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[00:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:44] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the problem with a much simpler, more reliable, and faster wheeled robot rolling along the same guy wire?
[00:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:46] <exec> 08└─One does not just say "String a taught wire above each row of crops" without revealing ignorance of agriculture's scale. Think of a square field with sides one mile long. Then think of "stringing a taught wire" one mile long every two feet for the entire field. That would be only 640 acres, less tha...
[00:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:48] <exec> 08└─The other option is to use the "spider" system used in stadiums. You only have 4 towers/cranes at the corners of the field and 4 long wires attached to a camera which can then go to any spot. The system's reach is only limited by cable tension/droop. The Spider can be sent easily out of the way when...
[00:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:11] <exec> 08└─> Everything good is bad for you, and everything bad, is good for you. It's always a question of reasonable quantities, like for Iocane powder. Except chocolate. Do not even suggest touching at my giant intake of chocolate, and nobody gets hurt.
[00:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:12] <exec> 08└─B..b..but it's got electrolytes.
[00:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─great! there were too many birds anyways. super inefficient and polluting wind power to the rescue!
[00:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─There are many low-flying birds close to shorelines but not so many as you get into open ocean. Migrating birds fly at altitudes far above the windmills. So, in truth and effect, this argument is for the birds.
[00:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:27] <exec> 08└─They can plant 20 or so cameras in every PRO sports venue, in addition to those brought to bear with whatever network comes to town to broad cast the game. I could have a device that receives my cable/internet 'TV' broadcast with 16 GB of storage and I have fiber to my house. I realize you are corre...
[00:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:13] <exec> 08└─You appear to be saying something, but really you're hiding behind vague words. Tell us all what precisely you mean by "strong contract agreements". What makes them strong? What would make them weak? What happens when someone cheats? What happens when everyone cheats? Who enforces the letter of the...
[00:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:15] <exec> 08└─What makes an organization a "government"? I'll tell you: An organization becomes a government when it allocates resources by imposition, rather than by agreement (including agreement in advance).
[00:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:43] <exec> 08└─sounds like government to me. clueless and violent.
[00:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─Do you know where you are? Or was that a retorical question?
[00:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:19] <exec> 08└─That's not relevant. Double blind tests are used when dealing with subjective data being collected from humans and animals. Cases where the person's experience might be biased by the belief about whether or not they've received a real treatment and the interpretation of the responses by researchers....
[00:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:35] <exec> 08└─Luck based games go against the spirit of the Olympics, where as tasks demanding extraordinary human ability such as playing Chess or Starcraft do not.
[00:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:36] <exec> 08└─Since they want to boost the ratings, it's clear that they meant Escorts will be an official Olympic event.
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[01:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:36] <exec> 08└─Holiday Inn IT nerds did it. The bosses heard a rumor about guests using hotel Wi-Fi without paying, and the PHBs ordered the IT dweebs to recover the revenue by any means necessary or pay the loss out of their own salaries.
[01:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:37] <exec> 08└─That's it, no more motels for me, I'm buying that class-B motor home now. Life on the road...in my own bed. What, you say all the gas stations have card skimmers installed in the pumps? Oh well, I guess I just stay home then.
[01:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this makes good sense in a greenhouse, or in their "four-acre soybean test field", or other university type settings. In the real world, we don't want wheeled robots because "they might get in the way of other machinery", so we'll... string wires (not guy wires, BTW) over the field, with po...
[01:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:49] <exec> 08└─ignorance of agriculture's scale Not to mention the over expectations of the benefit of plant images. Nobody has time to look at those pictures of individual plants. Any computer analysis you can do on the photos is going to be too costly, and stringing the wired will never pay for itself. So just s...
[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:51] <exec> 08└─Robots on rails [poisonedminds.com] have a [poisonedminds.com] nasty [poisonedminds.com] habit [poisonedminds.com] of murdering. [poisonedminds.com]
[01:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:53] <exec> 08└─For a slow inspection, that's the best ROI.
[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─I was going along with their apparent assumption that some inspection needs to be close, slow, and detailed enough, to justify the horrible technical decision they based their project on.
[01:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─You sound really old. http://www.playbuzz.com [playbuzz.com]
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─> [a wire] every two feet Move the ends of the wire, or just move one end, like a centre pivot irrigator. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─Walke-talkies had Morse code printed on them? Old cheating bastards.
[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─> We've all heard it: eating salty foods makes you thirstier. TFA discusses a long term study. We use very little added salt in home cooking (but not 0 salt) and have gotten used to other savory & spicy flavors. Sometimes when eating out we get a fairly salty dinner--and short term this certainly ma...
[01:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:17] <exec> 08└─Sustained write speed for MicroSD cards has a long way to go before it will catch up the 1052 Gb/hour of lto7. I think that's the main reason behind tape's durability in the market.
[01:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:19] <exec> 08└─If you're backing up really massive amounts of data, requiring hundreds or thousands of cartridges, LTO is the cheapest way to do it [...]
[01:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:21] <exec> 08└─And you're still looking at being down for the day to restore from a tape even if everything works.
[01:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:23] <exec> 08└─I've formatted many USB thumb drives and SD-Cards as good old ext4 without a problem. The standard controls what is needed to use the word SDXC, not what you actually do with the device.
[01:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:26] <exec> 08└─Good luck finding a station wagon these days...still a few on the USA market, but most of the big car companies serve that market with minivans or suv's now. Which sucks--I like wagons that mostly drive like a normal car...and hold a bit more.
[01:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:28] <exec> 08└─Write speed can be really fast on tape. Read can take forever. Back in the late 90s we were backing up to LT? tapes, and had tons of tapes that we cycled religiously. Too small of an operation to have a tape-arm. Just a large fireproof safe in another room. Numbered slots. Numbered tapes, with digit...
[01:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:54] <exec> 08└─But movie theaters have overstuffed reclining chairs now. Match that at home, I think you can't.
[01:48:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:37] <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...
[01:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:44] <exec> 08└─and it's neighbourhood you twat!
[01:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:13] <exec> 08└─What exactly, in its recent actions, makes you think that the Russian government is "clueless"?
[01:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:15] <exec> 08└─And they also get the cold hand later on.. Non grata.
[01:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:17] <exec> 08└─The government may want to punish the one they think is responsible for the post. At the same time they get to punish people for contributing TOR exit nodes that let other evade their claws. Running a server inside the TOR network is more likely to go under the radar for this kind of government appa...
[01:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:29] <exec> 08└─A lot of democracies are already corrupted such that they proceed with actions that are not in the interest of the people. The reaction is of course to vote into the far end of the political spectrum in order to make sure there's a course change even if it has bad side effects. There seems to be a l...
[01:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:30] <exec> 08└─Trump congratulates. It makes it easier to make Erdogan do his bidding.
[01:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:32] <exec> 08└─Erdogan the new Hitler? Got the army, the ideology, censorship, persecution, mass arrests, dictator friendships etc Neighbors that can work as antagonists. And that prevailing ideology that demands the virtue that anyone of the wrong faith shall be enslaved or killed is in place to. Seems so familia...
[01:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:12] <exec> 08└─I discovered the term of "e-sports" when I found twitch.tv. When one channel is being watched by 250K viewers, wow, that more then most of the estimated nelson rated programs on over the air tv of today. So it really does not surprise me that its started to take on mainstream sports.
[01:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:35] <exec> 08└─Have you considered one of the BSDs?
[01:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:36] <exec> 08└─Considering the Hurd layout. Systemd might not even fill any function at all?
[01:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Air's Abuses: Doing the Heavy-Handed Thing a Third Time - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know. On the other hand they are now beyond just a temporary dip.
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[02:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:48] <exec> 08└─Or just book on Expedia and pay with Bitcoin. It's easy and fast and no one can steal your card.
[02:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:50] <exec> 08└─Pay with shitcoin? I'd rather be a luddite.
[02:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:08] <exec> 08└─You've got the Golden Touch! 15/15
[02:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─Same, despite quite a few of these being obsolete before I was born.
[02:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:58] <exec> 08└─Ok, other than the corporate welfare aspects of government subsidies in general, I really don't see the problem with tax breaks (that's really what we are talking about here) for solar installations, regardless of size. If the damage from coal power affects all of society then the benefit of wind/so...
[02:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─I've dirtbiked under windmill farms in my friends pastures in California. (He makes more money from the windmills than the cattle.) The bird deaths are a myth. In a full day looking around we didn't find one dead bird. Did find one dead calf that attracted quite a few buzzards.
[02:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:35] <exec> 08└─I never said that SD cards were a better backup than tape. But if you want high station wagon or 747 bandwidth, MicroSD is much denser.
[02:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:03] <exec> 08└─Mr Anderson, we told you to not remember the movie. Your memory contains a illegal copy and we are the cure that will help you remove it so you can enjoy another ticket transaction. ;)
[02:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:51] <exec> 08└─Is the Oracle Java engine the proof of this? :p
[02:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:38] <exec> 08└─That could set a dangerous president
[02:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:43] <exec> 08└─it can be but it doesn't have to be. you're one of those slaveware users/peddlers who like to say "commercial" instead of "closed source" or "slaveware" as if F/OSS can't be commercial. you're just a common street hooker. just admit it.
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[03:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:43] <exec> 08└─Dang, this is a stupid piece.
[03:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:54] <exec> 08└─Tents and buses have worked for me. Last trip I had to take, I called churches at my destination and asked if I could camp there for the night; only one had to say yes.
[03:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:41] <exec> 08└─It's called, vanishing caloric density. In addition to being salty, the Cheetos melt away in your mouth. They quickly reduce in volume. Here's an interesting article about it, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food [nytimes.com] To get a better feel for their work, I called on Steven With...
[03:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:42] <exec> 08└─However, you get hungry.... so we are back to portion control for weight loss.
[03:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:44] <exec> 08└─Fat was labeled bad by industrial interests for the sake of sugar. Salt never replaced sugar, and the later retains its title which it should have had in the first place. The solution is easy enough: learn to cook and stop relying on restaurants. You really stop liking restaurants once you get used...
[03:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:47] <exec> 08└─A significant percentage of people are salt sensitive that way. But a lot of people aren't. Low salt consumption for the latter group might be harmful for them: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Among 69,559 people without hyperte...
[03:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:11] <exec> 08└─This seems uncharacteristic of you but I'm very glad to hear it. Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry doesn't give a damn about externalities--and yes, the costs to society you mention are "externalities" to them.
