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[00:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:50] <exec> 08└─Bring on the Post-Atomic Horror!
[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─- What does "pinpoint accuracy" means at over a hundred miles for a passive shell traveling at Mach 6 (initially) through real atmospheric conditions? - Sure, the ammo is cheaper, safer and smaller, but how many shots can the latest versions fire before they need a new cannon? How much and how long...
[00:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:03] <exec> 08└─"how to not run into a gigantic planet..." Sometimes hitting the planet is the hardest part.
[00:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:04] <exec> 08└─Just asking. [wikipedia.org]
[00:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:06] <exec> 08└─Why is it that saturn isn't thought capable of sustaining life?
[00:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:09] <exec> 08└─You will get megaviews if you manage to throw yourself at the Earth and miss. Don't go celebrating by having fun on the wings of a plane though ... (I'll assume that most here have read the HHGTTG sequels)
[00:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:11] <exec> 08└─Page encoding is messed up, but should give you an idea: https://market.cloud.edu.tw [cloud.edu.tw] There has been talk of life in the atmospheres of gas giants but it doesn't seem very feasible compared to the liquid...
[00:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:13] <exec> 08└─When has armchair cosmonaut Buzzard left the gravity well of Earth? Or even played Spacewar?
[00:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:32] <exec> 08└─I bought the VHS set of the original trilogy when it came out, then I bought the enhanced (or whatever it was) VHS set, then the DVD set. Enough is enough. Parts IV, V, and VI were great. Part I was pretty good. Parts II, and III were shitty. I kept fell asleep on part VII. I have no desire to see a...
[00:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─They're gonna remake Star Wars IV, V, and VI staring Caitlyn Jenner as princess Leia and Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker.
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:35] <exec> 08└─HAN SHOT FIRST!
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─... I know for a fact that Han fired first! I saw the first film in the theater.
[00:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:12] <exec> 08└─I still don't see the point of this front-page article on Soylent News.
[00:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure if this was what Aristarchus was referring to, but as a matter of fact, Ace Books published unauthorised editions of Lord of the Rings in the US back in 1965 [tolkiengateway.net].
[00:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:02] <exec> 08└─taxpayer-funded contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2016
[00:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:03] <exec> 08└─There is no way to eliminate loonies because there is no one definition of what constitutes such. Loonies are certain they are the sane ones. The rest of us are fools, dupes, or evil. I've been screamed at by people who were mad that all of us buy the wrong kind of peanut butter, that only peanut bu...
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[00:48:06] <exec> 08└─Sure. I grant you that at least they try hard. Know-nothings and their heirs don't try at all. It's a pity they don't, because theirs could be a useful input into the public discourse if they tried to back it up with thought.
[00:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:08] <exec> 08└─I've been screamed at by people who were mad that all of us buy the wrong kind of peanut butter, that only peanut butter made from nuts grown in a certain valley in Peru are acceptable.
[00:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:34] <exec> 08└─Even if the first paragraph in my post is factually correct, the second will not be. You wait and see.
[00:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:36] <exec> 08└─The first and last article I wrote for Wikipedia was the experience you described. The worst part about it was that I looked at the person who deleted it and it was some Berkeley cunt with Islamic garbage in her profile -- and something makes me believe she's never even been to an Islamic country in...
[00:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:28] <exec> 08└─Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?
[00:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:47] <exec> 08└─A device like this was described in Michael Crichton’s novel Congo. They hooked it up to a gorilla who had been taught sign language.
[00:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Solution Proposed for Coral Bleaching - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:10] <exec> 08└─I read a good idea the other day. To stop climate change we just need to blow up nuclear bombs in the ocean every 3-4 months. Additionally, we can breed a species of super-algae that floods the oceans to the point they become large bodies of CO2 consuming sludge. If at the same time we can pump cold...
[00:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:23] <exec> 08└─That idiotic plan drove money away from the Middle Class up to the 0.1%. That was our path to destruction.
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[01:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─In Trump's idea of America those questions would get you sent to Gitmo. On the other hand, $25k for what is basically a lump of iron? Who the hell can make bribes big enough that this shit is taken seriously? / we can be bunkies in Gitmo. // damn
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:59] <exec> 08└─For the second question, two years ago the same story was making the rounds, and the railgun was basically melting after a shot or two.
[01:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─Judging by all the debris coming out of the cannon, i'd guess it still can't launch many rounds. OT: Cover of Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack for the video?
[01:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:04] <exec> 08└─Boeing: BA https://finance.yahoo.com [yahoo.com] This Motley Fool story disparages Boeing, but note that Boeing is listed on page 3 of this document: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com [donaldjtrump.com] BAE Systems Plc ADR: BAESY http://www.nasdaq.com
[01:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:06] <exec> 08└─That's why I thought they were full of hyperbole. Pinpoint accuracy means being able to throw a dart into the same hole it made the first time, over and over again. Your shots literally line up to a 'pinhole of light'. This is at Mach 6 with 110 miles of atmospheric conditions like you pointed out....
[01:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:08] <exec> 08└─What does "pinpoint accuracy" means at over a hundred miles for a passive shell traveling at Mach 6 (initially) through real atmospheric conditions?
[01:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:11] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who is confused by the fact that the purported video of an electromagnetic railgun shows a muzzle flash?
[01:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:13] <exec> 08└─Could be the plastic slides burning.
[01:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:52] <exec> 08└─I really enjoyed that version. Greedo doesn't even get off a shot, hah!
[01:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:29] <exec> 08└─The article says "it’s 50 or 60 petabytes." [...] the US Library of Congress “had collected 235 terabytes of data by April 2011 and a petabyte is more than four times that."
[01:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:30] <exec> 08└─> The giant distributed Internet library... Files on Freenet are typically split into multiple small blocks, with duplicate blocks created to provide redundancy. Each block is handled independently, meaning that a single file may have parts stored on many different nodes.
[01:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:32] <exec> 08└─> 2.5e14 bytes The article says "50 or 60 petabytes" which is about 200 to 240 times more.
[01:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:03] <exec> 08└─No, it was not IIRC. It was added to the Hollywood version so that the audience would know what the Gorilla was saying. In the book, the gorilla's handler understood sign language, so a fragile computer was not needed to translate.
[01:54:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:44] <exec> 08└─It's truly sad to think that you actually believe that. "How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving." may be a joke but it's also a statistical fact. Aside from brief moments of altruism after Thanksgiving dinner when they're too stuffed to scheme, not a one of them ever stops t...
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[02:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:57] <exec> 08└─Fuck you.
[02:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─Tell us how the company leadership consists entirely of black lesbian veterans.
[02:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:01] <exec> 08└─I don't need a new laptop yet, but I've had system76 at the top of my list to consider buying from. This is great news, even if it doesn't include laptops yet. We definitely need more free/open choices out there.
[02:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:03] <exec> 08└─Please work on some kind of RISC-V based system; work with the people of the lowRISC [lowrisc.org] project.
[02:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:06] <exec> 08└─Meh, desktop cases are kind of a generic commodity at this stage and have been for years. I don't see a lot of value in designing and fabricating another one. Antec and others already make lots of excellently designed desktop cases, they are standards compliant and you can put any hardware you like...
[02:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:08] <exec> 08└─Nice sentiment, but I'd follow Apple's mid 2000s cue and offer an Intel based system. It may not be idealistically open, but it will be much more flexible and useful in the world we leave in.
[02:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─My first assumption was yet another Soyvertisment, but they actually look not too bad. And, wonder of wonders, they actually realize that Canada is RIGHT NEXT DOOR and accommodate our situation. Nice change from all of the US retailers who just grunt and say "We don't want your money." Shame about t...
[02:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:12] <exec> 08└─I read this a few days ago. It is almost content free marketing speak. As best as I can translate from the marketing Black Speech to English is they have a laser cutter and are experimenting with case design. If it goes well at some indeterminate future date they will graduate to actually making and...
[02:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:15] <exec> 08└─The goal should be to get away from the blackbox that is Intel. By all means, provide working machines that are profitable; just be sure to take a smidgen of those profits, and put them towards a profitable escape plan.
[02:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:17] <exec> 08└─If you have something of value, and people want it, they'll pay for it, and never ask about the gallons of cum you have swallowed. Fact, fool.
[02:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 3265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:34] <exec> 08└─The gun is impressive, in that it puts massive energy downrange. But, being rather conservative in nature, I'm wondering WTF the Navy is willing to build an entire ship around this new weapon. The questions asked above about the life of the barrel are spot on. Take Ye Olde Reliable 5 inch 54 caliber...
[02:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:35] <exec> 08└─So, perhaps you would be so kind as to give YOUR estimate of pinpoint for a passive shell, at mach 6, over a 110 mile range through atmospheric conditions? My estimate is 'will probably hit the small town it was aimed at', but 'will certainly not hit the large building it was aimed at' I will back t...
[02:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:17] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 here's a good starting point: https://thepiratebay.org fuck you very much, george lucas, we'll just have to do it ourselves. i bet if he ever turns around, he will just squeeze out another turd, nowhere near th...
[02:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:18] <exec> 08└─Make him a chick (or chick with a dick!) and have a romantic triangle between Luke, Han, and Leia, perhaps with a threesome, before finally identifying as a lesbian and hooking up with Leia before having Leia force conceive lesbian love children as they slowly remove bad prequel references and homol...
[02:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is what I was talking about. I assume aristarchus was getting at Charles Dickens [charlesdickensinfo.com], but I decided to be contrary.
[02:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:59] <exec> 08└─> Endurance isn't an issue since you would write once for this particular application. Flash memory is subject to data loss from " "charge de-trapping" (leakage), which can be counteracted by having the controller rewrite the data ("flash correct and refresh"). Even when the user isn't explicitly do...
[02:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:02] <exec> 08└─*distribute, not distributed
[02:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:45] <exec> 08└─By his own admission he submits articles to generate discussion, not agreement.
[02:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:46] <exec> 08└─what Muslims will do once they get in power. Have a deep study in to Chechnya!
[02:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:48] <exec> 08└─Funny I haven't see any concentration camps set up by the local Baptists,
[02:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:50] <exec> 08└─Is that some kind of "I know you are but what am I" defense?
[02:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:58] <exec> 08└─What do you care if Apple cares? It's their app store, eh?!
[02:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:19] <exec> 08└─They don't pay higher wages out of the goodness of their hearts! The do so only when forced, either by minimum wage laws (that Republicans oppose) or by a shortage of labor.
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[03:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:02] <exec> 08└─It has that crazy ramp at the front instead of a catapult. This means it only works for high-powered aircraft with unusually durable landing gear. American ships can handle wimpy aircraft just fine. Not everything is a fighter. Sometimes you want to fly a maxed-out cargo plane or fuel tanker. I'd lo...
