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[00:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Success in the 3-D Bioprinting of Cartilage - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:02] <exec> 08└─Trump can send Our Troops to Wars with a Promise that their injured cartilage will be repaired.
[00:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:26] <exec> 08└─+1. It's not "real books are back", it's "the e-book reader gadget market has reached everyone it was ever going to reach".
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:27] <exec> 08└─It is called "LibreVox", public domain audio books. Try here: https://www.librivox.org [librivox.org]
[00:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:29] <exec> 08└─Ok, Garfield :) But, seriously, what did the spider do? I used to kill them, till I realized that they kill the insects I *really* don't like. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.
[00:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:31] <exec> 08└─I want these printed on stain-resistant plastic, like the Australian currency. I want a binding that comes apart so that nothing gets permanently jammed in there. I should be able to clean the pages with a scrubber and some hot soapy water.
[00:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─I don't really expect there will be any difficulty decoding ASCII in the 22nd century (though quite possibly it might become difficult to reconstruct the language being encoded,) thanks for your concern though.
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─Bah! Direct links to mp3 files! Where's the challenge? Where's the guilty pleasure of using a third party tool to get to the mp3 files?
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─> paper drawings, 11X17 size. You might like it in Detroit? Not only do they drink a lot, they also use full size drawings of cars, pinned up to drafting boards that hang on the walls (and some work areas spread them out on large flat tables).
[00:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─Just visited a small company (~30 people) that makes test equipment for car and tire manufacturers. They deliver test machines with large 3-ring binders. All the instructions and docs are printed on stiff coated paper, no problem if you flip the pages with greasy fingers, just wipe it off later.
[00:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:43] <exec> 08└─He is a creature ruled by emotion but believes he is rational. He lacks empathy, or so the troll says, so anything he doesn't like can be murdered without a second thought.
[00:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:45] <exec> 08└─Some of my kids' books are like that too, especially the ones where you can trace or learn to write. Write with any pen, take a humid cloth, wash up and start again :).
[00:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:58] <exec> 08└─So, let's see how productive Trump is as president. 100 days is ~14.28 weeks. 80 promises divided by 14.28 gives us ~5.6 promises broken per week. I could reasonably assume that's Trump's work week (M-F, and a half day on Saturday), which gives us an average of one promise broken per day. As a presi...
[00:47:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:02] <exec> 08└─I keep challenging T fans to point out just 3 wrong out of the 60 or so "pants on fire" ratings on PF. If you cannot show 3 of 60 are clearly false, then the "problem" is probably YOU.
[00:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:40] <exec> 08└─Groan. A "Two Minutes' Hate" submission. Oh well, there've been plenty of opportunities for us to have our own towards Grand Emperor-for-Life Baraq Hussein Soetoro and Hillary "poopy-spillary-in-her-diapery" so the best we can do is sit back and roll our eyes. I think what's more interesting is that...
[00:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:41] <exec> 08└─Make Abortion Golf Again! #MAGA
[00:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:43] <exec> 08└─Brains: I've an IQ that is somewhere in the 145 to 180 range, depending on conversion factor, (3 to 4 standard deviations above the mean) and I qualify for all the 1-in-a-1000 societies. Conscience: I can't support choices that would make my children live in a 3rd-world country. Hurting them in this...
[00:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:45] <exec> 08└─> Progressives are not remotely liberal. That would be the libertarians. Not in America. "Libertarian accommodation of conservative illiberalism is how libertarianism became philosophically arbitrary anti-leftism and withered." — Wil Wilkinson [twitter.com] VP for Policy, Niskanen Center [niskane...
[00:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:48] <exec> 08└─All that was missing was to call it Fake News.
[00:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:50] <exec> 08└─I should have put an explicit /sarc ... Note that, outside of the Putin "allegations" (being investigated by Republican-controlled Congress), everything else on that 100-days list was actual, if silly, topics brought forward by the man himself. It is therefore quite a stretch to equal them to the Ni...
[00:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:52] <exec> 08└─It's nice to see that the bitter medicine is working. Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from Whatever She Is Doing [vanityfair.com] Why the Clintons won't go Away [the-american-interest.com] Why can't the Clintons just go away? [nypost.com] Even hardcore leftist outlets like Salon are finally admitt...
[00:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:54] <exec> 08└─> I wouldn't want them to live in a place like Venezuela or Syria or Iraq .... You don't seem so bright to me, you left off Chicago, Detroit, some tough parts of NJ, DC proper, and Baltimore, to just name a few. On the other hand, if isolating your kids from some of the gritty parts of reality is so...
[00:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:57] <exec> 08└─Green Nazis? Soylent Green Nazis?
[00:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:59] <exec> 08└─The more campaign promises he breaks, the better
[00:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:01] <exec> 08└─[name-and-shame them on specifics] Unfortunately, specifics are the opposite of his forte.
[00:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:04] <exec> 08└─Trump got a higher percentage of the evangelical vote than anybody in recent history, including Jimmy Carter who is the only evangelical to ever be president. He's their jesus alright.
[00:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:06] <exec> 08└─Hoist by your own petard dude, don't try to lawyer your way out of it, you aren't fooling anyone.
[00:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:08] <exec> 08└─Groan. A "Two Minutes' Hate" submission.
[00:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:28] <exec> 08└─Not surprising that you see some Tesla in the Air. Many of the people at Lucid used to work at Tesla and got sick of working for slave driver Musk.
[00:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:29] <exec> 08└─Just in case you ever decide to get up toward the 200 mph range, make sure and check your owner's manual to prepare the car. Usually it's required to raise the tire pressures (or even install special high speed rated tires) and there may be other changes required as well.
[00:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:32] <exec> 08└─> Years ago someone said "Torque is what presses you back in your seat when you hit the gas, horsepower is what gets you up to 200 MPH". I think he was dead on. She forgot to tell you that by shifting to a lower gear you can increase the torque delivered to the wheels, and thus the force in F=ma tha...
[00:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESPN Can't Afford to Go On Like This - 1983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:49] <exec> 08└─What they need to do is start leaving politics and the heavy-handed and patronizing "identity politics and diversity for its own sake" bullshit the fuck out of their shows (as far as I know the print version of their magazine is still great, and always has been, even if you're not a sports fan they...
[00:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg 2020? Facebook CEO Tours America's Rust Belt Amid Rumors of Political Run - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:39] <exec> 08└─May the light of knowledge shine upon you to unveil the horrors that are TMB posts. If you find yourself agreeing with anything he says do a critical analysis and wonder if perhaps your views are wrong. They may still hold, but better safe than sorry.
[00:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hard Grind: the Epic Journey of the World's Biggest Tunnel Boring Machine - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:31] <exec> 08└─What interest does Elon Musk has in a tunneling company to alleviate traffic? Not that it's useful or interesting. Just that his attention only have so much resources. I rather see that spent on those rockets. Other people can do the solar panels, cars etc..
[00:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"We Don't Want to be an Office:" Café Owners Are Pulling the Plug on Wifi - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:00] <exec> 08└─Exactly. From the OP: If coffeeshops come to discourage people working, perhaps that activity can shift to libraries.
[00:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"We Don't Want to be an Office:" Café Owners Are Pulling the Plug on Wifi - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:02] <exec> 08└─Just sit outside in the shade of a Provence sycamore tree. Have a drink and a bite. Chat with friends. Watch people walking by. Chat with random table doing the same. Check the Asian tourists looking for buildings and missing the point. Walk away after an hour or two, less if the place is full. Sout...
[00:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lego to Sell Saturn V Kit - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:24] <exec> 08└─Let's have some cool SpaceX Falcon re-entry rocket instead :P
[00:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: Intel Patching Remote Execution Hole that has been Hidden in its Chips Since 2008 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:23] <exec> 08└─The management engine system code is located in a SPI memory chip not accessible by the operating system where it's likely is encrypted and is for sure signed [github.io]. So to get anywhere you would have to break at least one of these mechanisms to either test the code by decryption in a simulator...
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[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Success in the 3-D Bioprinting of Cartilage - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─Besides joints and nose-jobs, something like this would be great for spinal discs -- you fuck up a spinal disc and you're in for a world of hurt so bad that not even opiates will help. It will take you 10 minutes to rise out of bed, 5 minutes to get into and out of your car. Sometimes the pain goes...
[01:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:33] <exec> 08└─Spiders are the bugs I really don't like though. Plus no bugs belong in the house. The rest can go on about their merry business outside as far as I'm concerned but spiders gotta die.
[01:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:35] <exec> 08└─I don't lack empathy, slappy, I just don't let it rule my rational mind like libtards do.
[01:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:37] <exec> 08└─You should really learn to recognize the fine rhetorical art of shit talking.
[01:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:40] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of your points, save the alternate Ebook reader hardware. There are two options which are fantastic in their respective categories. The all-around amazing ergonomics, cheap-enough-not-to-use-a-case option: Nook Simple Touch. Not the glowlight, the original. This thing is overbuilt...
[01:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:42] <exec> 08└─Because he never felt like it? Even a psychopath can understand that by raping Arlene or killing Odie he's probably not getting any more Lasagna out of John.
[01:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:45] <exec> 08└─"Real Books Are Back" Most bookaholics will never let you pry their dead tree versions from their hands. It's a technology that has been optimized over centuries for rapid access, eye comfort, and many other things. Just like a hammer, it's a hard thing to improve on. The reduced space required for...
[01:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:47] <exec> 08└─*cough* I've found the opposite to be true. My eyes are getting worse with age. I can't even see half of our drawings. Fek, I open a drawing up, squint at it, only to discover that I've got it upside down. Flip it over, squint, and realize I have the wrong drawing. Finally get the correct drawing la...
[01:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:49] <exec> 08└─If they work better for you, great! And there's no hate here. I use both ebooks and paper versions. ebooks are nice for items I need to carry a lot of in a small space. The pdf versions of the manuals for the lab equipment I work on, for example. It would be impractical to carry the filing cabinets...
[01:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:51] <exec> 08└─Whether it’s really superior or convenient or not is, as usual, depends. I don’t have a big house, and all those books take up precious space. I try to keep dead tree editions only for the most important and special of them. For 99% of my books, ebook editions are good enough. I don’t want to...
[01:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:54] <exec> 08└─Epub and .mobi are open formats as far as I know. If civilisation has not collapsed in between I imagine it will be possible to read such file formats in the 22nd century.
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:03] <exec> 08└─Fraid so. Think tanks do not get to represent individualists.
[01:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:04] <exec> 08└─it took Democrats to enact Republicans' wet dreams, such as Nixon's healthcare plan,
[01:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:06] <exec> 08└─Da hell? You can't wear a fedora fishing. It wouldn't shade worth a damn and would blow right off on even a moderately windy day.
[01:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:09] <exec> 08└─Cheeto Jesus? I get the Cheeto part, but Jesus?
[01:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:11] <exec> 08└─For example, start a GoFundMe account for the wall and hawk it near the border.
[01:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:13] <exec> 08└─potato potato -- the whole lot of it is rotten.
[01:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:16] <exec> 08└─Lolwut? Do you even logic, bro? Its an observation of the current state of the movment, not a 'representation' of anybody. But, if there is one person on soylent who most embodies what he's describing, its you.
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:18] <exec> 08└─I've heard that quote in the context that he was actually afraid of the people, holed up in the White House behind a wall of busses while protests raged wondering if he'd get out alive if they broke through. Of course, there's Vietnam to cast a shadow on the "liberal" part, so perhaps it is more cor...
[01:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:23] <exec> 08└─Like Donnie Tiny Hands, you just can't help demonstrating how completely ignorant you are. Salon doesn't even approach the center line. Wanna see something that's actually Leftist? Try reading the World Socialist Web Site. Find something containing the word "Reactionary" (i.e. you). I doubt you'd ma...
[01:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:26] <exec> 08└─"Heil!" Errr, i mean "Here!"
[01:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:29] <exec> 08└─RTFwebsite. Claims to be a libertarian think-tank. That's an oxymoron on account of we're very much individualists. And if you think I'm in any way illiberal, do please explain how. You might even be correct on a niche issue but overall you'll be horribly, astoundingly wrong.
[01:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:31] <exec> 08└─No way I'm reading TFA or the summary, but I have a few questions. Given it's a record, is it a record for the most or the least? Seems like running for office is about long on promise and short on doing. Most folks since Reagan represent this. (I showed some card there?) It doing things a...
[01:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:33] <exec> 08└─You can have our Canadian parties: our Conservatives will try to screw you by making corporations all-powerful. The liberals have cozied up with big business in order to raise funds and so are just little 'C' conservatives. Kind of like Dems and Reps, huh?! The only way to really improve things is t...
[01:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:35] <exec> 08└─Not trying, don't have to, it's all spelled out.
[01:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:38] <exec> 08└─Claims to be a libertarian think-tank. That's an oxymoron on account of we're very much individualists.
[01:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:40] <exec> 08└─No way I'm reading TFA or the summary, but I have a few questions.
[01:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Cash Pile Reaches a Quarter Trillion, According to the Wall Street Journal - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you are correct that, on paper, BMW is not for sale. On the other hand, if Cook made the right offer to the controlling Quandt family, that paper might be conveniently forgotten? For just one link, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Jud...
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[02:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:52] <exec> 08└─FAME! FUNDING!! FRAUD!!! It's how Science is done.
[02:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:53] <exec> 08└─Oh! Waiter! I'll have the lobster thermidor au crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and fraud.
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[02:46:03] <exec> 08└─but if your balls got blown off or your face got melted off, that's it
[02:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Success in the 3-D Bioprinting of Cartilage - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─Organ generation is the way to do it. Donations cause a lot of problems and is really just a stopgap solution. Of course if your life is on the line you take what you got. But it's not a long term solution.
[02:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Success in the 3-D Bioprinting of Cartilage - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:08] <exec> 08└─Hemingway wrote a whole book on it.
[02:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─Clean your "t" key, please.
