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[00:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:47] <exec> 08└─He told KUTV-TV that they cooperated because video of Dr. David Dao being dragged off a United Express plane April 9 was fresh in their minds.
[00:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:49] <exec> 08└─If the couple could move to an upgraded seat, the plane wasn't full. Sounds like United was just unhappy that they would not stay in the Comfort-- seats for no good reason.
[00:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─Also, are we getting bored of bashing United yet?
[00:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:53] <exec> 08└─yeah the stock is down but United Airlines is not going away.
[00:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:04] <exec> 08└─Airships need hangers when the weather gets rough.
[00:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:24] <exec> 08└─Once it hits the atmosphere all bets are off regardless. Doesn't matter how black it is when it's preceded by a white-hot ball of plasma created by the insane compression of a Mach 23+ bow wave. Actually, I'm curious how much of the low-frequency radio noise is produced by the bow wave itself, rathe...
[00:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses? - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:39] <exec> 08└─[Anonymous Coward on 17-04-18 12:53] Paypal allow money transfers to email addresses not signed up with PayPal which opens the possibility to scam users. ("verify your account details".. yeah sure!) [AthanasiusKircher] Paypal won't let go of your credit card unless you let the phone company charge f...
[00:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"It's a Perfect Storm": Homeless Spike in Rural California Linked to Silicon Valley - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:30] <exec> 08└─That's true, and being a one-party state, the imbeciles in Sacramento have no impediment to further enriching themselves and their sponsors, or do anything innovative for the governed. Cali voters are so screwed.
[00:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Pioneer Robert Taylor Dies - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:19] <exec> 08└─Without Taylor maybe computers would been many VT-100 consoles one could flip between. And ESC codes to print graphics onto same screen. Or one could have overlapping and movable windows sources from whatever (super) computing resources one have access too.
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[01:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:44] <exec> 08└─I think it's my blood pressure medicine, but I'd sure like it to return my teen aged condition. I'd rather the random embarrassment as opposed to the specific embarrassment I'm subjected to now.
[01:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:45] <exec> 08└─Marching off to War! Don't worry about your bones, bros. We could fix you! The VA will make sure we don't, though. Have a nice suffering! USA#1 for always.
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:59] <exec> 08└─I had the same thought last Monday! But for some reason the stock is just going lower.
[01:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─...any of the Bushes have an airport named after them? Aren't they all still alive? Didn't we at least wait until he died before we started naming things after Regan?
[01:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─If the plane wasn't full, they could have moved into a non-upgraded seat, but they repeatedly tried to upgrade themselves. I can't say I'm too sympathetic for them. It sounds to me like they were taking advantage of the other situation.
[01:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:05] <exec> 08└─George Bush (biblical scholar) (1796–1859), American biblical scholar and preacher George Bush (racing driver) (1911–1967), American NASCAR driver George Washington Bush (1779–1863), first African-American settler in what is now Washington State Take your pick. It's a common name.
[01:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:07] <exec> 08└─Star Wars didn't happen, but the Gulf War did.
[01:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:09] <exec> 08└─So? Ever see two siblings, one starts playing with the toy the other hasn't even looked at in a year and suddenly "MINE!!!! YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH IT!". That's United. In contrast, the last time I flew Southwest, the plane was nearly empty. We were encouraged to spread out and take up 3 seats each if w...
[01:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─Reading this I've just imagined a ship arriving compressed and then expanding into a bucky ball, like that toy, it would cool.
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─In most states, it's still legal to get a proper abortion.
[01:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:28] <exec> 08└─The problem with watt equivalence is that everyone has their own conversion factors and those are based on very specific cases of technology. So it ends up being a big mess. What you need to look for is *lumens*. Adding to that comparison complication is the beam pattern and spectrum mismatching.
[01:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:29] <exec> 08└─CFLs die if you put them in an enclosed fixture: even if that fixture came included at the factory to hide that it was a CFL bulb. LED circuitry has essentially the same temperature target (~40C). Enclosed fixtures are merely designed to keep the temperature below about 105 or 125C. Even though the...
[01:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:31] <exec> 08└─I would say the problem is power converters that don't use frequencies in the kHz range but instead do cheap tricks using the mains frequency. Local DC power can eliminate the legal requirement for a electrician in some cases, reduce the overall power losses in conversion and reduce electromagnetic...
[01:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:04] <exec> 08└─whenever a particularly sick patient is admitted to his hospital, I get an email that was supposed to inform him. Marlon Crawford of New Orleans Louisiana is looking for a job as an auto mechanic, but not having much luck because he gives out my email address. A landlord mailed me to let me know tha...
[01:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delivery Robots: a Revolutionary Step or Sidewalk-Clogging Nightmare? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:34] <exec> 08└─You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised.
[01:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Cyber Insecurity Problem Won't be Resolved by the Market Alone - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:14] <exec> 08└─I need passwords that I can easily remember. I used to use strong passwords. I kept them in an encrypted document, but then I forgot its master password. I'm not always able to recover my passwords - for example I had to start a second facebook account because I don't remember the name of the street...
[01:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Pioneer Robert Taylor Dies - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:52] <exec> 08└─Internet = alas.. interconnected networks. Networks that were connected together instead of being isolated islands. It doesn't have to be inter-connected using the IP protocol.
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[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:50] <exec> 08└─Your limp dick is making me so horny with schadenfreude.
[02:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─Via wikipedia: "In April 1997, Houston City Council unanimously voted to rename the airport George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston, after George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States."
[02:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:24] <exec> 08└─The initial hangars might have to be excavated caves, until such time that industrial production on Mars takes off.
[02:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:25] <exec> 08└─It might be the way to land on Mars actually. Eliminating the need for a risky SpaceX booster type landing.
[02:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:28] <exec> 08└─Airship hangers on Mars might need reinforced underground bunkers for when the weather gets rough.
[02:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:49] <exec> 08└─If indigenous peoples living at high latitudes can hear meteors then it can be assumed that it's not modern objects that cause this phenomena? The article mentions fences which I doubt applies to indigenous people, hair just seem to sloppy and not receptive, and glasses is rare among indigenous peop...
[02:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Human-Germ Hybrid Molecules to Attack Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─This approach is old, the results are not. What remains is to make a product out of it. There are three approaches to getting rid of various drug resistant bacteria: * Engineered virus that infect bacteria (as in the article) * Macrophages, bacteria that eat other bacteria. * Chemical signa...
[02:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:39] <exec> 08└─The main problem with LED lamps asfaik is heat and unclean power. The main component that is prone to bad design is the power converter which usually lack good cooling. Just opening the lamp and separate the converter and LED onto some wide conducting plate together with thermal grease would help a...
[02:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:40] <exec> 08└─Your lamps are controlled via high frequencies mixed into the power wires? That can allow your neighbors or any outdoor attacker to exploit electrical outdoor poles.
[02:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:42] <exec> 08└─Once all these unsecured IoT things are out in the public together with communication that is independent of internet. They are just like dry grass waiting for someone to lit it.
[02:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─60Hz isn't very high. And yes, someone tinkering with the buried transformer can definitely disable my lighting.
[02:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:47] <exec> 08└─Think outside wires in the air on poles. And inductive or aerial coupling.. beep beep lights out.
[02:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses? - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:20] <exec> 08└─I had a similar happy ending story although not necessarily because of paypal. Bought a phone on eBay and paid with a credit card via PayPal. Used the phone for four months when it suddenly stopped working. Carrier told me that it was just reported stolen and blacklisted (Presumably by the seller)....
[02:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"It's a Perfect Storm": Homeless Spike in Rural California Linked to Silicon Valley - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:11] <exec> 08└─Famously, the Valencia Street Hotel, which was built on land-fill, sank considerably during the 1906 earthquake. http://www.sfcityguides.org [sfcityguides.org] http://www.sfmuseum.org [sfmuseu...
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[03:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:54] <exec> 08└─the new season is permitted to be seen in "the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada."
[03:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:56] <exec> 08└─Seems kind of not that newsworthy.
[03:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:07] <exec> 08└─A polymer that degrades inside your body leaving who-knows-what inside your bloodstream doesn't seem like a good approach. If it's possible to 3D print. Better to print some calcium material that the body actually has chemical pathways to deal with.
[03:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:28] <exec> 08└─On Monday they went from 69.05 to 70.77 but.. on Tuesday their stock price went from 70.77 to 67.75 US$. Down -4.3% in one day so keep up the good work! ;-) Their stock will be priced at 0.01 US$ in 203 days if they keep up at the Tuesday rate. Popcorn!
[03:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:29] <exec> 08└─Also, are we getting bored of bashing United yet?
[03:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:31] <exec> 08└─Your sibling comment aside, it still doesn't excuse their entitled behavior, particularly making themselves out to be the abused victims ("of course we complied" give me a break). On your Southwest flight, the reason you were asked to spread out was to distribute the weight across the plane.
[03:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:33] <exec> 08└─Also, are we getting bored of bashing United yet?
[03:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:36] <exec> 08└─I was on a United bus from LAX to IAD recently. An entire exit row was free. Some guy asked whether he could move there and was gruffly told "No, you have to pay extra for those." I felt sorry for the people that continued on to LHR. American corporations have lost their business sense.
[03:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:38] <exec> 08└─Then what about a crapload of buildings (especially towers), an airline, and so on, so on, named after someone who's a president for mere three months?
[03:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:54] <exec> 08└─Given the pressure there, which is from memory somewhere around 1% of sea-level pressure here on Earth, propulsion would also be somewhat difficult - there's not much to push as exhaust unless you are making it yourself (read rockets to give you acceleration) so even if you were to lift something, m...
[03:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses? - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:45] <exec> 08└─As someone who used to work at PayPal I think I can bring some background to this. PayPal is not considered a bank in USA. I don't know why, but the government allows it and PayPal wants it that way to avoid a myriad of regulations. Because of this distinction, PayPal is regulated in a different way...
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[03:48:47] <exec> 08└─Damn, going to get a coffee.
[03:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Testing the Unruh Effect - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:01] <exec> 08└─You might want to google 'MiHsC' as you will find a good explanation of why Unruh radiation may account for the phenomenon of inertia.
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[04:46:00] <exec> 08└─Watched a few of the new episodes. It's now politically correct, as in the SJW'ers won't have anything to complain about. Definitely not like the old episodes with innuendos.
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─Any search tips on how to find the most innuendo laden episodes? (had a quick view to find out what all the fuss was about) In general it's sad to see culture being flattened such that no one might ever take offense and in the process it becomes as interesting as the test picture..
[04:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:03] <exec> 08└─If it's so politically correct now, where are the niggers? Where are the gays?
[04:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:05] <exec> 08└─And some of the comments are pretty funny, Can''t offer a comparison because its been too many decades since I saw the old ones. I thought the writing was pretty good for a knock off product. There are still innuendo moments in the new shows, but sometimes pretty subtle, more of the "Wait, What??" t...
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[04:46:16] <exec> 08└─The polymer component used in this work is called PCL, a Food and Drug Administration-approved biomaterial
[04:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:42] <exec> 08└─No, Southwest just didn't see why we should squash ourselves into one seat rtather than relax and have a really nice flight. We were already well enough distributed. As for United, there was no good reason for them to even care where the couple were seated as long as it wasn't in a seat someone else...