[03:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:15] <exec> 08└─Surely the experience is different. However given new circumstances it's beginning to tip in favor of the home because.. * Cry baby free * Narrator free * Spoiler free * No cell phone addicts * Can pause and visit the restroom in a orderly fashion * Able to go back and see what wa...
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[03:51:53] <exec> 08└─That's why Germany etc are stupid to let in so many of such people. They produce more than enough of such people, there's no need to import more from other places. They should be taking in people who are more likely to help make their country better, not worse. Germany in particular should know bett...
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[03:53:58] <exec> 08└─Backdoor Inside. What dod you expect?
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[04:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:34] <exec> 08└─It disproves the stereotype that womens' cycles sync together, but reinforces the stereotype that women are bitchy without justification and can't work together without pulling each others' hair out.
[04:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:36] <exec> 08└─I read ya.
[04:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:38] <exec> 08└─...it's OK to not climax at the same time as your partner.
[04:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:09] <exec> 08└─> You don't need detailed analysis of every plant. Crops aren't managed that way. They are managed in bulk. Broadcast spraying of herbicide, together with GM crops that can resist the herbicide, has served us for millennia. But some people don't want to ingest herbicide, and weeds are becoming resis...
[04:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:39] <exec> 08└─Sodium-free V8 juice uses potassium instead of sodium and counts as eating servings of vegetables. A single serving of the stuff is like a quarter of your recommended daily allowance. That's a magical defense potion for the sodium-hungry drunk. Too much potassium is not recommended if you have heart...
[04:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:05] <exec> 08└─I concur with the statement that storage or at least smoothing power differences over time is the key to really make use of wind and solar. In the meanwhile such power sources will make the power grid unstable and in some cases require shunting the power to a plain heater. There's wave power at sea...
[04:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:42] <exec> 08└─There is one obstacle though. Tape drive technology moves on and necessitates buying a new drive which will obsolete tapes. And possible any robot arm(s).
[04:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:44] <exec> 08└─How about backup on BluRay discs using automated robot handling? (disc in, write, disc out, next..)
[04:50:33] <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
[04:50:33] <exec> 08└─Endorsing violence and mayhem? So he's a Perl programmer then?
[04:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I'd consider diving to be more of a sport than weight lifting. Weight lifting has objective measures of performance - the weight being lifted. Diving is some judges opinion of whether the diver did good stuff. I'd also remove the head-to-head requirement as well otherwise we're excludin...
[04:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposal for a Vacuum Airship for Mars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:26] <exec> 08└─Well, surface pressure on Mars is just 0.00628 atmospheres, so no problem, right?
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[05:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:35] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the debris is too high up and won't come down, so just increase the Earth's diameter until the debris is on the ground. Then it's still a mess but at least it's easy to get to! "If Muhammad won't come to the mountain then the mountain must go to Muhammad." Most of the space junk...
[05:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:37] <exec> 08└─Some things in that article really surprised me, like the ISS apparently having to "often" thrust to avoid collisions. In getting things to space we take advantage of Earth's rotational velocity which means most stuff up there is going to be flying in the same direction minimizing relative velocitie...
[05:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:48] <exec> 08└─Only 4 comments so far and they're all "hurr hurr I don't get female anatomy." We're not that damn mysterious, okay? Don't believe what the media says; just read some biology textbooks. And for the record, yeah, the synchronization thing is bullshit. In all the time I've been with either previous or...
[05:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:50] <exec> 08└─There should be a dating app for women with synchronous cycles to date each other.
[05:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:52] <exec> 08└─I can imagine highly targeted advertising for users of that #app.
[05:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─Oh gods, no, no, no. When my sister and I overlapped back in the day we'd fight like cats in a sack. Dating is dramatic enough without the conjunction of the red tides, and that's keeping in mind mine are luckily very light and usually don't even cramp all that much. Hers, now, I have to wonder if s...
[05:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:25] <exec> 08└─I was confused why 2/3rd of the tech lacked pictures... Did not realize it was a test.
[05:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom and Japanese Government Considering Bid for Toshiba's Semiconductor Unit - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:33] <exec> 08└─Should we expect all Toshiba chip data sheets to go NDA you cannot have it (tm) ? Full NVidia/Marvel style?
[05:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe if AK wasn't swallowing down so much salty nut butter he wouldn't mind a little saltiness in the comments section.
[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah but you shouldn't mix it 1:1 with vodka and go online, should you Eth?
[05:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:01] <exec> 08└─I completely understand, and will offer to you a chocolate non-aggression pact: You will not fuck with my chocolate, or engage in any activities that indirectly threaten my chocolate, specifically giving aid or comfort to any enemies of my chocolate. In the times in which chocolate is scarce, we agr...
[05:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:04] <exec> 08└─Right, so if you're backing up hundreds of tapes' worth of data, the cost of that drive isn't very significant any more. If you're only backing up a couple tapes' worth, then it definitely is.
[05:50:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:38] <exec> 08└─can he be considered compromised against his will?
[05:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:15] <exec> 08└─Let's end the Fedora hatred circlejerk. Their mission statement means about dick, and was probably drawn up by some community members fresh out of business school and high on buzzwords. Fedora also isn't directly controlled by Red Hat, it's got its own community and governing committee. I'm the deve...
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[06:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:32] <exec> 08└─This is a good idea, but...I really don't believe that he will get all the information he needs. Why? Bear with me... First, the government should be doing this. The government as a whole, and each individual agency and department, should follow precisely the same accounting standards that they requ...
[06:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:33] <exec> 08└─It's cold here under the bridge where I live. Government buy me a space heater. I want to plug my new space heater into an extension cord running to the train yard for free stolen electricity. This bridge is in a terrible state of disrepair so don't be surprised when I burn down the bridge. Governme...
[06:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:44] <exec> 08└─Orbital mechanics do not work the way you think they work. A tiny difference in inclination or eccentricity can result in objects traveling at hundreds or thousands of m/s relative to each other at the point of intersection.
[06:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:46] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting that most orbits are an ellipse, not perfectly round. Actually, all are ellipses, a circle is just a special case of one. Their eccentricity (e) is usually greater than 0. Also, we often launch satellites into inclined orbits, or even polar orbits. Debris (fairings, Yo-yo de-spin c...
[06:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:00] <exec> 08└─So if someone were to invent a method to induce synchronicity in a large enough population, all women could be made to kill each other at once! Now this sounds like a plan worth researching.
[06:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:02] <exec> 08└─Clearly you haven't thought this through.. at all.
[06:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:35] <exec> 08└─The washing machine looks like a water heater if you don't notice the wringer.
[06:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:36] <exec> 08└─Jonathan Rogers, Assistant professor, Mechanical engineering: "We have a lot more people to feed, and we will have a lot more people to feed, than we ever had in history. The only way we can really achieve the food production we really going to need in the future. Is to employ a automation and robot...
[06:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:38] <exec> 08└─> I call bull-shit on moonlight killing somebody. Look who you are replying too. The guy's entire world is bullshit. I'm VLM probably thinks he himself died from moonlight electrocution.
[06:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:06] <exec> 08└─How to be gay in Russia with these girls?
[06:51:07] <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
[06:51:07] <exec> 08└─It was a joke, its up to you to cope in society with your mental issues. Everyone has something...
[06:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:24] <exec> 08└─And note how cleverly, before all this, Turkey got access and familiarity with the inner workings of the EU and NATO...
[06:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:07] <exec> 08└─The 100m sprint makes a call to a random number generator: the delay before the starting gun is fired. P.S. The game OpenTTD is completely deterministic by design, to keep network traffic low in multiplayer games. Only players' actions need to be communicated.
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[07:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:47] <exec> 08└─Facts are what we say they are GIGO computers AI, Big Data are all written by humans that carry there madness into it, this is why "evidence" based decision making is such a joke because the "evidence" is frequently less reliable than UFO sightings, narrative based decision making is what it should...
[07:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:48] <exec> 08└─http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1IG [reuters.com] The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in...
[07:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:50] <exec> 08└─Libertarians are so weak and need so much from the state that they can't even live under a bridge without some sort of subsidy, Going Gault but only if the state pays for it.
[07:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:53] <exec> 08└─I'm a communist. I believe in the ideal of from each according to ability and to each according to need. Society has decided my abilities are worthless, but I still have needs. While you're paying taxes so I can live because your society affords me absolutely no economic opportunity, let me check th...
[07:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:55] <exec> 08└─so you work for facebook? It's cold outside there's no kind of atmosphere...
[07:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:57] <exec> 08└─No I'm morally opposed to Facebook because I don't believe in advertising.
[07:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:59] <exec> 08└─Typical socialist, Opposed to innovation and letting people know you've "Done IT" but is fine with mass surveillance and publicly broadcasted murder
[07:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:11] <exec> 08└─Send up a solar powered satellite laser that with time burns material surfaces such that the vaporized material push the junk closer and closer to the atmosphere and eventually burn up? It of course has to be guided by a database of objects to not de-orbit. Any other method with better economic perf...
[07:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:13] <exec> 08└─Wasn't nasa planing some sort of big net to deorbit a bunch of this stuff I would be willing to sacrifice the GPS sats if that would help
[07:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:30] <exec> 08└─Anyone that believes that what? pheromones or whatever magic makes women sync may as well believe in the invisible hand of the market or just god because it is all pure magic and you where dumb to even think that it could be true
[07:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 2099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think the conclusions of this invalidate earlier observations, and I also don't think that "crowdsourcing" data is a substitute for a controlled scientific experiment. Think about why the process is thought to happen. Hormones such as œstrogen, progesterone and testosterone are able to diff...
[07:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:34] <exec> 08└─The methodology seems wrong. The question should be if two fertile females that had no physical proximity starts to share physical proximity will have their cycles converge either in frequency or phase. If there's a statistical increase in convergence, then there's basis for the claim otherwise not....
[07:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:45] <exec> 08└─It's their own fault for making people smrterer
[07:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:10] <exec> 08└─Hang around https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It's good to know black flag was good for something
[07:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom and Japanese Government Considering Bid for Toshiba's Semiconductor Unit - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:20] <exec> 08└─Probably not. Likely nothing is going to change from the point of view of those people working to interface with their gear. It will, however, prevent a Chinese or South Korean concern from acquiring ownership of any patents that Toshiba has, as well as their trade secrets, which is what this is rea...