[02:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:55] <exec> 08└─I own a Nook Simple Touch, from before the Glowlight. Will probably have to replace the battery in another year or two. Discontinued and no longer available in most places, either version. Which is why I said what I did, you have to know alternatives exist and seek them out, usually online, because...
[02:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:57] <exec> 08└─Found the un-hipster!
[02:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:00] <exec> 08└─There is a time and place for shit talking. You throw it in whenever you feel like which is improper use. Don't fault others for your poor social skills. A discussion about spiders being more beneficial alive than dead is not exactly a shit-talking or trolling scenario.
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:02] <exec> 08└─Now look here dicky, you've shown yourself to lack empathy and have said exactly that on more than one occasion. You can't hide like Derp Donald forever and simply deny your own words when they become inconvenient. You're like all the mild racists who simply can't consciously accept their bigotry so...
[02:47:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:18] <exec> 08└─People with brains and consciences still don't like Trump.
[02:47:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:40] <exec> 08└─Count the ballots. They are the only valid way of measuring 'approval'. OK, Hilary got more. What's the next move?
[02:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:28] <exec> 08└─Protecting my children requires stopping the invasion of 3rd-world people People with zero power and zero wealth aren't the source of the problems. If your children are competing against unskilled farm workers[1], you have failed as a parent. The problems are the result of people with enormous amoun...
[02:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:30] <exec> 08└─I've got an incredibly large brain: i mean, like God's brain. You know: "Oooo, you are SOOO big!" I sit and jerk off in front of my kids, while in Switzerland, because i am so great. Derp
[02:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:32] <exec> 08└─By that logic Ron Paul wasn't a libertarian either because individualists don't join political parties much less represent a group of people. Seriously, do even read what you type? Because you should, its great comedy.
[02:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:34] <exec> 08└─But, ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?'
[02:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:36] <exec> 08└─Lol I thought so, total admin abuse! Ethical my ass, privacy invading hypocrite.
[02:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:38] <exec> 08└─It gets hard to separate the troll from the libertarian. That is your own damn fault. Since it is not always obvious when you are trolling you're gonna have to deal with the fact that most people assume you're quite a jerk, with questionable beliefs in policy that make people question your capacity...
[02:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:41] <exec> 08└─The last one to deliver was Clinton It didn't hurt Slick Willie's record that he rejiggered the system such that he simply stopped counting as "unemployed" those people who couldn't find anyone who would hire them. ...a system that no administration since has set back to right. ...as well as his put...
[02:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─Just when the conversation is getting to be almost rational, another libturd decides to call everyone who is NOT liberal a nazi. Are you one of the Soros shills?
[02:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:45] <exec> 08└─> libturd > Soros shills Triggered
[02:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:48] <exec> 08└─In the worst shithole city that you name, the poor are still very very rich, in comparison to the poor in many other countries. You really haven't a clue, if you are comparing today's US cities to third world countries. May I suggest that you travel to some third world countries, and see first hand...
[02:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:50] <exec> 08└─I've heard that quote in the context that he was actually afraid of the people, holed up in the White House behind a wall of busses while protests raged wondering if he'd get out alive if they broke through.
[02:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:52] <exec> 08└─"If your children are competing against unskilled farm workers[1], you have failed as a parent." For a socialist, you certainly are elitest. Thanks for that bit of hypocrisy. What about semi-skilled labor? Are they also beneath the dignity of American citizens? Skilled labor? How about craftsmen? Wh...
[02:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:54] <exec> 08└─"I keep challenging" Yes, but, WTF are you?
[02:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:57] <exec> 08└─"this article is 100% about Trump." No, this article is 10% about Trump, and 90% about liberal opinions and perceptions of Trump. If I may, I want to point out that I predicted that Trump would be a lame duck president from day one. Even if he knows what he wants to do, even if he knows how to get i...
[02:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:59] <exec> 08└─On April 25, Ian Masters interviewed L.A. Times reporter Sonia Nazario (the 2nd of 3 segments). She had written an article titled "A Wall Won't Secure The Border". It was about refugees fleeing violence in their homelands. The violence is due to narco gangs and the narco gangs are due to USA's insan...
[02:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:01] <exec> 08└─"manufactured by Bush the younger" You presume, of course, that the mideast hadn't been brewing for decades already. You conveniently forget the overthrow of a democratic government in Iran, decades of undermining Iraq and Syria, half a century of propping up dozens of dictators around the world, he...
[02:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:03] <exec> 08└─I'm no snowflake, and I've seen thousands of Mexicans. I want the wall. If you meet a Mexican who is not a criminal, then his/her parents were border jumping criminals - with about 80 percent certainty. Your hyperbole is meaningless.
[02:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:06] <exec> 08└─^ written by a childish little twat ^
[02:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:29] <exec> 08└─Like Lamborghini is a ripoff of Ferrari.
[02:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, like the fascist control-freaks in state and federal government will actually legally allow this thing to exceed 110* out of the box, and if these guys had half a brain on them they would hardware-encrypt the shit out of their system so that people wouldn't be able to enable the higher speeds....
[02:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Cash Pile Reaches a Quarter Trillion, According to the Wall Street Journal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:08] <exec> 08└─And if I print perfect counterfeits, those spend the same as folding money too. Funny how it's only legal when the banks do it.
[02:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: Intel Patching Remote Execution Hole that has been Hidden in its Chips Since 2008 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:20] <exec> 08└─Why would RISC solve anything? different architecture, same jurisdiction..
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[03:46:03] <exec> 08└─
[03:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:04] <exec> 08└─Rupert was smart enough to realize the half of the country that wasn't coastal and blue was underserved. He is exiting and his children aren't so business savvy, more interested in what their peers in polite society think. FNC has eliminated pretty much their entire executive and onscreen talent sta...
[03:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:07] <exec> 08└─Another possibility. Someone puts together: a) good team b) internet video channel The team is good enough to get high view numbers which brings advertising money. That will fund a satellite feed. And some other channel(s) will feel the competition.
[03:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:17] <exec> 08└─Modern medicine is ineffective fraudulent crap. Let's abolish all funding for clinical fraud and go back to shamans and witch doctors. They know for a fact what works.
[03:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:20] <exec> 08└─Coming right up. Let me just shit on a plate for you.
[03:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:22] <exec> 08└─Would you like the Wafer thin mint ? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:24] <exec> 08└─statistically significant benefits (not huge, but real)
[03:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─Well, they are less likely to do harm just because their chemicals are less concentrated and tools less sharp.
[03:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:30] <exec> 08└─Most bookaholics will never let you pry their dead tree versions from their hands. It's a technology that has been optimized over centuries for rapid access, eye comfort, and many other things. Just like a hammer, it's a hard thing to improve on.
[03:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:17] <exec> 08└─OK, so, you're triggered. You might want to email your congress critter. He may give a fuck.
[03:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:18] <exec> 08└─Haha, you almost had me there. Another 3-4 standard deviations above mean, etc here. It could have gone either way until the final sentence. I would have finished it like this: "Protecting my children requires preventing the conditions that lead to a 3rd-world country." Your phrasing is too specific...
[03:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:21] <exec> 08└─I think a couple weeks under a country-wide electricity outage would do it. Modern life is VERY fragile. How many families can feed themselves? Those poor people are able to get enough food to stay alive. Any major US city wouldn't be able to. They wouldn't even have enough water.
[03:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:23] <exec> 08└─Read? What is this you speak of?
[03:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Serious Bug in GCC - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:46] <exec> 08└─You want "--std=c++11" and you want to be using clang++.
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[04:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:55] <exec> 08└─A) They never got the ad money their ratings warranted while on normal cable because of the Prog trolls running boycotts and hammering advertisers. They would be 'Demonitized' on the Internet as well. Even with that though FNC accounts for about a quarter of News Corp's profits. When they stopped co...
[04:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─[Begin Yadda yadda yadda] Special SJW Task Force, jmorris squad (reduction in staff is not appreciated!), interim report. jmorris may be on the edge of a significant development. Fox New's demise may precipitate a crisis of nut-jobbery, we should be prepared. The "jmorris" said: Hannity won't la...
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[04:45:59] <exec> 08└─What would be some good ideas: 1. Strictly segregate the interviews and opinions from the fact segments on a show-by-show basis, just like how good news outlets used to do. Sometimes we just want to watch the damn news, like how Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts Ma'am." 2. When interviews are...
[04:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─They'd never fire Rachel Maddow because they're too afraid of him. He's a soldier of fortune in his spare time, and the MSNBC execs saw how he once split a man's skull in half with his bare chin.
[04:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:03] <exec> 08└─Uh, who -hasn't- fired Olberman at this point? I'm observing FNC's demise as a mostly disinterested observer at this point anyway. Their commentary runs from D to mainstream R with a few Trumpers permitted to talk occasionally, but everyone else gives them the stink eye when they do it. FBN lets the...
[04:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Full-text search can be useful. On the other hand, physical books have consistent layout, which means I can often find a familiar passage because I remember "it's about 3/4 through, and there's a diagram of a cactus in the upper right corner, and a heading with the passage on the opposite pa...
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[05:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:52] <exec> 08└─They missed the computer revolution? And thus the predicted future did go another path..
[05:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─If not for the time wasting distraction of the internet, we would have colonies on Mars by now. Instead the greatest minds of the past 50 years are working on maximizing "likes" and delivering clickbait.
[05:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:56] <exec> 08└─Who says we need Mars colonies? Are you rich enough to live in a Mars colony with no homeless and beggars?
[05:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:58] <exec> 08└─every world expo seems to have a huge amount of optimism, which always points to a better future that doesn't quite happen. Sometimes, the left-over buildings add to the place they were built, eg: Brisbane got some nicely upgraded industrial riverbank: http://www.visitsouthbank.com.au [visitsouthba...
[05:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:13] <exec> 08└─Nothing would be more deserving for the shithole that is Soystain Spews.
[05:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:32] <exec> 08└─Sure you can beat paper books, but parchment/vellum is hard to come by these days. 500-year-old paper can be pretty fragile (and cheap paper held in poor conditions can degrade significantly in 50 years or less), but a lot of the 1000-year-old parchment I've handled has been in great condition, asid...
[05:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:34] <exec> 08└─What device(s) do you prefer to read your e-books with? I'm currently using a "recycled" notebook, but it's not quite as flexible as a physical book.
[05:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Cash Pile Reaches a Quarter Trillion, According to the Wall Street Journal - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:26] <exec> 08└─Apply 'paying taxes' is rather misleading. They pay a fraction of 1 percent of taxes on their foreign earned income (0.005% was the figure in 2014) through a variety of legally grey practices that the EU is now stating are not legally grey, but illegal. I'm rather tired of the "rules for thee, but n...
[05:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lego to Sell Saturn V Kit - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:38] <exec> 08└─There, now that was a good troll without resorting to racial slurs. Good job!
[05:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confirmed: Intel Patching Remote Execution Hole that has been Hidden in its Chips Since 2008 - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:40] <exec> 08└─Obviously if you are running Linux, Intel's Windows-only patch (if it really is a patch), does not apply. So with the command shown, what are we to look for? Is there a fix or workaround? Solutions please. A lot of the posts are just chickens running about headless.
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[06:45:45] <exec> 08└─Color revolutions, the perception of strength in numbers. That perception, backed by American force, was successful in Eastern Europe. The few successes in the Arab world are attributed to the tendency of Arab nations to be more innately repressive, with a discordant culture, than Western nations. Y...
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[06:45:47] <exec> 08└─I'd like to add (sorry, self-replies are obnoxious) that Trump in his earlier days of the presidency curiously emphasized good relations with Egypt publicly. The reason for that is not only that Egypt is a strategic asset but was beginning to cozy up to Russia rather than the U.S. Interviews with th...
[06:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck it. We'll just stay here until we die and rot. Mod me up. Mod me down. I don't care. Look over here, I'm doing stuff! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
[06:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:59] <exec> 08└─Optimism is for cretins.
[06:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:16] <exec> 08└─We're all gonna get paid!
[06:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:18] <exec> 08└─Your post-hoc rationalization is pretty funny. You sound like the kind of guy who believes all that crap about trump being a 4d chessmaster too. What's going on here is fox "won" when trump was elected. But, just like the republicans and their 5 million different votes to repeal obamacare, they neve...
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[06:47:38] <exec> 08└─C) I'll never buy anything with DRM around it.
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[07:46:06] <exec> 08└─Damn nogger why ain't ya trollin bout jews like ya always do.
[07:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:08] <exec> 08└─Jews dud Arub Sprung! Jews and Noggers and Nogger Jews!1!!
[07:47:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 1898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:16] <exec> 08└─I can see many reasons to abandon ebooks for paper. 1. The hardware. Break it down to epaper and tablet/pc for reader. Both have problems. Epaper is essentially Kindle now, unless you know about and seek out obscure products. No epaper device really delivered on the promise. Reading a novel start to...
[07:48:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Trump Broke 80 Promises in 100 Days - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:23] <exec> 08└─Ummm, those two didn't make the promises on the campaign trail though. So I'm not sure what they have to do with it, if anything. The truth is that this article is 100% about Trump. Ditch the 100 day metric for success and just look at what he said would do for the American workers, and what he has...
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[08:46:07] <exec> 08└─So there's a man in the forest sucking his own dick. If a bear shits in the woods, does the man swallow his own cum?
[08:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:19] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to RTFA - I do wonder how the author is trying to tell the direction of causation, methodologically. I do think there is a lot of truth to his interpretation: "normal people are tweeting about going to the protest is causing the protest to become a mass-movement". But how to tell this from...
[08:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:02] <exec> 08└─Georgia has it's own issues, but the Russia's problem is that nothing in Russia works honestly. When the leader of the country is a kleptocrat who keeps in power by starting successive wars against smaller nations, there isn't anything you can expect from the rank-and-file either. Russia scores 143...
[08:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised. Hardcover books are a superior product compared to digital e-books. They are convenient, there is the tactile sensation of holding it, it can't be altered and most of all they are mine/yours instead of being at the whims of your e-book reader.