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[03:46:21] <exec> 08└─Have you actually seen one of these in person? I've been interested since they came out, but I have a strong aversion to buying a laptop I can't physically test the keyboard/trackpad of first. As expected, they're not in stores anywhere I can find, but I was a little surprised to see they were not e...
[03:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:22] <exec> 08└─I bought a System 76 laptop just under 5 years ago. The thing has been rock-solid. It was a bit spendy, but I went top-of-the-line at the time because I didn't want to have to replace it any time soon. Dual quad-core. 2.6 I think. 32 GB RAM and dual 128 MB SSDs. Unfortunately my SSDs are mirrored an...
[03:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:24] <exec> 08└─I'm typing this on a System76 laptop I picked up a few years ago. It works just fine hardware-wise. The biggest annoyance is that if you suspend-resume, it doesn't do a good job of picking up the Wifi connections, so I generally do a full shutdown instead.
[03:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:27] <exec> 08└─I'm on year 4 with one of their Bonobo laptops and am very happy. I'll probably buy from them eventually, but yeah, a better exchange rate would be nice.
[03:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:29] <exec> 08└─When I opened that blog and saw the characteristic contentless youtube-adhd flow of the post I figured pretty much this. And you're correct. It really is just normal fab stuff being oversold to hell and back. Robots and automation! Manufacturing efficiency will keep prices competitive. And like sof...
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[03:46:48] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the shell is guided and can explode at target distance to create high velocity debris field.
[03:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:31] <exec> 08└─Have avoided the recut versions but ok, that is actually a change I can support making. When they originally made Episode VI they had no clue what Anakin would eventually look like so replacing him is basically just a fairly small continuity fix. It doesn't rewrite a major character or anything.
[03:48:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 953 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:25] <exec> 08└─You mean he is fucking over all his rabid bigoted White Nationalist supporters once he got into office? But...but...but... he wasn't supposed to turn out like crooked Hillary! :D The rest of the country, the majority of which didn't vote for this retarded hamburgler, would like to deliver an I-Told-...
[03:48:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:29] <exec> 08└─No they aren't, and the one who says the loonie left and the loonie right are equally wrong is wronger than both of them. The loonie left is smaller, weaker, less invested in causing widespread misery, and far more educable than the loonie right, who are basically the Christian version of the Taliba...
[03:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:06] <exec> 08└─Your post, the thread following your post and the score of your post all confirm to me that the binaries are functionally identical in their insanity :)
[03:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:07] <exec> 08└─Welp that came out looking like I took issue with your post being modded insightful. Sorry, meant because of: Flamebait=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Informative=1, Touché=1
[03:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:09] <exec> 08└─No it couldn't, because, as you just said, they are know-nothings. I am speaking here of the kind of habitual urinator-in-the-meme-pool that thinks aid to Israel should be the US's number one priority specifically because Armageddon will, in his lifetime, begin there. Not only do they know nothing,...
[03:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:37] <exec> 08└─Man this thread is exactly why doing stuff like that concerns me so much. That's the trouble with simplistic terms. They're easily mangled if someone is purposefully trying to create a communication barrier. I've never used facebook or plan to. Yet I had seen it used previously years ago to describe...
[03:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:33] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. No no no. No. For comparison, in 2015 Americans spent less than 10% on food in their budgets on average, and only 6.6% on food eaten at home, the lowest percentage out of a list of comparison countries.
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[04:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─Now 10 carriers is not enough to compete! We must have 20!
[04:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:59] <exec> 08└─It has that crazy ramp at the front instead of a catapult. This means it only works for high-powered aircraft with unusually durable landing gear.
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─just as well as the USA. In an era of mach 10 missiles and drones you can just spam carriers are about as useful on a modern battlefield as a fleet of P-47s, probably less as at least the P-47s make decent ground attackers and can loiter on the battlefield for hours. Any country you can face that ha...
[04:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder if we will see an unmanned drone nuke an aircraft carrier in our lifetimes.
[04:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:26] <exec> 08└─This is really what kills it for me. In theory this sounds like just what I am looking for. Get to the details, yeah no thanks. Please insert that invidia card in your tightest orifice, then twist, thank you very much.
[04:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:27] <exec> 08└─But is it really hard to find a laptop to run Linux on these days? Even someone like me who can't stand Linux (its not the OS, its the shitty attitude the devs have and the insane desire to constantly reinvent the wheel and change just enough shit to make distros incompatible with each other) will g...
[04:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:29] <exec> 08└─Lesbians don't swallow cum.
[04:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:49] <exec> 08└─You've contributed an actual fact to correct "know it all" Dumbass and his extensive math who was totally ignorant that even "non engined" ballistic projectiles are guided these days. (Movable steering fins plus guidance such as GPS.) You get less informed by reading comments on Soylent more often t...
[04:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:50] <exec> 08└─So the purpose of this thing is to do what exactly? Basically to be a 7500km/h fragmentation grenade? I know KE = 1/2 m(v^2) and that that ^2 adds up fast, but I'm not seeing how this is going to work. Wouldn't it do more damage by burrowing itself into the ground and making subsequent blast, heat,...
[04:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:34] <exec> 08└─HAN SHOT FIRST - TAKING OUR STAR WARS BACK
[04:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:16] <exec> 08└─Fair point, but should still be enough endurance to smuggle data out of Google or whatever the dumb scenario is, and maybe actively seed a torrent for a few years. The large capacity 3D NAND drives can easily implement overprovisioning so the controller can maintain the data longer.
[04:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:12] <exec> 08└─And as I've said before, no, the two sides are *not* identical, functionally or otherwise. They are equally wrong about economic theory, and both ironically for the precise same reason: they do not take human nature into account. The unreconstructed Marxist is likely to be more or less a decent pers...
[04:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:42] <exec> 08└─Ah there we go again, let's take the most insane examples and then use them to discredit more reasonable outlets like campusreform.org. Fakenews in a nutshell everyone, don't listen to Sargon of Akkad because Alex Jones is CRAZY.
[04:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:44] <exec> 08└─The definition of "Fake" is pretty clear:
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[05:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly, 4-in-1 Catalyst - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─Innovative new catalyst makes prescription drugs even more expensive.
[05:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly, 4-in-1 Catalyst - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:52] <exec> 08└─First there were 3-in-1 catalysts for car exhaust (HC, CO and NOx). Now this new outfit announces 4-in-1. Next it will be 5, etc... Kind of like gears on bikes, used to be 5 cogs at the back was normal, then 6, 7...and now up to 11 (or more--haven't checked lately).
[05:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly, 4-in-1 Catalyst - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─Imagine how much paper a whore could earn if she has 11 vaginas!
[05:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly, 4-in-1 Catalyst - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:56] <exec> 08└─V¡agra gonna cost ya so many food stamps brah.
[05:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:09] <exec> 08└─> Any country you can face that has tech advanced enough that you could use a carrier instead of just flying planes from a base Since the Chinese don't spam bases all over the world USA/USSR-style, but need to occasionally protect their African assets and "their" South China Sea islands, it does mak...
[05:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:35] <exec> 08└─Also stupid to push 3rd party sites instead of say, linking directly to the source of the information: http://blog.system76.com [system76.com]
[05:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:57] <exec> 08└─At least two things come to mind. First is the fact that part of the barrel, or rail, is destroyed during each firing, sending a shower of sparks out with the projectile. The other factor is the shear speed of the projectile actually causing the air around it to combust.
[05:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─To be fair, "Well, we can still hit the earth" a hundred miles away, might be considered a decent achievement for a Blue Water ship. I don't think anyone is suggesting that the railgun would be the only toy onboard. But one of the points of creating the all-electric multi-billion-dollar Zumwalts was...
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[05:47:01] <exec> 08└─I vote number 2: The instant exothermic compression of the air in front of the Mach 6 projectile in a barrel. Already showed up on a previous test video. Might also include some plasma or ionized air (electrical discharges?) from all the electrical and magnetic fields..
[05:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:03] <exec> 08└─It likely has to be made of special materials and a special shape to go through the atmosphere at Mach 6 without having too much draw and not deforming due to heat. As a data point for this, the SR-71, made of Titanium alloy skin, going at up to Mach 3.2, the friction from going through air at upper...
[05:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:47] <exec> 08└─Except that the originals aren't as high-quality as George's 90s versions. They did a lot of good work in cleaning up the deteriorated film, and also fixing some of the crappy effects (such as the scene in ESB in the Hoth battle where you can see through Luke's ship). The problem, of course, is that...
[05:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:26] <exec> 08└─The unreconstructed Marxist is likely to be more or less a decent person in other facets of his or her life
[05:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, gotta love those theoretical physics nazis. Let's write an encyclopedia article so that we can explain all this physics stuff we know, but ya know, hey, let's not actually explain anything in the process, and just assume the reader already gets it. Wonder how well that would have gone over wit...
[05:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:25] <exec> 08└─Your perception of Indonesia is inaccurate. Indonesia only gained its independence in 1950 after which it was taken over by a Islamic extremist who, along with his half dozen wives, engaged in mass murder [wikipedia.org] of "communist sympathizers, ethnic Chinese and alleged leftists" in 1965. The d...
[05:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:27] <exec> 08└─both wanted the Shaw out
[05:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:29] <exec> 08└─I want to hear what he has to say.
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[06:46:55] <exec> 08└─Some of us don’t want to pay Microsoft one red cent for any of their misbegotten software. Sure, I could buy a laptop with Windows 10 preinstalled and pave it over with Linux Mint or whatever, but if I did that I’d still have paid Microsoft for Windows 10. I’d pay a reasonable premium for hard...
[06:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:57] <exec> 08└─Agree 100%. I'm surprised that this was actually posted, given it is basically a Trump election stump speech. "We're going to build something, and it will be awesome! Trust me!". Absolutely no content to back up those claims. No firm dates. No feature set. No price indication. No information.
[06:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:24] <exec> 08└─You can't explode the projectile AFTER you crash it (and attempt to "burrow", as you call it). Maximum damage is delivered by exploding the thing ABOVE the target so the blast is transmitted to a larger area beneath it.
[06:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:26] <exec> 08└─I want so bad to mod this up for the : even "non engined" ballistic projectiles are guided these days. (Movable steering fins plus guidance such as GPS.)
[06:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:11] <exec> 08└─WTF? You must be the only person I've ever seen to say that I was "pretty good" while III was "shitty". Everyone else switches those around. I hated I and II; they were both shitty. I never saw III because of that, and literally everyone I talk to about this tells me that I missed the best of the 3...