[07:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:14] <exec> 08└─We paid 25million to not have wind farms built because we need to spend several more billions to referb nuke plants that are fast breeders because reasons, which I am sure have nothing to do with the 1 trillion dollars that the US is spending to update it's no longer needed nuclear arsenal that we a...
[07:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomtomtom [340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:16] <exec> 08└─CfDs are a guaranteed price provided by the government for each unit of electricity generated - they are subsidies. Onshore wind is about to become completely unsubsidized in the UK and will not have access to the CfD regime. What the onshore developers are saying here is the exact opposite of the h...
[07:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:55] <exec> 08└─A single 6TB tape at the speeds of the tape drive I found (which states 576 GBph uncompressed transfer rate)? That's 12 hours. If you're talking autoloaders, you could be down for DAYS.
[07:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:56] <exec> 08└─Tape has use cases. But how many people are using hundreds of tapes? Not that many compared to how many people can back up everything to a handful of them. For every massive company with hundreds of terabytes of vital data, there are hundreds of companies with only terabytes of vital data. Probably...
[07:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:59] <exec> 08└─So your tape drives never fail, need maintenance, degrade or have a MTBF? Nice. Lots of people would be interested in that. P.S. A backup solution that's not reviewed at least annually, and devices that aren't serviced / replaced at least every few years, is doomed to failure.
[07:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:01] <exec> 08└─1 6Tb LTO tape = 122 standard BD-ROMs. Just the wear and tear on the robot being 122 times that of a tape drive would kill the idea.
[07:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:09] <exec> 08└─The difference is that in America there are still the checks and balances (and Trump has experienced them first hand already). In Turkey, they already had been much weaker than in America, and this referendum was to basically completely remove them.
[07:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish President May Receive Increased Power - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:11] <exec> 08└─Most of those people were already born in Germany. The time when lots of Turks entered Germany was in the 60s. And those who came back then were very welcome workers. But the idea was that they work in Germany for some time, and then return to Turkey. Well, the return part didn't work out.
[07:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:21] <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?)
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[08:45:28] <exec> 08└─100 nm in 36 hours = 2.78 nm/h = 1.73 X 10-12 MPH
[08:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:58] <exec> 08└─There were several ideas, but the main one is to work on prevention. However, since accidents will happen, methods for cleanup are also needed. The article mentioned several objects smashing together and creating yet more debris. What's not mentioned in the article or summary is that if it gets bad...
[08:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:00] <exec> 08└─Just build a wall around Earth... done.
[08:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:02] <exec> 08└─During the late 1990s, the U.S. Air Force's Project Orion was a laser-broom design. Although a test-bed device was scheduled to launch on a Space Shuttle in 2003, international agreements banning powerful laser testing in orbit limited its use to measurements.
[08:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:22] <exec> 08└─Are you telling me the Menstrual cycle isn't linked to the phases of the moon!? All those fantasy novels that called it "The Moon Flow" were lying to me! How dare you try to break my illusion that women are delicate mysterious creatures who are inherently linked to each other through the natural cyc...
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[08:46:23] <exec> 08└─You forget the other possible sources of hormones, in food and water. It is more likely that the large groups living in closer proximity are eating similar food and definitely drinking the same water, while people who only just work together or just live together may be more likely to eat and drink...
[08:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:37] <exec> 08└─...“Why Humans Like Junk Food.”... Humans are not the only ones that like cheap calories bears "don't feed the bears" boo boo. this is more narrative " science"
[08:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:38] <exec> 08└─You probably could pre-cook your lunch at home. But then you couldn't go to lunch with your colleagues, as typically eating your own food is not permitted in the restaurant.
[08:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:51] <exec> 08└─Is that Gb or GB? Assuming GB, that's 300MB/s, which is well within the range of consumer flash chips for linear writes. SD cards tend to have cheaper flash chips, but the more expensive ones will handle that. If it's Gb, then even cheap cards will manage it quite happily.
[08:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:53] <exec> 08└─I did the maths in a previous story about tapes, so I can't be bothered to do it again now, but the conclusion was that, eventually as your storage size increases, LTO converges on being the cheapest technology. Tape has much higher fixed costs, but lower per-GB costs than other technologies. I thin...
[08:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:55] <exec> 08└─I bought a BluRay writer for my NAS for backups (it was only about £5 more than a DVD writer). I've never actually used it - the disks are just too small to back up anything (even my modest music collection doesn't fit on a single disk) without splitting it.
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[09:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:36] <exec> 08└─A battle.net account is required in order to download it, as the links above point to a download tool for the game. If anyone has an offline install for it, please share it.
[09:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:38] <exec> 08└─Even having sex can have an influence on the cycle. Tracking women in student dorms... well... sex can happen a lot. Also, some women have very irregular cycles, which requires some tracking during the monitoring stage and corrections in the data afterwards.
[09:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unsubsidized Wind Energy is Arriving, Onshore and Off... - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:22] <exec> 08└─great! there were too many birds anyways.
[09:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:10] <exec> 08└─So create a new standard. This solves both of those problems, and allows vendors to create proprietary formats they can sell for way more than an SD card.
[09:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:11] <exec> 08└─You still need to be able to catalog and remove them for offsite storage. With that many SD cards I'd trust an automated system over a human to do that work. Plus watching the tech stand there as little plastic eggs fall out a dispenser shoot would be priceless.
[09:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:04] <exec> 08└─> source code coming from shar archives on usenet or rando ftp sites If it's been read by someone competent in the language, that can mitigate the fact that it changed hands in an insecure way. Not to say that the Debian maintainers necessarily do such auditing.
[09:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:06] <exec> 08└─When originally confronted with the allegations, Mr Kadyrov's spokesman Alvi Karimov said it was not possible that gays had suffered abuse because homosexuals "don't exist" in Chechnya. "You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic," said Mr Karimov.
[09:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:42] <exec> 08└─The mass of a star isn't subject to whether or not you think that it should be less fat.
[09:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudy, with a Chance of Pain - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:43] <exec> 08└─A race is a competition for speed. Rheumatism certainly is not helpful in a race, especially if it is strong enough to effectively immobilize you.
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[10:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:44] <exec> 08└─it hasn't hit the pirate bay yet but the original version is there. [thepiratebay.org]
[10:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:46] <exec> 08└─At least EA released Command & Conquer as Original ISOs so you could play the game as it was or patch up as preferred.
[10:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:48] <exec> 08└─But that would be stealing!
[10:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:50] <exec> 08└─Nice if your still playing star craft after errr 20 yeas? and have the original game that you installed in your dos box still installed in your windows 7 box
[10:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:52] <exec> 08└─Gimme something to shoot.
[10:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:54] <exec> 08└─Installed space empires 4 last night. Other than the resolution fixed at 1024 768 it runs just fine on win 10. Never played starcraft, but might have to find the TA disks.
[10:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:57] <exec> 08└─Excellent... [youtube.com]
[10:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:59] <exec> 08└─"Which are you, Human, Protoss, or Zerg?" Ich bin ein nerd!!!
[10:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:23] <exec> 08└─Society has decided my abilities are worthless, but I still have needs.
[10:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:24] <exec> 08└─To be fair most "skills" like "programing" will not be needed and neither will most of the people currently doing these "useful" things like facefark or yourtub these people will be the first against the wall and into the soylent vats when the revolution comes
[10:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:42] <exec> 08└─Sure this has been well know as long as I can remember there was fear in the 90's as I recall that there might be a problem launching new sats because the would be hit with space junk , that does not seem to have come to pass but as we go forward it will eventually become a problems which is why I t...
[10:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:44] <exec> 08└─sorry about replying to myself but err is the an issue with > brackets because it did not display properly in the posted comment,though it was fine in the preview
[10:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:46] <exec> 08└─Ah I see there is a problem chopping everything between the last angle and the first reverse angle
[10:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I understand female anatomy a lot better than most women do. I also did read a lot of biology textbooks. The synchronization thing is pretty real from my own experience. I know at least two women who did it, creating a minor inconvenience for me for about a year. Even being pretty different be...
[10:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:10] <exec> 08└─Which part of the idea do you find silly? - we can sense the odour of other people's bodies - our bodies can respond to others' odours - this can happen unconsciously - we don't understand it fully Oh, you did say it's the whole idea. Effects that are somewhat similar have been studied and, supposed...
[10:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:12] <exec> 08└─I agree we should just believe in stuff without evidence. up until I was about 15 saw auras around everything, I choose to believe that I had a magical ability to sense the true nature of chairs, not that there was something funny with my brain that led to sever depression and panic attacks, no i...
[10:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:24] <exec> 08└─Hotels like to photograph your drivers licence and write down your credit card number. Never allow this.
[10:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom and Japanese Government Considering Bid for Toshiba's Semiconductor Unit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:59] <exec> 08└─China will have to put in the hard work of hacking those trade secrets :'(
[10:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:29] <exec> 08└─I'm beginning to think that any and all dietary advice I hear in the news is completely fucked.
[10:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:17] <exec> 08└─You seem to confuse theaters with cinemas. Theaters are where real people are acting live in front of you.
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[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─What a flamefest this is going to be...
[11:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:06] <exec> 08└─OpenVMS is one of those platforms I actually admire for being rock solid and having a lot of nifty things that *nix doesn't, but mainframes do like versioned filesystems. I actually have an Itanium system, but the pain of getting hobbyist PAKs for it has left me in the case most of my VMS investigat...
[11:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:08] <exec> 08└─I have some very fond memories of VAX/VMS from the 80's. So many connected systems, so many default passwords.....
[11:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:11] <exec> 08└─At least DECnet was relatively easy to setup.
[11:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:27] <exec> 08└─How many weeks before this is ported to Unix? ;) Using OpenGL of course.
[11:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─Hell, just release the source code... we can port it ourselves AND keep it running on every os we want, as long as we want. We could even add it to our repos for easy install.
[11:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:30] <exec> 08└─You'll need the patch if you want to play against someone who has the new version: [...] the new patch will include two important updates: the ability to connect to and play against owners of the upcoming remastered version, and the change to a wholly free product.
[11:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:56] <exec> 08└─I more or less agree with you. However, I believe that there is some chance of government inefficiencies to be tackled without too much cooperation of the latter. The ins are known: taxes and fees. The outs are much more difficult to measure but some can be measured well: number of individuals in pu...
