a lot of transfer waits before you can reach a specific position. This will most likely wreck memory accesses that are really random (like synthesis of configurable gate arrays). Higher speeds with lower voltage will lower the sig...
[16:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:37] <exec> 08└─A recent study by my Phony Center in Washingbribe shows that IFPI together with racketeering and colluding RIAA owes me just about everything and little bit more including all executive houses, bank accounts, virgins and the dog. Pay no later than next Friday to avoid French guillotine at the square...
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[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─And saving cats!!!
[17:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:33] <exec> 08└─At last! We're inventing Heisenberg compensators!
[17:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:36] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to mix this with Heisenberg's microscope and the traditional SN car analogy with only partial success. Something like if you shove a car tire with a given amount of force it'll all randomly bounce about. It seems that over a long enough time period and a hard enough shove its impossible t...
[17:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─Let me introduce you to a wonderful (illegal) thing called sci hub [sci-hub.cc]. You copy the DOI string("10.1038/nclimate3228" in this case) for the article that's paywalled, paste in into their search engine, and a pirated copy is almost always available. I feel a little guilty for ripping off the...
[17:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:54] <exec> 08└─*) At what pH will fish in the big oceans of the Pacific and Atlantic substantially diminish as a source for food? and when is it projected to get to that level? *) At what pH will the seas be saturated as to not absorbing any significant amount of CO2? and any projection on when that happens?
[17:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 2487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like they are melding together multiple datasets in some byzantine way (but it is impossible that any errors from this can affect their conclusions): CHINARE 2008 and 2010, we included Arctic Ocean Section 1994 (AOS 1994), Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean 1998 (SHEBA1998), and Beringia...
[17:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─Probably not collected. Remember, those were the years when King Harper ruled Canada. Anything that had to do with the environment or global warming was cut and shredded. And now, it's the US' turn.
[17:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:30] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if you're a LaTeX user, but some of your lines are a bit wide for that. Most of my text editors are set at 100 columns even though I understand some people will get irritated at anything over 70 columns. Here's a random idea. Do we need a pseudo-LaTeX mode that collapses single newline...
[17:37:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─TSA havnt had much 'We are saving your lives! fear the rampant terrorists!' media lately. So they thought they better stir the pot a bit, and what better way that something that really gets in peoples faces. Theatre should be emotive! People must feel how hard it is to protect them, so they dont get...
[17:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─Those tend to be more expensive!
[17:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─There's one report of a laptop bomb in Namibia, in 2010 too,"Namibia parcel 'bomb' a laptop [news24.com]". So now we are here with new cumbersome security rules for the feel-safe-procedure. Better start some scanning that will check the molecular structure or at least 3D-density of baggage.
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting, like a tribble?
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─The TSA causes fear and terror across a large swathe of the world, far more than ISIS could ever hope to do so.
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─That is false. They have been banned as cargo on passenger flights - in other words no shipping a pallet of batteries. Correct, sending your laptop/ipad/camera in checked baggage is fine. However loose li-ion batteries have been banned in the hold for quite some time.
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:12] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps we'll find a federal judge to overrule Trump's laptop ban.
[17:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─Such a measure would anger the pro-Israel lobby [wikipedia.org].
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it was in fact weed? I am guessing it was either laced with something that made you sick or it wasn't weed. If they were random people at a party or wherever and offered, it could be anything and they told you it was weed. Whats worse, if you were drinking before and smoked some laced c...
[17:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:59] <exec> 08└─Have you a good dealer? Because you could ask for low-THC strains. There are a lot of seriously fire strains and hybrids going around, sour diesel, kushes, gorilla glue, etc. Those can really knock you out. I am currently smoking Tangie: https://www.leafly.com [leafly.com]. A little bi...
[17:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:23] <exec> 08└─> run afoul of antitrust law as a result Quake in your boots! A couple blue state AGs may start hinting at a decades-long process which might potentially result in a minor slap on the wrist!