[06:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 2392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:23] <exec> 08└─The meaning of fake news is unclear simply because of how it started. 'Fake News' was an orchestrated attempt by old or establishment media to discredit everybody else. You can even see just about the exact date they came up with the idea [google.com] - sometime early November of last year where it...
[06:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:17] <exec> 08└─There was a documentary on dentists in Canada. Every single one told the same person something different. I'd expect the same would be true in USA as well. Most dentistry is bullshit. Did you know you don't need toothpaste? Most of them have near zero net benefit and many actually cause harm.
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[07:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientist Invents Way to Trigger Non-Organic Photosynthesis-Like Reaction - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:03] <exec> 08└─Blue!! The same color BLUE as a sunburned NIGGER!!!
[07:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:26] <exec> 08└─An aircraft carrier is a big target, yes, but it is also well-protected. It travels with attack subs and numerous missile-equipped ships. It has anti-missile machine guns that fire automatically. There is surely more that is secret, and adding an anti-ICBM system is at least doable. Most anti-ship w...
[07:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:55] <exec> 08└─Seller of hardware converted to FOSS wants to manufacture in house: this is soylent-related news. Also confirms the idea that the real enemy of FOSS is the duopoly hardware/software makers.
[07:47:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 3265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:14] <exec> 08└─The gun is impressive, in that it puts massive energy downrange. But, being rather conservative in nature, I'm wondering WTF the Navy is willing to build an entire ship around this new weapon. The questions asked above about the life of the barrel are spot on. Take Ye Olde Reliable 5 inch 54 caliber...
[07:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:25] <exec> 08└─but why do we have to denigrate someone who posted in good faith but may not have understood?
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[07:47:26] <exec> 08└─Great, care to post any evidence of that? *My* understanding, based on all the available test information on this actual device is that it fires completely passive ordinance. There would be significant issues is developing active ordinance for this, due to both the huge accelerations involved (much...
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[07:47:29] <exec> 08└─Good to see 'My understanding is that the shell is guided and can explode at target distance to create high velocity debris field' is a fact! Of course there is no evidence *I* can find of either of these 'facts', care to present any? Thought not.. time to come back from some scifi future and stick...
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[07:47:31] <exec> 08└─Just to add a little more 'fact' to these boys need to fantasies about this actual weapon. What they are dreaming of is the 'hyper velocity projectile' project, which the navy has been chasing for some time. So fact it has achieved exactly one thing, the firing of a solid dummy load, with no active...
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[07:47:33] <exec> 08└─There would be significant issues is developing active ordinance for this, due to both the huge accelerations involved (much higher that existing guns), and the small issue of the massive electromagnetic fields that are an essential part of its basic operation.
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[07:47:50] <exec> 08└─It's hard to have interesting chemical reactions in the middle of very light gas. Also, hydrogen and helium by themselves don't make many interesting molecules; other elements are present in much smaller quantities, and deeper down. There are tremendous, sudden changes in pressure and temperature, t...
[07:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:34] <exec> 08└─And as it becomes increasingly clear that no such meaningful connection exists
[07:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:29] <exec> 08└─"My hoverboard is full of eels." "And it does not actually 'hover'."
[07:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:07] <exec> 08└─AC you sound sarcastic but Ank's nailed it. The key part: >> The moment the notion came to be held that there are actually two different types of men, rather than simply two different types of acts which men might (or might not) choose to engage in The moment there is a "we-are" and a "they-are", th...
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[07:55:09] <exec> 08└─In case that wasn't a rhetorical question, check the last paragraph of the original submission.
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[07:55:11] <exec> 08└─> Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. To a culture that believes curses inflict real harm, this is the equivalent of "if you kill your parents or destroy their spiritual beings, die" - matches US law > If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of hi...
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[08:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:59] <exec> 08└─So? I can do nicely without food for 24 hours. Is there a point to this story? Damn I'm hungry.
[08:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:01] <exec> 08└─So how much of the imported energy they used was made from coal?
[08:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:03] <exec> 08└─"Britain Does Without Coal Power, Briefly" [soylentnews.org] Last May, all the coal-burning stations were shut down for what may have been the first time since 1882. E.ON made up the difference, at ruinous expense.
[08:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:05] <exec> 08└─Though you may call 999 They will hang up everytime It's too late they're here with me
[08:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientist Invents Way to Trigger Non-Organic Photosynthesis-Like Reaction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:14] <exec> 08└─Time to sell all oil stocks? Or maybe not just yet ...
[08:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientist Invents Way to Trigger Non-Organic Photosynthesis-Like Reaction - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:16] <exec> 08└─CO2 is a harmless (and even necessary) material, as long as there's not too much of it. Indeed, I bet it's more harmless than the organic substances they produce from it. This is an interesting process, but not because it destroys something inherently dangerous, but because it might be the way to a...
[08:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:08] <exec> 08└─C'mon, marketing speak are always good for a laugh or two. Froms TFS: Something so brilliant and beautiful that reviewers will have to add an 11 to their scores
[08:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:42] <exec> 08└─Are there any railguns that are not electromagnetic?
[08:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:45] <exec> 08└─I guess that depends on your target. I guess if you target a closed structure, there's value in first breaking through the wall, and then exploding inside, in order to destroy as much as possible there. If exploding outside, the structure will provide protection; if exploding inside, the structure w...
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[08:47:47] <exec> 08└─And he claims to have been a sailor, but inquiries with the DOD report that no one named "Runaway1956" ever served in the US Military, ever.
[08:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:17] <exec> 08└─And tapes (Toshiba, Fujifilm/IBM) has had protypes up to 220TB (uncompressed) per cartridge since 2015. Curious about how the patent dispute (tape) will pan out.
[08:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:49] <exec> 08└─Right. And we've gone from PissGate and 'Trump is a Russian plant' to imminent impeachment (or even arrest) of the president to 'aid might have broken some law by not reporting a $33k payment on form for services rendered from a Russian media company.' This whole thing is dying faster than the Obama...
[08:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:25] <exec> 08└─Did i, as a teenager, look at guys and girls and say "Yeah, guys are gorgeous and girls are gorgeous..... meh, i'll go straight... I'm going for girls". No.
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[09:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:58] <exec> 08└─In France, coal power plants provided just 2% of total electricity in 2014. [...] France will have just 3,018 MW of capacity remaining online in mainland France after 2015. This will be just 5 coal power units, spread across 4 plants.
[09:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:59] <exec> 08└─Good to hear the UK is getting off of coal. And in the US, despite the Trump drum-beating for the coal industry, natural gas has overtaken coal as well https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:32] <exec> 08└─Would a nuclear cruise missile do? France, Russia, the United States, Pakistan and possibly other countries have them. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I was surprised to learn that cruise missiles were first built in 1916.
[09:46:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 872 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:47] <exec> 08└─I read this a few days ago. It is almost content free marketing speak. As best as I can translate from the marketing Black Speech to English is they have a laser cutter and are experimenting with case design. If it goes well at some indeterminate future date they will graduate to actually making and...
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[10:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:56] <exec> 08└─Bureaucrats gonna bureaucracy, just join the fucking Engineer's club and be done with it.
[10:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:57] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess that neither the fine nore the caution is addressed to the right person. After all, if Mats holds a Swedish engineering degree, the Board should've referred to him as "Ingenjör [wikipedia.org] Mats" - mr. Mats is likely a different person. (Admittedly, I'm not 100% sure on how Sw...
[10:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:00] <exec> 08└─Practicing engineering means getting paid -- possibly in some form other than money. At the very least it means performing the kind of services for which engineers are normally paid.
[10:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mordac [6108] (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:02] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that you need to get an electrician in if you want to change a lightbulb? [I am not a "state-licensed professional engineer", although I do posess a degree in Engineering]
[10:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03evk [597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:04] <exec> 08└─Swedes aren't much for titles, so just "Mats" would be fine. Or if you'd be really formal you could use "Herr Järlström".
[10:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:54] <exec> 08└─How would you present evidence of 'my understanding is'? A brain scan, maybe? Note that the fact that something is Zipf's understanding doesn't necessary mean that the something is correct; Zipf correctly stated it as his understanding. The assumption that someone's understanding has to be in any wa...
[10:50:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:32] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia has built a trustworthy reputation. Can it be transferred to journalism?
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[11:45:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the result of this study would be in a western country, especially at elite universities.
[11:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:51] <exec> 08└─Spirit of the Big Brother. $50/bottle.
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[11:45:53] <exec> 08└─This is a very good point. I have lived/worked for many years in China. And while I have greatly admire how friendly and caring colleagues and acquaintances can be, I am still surprised by the ease by which people you do not know well try to screw you over. Instead of a Western country, I wonder how...
[11:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:55] <exec> 08└─Exchanging names has always worked for me. It's how I've been so successful on the internet.
[11:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:07] <exec> 08└─Do not attempt to unclog a toilet without a plumber's license. [I do not possess a degree in Engineering. I do have a driver's license.]
[11:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:08] <exec> 08└─I've put Oregon on my list of states to avoid, should I ever visit the USA or even move there. I wonder if people like the Wright brothers had an engineering degree, or if it was up to the state of Oregon we'd still be using horse and carriage. No scratch that, the person who invented the wheel sure...
[11:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:11] <exec> 08└─It really doesn't matter if none of the people who decided this are mentally a psychopath or sociopath. Their avoidance of responsibility and group ethics effectively make them as cold and self serving as any full blown psycho.
[11:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:13] <exec> 08└─> there is no such person as mr. FakeBeldin. ;-) OMG it's $current_year, if you want to be called Miss, just say so.
[11:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:15] <exec> 08└─I know some Harry Tuttle (or was it Buttle, whatever), who will fix it, for free. What could go wrong.
[11:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─Britain in any of the other 364 24-hour periods.
[11:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─It's not that great. Coal has been in decline for a while because the price of oil and gas have come down, making coal a more expensive option. Coal is probably the worst polluting form of electricity generation, but the replacements aren't that much better. It's not like we've replaced all of our c...
[11:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:31] <exec> 08└─True. It is also about the best time of year for it in Britain - fairly bright (solar), fairly windy (wind), recently rainy (hydro) - yet the temperatures are at a fairly comfortable level - not cold enough to need heating on, and not hot enough to crank up the AC or activate fans - and the days are...
[11:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientist Invents Way to Trigger Non-Organic Photosynthesis-Like Reaction - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:42] <exec> 08└─Or in enough quantities quickstart the terraforming of Venus before biologicals can even been considered.
[11:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:07] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't even need a nuke, just look at the number of ships crippled or killed by Japanese Kamikaze in WWII and they had nothing better than untrained rookies to throw at the USA. Imagine hundreds of drones coming from every direction, each one essentially a 5 ton armor piercing bomb flying at m...
