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[00:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bending Sheet Glass Using Lasers and Gravity - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:06] <exec> 08└─3D laser print me a dildo with a big swastika on the end. I want to rape some jewish bitches with it. I can't rape then with my own cock ever since my cock was bitten off by a dog.
[00:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:22] <exec> 08└─Now this I agree with. His art was better than that of the common man, and yet against more capable artists it sucked. He apparently had some kind of depth-perception disorder and could not maintain angular integrity when working with one-point perspectives, though he fared slightly better with two-...
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[00:47:24] <exec> 08└─Improper analogy - you're comparing historical museums focusing on the victims to postwar statues focusing on the leaders. A better analogy would be taking down modern-made statues of Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels.
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[00:47:26] <exec> 08└─"Worse than Hitler" is an extremely high bar to clear. Did Lincoln even *try* to kill millions of people for their race? Did he put his own citizens into camps to work them to death building weapons to kill more people with? Did he destroy Congress, seizing all power for himself and his party? Tear...
[00:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:28] <exec> 08└─The responses to this post suffer from some serious PRESENTISM. One of the things the Civil War decided was that slavery was to be considered universally wrong and illegal. That was not the case before the war. Consider that slavery had been part of America since the very beginning. Even Northern st...
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[00:47:30] <exec> 08└─"People don’t ask that question, but why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"
[00:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:33] <exec> 08└─There was no corrupt government here, why do you keep insisting there was? Are you predisposed to believe all government is corrupt on the face of it? If you're not, then you'll understand that these monuments take city resources to maintain. Budget meetings where held, public comment was taken, vot...
[00:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:30] <exec> 08└─I think the Florence Ambrose corollary is even more appropriate : http://freefall.purrsia.com [purrsia.com]
[00:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:32] <exec> 08└─I didn't claim anything. It was another poster who made that claim.
[00:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:03] <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.
[00:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:16] <exec> 08└─And yet it is not one, quite. Example: to run your computer, you need EXACTLY 1 unit of power. Giving it .99999999 repeating will not power it. What use is your computer. But my computer goes to 11, so I don't care. ;)
[00:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:17] <exec> 08└─The easiest I found to understand is that 1/3 = 0.333..... And strictly speaking, 0.333.... * 3 = 0.999.... But we also know that 1/3 * 3 = 1 Therefore, it also follows that 0.999... = 1.
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[00:57:25] <exec> 08└─Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro SM-T320, just because I have one. I'm sure there are many other devices, some worse, some better.
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[01:46:17] <exec> 08└─...just like they patented MP3s.
[01:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bending Sheet Glass Using Lasers and Gravity - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:18] <exec> 08└─I was going to ask, is it Fraunhofer week, or did the "Institute" just now discover that we exist?
[01:46:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─Man isn't the most damaging invasive mammalian predator? We don't even crack the top 3?
[01:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:37] <exec> 08└─YES! We are the most intelligent species on Earth... You're right! DING DING, you win the edumacation award!
[01:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:43] <exec> 08└─the North had a 2 to 1 population advantage 3 to 1, if we count slaves as 3/5 of a person, as the Constitution says.
[01:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:45] <exec> 08└─That's complete nonsense right there. If you go to Berlin, you'll find a Holocaust memorial [wikipedia.org] and a Jewish Museum [wikipedia.org] that includes exhibits on the Holocaust. What you won't find is any kind of monument or even a headstone for Hitler, Goebbels, Eichmann, or any other top Na...
[01:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:47] <exec> 08└─And I for one find it significant that one of the monuments that white supremacist terrorists are threatening violence to protect is in honor of white supremacist terrorists.
[01:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:49] <exec> 08└─SN: come for the arguments about history revisionism, stay for a discussion about art and Hilter's eyes...
[01:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:53] <exec> 08└─Cheney was pretty authoritarian, and picked fights with anyone who got in his way... I mean, the president's way. Cracking down on internal dissent, dismissing or attacking external dissent, widening the divide in the country... Pretty much the closest the US has had (recently) to a dictator. The "U...
[01:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:55] <exec> 08└─Lincoln defeated Davis only because Lincoln was an iron fisted tyrant
[01:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:59] <exec> 08└─Had just about anyone asked Trump to have those monuments destroyed, every liberal in the country would have switched sides, and gone to court to prevent Trump destroying the monuments. Personally, I don't care about the monuments. None of those people were my heroes, after all. But, I can't underst...