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[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─"Quantum computing will enable people to tackle a whole new set of problems that were previously unsolvable,"
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─> Rigetti Computing If you rig it wrong, it will be rickety, which doesn't matter since the whole thing was rigged...
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─I understand that the precise truth is reserved for those who can read the symbols of that foreign language called "math", and the English version is necessarily watered down. to measure [a particle's] position you have to disturb its momentum by hitting it with another particle and observing how t...
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:29] <exec> 08└─A couple thoughts: This is kind of neat and fits right in with every other example of humorous take-downs of corporate culture. In general, I don't see why people get down on "Adult" coloring books. It can be a very meditative and centring activity, much like playing an instrument or some some such...
[18:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ, apparently I can't even comprehend the summary of TFA. Yay for reprints!
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:45] <exec> 08└─"keep at 99% of critical" seems risky if it makes them think they don't need control measures. everything has error bars What if something changes in the configuration and it gains 2%? I'd be more happy with 80+-5%, or moving to someplace less populated, even if it is a blue state. So, if you have a...
[18:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:23] <exec> 08└─Those tend to be more expensive!
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:25] <exec> 08└─Dress up the terrorists as the TSA. Dress up the TSA as terrorists (to test the TSA's abilities to find terrorists). TSA now dressed as TSA. All TSA agents are now marked as terrorists. If you avoid infinite recursion, it just might work!
[18:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─You can join the US Army at 42 without a waiver : )
[18:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking it couldn't possibly be worse than The Last Airbender.
[18:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:39] <exec> 08└─Being a monopoly is not a criminal offense, collusion/market power abuse is.
[18:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:09] <exec> 08└─The music industry is overly greedy. What industry, or rich person, isn't?
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[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─Is there going to be a link to a white paper, written by a scientist, even if a citizen scientist, which argues for this interpretation? Here are some of the "neighborhood clearing" criteria in use, which one of them is violated, and by how much? https://en.wikipedia.org
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to believe that astronomers are the social "science" of space exploration.
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─I've seen pictures of Pluto; it's a planet. There. Settled.
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:33] <exec> 08└─I'd like a stricter definition of planet that says something about having an atmosphere. (Oh, and containing the barycenter of its local orbital group of objects; something orbiting that barycenter but not containing it is a moon, or if nothing contains the barycenter you might have a "double planet...
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─No, it's a dog.
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:37] <exec> 08└─There is the one criteria that Pluto will never satisfy: having a planet-like orbit (in the ecliptic plane, not crossing other bodies' orbits, etc)
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─I'll accept Pluto as a "planet" when we require that schoolkids memorize the names of all 110+ plus "planets" in this system. Otherwise, you need some kind of cut-off to distinguish the important planets from the less-important ones. As for Pluto, you shouldn't call it a planet without also mentioni...
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─Nah. This is just what they do in their free time.
[19:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─Really fucking stupid. IAU is trying hard to make itself irrelevant. Maybe they're so bored now that they're tackling minutiae. I'm going back to calling Pluto a planet and when some smartass points out that its no longer considered a planet I will ask them about Earth and then reference this stupid...
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:46] <exec> 08└─If thiat is the case, then Jupiter isn't a planet either. There are trojan asteroids sharing its orbit. As for the outrage, given the options between dropping Pluto or finding ourselves in a sea of hundreds of planets... well, sorry little fella. Doesn't mean I don't think you're awesome. It wasn't...
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─NASA still believes Pluto is a planet. Along with the moon. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] As the pope says ... who am I to judge?
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Heck, forget Earth - Jupiter hasn't cleared it's orbit either, though I suppose the Lagrange Points get special consideration.
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─It's Haumea [wikipedia.org], you insensitive planet killer! And how the hell are you supposed to pronounce "Quaoar" anyway?