[11:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:15] <exec> 08└─Umm. Tallboy. https://en.wikipedia.org(bomb) [wikipedia.org] Grand Slam. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Ok, bombs rather than shells, but designed to penetrate metres of concrete and then explode. Lets try armour-piercing shells, a staple of tank wa...
[11:50:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:12] <exec> 08└─The rest of the country, the majority of which didn't vote for this retarded hamburgler, would like to deliver an I-Told-You-So to that portion of America too busy investing in hate and fear to figure out that they were electing a professional con artist to office.
[11:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:49] <exec> 08└─You mean he is fucking over all his rabid bigoted White Nationalist supporters once he got into office?
[11:51:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 1382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:02] <exec> 08└─This kinda "All kinds of bias are exactly the same" bullshit is what us got us here in the first place. We all know that academic papers taking an analytical look at a specific fact are still vulnerable to p-hacking, misleading analysis, and a frequent lack of replication. We all know that major new...
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[12:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─$186 million for rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship? That's not a bad gig if you can get it.
[12:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:52] <exec> 08└─You get what you pay for. People paid for shares in Yahoo, and then let the board issue themselves these ridiculous amounts of money.
[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demose [6067] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:03] <exec> 08└─I´ll give you 6 James for a Garry but you have to dispose of all my Keiths free of charge.
[12:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:05] <exec> 08└─No self-respecting geek would ever cooperate with others.
[12:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:07] <exec> 08└─Nash was a paranoid schizophrenic and even RAND found that people cooperate most of the time when they tested it in the 50's. The theory does not work IRL unless you totally disassociate it from real consequences, the MAD policy was not named ironically
[12:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:24] <exec> 08└─Oregon is a lovely state. This turn of events is bizarre and uncharacteristic. If more people in Oregon know about it, it won't be long before the bureaucrats in question have their asses handed to them.
[12:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:25] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Crushing perceived criticism, opposition, and/or competition is part and parcel of the bureaucratic mindset. It's the survival mechanism of the civil serpent.
[12:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:27] <exec> 08└─Ah, but do they have people with ass-handing degrees who could do that for them?
[12:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:30] <exec> 08└─I've spent too long at 50 karma so I'll slightly disagree with the tone of the article and comments here. First of all, we have this: The government has also stopped people like Mats from truthfully calling themselves “engineers.” Just as the State of Oregon has no monopoly on engineering concep...
[12:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:32] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between Professional Engineer and engineer. Just like there is a difference between a CPA and an accountant. Lowercase engineers should be allowed to describe themselves as engineers, just like folks with a PHD should be allowed to describe themselves as doctors, just not medic...
[12:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:34] <exec> 08└─The source of confusion is likely that where Järlström got his degree. You have a "Master of Science degree in engineering" by taking your exam successfully, by law. No need to apply for any "Professional engineer". So when he interacts with authorities in Oregon, US confusion ensues. The authorit...
[12:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:36] <exec> 08└─My great-grandfather had an eighth grade education. He was an engineer. His employer paid him to be, and called him, an engineer He was therefore a professional engineer. I'm fairly certain he was licensed in the field as well. So, great granpapa was a "Licensed Professional Engineer". He drove a C...
[12:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:28] <exec> 08└─It is an arms race, of course: Bombing planes beat ground forces. Fighter planes beat bomber planes. Carriers with fast/maneuverable fighter planes beat other AA capability. Unmanned drone and/or missile barrage beats carrier. Navy Laser beats unmanned drone and missile barrage (http://www.scout.com...
[12:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:59] <exec> 08└─You mean like the link provided at the top of TFS?
[12:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:01] <exec> 08└─If you're doing it right, men aren't the only ones who produce cum. If you don't know what that means, then go get some more experience.
[12:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:41] <exec> 08└─Um... There was the article in Popular Mechanics from last year (http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21174/navy-electromagnetic-railgun/)... Also reports from Fox news describing navigation sensors within the projectile (http://bgr.com/2016/03/17/futuristic-military-railgun-bullets-cou...
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[12:48:42] <exec> 08└─Steam powered?
[12:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:44] <exec> 08└─OK, a simple look at this is revealing...$25k for a shell? It's not guided, but it easily could be VT (Variable Timed [wikipedia.org]) at that price.High acceleration electronics? Project HARP [wikipedia.org] was slinging radio transmitters up a couple hundred kms in the '60s. By now, I figure we ca...
[12:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:33] <exec> 08└─Disney is like Wizards of the Coast. Showing gray-area ethics positively is not part of the business plan.
[12:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:35] <exec> 08└─They changed it because people were too stupid to read between the lines and into the situation. Han knew where that situation was doing: Greedo was going to shoot his ass!
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[12:49:37] <exec> 08└─Have avoided the recut versions but ok, that is actually a change I can support making. When they originally made Episode VI they had no clue what Anakin would eventually look like so replacing him is basically just a fairly small continuity fix. It doesn't rewrite a major character or anything.
[12:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:21] <exec> 08└─I know the 360 TB drive isn't on the market and will likely not be for a long time. The point is however it can be done and there are people that can build these kinds of tools. Have a look at this trailer [youtube.com] at position 1:32 to get what kind of situation you may need to handle. No 3,5" d...
[12:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:23] <exec> 08└─Put it on a submarine that travels the seas and transmit the works? or a satellite? In the latter case, anyone with a satellite receiver can get them..
[12:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:25] <exec> 08└─So 6e16 - 7e16 bytes then. Or 171 x 360 TB optical discs. This project seems instantly more complicated.
[12:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:27] <exec> 08└─I was thinking put it on the Moon and then every moon rise you can get the sum total of human knowledge beamed back at you. Also doubles as a timeless memorial of human civilization that will likely end soon.
[12:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:25] <exec> 08└─that only the kind of existential shock that can only be truly put into words in literary Russian is going to change them.
[12:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:02] <exec> 08└─Is this the same group that allows calling the execution of serial killers "state-sanctioned murder" rather than simply listing the killers' fate as "executed" due to politics?
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[13:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:02] <exec> 08└─Time to move assets from Yahoo. Verislime will not improve matters.
[13:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─How many of them were the same board that turned down Microsoft's offer? Yahoo lived half of its existence in fear of Microsoft, but that backward-looking view prevented it from creating the future Google did instead.
[13:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:05] <exec> 08└─Can we replace CEOs with robots already?
[13:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:08] <exec> 08└─I hope her golden parachute turns out to be largely made of heavy gold metal bricks. With the aerodynamic properties of such. A Wile E. Coyote golden anvil of sorts.
[13:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:23] <exec> 08└─So we could get more cooperation on SN if we renamed Anonymous Coward to Onymous Coward?
[13:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:24] <exec> 08└─No deal. I need a Bruce and a Gregory for that combo to work.
[13:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:26] <exec> 08└─I'll see his Bruce and Gregory and raise him a Mustafa and a Rajit.
[13:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:29] <exec> 08└─Just typing [citation needed] is not cooperative at all...
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[13:46:31] <exec> 08└─You've identified other factors, but mostly it's the economy. When the economy is doing well, people are more amenable to welfare programs, accepting refugees, etc etc. For example, the only way we'll see single payer in the US is if the economy starts roaring like in the 1950s. I know that's counte...
[13:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:33] <exec> 08└─A single counter-example is enough to demonstrate the falsity of an assertion. So... Since Linux is an example of massive cooperation (and if you dare to deny that, you are a dork [energyvanguard.com]), there is only one ways the "self-respecting geeks don't cooperate" assertion can be true in this...
[13:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─> the fine does seem excessive Exactly. Why didn't they warn first? What are they trying to accomplish with this decision to impose a fine, what is their motivation? Are they owned by red light camera companies? What they did is needlessly punitive and extreme hair splitting. "I have a degree in eng...
[13:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:58] <exec> 08└─grrrrr 1. poster below has it right, you refer to yourself generically as an engineer, who the fuck cares ? ? ? ONLY The State... 2. there was another story about them coming down hard on a political candidate who had put he was an 'environmental engineer' in his resume; guy had a degree in, yes, 'e...
[13:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:01] <exec> 08└─This turn of events is bizarre and uncharacteristic.
[13:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:03] <exec> 08└─We recognize that there are people with degrees in ass-handing, but without board certification from the State of Oregon in ass-handing, they are not allowed to practice in ass-handing--paid or otherwise.
[13:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:05] <exec> 08└─Did you fill in form 27b/6?
[13:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:21] <exec> 08└─You are correct. This is probably a coincidence, and the mentioning of it as news is a publicity stunt. On the other hand, well made publicity stunts have been known to change public perception, from there on public opinion, and finally the state of nations ... that's usually called propaganda. Prop...
[13:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─That would be reasonable. The power US Navy has as a force of peace is severely underestimated by fools and cretins alike.
[13:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, sometimes you want to fly a maxed out plane or tanker, however that requires really big ships. Carriers which are accessible to only carrier aircraft is an acceptable compromise for most countries. Most carriers have the ski jump configuration to make up for lack of runway. Only the USA makes s...
[13:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:33] <exec> 08└─Did you have any trouble with wireless waking up after sleep like someone else commented? That would be a deal-breaker for me.
[13:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:07] <exec> 08└─No as a hedgehog he would be better cast as an ewok.
[13:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:08] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say that III was pretty good, but instead was the least shitty. What became clear was that Lucas had forgot completely that Anakin needed to make the transition to Vader so it was just awkward when it did happen. In the prequel trilogy Lucas decided that you could solve everything in post...
[13:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:10] <exec> 08└─It seems that Disney is willing to show gray-area ethics [google.com] and I thought Rogue One was better than Force Awakens given the complexity of the characters. Also everyone who needed to die did die.
[13:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:12] <exec> 08└─What? Are you suggesting that Disney, illusionist of all things pure and whitewashed, would try to make it's racist film Song of the South [wikipedia.org] disappear? Bu, bu, but . . . that movie contains one of Disney's all time biggest hit songs Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah [wikipedia.org] that they have re...
[13:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:01] <exec> 08└─Which patent dispute on tapes?
[13:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:03] <exec> 08└─Micro satellite, solar panels and a laser perhaps could make it work?
[13:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:05] <exec> 08└─It sounds like an excellent candidate for a crowd-sourcing project: "Help archive human knowledge in a timeless repository on the Moon."
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[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─B-b-b-b-but Alaska is Basic Income Paradise!
[14:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:14] <exec> 08└─You still on board?
[14:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:16] <exec> 08└─186 Million for Jewish Nepotism.
[14:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─If that's what they pay for failure, what would they have paid for success?
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:20] <exec> 08└─But it won't, and we both know that.
[14:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:22] <exec> 08└─Her failure was a success -- she successfully dismantled a competitor of Google, where her loyalties lie.