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[01:48:01] <exec> 08└─Lincoln's plan for slavery, which was baked into the Republican Party platform in 1860 and which he was quite clear about, was to end the expansion of slavery to new territories and newly formed states, which he thought would eventually end slavery in the US over a period of several decades. It was...
[01:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:03] <exec> 08└─so they want to destroy monuments? Hmmm - who else does that?
[01:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:31] <exec> 08└─Some people stress eat. Maybe there is a group of people that stress buys?
[01:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:26] <exec> 08└─Rimmer Wait... What game are we playing?
[01:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:48] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be so sure about that. Just because your style of trolling humor is somewhat closer to his does not make your political views the same. The best I can say is you and Carlin both use rude shock humor, but at least Carlin was actually funny.
[01:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:50] <exec> 08└─Oh shit, did I offend a professional philosopher?
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[02:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─Some, jeez, 17 years ago I encoded my CDs with ogg. Couldn't find a player to support it. Some, jeez, 10 years ago got a huge hard drive and encoded my CDs with flac. Couldn't find a player to support it. Now, I just use MP3. Yeah, I can use flacsquish or somesuch to convert flac to MP3, but fark it...
[02:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:06] <exec> 08└─Third Fraunhofer FA in one day! This has to be some kind of record! Should we celebrate, or have we been boughtened?
[02:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:09] <exec> 08└─Pandora uses M4A audio/mp4. I don't listen to Pandora myself. Everyone except me listens to Pandora. Pandora is to streaming music as Xerox is to photocopying.
[02:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:11] <exec> 08└─Amazon Alexa is the new Pandora.
[02:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:13] <exec> 08└─Except when I visit small businesses I don't hear shopkeepers asking Alexa to play music for the customers. I do hear ads for Pandora between tracks.
[02:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:15] <exec> 08└─I encoded all my stuff to 160kbps Ogg Vorbis long ago, and stuck with it. Unlike some other people who say they "can't find a player for it", I never had that problem. I use Linux on my desktop, so playing Oggs has never been a problem there. I have an Android phone. It plays Oggs just fine. I bough...
[02:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:18] <exec> 08└─Those wacky Germans. What will they patent next?
[02:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:20] <exec> 08└─One aspect that may have importance is if there's a free source code available to implement a decoder for embedded platforms like ARM Cortex or MIPS, even better with encoding too. Sometimes machine code optimizations are needed which is not something most people can muster. Embedded platforms enabl...
[02:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:22] <exec> 08└─Why use Opus? It's designed to "efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication". Ie not optimized for audio quality so FLAC seems like a much better choice. As for players. You know how popular a codec is once...
[02:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:24] <exec> 08└─I buy the vast majority of my music now on Google Play Music, which uses constant 320kbps MP3s. The rest I buy on Bandcamp, which I download using constant 320kbps MP3s. I'd use Ogg Vorbis at q 10, but that would require buying physical CDs and then ripping and encoding them. No thanks.
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[02:46:35] <exec> 08└─First thought.. lenses.
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[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─That's total bullshit. I've spent way too much time in the South to know that there's no truth to this at all.
[02:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:56] <exec> 08└─Hear! hear! My pug lost in a stare down with a skink half her size!
[02:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:58] <exec> 08└─Cattle are not predators, otherwise I am quite sure they'd be way up there on the list. Humans are not predators either, we are pretty obviously parasites on the planet, fsck'n up anything and everything we come into contact with.
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[02:47:00] <exec> 08└─1) Cats - note not wild felines (tigers, lions, ...) - They were domesticated for our pleasure. No, they were domesticated for their usefulness in rodent control. Many scientists don't even consider them fully domesticated, because we don't control their reproduction or food supply the way we do wi...
[02:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 2849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is an oversimplification of history. The secession of Virginia is not like the deep South. It's often forgotten today, but there were two waves of secessions. The first began with South Carolina soon after Lincoln's election. And there were a bunch of states that followed. But then Virgin...
[02:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:17] <exec> 08└─What, exactly is your point? Because it sounds like you are saying that abolitionists weren't a major movement in the US before the civil war. Which is pure applesauce.