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─One would hope that Quantum encryption devices would arrive before quantum decryption technology arrives in three letter agencies, but nobody believes that will happen. Just as the government dropped the encryption-as-munition regulations, you can expect to see all the objections to consumer encrypt...
[19:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:05] <exec> 08└─"Quantum computing will enable us alphabet soups to tackle a whole new set of problematic plebs that previously had hidden exchange of thoughts," said Useful I-iot, founder and chief executive officer of Front Computing. "This is the next generation of advanced peeping technology. The potential to m...
[19:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─Central to the limits of quantum mechanics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that it is not possible to know a particle's position and momentum with absolute accuracy, and the more precisely you measure one quantity, the less you know about the other. This is because to measure i...
[19:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─So does this new research indicate that math is wrong? BTW it is certainly convenient that the universe seems to be well described by math in many situations, but as far as I know the universe is under no obligation to obey someone's often flawed or incomplete formulas. Math says 1 + 1 = 2 but reali...
[19:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Until, with progressive dilution, it does change - a lot, and very rapidly. Half-truth bullshitters should stay out of public.
[19:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:02] <exec> 08└─This is an example of the bullcrap expansion of copyright law to extremes that were never meant or envisioned. They make a few insignificant changes to a 56 year old book, and get to slap a fresh copyright notice on the reprints. Its copyright ought to be expired by now, as it's been over 50 years s...
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:04] <exec> 08└─Does "estranged" mean the same thing as "disposed of"? Asking for a friend.
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─Not a direct answer, but you reminded me of a pet peeve: Hollywood nuclear scientist: "The reactor is reaching critical! OMGOMGWTFBBQ!!!11!! [ominous music, Red Countdown Clock set to Hero Saving The Day]" Realistic nuclear engineer: "The reactor is reaching critical state, pumps working, backup pum...
[19:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:00] <exec> 08└─Two more things about that: - Your small bomb won't do any structural damage if it's tightly packed in a metal container between giant suitcases of various density materials, which is more likely to happen than not. - Your bomb won't make it to the hold in a working state anyway, as the baggage hand...
[19:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─No, there are smoke detectors. Personally, I'd be far more concerned with sticky-fingered screeners and baggage handlers.
[19:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─Terrorists are actually financing Razer and Alienware, because those darn super-slim Dell and Apple laptops are a pain to stuff enough explosives in...
[19:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:06] <exec> 08└─I remember years ago being required to power on a laptop in order to bring it aboard. Or course, now you could have a something like a Raspberry Pi Zero W (£9.60) built into the screen and room for several pounds of your favorite demolition tools in the body packaged in disk drive cases (to fool th...
[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:08] <exec> 08└─When you show us a bottle of liquid, we can’t tell if it’s a sports drink or liquid explosives without doing a time consuming test on it. We’re developing the proper technology to allow us to expedite the screening of all liquids, but in the meantime, to screen everybody’s various types of l...
[19:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:10] <exec> 08└─Power on to desktop and a mandatory swab with that explosive residue kit they have, perhaps?
[19:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─During his nomination speech Thursday, Trump also called the Transportation Security Administration a "total disaster" and vowed to "fix TSA."
[19:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:43] <exec> 08└─Sadly, it will take the mass casualties of the first hack from Daesh or North Korea to make people realize it's a terrible idea, at which point proper lobbying will already be in place to prevent walking back to sanity. Last time I checked, Terminator wasn't anymore a manual than 1984...
[19:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:44] <exec> 08└─Terminator style robotics can already be designed. The question is just when it will be abused for the first time.
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDR5 Standard to be Finalized by JEDEC in 2018 - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:10] <exec> 08└─Moving up to those newer processors saddles you with a ton of DRM, not a huge deal for the regular users, but if you don't REALLY REALLY need the extra CPU horsepower, or the power savings, why not stick with your older hardware, that you are PRETTY SURE can't be remotely accessed without OS level e...