[14:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:25] <exec> 08└─It's filled to the gills with programmers who don't care about what they're building, and with useless business folks who are just scrambling to be the next top dog.
[14:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:27] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a billion or so user accounts?
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:48] <exec> 08└─Some don't have anything to loose so any interaction will make you loose too.
[14:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─A Mustafa! We've got a tough guy here! No choice then. A Nobunaga and a Jalad or bust.
[14:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something? Isn't it the 'a' the prefix which inverts the meaning, so it should be "nonymous", rather than "onymous" (e.g. like atheist == !theist)
[14:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:54] <exec> 08└─I guess more like Onymous Hero. Let's wait and see how long it takes for this person to make him/herself known.
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─It's because Oregonians are all blood related, and gas pumps have too many moving parts for regular folk to operate.
[14:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─They need a different name then. "Licensed Engineer" sounds appropriate. Nobody would get confused. My job title is Software Engineer. I don't think anyone is confused about what i do. If i were to quit my job then i would no longer be a Software Engineer. It's a job title. Not a title attached to m...
[14:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:27] <exec> 08└─Do not attempt to unclog a toilet without a plumber's license. [I do not possess a degree in Engineering. I do have a driver's license.]
[14:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:29] <exec> 08└─I think, in your own home you are allowed. But don't discuss in public how it is done.
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:31] <exec> 08└─The BTEC HND course I took was for a Software Engineer, so I would expect to call myself an engineer. Except I did not pass, so I instead call myself, DevOps manager, but have been Senior Developer, Silverlight devleoper(really), Internet developer, Senior Analyst and tech support rep amongst other...
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:33] <exec> 08└─Are they owned by red light camera companies?
[14:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:50] <exec> 08└─And what about the Netherlands?
[14:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:52] <exec> 08└─Very roughly 50% of residential energy is used for mere heating and cooling. We could do a lot better. Most houses are incredibly poor at maintaining comfortable temperatures.
[14:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─I'm going to assume that the anti-ICBM system is missiles fired from the Arleigh Burkes with assistance from their AEGIS system, possibly receiving data from not only each other but shore-based X-band radars. Maybe even a THAAD, if it is positioned such that it can intercept before the ballistics. I...
[14:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 1) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:06] <exec> 08└─That's one area I never deal with. I bought the laptop to take to work because work wouldn't provide a powerful enough machine to do my job. I would shut it down, pack it up, and go to work--never put it to sleep. After about 4 months of dragging it between work and home, I showed my boss what I was...
[14:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 1) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:07] <exec> 08└─Hmm....I never put my laptop to sleep. I needed a powerful workstation that was semi-portable at first, but after a few months I stopped having to move it around. I'm running Mint on it, and I don't recall ever sleeping the darn thing. Mainly because I run a few VMs on it that serve stuff to the int...
[14:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:10] <exec> 08└─"We will build a computer, and we will make the Mexicans pay for it!" ;-)
[14:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 2281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:51] <exec> 08└─In flight correction. The video I watched shows the projectile adjusting it's flight near termination. I have little idea whether that in flight guidance can be triggered earlier, it appeared that guidance took over in the last - ohhh - 5 to 10 miles or so. The antiaircraft projectile surprised me,...
[14:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:53] <exec> 08└─You have nailed the definition of "armor piercing" precisely. When a tank is hit with an armor piercing charge, the projectile doesn't enter into the tank at all. Instead, the projectile sets off the internal shaped charge, which is very precisely aimed at a point maybe half as big around as a penci...
[14:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:39] <exec> 08└─Now the plan is ship the jobs to China... Make America Great In China (MAGIC)
[14:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:40] <exec> 08└─Like breotbart? Been loving that source........
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[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─This is to demonstrate that Basic Income is a plague: with it, the beneficiaries: a. are able to buy more cheap IoThingies, drain US-es monetray mass and contribute the China's GDP b. with survival assured, they have no incentive to secure those IoThingies Ah'say that Basic Income ah'say it has to g...
[15:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─Wooo, got me $85/month free money!
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─Build a wall to keep Alaskans out? But wait, Alaska doesn't share a border with Us. Just give Alaska to Commie Canucks, let them deal with it.
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─Gonna spend it all on weed!
[15:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:14] <exec> 08└─I, for one, love the precedent where we can now justify hacking to "cure" devices from dangerous and/or insecure code. Surely we're only a few steps now from removing Windows from the world! Not entirely sarcasm, though seriously this is a dangerous precedent. Could just as easily be wielded to remo...
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─RMS predicted this day would come. Government will change your root password and refuse to tell you what it is.
[15:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─General warrants were a key reason cited by the Founding Fathers for their rebellion against King George.
[15:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:21] <exec> 08└─Many people have predicted bad things in one form or another. I still think our government is broken and cannot be fixed. General Warrants are just another symptom.
[15:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:23] <exec> 08└─If people actually bothered to secure their devices. This incident would not had happened in the first place. So the advice will go unread in most cases. Once these poor IoT devices are relieved from that evil botnet. They can happily again be infected by some party the powers that are, likes better...
[15:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:25] <exec> 08└─Root password? Hopefully nobody tells them about sudo! ;-)
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─I read the constitution, particularly the bill of rights, as a document that made many things which would have otherwise make it easier to govern, much harder, along a consistent rationale that favored the privacy, liberty and security of the citizen far over the convenience of the government. One o...
[15:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─It's called Intel Backd^H^HManagement Engine! Forgotten the name of the AMD equivalent.
[15:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─General warrants, like every other abuse of power will start out as something acceptable to most people. Something that is for everyone's good. Like RICO. Like militarized police departments. Like the war on some drugs when used by certain classes of people.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─rouge s/h/b rogue." Sigh. OS X / macOS is just merciless about correcting typos, and, as in the parent, it has often taken my screwups and makes them into new screwups. I just turned the whole thing off and at least now will suffer only my own slings, arrows, and pinpricks. Too bad it's not more con...
[15:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─People should not have to secure their devices. I should not have to secure my electrical wiring to be sure it doesn't burn my house down. I should not have to secure my car from suddenly accelerating out of control. I should not have to secure my TV. The manufacturer should be liable for damaged ca...
[15:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─Next stop Oracle then? Actually, that might not be a bad idea...
[15:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:59] <exec> 08└─Carly Fiorina or Stephen Elop class? :p
[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:01] <exec> 08└─Can we replace CEOs with robots already?
[15:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─I'll agree with you on the economy aspect to a certain degree. But the point is that the immigration this time has a whole lot different characteristic with a hell bent agenda on subjugation and worse. Which is part of why people change opinion in these matters regardless of economic factors.
[15:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─Simple supply and demand. 'O' only has a 7.507% market share. Now watch out for 'E' since it's up to 12.702%. In fact, as a cost cutting moasuro, wo'ro just gonna roplaco all 'E's with 'O's.
[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─A Mustafa! We've got a tough guy here! No choice then. A Nobunaga and a Jalad or bust.
[15:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:32] <exec> 08└─Anonymous comes from greek, an=without and onym=name.
[15:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:34] <exec> 08└─I have a macro for that[citation needed], you insensitive clod.
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:37] <exec> 08└─We should use Onymous Guest, or OG [urbandictionary.com] for short.
[15:47:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:58] <exec> 08└─I've spent too long at 50 karma so I'll slightly disagree with the tone of the article and comments here. First of all, we have this: The government has also stopped people like Mats from truthfully calling themselves “engineers.” Just as the State of Oregon has no monopoly on engineering concep...
[15:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─This may be true in your jurisdiction as I don't know where you live. It's not true where I live, in Canada. To be an "engineer" is the same as a "Professional Engineer". It's a legally defined title. In order to be an engineer, one has to graduate with a degree in engineering from an accredited uni...
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─"Yes, I have the $500 you've asked for. Molon labe, bitches!"
[15:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:17] <exec> 08└─For background I am a licensed professional engineer, but not in Oregon. He was really contacting the wrong people, The State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying organizations for states exists as regulatory and licensing groups that exists to regulate engineering in the state, the...
[15:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:20] <exec> 08└─Who knows whether they warned the guy first or not. The articles I've read don't say one way or the other. Maybe they did. Maybe they should have. Do you always get a warning if you're pulled over for speeding or breaking the law in some way? Some professional boards are hypocritical, myopic and ad...
[15:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:39] <exec> 08└─I had missed this: Of the 8.3% imports: 59.7% were from France, 36.8% were from the Netherlands, and 3.5% were from the Rep of Ireland.
[15:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:37] <exec> 08└─There's a version online somewhere *cough* called "The Most Watchable Fan Edit" that does just that. Takes all the highest quality versions and spliced things together. I believe a bunch of the old scenes were ripped from laserdisc of all things. I think the only thing that was missed on it was the...
[15:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:39] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say that III was pretty good, but instead was the least shitty. Sorry if I wasn't clear, but this is what most other people have told me too, not that it was a fantastic movie by any means. I did meet one person, however, who absolutely loved the Prequels. She was young when those movies...
[15:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:41] <exec> 08└─I was a fairly original script which tied in well with the franchise which is why I liked it. II and III just seemed too money graberish and didn't feel like Star Wars any more.
[15:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:32] <exec> 08└─Next problem is how one gets 60 PB of data broadcasted to many people on the ground in reasonable time.
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.se/search?q=fujifilm+tape+patent [google.se] Sorry for dumping a google link, but it seemed like the best way to get multiple sources
[15:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:36] <exec> 08└─The ground hog DOES see his shadow
[15:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:13] <exec> 08└─Sincerest lols to anyone who treats a high-school dropout youtuber who spends hours ranting at a camera mostly about another country's politics as anything even remotely resembling a credible source.
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[16:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:10] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing they're still being paid, and probably quite well.
[16:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:12] <exec> 08└─More like mercenaries.
[16:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:14] <exec> 08└─Are... we being bought and sold like slaves now?
[16:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but, being paid is only half of the whole "Freedom from bondage" thing, the other is "Being able to choose your own work." You should see the laws a couple southern states passed after the civil war, "Black employees are to be paid 1 penny per day, must call their employer 'master", and must fi...
[16:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─In what world does it make sense for a third party to receive money in order for me to work for a second party?
[16:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─GNU yacc is free.
[16:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:23] <exec> 08└─If I understand the acquisition correctly, it was a "win" for the Yik Yak owner/investors and presumably a win for Square who got not only "five to ten" valuable developers, but presumably a team that is greater than the sum of its parts, along with rights to practice certain IP, etc. $3M may seem h...
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:25] <exec> 08└─It seems irrelevant, unless you're living in a similar story. There are a lot more nerds living the startup life than there are entertainers living the Kardashian's lives.
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─I'm beginning to wonder if your username was poorly chosen.