[04:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a job for EmDrive. But reeling it into the realm of the real... what about ion drives [wikipedia.org]? They are not supposed to work in the presence of atmosphere, but maybe VASIMR [wikipedia.org] is different. The proposal suggests using solar panels on the surface of the airship to pow...
[04:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:25] <exec> 08└─One of my physics lecturers wrote a paper on this in 1979 - referenced here - http://home.pacific.net.au [pacific.net.au] He died a couple of years ago but was one of the few lecturers I remember well after almost 30 years.
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[04:48:55] <exec> 08└─Very interesting, thanks for this story on the Risk engine. A recent transaction of mine was made "pending" and then I received an email asking for an explanation of who I was paying and why. Once I explained, it went through, so no long term trouble. As best I could tell, the reason it was question...
[04:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses? - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:56] <exec> 08└─Great. Mind mentioning some alternatives, especially ones you've had experience with? I know of Etsy, Ruby Lane, Craigslist, Offer Up, Let Go, Ebid, and Bonanza. Apparently Amazon and Newegg have also moved into this area. On Etsy, I've had one sale and 3 other items that did not sell. Been a long t...
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[05:46:10] <exec> 08└─Remote control will have a significant delay. But for safety it requires transferring real time data (4K video) with latency under, say, ten milliseconds, camera to screen. Not sure how this can be achieved, given that many monitors need most of this time just to refresh the screen. Who would want...
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[05:46:12] <exec> 08└─Because lag when going 80 MPH doesn't matter. Because GPS is never wrong and map database never have incorrect or outdated data. Because there's never any interference with communication. Because it's against the ToS to use Windows as a real-time, safety critical OS. Because no one has every acciden...
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[05:46:14] <exec> 08└─I was thinking about this, and I think the delay can be handled by self-driving tech. The problem, at least as I see it, is that self-driving tech is not good enough to navigate complicated roadways. But it is good enough for low-latency things like "brake for the child that jumps into oncoming traf...
[05:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einride Aims to Solve Trucking Emissions Problem With Self-Driving T-Pods - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:16] <exec> 08└─The "Fragile" comment below mostly got it right, but I think mixing human and automatic input may work. The vehicle just needs proximity sensors and logic to automatically stop (fixing the latency problem). 4K resolution may not even be needed in built-up areas due to the limited speed (fixing the b...
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[05:46:49] <exec> 08└─Don't bitch to me, bitches. I've been boycotting air travel since 2001. As far as I'm concerned, either the TSA can be abolished or the airline industry can go out of business permanently. I don't care which.
[05:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:08] <exec> 08└─In fact, if the company fails, you lose the value of the stock, but UAL gets bailed out.
[05:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:10] <exec> 08└─I had a bad experience on KLM. I paid extra for a seat in economy that was in a row of two instead of a row of 3. This was a transatlantic flight, so many hours sitting down. What they did not tell me was that the seat for which I had paid extra did not recline. I paid extra to sit in a less comfort...
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[05:47:12] <exec> 08└─The report was that the couple sat in seats in eco plus, where asked to move to their own seats, which they did, but then they went back to the higher class seats again. Repeat this twice more and that's when the flight crew had had enough and kicked them off the plane for being a disturbance. UA is...
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[05:47:14] <exec> 08└─I last flew United in 2000. Even back then it felt like visiting a 3rd world country.
[05:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:16] <exec> 08└─Please don't confuse us with the facts. This is SoylentNews.
[05:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"It's a Perfect Storm": Homeless Spike in Rural California Linked to Silicon Valley - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:30] <exec> 08└─Way to prop up a straw man and knock it down. North Dakota is not the millions of acres of fertile farmland in that includes most of the state's to the east of the Mississippi and the states immediately west of the Mississippi and those adjacent states. Californians have an overly developed sense...
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[06:45:42] <exec> 08└─It's the perfect torture device for those Gitmo terrorists the Donald inherited! What better way to end the terrorist problem by inserting giant ship worms directly into the anus!
[06:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Live Giant Shipworm Specimens Found - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:44] <exec> 08└─I rest, in the knowledge that there is an organism, one that may have been on a ship, that may exceed Chief Petty Officer Runaway, in both intelligence, and political acumen. I mean, seriously, with all the posts that Runaway has posted here on SolylentNews, has there really been any evidence that h...
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[06:45:56] <exec> 08└─I think mixing human and automatic input may work.
[06:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einride Aims to Solve Trucking Emissions Problem With Self-Driving T-Pods - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:57] <exec> 08└─So these self-driving vehicles will really only follow straight roads by themselves because city traffic is too complex. They need to use batteries with charge and discharge inefficiencies and expose other drivers to life threatening dangers because.. profit. How about one could make some vehicle th...
[06:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einride Aims to Solve Trucking Emissions Problem With Self-Driving T-Pods - 2490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:59] <exec> 08└─This should be just part of a larger overall vision: transport optimized to the freight, rather than to the vehicle. Making sensible use of driver hours. Where I am (Switzerland), we have a lot of trucks that drive onto the train, so that they can take the tunnel through the Alps. Which means that t...
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[06:46:02] <exec> 08└─Don't exaggerate the technical requirements. 4k resolution? 10ms latency? Nuts. The average driver reaction time is on the order of 500ms, for which 100ms latency would be fine - ugly, but fine. To fix the ugly, make it 50ms. A 4k resolution is also unnecessary; A standard monitor resolution would b...
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[06:46:19] <exec> 08└─Full disclosure: I am one of the supporters of the show on Kickstarter, so my opinion may be biased. I have watched two of the episodes so far and am pleasantly surprised. They have managed to seamlessly continue where the classic shows left off with a few improvements to boot (Gypsy!). They rely a...
[06:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the EMDrive would work - if it does work :P Part of the problem with using an Ion Drive though is due to the extreme velocities that it expels the propellant (why they are so efficient in the first place) would create all sorts of wake issues behind the craft - possibly in a dangerous manner t...
[06:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:23] <exec> 08└─The vacuum ship is not a good idea. You have to add mass and structure to prevent the balloon from collapsing due to atmospheric pressure pushing in. 0.01 atmospheres or less, isn't much, but it requires something to resist it, particular for large balloons. Instead, fill it with hydrogen. The atmo...
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[07:46:02] <exec> 08└─Hey granther, let's look at your objections: Because lag when going 80 MPH doesn't matter. Autopilot on the highways. Some trucks already effectively have this, just with a driver pretending to pay attention. Because GPS is never wrong and map database never have incorrect or outdated data. Defined...
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[07:46:59] <exec> 08└─Rookie mistake. You have to know which seats are good. For example, "exit" seats have extra legroom while the row in front of them doesn't recline.
[07:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:01] <exec> 08└─The report was that the couple sat in seats in eco plus, where asked to move to their own seats, which they did, but then they went back to the higher class seats again. Repeat this twice more and that's when the flight crew had had enough and kicked them off the plane for being a disturbance. UA is...
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[07:47:03] <exec> 08└─Putting the Poo In Putting: United Airlines hasn't seen ticket sales suffer from passenger-dragging incident yet, analyst says [marketwatch.com] i.e., buy stocks now. Or maybe this is fake news? Who knows?
[07:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:05] <exec> 08└─... we all need to start recording every interaction we ever have with any corporate or government employee
[07:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:27] <exec> 08└─Something like this might work well on Mars https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The are aka "Lifters". In a nutshell they use high voltage to create thrust. I recall NASA evaluated using them in satellites but it didn't work out for reasons I don't remember. For thrust just poin...
[07:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:28] <exec> 08└─Wind on Mars is not really that powerful, the atmosphere is too thin to really do much but move the really fine particles of dirt around. None of the Mars rovers would be able to handle a really windy day on Earth but they have no trouble with the sand storms on Mars. (That was one of my few critici...
[07:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delivery Robots: a Revolutionary Step or Sidewalk-Clogging Nightmare? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:55] <exec> 08└─Let it go people...
[07:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cyber Insecurity Problem Won't be Resolved by the Market Alone - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:36] <exec> 08└─Because script kids have nukes.
[07:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cyber Insecurity Problem Won't be Resolved by the Market Alone - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:37] <exec> 08└─I can probably rant about software not being math too, but i have to leave : P
[07:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Cyber Insecurity Problem Won't be Resolved by the Market Alone - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:39] <exec> 08└─A rational person acting in their own best interest should, all else being equal, choose the cheaper router over the "more secure" one. So it's no wonder that manufacturers don't bother with security, because it represents added cost for little, if any, benefit.
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[08:45:47] <exec> 08└─Modded Troll for Truth. “Won't programmers starve?” I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making fa...
[08:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:49] <exec> 08└─The GNU manifesto [gnu.org] seems to be arguing that software is a public good like air. It plainly says that programmers will still need to be paid to advance the "state of the art".
[08:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:51] <exec> 08└─FUCK Linux and FUCK You
[08:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:53] <exec> 08└─Continued: ... but that is the wrong answer because it accepts the questioner's implicit assumption: that without ownership of software, programmers cannot possibly be paid a cent. Supposedly it is all or nothing. The real reason programmers will not starve is that it will still be possible for them...
[08:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:55] <exec> 08└─The GNU Manifesto says software is public utility which will be paid for by taxes. Not advertising like Screwgle and Fuckbook. Not investment scams like every Silicon Vagina startup. Taxation.
[08:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:58] <exec> 08└─Suppose everyone who buys a computer has to pay x percent of the price as a software tax. The government gives this to an agency like the NSF to spend on software development.
[08:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:00] <exec> 08└─You delusional open source morons don't even know the history of your own movement.
[08:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:02] <exec> 08└─If your business is selling an operating system, you will not like GNU, but that's tough on you.
[08:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:04] <exec> 08└─Wow, supremely triggered. I am beginning to understand why we got saddled with systemd and all the newfangled widgets we have these days. Software got too advanced, programmers are no longer needed to recreate the wheel every year so the greedy ones got scared and are now trying to lock everything d...
[08:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─Open source is business terminology for exploiting the free labor of idealist hippies.
[08:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:09] <exec> 08└─No time for capitalism, too busy starving to death.
[08:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:11] <exec> 08└─Tyranny is being pushed on us VERY hard, the initial comments to this story are just another salvo from some group trying to push an agenda. There is an effort to pushy dictatorships, get rid of democracy, and now get rid of people building things for each other as a community. If your business mode...
[08:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:13] <exec> 08└─Fedora has changed focus from free software to hosted cloud platforms, because Fedora failed. There's no money in free software. Free software is not a business model.
[08:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:15] <exec> 08└─some group trying to push an agenda
[08:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:18] <exec> 08└─Redhat is the enterprise edition, Fedora is the non profit community edition. Since you can't even figure out some of the most basic stuff it is obvious you're trolling for a soapbox to push your own ideologies. Like those door to door Mormons spreading the "good word." Now it does seem like fedora...
[08:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:20] <exec> 08└─That is the opposite of what I said and not even true. From Scruffy's link above you can read about the difference between OSS and Free Software, and it specifically says OSS is not the enemy. Stop with the low effort jabs, at least try to appear informed.
[08:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:22] <exec> 08└─Better watch out, I hear they consort with Satan himself to make that happen.
[08:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einride Aims to Solve Trucking Emissions Problem With Self-Driving T-Pods - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:46] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but it will become a race to the bottom (and past), in reducing the number of drivers needed, and then making individual drivers work longer and longer hours by offsetting trucks by less and less time. You have to truck X from the hwy to the dock in 10 minutes, because there's another...