[11:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:20] <exec> 08└─One does not just say "String a taught wire above each row of crops"
[11:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:35] <exec> 08└─Way to go! Wishing someone in prison (in russia none the less!) because they took some decisions you don't like. On a volunteer project. For free. It's a miracle *anyone* wants to do debian maintenance work considering the amount of bile that gets heaped upon you for every decision you make. Oh how...
[11:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora Changing its Project Mission - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:09] <exec> 08└─The problem here is actually the inverse. Linux has considerable extensions to POSIX which is why you ran into landmines. A lot of them come from GCC which allow for non-standard C (gnu99 variant) that seeped into most FOSS software. If you're serious on your attempts to build software on AIX, build...
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[12:45:54] <exec> 08└─If they really wanted to compete, the way to draw vendors back would be to make it an open(ish) platform, get it on as much different hardware as possible, then tout the features that make it rock solid and thus competitive against linux, unix, and windows. But instead they still keep up the stupid...
[12:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:56] <exec> 08└─Didn't Microsoft already hire Dave Cutler to do it?
[12:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:16] <exec> 08└─Ahh, the good, old Starchcraft!
[12:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:17] <exec> 08└─En taro Adun!
[12:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:45] <exec> 08└─In principle, you're right: the government could chase down and eliminate inefficiencies. But...why should it? If you've ever worked in government, you know that it is entirely under the control of Pournelle's Iron Law. The most important priority of anyone above GS-14 or so is empire building: incr...
[12:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:46] <exec> 08└─Clarity makes it hard to hide pork, and general inefficiencies.
[12:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:48] <exec> 08└─Society has decided my abilities are worthless, but I still have needs.
[12:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:12] <exec> 08└─The comments about "muck", or how wheeled robots could "fall over" make no sense -- I don't know whether they're concerned about soil compaction, or getting stuck, but either way. There's no good reason for the wheeled equivalent of this thing to weigh more than a few pounds, no matter how fancy the...
[12:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:14] <exec> 08└─I agree with you there. They have already used thermal imaging and similar means to look at how a crop is doing mid-season. So using a robot like this to image crops doesn't make much sense. But it's cool they got it to brachiate. Farmers do use a lot more tech than most people suppose. Many of the...
[12:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:12] <exec> 08└─On whichever medium, data needs to be kept fresh. No exceptions, only variations to the theme. Here is how google does it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06E-Sports Becoming an Official Olympic Sport - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:14] <exec> 08└─The 100m sprint makes a call to a random number generator: the delay before the starting gun is fired.
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[13:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─Jews, Muslims, and [American] Christians believe that the creator of the entire universe wants them to cut chunks of sexually pleasing flesh from little boys' sexual organs. Religion needs to go. The more restrictions, the better.
[13:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:54] <exec> 08└─Religion is perhaps the best evidence that men are not angels yet they are deluded enough to think themselves angels. Moslems and Christians need control. It's the only way to handle those barbaric and violent ideologies. Voluntary agreements/contracts with Christians or Moslems aren't possible, bec...
[13:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:57] <exec> 08└─I'll note that Egypt is a hotbed of female genital mutilation (90% of the women there have been circumcised); I'll also note that wherever there is female circumcision, there is also male circumcision. Religion is a mindrot.
[13:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─Banding together sounds like voluntary agreements/contracts; there's no inherent reason that a warlord need be fought by a warlord. Try again, young Padawan.
[13:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:01] <exec> 08└─Indeed. If there were any better proof that men are not angels, it's ritual infant genital mutilation. How can an infant possibly enter into a consenting, voluntary agreement or contract? Even the practice of immunization has an implied contract. If a toddler is harmed by a vaccine, there is a fund...
[13:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─No, there isn't an inherent reason for the state of things, not one to be derived from a system of voluntary contracts on its face. People may band together in voluntary contracts to fend off a warlord, and that can be the scope and duration of the contract. However, warlords are ever desiring to ta...
[13:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:12] <exec> 08└─hot to cold
[13:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:14] <exec> 08└─The energy is being used inefficiently by the underlying computer; it's being used in a way that is wasteful—where the waste is in the form of heat. Saying that you are capturing that waste as a source of energy is just saying that you are making the computer more efficient.
[13:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:16] <exec> 08└─Electricity also only flows in one direction. Presumably, a "heat diode" would allow heat to flow in one direction or prevent the flow altogether.
[13:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:18] <exec> 08└─Not if I'm allowed to act on it. ;-) [see username]
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:21] <exec> 08└─But the heat isn't really waste. That's the energy used to modify the voltages on the lines. It ALSO escapes at heat when you are changing the direction of enough current at enough speed (frequency). It's a result of the thing you want to do, it's not even really a byproduct as such, it's just liter...
[13:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:23] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
[13:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─The amusing thing here for me is that the 386 has 4 protection rings because DEC insisted that they absolutely needed 4 for VMS and might consider an i386 port if Intel shipped the 80386 with 4 protection rings. They then ported it to Alpha, which only had 2. It's now finally coming to x86... after...
[13:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:37] <exec> 08└─I remember some perhaps apocryphal stories regarding Windows NT's design, relating to Windows NT -> WNT -> VMS, doing the whole HAL/IBM thing.
[13:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:40] <exec> 08└─You're thinking segmenting that died with x86_64. Rings survived (and are still used in some cases) Modern x86 has five or six rings depending on how you look at it. Ring -2 (SMM) Ring -1 (vmx/vmd) Ring 0 (kernel space) Ring 1-2 (drivers, theoretically) Ring 3 (userspace)
[13:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:42] <exec> 08└─Rings 1-2 didn't survive in x86-64. Ring -2 isn't accessible to anything other than the firmware. Ring -1 can be used, but relies on nested paging if you want to have separate memory regions available for the different rings, which incurs a fairly noticeable performance penalty.
[13:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:44] <exec> 08└─VAX was one of my first lessons in the problems that can come with adding capabilities for incompetent parties. At one point while I was in school, I was offered access to a VAX system so locked down that you couldn't even list files by default. Fortunately, I had access to better Linux systems at t...
[13:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:05] <exec> 08└─I bought TA when it was new, but re-bought it on GOG a couple of years back for about £2, including the expansion packs that I never bought back in the day, because it was worth the £2 to not have to faff around with the CDs.
[13:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:06] <exec> 08└─Soylent seems to have picked some stupid links. I downloaded it when the same story was on the green site a couple of days ago, with a different link. It seems to download and install fine without creating any kind of account. I started it and got to the start of the single-player mission as a quick...
[13:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:09] <exec> 08└─it runs fine (1.16) on my Win7 x64 w/o DOSBOX...
[13:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Gear Up for World’s First Nanocar Race - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:19] <exec> 08└─36 Hour Nano Lemans, molecule endurance racing.
[13:48:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 2099 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think the conclusions of this invalidate earlier observations, and I also don't think that "crowdsourcing" data is a substitute for a controlled scientific experiment. Think about why the process is thought to happen. Hormones such as œstrogen, progesterone and testosterone are able to diff...
[13:48:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 677 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:19] <exec> 08└─The methodology seems wrong. The question should be if two fertile females that had no physical proximity starts to share physical proximity will have their cycles converge either in frequency or phase. If there's a statistical increase in convergence, then there's basis for the claim otherwise not....
[13:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:27] <exec> 08└─Well, then the same technology could be used to find partners with maximally-out-of-sync cycles.
[13:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:29] <exec> 08└─> I agree we should just believe in stuff without evidence. The original poster was addressing people who "[had thought] that it could be true" which isn't the same.
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[14:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Releases Its Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatch On May 11 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:48] <exec> 08└─If not, you can fuck off!
[14:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 3127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─Acknowledging that humans cannot be angels is acknowledging that society should never be built around a monopoly on imposition (let alone a monopoly on violent imposition). If a monopoly is inherently unworkable, then it must be a separation of powers (that is, there must be checks and balances); th...
[14:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:03] <exec> 08└─I wasn't expecting the violent imposition.
[14:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─Good day, sir.
[14:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 2495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:07] <exec> 08└─With the continual threat of warlords, what other kind of structure could emerge other than another warlord that the vast majority of people can consent to? That is the system of government present in democracy. However, as we see the descent of constitutional democracy into direct democracy, the wa...
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─Nobody expects the violent imposition! Fetch... THE COMFY CHAIR!
[14:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:40] <exec> 08└─Didn't Microsoft already hire Dave Cutler to do it?
[14:47:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 1788 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─This is a good idea, but...I really don't believe that he will get all the information he needs. Why? Bear with me... First, the government should be doing this. The government as a whole, and each individual agency and department, should follow precisely the same accounting standards that they requ...
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[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
[14:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─Government has no monopoly on organizational failure. I've encountered empire building in medium sized corporations. Extremely unnecessary and wasteful empire building eventually gets noticed, usually when a few deadlines pass and the empire builder has nothing to show for all those hires of incompe...
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:39] <exec> 08└─No matter what breed of oxen you subscribe to, any sunlight revealed by this project is doomed to be ignored, except by indignant editorial staffs, and relegated to campaign talking points for politicians. In the Realpolitik of our entrenched burocracy and our Social Media Age penchant for media-dri...
[14:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:41] <exec> 08└─The government is evil and doesn't like transparency. It reacts like Dracula to the Cross. Newt pushed through a transparency reform with Thomas, the website where anyone can read the current text of a bill the instant it is filed and see the changes as it moves through the system. Yippie! People di...
[14:47:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:52] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting that most orbits are an ellipse, not perfectly round. Actually, all are ellipses, a circle is just a special case of one. Their eccentricity (e) is usually greater than 0. Also, we often launch satellites into inclined orbits, or even polar orbits. Debris (fairings, Yo-yo de-spin c...
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[14:48:29] <exec> 08└─Following up on the parent's insights w.r.t. proximity; the other glaring error was that three cycles is a really insufficient time period. Had this paper come across my desk I would have rejected it on the methodology alone.
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[14:50:20] <exec> 08└─Lovely term, isn't it? I can just picture the faces of the people around the table when that was floated in front of them: "Come on gentleman, let me see your O face for this!".
[14:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:41] <exec> 08└─I think I was saying that I don't get those experiences, crying babies, etc at home. But I do get those experiences at the theater. VR, like 3D, like Crying Babies, are things at the theater that I don't have to suffer with at home.
[14:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:43] <exec> 08└─I would say the signs on the movie theaters are confused then. Even when I google local listings, the sites definitely have the word theater multiple times on the page.