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Claims That YouTube Avoids $1 Billion in Music Royalties Using DMCA Safe Harbor - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:59] <exec> 08└─This used to be a lot better with sound: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] e.g. https://vimeo.com [vimeo.com]
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[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─even if a citizen scientist
[20:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─[...] Here's what all of us non-scientists intuitively understood all along: "A planet is defined as an astronomical body that "has not undergone nuclear fusion, and having sufficient self-gravitation to assume a spheroidal shape" — in other words, it's round and not on fire.
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─An atmosphere is a rather arbitrary requirement, even worse than clearing it's orbit. Especially since practically every significant body in the solar system, even the Moon, has at least a trace atmosphere. What possible not-completely-arbitrary conditions could you use as the threshold? I mean if y...
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─Apparently the author doesn't know. As he himself says in TFA: I’m not qualified to define what ‘clearing the orbital neighborhood’ means, nor define the importance of the location of the barycenter of two bodies one orbiting the other. I only understand what most school children do, that a p...
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─it's round and not on fire
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:01] <exec> 08└─>between dropping Pluto or finding ourselves in a sea of hundreds of planets I fail to find an issue with the idea that there are hundreds of "planets". 8 of them are special because of their locations. That doesn't mean nothing else can be a planet, or that you have to remember all of the names bey...
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <exec> 08└─Not a criteria to be a planet. Not even in the various proposed criteria at the infamous IAU meeting that caused the kerfuffle. At the end of the day "planet" will be defined by common usage, not by any sub-group of scientists.
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─they can then also define the precise number of sides/corners a regular polygon is required to have in order to be considered a circle.
[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously? You're trotting out a "Think of the children" argument??
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
[20:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─This thing is a quasi-satelite that has a 1:1 solar orbit with the earth. There's no more need to clear your orbit of quasi-satelites than there is to clear your orbit of satellites. c.f hundreds of thousands of Trojans roughly orbitting Jupiter's lagrange points. Is Trump now bribing NASA bods to w...
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:14] <exec> 08└─No, he's a god. God of the underworld! Dwarf planets and Disney characters are posers.
[20:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:16] <exec> 08└─Pluto is (disambiguation) [wikipedia.org]: (mythology) another name for Hades a fictional cat in "The Black Cat" (1843) (Marvel Comics), an interpretation of the Greco-Roman god used in Marvel Comics HMS Pluto, a number of ships of the Royal Navy Pluto (New Zealand band) Pluto, West Virginia, United...
[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─Mike Brown got his five minutes of fame. We can now redefine what a planet is in a sensible way.
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─Use some reasonable definition to be applied to new discoveries, with astronomical objects known as planets prior to September 8, 1966 being whitelisted as planets, as part of the definition. Is that a hack to fix the definition?
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─Pluto is in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune. Does that make it a quasi-satellite? Is 1.5 really so different from 1.0? Another reason to demote Pluto!
[20:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─School children, please name the nine planets and their capitols.
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─Astronomy has become a branch of lexicology.
[20:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─Pluto is geologically active with a dynamic surface; not just your regular icy piece of rock.
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─"I'd like a stricter definition of planet that says something about having an atmosphere" That's kind of arbitrary given the conditions for having an atmosphere depend on gravity, temperature, magnetic field, how active the solar wind is, etc. Move earth to Mercuries position and cool off the rotati...
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─A dog and a god are almost the same. The difference is just from which side you are looking. ;-)
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─From the article: "This is the next generation of advanced computing technology. The potential to make a positive impact on humanity is enormous." Maybe -- but what of possible negative impacts?
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─You are correct withing the context of wave mechanics, and in fact you can derive classical uncertainty relationships using that approach. You can also get there from matrix mechanics using creation and annihilation operators. In fact, the hitting of particles by photons is the basis of Heisenberg's...
[20:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─So does this new research indicate that math is wrong?
[20:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:04] <exec> 08└─Not just that: > This is because to measure its position you have to disturb its momentum by hitting it with another particle and observing how the momentum of this second particle changes. HUP applies where it applies for purely mathematical rules of definition, not *because* measurement disturbs t...