[08:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:48] <exec> 08└─Economy Plus in United is complicated because people with various levels of premiere status get them for free. Silver lets you upgrade at checkin, gold and above lets you upgrade for free at check in. United is really big on status (you get noticeably better customer service at each premiere level,...
[08:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:49] <exec> 08└─I just got back from a trip to China. After that experience, I'm no longer going to complain about the TSA. They are efficient, polite, and helpful in comparison.
[08:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:52] <exec> 08└─It's not like it changes the cost any.
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[09:46:12] <exec> 08└─The happy pills help me forget I'm starving to death. The only food I can afford are protein powder and imitation milk. Oh yeah the meds are kicking in. There's the euphoria. I'm in the zone now. Time to commit more code to github! Never getting paid because software wants to be free!!! I'm lucky it...
[09:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:13] <exec> 08└─linux linux linux linux linux linux money is for losers i'm a winner!!!!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
[09:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:15] <exec> 08└─If coders are unemployable, only hobbyists will be coders.
[09:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:18] <exec> 08└─Contributing to projects is a good way to build a resume but is not a requirement. You can just as easily write an app to sell on iPhone/android markets, or modules/plugins to sell. Or find some for-pay projects, or find your own clients. No one forces you to code for free. Are you just a young pers...
[09:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:20] <exec> 08└─So it will: * Not be Linux and by extension Unix nor POSIX compatible. * Incomplete. * Be special purpose. * Include proprietary code. Now it will be all blinky code (lights up) that include unnecessary code (innovative) that probably need some extra licenses. For a fee.. If this is not...
[09:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:22] <exec> 08└─Billion dollar business plan: (1) Clone hobbyist project from github for free. (2) Sell for billions. (3) There's no step 3.
[09:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 1916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:24] <exec> 08└─I don't know what the fuck is up with the insane ACs. But for what it's worth I think it can just as likely be that it's no longer a concept that matters to people due to overuse by projects that don't deserve such labeling as "open" and "free". I saw a vaporizer called oPen.Vape. Because it's a pen...
[09:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:26] <exec> 08└─So it will: * Not be Linux
[09:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:29] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Alan Cox who looks exactly like a homeless bum. Corporations have usurped "open source" as just another profit motive, and nobody ever cared about "free software" except college socialists and wide-eyed hippie idealists who swear post-scarcity communism will happen just like the manifes...
[09:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:31] <exec> 08└─Liar! Alan Cox isn't homeless. See here's a photo of him cooking inside an indoors kitchen. https://nathan.chantrell.net [chantrell.net]
[09:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry for being devils advocate but if they leave out Linux and any other Unix standard that seems just the thing to do if they want to leave the option open to make it incompatible.
[09:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:35] <exec> 08└─Forget green washing, now we have open and free washing. Corporations are money vampires by definition at least when it comes to public shareholder corporations. And they should be treated as such. Corporate friendly but carry a horrible stick.
[09:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:12] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean transracial and pansexual?
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[09:47:25] <exec> 08└─Actually the body doesn't know what to do with calcium which is why it ends up being used in bones and nails and teeth. What to do with the build up of calcium was a problem that evolution has solved in an interesting way. I can see the first usages of this being in sport injuries for football playe...
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[10:45:41] <exec> 08└─
[10:45:42] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:42] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the satirical coverage is better than the real thing. [rochdaleherald.co.uk]
[10:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:44] <exec> 08└─What a crap article. Why not something like, "Weary voters tired of voting fatigue vote to eliminate voting."
[10:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:46] <exec> 08└─Probably nothing good will come of it for the rest of the world (or the western world at least). What happens to the turks tho is well their problem. They voted for him, they seem to like him so who are we to argue. From the looks of it on the surface it would seem Turkey is making great strides bec...
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[10:45:49] <exec> 08└─
[10:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:51] <exec> 08└─What happens to the turks tho is well their problem. In a sense, true. However, you don't really believe that the majority of the population wants this, do you? I mean, aside from the people in jail, the people threatened with jail (or, in the case of the Kurds, with military reprisals), the people...
[10:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:59] <exec> 08└─I could think of million reasons why esports is crazy, has nothing to do with healthy lifestyle, shouldn't be supported with public money etc. Then again, pretty much all of those reasons apply to regular sports at professional or olympic level as well.
[10:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:01] <exec> 08└─Tell us about the good old days when there was just one Olympic Game and it was a foot race.
[10:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:03] <exec> 08└─Sitting with a beer in front of a television looking at other people moving is perhaps not much better ;)
[10:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:05] <exec> 08└─Make an esport around Marathon and we'll have come full circle to the ancient Olympics.
[10:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zedrick [2648] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:08] <exec> 08└─...just stupid. I'm not a luddite, I've been playing computer games since the mid 80's and I'm currently wasting way too much time on World of Tanks, War Thunder etc. But it's not a sport, no matter how good you are at it or how long you sit in front of the screen. But whatever, money decides so it...
[10:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:10] <exec> 08└─Decades of video games have strengthened my athletic hands. The rest of me is flabby fat.
[10:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:12] <exec> 08└─Well, you could say that's the other half of my point. So instead of naively idealistic one-size-fits-all distribution we have one which starts at 0 where lots of people just sit around with a beer and ends with a spike of few overdoing it to the point of hurting themselves. It's okay. People are ju...
[10:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:49] <exec> 08└─Is saying open, or free, openly (excuse the pun) becoming something to be ashamed of?
[10:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:29] <exec> 08└─Cast is white, white, white. This revival series is racist.
[10:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:59] <exec> 08└─I can't stand flicker, thankfully not all LED bulbs do that. Even cheap ones can be okay, I bought some decent 1000+ lumen ones for 6,90€ the other day, but you can also pay >20€ a pop and still get flickering pieces of shit for your money. If they are on display and you can't tell if they flick...
[10:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Ends the Intel Developer Forum -- Cancels IDF17 - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting... this is usually the kind of thing I see when a quite productive and growing company is sold by its founder to investors. They buy a goose laying golden eggs; and they just can't wait to get the rights to kill the goose and raid its gut. Pay their management and legal team big bonuses,...
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[11:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:41] <exec> 08└─> My rheumatism is triggered when the wife asks me to carry heavy, heavy things up to our 3rd-floor walk-up For me, I have sudden hearing loss. I have no idea why this happens....
[11:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:43] <exec> 08└─Many years ago I broke a bone in my left long finger. Exactly there where the bones had been growing back together I felt a pain before rainy weather for a whole year. As the healing progress went forward, the pain became less until I never noticed any pain anymore. Still during that one year, it ne...
[11:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:45] <exec> 08└─How can you blind the data on a test like this? Does this have any research purpose or is it an outreach project?
[11:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:58] <exec> 08└─Gone, gone the form of man, Rise the demon Erdoğan
[11:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:00] <exec> 08└─Do I believe there was some kind of election fraud? Highly probable. With that in mind you could also then conclude that the remaining population that gets to vote have been stacked in favor of Erdogan, a lot of it might come from the purge after the latest failed coup. The Kurds are 15ish % of the...
[11:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:02] <exec> 08└─It's standing in NATO is probably still strong due to geopolitics and the bases are needed for all the events in the middle east
[11:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─Can do, Won't do. Seems a lot of politicians these days have other alliances than their own people. So while it's no problem to solve really. It will not be done.
[11:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 1837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:18] <exec> 08└─...it's not a sport, no matter how good you are at it You're right, if you have the same understanding of "sport" that I do, i.e., a head-to-head athletic competition. That would include a foot race, a football game, or even a sailing competition. However, it does not include very many of the curren...
[11:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:20] <exec> 08└─Decades of video games have strengthened my athletic hands. The rest of me is flabby fat.
[11:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:22] <exec> 08└─Purely intellectual disciplines (Chess, Bridge) are recognized by the IOC, and are likely to be added to the games soon. Given all this, why not eSports?
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:24] <exec> 08└─new definition for Olympic Sport: if you sweat while participating, it is a sport. sweat while taking a dump? Sport sweat playing computer games? Sport sweat cleaning the gutters? Sport sex? Sport ...on your own? Sport scoring some of these won't be any worse than scoring the dancing horses, or the...
[11:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:02] <exec> 08└─The GNU Manifesto plainly says, you won't get paid. Do something else.
[11:48:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:28] <exec> 08└─The report was that the couple sat in seats in eco plus, where asked to move to their own seats, which they did, but then they went back to the higher class seats again. Repeat this twice more and that's when the flight crew had had enough and kicked them off the plane for being a disturbance. UA is...
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[12:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:47] <exec> 08└─Very simple: Normally the pain begins right before weather change. You would just need an app to mark that you feel pain and then check from the weather stations what the weather actually became.
[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─Contrary to some segments of academia's religiously held beliefs, there is value in non blinded, non placebo controlled studies. With a massive sample size like this, you can establish reliable rates of occurrence, and if there is sufficient repeatability in a given population you can then study int...
[12:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─If a placebo can reduce pain for 80% of the population 80% of the time with low cost and minimal side effects, is it any less valuable than a bio-engineered drug that works for fewer people less often at higher cost with more severe side effects?
[12:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:07] <exec> 08└─It's standing in NATO is probably still strong due to geopolitics and the bases are needed for all the events in the middle east, eastern Mediterranean and it's close border with Russia.
[12:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:06] <exec> 08└─This is probably one guy who's trying to be an intern at Microsoft showing off how much he "gets it" and all that crap, even though he very clearly doesn't and conveniently ignores much of the argument in favor of his two-sentence narrative. I don't think he's going to convince anyone of anything ot...
[12:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:07] <exec> 08└─I find it irritating that you keep using this stupid phrase.
[12:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Live Giant Shipworm Specimens Found - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:17] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah sciene nonsense blah blah blah... Wait an minute (reads summary) ...which can reach up to 1.55m (5ft) in length and 6cm (2.3in) in diameter... .... Despite its name it is actually a bivalve, which is the same group as clams and mussels.
[12:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einride Aims to Solve Trucking Emissions Problem With Self-Driving T-Pods - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:34] <exec> 08└─> Finally, a point that makes sense. As self-driving vehicles become more common, things like this are going to require some serious consideration. > Probably a lot of standardization, or even special signaling for automated vehicles. I assumed for many years that someone had already thought of plug...
[12:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:51] <exec> 08└─I'm a backer, and was very impressed with the new series. They're worth watching, IMHO. I even have a credit on episode 4.
[12:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:05] <exec> 08└─I can see the first usages of this being in sport injuries for football players and the like where the recovery time speed up is worth the cost, plus it will likely be a bettter fix with less likelihood of failing again after the repair.
[12:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:30] <exec> 08└─I have experienced this (the Leonids over southern Australia in 1999). See Can You Hear a Meteor? [livescience.com] It's a very weird phenomenon.
[12:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:31] <exec> 08└─I have heard a meteor
[12:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:33] <exec> 08└─Not much but anything non-linear would have detected the AM signals.
[12:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the Unruh Effect - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:21] <exec> 08└─Is that not the opposite of this situation? No matter the result, it will "confirm" a host of separate and incompatible theories. One scientist will take it as proof that their is no Unruh effect another will take it as proof that their is a Unruh effect.
[12:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the Unruh Effect - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:23] <exec> 08└─No. Space is an incredibly good insulator. Due to a lack of any reasonable amount of radiation in 99% of space it would feel cold but livable for short periods. In deep space, you lose heat at about the speed a normal human can generate heat (if naked). Around the Suns SOI, or that or any star, much...