[14:53:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06H1-B Changes on the Horizon - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:01] <exec> 08└─H-1B is widely derided and despised. Is there a reason for that?
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[15:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Releases Its Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatch On May 11 - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:05] <exec> 08└─...and can it do it without having to conspicuously shake your arm to wake the thing up? Smartwatches so far all make it hard to check the time without looking like a jerk making a pointed "THIS MEETING IS BORING ME!" show out of checking the time. If it can't, it's not very good at being a watch....
[15:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:24] <exec> 08└─More restrictions means more control. Then more people will get curious as to what it is that some 'government' (infiltrated by lowlife scum) is trying to stop. So there will be war, and blood will be spilled. Anyway, who is this person (or group) who will add more restrictions on 'some' religion(s)...
[15:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:25] <exec> 08└─In 99% of the cases of religious violence, Islam is the primary offender. That is the common theme in all of the top countries listed. In India, it is Hindus committing the violence.
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 3235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─Statism is a religion. Just consider the hymns, the pledges of allegiance, the holidays, the pageants, the origin myths, the sacred symbols, and the irrational reverence coupled to one's own sense of identity, etc. Democracy is a sham; it's not different from a dictatorship: One group is dictating...
[15:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─"Rational secular though on the uprise on restrictions on barmy religious practices increased". The only way to survive in *this* universe is to study the evidence. Believe what you want, but stop on red, ok?
[15:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─Considering Russia is present in the list this is not even a control you are thinking of. In Russia Christian church is de facto government's left hand.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─In 100% of cases, the underlying cultural fault is a reverence for imposition; indeed, "Islam" means "submission" to a higher power. The solution: A reverence for agreement in advance of interaction; this precludes any sort of democracy, because democracy is based on the notion that it is OK for on...
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:37] <exec> 08└─It is already illegal to cut flesh from a completely healthy child's penis; any logical reading of modern law leads one to conclude that such an action is child abuse, sexual assault, battery, etc. So, it doesn't require more control; it just requires the enforcement of existing law. However, religi...
[15:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:39] <exec> 08└─I'll note that Egypt is a hotbed of female genital mutilation (90% of the women there have been circumcised); It's shocking, however 91% of boys born in the 70s in The US were circumcised, the US is a hotbed of male genital mutilation, and we tend to hold western countries to higher standards.
[15:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:41] <exec> 08└─More restrictions means more control. Then more people will get curious as to what it is that some 'government' (infiltrated by lowlife scum) is trying to stop. So there will be war, and blood will be spilled. Is it legal for a parent to remove an arm from their child? Or an eye? If it is, why? Isn'...
[15:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:43] <exec> 08└─It is already illegal to cut flesh from a completely healthy child
[15:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:45] <exec> 08└─Religion needs to go Perhaps, but not by government mandate. Governments pushing individual behavior underground just doesn't work. See the "war on drugs" in the US for a stunning example of failure. Want religion to wither? It is already doing so nicely in the West, simply due to decent living stan...
[15:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─First, obligatory sarcasm: Religion is the best way to heal a world that is deeply and violently divided by religion. Next, an observation. I find it amusing that the new testament is specific that physical circumcision is not what is important. If you are talking to a Christian who insists that cir...
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:50] <exec> 08└─Is it any wonder that nobody takes the West seriously on the matter of female genital mutilation? Muslims, who traditionally circumcise boys when they are adolescents, know what's what: If you condone cutting up boys' sexual organs, then it makes no sense to condemn cutting up girls' sexual organs....
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─This is not the religion you are looking... to restrict...
[15:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─Never forget that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the organization that believes they have the right to violently impose choices about your body, wants to bring the USA to Egypt's level [psychologytoday.com]. That's what I could find with a quick search. In 2010, the American Academy of Pediatri...
[15:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─You cannot help but come to the conclusion that it is already illegal. It just so happens that the law is only as good as its enforcers, and the enforcers are all circumcised or afraid of being called "anti-Semitic". Of course, it is possible for the law to be contradictory; for instance, a German j...
[15:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:10] <exec> 08└─You could run a generator on the temperature difference between the chip and the environment. Of course there would still be thermodynamic limits on its efficiency, but you could use *some* of that energy again.
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─Mostly dead closed source platform might successfully port to x86_64 as it realizes no new hardware is likely for Itanium, which it had been hoping was its future. If you are unfortunate enough to have a large investment in hard to replace VMS software you probably care that you might be able to rep...
[15:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:31] <exec> 08└─[Will x86 VMS be released] or is this going to be another DNF situation?
[15:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─For anyone else that was confused by the wording, the SD version is getting a patch and it allows you to play the SD version for free and play against people with the remastered HD version on battlenet. The remastered HD version you have to pay for. I was wondering why Blizzard would even bother red...
[15:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:21] <exec> 08└─Don't tell Roy and Moss... http://www.cafepress.com [cafepress.com]
[15:49:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 912 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:43] <exec> 08└─One does not just say "String a taught wire above each row of crops" without revealing ignorance of agriculture's scale. Think of a square field with sides one mile long. Then think of "stringing a taught wire" one mile long every two feet for the entire field. That would be only 640 acres, less tha...
[15:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─Why not just use aerial automated drones to scan the fields? Or a series of them if the battery life isn't enough for one. No muck. No wires. Nothing in the way of your other equipment. Just have to worry about raptors. Clever girls...
[15:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:08] <exec> 08└─I think Samsung already did with Universal Flash Storage/a [wikipedia.org]
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[16:45:53] <exec> 08└─You are free to do as Uncle Sam tells you. There is no place in a civilized society for dictates.
[16:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:54] <exec> 08└─Actually dictates are what make a civilized society... 1. No murder 2. No theft Those are the two big ones that every society has endorsed. We can argue over which dictates are good and which are bad, but to pretend that human beings are naturally well behaved civilized creates is naive. As our coll...
[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─* creates = creatures
[16:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:59] <exec> 08└─Besides (see subject title), murder and theft are still rampant in society, despite such dictates—clearly, then, such dictates have nothing to do with civilized society. Indeed, murder and theft are the primary actions of a government like Uncle Sam, amirite?
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:42] <exec> 08└─In 99% of the cases of religious violence, Islam is the primary offender. That is the common theme in all of the top countries listed.
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to point out that (male) circumcision and female genital mutilation are not at all comparable. The male procedure is but a little snip while the female operation is complete butchery. The difference is like between common flu and ebola. Read and vomit. https://en.wikipedia.org
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─Religion is withering so nicely and becoming so insignificant in the west that 83% of professing Evangelical Christians voted for the present administration. An administration that wants to filter incoming refugees by religion by disguising that filter with some other label. Personally, I do have ho...
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[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─As the other AC pointed out, female genital mutilation includes pricking a girl's labia with a pin to draw a drop of blood. Boo Hoo. In contrast, even the most mild form of male circumcision destroys specialized sexual structures, and greatly diminishes (and often destroys) an entire mechanical aspe...
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─I always knew you were an idiot.
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─There is a lot wrong in the United States, but I am glad that I could take my family to celebrate Easter at our church and not worry about being killed for it. I'm glad that a mosque and a synagogue can exist peacefully a couple short blocks away from each other in my neighborhood. As the article po...
[16:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─"Russian court bans Jehovah's Witnesses, rules group is extremist: agencies [reuters.com]"
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─Get your head out of your ass. 15 square inches of adult skin is not a "little snip." A fucking pinprick is not "complete butchery."
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─"If a toddler is harmed by a vaccine, there is a fund that will pay for additional medical expenses to try to make the victim whole." give me a break! there are toddlers being brain damaged all over the country. these monsters don't pay for shit. that whole court was set up to minimize damages. don'...
[16:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─To be fair, what I'm hearing now is that MGM has been on a downward trend in the US for some time now, except among Jews of course.
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─The way you're writing that implies that female genital mutilation is more acceptable. I strongly disagree. Neither is acceptable, just like removing an arm is unacceptable, and removing a leg is unacceptable.
[16:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:05] <exec> 08└─The USA is not like the rest of the west. It's a lot like Turkey compared to the EU.
[16:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:08] <exec> 08└─Jews and Muslims are practically the same in their beliefs. I'm glad that in the UK it's gone in the right direction An estimated 3.8% of male children in the UK in 2000 were being circumcised by the age of 15.[44] The researchers stated that too many boys, especially under the age of 5, were still...
[16:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:42] <exec> 08└─This is what Dave was working on at DEC West It wasn't VMS, or for a VAX http://bitsavers.org [bitsavers.org]
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:44] <exec> 08└─If they really wanted to compete, the way to draw vendors back would be to make it an open(ish) platform
[16:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks, your post prevented me from googling for that mysterious DNF operating system.
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─And then DECnet V happened.
[16:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:13] <exec> 08└─The story on Slashdot: https://games.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] ...links to this: https://starcraft.com [starcraft.com] ...which currently has the same links for downloading. Seeing "4 hours ago"...
[16:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:15] <exec> 08└─im more of a Space Empires III guy, but I bet we'd both play Space Empires V, if they'd make it.
[16:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:17] <exec> 08└─Always random. Now you don't know what is coming for you!
[16:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 2104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:51] <exec> 08└─I have never heard these arguments for UBI, sounds to me like you and the AC are just circle jerking with crappy arguments. Here are some points: 1. UBI would remove food stamps and housing programs, reduce a massive bureaucratic system into a very simple one. 2. Give people a minimum of financial s...
[16:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:53] <exec> 08└─The day has come. I am modding jmorris interesting. Hmmm, still sunny out, no odd wildlife falling or flying around... I don't have an inter dimensional viewer so guess I'll have to wait a while to ask about the weather down below.
[16:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:14] <exec> 08└─So the James bond villains were actually trying to help everyone before the problem got bad? Then they went insane when the stupid people sent hardcore agents after them and now they just play with the shark pool attaching lasers to their heads!
[16:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:57] <exec> 08└─You did include this in your Total Cost of Ownership calculations, didn't you?!
[16:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:08] <exec> 08└─Sodium-free V8 juice uses potassium instead of sodium and counts as eating servings of vegetables. A single serving of the stuff is like a quarter of your recommended daily allowance. That's a magical defense potion for the sodium-hungry drunk.
[16:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I understand that. These are wonderful experiences you're missing out on by not going to theaters! Don't you want to hear crying babies during a movie? Don't you want to hear young children making noise during R-rated movies that aren't appropriate for them? Don't you want to hear talking abou...