[20:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:26] <exec> 08└─Sure, you're diluting the buffering capacity.
[20:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─n/t
[20:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:51] <exec> 08└─"Adult coloring books." Yet another reason to bring back the draft. "PUT DOWN YOUR COLORING BOOKS, you unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit!!!"
[20:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, Hahaha. Yes. I used to think my wife had a healthy sense of humor. That was before she graduated law school, became a divorce lawyer, then divorced me, sticking me with half of her eleven-years-worth of student loans, to the tune of $120,000 (with interest) as well as $40,000 of credit card debt...
[20:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:43] <exec> 08└─The raw plant itself smells like skunk to a greater or lesser degree depending on strain. No combustion needed.
[20:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:45] <exec> 08└─I don't care what you do with the packaging, as long as I can be sure who grew it. I need it for a health problem. Cannabis gave me my life back.
[20:40:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:56] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with Scarjo being white. A beautiful white woman could play Motoko. The adaptation falls flat for being completely culturally unaware, and that means not understanding that the message of the original work was culturally specific. It wasn't racism, because the original animation...
[20:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:37] <exec> 08└─Cisco buys up stuff to kill competition. They acquired Linksys cuz folks could by a low-price linksys router, install open source firmware and get equivalent features of the high-priced Cisco products. IIRC, after they acquired Linksys, they crippled various products so folk could not customize the...
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[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─I'm glad it's April 3rd. This is certainly a start on the road back to Mayberry. Treating people with compassion and empathy, plus engaging in communication is the way to heal the relationship between the police and the community. Previously it had been cops running around like scared pussies gunnin...
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:27] <exec> 08└─But wheeeere's the personal responsibility? You are just encouraging the criminals.
[21:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ollonk [5490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for submitting something positive. It's nice to see something about government that isn't divisive or sad.
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:32] <exec> 08└─"Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey." - Robert Anton Wilson
[21:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:34] <exec> 08└─When I read this, I thought to myself: Those who depend on a violently imposed monopoly must hope and pray for a Dear Leader who is benevolent. The solutions put in place here will be as transient as the police chief; it would be better to implement the "policing" service with competing service prov...
[21:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:36] <exec> 08└─As a NJ native, it would be good to see Camden be something other than a war-zone. Of course, it's been regarded as such for the entirety of my now 35 year long life. Don't let the nicely manicured route to the State Aquarium fool you -- One or two blocks off the route and it's an eye opening exper...
[21:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:38] <exec> 08└─Will we all get a pony too?
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:40] <exec> 08└─Positive?? You don't seem to realize approximately 50% of the country sees this as the epitome of all that's wrong with America.
[21:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:42] <exec> 08└─Because a sane person with a knife is more dangerous than a crazy person? Seriously? How about deal with your own knife-wielding crazy person relative, and don't call the cops--if you do call the cops don't whine when the knife wielding crazy person gets shot. As to tickets, speeding fines should pr...
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─it would be better to implement the "policing" service with competing service providers within a market of voluntary trade—that would be a true separation of powers.
[21:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─Because a sane person with a knife is more dangerous than a crazy person? Seriously? How about deal with your own knife-wielding crazy person relative, and don't call the cops--if you do call the cops don't whine when the knife wielding crazy person gets shot. As to tickets, speeding fines should pr...
[21:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:28] <exec> 08└─"As for the outrage, given the options between dropping Pluto or finding ourselves in a sea of hundreds of planets..." There are more than 2 options; this is a false dilemma. We can keep Pluto as a planet due to it's historical significance, and not extend that classification to everything else... t...
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:30] <exec> 08└─Geological activity? Does that mean Io [wikipedia.org] should be called a planet?
[21:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:32] <exec> 08└─I'll accept Pluto as a "planet" when we require that schoolkids memorize the names of all 110+ plus "planets" in this system.