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Once you invite regulations, laws and courts. It will be a corporate owned domain that will keep anyone else out using even more regulation.
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─It is not even regulation. Just about every software house disclaims liability. And yes, you do have to secure your car (it is called a parking brake).
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─If you plugged in your toaster and made it publicly accessible then i can guarantee it will catch fire at some point. Someone will be trying to smelt copper in it or something. InternetOfCrap is the same way. Do you really want anonymous people talking to your security cameras? No. You really don't....
[16:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:56] <exec> 08└─General warrants were a key reason cited by the Founding Fathers for their rebellion against King George.
[16:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:58] <exec> 08└─botnets are interfering with some big company or gov service so instead of going after the manufacturers they hack people's shit? fuck the fbi. bullies and traitors.
[16:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not asking for regulations. Just liability to be imposed. I'm not asking for any kind of certification of IoT security. I'm not asking for any kind of recognized standard to be met. Just that if your IoT device gets hacked, the liability for damages is on the manufacturer. Nothing more. I think...
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't be shipping known insecure devices, and they would be making updates available if the liability for damages were on them. That's why I think it is a perfect fix. The credit card industry has all kinds of security compliance requirements. (PCI) Because if their systems get hacked, guess...
[16:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:26] <exec> 08└─By the time Microsoft offered Yahoo $40 Billion, Google had already built the future. It is only in Microsoft's mind that the future had not already happened. Ballmer failed to understand the power of open source. It may start out small. But it keeps growing and growing. It is not tied to marketing...
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:28] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right. I know it. But I can dream.
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:00] <exec> 08└─It depends on the first letter of the negated word (not unlike the English article): moral - amoral theist - atheist but: aerobic - anaerobic onymous - anonymous
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─The market share [wikipedia.org] of various letters changes by author. Also, significant shifts in usage could occur due to supply and demand, if, say, someone were to airlift in and parachute drop a large supply of vowels. Or imagine if there were suddenly a glut of or dearth of consonants. Or emoj...
[16:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:04] <exec> 08└─Giving people your identity just enables them to mess with you
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─isle - aisle droid - android kin - anakin
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─Look! We will have NO slut-shaming on SoylentNews, even if there is a glut of "o"s on the market!!
[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─No self-respecting geek would ever cooperate with others.
[16:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:13] <exec> 08└─Depends. Are you at Tanagra?
[16:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:15] <exec> 08└─Hello, my name is aristarchus, and I am a self-respecting greek. What is your name?
[16:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:55] <exec> 08└─I hear P.E.s trotting out that line a lot, that a P.E. can go to jail if his authorized building design fails. Yet, I have never heard of such a thing happening despite structural failures. I call *effectively* bullshit.
[16:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:57] <exec> 08└─The word license has a meaning like permission. Plumbers license -- means a permission to do something. Drivers license. Dog license. Firearm license. Marriage license. Copyright license. That license gives you permissions to exercise certain rights that would normally belong exclusively to the righ...
[16:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:59] <exec> 08└─Which did you mean? The process of unclogging, or clogging?
[16:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:01] <exec> 08└─Are general people in Oregon allowed to comment on SoylentNews, or do you have to be a licensed professional SoylentNews commenter? :-)
[16:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:03] <exec> 08└─But can I discuss in public how many bureaucrats it takes to change a light bulb?
[16:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:24] <exec> 08└─The fact that the country went without coal for 24 hours proves little. People can do a lot in a day which is not long-term sustainable. As a case in point, "during a doctor's strike in which hospitals were only on minimal operations, the national death rate went down." One source, although there ar...
[16:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:25] <exec> 08└─Good point: that was suspiciously close to Earth day. However, this is a sign that change is happening. First it is news to be off coal for a day, then it becomes routine.
[16:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSouthernDandy [6059] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientist Invents Way to Trigger Non-Organic Photosynthesis-Like Reaction - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:37] <exec> 08└─But instead of producing food, Uribe-Romo's method produces solar fuel.
[16:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:08] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't even need a nuke, just look at the number of ships crippled or killed by Japanese Kamikaze in WWII
[16:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:30] <exec> 08└─OK, so the range was only out to the horizon, give or take a bit, but we could hammer away at a target for hours, literally, without damaging our guns.
[16:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:29] <exec> 08└─> fairly original script As Lucas pointed out when VII came out (and could have again for Rogue One), you may hate the prequels, but at least he was striving to imagine different stories on varied planets ...
[16:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:30] <exec> 08└─Followed the Standard Hollywood Code: Good guy who does something evil has to die by the end of the movie (usually after redeeming himself somewhat).
[16:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:32] <exec> 08└─Your memory is playing tricks on you, old man.
[16:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:26] <exec> 08└─Seems like a complicated lawsuit. These US patents seems to be what the dispute is about per 2017-01-16 [ipwatchdog.com]: 7016137, Tape Drive Apparatus, Recording and/or Reproducing Method, and Recording Medium. It claims a tape drive apparatus with a means for detecting inconsistencies in read/writ...
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[17:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:05] <exec> 08└─Yet another thing Apple Groupies can spend their (and their employer's) money on. Laserjet Diplomas Emailed to your iCloud account,
[17:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:06] <exec> 08└─...I was told capitalism was bad??? Help!
[17:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:08] <exec> 08└─Great now I can learn how to code new device drivers for OpenBSD right? :P I'll expect the course on hacking iCloud accounts for juicy and porny details to be held. Together with jailbreaking iPhone and the hexview disassembler essence.
[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, I'm beginning to fall into the trap of taking my half-joke seriously and trying to defend it.
[17:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─It's always a danger. We need annotations for humour and sarcasm.
[17:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─Well, the problem is more the half part than the joke part. I really do resent the idea of being bought and sold as some fungible commodity for rich assholes. But I also am not a complete moron and recognize how radically different it is from real chattel slavery.
[17:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─The fourth is now a joke. Policing has always been easy in a police state.
[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not a rich man by any means, but going extremely out of one's way to be Jewish is annoying to no end. These are the kind of assholes who hold up 10-deep supermarket lines bringing fifty coupons, arguing with the clerk that whether or not some of those 10-cent coupons are still valid or apply to...
[17:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:04] <exec> 08└─1. NSA mass-plants "Russian" malware on anything they can, particularly those who have been flagged as political enemies. 2. FBI mass-hacks all computers with malware, and oh lookie-here what did we find, let's pay them a visit. 3. ??? 4. Profit! " But Ethanol, the FBI now has access to the NSA data...
[17:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not asking for regulations. Just liability to be imposed.
[17:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:09] <exec> 08└─Liability means lawyers and insurance corporations will line their pockets with your money. If said cameras had their software open sourced. There would be a lot more possibility to take control of the security issues.
[17:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─A budget is always looking for expenses to justify next years budget. ;-)
[17:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─But wait, Alaska doesn't share a border with Us.
[17:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:38] <exec> 08└─You could make it burn $10 bills every minute for power and it would still be cheaper than current CEOs. If you install a simple random number generator that picks between the standard answers on a "Magic 8 Ball" it would be just as useful to a corporation, too.
[17:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:40] <exec> 08└─The initial damage came from within the board by Microsoft's activist, Icahn. He then populated the board with Microsoft's fifth columnists, crippled and removed key divisions, and fired any staff and teams capable of getting Yahoo! back on its feet. After that, whatever Mayer did or didn't do could...
[17:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:20] <exec> 08└─ἀνώνυμος
[17:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:22] <exec> 08└─Hello, my name is aristarchus, and I am a self-respecting greek. What is your name?
[17:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:07] <exec> 08└─Portland.
[17:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 2889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:09] <exec> 08└─> Why would "the Board of Higher Education" fine me Is it not obvious why they would be unhappy with your statement? If engineering grads can't call themselves engineers, aren't good enough for that, that lessens both the meaning and value of their degrees. It suggests the quality of the education t...
[17:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:11] <exec> 08└─He didn't say anything like "I am licensed professional engineer, registered in the state of Oregon." while accepting payment for engineering. That ought to be covered, ideally as fraud and deceptive advertising. Anything less, NO. The term "engineer" is used for all sorts of stupid shit, like opera...
[17:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:16] <exec> 08└─A cretin answer.
[17:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:55] <exec> 08└─I bought the Bonobo Extreme Bonx8 model about two years back, and I've never had an issue with the wifi coming back after putting it to sleep. I *did* have some issues with it locking up when coming out of sleep, but that only started after a software update more than a year after I bought the thing...
[17:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:41] <exec> 08└─> Custom ship? No current vessel can generate the power or hold the charge Railguns were an explicit goal when the Zumwalt class was designed. They are equipped with way too much electrical generation for propulsion alone, on purpose. Interestingly, all that power has to come from somewhere, so I'm...
[17:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:43] <exec> 08└─I don't object to the concept. I object to building a ship around an unproven weapons system. I would heartily approve of a ship being built with on powder cannon, and one rail gun. That ship would gain all the capabilities offered by the rail gun, while retaining the proven reliability of the vener...
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:42] <exec> 08└─and then once it's all over we'll learn to stop calling concepts that we don't like rape, racism and sexism so societal reactions like that stop happening so much. Grabbing someone's pussy because you can because you're rich IS rape. If you are fined for racial discrimination not once but twice, you...
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[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─To make use of any learned knowledge you have to use said products.
[18:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:32] <exec> 08└─Call it end-game, exit strategy, whatever - it sounds like a win where I come from.
[18:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:33] <exec> 08└─More like mercenaries.
[18:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:12] <exec> 08└─If you plugged in your toaster and made it publicly accessible then i can guarantee it will catch fire at some point.
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─Microsoft dodged a bloated Yahoo-sized bullet. And they are by no means losing money [microsoft.com]. Nowadays Microsoft is making a stab at copying Chromebooks and addressing the absolute failure of Windows RT. On the phone front, well... [geekwire.com] Theoretically, Microsoft could sell their own...
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:42] <exec> 08└─Back what Mayer came on, everyone was saying Yahoo was worthless without Ali Baba. She created $4.5B worth of value in four years, that's success. She's no Steve Jobs but she earned her money.
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, mrpg, there are over 330 items in the page's HTML which w3 calls errors. If you scroll to the bottom of the validator page, however, you'll see that the total count of "flagged items" that are not done to the standard is over 880. Their coder is very sloppy and doesn't check his work against t...
[18:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I suggest we start off by agreeing to lie to a bunch of social scientists about how much our knowing each other's name makes us want to cooperate! This could be the beginning of a wonderful relationship, Louis.
[18:49:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 1241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:04] <exec> 08└─For background I am a licensed professional engineer, but not in Oregon. He was really contacting the wrong people, The State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying organizations for states exists as regulatory and licensing groups that exists to regulate engineering in the state, the...