[16:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:32] <exec> 08└─for the New World Order. They're continuing the job the Nazis among others carried out before to find out just how much all kind of abuse people can tolerate. Russia isn't going anywhere but China is rising fast. Soon we all will sing their songs and salute their flag. "If you want a vision of the f...
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[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:01] <exec> 08└─The murder rates in the U.S. and in Honduras are more than a hundred times greater than in Japan and Singapore. I wonder why. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:03] <exec> 08└─Because in Japan you are either putting in overtime at work, or you are a shut in at your parents house. Who as time to kill anyone when they are busy living up to their stereotypes?
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:05] <exec> 08└─The annual cannabis celebration isn't a "thing" in my part of the world (or at least my social circle). So when I saw the 20-sided die and "4/20" in the title, I thought it was a story about probability.
[17:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─Will the Stormtroopers knock down my front door and kill my dog for smoking this leafy plant this time? We'll see! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:10] <exec> 08└─Local social culture.
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─No, go ahead and enjoy this smoke. We know that you only have this one joint, and some seeds and stems left in the house right now. You enjoy this smoke, then run across town to stock up again. Your NEXT joint, we intend to kick down your door, kill your dog and your cat, and maybe your mother too....
[17:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:14] <exec> 08└─Americans work a lot, too: With the steep rise in annual work hours for individuals and families, more than half of American workers report feeling overworked, overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do, and/or lacking in time to reflect upon the work they are doing.
[17:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:16] <exec> 08└─One factor is less access to the most lethal of weapons. Hard to rack up a high kill streak with just a knife (though not impossible). But there are a lot of reasons, this is just one and probably not even the single most important one.
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─Who are these Christians who advocate circumcision on the basis of Christianity? As you rightly point out, for most of Christian history, circumcision was associated with Jews. It was frequently used by Christians who wanted to find Jews and persecute them. Paul says you don't have to do it. All Chr...
[17:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:15] <exec> 08└─I won't sit here and let you fools try to say "Hey, but wait, like, the womenfolk have it much worse!" It's just not true. IT'S JUST NOT TRUE.
[17:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:17] <exec> 08└─The simple solution to the problem you see is separation: let the people who want nationalism, theocracy, dictatorships, etc. have their own nation, and stop bothering the rest of us. To do this, we need to work on splitting apart nations so that those people can have a large majority in their own d...
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:19] <exec> 08└─Right, but what is the trend? I'm pretty sure the male circumcision rate in the US was quite a bit higher 40+ years ago, probably well over 90%. From what I hear, over in continental Europe it's pretty rare outside of Jewish communities. It's really a strange US custom that doesn't seem to be very c...
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:21] <exec> 08└─Celebrating a milestone in the year? Celebrating an end to your little giving-up-chocolate shtick? Certainly, you don't mean "Paying reverence to an ancient fairy tale that was itself based on even-more-ancient fairy tales"?
[17:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:24] <exec> 08└─Please don't be foolish. US Muslims are only being good because we are well armed and they are not in enough numbers to further radicalize themselves (the internal community pressure to become more "pure" will eventually outweigh the pressure from US society to become more secular) yet and start the...
[17:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─it is a cult but as long as they are not trying to force people, i wouldn't persecute them.
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is in decline in the U.S. It's really a strange US custom that doesn't seem to be very correlated with religion.
[17:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:42] <exec> 08└─If it can find a niche case to pay to develop the tech into something inexpensive, strap it onto an exhaust/boiler/chimnies to make use of otherwise waste heat. If it can be used simply to make extremely heat tolerant circuit it'll have applications for active sensors in hot areas. A self powered wi...
[17:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:44] <exec> 08└─What's the efficiency, at temperatures that don't endanger the chip?
[17:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:46] <exec> 08└─I'm more of a Stirling engine [wikipedia.org] man, myself. A shame that it's too large to fit on a silicon wafer.
[17:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:40] <exec> 08└─Do we need the free-as-in-beer discussion again? They want lots of buzz and players so they can sell the HD one (and sequels). They didn't suddenly turn over very valuable IP...
[17:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:38] <exec> 08└─Too complex. Connect to http://stuffin.space [stuffin.space] and just get a few wizards to extend the casting reach of Wall of Force.
[17:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:35] <exec> 08└─You may optionally not get stabbed repeatedly upon the discovery of more (high-quality) chocolate than I would be physically capable of ingesting, for the rest of my days or until it gets deeply rotten. In addition to this extraordinary gesture of leniency, you are hereby entitled the exclusive righ...
[17:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, it doesn't matter if you don't eat optimally all of the time.
[17:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:02] <exec> 08└─That's not being clueless...
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[18:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, but you will edit configuration files using ed :)
[18:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:02] <exec> 08└─This is a fantastic example of why I've been running Gentoo on all my machines and never considered changing distros. This degree of package management control that is either not offered at all in binary distros or is very frustrating to attempt to handle. In some cases in binary distros you'll be f...
[18:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:04] <exec> 08└─And no systemd whatsoever
[18:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:06] <exec> 08└─Run musl if you can. While there is no promise it is 100 percent security issue free, it is a *MUCH* smaller codebase than glibc, supports utf-8 natively (check the website for support/errata for other encodings.), supports gcc 3-6+clang for compilation, has no symbol versioning restrictions to forc...
[18:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:08] <exec> 08└─n/t
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─Ok, but you will edit configuration files using ed :)
[18:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:30] <exec> 08└─I just write these articles for fun. In no way shape or form do I partake in the devil's lettuce.
[18:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:32] <exec> 08└─I've been enjoying 4/20 perhaps too much... my comment was meant in jest. :)
[18:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:34] <exec> 08└─Besides (see subject title), murder and theft are still rampant in society, That doesn't look very rampant to me. [statista.com]
[18:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 2030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:36] <exec> 08└─You don't know what you're doing. I gotchu. Anyway, I'd say 205 never had a chance in AZ. I'm a native, been here most of my life and just got dragged back kicking and screaming. The failure was the direct result of mayors willing to lie on TV for bribes, a characteristically ignorant and religious...
[18:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─So you're saying the dictates you like are agreements; everything else is violently imposed. Oh good, and here I thought we might be arguing something objectively.
[18:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:41] <exec> 08└─If not for you posting this article (and similar ones in previous years) I wouldn't know of the existence of this "celebration". So I guess it's some form of education. :)
[18:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─You don't know what you're doing. I gotchu.
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─Japanese have more of an affection for BDSM, horror, and drawn out activities (from dating to murder, torture and rape.) Point being, while there are exceptions to the rule, most japanese are about the journey, not the ending, whereas most Americans are all about the ending and not the journey. For...
[18:47:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─Religion is withering so nicely and becoming so insignificant in the west that 83% of professing Evangelical Christians voted for the present administration. An administration that wants to filter incoming refugees by religion by disguising that filter with some other label. Personally, I do have ho...
[18:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:50] <exec> 08└─By the way -- I should be clear that I obviously acknowledge modern medicine did a lot of good things. I only wanted to highlight the stronger role of tradition and authority in medicine and clinical practice, which often ended up promoting strange or even barbaric practices with little scientific e...
[18:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:51] <exec> 08└─Bias in the research... "If my dad and mom had me circumcised, it must be a great thing with positive effects"
[18:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, one other thing I forgot to mention that played into this -- many people today don't realize this, but until the late 1900s doctors basically were taught that babies couldn't feel pain. I'm absolutely serious. It sounds INSANE, but it was standard medical teaching. Until the 1980s, lots of ph...
[18:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:56] <exec> 08└─In 99% of the cases of religious violence, Islam is the primary offender. Not if you live in the US. RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS ARE A BIGGER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN ISIS [newsweek.com] They and untold thousands like them are the extremists who hide among us, the right-wing militants who, since 2002, have...
[18:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:58] <exec> 08└─Silently slipping Judaism past us, eh? Judaism says that Jews are God's chosen people (never mind the fact that they are Khazars, and are the filth of the planet). Jews need to be controlled. They need to be locked up on an island and watched 24/7. Any agreement made with Jews should be considered n...
[18:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:00] <exec> 08└─It's illegal, and determined to be a mutilation, under international and national law even to prick with a pin the labia of a minor female; yet, male circumcision removes upwards of 50% of a boy's penis skin, much of which is specialized to providing both protection of and sexual pleasure for the se...
[18:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:02] <exec> 08└─> As the other AC pointed out, female genital mutilation includes pricking a girl's labia with a pin to draw a drop of blood. Did you read that wikipedia page? There are multiple FGM types. The worst, which are very common include cutting off the labia and clitoris. Male circumcision is barbaric, bu...
[18:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─Religion is withering so nicely and becoming so insignificant
[18:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:07] <exec> 08└─Point taken, but isn't it interesting that they at least pretend they're being responsible when it comes to vaccinations? When it comes to mutilating somebody's body and sexually assaulting them as an infant, we just blithely go about it as though nothing can possibly go wrong. Heck, since when has...
[18:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:24] <exec> 08└─I had no idea that pot had been legalized in Nebraska!
[18:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─It says "open" on the tin but it's not really open source. If you believe what random people on the Internet say: https://community.hpe.com [hpe.com] Not quite. POSIX had already been around for several years/releases. The "Open" prefix was added in...
[18:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:57] <exec> 08└─No shit you cowards! (referring to all the up-modded comments in this thread, so far) Sometimes you have to actually fight for the truth to come out. Tools like this can help in that fight. But if all you're gonna do is sit on your ass and just accept the fake narrative that there no way to objectiv...
[18:50:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DBCubix [553] 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:49] <exec> 08└─Following up on the parent's insights w.r.t. proximity; the other glaring error was that three cycles is a really insufficient time period. Had this paper come across my desk I would have rejected it on the methodology alone.
[18:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, I dunno, maybe he's one of those gay dudes who hates women. I've met a few. It's...baffling.
[18:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:53] <exec> 08└─The main benefit of simultaneous is how that leaves more time for fun. Max out-of-sync would be perfect for polyamorous lesbians, though. Always someone available to play.
[18:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:55] <exec> 08└─Every presentation about synchronization in complex systems starts with three typical examples: The synchronized blinking of fireflies [smokymountains.com]. People in a theater randomly clapping their hands eventually synchronize [sciencedaily.com]. The (now debunked) synchronization of menstru...