[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:34] <exec> 08└─So you think a scientific organization should just abandon science altogether and adopt terminology based on tradition? That's the dumbest thing I've read all day.
[21:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─I'll accept Pluto as a "planet" when we require that schoolkids memorize the names of all 110+ plus "planets" in this system.
[21:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 2826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─This is not what is meant by 'cleared the neighborhood around its orbit'. If it was, planets would not be allowed to have moons. Asteroid 2016 H03 is completely dominated by Earth's gravity. If the Earth wasn't there Asteroid 2016 H03 would be circling the sun at its own pace. In essence, Asteroid...
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─I think that is the majority of the butthurt that some people have. It was what they *learned*, and now they've *learned* they were wrong. Plus, I actually believe that a good amount of people associated it with the Disney character Pluto while learning about the planets in school. Do any young peop...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─Define "Month" for me in scientific terms. Maybe scientists should have a new calendar based on full moons or how long the speed of light takes to reach the earth multiplied by some magic number constant. : D
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─Please get rid of the feathery dinosaurs too. This [wikimedia.org] is not what a T-rex looks like.
[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─Define "Month" for me in scientific terms. Maybe scientists should have a new calendar based on full moons
[21:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:50] <exec> 08└─Can't a planet be any cold body that has enough material (gravity) to form a round shape? I mean what is the purpose of this stupid knit-picking other than to give some assoles with over-inflated value of self something to argue about?
[21:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:52] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with something being a planet and a moon. It doesn't have to be conforming to your binary standard... shitlord.
[21:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─Can we just abandon this futile attempt at platonic essentialism? Almost everything in the Universe is describable by its place on an n-fold continuum. There is no perfect form of "planetness" that real objects conform to more or less. Pluto is a rock/ice body with a certain mass, it has certain nei...
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─The pound sign looks like an L with a loop at the corner and a bar across the middle. It's for money in the UK. The '#' symbol is called the octothorpe. (because of the 8 points)
[21:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─No, because it orbits a planet, so it should be called a moon.
[21:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:01] <exec> 08└─What is this "our children" concept? I have children, and you may have children, but we don't have any children together unless there's something I don't know.
[21:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:12] <exec> 08└─I hate to sound like a cynical old man (though I am definitely cynical, and was accused of this when very young), but why is this *so* important? We already have strong-enough crypto, and we have far more pressing problems in the computing space, such as: 1) computing platforms being closed, corpora...
[21:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:14] <exec> 08└─Despite being old and/or allegedly cynical, you clearly have no clue how the world works. Any sentence that begins "why can't we all..." is doomed. Progress is made not by winning a logical argument with a flourish and a slap in the face with a white glove, but only by old guys dying off one by one....
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:33] <exec> 08└─Most of these measurements are done with millions, if not billions, of particles and summing up the result into something observable. The progress the French lab made is (obvious now that they've demonstrated it) to focus the uncertainty into one of two degrees of freedom, thereby reducing the produ...
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─Colour me disappointed.
[21:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─Then you'd get a system that heats up, and it will cause the fuel to become less dense and thereby increase the requirement for critical mass, this kinda is how molten-salt (and AHR) self-regulates. Also, you could pump in more of a known low-reactivity salt, or get a nobel prize for discovering how...
[21:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Creates Add-on Molten Salt Reactor to Avoid Regulatory Red Tape - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:41] <exec> 08└─there's soo much wrong with this. first off the "arm-chair" MIT scientists should get off their butts and go dig out the freaking uranium or thorium themselves instead of relying on sub-human work force in some red-mud village in africa, got it?
[21:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─^ You don't "live-action reboot" a movie to do something very different. What if they rebooted star wars and decided Luke and Leia made a better couple so they merge Luke with Han Solo. Bad boy hero gets the girl, learns about the force, defeats Vader who is just the emperor's lackey and has no othe...