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[13:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─... Tor* exits YOU! ------------ * BTW, it's "Tor", not "TOR"; see the project FAQ.
[13:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:07] <exec> 08└─...is with McBain's voice (in your head, if you can't immitate).
[13:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:25] <exec> 08└─Don't be surprised if they get kicked out.
[13:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:27] <exec> 08└─With a "mentally-unstable"-like leader** and little to none at all leverage on him, NATO's got to ask itself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya,...?
[13:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:29] <exec> 08└─What happens to the turks tho is well their problem.
[13:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:47] <exec> 08└─...if you have the same understanding of "sport" that I do, i.e., a head-to-head athletic competition.
[13:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:48] <exec> 08└─You jest, but I would watch Olympic pooping. Just think of the strategy that would be involved! When do you eat? What do you eat? The amounts? And so many things to judge on, size, color, smell...
[13:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:51] <exec> 08└─I don't want to get into the argument of whether it is a sport or not, that's just a word and words evolve new meaning over time. What bothers me is why they want to be an Olympic sport. They have enough interest that they don't need the marketing power of the IOC and all the corruption that comes w...
[13:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:53] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem I see is that eSports is based on commercial products. Why should League of Legends be included, but not Overwatch? StarCraft, but not Rocket League? No one owns swimming, or fencing, but someone will own whatever specific game is chosen.
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:55] <exec> 08└─I suppose the next "sport" to be added to the Olympics will be, "competitive thinking really hard."
[13:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:37] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Redhat. How do you sell Linux and license it? If you bought Redhat in the past it entitled you to support. Now you are given a license key. If the source is made available what is stopping someone from releasing a "free" Redhat distro with the license key stripped out?
[13:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:39] <exec> 08└─Linus always said that Linux code contributions would be licensed in a certain way (no single owner for the whole kernel) in case he ever went to the Dark Side. Redhat are well and truly over on the Dark Side now. Will Linus be tempted? How exciting!
[13:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:41] <exec> 08└─Linux isn't even close to POSIX compatible. Try and compile some modern software (written in a Linux environment) on a commercial UNIX like Solaris or AIX. You'll get errors and warnings out the ass. I've yet to successfully compile anything on AIX (no I am not a comp.sci major either).
[13:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:43] <exec> 08└─Ummm CentOS???
[13:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:45] <exec> 08└─I cannot wait to have the new Fedora light up my sweet Vengeance RGB DRAM modules!
[13:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:48] <exec> 08└─No it is "light up" as in "set on fire."
[13:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Live Giant Shipworm Specimens Found - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─Try dipping them in some lemon butter.
[13:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:25] <exec> 08└─However, if the stock is overpriced for other reasons, this can be a trigger to cause the stock price to drop significantly for reasons that stick around more than PR does. I don't agree that it is a good time to buy because I don't know what other problems are present, but sure, it is time to consi...
[13:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:27] <exec> 08└─They could just be assholes. There are people out there who try to block cars traveling 70mph down freeways in protests (at night!) and if one of them gets hit they blame the driver. You don't think it could be possible there are such people who would feel entitled and unreasonable on an airplane? B...
[13:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:51] <exec> 08└─In addition, the hydrogen will expand as the balloon rises (the limit being the buoyancy of the Martian atmosphere which would be a much lower altitude than on Earth). Lift from vacuum is pretty much fixed, unless you have some complex, mass-adding mechanism for increasing the volume of the vacuum a...
[13:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:53] <exec> 08└─Is there not sufficient O2 in Mars's atmosphere to make the highly combustible Hydrogen still a highly risky choice?
[13:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, it would detect the AM signals, but if the various natural objects couldn't mechanically respond to the signals and/or those signals weren't in the range of your hearing, there would be no notable sound.
[13:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:21] <exec> 08└─More of a whoosh. Very similar to red noise.
[13:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paypal not Confirming User's Account Email Addresses? - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:56] <exec> 08└─Doubt this was the case since I received an email to confirm the address. If it did happen to be a secondary address, PayPal failed to wait for confirmation of it since I received subsequent messages about account updates and a sales transaction. Why ask for confirmation if the system will still use...
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[13:52:25] <exec> 08└─Finally: Less marketing, and more engineering.
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[14:45:58] <exec> 08└─Please take your editorializing somewhere else, and report only facts about the story. I can't stand the snark, and most other media outlets have articles that read like they need to higher someone with a brain.
[14:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:59] <exec> 08└─they need to higher someone with a brain.
[14:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors)
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:11] <exec> 08└─Did he make a tweet that rubbed the Donald the wrong way? Is he gay? Was it the Tor exit node? Is Haskell really that offensive of a language? Inquiring minds want to know.
[14:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:13] <exec> 08└─it's "Tor", not "TOR"
[14:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:15] <exec> 08└─It's still "Tor", not "TOR".
[14:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─> Contrary to some segments of academia's religiously held beliefs Woah, that is a bit of a snarky response! > If a placebo can reduce pain for 80% of the population 80% of the time with low cost and minimal side effects Fair enough. I guess a phrase from TFS like "but the link has never been proven...
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:31] <exec> 08└─This shoudn't be surprising. The most advanced science is astromomy where there are no RCTs at all. The idea of RCTs as a "gold standard" is something come up with by statisticians and parroted by people who "hate math" because it seemed to sophisticate their papers. No scientist was in the loop.
[14:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─Ankylosing spondylitis, think seriously bad arthritis, causes moderate to severe joint pain. An interesting side effect is that you learn to live with it, not take things so seriously, and be much happier almost all the time. In the last decade I began to realize, at first dismissing it, but began t...
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─I thought it had been determined long ago that a drop in barometric pressure was the culprit. Perhaps that was just a hypothesis, and they still don't know WHY a drop in barometric pressure triggers a response.
[14:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─People have been trusting the internet for accurate weather, and it just ain't so. I can be standing outside with my "smart" phone and check two or three weather apps, and they all differ, and sometimes they're just plain wrong, even about current conditions. This research is doomed for failure.
[14:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─Showing a link is step one. If there is no link, then none of the more exacting (and expensive) followup is necessary or useful.
[14:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:01] <exec> 08└─...that I'd like to see receive increased power. In an electric chair!
[14:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:02] <exec> 08└─Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands... Turkish people in these countries voted more than 70% "yes". Although they have also the Turkish nationality, most of them know Turkey as a holiday country, and weren't even born there. With these small differences in voting, we could thank those people f...
[14:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:05] <exec> 08└─Meesa thinks a weesa should give the chancellor emergency powers.
[14:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:07] <exec> 08└─Our dear leader called [nytimes.com] Erdogan to congratulate [washingtonpost.com] him. [x] International monitors citing voting irregularities [theatlantic.com] [x] Sweeping new powers [independent.co.uk] [x] Opponents seek to annul new powers [reuters.com] [x] New dictator happy [_] People happy [_...
[14:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:09] <exec> 08└─If this is what makes human beings happy, who am I to argue? This is why things like the Prime Directive exist. Some species are just more comfortable following their animal instincts.
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:32] <exec> 08└─there is a distinct lack of anything even remotely athletic about it.
[14:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:34] <exec> 08└─The IOC are greedy and don't care what people think about them. If they can make money by airing esports then they certainly will. I think it will fail because there are already enough complaints about watching the olympics on tv. You can't watch the live events you want to and you can't get a full...
[14:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:23] <exec> 08└─Nothing, hence the existence of CentOS. Interestingly, CentOS is now part of Redhat.
[14:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:25] <exec> 08└─So the message I'm getting from this new mission statement is: Don't install Fedora. And I don't mean that as in "Boycott them because they screwed up." It's not my message, it's theirs. It's no longer "a general purpose operating system", it's now merely a component used "to build tailored solution...
[14:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Live Giant Shipworm Specimens Found - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:36] <exec> 08└─They probably taste like mud and hardiness.
[14:49:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:33] <exec> 08└─He told KUTV-TV that they cooperated because video of Dr. David Dao being dragged off a United Express plane April 9 was fresh in their minds.
[14:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:06] <exec> 08└─but they repeatedly tried to upgrade themselves.
[14:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:07] <exec> 08└─United doesn't brutalize customers. It re-accommodates them. Quit being to negative and see the bright side. At least United isn't re-accommodating people after the plane is in flight. If you don't give up your seat, I will re-accommodate you to a bloody pulp and drag you off this plane.
[14:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:09] <exec> 08└─I can see United's side in this. If there were higher class (eg, more expensive) seats that were unused for this flight. It would impose significant costs upon United if passengers booked into lower priced seats were to sit in these unused higher priced seats. How could United stay in business if th...
[14:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:35] <exec> 08└─Is there not sufficient O2 in Mars's atmosphere to make the highly combustible Hydrogen still a highly risky choice?
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[15:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:56] <exec> 08└─Will this executive order accomplish anything? Is it somehow binding? Force of law? Will it prevent corporations from finding ways to hire cheap foreign labor? Even if forced to hire American, will corporations lower their standards of treatment of American workers to that of the H-1Bs being replace...
[15:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─You've become obsessed with Trump. Either some mental illness has emerged from the depths of your mind, or you're some kind of paid opposition—nobody can spend this much time crafting [anti-]Fan Art without some kind of worrisome underlying fault.
[15:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:59] <exec> 08└─here is Bernie Sanders (a decade ago of course) attacking this ploy to make sure money only trickles up by ensuring low wages
[15:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:02] <exec> 08└─We're in the era of machine learning. Someone will probably code a translator to do this thing automatically.
[15:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─Rather than build itself around the signals of people's needs and wants, the market has unwittingly built itself around the fantasy signals concocted by know-nothing paper-pushing bureaucrats. It's no wonder that resources have been poorly allocated; it's no wonder that people's needs and wants are...
[15:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─You've become obsessed with Trump.
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─the market has unwittingly built itself around the fantasy signals concocted by know-nothing paper-pushing bureaucrats.
[15:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─It takes an hour to watch, but this interview with Sir James Goldsmith from the early 90s (complete with the smug Bill Clinton administration hack's response) proves that yes indeed, the trickle up effect is intentional, well understood, and has been decades in the works: https://www.youtube.com
[15:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:13] <exec> 08└─H-1B is widely derided and despised. Is there a reason for that? Should we all just shut up and suck it?
[15:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:15] <exec> 08└─Only if they do something with the report after it comes out. I wouldn't be surprised if it is basically marketing, a way for Trump to claim he's doing something for American workers without doing anything. Sort of like how Warren lambastes banks when there is no real risk of any sanctions against t...
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:17] <exec> 08└─Sample, and link for source download on this page, https://www.cs.utexas.edu [utexas.edu] It's about time someone added some 5d choice, we've been stuck wid Swedish Chef, Jive, Valley Girl, Pig Latin, Fo' far too long. Input string = It's about time someone added a 5th choic...
[15:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─Indentured servitude as a form of slavery devalues your fellow man, so in a sense slavery devalues yourself.
[15:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:22] <exec> 08└─The reason that the big tech firms love H1-B employees so much has not all that much to do with depressing wages. What they really like, more than anything else, is that H1-Bs cannot say no to their bosses without risking deportation. If, say, a manager demands a 100-hour work week, a US-born worker...
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─Did he make a tweet that rubbed the Donald the wrong way?