[18:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holiday Inn Hotels Hit by Card Payment System Hack - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:10] <exec> 08└─Damn, I guess they should've hired an actual computer scientist instead of that dude who stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
[18:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swingin' Robot Watches Crops from Above - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:40] <exec> 08└─Nope, I'm afraid I live in the wrong part of the country for rice, wheat, and corn paddies.
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ridley Scott Wants to Make VR a Reality in Cinema - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:26] <exec> 08└─But movie theaters have overstuffed reclining chairs now. Match that at home, I think you can't.
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[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─-fomit-instructions
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:02] <exec> 08└─Variant Reader, is that you?
[19:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─No, you can not borrow my truck....
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─15 years and running. My company is all Gentoo with the exception of some Windows boxes which act as machine controllers that can't be migrated, and some 3D design boxes running Rhino3D. Now that Rhino3D is ported to the MAC, I'm hopeful they put out a linux version so that I can get rid of a few...
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:34] <exec> 08└─The murder rates in the U.S. and in Honduras are more than a hundred times greater than in Japan and Singapore. I wonder why. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─If we counted all the killing the US government engages in, it would definitely be one of the largest murderers in the world.
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:38] <exec> 08└─The issue I hear most about here in Canada about what's slowing us down is how are we going to test people for driving under the influence of pot. See http://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca] Granted IANAL, just an apparently naïve adult, but I just don't...
[19:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Releases Its Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatch On May 11 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:48] <exec> 08└─You're holding it wrong. If the smartphone is an Apple product, then it cannot possibly be a fundamental design problem. Therefore, logically it is user error.
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:53] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to kill the infant when it's still being carried inside the mother. Is that not an affront to freedom? Just saying
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:55] <exec> 08└─The worst, which are very common include cutting off the labia and clitoris.
[19:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:57] <exec> 08└─> You're confused by feminist propaganda. Besides Wikipedia, I do indeed reserve my FGM-porn intake exclusively from official feminist agencies based in countries ruled by rabid feminist women: For example: http://www.aljazeera.com [aljazeera.com]
[19:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:10] <exec> 08└─ID software released source-code for the engine while retaining copyright on the in-game assets for several games.
[19:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:49] <exec> 08└─Seriously, with our current 'government of money' it will take a heavyweight to pry that information from the various types trying to hide it. I am pleased he is doing this and hope he maintains his bull-in-china-shop approach.
[19:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:11] <exec> 08└─That is called a Donaldson Sphere. A mega structure constructed around the Earth. To keep out the aliens. And we'll make the aliens pay for it. Now crazy left wing liberals will complain that the sky is falling because the Donaldson Sphere will block out all sunlight to the surface of the Earth. But...
[19:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:46] <exec> 08└─Well, nothing wrong with the methodology, in principle. You'd expect cycles to be randomly in sync any given sample of the general population, and you'd look into whether that frequency is any higher in the chosen "close" sample. So the question is as simple as this: is 79 "convergences" out of 352...
[19:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mission Control: Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:16] <exec> 08└─Potassium Chloride *is* a salt. It has a slightly metallic taste compared to Sodium Chloride. I have never understood why NaCl is considered bad, but KCl does not count. There is also CaCl, but that is not eaten much either.
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[20:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:56] <exec> 08└─I always shuffle gay muslim music into my playlists to keep things interesting.
[20:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:58] <exec> 08└─"By powering on this phone, you do agree to being spied on, and your personal information compiled and resold, by any and all companies providing any software or script running on this phone for any purpose at any time, regardless of their source. Google/Apple reserves the unlimited right to prevent...
[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─Typo seems to be in the original article, not the website? I couldn't find that precise phrase going back a month, though I didn't try super hard. The website https://segment.com [segment.com] has/had "Collect all of your customer data and send it anywhere. Stream data to every marketing integratio...
[20:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:02] <exec> 08└─Penisectomy Jones
[20:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:04] <exec> 08└─Oh no! Bose is telling everyone about my secret identity as a 17 year old girl trapped in the body of a 39 year old man? My life is over!
[20:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:07] <exec> 08└─OK Google sell my data and pay me my cut of the profits.
[20:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─I swapped bodies with grandma and now grandpa wants to fuck me. Ew.
[20:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─Android is no different than Windows, or even Linux. You have *complete* control over what user software is installed. Companies do seem to consider it more "fair game" for snooping, but I think Windows 10 is going to push Windows apps that way as well. As always, check required permissions, read TO...
[20:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:13] <exec> 08└─If you use Bose, your life was already over, haven't you heard this one: No highs, no lows... must be Bose.
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─Since when do listeners of "teen pop" care about audio quality?
[20:46:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DarkMorph [674] 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 587 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─This is a fantastic example of why I've been running Gentoo on all my machines and never considered changing distros. This degree of package management control that is either not offered at all in binary distros or is very frustrating to attempt to handle. In some cases in binary distros you'll be f...
[20:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 1813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:35] <exec> 08└─Given the requirements you had, it seems like a pretty sensible and rational choice. In a world which has gone mad, gentoo is at least maintaining some sanity. Thanks to all the OpenRC developers! I only wish I'd had the opportunity to integrate it in Debian back when I was a sysvinit maintainer; it...
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─Gentoo was my very first Linux way back in 2004, and I'm *still* running it! What most people don't get is that once you've done the initial setup, it's really not much more, if any, work than a binary distro. And the control it gives you is completely unprecedented, even better than FreeBSD's Ports...
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─> "options are left open to users" There's the defining difference. For some inexplicable reason, the rest of the world seems to have taken it into their heads that users aren't to be given any options at all. Because it's "bad", or something. The rot started with GNOME, but it's spread since. What...
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─-fomit-omissions
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_the_systemd_builder [6568] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─Are people still really scared of Systemd? If so you should just really switch over to Windows at this point because Linux systems are just going to be too hard for you to use. Learn to embrace change yo! This is what I see in my head when all the old people on their rascal scooters complain about S...
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:45] <exec> 08└─It's really difficult to tell. We don't run access logs on our Nginx load balancer (or the Apache frontends) unless there's an issue that needs debugging or a ddos that needs mitigated. And we can't trust linode's traffic numbers because we do daily backups of nine systems over IPv6 to our remote ba...
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─Similar here. Currently have a linode running Gentoo. The only gripe i could have is sometimes emerge Blocks aren't easy to resolve without visiting the forums.
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:19] <exec> 08└─The perception I have seen among the public (not law enforcement unions, police chiefs, politicians, private prison lobbyists, etc) is that stoned driving is impaired driving, but it may be balanced out by paranoia and cautious driving.
[20:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─We don't have an Alcoholics Day, or a Heroin Addicts day, why the flying fuck is celebrating marijuana drug use ok? Jesus H Christ, The Narcotized State. Because thats working so well elsewhere. Pot heads need to die in a fire.
[20:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:22] <exec> 08└─We don't have an Alcoholics Day
[20:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:40] <exec> 08└─I'll pray for you
[20:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:42] <exec> 08└─Which I believe is what I said - removing an arm is no more (or less) acceptable than removing a leg
[20:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:44] <exec> 08└─It is illegal once the baby is old enough to survive without the mother.
[20:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:46] <exec> 08└─As the other AC pointed out, female genital mutilation includes pricking a girl's labia with a pin to draw a drop of blood. Boo Hoo.
[20:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:48] <exec> 08└─for merely cosmetic reasons
[20:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─And four months after that article was written, one Islamist launched an attack that killed 49 people. The article is sandwiched between the Orlando nightclub shooting [wikipedia.org] and 9/11 [wikipedia.org]. 9/11 would by itself have swamped the figures even if the World Trade Center towers hadn't...
[20:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Starcraft Now Free - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:04] <exec> 08└─Same with FreeSpace 2, you can get it over at hard-light.net
[20:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:44] <exec> 08└─I'm already a dinosaur. By the time this shit happens I will be ashes in a poor-man's viking funeral. Good luck with the world, kids. It's going to turn into a cesspool of a shithole of a memory. Don't forget to check out Disney World while you still can!
[20:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:09] <exec> 08└─Air Force's Project Orion was a laser-broom design...to launch on a Space Shuttle...international agreements banning powerful laser testing in orbit
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[21:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─What about the (confirmed from CIA leaks) security hole known as "systemd"? Oh mention that and you get banned from their IRC.
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:43] <exec> 08└─Can't prove all the sexy moans are from underage girls!
[21:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─I get banned from IRC for mentioning I use xrdp because "it's not Linux enough."
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─Chipmunk noises are totally hot.
[21:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─There were two separate projects to either get in i2pd (c++ variant) or update the java i2p (same that has been in since pre-Snowden) both of which got shot down by the Tails project managers. At this point there have been discussions about instead creating a new darknet 'tails-like' distro to both...
[21:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:52] <exec> 08└─Would love a source on that.
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:10] <exec> 08└─article makes it sound like they're a firehose just spraying it everywhere.
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─Oh no! Bose is telling everyone about my secret identity as a 17 year old girl trapped in the body of a 39 year old man? My life is over!
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─My secret lover is 108
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─Hah. I have to teach myself. Last night I got LXPanelX running--that's a fork of LXPanel that IMO should have been merged into the project, it's way better and looks nice. Had to edit the ebuild to change the source, the eclass/inherit lines, and force it to use pkgconf vs pkgconfig (they were block...
[21:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:41] <exec> 08└─Options require time and learning. Sane defaults are a good thing, especially if we want Linux mainstream...problem is, I have yet to see any truly sane set of defaults in any distro's DE aside from Mint. Watching most people, they're as clueless on Windows as they would be on a sane Linux, and if a...
[21:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:43] <exec> 08└─Your assertion is that, yes, there is a giant f*ing hole in the house, but it's unreasonable to be unhappy about that. Additionally, disliking something is not the same thing as fearing it.
[21:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:45] <exec> 08└─SystemD per se isn't the issue, it's 1) that it seems to be a vehicle for making RedHat money, i.e., "vendor lockin through obscurity" and 2) the way it's implemented is very monolithic and difficult to configure, thus breaking the shit out of The Unix Way (TM). Those of us who've either been using...
[21:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:48] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo...
[21:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:50] <exec> 08└─Fuck SystemD We've been saying for years that it is an intentional obfuscation of security holes. Wikileaks confirmed this recently.
[21:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:52] <exec> 08└─Notice how redhat based systems are mentioned as easy to hack in the recent wikileaks? Ever wonder why. Defects by design.
[21:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:54] <exec> 08└─Um... Stewie is complaining about a broken house.... I think Stewie is being completely prudent in that clip.