[21:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melting Sea Ice May Lead to More Life in the Sea - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─Change is bad. See: every conservative politician's platform for the last century. All the anthropocentric climate change alarmists are saying is: adjust your value-time horizon to see the change we are creating. Change will of course include good, but overall, people prefer the status quo to a guar...
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[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─Here's what it looked like in Camden in August 2012, lots of rack and ruin photos, and very few people out on the streets, http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk] Probably doesn't look any better n...
[22:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:37] <exec> 08└─And an update from 2015 when Obama visited and spoke about limiting sales of surplus military equipment to police forces, https://newsone.com [newsone.com]
[22:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:40] <exec> 08└─I'm looking forward to private police forces fighting over who gets to arrest me, as it will decide which private prison I get sent to, and therefore their bonus check...
[22:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:42] <exec> 08└─This isn't inherently wrong. Suppose the person escapes, then goes on to kill and rape and maim and torture. Cops are hired because we want that shit stopped. Back, front, side... it doesn't matter where the bullets go. It is good to be less trigger-happy. It is good to make a strong attempt to have...
[22:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:44] <exec> 08└─> As to tickets, speeding fines should pretty much be abolished. You do need incentives for people to respect the rules. If you abolish the fines, you have to abolish the "limit". But fines should be like in Northern Europe, proportional to your income (or at least the value of your car). We have th...
[22:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:46] <exec> 08└─What planet are you from? That said, running from the cops means you welcome getting shot.
[22:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:48] <exec> 08└─I think they just staple it to their bootstraps which kills two poor people with one stone!
[22:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─Fines based on income of the accused would make sense. That's why we won't ever see it in America. We never want any sense in our laws. Senseless laws are easier to write and to exploit.
[22:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:53] <exec> 08└─a start on the road back to Mayberry
[22:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─While computers could safely compute your fine without telling the cops exactly how much you make, I like the simpler idea of traffic fines based on your vehicle value (which most states compute already yearly for your license plate renewal). If you have a car way above your income level, and use it...
[22:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:57] <exec> 08└─If you abolish the fines, you have to abolish the "limit".
[22:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─But wheeeere's the personal responsibility?
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─> Suppose the person escapes, then goes on to kill and rape and maim and torture Maybe I ought to shoot you, just in case you might go on to kill and rape. Unless he's already tried to kill and rape then shooting him as he flees is a totally disproportionate escalation of force.
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─I just watched a movie about exactly that: Man Down (2015) [imdb.com] with Shia LaBeouf, Jay Courtney and Gary Oldman.
[22:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:02] <exec> 08└─If Earth is not a planet, then the word "planet" is not a very useful one. Why don't they invent some new word to call whatever the hell they are creating a special definition for. Earth is the gold standard in planets and always should be.
[22:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:03] <exec> 08└─Planet versus asteroid versus comet is just plain arbitrary: the boundaries are fuzzy. The only "safe" distinction seems to be Kuiper-belt object (KBO) versus non-KBO, but we don't know nearly enough about the Kuiper belt at this point. If there is a clear compositional difference between KBO's and...
[22:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:05] <exec> 08└─They just couldn't stand naming a planet Xena, so they changed the rules, and Pluto was collateral damage.
[22:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:07] <exec> 08└─> Can't a planet be any cold body that has enough material (gravity) to form a round shape? Agreed to KISS. You only forgot the specification that it has to orbit the sun rather than something else (that makes it a moon, or for Pluto-Charon a dual-body system). Why care if we have 8, 9 10, or 317 pl...
[22:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:10] <exec> 08└─*googles the date* *surrenders nerd card* [smithsonianmag.com]
[22:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:12] <exec> 08└─> not crossing other bodies' orbits It's true that Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, but it isn't true that Neptune crosses Pluto's?
[22:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:14] <exec> 08└─Except that scientists don't measure anything in "months", but instead use units of time that do have precise scientific definitions, like seconds, days, or years. Maybe they measure their paychecks in months, but that's not really science anymore.