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─He was running a haskell powered website on tor which consisted of gay Trump/Putin porn
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─Was the arrest because he ran a Tor exit node? Or was it because of some traffic going through that node? Or was it because either Dimitry or some traffic going through his Tor node was offensive to the Russian government or at the risk of being redundant, offensive to Trump? It was wise of Debian t...
[15:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─...Sjoerd Simons, Michael Biebl, Marco d'Itri and Martin Pitt?
[15:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─A valid digital signature is merely one more checkbox on the "This looks OK" criteria.
[15:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:42] <exec> 08└─From the summary: accused of endorsing violence and mayhem.
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:45] <exec> 08└─can he be considered compromised against his will?
[15:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:47] <exec> 08└─They weren't living at the power center of an actual dictatorship.
[15:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─what did he do specifically?
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:09] <exec> 08└─...and depression can cause pain, or at least an increased perception of pain. That might be what's happening here, not an actual physiological response. Also, it this were true, injured people in the rainforest would be in nearly chronic pain, wouldn't they?
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:36] <exec> 08└─I would assume that we can be fairly certain that the door to any kind of EU membership is firmly shut It's Turkey's Brexit. Even the margin is the same.
[15:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:38] <exec> 08└─Montenegro could be let in because other NATO members don't want to see them 'annexed' by another power hostile to NATO members.
[15:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:40] <exec> 08└─When it is fraud then the majority of human beings are being oppressed!
[15:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─They don't need TV, when there's more than enough online streaming sites to cover them. Twitch or Youtube or in Blizzard's case, they can stream it themselves and charge admission.
[15:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:07] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the current state of things because of mainstream rejection.
[15:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:09] <exec> 08└─No one owns swimming, or fencing, but someone will own whatever specific game is chosen.
[15:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:59] <exec> 08└─Good!
[15:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:01] <exec> 08└─Your not holding it right. I worked for a large govt scientific agency and we ditched Solaris and AIX years ago for Redhat. Until that point I had no trouble compiling or running open source software.
[15:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:03] <exec> 08└─https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/char/lp.c#n257 [kernel.org]
[15:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:05] <exec> 08└─Does this mean Poettering is going away???
[15:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─The message I get is "Written by Committee of MBAs".
[15:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:09] <exec> 08└─From the sounds of it, some sort of flashlight?
[15:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:11] <exec> 08└─As the years go by, Linux deviates more and more from POSIX.
[15:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:10] <exec> 08└─Why would titanium implants have a limited lifetime? I thought that titanium had the unique property that it was completely bio-compatible and that bone grew into it. I thought the only problems with such implants was actually the polymer mating surfaces at the joint, not the titanium parts.
[15:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:57] <exec> 08└─1. See a few news stories in a row about United being assholes. 2. Short United stock. 3. Pay/encourage a couple folks to provoke United into being assholes yet again. 4. Watch the news pick up the new story to keep the click-train rolling. 5. Profit!
[15:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:24] <exec> 08└─The author of "The Martian" was actually aware of this - but left it in, because without a reason for the other astronauts to abandon Watney, there was no story. (I learned this from the interview he did with the StarShipSofa podcast [starshipsofa.com]. IIRC, there were a few other scientific inaccu...
[15:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:26] <exec> 08└─You have to add mass and structure to prevent the balloon from collapsing due to atmospheric pressure pushing in. 0.01 atmospheres or less, isn't much
[15:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:28] <exec> 08└─What?
[15:51:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03caffeine [249] 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:50] <exec> 08└─One of my physics lecturers wrote a paper on this in 1979 - referenced here - http://home.pacific.net.au [pacific.net.au] He died a couple of years ago but was one of the few lecturers I remember well after almost 30 years.
[15:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Any paper containing the expression "magnetic spaghetti" is worth my time.
[15:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:59] <exec> 08└─Low freq atmospheric noise has a reddish spectrum (at higher freqs its more white noise spectral shape) so that's not unrealistic. Thats not even mythbusters "plausible" but more "not implausible" If you can hear a meteor you should have been able to hear omega stations. I hooked a tweeter up to a l...
[15:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:01] <exec> 08└─Something to consider is the peak ZHR for the Perseids in 2016 was about three times normal, but not shocking, around 220/hr. So thats around 1 every 20 seconds and its completely believable that if a large one made it down to lower atmosphere and made sonic boomy wooshy noises there's a quite measu...
[15:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:03] <exec> 08└─I think black because he is worried about those dang visible light telescopes spotting whatever orbital maneuvres are necessary to get the trajectory right...
[15:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:59] <exec> 08└─Check youtube for slow-motion videos of LEDs flickering.
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[16:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:46] <exec> 08└─... giving people an experience that they cannot have anywhere else.
[16:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:47] <exec> 08└─"Hey, the best bit was where the replicant saved Deckard's life then gave this really deep monologue about what he'd seen and how it would all just disappear... and then just like, died and let this pigeon fly away..." "What? When did that happen? I went back to check on Pris to... well, er... she m...
[16:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:50] <exec> 08└─A VR headset is the same anywhere. It could emulate the experience of being in a theater if it had sufficient resolution. In fact, it would be really easy since it would need a high res panel but not necessarily high framerate. 24 fps is still industry standard. Most movie theaters seem to be projec...
[16:45:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:59] <exec> 08└─they need to higher someone with a brain.
[16:46:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:12] <exec> 08└─The reason that the big tech firms love H1-B employees so much has not all that much to do with depressing wages. What they really like, more than anything else, is that H1-Bs cannot say no to their bosses without risking deportation. If, say, a manager demands a 100-hour work week, a US-born worker...
[16:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:14] <exec> 08└─Correct answer.
[16:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:16] <exec> 08└─It's not despised by the people who use them, of course. My girlfriend is a 3d design artist working on a technical student education visa extension, and is currently trying to get an H1-B because she likes the culture of the US more than her home culture. She brings useful and productive skills, an...
[16:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/18/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-and-hire-american [whitehouse.gov] Section 3 is basically ordering some future behaviors of a vague sort and a bunch of reports. The EO doesn't specify how forcefully it'll be enforced nor does it provid...
[16:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─Except for the little sticking point that H1Bs don't often become citizens. They take their work experience back to their home country. Net gain for the US: a few thousand dollars padding to corporate budgets.
[16:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:23] <exec> 08└─Then she needs to go for a green card and not an H1B. H1B is for jobs where there are no American workers. There are plenty of American workers in 3D design. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying shes not welcome, but as far as im concerned shes going aboutstaying the wrong way.
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:25] <exec> 08└─In my career as a software engineer, I've known at least 3 H1B coworkers take and pass a citizenship test. And I'm an anti-social ass who avoids learning about his coworkers lives for the most part.
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, do you think green cards are allocated? There's really just the FB and EB program. I mean, I admit she could get one through marrying me, but, you know they mostly don't give them out to people who aren't currently living in the US, right? Like, one of the main green-card processes is...
[16:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:29] <exec> 08└─I should add that they originally came as H1-B workers, but were obviously not H1B when they passed the test, because our obtuse immigration rules would never allow that.
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks for Goldsmith link. This clip is less than 10 minutes. I only knew him as one of the most cut throat corporate raiders -- buying up the stock of companies and then either taking over or threatening management to generate short term profit & stock price increase (eg, sell branches of the compa...
[16:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, cynicism about this review is in order.
[16:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:36] <exec> 08└─Everyone has capital, including the "laborer". A person's capital is any resource (time, money, labor, mind, etc.) that said person can allocate according to solely his own will. That is what capitalism is: The recognition that resources should be allocated according to voluntary interaction—there...
[16:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:38] <exec> 08└─One more thought. To Trump supporters, I would say: Trump won. Get over it. You cannot put such a bumbling illiterate clown circus in power, fumbling and stumbling over one another, and then complain about the hilarity of the daily antics that result.
[16:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:40] <exec> 08└─These tech firms have outsourced their bullying to the monopoly on imposition: Government. Without government thugs being ready, willing, and able to follow through with the threat of deportation, these tech companies wouldn't be able to do that; the problem is the inherent nature of government: Imp...
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─It's just that Trump is the comedic gift that keeps on taking. Nothing more.
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─Do you have any excess capital? I have a really good deal on a bridge.
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─It takes an hour to watch all five or six parts.
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─The problem with that fantasy is that the laborer needs to eat in the fairly short term. The corporation that abuses them doesn't. Especially when we have a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. Because corporations are people too. The corporations will find s...
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:51] <exec> 08└─I guess I was the unicorn H1B with a very good wage and without a slave-driver boss (especially compared to the workaholic current one). But it is true that young foreign workers were less distracted by family, and more likely to work harder to prove that they belong where they are.
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─Mumble mumble violently imposed monopoly mumble mumble mutually beneficial contracts mumble unicorns mumble rainbow ponies mumble competitive enforcers mumble... Nope, still can't figure out how he does it...
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:34] <exec> 08└─I've known a lot of peopel with aches and pains. None of them ever seemed to reliably predict the weather. Of all the people I've known who claimed joint pain (or whatever) ahead of storms, only a couple seemed to be somewhat reliable. No, it doesn't count when the first gusts are tearing shingles o...
[16:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:35] <exec> 08└─When the barometer moves quickly, arthritics feel it - it doesn't matter if it's going up or down.
[16:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─My wife suffers from this, so a while ago I looked it up and read that the drop in barometric pressure allows the tendons in the joints to swell to the point where it causes pain. Anti-inflammatories should help. In the name of science, I suggested that my wife soak in the tub to see if the water pr...
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the vote was as close as it was.
[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─The result makes me sad. My wife and I spent our honeymoon in Turkey and went a couple other times besides. We love it. The people are the kindest and gentlest by far that I have ever encountered. Their way of life and history are the definition of cosmopolitan. Through every level, across every dim...
[16:48:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:25] <exec> 08└─Decades of video games have strengthened my athletic hands. The rest of me is flabby fat.
[16:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:39] <exec> 08└─And please leave out the 'naked guys wrestling' event: DON'T want to hear about that, THANKA BERRRY MUUUCH.
[16:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:40] <exec> 08└─But would you actually want to watch that?
[16:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:42] <exec> 08└─Despite still being closed software, Blizzard impressed me by supporting their software for 20 years.
[16:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:40] <exec> 08└─You'll get errors and warnings out the ass. I've yet to successfully compile anything on AIX (no I am not a comp.sci major either).
[16:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:41] <exec> 08└─A) Red Hat has never sold their distribution. You get RHEL for free and pay for support. B) The GPL doesn't forbid selling your product. You just have to make sure they also get the source in the purchase if you go that direction.
[16:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:43] <exec> 08└─So I went and checked the comment. Sure the title said what you claim, but the comment was: We knew from day one this mumbo jumbo wouldn't fly. Honestly, what sane person would try to make money from any software licensed under the GPL, which was drafted by a hippie communist to fulfill his manifes...
[16:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe 2018 will be the "year of the Hurd desktop". Hurd/systemd would be a weird combination though.
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:48] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, that is just a cute way to say "paper jam".
[16:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Einride Aims to Solve Trucking Emissions Problem With Self-Driving T-Pods - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:17] <exec> 08└─Another approach, if they want to keep the T-pods cabless, is to have a follow-the-leader mode where you slave each one to the one in front, and slave the front one to a human-driven vehicle. This can be particular sensible if several T-pods are going to the same place, but also works if you can set...
[16:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:35] <exec> 08└─And his statements are more factual because?