[08:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Serious Bug in GCC - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:25] <exec> 08└─Gotcha -- yes, that was a clunky bit of writing on my part.
[08:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Serious Bug in GCC - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:27] <exec> 08└─It's not a stretch though, because C++ is clear about its RAII rules, and this deviates from what's required. On the topic of exceptions' shortfalls, you may enjoy this [joelonsoftware.com] and the various other blog posts it links to. You're not alone thinking that exceptions often make for gnarly...
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[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─So, ten years?
[09:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:50] <exec> 08└─Sodium may be abundant, but anyone here recall their high school chemistry? Sodium burns like mad and reacts violently with water. Magnesium is a bit better, but once on fire it is unstoppable. While these researchers are playing with the volatile metals, why not look at phospheros? Maybe it packs e...
[09:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:59] <exec> 08└─In other words, although Schroedinger's cat knows whether the poison gas has been released or not, people outside the box can only assign probabilities and say weird things, like the cat being both dead and alive, until the door is opened.
[09:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:15] <exec> 08└─Torque alone does nothing. Horse power is torque multiplied by rpm, and most cars have a gearbox converting between these. If torque alone was what you want, you'd be driving a farm tractor. Modern tractors have a ton of horse power, but the gear box converts just about all of it into torque. Old tr...
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[10:46:10] <exec> 08└─So is lithium (flamable not aboundant). Phospheros? Never heard about this element.
[10:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:12] <exec> 08└─That was my reaction as well: The same team has also developed a solid magnesium-based electrolyte. [...] it's available in abundance, it's light, and there's no risk of it exploding
[10:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:14] <exec> 08└─Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries https://news.utexas.edu [utexas.edu] AUSTIN, Texas — A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School...
[10:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:16] <exec> 08└─Only if you use the pure elements. Sodium is dangerous, sodium-chloride is not, caustic soda (NaOH) is. Same for lithium, magnesium and all the rest of the table. Lithium can be used for nuclear purposes, lithium carbonate is a medicine and used for setting concrete. Stop the "scary chemicals" junk,...
[10:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:26] <exec> 08└─I always thought that was a bad analogy. It only works if those with perception don't actually share the same reality, which does not seem to be the case.
[10:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:28] <exec> 08└─html5 could have added this? Maybe too specialized.
[10:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:30] <exec> 08└─Cuius erroris causa quod omnia quae quisque nouit ex ipsorum tantum ui atque natura cognosci aestimat quae sciuntur. 25 Quod totum contra est; omne enim quod cognoscitur non secundum sui uim sed secundum cognoscentium potius comprehenditur facultatem. 26 Nam ut hoc breui liqueat exemplo, eandem corp...
[10:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:42] <exec> 08└─I have been through this before. It works like this: you, a commoner, are not doing well, and/or you see despicable, very visible characters, rise to various amounts of power and wealth undeserved. There is some criticism and dissent going on in press or in public. The authority at the top puts diss...
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[10:48:34] <exec> 08└─Plus you don't feel at all bad about slamming a print book down as hard as you can on a big, hairy spider.
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[11:46:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 988 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:17] <exec> 08└─Only if you use the pure elements. Sodium is dangerous, sodium-chloride is not, caustic soda (NaOH) is. Same for lithium, magnesium and all the rest of the table. Lithium can be used for nuclear purposes, lithium carbonate is a medicine and used for setting concrete. Stop the "scary chemicals" junk,...
[11:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:18] <exec> 08└─http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/super-battery.html [pbs.org] http://www.pbs.org [pbs.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.sciencefriday.com [sciencefriday.com] http://www.sc...
[11:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:20] <exec> 08└─The energy density of a magnesium electrolyte would solve the EV range problem, if it is double lithium's.
[11:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:23] <exec> 08└─The quote from the research group is a little baffling. When they talk about energy storage vs. mass, I'm not surprised at all - the same number of atoms of sodium will weigh more than triple as much as a molar equivalent of lithium. Just look at the atomic weights. However, they then say this has v...
[11:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:25] <exec> 08└─But more importantly, a magnesium ion has two positive charges, whereas lithium only has one.
[11:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:27] <exec> 08└─Mass is important too though, because at some point Apple will run out of physical thickness to shave off (you can't have negative thickness after all) and then they'll need another ridiculous claim to fame.
[11:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─> If it is just your knowledge that changes, things don't seem so strange. Yes, but we should not reject a model because it is "strange". That just roots us in our limited intuition and prevents us from going anywhere new.
[11:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:40] <exec> 08└─If I understand the proposition correctly, the idea is that the state of quantum-systems is already defined but just unknown. But doesn't quantum-computing rely on the fact that quantum systems have several states at the same time? And the tunnel-effect?
[11:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:42] <exec> 08└─I dunno, man, talking on Internet message boards has fairly well proven to me over the years that there are a lot of people out there who don't share the same reality that I live in.
[11:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:07] <exec> 08└─This youtube video shows what Expo 67 looked like. https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Takeaways..seems things were richer than versus now in North America... oh..and everyone was much thinner then too.. no morbid obesity to be found (High Fructose Corn Syrup hadn't been invented yet?)
[11:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:48] <exec> 08└─C) I'll never buy anything with DRM around it.
[11:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, well you see this is not an issue in the US like it would be in OZ. Here our spiders mostly come hand-sized or smaller and a good hardback book is generally enough to at least thoroughly stun them while you run screaming like a little girl.
[11:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:52] <exec> 08└─I've shown myself to lack empathy only to those who are empathy's bitch. You lot are getting pounded in the ass so hard, so regularly by empathy that you've utterly lost any perspective on what a well-adjusted human being should look like.
[11:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:54] <exec> 08└─Dude, I can talk shit while ordering a pizza. I am that good.
[11:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can't Afford to Go On Like This - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:29] <exec> 08└─The Sports networks should go on strike until the players take a paycut. Tell that players that no one will see their games until they take a paycut. Fight fire with fire.
[11:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can't Afford to Go On Like This - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:31] <exec> 08└─Peanuts. ESPN's costs come from paying the teams and funding all these 100 million dollar athlete salaries. ESPN needs filler, but that is about 1 cent of the cost of the channel.
[11:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Cash Pile Reaches a Quarter Trillion, According to the Wall Street Journal - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:59] <exec> 08└─Ain't it though? Don't get to mistaking me for a fractional reserve cheerleader. I'd prefer people only ever worked with real money but for all its faults it does have its good points as well.
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[12:46:00] <exec> 08└─I've seen a lot of headlines about this show in the past 48 hours. Content so edgy, it causes existential distress in IRL teens! Netflix has a lot of original shows now. Chances are I never would have noticed this one if it hadn't been for the controversy. Governments just Streisanded suicide. Here'...
[12:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:02] <exec> 08└─That number is only good for a small number of people. If you want to help everyone, try linking to a full (as possible) list of organisations from around the world... https://www.iasp.info [iasp.info]
[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:04] <exec> 08└─I would have thought a simple warning like "Warning! This is fictional entertainment, not an instructional video" would have sufficed.
[12:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:06] <exec> 08└─Mental health organisations in Australia reported increased calls and emails since the program's launch in March.
[12:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:08] <exec> 08└─Come on, Netflix! First 'Orange is the New Black' gets kidnapped, then you have an outage. I bet the outage happened because you got hacked again.
[12:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:11] <exec> 08└─Copyright infringement is not theft, it's not piracy, and it's certainly not kidnapping.Reading fail, it's outrage not outage.
[12:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:18] <exec> 08└─When several transducers are used that serve as transmitter and receiver, the location of the flaw can be pinpointed exactly to within a few millimeters.
[12:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:21] <exec> 08└─tfa claims that current sensors are limited to "around 200 deg C". http://www.pcb.com [pcb.com] A quick check at one of the older suppliers for piezo transducers shows a handful of accelerometers and other configurations (pressure, etc) that are rated for continuous use at +12...
[12:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was quite tempted to make the same observation.
[12:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:19] <exec> 08└─like the ruins of a fantastical future to which we somehow, somewhere lost the thread.
[12:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 2033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:37] <exec> 08└─This. The Democratic party is/was always divided among a number of somewhat disparate voting blocks - blacks gays, cityfolk, jews, Hollywoods, etc. Their triumph or failure always hinged on being able to unite enough of them into a single platform. The Republican party, however, was much more broad-...
[12:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraud in Heart Disease Trial - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:53] <exec> 08└─Even more hilarious to be marked troll. The quacks have bamboozled so many.
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[13:46:15] <exec> 08└─I would have thought a simple warning like "Warning! This is fictional entertainment, not an instructional video" would have sufficed.
[13:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:17] <exec> 08└─There are many many people who live under the delusion that if you don't talk about something, it doesn't happen. For example, the people that like to pretend domestic abuse wasn't a problem until feminist groups started organizing shelters and services for victims about 40 years ago. Or the people...
[13:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:19] <exec> 08└─No, suicide prevention is a selfish act. What right do you have to demand that somebody else serve you against their will?
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:21] <exec> 08└─1) I'm guessing kidnapping was a comical stand-in for ransom or extortion. 2) You sound a bit like a jerk. Go get your coffee and chill a bit.
[13:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:31] <exec> 08└─Which is kinda cool, being able... That could be a cool extra feature... Thats kinda cool. Probably help safety a lot... Thats kinda cool.
[13:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:49] <exec> 08└─However, they then say this has volume implications.
[13:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:51] <exec> 08└─I wonder why all these battery technologies use such dangerous elements
[13:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:53] <exec> 08└─It does, however, burn spectacularly well.
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:55] <exec> 08└─Energy-dense stuff contains a lot of energy that - if released all at once - is a bomb. This isn't shocking.
[13:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─This would help, no doubt, but it's not the final solution.
[13:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:00] <exec> 08└─True, though diesel is much less scary than gasoline - and has a higher energy density to boot.
[13:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:02] <exec> 08└─The quoted text implied solid magnesium, but you're right, it's actually magnesium ethylenediamine borohydride. Of course now we need to find out what toxic, explosive, or otherwise reactive properties magnesium ethylenediamine borohydride has...
[13:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:04] <exec> 08└─I hear it has electrolytes so it is good for you.
[13:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:21] <exec> 08└─At first I was confused by your quote, since Boethius is off on an argument about the knowledge of God and the possibility of predestination's compatibility with free will here, and the immediate context is a sort of Platonic form argument combined with different faculties of perception. Outside of...
[13:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:49] <exec> 08└─oh..and everyone was much thinner then too.. no morbid obesity to be found
[13:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:38] <exec> 08└─The entire lifetime of that comic is a psychologically thriller, like those "Friday the 13th" horror movies where the audience knows all the actors are gonna get killed. Actually its kinda like a bullfight, everyone kinda knows the bull is getting it in the end, the drama is in what happens. Is toda...
[13:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:39] <exec> 08└─I have a Kindle Paperwhite for novels, and a Samsung Galaxy S2 Tab for comic books and color PDFs.
[13:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:41] <exec> 08└─tech docs don't tend to get re-read once the device driver or protocol stack is written
[13:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:44] <exec> 08└─I switched from the Nook Glo to the Kobo Aura when the Nook finally bit the dust after about five years. Both gave good reading experiences however the OS is different: I rooted the Android Nook but it was stuck on 2.1, so most apps didn't work. Even rooted the battery life was terrible, with the de...
[13:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:46] <exec> 08└─I suspect it is less of the DRM, and more of the pricing scheme. We can make a comparison to movies. Movies are available for purchase in DVD form without DRM. However the convenience and price of streaming services have largely defeated physical media, and have reduced piracy too. I use my ebook re...
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[14:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:36] <exec> 08└─http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/14/maine-democrats-laugh-about-rising-suicide-rates-among-white-males-video/ [dailycaller.com]
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:38] <exec> 08└─Has Netflix considered calling in Big Fun [youtube.com] to deal with this?
[14:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:40] <exec> 08└─the fittest will survive. It's hard to get all worked up about those that don't.
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─No people will skip right past a warning like that. To prevent an outage you would need something far stronger/longer so that a much higher percentage of people turn it off. Actually, they could even try putting commercials at the beginning to dissuade people from watching this show.
[14:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─I noticed this show come through my recommended list for the first time the other day. I clicked on it, read the description, and thought, "Oh no they didn't." Then I watched something else. But then again, I'm not a teenager. As I haven't watched the show, I'm not really able to comment on it. One...
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─... with 65,000 votes ... Those are crazy high numbers ...
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─You're right, it's totally tyrannical to take a side against suicide! AC idiocy strikes again.
[14:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 2093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─People are getting good boy social signalling points by posting that kind of stuff to social media, so my kids school district did a robocall blast and email last week with a note sent home this week and the twatter and facebook accounts of the teachers and staff and district were going nuts for awh...
[14:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:53] <exec> 08└─You are clearly not the fittest. I think you know what has to be done
[14:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:05] <exec> 08└─Thermal electric power plants used to be too hot for ultrasound transducers. Now they're cool. Nuclear reactors, of course, have always been cool.
[14:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:07] <exec> 08└─I bet marketing is playing games, that data sheet implies 15 KHz so they're declaring it a "high frequency audio" transducer and their new product runs, perhaps, at 40 KHz so its the only "ultrasonic" transducer. You'll see that a lot in EE component datasheets. Oh you're the worlds fastest "4-quadr...
[14:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─As long as we're in the business of diluting solutions in the search for a cure to energy problems, why not go for broke and promote homeopathic batteries? If we can dilute the water enough, it can run on fumes and vapor! Just like the cloud! I wonder if there has been research done on appropriately...
[14:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 3525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:53] <exec> 08└─That cat stuff is good for normies not good for engineer and programmer audience. For background consider some normies harassing a EE about DSP filter coefficients. The normie asks "master, why is that filter coefficient 0.23 instead of 0.22 or 0.24?" Now a shitty EE can reply "Shut up padawan its j...