[18:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:36] <exec> 08└─Not so sure that's much to brag about. Natural Gas is not that much better environmentally than Coal. It is certainly no more sustainable, and its CO2 output, while lower at the smoke stack than coal, comes with Methane leakage at the well sites and pipeline. Hydraulic fracturing leakage which combi...
[18:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─At least, it was a Friday, when people do work. The most recent US Green milestone was a Sunday morning... Let's flip it around to show why it matters: If anyone asked 5 years or 10 years ago about the UK running coal-free for 24 hours in 2017, would you have taken that bet, or laughed them out of t...
[18:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:01] <exec> 08└─this is cool and everything but i think they're just talking about cases right now. i don't care about that all that much. i can make a case out of scrap around the house. what i care about is the freaking electronics inside the case. if you make open hardware with trustable firmware in the usa with...
[18:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:50] <exec> 08└─For the baesystems link, I get: 404 Not Found 404 Not Found * Code: NoSuchKey * Message: The specified key does not exist. ...
[18:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:52] <exec> 08└─So, lots of movies are "pre screened" to test audiences, then major plot points (often the endings) are revised according to audience reactions. Lucas just extended this practice to use everyone born before 1985 as the test audience for the re-releases.
[18:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:54] <exec> 08└─She was young when those movies came out though, so maybe that had something to do with it.
[18:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:56] <exec> 08└─if force awakens was the one before it, it was the shittiest star wars that i can remember. blatent PC and shit acting and writing. rogue one was back to how star wars was supposed to be as far as i was concerned, although i'm getting so old i have trouble getting into it like i did when i was a kid...
[18:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 2528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:58] <exec> 08└─I think you're a little harsh. Star Wars (ep. 4) was a fun movie. It was campy though, which wasn't abnormal in the 70s, and in today's "dark and gritty" environment that doesn't work that well, but it's fun to watch SW even now because it isn't like today's brutal movies. The acting wasn't Oscar-le...
[18:53:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 1263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:12] <exec> 08└─Copyright was never intended to be the vast money making machine it is today. It was intended to be limited in duration. A benefit to authors for a short term. Then the work should become public domain for the benefit of all. Imagine if the public domain that existed before 1910 were no longer avail...
[18:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:54] <exec> 08└─Orphan works are a big problem with copyright law that needs fixing. Indeed. They should pass a law that says as soon as a work is out of print, it automatically enters the public domain. In this day and age there should be no such thing as "out of print".
[18:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:55] <exec> 08└─The problem is, ALL countries now have hyper-restrictive copyright laws. The US was the last holdout; the British started excessive copyright terms, and was quickly followed by the rest or Europe, then the world.
[18:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:58] <exec> 08└─Because it's been in the press recently. I've seen several articles about it on Google News.
[18:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:00] <exec> 08└─Copyright was never intended to be the vast money making machine it is today. It was intended to be limited in duration. No, it was not Yes, it was: Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress: To promote the Pr...
[18:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:05] <exec> 08└─and you're the second person that proved my point about you guys being the exact same as each other. Happily weaponizing quotes out of context to further your agenda. Lying. Being counter-intuitive on purpose. You are precisely the same as Trump in your hypocrisy and shamelessness.
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[19:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─Is how you treat your allies. You come to their aid when they have a crazy fat kid on their borders threatening the entire free world. You dont go and threaten to take their land and call them terrorists, like O did to Israel.
[19:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─o geez first post AC. Come on nao Trump is probably going to end up taking american's private land by imminent domain to build a useless wall. Obama expanded spying in terribly wrong ways, made drone warfare a normal thing, built the framework Trump is now happily using. Clinton was probably going t...
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─This was a targeted statement about a single action. ( and was related to a single action by the previous president ). Nothing more, nothing less. Get over yourself. Get your head out of your ass and look out side the tiny little box of hate that you have created.
[19:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─I'm so happy in the hate box.
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, sorry. I forgot missiles & shit were the height of love and peace. Forgive mah black heart. Though your weird correlation is still hilarious to me so I'm allowed to make retarded statements too. How about we both get over ourselves hm? :D
[19:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:14] <exec> 08└─People who buy Apple products are also paying for these educational events; people are choosing to associate with Apple, and some of them are undoubtedly proud to contribute to this, dare I say, "public good". Of course, some of us think it's a waste of time, or that money could be spent teaching m...
[19:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:15] <exec> 08└─LOL! No, I think they will begin pushing some moral assessment of jail breaking. How it is bad, makes Mr. Cook and the shareholders cry, and is a betrayal of the Walled Garden and their fellow ShinyHappy citizens. Good Apple Subjects would never, ever, think of trying to break out of the Walled Gard...
[19:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─Yep :) However, it's a good thing. If Apple Subjects actively choose to improve themselves, at the cost of greater vendor lock-in, they will be asking *ME* less questions about Apple products and technology. Of which, I couldn't give two shits about. I would love Apple taking the reigns and making t...
[19:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:18] <exec> 08└─Not (ass-handing) is handing-not-ass which resolves to handing-opposite-side-from-ass. The president approves.
[19:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:20] <exec> 08└─oh noes!
[19:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:53] <exec> 08└─Assuming comparable efficiency, a rail gun shot should use less fuel (by weight) than the explosives a traditional shell would use for the same energy. This is because the explosives also include the oxidizer, while the ship fuel gets that from the air, making it a much more efficient a store of ene...
[19:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:58] <exec> 08└─Copyright was never intended to be the vast money making machine it is today. It was intended to be limited in duration.
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[20:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 1871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps offtopic, but the act of seizing land using eminent domain to build a wall is not an easy one. At all. John McCain could have informed Trump about this, if Trump could ever act better than an emotional belligerent 5 year old that desperately needs nappy-nappy time. There is a huge problem ri...
[20:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:32] <exec> 08└─Build the wall to the north. Build it across the land, via payment or war or whatever. Build the wall to the south, making Mexico pay via a chunk of land. (and heck, take all watersheds that span the border) Whatever! Just build the wall or, better, build several fences and a minefield. Democrats cl...
[20:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:34] <exec> 08└─Dude, you need more elegance than this if you're trying to emulate TMB. Protip: limit your reply to one sentence, possibly two, and never use cuss words. This is strangely infuriating to many people.
[20:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:36] <exec> 08└─For a "useless" wall, there sure is a lot of complaining. Why care so much? Considering the country, both the amount of the land and the worst-case cost of the wall are trivial. Mere "billions" are pocket change to a country with many trillions. California alone spends more than the worst-case wall...
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, overreact like psychotic dickheads to our neighbors because of a threat thousands of miles away across a huge ocean? We should act warlike, abuse our neighbors, engage in theft and war to obtain land, to achieve peace? Trump? Are you on SoylentNews!?
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─when they have a crazy fat kid on their border threatening the entire free world
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:54] <exec> 08└─Yet another thing Apple Groupies can spend their (and their employer's) money on.
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─To repeat after you: [soylentnews.org] Fair would be killing the rich, or grabbing them by their fucking necks, turning them upside down, and shaking out OUR fucking money. … [S]hare holders need to be dragged out the street and brutally gutted with their blood flowing like rivers. … KILL THE PA...
[20:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─I am Onymandius, Coward of Cowards. Look upon my posts, ye Mighty, and despair!
[20:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:12] <exec> 08└─But the point is that the immigration this time has a whole lot different characteristic with a hell bent agenda on subjugation and worse.
[20:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 4519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:03] <exec> 08└─Just because something is the law in wherever doesn't mean it's a good law. I completely agree with you that engineering is a profession and I have no problem with states or other municipalities regulating who practices engineering. I think there are two separate issues here, though. The law is tryi...
[20:50:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:14] <exec> 08└─In France, coal power plants provided just 2% of total electricity in 2014. [...] France will have just 3,018 MW of capacity remaining online in mainland France after 2015. This will be just 5 coal power units, spread across 4 plants.
[20:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientist Invents Way to Trigger Non-Organic Photosynthesis-Like Reaction - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formic_acid_fuel_cell [wikipedia.org] Or, forget the damn fuel, make a metric fuck-mega-ton of some sort of polymer out of the sequestered CO2 and bury it deep, deep away.
[20:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:50] <exec> 08└─the shitty attitude [they] have and the insane desire to constantly reinvent the wheel and change just enough shit to make [things] incompatible Who were you talking about again? Oh, I see: Linux distro developers. Had me thinking you might be talking about Redmond. . ...and I'm happy to see that Sy...
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[20:51:52] <exec> 08└─What we make isn't semen. My ex was (is?) a squirter...well, gusher/trickler, I don't think squirting as seen in porn is real, and I've done it a couple of times too. I heard there's a female equivalent to parts of the prostate that is drained by the Skene's glands and Bartholin's ducts; maybe that'...
[20:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:54] <exec> 08└─If you said that as "x86-64" (actually an AMD technology which Chipzilla had to cross-license), that would be better. ...though I have no particular objection to GP's suggestion to get away from CISC and move to architectures that are more affordable and actually/potentially less power-hungry. (The...
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[20:52:42] <exec> 08└─Surely you refer to choo choo trains.
[20:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:48] <exec> 08└─Also everyone who needed to die did die.
[20:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pen-helm [837] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:48] <exec> 08└─The service seems to be up and useable: https://www.google.com [google.com] Some books are online. Some books it will only show "snippets."
[20:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:53] <exec> 08└─fuck the federal government. they're lucky they're not shot in the streets.
[20:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:55] <exec> 08└─How can you possibly take "grab them by the pussy", and everything else he said in that conversation, out of context? Weaponizing it? No, sir. It was not weaponized to be pointing that out. Trump "hoisted himself up by his own petard" and no other weapon was required. Just what fucking context is th...
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[21:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:09] <exec> 08└─If you think we need that wall so badly, why don't you head to the border and start building it yourself? It's so easy for you conservatives to spend other people's money, isn't it?
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─I saw an amusing segment last year, in which a journalist went to the Texas border to look at the effect of the previous fence (R voted during Bush/Obama). Because you can't build a fence in the river footprint, they had to build it north of some ranches, and even a golf course, putting Americans on...
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─A giant statue of a middle finger facing Mexico made out of $20B worth of gold would satisfy your hate-boner just as much as a wall, and would be equally effective stopping immigration. The wall is a talisman of racial animus. At least the gold middle finger statue wouldn't be devastating to the env...
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 5746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─It's not going to work you bigoted racist White Nationalist fuckwads! For the record, I've been proposing an actual goddamn fucking wall for 20 FUCKING YEARS now. Yep, well before Trump, and not entirely in response to immigration. The key difference between my "wall" and Trump's? It was accompanied...