[22:38:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:37] <exec> 08└─At last! We're inventing Heisenberg compensators!
[22:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:46] <exec> 08└─property of waves and arises out of how quantum systems behave in wave-like ways. Damn near every science news article gets these two conflated and confused.
[22:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─The acidification will cause the populations of zooplankton the sardines feed upon to crash, thus causing the same to the sardine population.
[22:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:37] <exec> 08└─contempt for authority
[22:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─My [now ex] wife...became a divorce lawyer...sticking me with [big payments]
[22:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:41] <exec> 08└─Red Hat published a coloring book for SELinux.
[22:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course there are, but in the cabin it's much less likely that a LiIon battery is going to get so hot it's going to be a problem, and even if it does there's a chance the passengers and flight attendants may be able to deal with it before it gets out of hand. Not so much in the hold, where it...
[22:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Connecticut Considering Weaponizing Drones - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:20] <exec> 08└─When Iran captured a drone, no one was harmed. Then again, it was a surveillance vehicle. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[23:36:51] <exec> 08└─Holey Shit! We got Pres. Dueterte posting as AC right here in river city! Extrajudicial killings are the way to go! Maybe if we integrated the police and the courts, and just called the cops "Judge", like in "Judge Dredd". . . . oh, been done already? How'd it work out?
[23:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─In Canada, if the "limit" is printed on a orange sign (instead of a white one), it is merely a guideline. Often used for poorly banked or narrow sections of road.
[23:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:55] <exec> 08└─Personally I think moving violations should be proportional to your vehicle's mass, since your potential for causing damage is already. But yes, any fine which is not made proportional to a person's financial status is discriminatory.
[23:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:57] <exec> 08└─The other 48 percent sees it as what's right. That 4 percent left over is 1 percent ruling class, 2 percent IDGAF, 0.9 percent stoners, and 0.1 percent suitcase packers :)
[23:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:59] <exec> 08└─This begs the question: so what do we do about this Entropy user?
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─This makes the most sense to me. It works in the animal kingdom too; killer whales aren't whales either, etc. If needed we could go so far as to call it an "honorary" planet, like how people get "honorary" doctorates, because of Pluto's historical and cultural significance. You're right, it wouldn't...
[23:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:11] <exec> 08└─God, Dog, potato potato
[23:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─That's not a very scientific thing to do. If you're going to have categories at all, they should be defined as scientifically as possible. Some thought should be given to convenience - it's perhaps a little late to start renaming the Old World Monkeys and the New World Monkeys despite the troublesom...
[23:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:15] <exec> 08└─Does it have a shoulder thing that goes up?
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:18] <exec> 08└─"Killer whale" is the common, historical name for the species. They are not scientifically classified as whales. Even in layman's terms they are not usually referred to as whales. It's not like Pluto is called "Planet Pluto." If needed we could go so far as to call it an "honorary" planet, like how...
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─Okay, you do that. Get back to us when you've got an objective definition that won't cause any butthurt.
[23:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─Lololololololol!
[23:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:24] <exec> 08└─No, she's a Sailor. You know ... like in the song [youtube.com] Some folks swoon for Sailor Moon, but Pluto mmm so pretty.
[23:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:38] <exec> 08└─> hasn't happened ftfy
[23:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:58] <exec> 08└─measurements are done with millions, if not billions, of particles and summing up the result
[23:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─Heisenberg. See this excellent video [youtube.com] for a mathematical foundation to understand why the uncertainty principle isn't the same as the measurement problem. If you're impatient, skip to 5:30 for a practical example and 9:55 for the mathematical derivation of the Uncertainty principle from...
[23:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:52] <exec> 08└─They might be able to make it smell like a skunk that rolled in pine needles.
[23:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:20] <exec> 08└─"and (with version 2.0) still perfectly watchable." If I was taking any of what you were writing seriously, it was all lost upon reading this.
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