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:54] <exec> 08└─OPs coming from a philosophy of classical mechanics where randomness seems very inappropriate or strange because in classical mechanics it would in fact be pretty strange strategy to stick a rnd() function in there. "We'll talk about quantum stuff but I don't agree with it, so I'll call it 'strange'...
[14:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:56] <exec> 08└─But doesn't quantum-computing rely on the fact that quantum systems have several states at the same time?
[14:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:59] <exec> 08└─Every few decades we need to have these very same quantum soul searching pontificates. For 100 years the philosophers have been frustrated that they lost the "what is reality" podium to physicists; perhaps if they weren't so condescending towards mathematics and they actually took some of it, then t...
[14:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:01] <exec> 08└─Also, I should note that the summary is very misleading about TFA (i.e., the Nautilus article linked at the beginning of the summary). The excerpt in the summary seems to suggest TFA is advocating an epistemic view, but actually by the end TFA basically is arguing that recent evidence might start to...
[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:03] <exec> 08└─I was actually going to point out that this kind of dilemma reminds me a lot of the clamor in medieval philosophy amongst people like Occam and Scotus, but I guess Boethius beat them by another 500ish years in some regards. I'm still impressed by the guy's intellect. Too bad he was executed before h...
[14:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:17] <exec> 08└─https://archive.is/upjir#selection-365.1-365.155 [archive.is] http://archive.is [archive.is] http://www.appliedmemeticsllc.com [appliedmemeticsllc.com] This is one of several companies associated with CIA SIGINT, and was started by an agent of theirs in 2011 to do work in the mid...
[14:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:52] <exec> 08└─If admit, if Rachel Maddow were a guy s/he'd be kind of cute actually. Please continue to misgender cisfemales, especially butch lesbian feminists. It makes me smile. More people should do this. Harass them whenever they go to the bathroom until they give up and use the men's room. This is the only...
[14:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:54] <exec> 08└─They have nothing they WANT to report.
[14:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:56] <exec> 08└─The more things change, the more they stay the same [washingtonpost.com].
[14:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:31] <exec> 08└─To the best of my knowledge, none of the big publishers has ever "sold" a digitial book; only licence them. Therefore, digital book sales are approximately zero.
[14:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:33] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough to remember you'd sweet talk a sales droid or marketing droid out of databooks.
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[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─No. This is precisely what government agencies are for. They do the dirty work and fix things so the rest of us can be happy. Don't like the IoT? Don't use it. Let the government and the companies that built these systems handle it. That's specifically what government is there for-- protection. (Ass...
[15:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:18] <exec> 08└─More like gray hat, but I still suspect that this hacker is building a botnet to eventually use for his own purposes, and just "fixing" the devices so no one else can use them for their botnets. The whitehat act is just so people won't try to stop him in the mean time.
[15:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:20] <exec> 08└─I get why someone would do this, and appreciate it, but, this only lasts until the botnet creator switches to being a bad guy (if they aren't already) or someone hijacks control from them as has happened to many other botnets. Just because it isn't actively being used for attacking people's personal...
[15:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:22] <exec> 08└─This is righteous work. Putting stuff on the net with no attempt at understanding how to improve its security might have been excusable in 1995, but not today! Recently an air conditioning tech recommended I get an app to control my thermostat. I don't give him air conditioning advice, and I don't t...
[15:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:24] <exec> 08└─Something we all need these days. Can we incorporate that into our servers?
[15:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─[Is it NOT right for geeks to use their powers in this way.] This is precisely what government agencies are for.
[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:29] <exec> 08└─That's specifically what government is there for-- protection.
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:31] <exec> 08└─Is it right for geeks to use their powers in this way?
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─Holy vigilante, Batman, let's install B.A.T.M.A.N. [wikipedia.org]
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─People hold their ignorance aloft as if it is a prize to be kept proudly untainted.
[15:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─it's not the responsibility of geeks to go around fixing other people's fuck ups for free.
[15:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─That's specifically what government is there for-- protection.
[15:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:42] <exec> 08└─It's possible your A/C tech was unaware of his own ignorance.
[15:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:51] <exec> 08└─"For all of the aw-shucks image that NASCAR exudes for the general public, there is actually quite a bit of high tech engineering behind the scenes, with the three car manufacturers supplying advanced engineering to their top teams." Well, yeah. Pro sports are where the money is at. Of course they a...
[15:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder how that high frequency works through chain link fencing
[15:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─suicide is inherently a selfish act
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what your link has to do with my point. Care to explain?
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:23] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough the only warnings I've seen about this show are from friends warning me it's a big ol' pile of shite and not to watch. I have heard from literally no one that liked it so far.
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─Gosh, are there like other pieces of land with borders like say a country outside USA? I thought USA was free floating flat land in the middle of the universe where the sun, planets and the galaxy rotated around it ;-)
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─the implicit assumption the problems are caused by the show.
[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─It's a similar argument to Pro-Choice: What right do you have to control what somebody else does with their body? In this case it's just destroying yourself instead of (or possibly in addition to) the fetus.
[15:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:32] <exec> 08└─What did the school district robocall and email say really? As for finance it sounds just like cover-your-ass action. Not any real care. Besides isn't that kind of symptomatic. That the buzz comes when a movie points the magnifying glass on the problem instead of actually taking long term preventive...
[15:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if this was meant to be funny or not. The fact that some mod has already marked it "insightful" is disturbing, though. No, suicide prevention is a selfish act. What right do you have to demand that somebody else serve you against their will?
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:37] <exec> 08└─Yep, I was going to say the same thing. It's good that these social issues can be discussed more openly, and this will help people to express similar feelings that might have otherwise been repressed. On the whole, I think it will help shine more light on this issue.
[15:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:39] <exec> 08└─People are getting good boy social signalling points by posting that kind of stuff to social media
[15:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:42] <exec> 08└─What did the school district robocall and email say really?
[15:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:44] <exec> 08└─My guess, politicians think white male suicides is a good thing and don't care? (not that they would care about anything that won't line their pockets or produce votes)
[15:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:46] <exec> 08└─I think that when viewed in the appropriate conditions, this show may actually be a very good thing. For once, it might help people realize that other people might need help. For those who are in distress, they may realize that they need help. Of course, there are cases where a series like this coul...
[15:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:48] <exec> 08└─I would have thought a simple warning like "Warning! This is fictional entertainment, not an instructional video" would have sufficed.
[15:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:51] <exec> 08└─Being fittest should not be about handling complete morons in school. But handling real challenges in adult life. Elon Musk was for example thrown down a staircase in school by bullies. If he died, we would not had SpaceX or Tesla. But we surely would have the "fittest" people around to survive bull...
[15:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:53] <exec> 08└─Darwin did a description of nature, not a prescription of human behaviour. Your basic fallacy here is: "It happens in nature, so it must be good."
[15:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:55] <exec> 08└─> And the kind of kid whose parents would sit down and watch it with them is probably already immune to it. The comment implies that suicide is correlated strongly with how much time parents spend with their kids. Citation? The point is that this implies "blame the parents", which I think should be...
[15:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:34] <exec> 08└─They appear to be two components: ethylenediamine [sigmaaldrich.com] ligand and Magnesium borohydride [sigmaaldrich.com] (which is the mobile part). The safety data sheets are in the safety and documentation sections of these pages. Also remember the dosage makes the poison. These sds are for the ne...
[15:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 2360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:59] <exec> 08└─Their laziness goes quite beyond refusing to consider math. For more than half a century now they've had the late works of Wittgenstein (a mathematician by training, btw), where he explains in marvelous detail the folly of using the words such as "being" and "reality" in the sense employed in questi...
[15:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:00] <exec> 08└─Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?
[15:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:30] <exec> 08└─Maple syrup. Cures what ails you.
[15:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:32] <exec> 08└─Considering nuclear war, bug mutations and complete unpreparedness for NEO. We may not last long on this planet.
[15:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:55] <exec> 08└─Good ideas. The biggest thing about Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts Ma'am." is that as Ted Koppel points out, ideology has become more important than facts. They need to fix that first. That is Fox News' number one problem. If they don't fix that, then they are still bad for America as Ted K...
[15:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 1732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:36] <exec> 08└─The "having to pay" is stuff like hobby projects. I've always been petrified of going to a sales meeting with management "So hows that kilowatt level UHF power linear RF amplifier project doing? We've been giving one of your guys all kinds of databooks and piles of free sample hardware and a really...
[15:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:37] <exec> 08└─Big book publishers price Ebooks higher than paper back books. The demand curve hasn't changed, it's the supply curve being fucked with.
[15:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:39] <exec> 08└─Someone should roll up a Free e-paper screen and include project Gutenberg "preloaded," I'd pay for that.
[15:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:42] <exec> 08└─There was a hipster greenwashing movement a couple years back to get rid of your paper books and buy everything again in ebook format. Apparently boomers have this phenomenon where theres some Beetles album that boomers have bought on vinyl then 8trak then cassette then cd then minidisk then m4a the...
[15:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:44] <exec> 08└─Not just hardcovers, paperbacks, too. It's ridiculous that they charge as much for an e-book as a paperback. The e-book has practically zero shipping and warehousing costs. When I finish a paperback I can give it away--not so with an e-book. I give my e-books away, since I'm not writing for the mone...
[15:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:46] <exec> 08└─Do the current-revision Kindles not show up as a USB mass storage device when plugged in to a PC, and allow you to place PDF or .mobi files on them? I know that the ones I've handled did - but that's limited to a 3rd-gen Keyboard and a not-sure-what-but-definitely-prior-to-current Glow.
[15:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:48] <exec> 08└─You sound like my 89 year old mother when she first got a tablet. She's back to real books, mostly because it's too easy to spend a lot of money on e-books without realizing it. Most books I read I simply check out from the public library. Often after I've read a particularly good one (like The Mart...
[15:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:50] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you use them. A library of e-books is much more convenient than a library of paper books. One for one, sure, the printed book _can_ be better, though, when I've lost my reader glasses, I can adjust my e-book print to a size I can read, paperbacks not so much. I ditched my collection o...
[15:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:53] <exec> 08└─If all you want is the audio you need no download tool, just a computer with Audacity installed; Audacity is free and supported in Apple, Windows, and Linux. With Windows type mmsys.cpl into the search box, click on an empty space and you can unhide the hidden stuff. Then, just record the audio. The...
[15:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:55] <exec> 08└─The message: you're not paying for paper, or warehousing, or shipping - those costs were optimized nearly a century ago to trivial levels. What you're paying for is profit and a tiny bit of royalty to the author and his agent(s). It's like McDonald's ice tea - any size you want for $1. It costs more...
[15:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:57] <exec> 08└─That's why I wear flip-flops. And, as others have said: save the spiders, but flip flops are great on carpenter ants and roaches.
[15:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:59] <exec> 08└─cheap paper held in poor conditions can degrade significantly in 50 years or less That's a myth. I have paperbacks I bough in the 1960s that are just fine, except some of them have loose covers. All still readable.
[15:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:02] <exec> 08└─I, too, save spiders, but you should know - some of them do bite people, and most of them have a nasty brew of infectious bacteria on their fangs.
[15:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:04] <exec> 08└─Or, you need a paper-weight 11x17 tablet: coming out in 2018 I hear.
[15:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:06] <exec> 08└─1) Same visual quality, no reflection from the matte display. Untrue. Black Bead's author emailed me a copy of the book, and after reading it I bough a paperback copy. They are most certainly NOT the same, any more than a paperback and a hardcover are the same (I wish I could have gotten 11/22/63 in...
[15:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESPN Can't Afford to Go On Like This - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah except ESPN draws tons of low income subscribers.
[15:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can't Afford to Go On Like This - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:47] <exec> 08└─What is the difference between (Stadiums and big amusement parks if those are subsidized too) and (Chick-Fil-A and Costco)?
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[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─Haha. You're being complete disingenuous, but whatever. Or maybe you're just autistic. It's difficult to tell on the internet. Let me qualify my statement. It's not the responsibility of geeks to go around fixing paid employees' fuck ups in proprietary devices for free.
[16:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─I always keep B.A.T.M.A.N. compiled into my kernel. He takes care of any would-be hackers.
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:37] <exec> 08└─Non-free devices are immoral. You fix them by smashing the device with a hammer.
[16:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:39] <exec> 08└─What I hope ends up happening is that the entire IoT shitshow is strangled in the cradle, though I realize it's probably too late. That said, I suspect this sort of thing will become de rigeur...and then one of the black hats will hijack what ends up being a huge botnet, ready-made, and unleash the...
[16:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─The second is a good reason why geeks shouldn't be compelled to create white-hat botnets, but it's not a reason why a geek shouldn't do it if he chooses to.
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:44] <exec> 08└─Once again I'll repeat my thesis that the liability for all damages caused by hacked IoT devices should be upon the manufacturer of that hacked device. It shifts the costs from the victims to where they should be. It puts the right incentives in place. The manufacturer is suddenly going to invest in...
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is right for geeks to go fixing others' devices. But I can definitely understand their motivations if their own infrastructure is massively attacked by a million internet connected thermostats and webcams. The vigilantes may be the victims of attacks from the IoT devices. The costs...
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─Non-free devices are immoral. You fix them by smashing the device with a hammer. (Score: 1, Insightful)
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Decades ago there were proposed laws to make spam illegal. Yes, really illegal with teeth. The Direct Marketing Association lobbied to kill these laws. And look where we are today. Yeah, government will really help. :-)
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:53] <exec> 08└─Wasn't going so bad until the Orange Cotton Candy Man and his cronies started mucking things up...
[16:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:55] <exec> 08└─Quite likely you are correct. We have spoon-fed a culture that now believes expertise is appropriate for every discipline except the most complicated invention on the planet! For that, marketdroids said, you need no knowledge. And people bought it! In both senses of the word "bought". That's why onl...
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─Batman is pissed off ever since his parent processes were terminated.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he took the name from Hajime Sorayama and his female nudes, a fair amount of them being of robots - or female robots.
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─I think you've captured it. I'd like to add: This is the same thing underpinning the “misogynderd narrative.” How many people pushing the misogynerd narrative have even read and comprehended Lovelace's Notes? How many people read the Notes and realized on their own that Lovelace was writing abou...