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─That's why I don't understand the wall. Having advocated for it in the past, I just can't understand why ignorant wall supporters are unable to assimilate new data. You just pointed out a severe engineering flaw that would require renegotiation of our borders just to create an effective one. All of...
[21:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─Well, it's either that or put up with the parasites forever. It's not like they provide anything valuable, and they are literally and provably killing the planet. I'm proposing killing parasites so that humanity can not just survive, but evolve. I don't feel one iota bad about promulgating their dea...
[21:47:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:23] <exec> 08└─General warrants were a key reason cited by the Founding Fathers for their rebellion against King George.
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:35] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if you don't secure your car, it may accellerate out of your control directly to the chop shop. Or it may coast into a tree.
[21:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:06] <exec> 08└─Its called a CONTRACT. Get over it.
[21:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:42] <exec> 08└─Critiquing lights timing would be okay, but saying something like, "I'm an engineer, and have studied this, and here is my professional opinion" would be a big no-no if you are not a professional engineer.
[21:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:43] <exec> 08└─...or that can even be done [google.com] by a guild. [gmc-uk.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:08] <exec> 08└─Porter Ranch was worse then Deep Water Horizon. Most people would consider the one that killed 11 people to be worse....
[21:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:30] <exec> 08└─I think the idea was to drive home the point that while Obi Wan was omitting very some important details, he wasn't exactly lying when he said Anakin Skywalker died. Anakin died and Darth Vader was born out on that lava flow. In death Anakin/Vader's spirit resumed Anakin's appearance, not Vader's. A...
[21:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:38] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and die. There is one very obvious metric and that is "is this person trying to literally bring about Armageddon with his or her policies?" Leftists, as nuts as some of them may be, aren't.
[21:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't believe it was possible to be both smug and butthurt at the same time. But you just proved me wrong.
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[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─Kill Facebook, then yourselves.
[22:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:32] <exec> 08└─I'm growing old too fast... there used to be a time when the Internet was for porn...
[22:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─...and Gore. A niche exists for a mainstream (in the non-onion sense) site, with servers located out of reach of the morality police, which can livestream suicides. If you're asking why not just use Liveleak or something like Ogrish (is that even still around?) the answer is because seeing them happ...
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:36] <exec> 08└─They didn't have live ASCII-art murders?
[22:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:38] <exec> 08└─I must find it weird both that the public blames Facebook and that Facebook accepts responsibility.
[22:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─Has somebody here actually seen the video? I'm sure copies are floating around in the dark "alt" nets. Comments? 40% of me is morbidly curious, but 60% is too freaked out to watch.
[22:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck are you including links to watch the actual videos? That is distasteful in the extreme. It's as bad as when the main stream news shows intentionally shocking images. This has nothing to do with censorship or freedom of speech. Ethically, these videos should not exist to begin with. Disc...
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─Read the summary.
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─That man who killed his baby daughter is disgusting to the point where I almost vomited when I read that. It's nauseating to think that he didn't use a file cabinet to smash her head! What has the world come to?
[22:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:49] <exec> 08└─Ethically, these videos should not exist to begin with.
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Implanted Scaffold With T Cells Rapidly Shrinks Tumors - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─Mutate that shit so tumors turn rabid and contagious.
[22:47:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 1871 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps offtopic, but the act of seizing land using eminent domain to build a wall is not an easy one. At all. John McCain could have informed Trump about this, if Trump could ever act better than an emotional belligerent 5 year old that desperately needs nappy-nappy time. There is a huge problem ri...
[22:47:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:20] <exec> 08└─when they have a crazy fat kid on their border threatening the entire free world
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:28] <exec> 08└─I hate blowjobs.
[22:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─it's obvious that they know [Trump's wall] to be a cost-effective solution
[22:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─though I have no doubt at all it will make them at least slightly more profitable to produce within our own borders in states that actually border Mexico
[22:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:34] <exec> 08└─+1 funny; +1 true.
[22:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:51] <exec> 08└─So what's the rub? What does Apple have to gain financially from this? Are they collecting customer data during these sessions? The people who attend those sessions are already Apple fanatics. An easy answer is that it's just a shitshow to upsell more software/features. Do any of you have any additi...
[22:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:53] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're really bored and antisocial, you could get yourself and maybe some like-minded miscreants to put your collective dicks in the mashed potatoes and ask questions like, "Is it true that the Apple factory has nets because its workers try to commit suicide?" and "Do you have a recycling p...
[22:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not a rich man by any means, but going extremely out of one's way to be Jewish is annoying to no end.
[22:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:13] <exec> 08└─Well, I suggest we start off by agreeing to lie... This could be the beginning of a wonderful relationship, Louis.
[22:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:07] <exec> 08└─...like recording studio knob twister. (I was also going to mention railroad train driver before I got to your comment. To any of those traveling to Ontario: be careful what you call yourself while there.) No one yet has specifically mentioned that this is censorship against someone critical of the...
[22:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:33] <exec> 08└─What evil watermelons like "Climate Action" won't tell you is the important part of the story. The mainstream media does most of its #FakeNews by quoting people with agendas like these guys and leave out the inconvenient truths. Yes alternate energy can 'work', that was never disputed so is merely a...
[22:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:01] <exec> 08└─If there's a female equivalent to the bladder, maybe that's where it's coming from.
[22:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:00] <exec> 08└─I don't give a crap about all that. Just process the original film into 8K, 16K or whatever and downsize as needed. I'd rather see the version that made history and cemented the word "blockbuster" than the one with the fancy exploding Death Star and the Jabba scene.
[22:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:10] <exec> 08└─The uncanny one.
[22:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:11] <exec> 08└─The false equivalence is staggering. Both groups suffer from emotionally based ideologies and have similar reactions when criticized, but as you pointed out they are very different. Loony rights usually base their ideology from fear and anger, loony lefts are usually base their ideologies on compass...
[22:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:13] <exec> 08└─Are you guys really this partisan to not see the issue here? At no point did I refer to Trump in any capacity. You're continuously re-proving the point and have your head too far into your own parties to understand that what I'm criticizing is the system of politics that allowed Trump to be elevated...
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[23:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:04] <exec> 08└─And then what? First they made us RTFA, now RTFS, and if we don't fight back, soon enough, we'll be expected to read the binary zip of the title's first two words before commenting? Where is this world going, and can I live-stream its destruction?
[23:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:05] <exec> 08└─The CEO of Facebook is aware of the murder issue, and he responded amazingly quickly. He devoted a moment to it, just one hour after the first murder, during his address to F8, an important conference for the company's developers. This is what he said: "We have a lot more to do here, and we're remi...
[23:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:07] <exec> 08└─Except that by "tragedy" he meant the fact that Facebook got a PR problem out of that. Also, I'm not sure how does he plan to prevent future murders. Or are only murders which are livestreamed worth preventing?
[23:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:10] <exec> 08└─Does the existence of FB Live make this sort of thing more likely to happen? If yes, FB Live needs to go away. My guess is the answer is yes. These jerkoffs want some kind of fame, any kind of fame. FB Live gives it to them. disclaimer: I don't have a FB account, nor will I ever have one. Privacy, t...
[23:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:12] <exec> 08└─If yes, FB Live needs to go away.
[23:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:14] <exec> 08└─You are presumed to be an adult able to make the decision to view or not by yourself. It's also to level the information knowledge such that there isn't a A-team who knows it all and B-team that is only served whatever censors deem alright. Someone might want to verify what others has written actual...
[23:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:16] <exec> 08└─Liveleak IS Ogrish. The site turned into LiveLeak. Obviously it has nothing to do with what Ogrish was.
[23:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─Usually you knew the guy was dead when you read ~r}iNO CARRIER but there were a lot of false positives :)
[23:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─You are on to something :p Facebook attract a crowd that has certain statistical (ugly) truths. And as the law of big numbers becomes more and more obvious. The results will be public. The real problem is Facebook users but the site itself facilitate and encourage a deprived way of relating to other...
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─Offense is taken, not given. No one forced you to click on a link. Go play with your crayons in your safe space.
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─There's only one way to prevent all future crime and that is to lock everyone up alone in a cell. Guaranteed no crime. Now, is this the world you want to live in? Crime happens. Hopefully it won't happen to you or those you love. Welcome to the real world. Deal with it and get over it. Or take one m...
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[23:46:27] <exec> 08└─Some of them might have been actual positives, when terminal injury happened upon reaching for the next AOL CD.
[23:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Implanted Scaffold With T Cells Rapidly Shrinks Tumors - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:37] <exec> 08└─We can't let Tasmanian devils outevolve our cancer capabities!
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Implanted Scaffold With T Cells Rapidly Shrinks Tumors - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:39] <exec> 08└─For only $250,000 we can shrink your tumor just as much as radio/chemotherapy. You're still going to die of cancer but isn't an extra 6 months worth it?
[23:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:07] <exec> 08└─Well, you know the old expression: If it looks like an evil avaricious anti-environmental fucker, and it acts like an evil avaricious anti-environmental fucker ...
[23:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they throw you out if you try to follow the lesson on your Android phone. Possibly using the SD card in place of iCloud uploads.
[23:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, Venezuela and Cambodia are prime examples of such success! ;-)
[23:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─The Microsoft policy should really be.. Need help with a Microsoft product? No problem, I will help you upgrade to Be-Es-Dee or some sane Linux.
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─Even better. Hack the iPhone such that it can support SD-card without rooting it permanently. Then call it SD-Cloud :p "Hey Sir, No need for iCloud because iPhone already has SD-Cloud."
[23:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:09] <exec> 08└─Get over it? No. It's a contract that shouldn't have been made, shouldn't have been offered. The boards, if they aren't hopelessly corrupt and packed with cronies, aren't doing their jobs. The shareholders too are complicit in at the very least not paying attention to and not caring what the board d...
[23:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:57] <exec> 08└─Play it again, Sam! Casablanca! Maybe this "name" thing is not all it's cracked up to be. But we will always have Paris.
[23:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:58] <exec> 08└─[plays it again] Wait, I'm not Sam. Oh, and Bogey actually just said "Play it," though "Play it, Sam..." was uttered in the movie too. Come on, Aristarchus, you must remember this.... By the way, my name is Athanasius, and I'm a recovering 17th-century Jesuit. What part of the 12-step plan is "coope...
[23:51:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:51] <exec> 08└─I wonder if we will see an unmanned drone nuke an aircraft carrier in our lifetimes.
[23:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:52] <exec> 08└─I think you need to step back a bit. Nothing to do with partisan anything. Perhaps you should try to explain yourself, and the overall point a bit better. -- Happily weaponizing quotes out of context to further your agenda. -- Lying. -- Being counter-intuitive on purpose. -- You are precisely the s...
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