[21:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:28] <exec> 08└─Don't let logic and reason inform your opinions, just propaganda and reactionary moralizing. Why do we have a veterans day? Thanks for murdering some other people guys! Way to GOOO! I wouldn't want such events or myself to be celebrated, if it comes down to it war should be a horrifying necessity an...
[21:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─As a fellow Canadian, I have been pondering exactly the same points you made. It's as if people believe that all of a sudden there will be this epidemic of stoned driving if it is made legal. Well, I have news for all of these politicians, a gram of weed is easier and cheaper for me to obtain than a...
[21:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:54] <exec> 08└─the internal community pressure to become more "pure" will eventually outweigh the pressure from US society to become more secular
[21:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:56] <exec> 08└─Log in please, we'd like to see who has the massive persecuted white male complex.
[21:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:58] <exec> 08└─Paradise is relative, some people will accept "decent jobs, education, and healthcare" as paradise compared to the shitshow we've got now.
[21:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:00] <exec> 08└─I worry WAY more about white supremacists than I do about brown terrorists. On this site alone I have seen veiled death threats and gloating such as "we have more guns than your side". There is also a ton of evidence that 9/11 was allowed to happen, but sure stick your head in the sand and blame Mus...
[21:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:02] <exec> 08└─So you and jmorris are sliding back over the side of reason. What gives?
[21:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:05] <exec> 08└─It is a nasty cult and they use emotional and community pressures instead of force. Way better than physical violence, but still not easy for the younger ones to get out. Your family and close community will almost entirely cut you out of their lives. Also, look at their buildings sometime. If you c...
[21:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:07] <exec> 08└─Kenya, that must be the one. Fuck you, you motherfucking feminist shitstain. You have NO RIGHT TO MY BODY. GOT IT? YOU HAVE NO GODDAMNED RIGHT TO CONTROL MY BODY.
[21:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:09] <exec> 08└─Amazing you don't find it interesting the mental contortions feminists go through to minimize ritual infant sexual objectification. Let me guess, fuck the victims of male circumcision, huh? Somebody's dick gets burned off by a laser scalpel, and it's just lol! to you. Less competition for the Hunnie...
[21:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:11] <exec> 08└─Can't claim GP comment as mine but frankly fuck you. How the fuck is a pin prick worse than amputating an entire organ? Oh, oh, oh, a clitoris that's forced to be an external organ is just soooooo awful! It's sooooooo awful! A Hunny got hurt! Because the glans is a totally different organ that god m...
[21:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:14] <exec> 08└─That's a good analysis, but remember that other western countries (mainly western Europe, plus places like Aus/NZ, Japan, and even Hispanic nations in Latin America, etc.) also have very similar medical systems with a lot of sharing between them, but the circumcision thing is mainly American. So why...
[21:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:32] <exec> 08└─More likely, the high temperatures allow the waste heat to be used for other things. For some reason 3 of the articles I checked about "how water cooling" used JavaScript to blank/dim the page. No links then.
[21:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:11] <exec> 08└─They will keep lying regardless of heroic monkeys. If lying doesn't work, the have lots and lots of prisons. The Man always wins. Always.
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[22:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:45] <exec> 08└─In my brief searching, it looks like all of the publicly-available information is speculation. I guess systemd is so bad [agwa.name] that people are wondering if it is malice, rather than incompetence.
[22:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:47] <exec> 08└─That's what Japanese porn producers seem to think.
[22:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─-fomit-trolls -ffeed-buzzards
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:44] <exec> 08└─And you sound like a naive young jerk who doesn't even comprehend his own limitations. Go look back at your old school pictures, the horror you experience at seeing your young "fashion sense" will be similar to what happens when the clouds finally lift from your mind and you can see the bigger pictu...
[22:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:20] <exec> 08└─Heroin Addicts day
[22:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:22] <exec> 08└─Why are we still questioning this? Hispanics and blacks. Sorry not sorry. The jails are full of them and their graduation rate and IQ are the lowest of any racial group. They were never part of modern society until the Europeans forced it on them. They cant cope living in a modern, civilized, high t...
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:24] <exec> 08└─Yawn. lame troll is lame.
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:26] <exec> 08└─It's also Hitler's birthday, in case you missed that part of internet culture.
[22:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:29] <exec> 08└─You forgot: New year's Eve Superbowl Sunday Memorial Day 4th of July (drunk with explosives) Labor Day Last game of March Madness Last Game of the Playoffs (x3) And, to an extent limited by the quantity of food and family, Thanksgiving Day, black Friday (gotta finish the bottles) and Christmas... I'...
[22:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:03] <exec> 08└─Interesting, I hadn't heard that one. I found a review (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23548489) that claims the science was so settled in the 1950s on this topic that no one bothered talking about it anymore. In fact they started inflicting "not pain" on infants for diagnostic purposes (since...
[22:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the study link. It's one in a series of very strange medical traditions that continued into recent years. To this day, many older physicians don't bother even giving a local anesthetic to an infant before circumcision, despite the fact that safe practices for doing so have been known for...
[22:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:07] <exec> 08└─It seems to be an English-language thing, likely because most of the doctors promoting the early theories spoke and wrote in English. The UK, Australia, etc. had high rates too. According to this [wikipedia.org], a 2005 poll in Australia had 58% of males saying they were circumcised. (There's a mark...
[22:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:51] <exec> 08└─Can you cite sources for ring 1-2 not being usable on x86_64? I googled for it but found nothing. Also, I used to develop firmware :)
[22:50:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Steve Ballmer’s New Gov’t Data Project Assumes That Facts Change Minds - 1830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:55] <exec> 08└─Government has no monopoly on organizational failure. I've encountered empire building in medium sized corporations. Extremely unnecessary and wasteful empire building eventually gets noticed, usually when a few deadlines pass and the empire builder has nothing to show for all those hires of incompe...
[22:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:02] <exec> 08└─I think what they missed completely is how strongly the cycles change when a environmental change occurs. Say that only 5% of women has a susceptibility that enables them to sync the cycle. Using a static comparison will have this drown in the properties of the majority. Now if one starts with unaff...
[22:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Menstrual-Cycle Syncing by Women Does Not Really Happen - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:03] <exec> 08└─Then again, most women have near-28 day cycle so one can perceive a sync when there is no one just by sampling a short enough period.
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[23:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts. - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:45] <exec> 08└─The people doing this research need to find "results" to continue on their career, and "sexy results" to be successful. They should include that one too.
[23:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts. - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:47] <exec> 08└─Can you believe that scientists also get paid to do research? How about that the scientists often pay the journals that publish the studies? Another huge conflict of interest is that the people reviewing scientific studies are actually "scientists" themselves. We need more non-scientists that can do...
[23:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts. - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:49] <exec> 08└─That doesn't just apply to grad students. Post docs and particularly pre-tenure academics need results just as much as grad students to publish (if not more so). Post-tenure academics who want to keep their labs, status, and salary also have a motivation. Anyhow, publication bias [wikipedia.org] is...
[23:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:04] <exec> 08└─and as per usual remedies "numerous security holes" in the previous release.
[23:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails 2.12 Released - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:05] <exec> 08└─So they really are not serious about security.
[23:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:28] <exec> 08└─Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users
[23:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:30] <exec> 08└─JIHAD IN HOLY NAME OF ALLAHALALALALALALAA!
[23:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:32] <exec> 08└─Windows what, 10? I'd say that for 7 but certainly not 10.
[23:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims Bose Spies on its Users - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─Android is no different than Windows, or even Linux. You have *complete* control over what user software is installed.
[23:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:11] <exec> 08└─I was one of those pushing for FreeBSD. My comment from last time seemed to be well-received, about how it's been a pretty stable Unix community for decades. I still like the overall more conservative approaches they tend to use in the BSD world. But... every potential issue presented in the summary...
[23:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:12] <exec> 08└─we could easily upgrade the entire stack... as a single emerge world, and then deploy.
[23:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo... - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:14] <exec> 08└─Those two options are mutually exclusive and cause GCC to exit.
[23:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry to break some of this view. What you say is generally true but any country that lets in people with more tribalism inclinations and violent culture will push their crime statistics into the violent direction. To make full use of this historically unique situation, it's important that cultures...
[23:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't there an issue where the Marijuana can be stored in the fat of the body. Such that if you happen to be in period where your fat deposit decreases every so slightly one will get a new uncontrolled high? Thus drug-DUI even if there's no drug in the car nor have taken any as of lately? And do tes...
[23:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:00] <exec> 08└─If the veterans didn't do their murdering somewhere else. It would end with foreign people murdering in your neighborhood. So the day could be seen as a day for veterans to socialize with others that share PTSD etc as well as a societal thank you for doing the job so our kids and workforce won't hav...
[23:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:02] <exec> 08└─Murder and theft are couchant in society?
[23:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:04] <exec> 08└─What you say is generally true but any country that lets in people with more tribalism inclinations and violent culture will push their crime statistics into the violent direction.
[23:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:06] <exec> 08└─The issue I hear most about here in Canada about what's slowing us down is how are we going to test people for driving under the influence of pot. Begging the question, eh? Has it been scientifically determined that pot negatively affects driving? I'm not saying it doesn't, but, banning stuff befor...
[23:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:44] <exec> 08└─This coming from an MtF is hilarious. So, how about this?: NO ONE HARMS OUR BABIES' GENITALIA, MALE OR FEMALE. Sounds weird coming from a lesbian feminist, maybe? I don't care. All our babies are precious and harming any of them for any superstitious reason is societal insanity. We're failing our bo...
[23:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harnessing Heat to Power Computers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:03] <exec> 08└─Humans CAN be used as batteries. And I've been pissed off about it all this time
[23:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:32] <exec> 08└─but the pain of getting hobbyist PAKs for it has left me in the case most of my VMS investigations is mostly reading articles about it, and occasionally using one.
[23:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:33] <exec> 08└─As the resident VMS evangelist, I'm surprised I didn't sub this story back in October!
[23:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:10] <exec> 08└─You probably want to choose "Extrans (html tags to text)" rather than "Plain Old Text" from the dropdown. More importantly, you should actually look at the preview, because it certainly does work for me -- I even signed out to make sure this wasn't a guest vs. logged-in issue. If you're sure you hav...
[23:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Say That the Space Debris Problem is Getting Worse - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:12] <exec> 08└─No, not a problem; lrn2html, kthxbai.
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