[16:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:04] <exec> 08└─Actually the government is working as intended. The problem is numbers. In order for 'us' ordinary people to combat the direct, focused lobbying that financially backed lobbyists can perform relies on 'us' to band together in an equally coherent and focused political opposition group and directly co...
[16:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:06] <exec> 08└─> [gov agencies] still a wrongful violation of others' property That's no longer a legal problem: The end user licenses, but doesn't legally own any devices. The manufacturer is protected by the EULA, and its obligation to comply with secret orders. Move along, citizen...
[16:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:08] <exec> 08└─A penguin bit my sister.
[16:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:19] <exec> 08└─Too bad they can't adopt modern technology for their car engines, instead of using crappy ancient 1960s tech.
[16:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─Explain.
[16:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─Why? The "victims" will never hear it to have their feelings hurt, and for that matter neither will the perpetrators - both being destroyed in a single selfish act that is likely to deeply hurt anyone who cared about them, while not benefiting anyone except themselves (and maybe not even them, depen...
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:07] <exec> 08└─Just another case of a geek trying to imitate the popular people and failing miserably.
[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that individuals with a strong emotional support network are far less likely to commit suicide, and it seems likely that a child whose parents are willing to sit through a show about the depths of teenage angst with them (I'm guessing that's the theme, just from the topic) probably...
[16:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:12] <exec> 08└─I tried to watch this show. I got through 4 or 5 episodes. Then it just became painfully apparent that this is a teenagers suicide fantasy. People who have been bullied or rejected often fantasize about getting revenge by killing themselves and imagining the bully or the person to "hurt" them is mad...
[16:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:14] <exec> 08└─It's important to give suicidal people an avenue to get help. It's important to diagnose and treat suicidal tendencies and depression that are driven by neurological factors. Those are a couple very specific, rather end-stage interventions. Before things get to that point there is something else we...
[16:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:16] <exec> 08└─When you die, you are just forgotten...Everyone just moves on without you.
[16:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:18] <exec> 08└─However, the people contacting mental health services are almost certainly going to fall into the realm of those who have been emboldened into seeking help, or who are recognizing potential warning signs in their loved ones. As such, an increase in such contacts has essentially nothing to do with an...
[16:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:21] <exec> 08└─TV is dying. I've heard that for twenty years, and believed it at first, but every year there are new channels. When I was a kid, nobody had more than one TV, we had three channels. Now I get 18 over the air in a city of only 115,000. How many are TVs in your house now? Yes, we're watching less TV,...
[16:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, I suppose I meant to say, people move on without...because like moves one without you. The people who are most hurt by your death are the people you don't want to hurt. The people you want to hurt are probably not hurt at all.
[16:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:03] <exec> 08└─Is that Celsius or Kelvin?
[16:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:05] <exec> 08└─There's no way anyone knows to pack a bunch of energy in a very small space without its being dangerous.
[16:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:31] <exec> 08└─Dammit, Uzzard, now that Carlin's dead the raw materials for those things are fucking expensive. WARN US before you do that!
[16:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:33] <exec> 08└─Can't we say that we simply don't understand (can't see) the root mechanisms of QM and that probability-based models are the best models we have right now? Until the math behind gravity was understood, nested epicycles were the best model of the time to "explain" orbits, or at least model them. We p...
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:35] <exec> 08└─Now, see this is why i like this site. Over on that other site, this conversation would probably go something like: "They don't know shite!" "You don't know shite!" Instead, we get intelligence and thoughtfulness and insight that makes me think. I'd eat you both up, but i don't like Soylent Red: i p...
[16:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:37] <exec> 08└─but zero point nine repeating ISN'T one, it is only rounded to one. If you take a piece of string and keep cutting it in half, it will never be eliminated as there will always be more to cut in half. Errm, at least until you get beyond the quantum level.... errrrr..... MAN, IT'S POINT NINES ALLLLLLL...
[16:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:39] <exec> 08└─I have a President who doesn't share the same reality that I live in. He knows nothing about poverty, I know nothing about wealth.
[16:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:53] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to RTFA...
[16:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:27] <exec> 08└─The quality level can be quite low I've cleaned up half a dozen or so and put them on my web site. But Gutenberg has over 50,000 titles. Good luck reading all of them!
[16:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:29] <exec> 08└─Asimov predicted the end of print way back in the 1950s in his short story The Fun They Had. When e-book readers started coming out I thought he'd been right--until I released Nobots. When I handed it to my daughter (she was about 25 then) she exclaimed "My dad wrote a book! And it's a REAL book!" I...
[16:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:31] <exec> 08└─That's one very valid approach. There are some wonderful books in the public domain, and the good people at Project Gutenberg and elsewhere deserve all our praise. There are also some legitimate non-PD books available (e.g. from Baen Books) which are free of both charge and restrictions. A secon...
[16:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:34] <exec> 08└─Subjective opinion is subjective. Hard copies and electronic copies both have their benefits and detriments. Neither one is strictly superior to the other over all. I prefer ebooks since I can move an entire library's worth and not throw out my back or take up all the space in my home, I don't need...
[16:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucid Motors' Flagship 'Air' to Offer 200+ MPH Performance - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:50] <exec> 08└─The big touch screen is a designers' cop-out, everything can be changed in software. Never mind that a couple of tactile switches or knobs could be infinitely easier and more intuitive to use, any and every function possibly imaginable _can_ be implemented in the touch screen, all you need is a soft...
[16:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESPN Can't Afford to Go On Like This - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:14] <exec> 08└─RFC2616, Section 10.4.3 reserves HTTP response code 402 for micropayment. All that is required is a web server and web browser which implements a common micropayment system plus users who are willing to go web browsing with their digital wallet open. Given the idiocy of one dollar apps, there must b...
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[16:58:56] <exec> 08└─At least a billionaire knows how to manage money. Having a good feel for money is important.
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[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─I told my date I use Dragonfly, and she was enthusiastic about it when she thought I was talking about the web framework, but when I clarified that I was talking about Dragonfly BSD, she dropped dead. I called an ambulance immediately, luckily she could be revived, but then my date left me for the E...
[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─> apparently so convincing that it allowed 21 of the 27 to trick the male and escape. "Which still leave us with over 20% of males keeping on pursuing someone who's apparently dead, your honor. I plead Natural Instincts."
[17:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─Wish I had mod points.
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:07] <exec> 08└─It's working pretty damned good for me. My grandfather was involved in a horrible industrial accident that can't happen today because we have OSHA. Rivers and streams were so polluted that they caught fire, and driving past Monsanto in 95 f heat you had to roll your windows up because the air litera...
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:09] <exec> 08└─Don't like the IoT? Don't use it.
[17:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─The public has somehow become convinced that computers are magic. Of course they have. As Clarke pointed out, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. One day when my great nephew was four, I was visiting my sister and the kid asked her how computers work. She smiled, sh...
[17:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─and??? Does she have the proportionate strength of a penguin?
[17:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:15] <exec> 08└─He's the one who decided to open a backdoor into an insecure network.
[17:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─We make a big deal, and get recalls, when cars are unsafe... Anyone making an IoT blender, since blood is what draws lawyers in and causes companies to act?
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─NASCAR engines are a funny mix -- - Have to be V-8 with 2 overhead valves (single camshaft in block, pushrods, rocker arms), no 4+ valves per cylinder and no overhead cams. - Valve train parts all have minimum weights and material spec to (in theory) prevent spending extra money on unobtanium...
[17:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─Surviving childhood has always been an important fitness test - one that most individuals of all species have traditionally failed. Moreover, the most effective thugs have pretty much been in control of human society at least since the dawn of civilization, so being able to deal with them is in fact...
[17:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe they hired Streisand-R'-Us ? ;-) Seem what you got in your hands is a think-of-the-children automaton that lack any consequential thinking ;-) I'll guess it's not much point in listening to them or pay attention to them?
[17:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:26] <exec> 08└─Here also lies an assumption that mental health services actually will improve matters.. ;)
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─You win a cookie!
[17:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:31] <exec> 08└─The most efficient "revenge" is likely to just cut out the bad elements out of your life, whatever it takes and get on with your own life goals regardless of obstacles. The bullies, stupid teacher, rejected love etc. They will in many cases not realize their folly and in many cases it's just a waste...
[17:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:12] <exec> 08└─..but even less mobile in solid electrolytes.
[17:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:14] <exec> 08└─Nice job of making fun of a slight misspelling of phosphorus. Well done! You'll find your award plaque waiting for you at the bottom of the nearest outhouse.
[17:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:16] <exec> 08└─I agree that fission has it's own hand-wavy double-edged sword, but that has little to with RTGs. Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators generate energy by capturing the heat generated by nuclear decay, not fission. There is no splitting of atomic nuclei going on, no possibility of chain reactions,...
[17:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:18] <exec> 08└─As it happens, lithium atoms are actually somewhat *larger* than the heavier magnesium atoms, 182pm versus 173pm for magnesium. Include the fact that you get twice as many ionizable electrons per atom, and you might naively expect magnesium-based batteries to be only about 43% (= (173/182)³/2) the...
[17:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:20] <exec> 08└─It's what plants crave.
[17:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:23] <exec> 08└─The winner in that fight isn't Ca, it Be (beryllium).
[17:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:53] <exec> 08└─Once and for all, it's not just a matter of what we know. Sure, that makes it all seem much simpler, but the fact is, we not only have arcane experiments but every day applications that depend on the "quantum weirdness" being a reality. If it was just what we know, tunnel diodes wouldn't tunnel and...
[17:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─If you take a piece of string and keep cutting it in half, it will never be eliminated as there will always be more to cut in half.
[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:57] <exec> 08└─If it was just what we know, tunnel diodes wouldn't tunnel and die shrinks wouldn't be so challenging. On the experimental side, if it was just what we know, sodium atoms wouldn't tunnel through a diffraction grating too fine to pass a sodium atom.
[17:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:31] <exec> 08└─I was thinking something similar. Not that the fantastic future didn't happen as it should have. But that the fantastic future was realized to be just fantasy.
[17:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:56] <exec> 08└─I've come to know you as the greatest long-term troll I've ever witnessed, but if you keep futzing around with interesting (maybe even good!) ideas like this I'm going to start to wonder if you are losing your edge.
[17:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:54] <exec> 08└─| It turns out the silmarillion is as unreadable in ebook format as paper format. Was worth a try I guess. I have only attempted the paper(back) version, but cannot imagine how an e-reader would help. I do, however, strongly agree with your assertion.
[17:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:55] <exec> 08└─"Epaper is essentially Kindle now, unless you know about and seek out obscure products." Nook is not obscure, thank you very much. And Sony built the best quality ereaders. Such that I *still* use my Sony Reader today and will replace its' battery.
[17:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:58] <exec> 08└─Textbooks? Of course I'll buy paper. Same for DIY guides, astronomy references, and most of my chess library. Fiction? I much prefer my Nook (or ex Sony Reader) to carrying around a dozen new and prior paperbacks with me. Magazines? Unless I want to save them in a library, I'll take an LCD tablet, t...
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[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─What do you think the 'S' stands for?
[18:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─Finally, a laptop with all the functionality of WinRT but with a premium price point. The Windows store has all the software I could ever want. Want to relive the glory days of minesweeper? Only $5! Want some Majong? $20! I also get so confused when using Google. Chrome? Firefox? Opera? What are the...
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─While I have zero interest in ever using this, I am curious as to how they went about killing compatibility with 99% of Windows software. Is it purely a locked-down variant of Win10? Or did they go through and cut out a bunch of legacy crap that would no longer be needed, and actually save some GB o...
[18:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:19] <exec> 08└─slave, obviously.
[18:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:22] <exec> 08└─What do you think the 'S' stands for?
[18:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:24] <exec> 08└─should probably wear a helmet
[18:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:26] <exec> 08└─And they faced legal action [wikipedia.org] over the simple act of including Internet Explorer with Windows, but no other options (though users could download them themselves)? It's amazing just how much more corrupt our country has become in less than two decades. Stuff like this is bringing me eve...
[18:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:28] <exec> 08└─There's probably some special cert or bit of code added via the store.
[18:46:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─> apparently so convincing that it allowed 21 of the 27 to trick the male and escape. "Which still leave us with over 20% of males keeping on pursuing someone who's apparently dead, your honor. I plead Natural Instincts."
[18:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:42] <exec> 08└─Natural Instincts was my plea for killing nursing babies in order to free women up for reproduction and they gave me a buncha stupid lawyer talk about how "That's not a justification for 'infanticide'" I swear, the restrictions at IHOP get more unreasonable every fucking year.
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─even deadly terrorists get more women than nerds [soylentnews.org]
[18:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─And they also lied on the contract, and now you are suing them?
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed, came to mind as well. Liked his work, although had a preference for the style of Louis Royo myself :)
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─Off topic: thanks, I just got a cultural reference in the Venture Bros. On topic: if so, he has a very weird fetish about networked gear, or possibly an RJ45-shaped penis.
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is against all regulation is either a fool, or an evil person profiting from a filthy environment or lack of worker safety.
[18:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:38] <exec> 08└─With great Linux comes great responsibility.
[18:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:40] <exec> 08└─What if the damage is from a botnet of IoT devices. What if a million IoT thermostats brought down, say a regional power grid? Would that get lawyers and companies to act? Shouldn't the IoT manufacturer have liability? What if an IoT security camera in a facility was the beach head used to hop syst...
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure from your post--are you coming down as PRO- or ANTI-regulation in this case?
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─Where are our Nihongo dekiru solenutiru hito? はじめ? 始め or 初め? Thus it begins. The word means "begins", and is used as an honorific upon first meeting someone.
[18:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─Copyright infringement is not theft, it's not piracy, and it's certainly not kidnapping. Threatening to commit copyright infringement unless a ransom is paid is extortion, though.