[16:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:37] <exec> 08└─I think he's probably more happy about the aircraft carrier. Before I looked it up I thought it was going to be one of the Gerald Ford-class ones. USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy.[1] She is named for the 41st President of the...
[16:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:39] <exec> 08└─it still doesn't excuse their entitled behavior, particularly making themselves out to be the abused victims ("of course we complied" give me a break).
[16:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:40] <exec> 08└─If you can hear a meteor you should have been able to hear omega stations.
[16:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 2046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:42] <exec> 08└─Has anyone actually developed any to talk about? To the target of such a weapon, due to relativistic length contraction, such weapons would appear to be much shorter in length. There was a certain runner carrying a javelin. There was a barn with both it's front and back door wide open. The javelin i...
[16:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:44] <exec> 08└─Is there any possibility that you are not actually hearing a sound but that some EMI from the meteor affects your biological hearing apparatus in a way that you perceive a sound? But the sound is non existent. This would allow the possibility that the EMI is at a higher frequency than typical audio...
[16:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:41] <exec> 08└─It could also eliminate flicker in LED lighting. I have a few LED bulbs at home, but most of them are nearly worthless because they interfere with one another. And are much worse when on a dimmer circuit.
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[17:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─Sticky is not the result you want.
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:01] <exec> 08└─Most water-based lubes will get sticky once they dry out. Assuming the lube is applied on the outside of absorbent clothing of some kind, I think you'd get a sticky effect pretty quick. Something more sugary might be a better simulation of spilled coke though, which is always what I *hope* movie the...
[17:46:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors)
[17:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:46] <exec> 08└─That's just it: It is not the case that government has been corrupted by the power of corporations; rather, the corporations have been corrupted by the power of government. See here. [soylentnews.org]
[17:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, you need to go through the Green Card stage for a few years first. Side note: If you came to do code/engineering work, taking the citizenship test is passing the test. They give you a booklet of answers, don't require you to know all of them, and unless you have a terrible translator or memory,...
[17:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:49] <exec> 08└─There is an imbalance of power here. The government has been corrupted beyond the possibility of repair. Some will disagree, but IMO we are already beyond the event horizon but just haven't recognized it yet.
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:52] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, congress instituted the H-1B program, but with a cap on the number that could be granted in a particular year. The program is always oversubscribed - H-1B's are generally gone within days of the applications opening. I do not believe that congress specified the mechanism used to...
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:54] <exec> 08└─The government has been corrupted beyond the possibility of repair. Some will disagree, but IMO we are already beyond the event horizon but just haven't recognized it yet.
[17:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:56] <exec> 08└─Of course they can complain!!!! LOL You see, the worst part is that you are not parodying him. He does actually speak like that on occasion. I remember reading that comedy writers said all you really had to do was just use their exact words. The White House administration has become the comedy write...
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─Man
[17:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:19] <exec> 08└─It's still "Tor", not "TOR".
[17:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:44] <exec> 08└─Then, why don't they put arthritic people in a barometric chamber for a week, and ask them to record when they think the pressure went up or down? You can even double-blind that.
[17:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:45] <exec> 08└─Then get a Jew to carry the heavy things. ... oops. Forgot that seldom are Jews found doing useful work. And when they are, it often isn't voluntary. A military can make them work. It appears that they're not used to working, and don't like it either. This isn't helplessness that's to be pitied. The...
[17:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:47] <exec> 08└─I have a theory that those who can predict such things are more connected to the planet. They are also pure and not mixed. Mixed genes and mixed races stop people from being alive.
[17:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:50] <exec> 08└─Is eth-fueled posting as anon now? Get some help man!
[17:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:52] <exec> 08└─they still don't know WHY a drop in barometric pressure triggers a response.
[17:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─It has been done [wired.com], though that link only mentions a group of four patients for a study in a barometric chamber (obviously not enough for statistical significance; it's surprising if there have been no follow-ups to that). There have been a number of other studies that have correlated loca...
[17:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:00] <exec> 08└─At my workplace, we did a change of mission statement a few years ago. I can't remember what it is now. But my coworkers seemed embarassed when I suggested that the mission statement that we had had for decades was still applicable and didn't need to be changed. It was the same sort of embarassment...
[17:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:02] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you should have said "Red Hat never sold Fedora Linux". There have been many versions that they did sell. I used to regularly buy "Red Hat, Professional Edition" until they suddenly and without warning discontinued it. They only wanted to sell to companies, or at least to people who were will...
[17:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:04] <exec> 08└─Oh god it's raining again! I have to wrap my linux laptop in a trash bag and run to the homeless shelter! Out of my way, normals! Elite coder coming through!! I'm better than you because I don't feel the need to bathe! Gotta get inside! I have brilliantly crafted code to upload!!
[17:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:06] <exec> 08└─The thing stopping people is that it's a lot of work. A few people and groups have done this. Several have mentioned CentOS, but there also is (or was, I don't keep current) WhiteBox Linux, and Scientific Linux. There have been others in the past, like KRUD Linux and Pink Tie Linux, and there may be...
[17:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:08] <exec> 08└─What does RMS have to do with "open source"? Nothing. There was also nothing wrong with what he said.
[17:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:11] <exec> 08└─Try for bitter free software developer who has large projects out there under the GPL. Try software developer who has seen absolutely no benefit in contributing to free software for decades. Try disillusioned member of your free software movement who has learned to hate everything about your evangel...
[17:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:13] <exec> 08└─Well, I, also, have yet to compile any Linux software on AIX. Of course, I don't have access to any AIX system. (Are they still even selling those?) The thing is, the POSIX standard only defines a subset of the libraries used...and actually, even there it's a bit loose. Using libraries that aren't m...
[17:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:15] <exec> 08└─It really isn't. Plenty of people have no degrees and are very well-educated about computer science.
[17:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ah.clem [4241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:01] <exec> 08└─Total money grab by Hodgson and Mallon. The reason Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy have been able to continue to make a living out of riffing while the rest of them have often tried and failed is because they are great comedy writers and have really good timing when riffing. They also hav...
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[17:52:05] <exec> 08└─They could just be assholes.
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[18:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:58] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
[18:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:59] <exec> 08└─Both Samsung and SanDisk have 256 GB MicroSD cards. I'm sure a lot more than 24 of those could fit in the volume of an LTO-7 tape. By the time LTO-10 comes out, the 2 TB barrier for both full size SD and MicroSD will have been long broken.
[18:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:01] <exec> 08└─I'm envisioning a giant library with a robot arm with tiny little grippers to swap microSD cards instead of tapes... Of course they are so tiny the could be lost. Maybe it could also put them in plastic eggs for transport.
[18:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:03] <exec> 08└─As long as you have a decent backup window, tape is convenient and cheap. Particularly in the SMB market, where cost plays a much bigger role than in larger enterprise. Autoloaders are relatively cheap if your backups span multiple tapes, they (generally) last YEARS in a decently climate controlled...
[18:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:05] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. H1B is the wrong way to go, and no I do not support people trying to get that visa just so they can move to the US. Its not even good for the visa holder, you are pretty much an indentured servant. There are other ways to skin that cat.
[18:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:07] <exec> 08└─You have my sympathies if you're an American techie who can't outperform H1B code monkeys. Maybe you picked the wrong field.
[18:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:09] <exec> 08└─Even more hillarious: taking the language test for someone born and raised in the UK.
[18:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:11] <exec> 08└─Repeat after me, child: "Regulatory capture." Saying that this makes regulation or government bad is precisely the same as saying that a tumor proves that the concept of multicellularity is bad.
[18:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:13] <exec> 08└─Outperform? The bosses don't care about performance, they care about having enough "bodies" to charge to the next department down the line. Seriously, spent a few minutes walking around a cube farm sometime. They don't say "We need a Java developer" or "We need a sysadmin", they say "We need more bo...
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─Indentured servitude as a form of slavery devalues your fellow man, so in a sense slavery devalues yourself.
[18:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─> Except for the little sticking point that H1Bs don't often become citizens. Originally they did. But two things have happened over the last decade: (1) The green card process has become so drawn-out that many give up or are forced to give up by circumstances like the expiration of their H1B visa (...
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─That's just it: It is not the case that government has been corrupted by the power of corporations; rather, the corporations have been corrupted by the power of government. If you organize your society around the notion that imposition is acceptable, then that is what you'll get: Imposition.
[18:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─All that matters is that he's deporting brownies. He's kept that promise - just kicked out the first DACA kid and Rep Steve King tweeted a virtual beer to DHS in celebration. [thehill.com] And as racial insecurity was the primary motivator for voting Trump, they will be happy. In fact, all the other...
[18:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:25] <exec> 08└─I can agree that corporations can outsource bullying to government. But this only works when the government are thugs willing to go along with corporate bullying. IMO, the government of recent years is happy to be the corporations' bully -- as I wrote elsewhere in this topic, because the government...
[18:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:27] <exec> 08└─Sort of like how Warren lambastes banks when there is no real risk of any sanctions against them, as a way to market herself to Democrats.
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─I saw that earlier and decided then not to reply. See my reply there now.
[18:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─That's my read as well.
[18:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─If a government, even the best, most benign government with the best possible public interests in mind; if that government is unable to coerce things with the force of law, then it simply is unable to function. It's regulations mean nothing. Laws mean nothing. Taxes to pay for public projects are me...
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─> I guess I was the unicorn H1B with a very good wage 80% of H1B holders earn entry-level equivalent wages.
[18:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:38] <exec> 08└─The last thing I want to see in my lifetime is a government collapse. I simply believe it will come and is unavoidable. Fifteen years ago I realized the government was hopelessly corrupt, but believed it could be fixed. Now I no longer believe it is possible to fix.
[18:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:40] <exec> 08└─Poor bastards, how could they ever pass? Colour? It's COLOR moron :)
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─Which is OK if you're doing entry-level work.
[18:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:04] <exec> 08└─Never volunteer to work on free software for it is a thankless job and you will go to jail.
[18:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─In my experience, corporations get to market quickly on the backs of FOSS, refuse to contribute back, and then take their profits to write proprietary replacements once a strong foothold has been achieved.
[18:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:36] <exec> 08└─What determines what a race is? Is race like a sort of kind [wikipedia.org] or baramin for humans?
[18:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─Increase in gas bubble formation in the joints?
[18:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:11] <exec> 08└─Do I believe there was some kind of election fraud? Highly probable.
[18:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:44] <exec> 08└─QWOP
[18:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:45] <exec> 08└─Serious, chess has been working for years and at this point we're probably up to decades to gain admittance into the olympics. It makes so much more sense as the first mental sport. It's more physical than using a mouse on a computer screen, has a much greater progeny, and also won't be outdated in...
[18:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:57] <exec> 08└─It's a fleshlight shaped like a penguin.
[18:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:58] <exec> 08└─Photo from 8 years ago proves nothing. Alan Cocks could very well be homeless now, living under a bridge, and eating garbage.
[18:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:00] <exec> 08└─Plenty of people are getting paid to write free software. Your social skills might have something to do with why your life is a wreck. Have you been divorced too? Paying alimony right now? Gonna blame that on free software?
[18:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:02] <exec> 08└─Programming in general, sure, but when we're talking about the finer points of compiling between different Unices I'd like to see some credentials or job experience or something to justify that "I couldn't get it to work" doesn't mean "I banged on it for an afternoon without knowing what I was doing...