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[02:48:19] <exec> 08└─> There was no corrupt government here, why do you keep insisting there was? Dude sounds like a neo-confederate. Either that, or its been corrupted by the presence of black people in it. Which is basically the same thing.
[02:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:22] <exec> 08└─Somebody doesn't like a part of history, so they want to destroy monuments?
[02:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:24] <exec> 08└─What the statues represent is in the eye of the beholder. I see no reason to waste time and money removing these statues and creating unnecessary strife merely because some people are offended by them or feel that they "honor" a wrong cause.
[02:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:26] <exec> 08└─Cheney was definitely scary. Let's not forget that one of his acquaintances had a "hunting accident"! [wikipedia.org]
[02:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:29] <exec> 08└─"Yet, he still had a choice. Fight for slavery and the right to own people, of fight to keep the Union intact." Not really. He fought for his soil, which at the time, was his home state of Virginia. As did most of the Civil War volunteers, North and South. It wasn't a simple, Union was anti-slavery,...
[02:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:12] <exec> 08└─Carlin would be sickened by the left and their attempts to muzzle controversial speech lately. He would shit all over them.
[02:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Exec Exits; Merger Rumoured - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:16] <exec> 08└─Faux News going down, and nobody cares except Eth and jmorris? Telling, that is very telling. If only they had some cans of silver spraypaint and Morning Joe!
[02:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:23] <exec> 08└─Silly you. My personal projects always used chips that I used for work. Why? A) I don't have to waste my free time learning stuff I learn at work; and B) I get, um, "free" samples for the chip at work. Been 30 years since I've done that, but when I was young and struggling I had no problem appropria...
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[03:46:24] <exec> 08└─Opus replaces Vorbis. From Wikipedia: "Opus replaces both Vorbis and Speex for new applications, and several blind listening tests have ranked it higher-quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached, including MP3, AAC, and HE-AAC." FLAC has very lar...
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[03:46:25] <exec> 08└─Actually Opus is designed to scale. From low bitrate (speex can actually do ULTRA-LOW bitrate, like 8 kbps or something, Opus is limited to 16 or 32+ from a modified version of the speex codec) speech to mid to high bitrate lossy audio, Opus is actually designed to unify the audio technologies of al...
[03:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:27] <exec> 08└─You're living in the past. Standalone MP3 decoder chips have long been obsolete. Any decent phone these days has a CPU running Linux and doesn't need or use special decoders for audio.
[03:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 1974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:29] <exec> 08└─Basically every album I've acquired in the past 5 years has come from one of two places: Amazon or Bandcamp. The bandcamp stuff sometimes has a nice variety of formats, though I usually do 320kbps MP3. Amazon just gives me an MP3, probably 192kbps but I don't think I've ever even checked. I've got a...
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[03:46:32] <exec> 08└─Jango radio serves anything recent or popular as 64kbps m4a. Old unpopular music is still 128kbps mp3.
[03:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:34] <exec> 08└─You don't own any phone, your government and operator just let you physically posses it. There's a untrusted operating system and radiomodem so there are issues with those devices. Another one is ultra low power use for long trips.
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[03:46:36] <exec> 08└─I spent a long time pirating a lot of music, but sometime around college I realized it was becoming easier to buy the stuff legally than to pirate it
[03:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:38] <exec> 08└─9 out of 10 people can't tell 192kbps mp3 from straight .wav files.
[03:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:40] <exec> 08└─sometime around college I realized it was becoming easier to buy the stuff legally than to pirate it
[03:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:43] <exec> 08└─Stop this nonsense. It depends on the type of music. If it's rich music with lots of harmonics and overtones, more of its details are removed when compressed, and the discrepancy becomes more noticeable.
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[03:46:45] <exec> 08└─I stopped buying movie tickets when I finally got tired of the same old routine of walking to the same old theater, buying the same old bag of popcorn, and listening to the young people talk through the movie. I was getting older every year but the young people were always the same age. Now I stay h...
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[03:47:19] <exec> 08└─Dogs are dirty and completely unnecessary for modern civilization. They are parasitic in nature and cannot survive without humans lest they return to their wolf roots. It's no surprise that they are often considered dirty or even food in some cultures. The West has just had an affinity for them for...
[03:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:41] <exec> 08└─You smell like mayo and bologna.
[03:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:42] <exec> 08└─They were worthy opponents.