[18:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:59] <exec> 08└─Why do you bother? VLM doesn't care about logic. He's all about accusing others of his own worst tendencies. They don't have to make sense other than VLM is a selfish asshole so he thinks everybody else must be selfish assholes too.
[18:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:02] <exec> 08└─OK, we have our tag line. Let's pencil in Anne Robinson as the host...
[18:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:04] <exec> 08└─From actually reading the article his point seems to be: Even though I know the video has been edited into a lie, I still prefer the lie over the truth. Alt-truth, making america great!
[18:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:06] <exec> 08└─I liked it. It reminded me of a Film Noir detective story. You don't really know if the protagonist is the good-guy or not. He repeatedly gets the crap beaten out of him. Somewhat like Brick [imdb.com] which was also a highschool/detective crossover.
[18:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:08] <exec> 08└─Here also lies an assumption that anybody who works to improve the world is a loser because you personally are too incompetent to contribute anything of value to the world.
[18:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:11] <exec> 08└─verything being "social signaling" because implicitly the warnings must not be necessary
[18:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:13] <exec> 08└─That's a useful way to look at it, because if Musk had not survived the staircase it would be hyper-American of us to go on a crusade about that individual physical staircase being unsafe, staircase control, staircase regulation, staircase confiscation, staircase safety training, make kids wear helm...
[18:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:25] <exec> 08└─Nuclear reactors act cool, because it's critical that they keep it all inside, otherwise it's all over the waves, the press core blows up, and that just throws a cloud over the whole family.
[18:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the discrepancies likely lie in the supporting chemistry - batteries are far more complicated than ionized metal bricks.
[18:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:04] <exec> 08└─> Sodium is dangerous, sodium-chloride is not [...] Same for lithium, magnesium [...] By using magnesium for a significant portion of the engine block, BMW is able to reduce engine weight, reduce engine noise transmission and add strength. [...] Magnesium is already in widespread use where lightwei...
[18:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:06] <exec> 08└─the heavy metal poisoning will
[18:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:42] <exec> 08└─An English translation would be helpful here: The cause of this error is that every man believes that all the subjects, that he knows, are known by their own force or nature alone, which are known; but it is quite the opposite. For every subject, that is known, is comprehended not according to its o...
[18:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:43] <exec> 08└─I know at least four ways to show that 0.999 repeating is equal to 1. One is the limit method mentioned already. Another is to show that 0.999... is equal to 9/9 which is equal to one. Another is to show that for any two real numbers, there are an infinite number of numbers between them, and there i...
[18:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:45] <exec> 08└─perhaps if they weren't so condescending towards mathematics
[18:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:48] <exec> 08└─an audience of Philosophy grad students (they need a special treatment because their brains are usually do badly damaged, they can't understand anything that doesn't use obscure Latin or lacks a reference to Kant on every page).
[18:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:50] <exec> 08└─Could you be more specific on how you know that this: in as much as math applies to explaining physical phenomena,
[18:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:52] <exec> 08└─I know them, and others like Russel. But who fills all the hallowed halls of greater learning in the Philosophy departments? There aren't any mathematically inclined folk there (within rounding error).
[18:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:54] <exec> 08└─If you take a piece of string and keep cutting it in half, it will never be eliminated as there will always be more to cut in half.
[18:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:57] <exec> 08└─What are you getting at? We've got things like the Standard Model which describes the plethora of particles and their interaction strengths, all from fixing one free parameter (the electron mass). All of that is tied together with coupling constants calculable to a dozen or more significant digits t...
[18:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps that is because there are no sodium atoms just wave packets that mimic the behavior of one? And those wave will have no problem passing through a material made up of other waves.
[18:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:01] <exec> 08└─There's been a long time to do so and plenty of motivation. But each and every experiment shows that Heisenberg's uncertainty isn't just a limitation of measurement, or measurability. In a sense, it's a limitation on the resolution of reality itself. If there's a deterministic layer below that, we h...
[18:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:03] <exec> 08└─And that puts us right back to quantum mechanics being about reality rather than our ability to measure reality.
[18:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:06] <exec> 08└─Ah, you must be a very blissful person. By the way, the name is Lord Bertrand Russell, two "l"s. And a Mandatory XKCD [xkcd.com]
[18:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:21] <exec> 08└─It seems very much like a prairie fire. Once the circumstances are right. It only takes a spark to light it up. And it won't be much point in analyzing the spark nor the conditions as opposed to the path that led into those conditions.
[18:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:04] <exec> 08└─I should be fair and point out the source quality isn't necessarily bad but I have done ETL stuff at work and I can identify bad conversions when I see them so given a nice ASCII or UTF-8 file from PG and run it thru ten poor conversions to UCS-16 and whatever windows used to use and word and whatno...
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[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─Slave
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─This isn't the same as their prior case. There's 3 different consumer versions of Windows now: Home, S, and Pro. If you don't like the 'S' version, then you can buy Home or Pro instead. They'll probably even have a way to easily "upgrade" to Pro for $$$. So if you don't like being stuck with Edge an...
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─💩
[19:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-criticism-why-it-costs-money-to-upgrade-windows-10-s-to-pro-2017-5 [businessinsider.com] For $49, you can upgrade from "S" to Windows 10 Pro and install whatever you'd like, with Microsoft warning that the switch will likely undermine your battery life and sy...
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─US v. Microsoft ended with a slap on the proverbial wrist after George W. Bush became President of the United States. His party, the Republican Party (also called the GOP), is perceived as favoring free markets at the expense of fair markets. About 100 days ago, another Republican took office. Micro...
[19:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:31] <exec> 08└─> Is Microsoft giving people a crippled operating system and charging them $49 to fix it? Yes. If they don't get their cut via the store, they'll charge you for the privilege. With the GOP in power, they should have gone right away for an annual $49 ... why bother with a one-time fee?
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:33] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is marketing this to K-12 educators [9to5mac.com]: "Windows 10 S mainly intended to run on Windows 10 education PCs from Microsoft partners like Acer and Dell at sub $200 prices." Microsoft and its ex-CEO's Gates Foundation also sponsor Code.org [code.org]: "Every student in every school s...
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:36] <exec> 08└─I think you have it. In my story submission I wrote that it "will only run software from the Windows Store" because I read in the The Verge article: "Windows 10 S will run any browser in the Windows Store," says Myerson, hinting that if Google is willing to list Chrome in the Store then it will be...
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:38] <exec> 08└─Is Microsoft giving people a crippled operating system and charging them $49 to fix it? Well obviously, yes. I don't see what the problem is here. If you don't want a crippled OS, don't buy it. Microsoft has been a bad actor for 40 years now. I really don't understand why people act so surprised and...
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:40] <exec> 08└─They'll probably have a special version of Visual Studio just for the Windows Store, that's only available to educational institutions, and costs a small fortune. They'll convince schools to buy Windows 10S by advertising a "low" price, while neglecting to tell them that adding Visual Studio S will...
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:42] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it stands for School, which is the same problem. "Parents, we're going to have updated computers in the school, and they will all be protected against hackers installing something that your children's virgin eyes shouldn't see." Any company wanting to make educational software gets to pay a...
[19:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:45] <exec> 08└─You were confused. What they meant by "learn computer science" was "training of profitable consumers and mass surveillance grooming". It's like computer science, just minus all of the freedom, choice, transparency, privacy, you get the idea....
[19:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:47] <exec> 08└─I saw a headline at El Reg the other day noting how MSFT was "competing" with Chromebooks with a $999 box. Doing a quick Google for http://www.google.com [google.com] I see $110.79, $129.00, $149.00, $179.00. Maybe I'm disremembering, but I thought I had previously seen a C...
[19:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:49] <exec> 08└─Observing the course list my K12 kids have, "computer science" has been dumbed down into operating MS Word and MS Excel for "business users". Every other class that uses word processing or spreadsheets (english lit, geography, science classes) uses google apps. MS Office has finally been pushed off...
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:51] <exec> 08└─Soft serve ice cream?
[19:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be the dog shit emoji but its rendering on Firefox 53.0 as a squirrel. I'm curious who's getting the dog shit emoji and who's getting a squirrel. The people with windows 10 S are not getting a dog shit or a squirrel, they're getting a chromebook because it sounds l...
[19:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:56] <exec> 08└─Ultimate Edition [linux.com] (Gratis and Libre.) The hardware on which it runs is also more affordable. MSFT's S must stand for "Suckers". ...or maybe "Stuck on Stupid". M$: Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can blow your whole leg off? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:47:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:06] <exec> 08└─I told my date I use Dragonfly, and she was enthusiastic about it when she thought I was talking about the web framework, but when I clarified that I was talking about Dragonfly BSD, she dropped dead. I called an ambulance immediately, luckily she could be revived, but then my date left me for the E...
[19:47:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:10] <exec> 08└─Natural Instincts was my plea for killing nursing babies in order to free women up for reproduction and they gave me a buncha stupid lawyer talk about how "That's not a justification for 'infanticide'" I swear, the restrictions at IHOP get more unreasonable every fucking year.
[19:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:13] <exec> 08└─The proves beyond a doubt that all assigned males, especially any who are arrogant enough to rebel against their assigned gender caste and who would appropriate and rape the female form, are rapists. So glad I'm not planning on going back to school any time soon. I can just hear the feminist rants n...
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─Terrified virgins play dead and hope to be raped by terrorists.
[19:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:17] <exec> 08└─Yip, many women dig the "bad boy" act for some odd reason.
[19:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:20] <exec> 08└─Bad boys are more fun, and, with the right life insurance payments, only a temporary problem.
[19:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:22] <exec> 08└─I read ya. All women are gold diggers.
[19:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:16] <exec> 08└─I was going to suggest "first" as in "my botnet got here first"
[19:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:17] <exec> 08└─Is it right? Maybe it is, maybe it is not. The important part is: who will stop them from using these powers? Nobody, that's who. These things will keep on happening until IoT runs out of vulnerable devices (read: never), and with increasing frequency. I can easily imagine several malware strains fi...
[19:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:20] <exec> 08└─First a moose, and now a penguin. Your sister really needs to avoid the zoo.
[19:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:22] <exec> 08└─Tøø late. She was bit by a gnü [soylentnews.org] alsø.
[19:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:24] <exec> 08└─Is it vigilantism to defend your network from attack from a source you can respond to ? I think it might be rightly characterized as justifiable or standing your ground if you could provide proof positive of the source and means of the attack. My network is part of my castle, and resides on my priva...
[19:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:42] <exec> 08└─I donno man. Some of the numbers are pretty dismal. Check out the ratings. number of viewers that would get your show cancelled in the 80s would be considered good today. Also don't forget that VCRs didn't kill the movie star, but the world is not swimming in 8-trak tapes, CB radios, lava lamps, sha...
[19:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:44] <exec> 08└─There's also jo@samaritans.org (more info [samaritans.org]). Volunteers will answer I believe any email from anybody who needs help. Obviously they're just there to be somebody willing to listen, but sometimes that's good enough to help keep somebody alive long enough so that they can seek counselin...
[19:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:46] <exec> 08└─Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!
[19:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:48] <exec> 08└─Seem what you got in your hands is a think-of-the-children automaton that lack any consequential thinking
[19:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:01] <exec> 08└─the press core blows up, and that just throws a cloud over the whole family.
[19:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat-Resistant Ultrasonic Transducers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:03] <exec> 08└─> totally degenerate It's the decay of the nuclear family ...
[19:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:45] <exec> 08└─A brick is quite dangerous, it's small and it contains 126 petajoule of energy. However one of the key factors is also the instability to degrade into a lower entropy. Which bricks generally lack.
[19:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:46] <exec> 08└─Well, if you put a brick in a gravity well, it'll quickly seek a lower energy state even if it has to clobber somebody in the process.
[19:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:48] <exec> 08└─That looks good enough for me.
[19:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:51] <exec> 08└─Rankines.
[19:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:37] <exec> 08└─The question has always been not IF mathematics describes the world around us, but WHY does it?
[19:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether the reality is mathematical, but it is at least conceivable that we live inside a mathematical structure. May be we are essentially AI agents inside a big computation, for example, and then the reality is actually mathematical, regardless of how the simulation is done, and regar...
[19:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:40] <exec> 08└─Which American philosopher?
[19:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Success in the 3-D Bioprinting of Cartilage - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:05] <exec> 08└─this is why i came here. my disc ruptured twice, b/c once you do it once, you have to be much more careful. If they could just go in there and fuse/sew it shut on the edges that blew out, it would fill up again with the gelatinous fluid and i would be cured. all they currently do is go in there and...
[19:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:40] <exec> 08└─spiders are my ecofriendly pest control system. southern house spiders are all over my house. i only kill them if they come out and run around. if they don't break the house spider rules they stay. i had Serena the Shower Spider for a while. I almost made a sign so guests wouldn't kill her. flies an...
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[20:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─Teens don't use Facebook because parents use Facebook. That's what the cool cats in the know told me.
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─That's your business model. Why the apology?
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─Also part of the business model: apologize for unpleasant behavior, promise to investigate, run script to rename.
[20:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:31] <exec> 08└─, and fire the intern who ran the script.
[20:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:33] <exec> 08└─Relevant Supporting Article. [theguardian.com] The highlights: " If the intention of Facebook’s public relations spin is to give the impression that such targeting is not even possible on their platform, I’m here to tell you I believe they’re lying through their teeth... ...Facebook deploys a...
[20:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:35] <exec> 08└─+1 because spread it around until it becomes true.
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:38] <exec> 08└─Same for instagran and anything else f***book decides to buy up
[20:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:40] <exec> 08└─feel "defeated", "overwhelmed", "stressed", "anxious", "nervous", "stupid", "silly", "useless", and a "failure"
[20:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:42] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=19323&cid=503903 [soylentnews.org]
[20:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:44] <exec> 08└─Grandma Got a Facebook [youtube.com]
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:47] <exec> 08└─gain access to tindr somehow Is this facetious?
[20:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:49] <exec> 08└─He means grindr.