[18:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:05] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire [wikipedia.org]
[18:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:07] <exec> 08└─Argh, get away! I know you thieves want to steal my laptop and steal my pills, just like you did to Richard Stallman in Argentina!! Oh I've just thought of a wonderfully elegant data structure to use for my latest project. I'm the smartest coder alive. Damn it, someone stole my pills while I was typ...
[18:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:09] <exec> 08└─I dunno, "Herd of Unix-Replacing Daemons" sounds like a fair description of systemd to me.
[18:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Repairing Bone with 3-D Printing - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:12] <exec> 08└─This sounds only useful in cases where a pin or a case wouldn't suffice. Think...to get it in place they need to cut you open sufficiently to get the new material in place, and the get the ends to mesh properly they probably need to shape the bits of your old bone left in place. In the cases where t...
[18:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that's a big deal, really -- you just put much bigger fans on the same motor. Thrust, drag, and buoyancy all scale with atmospheric density, so while the thing will be freaking big for a given payload capacity, it shouldn't take inordinate power to push through the thin atmosphere at bl...
[18:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:34] <exec> 08└─Averaged over the whole surface, maybe. At the bottom of Hellas it's about twice that.
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[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─If energy can be stored effectively, then all of the problems with "renewable" energy go away. The one amazing feature of fossil fuels is that they are an amazing store of energy—one that can be transmitted and handled with relative ease.
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─That is actually a really good idea. You might want to print your comment, flesh it out with some extra notes about how you think it would work then get it notarized. May not be as good as a patent but it would show you published the idea first and might at least be able to get some credit for it. I...
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─Just add the electrical contacts to the arm, then the arm can just sit on the sd card, while the sd card remains fixed in place. Although, I gotta say, I REALLY like the egg idea. And the eggs should be just piled up at random, with a robotic claw dangling from the top.
[19:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─And they'll only cost twice as much as the tape and require a robot to swap them. Possibly a good option for use at home or a small office, but when you have a lot of data, the tape is better proven, more convenient, and cheaper.
[19:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 5190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:14] <exec> 08└─£2500 + £30 a 6Gb tape for a basic LTO-6 tape drive (Just googled for a brand I can recognise, that wasn't the cheapest, no autoloader etc.) buys you an awful lot of other things. I imagine small shops aren't even bothering at that kind of price. Price is the primary reason I hear people steer cle...
[19:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:16] <exec> 08└─Dammit! I just deleted the annual report, got a quarter?
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:28] <exec> 08└─You might be joking, but I think you made a really insightful comment there. Film directors have a lot of emotion invested in ensuring that they fully control the viewing experience. Allowing the viewer to change perspective or even (gasp!) alter the framing of the scene takes a lot of control away...
[19:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─Just go to New York and join one of the shows. Sure, you can follow some predefined path, but often you find yourself on your own little adventure—and that makes it your adventure—you'll want to go back and try another aspect of the story, and lets face it: More than art, return customers are wh...
[19:47:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:06] <exec> 08└─One more thought. To Trump supporters, I would say: Trump won. Get over it. You cannot put such a bumbling illiterate clown circus in power, fumbling and stumbling over one another, and then complain about the hilarity of the daily antics that result.
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:39] <exec> 08└─Okay, I have a purely hypothetical question. Imagine that someone just committed the criminal act of painting a swastika on a Trump tower. Who should the police be first to suspect: 1. His detractors? 2. His supporters? That would seem to make it difficult to narrow down the suspects.
[19:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:41] <exec> 08└─It's not despised by the people who use them, of course. My girlfriend is a 3d design artist working on a technical student education visa extension, and is currently trying to get an H1-B because she likes the culture of the US more than her home culture.
[19:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:43] <exec> 08└─Why do you not yet understand that? The problem is one of organization, not enforcement.
[19:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:45] <exec> 08└─Woman
[19:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:47] <exec> 08└─Speak of the devil!
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:49] <exec> 08└─You AGREE with such governmental actions; therefore, for YOU, those are not examples of coercion. To enforce a contract to which you have agreed in advance is not coercion of you. If you agreed not to produce anymore beer, then the Prohibition wasn't coercion for you; it was simply following through...
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─Aardvark.
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─H-1B is widely derided and despised. Is there a reason for that?
[19:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:57] <exec> 08└─Face it, the Olympics has been a sad display of greed and corruption for decades. It's a gigantic boondoggle engineered to grease the palms of the IOC and local officials, kick back obscene bounty to construction companies and real estate developers, and enrich just about everyone else involved at t...
[19:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:18] <exec> 08└─1) don't feed the trolls 2) fedora loves proprietary
[19:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:19] <exec> 08└─I think we have a 'Mission Statement', but to paraphrase someone, when I hear the words 'Mission Statement', I reach for my LART.. Re Redhat/Fedora, I started with Slackware, made quite a good living from running and administering Redhat boxes, for which I do thank them, but heard the faint refrain...
[19:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:07] <exec> 08└─No no... Felicia Day is just the right kind of hot (as in smoking). Overall I am pleased with the new show. Jonah fills the shoes of Joel and Mike nicely, and the riffing is definitely up to par. The new voice actor for Tom Servo feels a bit off (I'm used to Kevin Murphy and they sound very differen...
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[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:59] <exec> 08└─If energy can be stored effectively AT LARGE SCALE, then many problems of renewable energy go away. But what if you have a prolonged period of no sunlight reaching the Earth surface? Say twenty years or so? This would greatly diminish the effectiveness of solar power. It seems likely to have an effe...
[20:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:01] <exec> 08└─As for storage of energy at small scale to be transmitted and handled with ease, it seems to me that electric car battery tech is improving continuously. At some point eliminate most fossil fuel use with electric vehicles once there is a sufficiently developed charging infrastructure. Sort of like h...
[20:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:04] <exec> 08└─I think if the sun stopped working for 20 years, ineffective solar power would be the least of our problems.
[20:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:06] <exec> 08└─Probably talking about cloudy days. A lot of people don't realize that cloudy days are still very bright, sure noon sunlight is who knows like 6 times the watts/sq-whatever but its hardly zero. Then consider the cost of a watt on the roof drops somewhere between 5 and 10 percent a year. now combine...
[20:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:08] <exec> 08└─You mean like weather in the UK? Have you seen the number of solar panels on roofs in the UK?
[20:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─I was into sailing when I was younger and the concept of solar panel powering a boat trolling motor is tantalizingly close to working but not quite there technologically. Just like another doubling of power density and I could run an electric cruising boat across the ocean. Its not entirely trivial...
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:26] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, microSD cards do have a very high data density, however they also cost a lot more I'm pretty sure, in a $/GB sense. The advantage of LTO tape is that it's really cheap for the cartridges, compared to other storage technologies. The disadvantage is that it requires a really, really expensive dri...
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:42] <exec> 08└─That's what the Theater has always been about ... giving people an experience they cannot have anywhere else.
[20:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:44] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─Wants to use VR to hide this fact and upsell to the impressionable. Makes perfect sense to me.
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─Now Hollywood can put out the same crap over again in VR ? 3D failed miserably, not because the tech did not work but because the brain dead idiots that make movies lack creativity and are so fsck'n greedy they won't spend a dime on making new material but just reboot/reinvision the same old shit ag...
[20:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─You won't be getting this VR dream with live sports. That's only possible with games, where every element of the scene is rendered and can be re-rendered from a different view point. Live sports will have to be filmed using new VR cameras, then stiched together into a spherical projection, then stre...
[20:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:53] <exec> 08└─Okay, 2nd try: VR like 3D is not going to draw some people to theaters given (A) the costs and drawbacks of theaters, and (B) the convenience of watching a big screen at home. 3D does not add to the actual story telling experience. I am doubtful that VR does either. If I stay home, I can be vigilant...
[20:47:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:11] <exec> 08└─the market has unwittingly built itself around the fantasy signals concocted by know-nothing paper-pushing bureaucrats.
[20:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:10] <exec> 08└─She doesn't despise her home country. She just thinks this one's culture suits her better.
[20:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:12] <exec> 08└─It is usually lifts, lorries, flats, and hundreds and thousands that fuck up the British on that part of the test.
[20:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─Ok so help me out. Let's say that I'm living in Libertopia (or whatever we'll call a theoretical place that implements your system--and I'm starting to like it more and more), smoking some leafy plants in my house, and a bunch of thugs with guns break in, wreck my furniture, beat me to a pulp, drag...
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:16] <exec> 08└─Correct. I know good people (Mainframe programmers, CICS guys, as well as Oracle and SQL guys -- never mind how many windows server admins that were replaced when every single H1B had MCSEs and only the employee server admins worried about their email signature had them--it was a swift transition).....
[20:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─And nothing about it prevents companies from closing the req's down here and opening them in a low cost centers , which is very possible for many jobs being done by H1B holders today . . .
[20:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:21] <exec> 08└─As much as I like your comment (I consider it to be a form of hire education, regarding proper selection of employees etc...) It should be noted that the H1B issue has primarily been considered to have been caused by the republican party. "Progressives" have been complaining about this for some time...
[20:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:23] <exec> 08└─She North Korean???
[20:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:25] <exec> 08└─They got to have the same fun pointing out Obama's problems, but it wasn't as fun for them because most liberals/progressives were like "I know right? What a lying jerk Obama turned out to be..." and then a bunch of others had the semi-decent defense that Congress was controlled by the oliphonts so...
[20:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, dumbass, what the fuck do you think "entity that has power to enforce consensual mutually-agreed-upon contracts" is called? That's right: government. Even if it doesn't call itself that, at the end of the day, that is government. Your ancap retardation is a shallow, literal-minded, shortsighted...
[20:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 2375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:29] <exec> 08└─In these discussions, it is quite common for someone to say "OK, so, all of a sudden, overnight, government completely disappears. What happens now?!" Well, I'll tell you what happens now: Mayhem, violence, death, and despair. Go to the nearest grocery store, and grab as many cans of beans as you ca...
[20:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─No where does he say he wants to go through a collapse. We're all scared shitless of a collapse, but we're also fed up with being serfs in a rigged game that is only getting worse every year. Also, some of us would like our planet to remain inhabitable in the long term. We have so much human capital...
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:34] <exec> 08└─Mardwark
[20:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─There is very little support in a western society for strong contract agreements; it's all smoke and mirrors that hide the ultimate truth: "The outcome is whatever the government says". What makes an organization a "government"? I'll tell you: An organization becomes a government when it allocates r...
[20:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:59] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it when I see Lennart behind bars. I'll even get you a beer.
[20:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:32] <exec> 08└─I've had rheumatoid arthritis for over 30 years, and I've noticed no correlation between cloudy weather and pain. I have noticed a correlation between pain and actual rainfall, or cold weather independent of clouds, however...I become progressively less mobile as the temperature drops, to the point...
[20:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Live Giant Shipworm Specimens Found - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:12] <exec> 08└─They would have found them a whole lot sooner if they'd just checked out some of our resident trolls. Woops, I guess that kinda makes me one. Where is my giant ship???
[20:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Music of the Meteors" may be Caused by Radio Emissions - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:01] <exec> 08└─> Both of them are true Only if the barn contains frictionless spherical cows in a vacuum. Otherwise, a blast of high-speed plasma made up of former organic and metallic molecules blew the barn, and the rest of the farm, down. No word on whether the local spacetime warp helped to hack the JD control...