[20:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:22] <exec> 08└─The funnier thing is, I'll bet 80% of office workers could be limited to Micro$oft Office and be happy forever. The IT department will be ecstatic.
[20:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think Ben and Jerry's have the flavor of soft-serve that 'butthurt' was alluding to. I think that particular flavor is way too organic for even Good Humor trucks. ;-)
[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─The consent decree was extended and extended and extended. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [seattletimes.com] In the end, it meant nothing; M$ had moved on. (It's like the security theater in airports, with al Qaeda saying "Been there; done that; finding new targets".) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews....
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:28] <exec> 08└─This! I, for one, do not give MS my money. I also don't use their OS, so that makes it trivial to not give them any of my money.
[20:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:30] <exec> 08└─funny, only a few people downloaded that from my board! They all grew up to be something other than hat kids, from what I can tell..
[20:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, what "they" meant by "computer science" was: Learn how to highlight text in word. Learn how to color a cell in excell. Learn how to create a folder in outlook, etc. I.e., learn just enough to remain dependent upon us, so we can continue to extract revenue from you forever.
[20:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:35] <exec> 08└─So is this a straightforward and affordable solution for mass educational deployment?
[20:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:37] <exec> 08└─The problem occurs when your employer demands documents be written in MS Word, your kids get gift cards good only at the $CORPORATE store for Christmas and birthday presents, the local government's online services require IE or Edge to function fully, etc.
[20:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:39] <exec> 08└─The problem occurs when your employer demands documents be written in MS Word No problem: just use the computer your employer has provided for you. Most employers prefer you to use their equipment, not your own, and they buy all the licenses. Let them give their money to MS and deal with all the sup...
[20:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─Rape was how everything got laid before humans abstracted it into a concept. Watch any National Geographic show featuring mating and it's almost always the female putting up some kind of resistance and/or running away. But as somebody who's been in the dating-scene, I've heard many interesting escap...
[20:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─It is a test of nature - If you can breed by force, then you can carry on your legacy. It is a mechanism to ensure that only the strong can pass down their genes.
[20:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but he also displays ads via http injection depending on the setup (some consultants are always out to make money), so whoever lets B.A.T.M.A.N. do his thing may get a tidy profit that never stops coming in -- checks from some advertising company gained from guest wifi visitors ad hits.
[20:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:13] <exec> 08└─That's the spectrum for the so-called Citizens Radio Broadband Service, an unlicensed radio band that companies like Google beleive[sic] could be useful for 4G LTE wireless networks.
[20:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:26] <exec> 08└─That's not help. That's indoctrination. Something completely different. No option for another sane school? Even if it's just a few parents cooperating to educate their own kids.
[20:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:28] <exec> 08└─The path to hell is paved with good intentions comes to mind..
[20:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:27] <exec> 08└─The ZEBRA Na-NiCl2 battery [wikipedia.org] at Museum Autovision, Altlußheim, Germany demonstrates it's possible to use really reactive substances like Natrium. The catch is that the battery needs to be kept heated at 245 °C such that the electrolyte melts and the battery will then work. It will no...
[20:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 2976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:29] <exec> 08└─Bio-availability is certainly a concern, though only for significantly radioactive isotopes, and we would be wise to select isotopes (and decay chains) that avoid it as much as possible. As for your argon complaints, they felt really off intuitively, so I did a little research starting here (https:/...
[20:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:31] <exec> 08└─The sodium-sulfur battery was seriously investigated for use in electric vehicles. The slight downside is the need to keep the sulfur and sodium molten, so it operates at about 575 - 625 K, but there were designs that encased the battery in a thermos flask. The heat generated by the internal resista...
[20:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:20] <exec> 08└─but I would be very surprised if no one could come up with a non-quantum explanation for the observations behind these claims
[20:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:22] <exec> 08└─Liebniz, Descartes, and Pythagoras were natural philosophers, which is to say, they were part-time mathematicians, part-time physicists, part-time biologists, and also of course to some extent philosophers in the modern meaning of the word. But the modern professional philosophers are a different ki...
[20:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:24] <exec> 08└─In that case the theory should be able to predict physical phenomena such that one can build things without some measurements that because of practical reasons can't be had.
[20:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:27] <exec> 08└─You are the blissful one, my friend, if you think anything deemed a philosophical tome in the last 100 years has come from anyone with a rudimentary training in mathematics. What you've gotten was a handful of physicist popularizers making tenuous and speculative claims on theoretical physics, which...
[20:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:29] <exec> 08└─It seems to be that what they're arguing is that it is almost as if there were some information we don't know about, like some kind of variables that are hidden to us. And if we were somehow cognizant of what these variables were, we could put them into our equations and have a fully deterministic m...
[20:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:45] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Twitter and social networks, as I don't participate at all, but the Arab Spring was really started by one man setting himself on fire. Setting himself on fire in of itself is not what started it. You start to feel that whole structure of power is just a vehicle for injustice, oppr...
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[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:27] <exec> 08└─Missing from the summary is the key fact the monuments are being taken down in the middle of the night, on unannounced dates. the crews wear masks and body-armor and there are police snipers monitoring the area while they work. In other words, they are taking the threat of white supremacist terroris...
[21:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─Lincoln defeated Davis only because Lincoln was an iron fisted tyrant who was worse than Hitler. Lincoln set the precedent for Imperial Presidency which has given us such dictatorial God Emperors as Bush II and Obama and Trump.
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─Considering the number of people actively and purposefully killed by white supremacists in Louisianan history, not exactly imprudent.
[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─At least SOMEONE does which is reassuring. It seems the only terrorists any politicians higher than mid to high level state government are concerned about are the brown and black ones. These couldn't come down fast enough IMHO.
[21:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─Historical revisionists are fucking with our history, and you dare call the dissenters terrorists?
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:38] <exec> 08└─Jeff Davis didn't care much for the freedom of black people, did he? Obviously, people like you want to bring back slavery.
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─Yep, and the South still wonders why they're an economic backwater. Even worse, apparently many Southerners still want to bring back slavery, as exemplified by the other comments right here on SN. Then they get mad when people generalize Southerners as racist white supremacists.
[21:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:42] <exec> 08└─Lincoln cared only for power, and secession was a threat to his power over the Union. Lincoln said he didn't want to free the slaves, and he wouldn't have freed the slaves if he could preserve the Union while also preserving slavery.
[21:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:44] <exec> 08└─Good, now we can start dismantling all those concentration camps in Europe because they are a controversial and inappropriate reminder of their dark past and are providing inspiration to a new generation of racist anti-Semites. Wait, what? Why not? Are you some kind of racist anti-Semite?
[21:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:47] <exec> 08└─the South still wonders why they're an economic backwater.
[21:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─Already said this before, but I thought it was pretty funny how Amazon pulled all sales of their Confederate flags even as they were still selling copies of Mein Kampf and Turner Diaries. Still, it could very well be a public safety issue, given Louisiana's past with not only White Supremacists but...
[21:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:51] <exec> 08└─Obviously, people like you want to bring back slavery.
[21:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:53] <exec> 08└─and Turner Diaries.
[21:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─Those monuments in Europe are there to remind us of the evils that can beset us when we are not vigilante. They are there to remind us to NOT elect the Trump's of the world to power. When people look upon them, the big take away is how many victims there were of simple hatred. There were no justific...
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─Easily explained as nobody takes books seriously. Nobody reads but everybody knows to react to visual imagery.
[21:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─Davis and The South were losers. Trump doesn't like losers.
[21:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:02] <exec> 08└─Slaves had guaranteed employment, free food and housing, couldn't be laid off. Maybe there's something to this slavery idea.
[21:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:05] <exec> 08└─If there is anything my post pointed out, it wasn't necessarily hypocrisy but the mental gymnastics of those selectively justifying the further existence of hate symbols. Nice try, though, you did pretty well.
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:24] <exec> 08└─Which one [blogspot.com] is he?
[21:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't submit the story after I read Facebook's linked denial. Was I too lenient on Zuck?
[21:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:27] <exec> 08└─"We are investigating" = We are trying to find out who leaked this internal document and have no intention of changing our core mission of social engineering for profit.
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─Facebook Apology Facebook sincerely regrets the disclosure of information suggesting that Facebook and its advertisers would target vulnerable teenage minors at their most vulnerable times. Facebook pledges that in the future it will take sufficient care to ensure that such internal information and...
[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:32] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that. Grandparents use Facebook.
[21:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:14] <exec> 08└─I'll bet 80% of office workers could be limited to Micro$oft Office and be happy forever You're reminding me of the old days of using MICROS~1 apps. There's their non-standards-compliant browsers: Acid2 [google.com] Acid3 [google.com] ...and every time MICROS~1 adds some whiz-bang cross-app "improve...
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:16] <exec> 08└─On my Firefox 53.0, it renders correctly. Maybe you are using a Windows system, and your Windows doesn't want Windows to be associated with shit, and therefore replaces it with a squirrel? :-) BTW, Squirrel also starts with S ;-)
[21:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe I've been awake too long. It looks like a squirrel to me, but maybe it is...
[21:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─Screw customers ;-) On a more serious note it probably stands for "Store".
[21:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:22] <exec> 08└─Damn you guys, I totally though that was a decapitated "Alvin and the chipmunks" head or maybe squirrel head but I stare at it long enough and you guys are right thats a weird little anthropomorphic poop. Now every time I see Alvin and the chipmunks instead of thinking "annoying kids music" I'm goin...
[21:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:24] <exec> 08└─Also they refuse to call it IT, learning pivot tables and changing graph colors in Excel is "computer science" and don't you forget it.
[21:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:27] <exec> 08└─Let's hope BrickBot loves those Microstuffed ARM computers ;-)
[21:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:29] <exec> 08└─Renders correctly, albeit tiny, in Vivaldi 1.9.818.44 on Win 7.
[21:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:50] <exec> 08└─We can't all be you, studball.
[21:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:52] <exec> 08└─Which is why "no" isn't always a no and the boys have an innate awareness for this. If the behavior won't match the talk. Behavior will adapt to behavior (ie reality) and not the talk.
[21:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:52] <exec> 08└─How would you counter lobby if the politician won't even hear you? And if you got them to hear you out, they would forget about it the next minute. BrickBot, Hajime, Second Amendment etc is all about taking action without permission from someone else. The 1981 case of Warren v. District of Columbia...
[21:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:54] <exec> 08└─Relying on the government to regulate and fix problems won't work with co-existing lobbyists. In this case, shoot spammers (electronically) and ask no questions.
[21:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:56] <exec> 08└─Regulation can also be abused to monopolize industries by raising the barrier to entry. But wiping out EPA seems like a really bad idea. I think this hints to the problem being elsewhere where both regulation and non-regulation being abused.
[21:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:58] <exec> 08└─No alternative? and no option to crack it?
[21:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:00] <exec> 08└─That seems like asking if I still beat my wife or not. It is a simple fact that there was a proposed law to make spam illegal. It is another fact that the Direct Marketing Association lobbied to kill it. It is also a fact that we have laws to make things illegal. Call it 'regulation' if you like. We...
[21:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not trying to disagree with you. As I said, I can understand the motivations. However, the other side could argue that if you know the IP addresses of the sources, then you, or maybe with help from your upstream provider, you could block the bulk of the attack. Of course, my solution is to make...
[21:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, spam mail. I guess that makes more sense, lol. I had originally read your post as: "There was a bill under consideration to make SPAM illegal. You can of course see how I would feel about this." "Umm...not really. Maybe you find SPAM tasty? Maybe you don't?"
[21:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's right. At least, he loses his white-hat status. A white-hat never does things like that, which is why when you hear white-hat, you don't expect them to be hacking into networks they don't own or were hired to pen test. If he did it to devices attacking his network I might see some...
[21:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:10] <exec> 08└─Vigilantism is only wrong if you get caught. Know dat.
[21:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:12] <exec> 08└─It's not like they were going to criminalize smoking or professional sports.
[21:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:25] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the bandwidth of a racing car filled with SD cards. And on NASCAR you are guaranteed to get high-speed data transport! :-)
[21:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:40] <exec> 08└─This is making the misguided assumption that someone who is suicidal is a free agent of right mind. They're not, and it's silly to pretend that it's tyrannical to admit it. I'm actually in favour of right-to-die, but most suicides are tragic and worth preventing.
[21:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:43] <exec> 08└─Its just so nice to have something biologically irrelevant other than mere proximity like argon. Agreed the engineering would be a pain. But noble gasses are just so biologically uninteresting. Its not like inhaling tobacco smoke or something LOL. Yeah 42K is really the question isn't it where K is...
[21:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:44] <exec> 08└─If one can keep it hot for cheap then it should be a good deal. Questions is of course how much it costs to make?
[21:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:47] <exec> 08└─Phospheros? Never heard about this element.
[21:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:42] <exec> 08└─While the field is in a bad shape, it's not quite as bleak as you present. One of the foremost [wikipedia.org] 20th century philosophers (their judgement, not mine) was a mathematician by training. Even Kant, whom I personally can't stand, knew a thing or two about astronomy. My personal encounters...
[21:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─Zero point nine repeating can be one [youtube.com], or maybe not. In the immortal words of Bill Clinton, it depends upon what "is" means. By the way, an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The barkeep asks them what they want. The first one orders a pint. The second one orders a half...
[21:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:45] <exec> 08└─I think your meter is still calibrated to SJW if it's wigging out. Oh, and Carlin would have had my back over yours any day.
[21:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:21] <exec> 08└─It looks better than what's left of Expo 2015, believe me.
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[21:55:01] <exec> 08└─That part isn't so far off the mark. FDA first checks new drug formulations for safety. Those that pass that hurdle go on to be checked for effectiveness. 9 out of 10 fail. [google.com] ...and Trump wants to cut back on drug testing. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:50] <exec> 08└─I suspect it is less of the DRM, and more of the pricing scheme. We can make a comparison to movies. Movies are available for purchase in DVD form without DRM.
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[22:46:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:31] <exec> 08└─Jeff Davis didn't care much for the freedom of black people, did he? Obviously, people like you want to bring back slavery.
[22:46:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 1153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─Those monuments in Europe are there to remind us of the evils that can beset us when we are not vigilante. They are there to remind us to NOT elect the Trump's of the world to power. When people look upon them, the big take away is how many victims there were of simple hatred. There were no justific...
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─No. City planning officials determined that a public street is not the correct place for us to continue to parade this particular chapter of our history and decided to start the process remove the offending monuments. Meetings where held and debates where had. The 'dissenters' as you labeled them, h...
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─Mein Kampf, like many other works translated to English from the German, is a very dense and rambly read even to experienced readers. You will find yourself reading and re-reading passages multiple times until you fully parse them. It's like trying to saw a 2X4 in half using a butter-knife. Freud at...
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─The usual excuse is Adolf Hitler was insane. The title itself paints him as the victim of a conspiracy.
[22:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:52] <exec> 08└─You're both a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Besides, a better question to ask if using Nazi Germany as an analogy, how much actual Nazi paraphernalia is still up and in nice little garden like display alcoves on public streets? None. The camps and such are not in the public view and thus one mus...
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─Robert E Lee doesn't belong on a list of evil men. He was chosen by Lincoln to lead the Union armies but was conflicted about fighting against his home state. You have a case against Jefferson Davis, but you're over-playing your hand by including Lee.
[22:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:56] <exec> 08└─Indian Removal was just city planning. Japanese Internment was just city planning, The Final Solution was just city planning.
[22:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe if SoylentNews bought some slaves to do the needful coding, SN could stop begging for money on the front page.
[22:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:01] <exec> 08└─I disagree, you would have to read the book in order to make that connection. What the title does portray is that he's the center of his own universe, and he was totally justified in believing that given the size of his fan club back in the '30's and early 40's.
[22:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:03] <exec> 08└─You can get good slaves of African origin and from Libya for 'round $200-$500 a pop. [dw.com] Though teaching them Perl might be a problem, if they're anything like us, they'd rather take a bullet to the head than be forced to learn Perl.
[22:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:05] <exec> 08└─Too bad we didn't have DeviantArt and Twitter back then, or Adolf could have been an internet celebrity.
[22:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:07] <exec> 08└─I don't know where to start pointing out what's wrong with this statement. Willfully ignoring the subtle differences. Like if I where to say something like there's no difference between full metal jacketed bullets vs hollow point bullets. They both can injure and kill people who cares about the diff...
[22:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:10] <exec> 08└─Rehash is an established codebase, hence the name. It's not like the gitslaves would need to learn how to code from scratch.
[22:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:12] <exec> 08└─DeviantArt: A containment zone for the failed artists who would otherwise go on to become genocidal dictators. See? The Internet is good for mankind.
[22:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:14] <exec> 08└─In a democracy, if you have to do something with a mask to cover your identity, what you are doing is probably not a good idea. That includes police, thieves, demonstrators, and religious. New Orleans could have handled this better. There is a reasonable argument that the monument stood for the deat...
[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─Parent AC has a point.
[22:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:40] <exec> 08└─That thing with statistical truths that cannot be stated publicly [theguardian.com] seems so enticing. Would be interesting to find all of them. Faceleaks anyone? Another approach is to dig into other databases. Obviously there are some very hot potato statistical truths out there just waiting to be...
[22:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:32] <exec> 08└─Did you skip the class about ensembles? Calculating is a part of maths, so it's not incorrect. Of course, if it ain't math until you touch at least the Moments Problem, then we're having a No True Scotsman issue...
[22:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:33] <exec> 08└─Smegma
[22:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:35] <exec> 08└─Schutzstaffel.
[22:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:37] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I'm one of the project leads on Windows 10 S. The project name was originally going to be "Windows: Suck It Up Ten Times, Bitches!" but for reasons unknown (since the QA department never seem pick up the phone any more*) it kept getting renamed to WindowsS~1. We did ponder naming the pro...
[22:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:10] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is against all regulation is either a fool, or an evil person profiting from a filthy environment or lack of worker safety.
[22:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:38] <exec> 08└─I mean if what your shipping is unsellably degenerate, it might not be possible to sell in social media directly, its easier to sell social signalling stuff instead to "get the word out"
[22:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:40] <exec> 08└─"Hilary Putnam is well known for his quasi-empiricism in mathematics," Unfortunately, he just passed. And shirley you have heard of philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Douglas Hofstadter, John Searle, And did I mention Quine and "Polymath, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and...
[22:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:42] <exec> 08└─Feel free to poke holes in this speculation. Suppose light really is a wave. Light waves mostly do not impact matter except on rare occasions. These rare interactions would LOOK LIKE particles. Consider sound waves. Mostly they don't affect matter around them, but if intense or long enough, they can...
[22:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:44] <exec> 08└─Can't we say that we simply don't understand (can't see) the root mechanisms of QM and that probability-based models are the best models we have right now?
[22:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:46] <exec> 08└─Have you heard of Liebniz?
[22:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:46] <exec> 08└─There is another possibility. They are hemorrhaging money. All of the news orgs are. Why would fox be different? Frankly the 'news' is terrible. It does not tell you anything other than what to be outraged at today. Which may be 100% contradicted tomorrow. People are cluing into that. CNN did it a c...
[22:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:48] <exec> 08└─Yep fuck those evil republicans? Am I right? BTW your cognitive bias is showing.
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[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:22] <exec> 08└─Man isn't the most damaging invasive mammalian predator? We don't even crack the top 3?
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─I think the word you are looking for is "successful". This is evolution in action. They are better predators than whatever species were there before, so they end up on top. If one day they cease being as well suited due to a better predator appearing (or their prey has evolved defences), then we sha...
[23:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:26] <exec> 08└─Wholesome American White folk who own cats and dogs don't allow our animals to attack endangered species. Our animals are fed by our own hand and the occasional vermin or critter, but we breed them responsibly and don't let our litters go feral.
[23:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:28] <exec> 08└─Humans aren't invasive, unless you count Mexicans. Build the Wall!
[23:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:31] <exec> 08└─Skinky, I hardly knew ye.
[23:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:33] <exec> 08└─Yep, color me baffled too. I can only assume we're not counted because on a scale that includes humans, other animals are an insignificant blip.
[23:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:35] <exec> 08└─Survival of the fittest. Not 'invasive', 'damaging' or other such nonsense.
[23:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:37] <exec> 08└─Wait until those Javelinas and gophers rape your nice landscaping and eat all your vegetables. Oh, city folk are ya? Well, those ants and bedbugs and termites will eat your place too, just a lot slower.
[23:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:40] <exec> 08└─We are the root cause for ALL TOP 3 cases. We are in the top 3, thought as 1,2,3, since recondize we are the worst. 1) Cats - note not wild felines (tigers, lions, ...) - They were domesticated for our pleasure. The population grew in cause-and-effect with our population. There are too many to be s...
[23:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:42] <exec> 08└─They were "successful" because of Man. We took away their predators. We feed them when the land cannot support them. There is no evolution here, more in line is bacteria in a grow medium, yeast in vat of mash. They just grow and grow.
[23:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:23] <exec> 08└─No, the reason the South was defeated was because the North had a 2 to 1 population advantage over the South. http://www.civilwar.org [civilwar.org] The North also had more food than the South: http://civilwar.gratzpa.org
[23:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:25] <exec> 08└─Adolf could have been an internet celebrity. What do you mean? He most certainly is one, as big as life, still with plenty of followers.
[23:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:27] <exec> 08└─They were worthy opponents. Hell, I'd carpetbag my Yankee ass down to Dixieland 'n' buy some folk some Bourbon shots.
[23:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─Being a tyrant is necessary for victory, and you don't get that unless you get unconditional surrender. Anything less is utter failure. Most people can't stomach the needed brutality to takes to win. I doubt very much we could have won World War 2 (or the civil war) if we had today's media filming e...
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─Obviously meant within his lifetime. If only the long tail had provided a market for his art with a lower barrier of entry and he had found acceptance in some niche. Then perhaps he wouldn't have felt the need to punish entire ethnic groups for ruining his country.
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─Tearing down historical monuments because you find them 'offensive' is one of the hallmarks of a corrupted government. I'm not in favor of threatening anyone but if city officials are really acting so completely contrary to the trust given them then it's not hard to see why people would find it nece...
[23:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:38] <exec> 08└─Nice try, though, you did pretty well.
[23:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:41] <exec> 08└─If in a democracy political purity tests are being used as a condition of employment, voting and political speech records are being made public and used to end careers you might have a reason to hide. If recordings are made of private conversations and reviewed to determine if the participants are b...
[23:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:43] <exec> 08└─I like how every day now there are clear signs people don't learn from history. Your post's score is one of them. To the moderators: Guess what, the AC is right. He just speaks of it like Lincoln actively wanted slavery. Not the case. But he was not an abolitionist. From what I understand of the man...
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can get a few of those geared up police to pay EF a visit :P Long live the boot! Let it stomp on the faces of people I don't like! See now, you should be oh so happy that reasonable people (i.e. people NOT like you) don't endorse such tactics or your future would probably belong in one of t...
[23:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:48] <exec> 08└─Yet, he still had a choice. Fight for slavery and the right to own people, of fight to keep the Union intact. He fought for the Confederacy. He choose poorly. He lost. I'm not seeing anything about Lee worth celebrating at all. That states right argument that gets trotted out is just a way to detrac...
[23:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:50] <exec> 08└─I fucking know the difference! My spell checker and shaky fingers apparently do not....... Besides, it's not like we can edit posts or anything if you find it after you hit submit. Editing is a big thing around here :)
[23:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:52] <exec> 08└─Then we can track everything you do at every moment in time and throw your ass in prison when you buy a confederate flag and mount it under the hood of your car. Such conflicts of interest! Don't want surveillance police state, would love bigoted shitheads to go away.... hrmmmm. Fiiiine, freedom is...
[23:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─No. That makes him worse. If he did not believe in the cause and yet still choose to serve as a general in the confederacy it means he actively enabled those who fought for slavery while knowing better himself. He had the option of sitting it out. Instead he chose to be on the side he knew was wrong...
[23:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:57] <exec> 08└─Ah, typo-flames. The most erudite of literary criticisms.
[23:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:59] <exec> 08└─I know! Let's take a vote! Oh right you won't like that cause you'll lose THAT popular vote as well.
[23:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:01] <exec> 08└─> Historical revisionists are fucking with our history, and you dare call the dissenters terrorists? (a) The only revisionists are the people who deny that the war was fought over slavery (b) Political dissent with a bullet is the literal definition of terrorism
[23:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:27] <exec> 08└─No need for "happy", "in love", "victorious" and other positive states of mind? That's strange, from my own experience I'm more willing to spend money when I'm feeling happy and/or in love. Not that I would click on ads though... Would the FB model also imply that teenagers need to be kept in a vuln...
[23:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:29] <exec> 08└─It is much harder to wield power over happy people. Stupid policy decisions will be met with resistance, but if the people live in fear and anxiety then you can easily steer them with false promises.
[23:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:46] <exec> 08└─"The females do this by laying motionless upside down." They lay eggs upside-down? Motionless? Is this typical dead dragonfly behaviour? I'd have thought that the wasted eggs would attract predators.
[23:50:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:04] <exec> 08└─People hold their ignorance aloft as if it is a prize to be kept proudly untainted.
[23:50:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:08] <exec> 08└─>Don't like the IoT? Don't use it. Lovely thought. Now, do you have any suggestions on how to avoid being attacked by a botnet made of other people's infected IoT devices? Because that's becoming a pretty major problem that's neatly solved by aggressively fixing them. Or how about suggestions on how...
[23:50:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 675 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:27] <exec> 08└─It's working pretty damned good for me. My grandfather was involved in a horrible industrial accident that can't happen today because we have OSHA. Rivers and streams were so polluted that they caught fire, and driving past Monsanto in 95 f heat you had to roll your windows up because the air litera...
[23:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:58] <exec> 08└─My comment started (after the quote) with Either/or?
[23:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:59] <exec> 08└─My comment started (after the quote) with Either/or? Let's look for those words in the quote: Anyone who is against all regulation is either a fool, or an evil person profiting from a filthy environment or lack of worker safety.
[23:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:28] <exec> 08└─Which, if it were true (which it isn't), still has nothing to do with my point about how there is nothing to be gained by censorship. My guess is that the person who posted that link saw my uncensored use of ethnic slurs as an simple indication that racist material should go on this thread, as if I...
[23:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:30] <exec> 08└─That's more than an assumption: There have been studies [jamanetwork.com] on that very question. It turns out ad campaigns aren't effective, at all, but getting mental health treatments to people that need them are.
[23:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:35] <exec> 08└─Oops, right, Ar39, not 49. Fair point on leakage, though I have no idea how bioavailable atomic K is - in fact a quick search suggests not a whole lot is known about potassium bioavailablity in general. Still, most people probably aren't going to want to sit next to a substantially radioactive sourc...
[23:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:38] <exec> 08└─OK, so a wave with the energy of one photon, generated by a single-photon source, is split on a beam splitter. The two partial waves go towards two separate detectors. Detector 1 clicks. How does detector 2 know that it may not click as well?
[23:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:39] <exec> 08└─It's much worse than that. If all knowledge is only about what we know about things, then we can't say anything about things as such. Including that things as such exist. This is related to the interpretations of quantum theory, and why, e.g., it's impossible to rule out Solipsism. What we can say a...
[23:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:41] <exec> 08└─"A Leibnitz? In Austria?"
[23:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:43] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that space-time is continuous, and this not only hasn't been proven, I find it a dubious assumption. OTOH, when the pieces get small enough you won't be able to tell the pieces of string from the virtual particles.
[23:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of 14 Million Arab Spring Tweets Reveals Normal People Drive Huge Movements - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:01] <exec> 08└─if there were, we would not be stuck with systemd. QED
[23:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:51] <exec> 08└─Okay, perhaps a poor example, I consider DVD open now as the DRM has been defeated and personal archival is a trivial process.