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[21:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:38] <exec> 08└─Eating entire family sized bag of cheetos! [munch] [munch] [munch] [munch] [munch] Why am I still hungrrrry! [munch] [munch] [munch] [munch] [munch] [munch]
[21:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:40] <exec> 08└─I adopted a very-low-sodium diet some time ago, and it's amazing how very salty food at restaurants now tastes. The same thing happens when you adopt a low-sugar diet: Big Food's choices become sickly sweet. Here's the American story: Fat was labeled bad, so it was replaced with sugar.Sugar was labe...
[21:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:42] <exec> 08└─Processing salt takes energy. If you don't increase your caloric content with an increase in salt intake you should in theory lose weight. However, you get hungry.... so we are back to portion control for weight loss.
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:44] <exec> 08└─We need a +1 Depressing mod. It's true. Everything good is bad for you, and everything bad, is good for you. If there is Intelligent Design, then God has a weird sense of humor. Interesting research too. I eat way too much salt and I know it. It was easy to do since I have the genetics that gives me...
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:46] <exec> 08└─Try a salt suppository.
[21:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:48] <exec> 08└─Supposing you are right, how do you get your head back out?
[21:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:51] <exec> 08└─I did the no salt low salt thing for many years until I wound up in the hospital with critically low sodium. They said I was lucky I hadn't had a seizure. I was suffering muscle cramps and spasms all over my body. Fuck no salt low salt. I'm beginning to think that any and all dietary advice I hear i...
[21:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:05] <exec> 08└─Since the sun is about 400,000 times brighter than the full moon, a large 1kW (in noon sun) solar panel will produce only around 2.5mW by the light of the full moon. So you'd need 2000 such panels to generate 5W of power from moonlight. And at 1kW we're probably talking about a single panel being ro...
[21:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:06] <exec> 08└─I call bull-shit on moonlight killing somebody. Though 20mA at 400V is only 8W. Electricity From Moonlight (Cody's Lab -- 5:01) [youtube.com] Can moon light produce electricity from solar panels at night? Can moon light generate the electron-hole pair in a solar cell? [quora.com] Moonlight can be u...
[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─Do you have LOTS of cash? If yes, the market already has anwsers: http://www.solarwave-yachts.com [solarwave-yachts.com]
[21:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─Designing a system with 1,000,000 (or even 1,000) sdxc readers would be non-trivial. Although I did find this card that connects to the sata bus: http://the-gadgeteer.com [the-gadgeteer.com] I suppose you could just scale that idea up to a car...
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─Latency problems? Upgrade to a Bugatti Veyron!
[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:32] <exec> 08└─Well, look at NAS vendors, if you got the cash they'll build anything that can be imagined, even build things that shouldn't be imagined. Without the size constraint of drives, you could put thousands of cards in something the size of a dorm fridge. In fact I wouldn't even use cards and slots I'd ju...
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─The Linear Tape-Open [wikipedia.org] market is stable:
[21:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─Why ever upgrade from tape? We've already got it set up, processes established, policies documented, expectations established, core equipment installed and configured, etc! You want to build what? Instead of just buying new tape every year? I mean it sounds nice but the TIME and COST!
[21:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─I have some more important and valuable features that you're missing out on by staying at home with your silly 60" TV instead of visiting a theater like you should: * not being able to make your own food (like dinner) or drinks, and only being limited to what the theater offers (at extremely high pr...
[21:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─Wrong, I can't get most of those at home. * crying babies I don't have any babies, and the adoption process is extremely difficult and expensive from what I hear. * people narrating the movie, giving spoilers, using cell phones I don't have any friends who would do this. They seem to think it's rude...
[21:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:02] <exec> 08└─You might be joking, but I think you made a really insightful comment there.
[21:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:32] <exec> 08└─Lies! North Korea Best Korea!!
[21:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:34] <exec> 08└─tannoy snog chips boot biscuits knickers knackered woohoo
[21:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:36] <exec> 08└─You either have the resources to live the way you want, or you do not. It's that simple. The word "profit" doesn't just mean "bank balance"; money is but one way to measure profit.
[21:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:38] <exec> 08└─Platypus
[21:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:02] <exec> 08└─Reiser is behind bars, thought he was God's Gift to Linux. Funny how that worked out for him.
[21:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:36] <exec> 08└─It is easy to notice the correlations you want to see and dismiss the ones you don't. Also, if you have pain you are aware of it and give it thought. You take note of it. You remember it the next day or after the weather has changed. If you don't have pain, you don't notice that. Most people don't t...
[21:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:44] <exec> 08└─Obama may have been responsible for a lot of shit, but I think this was a weee bit before his time!
[21:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:58] <exec> 08└─I was looking through a few stories, but all I could see was that United claimed that. The couple's story on the altercation is different. Do you have a link to someone other than United corroborating this turn of events? After recent United stories, I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the...
[21:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:00] <exec> 08└─Their stock will be priced at 0.01 US$ in 203 days if they keep up at the Tuesday rate.
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[22:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom and Japanese Government Considering Bid for Toshiba's Semiconductor Unit - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:40] <exec> 08└─It damn well is a security problem... so why not just pass a law to deal with the issue? ("Henceforth, Japan has ITAR restrictions like the USA.") Then there would be a bankruptcy, the court could restructure debt and terminate contracts, and Japanese investors could bid for whatever is left. With l...
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─B..b..but it's got electrolytes.
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:56] <exec> 08└─You should try it as a lose weight mechanism if you do not like your kidneys. Processing large amount of salt out of your system is on your kidneys are sure they use lots of energy to do that.....in fact it seems they process less water out which causes high blood pressure...which may strain your ki...
[22:46:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─I think if the sun stopped working for 20 years, ineffective solar power would be the least of our problems.
[22:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:14] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of sailboats with 100 watts of solar panels because the panels output more power and require less weight and maintenance than a generator
[22:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:16] <exec> 08└─Trump orders Battle Group to Scotland to defend (An) American('s) Interests in Sea Views From Golf Courses.
[22:46:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 5190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─£2500 + £30 a 6Gb tape for a basic LTO-6 tape drive (Just googled for a brand I can recognise, that wasn't the cheapest, no autoloader etc.) buys you an awful lot of other things. I imagine small shops aren't even bothering at that kind of price. Price is the primary reason I hear people steer cle...
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[22:46:41] <exec> 08└─Two problems [sdcard.org]: The SDXC standard requires the proprietary exFAT filesystem and a modified version of CPRM (with device revocation). You can try a non-standard FS like ZFS, but YMMV.
[22:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─Um, this really doesn't make sense. There *are* no cheaper backup solutions, in $/GB, than LTO tape that I'm aware of. You can get portable hard drives pretty cheaply these days with multi-TB capacities, but they're still more expensive per TB than LTO cartridges.
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─Tape lasts and lasts. I've had about 3 - 5 SD cards fail on me after too many write operations. They don't just backup data and leave it sitting, the tapes get re-used to give you a *current* backup. MTWTF MTWTF and then repeat.
[22:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:09] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget stray bullets from MPAA agents.
[22:48:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:11] <exec> 08└─Sort of like how Warren lambastes banks when there is no real risk of any sanctions against them, as a way to market herself to Democrats.
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─His detractors. The nazis have been emboldened, but they aren't going to tag a trump tower because its already tagged with their leader's name.
[22:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:46] <exec> 08└─I simply believe it will come and is unavoidable.
[22:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:48] <exec> 08└─Except H1B is explicitly not for entry-level work, its for highly-skilled employees.
[22:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:50] <exec> 08└─H-1B is widely derided and despised. Is there a reason for that?
[22:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:53] <exec> 08└─Member of Technical Staff 1 : EE/CS right out of college
[22:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:17] <exec> 08└─Are you fat? Apparently all that salt is likely to make you eat too much...
[22:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:26] <exec> 08└─It's probably easier to get NK to launch an attack than it is to convince NATO to go to war. They both end the same way, though, NATO going to war.
[22:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:02] <exec> 08└─That's the biggest problem. Games do come and go from the Olympics over time as sports get popular or people lose interest, but the games that appear are mostly ones that are played for centuries. The Olympics themselves usually have the same games for decades. In terms of esports, I have a hard tim...
[22:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:04] <exec> 08└─Considering that it's already devolved into a fight between a small number of major nations that pump large amounts of money into the process, it's not particularly compelling TV anymore. It seems like each olympiad I wind up watching less and less of it. Not because of any parrticular boycotts, but...
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:24] <exec> 08└─Have all code licensed under GPLv3/AGPLv3/LGPLv3 with the 'or later' clause provisional on the project head published an enactment of it when the new license comes out, or transferring the right to do so to the suceeding project lead. This allows you to keep it from being 'or later' if the later lic...
[22:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:24] <exec> 08└─The jokes work a little more often but it's less spontaneous. Good and bad. Tom Servo can fly now. I don't care, but they're going to remind you every episode. :/ My biggest complaint is the PC wash it got. It's not completely sterilized, but you *know* what would have happened back in the day if a...
[22:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Human-Germ Hybrid Molecules to Attack Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:55] <exec> 08└─Why do we never hear about Engineers scientisting stuff? It's blatant elitism. I've dad enough of "experts" USA USA USA.
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[23:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:17] <exec> 08└─The-market already-has answers, I-think-you-must-mean.
[23:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think you've thought through what you just wrote. I'll give you some time to let it sink in.
[23:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:51] <exec> 08└─Let me go erase my memory and burn my CV, as well as advise many of my friends to follow suit, for the convenience of an AC's uninformed world view... H1Bs are the way to keep Masters students working in the US in high-tech. Obviously, it's a lot more paperwork, and carries the risk of cultural misu...
[23:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:53] <exec> 08└─Trump isn't now just looking into the issue; this H1-B visa stuff was a major part of his campaign, but you "progressive" fools never bother to actually listen to what any opposition candidate has to say. Also, why are there benefits/entitlements demanded of companies? Well, because of decades of go...
[23:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:56] <exec> 08└─Clever giiirl.
[23:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:58] <exec> 08└─Highschool economics is not enough for you to enter this discussion.
[23:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:00] <exec> 08└─How could you miss the shortage of sysadmins with 20 years of server 2016 experience? We were offering $35k for on-call 24/7 support but still had not takers. Let me tell you, InfoSys delivered! I mean come on... they are info AND sys! What could go wrong?
[23:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:27] <exec> 08└─Not to say that doesn't happen, but the owners of proprietary software occasionally liberate it. Netscape, Solaris and StarOffice come to mind. Some corporations do give back by contributing to existing FOSS projects: The top 10 companies, which employ kernel developers to contribute to the Linux k...
[23:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:37] <exec> 08└─Subsequent headlines: "Massive Electoral Fraud" in Turkey's Referendum [alternet.org] Dark Cloud of Illegitimacy Hovers Over Turkey Vote [bipartisanpolicy.org] ...and, as for Iran being the boilerplate for crooked election, folks might want to check out what happened in Georgia's special election ye...
[23:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I heard those numbers too. Made me think of the aristocrats who fled Cuba after 1959 and holed-up in South Florida. To a person, they liked wealth that is concentrated and workers that are exploited. They also didn't have any particular problem with Batista's brutal Authoritarianism. -- Origin...
[23:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:16] <exec> 08└─Sure. We could also have Olympic Monopoly, Candyland, Magic the Gathering, Pokemon Go, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Guess which hand, and Pull-my-finger.
[23:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:38] <exec> 08└─Is saying open, or free, openly (excuse the pun) becoming something to be ashamed of?
[23:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Made Available - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:29] <exec> 08└─(as in smoking) (as in "You must be smoking crack")
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