[03:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:11] <exec> 08└─Facebook knows where you are, what you feel, and what you're doing. It makes money off of your data. and now with the current rumours about Zuckerberg, you can be sure that he may be swaying how you think to be in his favor.
[03:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:12] <exec> 08└─instagran
[03:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:32] <exec> 08└─So what the fuck happened with YOUR parents...?
[03:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:34] <exec> 08└─You're fucking deranged, you know that? I'm getting tired of trying to explain to you that the TERF wingnuts who've given you such a hard time are about in the same place in mainstream feminism as the John Birch society occupies in mainline Protestantism. This has got to be the seventh or eighth tim...
[03:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:49] <exec> 08└─But you didn't answer the most important question. Is it HP? Vinegar? Salad cream? Something else? :)
[03:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the Realist/Nominalist debate over the ontological status of general terms was very different than the "observational contamination of reality" debate of the modern realist/instrumentalist epistemological debates. The question is not whether the general conceptual structures determine or ar...
[03:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:36] <exec> 08└─Cower in fear, you Sophist! 'Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards and philosophers, for they are subtle and quick to anger.'
[03:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:38] <exec> 08└─Detector 1 clicks. How does detector 2 know that it may not click as well?
[03:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:40] <exec> 08└─It would be a change as Carlin traditionally has been sickened by the right and their constant muzzling of controversial speech ("You can prick your finger but you can't finger your prick"). It's kinda funny, the left considers hatred to be controversial and the right considers love to be controvers...
[03:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know how I could expose what I don't have, but I guess I will leave to the professional philosophers to figure this one out...
[03:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:45] <exec> 08└─....Unless, of course, you are telling me professional philosophers are wizards & fire-breathing dragons in service of Cthulhu, in which case I was indeed ignorant of their affairs until just now. Please leave no reply if you want to feed my darkest fears.
[03:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:47] <exec> 08└─You seem to think Carlin's entire schtick was shock jock rebelliousness. How dare you. He may have been a comedian but I consider him a humanist almost on level with Terry Pratchett, if far more vulgar. You're not fit to tie the man's decomposing shoes, and you're precisely the kind of no-goodnik au...
[03:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:49] <exec> 08└─Personally I think this is one of those "has a dog the Buddha nature?" questions, which is to say, the answer is "this question is based on malformed assumptions." Reality may not be directly accessible to human consciousness, *and that's okay.*
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[04:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:00] <exec> 08└─Information wants to be free (of ads).
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─https://hdonline.to/ [hdonline.to] that or my adblocker blocked all the ads
[04:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:03] <exec> 08└─But the ads are so funny. "Warning! Do not enter this game ... " (close window) "OK I won't."
[04:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:05] <exec> 08└─If you got a server - You got a vulnerability. In the business of torrents, it's usually a question of time before the knock-knock happens. So don't have any instead make it distributed. Everywhere but nowhere.
[04:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:08] <exec> 08└─PEACE IS WAR. PIRACY IS FREEDOM. STRENGTH IS IGNORANCE.
[04:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:10] <exec> 08└─My sperm quantum tunneled into your mom last night.
[04:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─...instead of piracy focused.
[04:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:42] <exec> 08└─I'd like to buy the rights to your life story to write a script for a major motion picture.
[04:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:43] <exec> 08└─You can get VLC for IOS too. Plays OGG just fine
[04:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:45] <exec> 08└─What in the hell are you ranting about? We're talking about audio codecs here, not some insane conspiracy theory BS. The government doesn't care what songs you listen to. Modern devices do not use dedicated MP3 decoder chips any more; those chips were always problematic and didn't play a lot of MP3...
[04:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:47] <exec> 08└─Tell it, bro! All government is theft!
[04:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:50] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of other issues than song playing going on in a smartphone. You do know about Snowden? Most embedded micros don't support MMU which result in a hard limit on what OS you can run. This means that source code for the codec becomes important to actually make the device play. And more com...
[04:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:25] <exec> 08└─Dogs are pack animals with a hierarchy. They have a respect for the alpha dog in the pack. If a dog can be convinced that a human is the alpha, that suits a lot of humans. OTOH, calling cats "domesticated" strikes me odd. Anybody ever get a cat to follow a command or do -anything- that it didn't wan...
[04:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:49] <exec> 08└─How about the fact that he freed his slaves before General Grant? I guess its OK to honour a slave holder as long as he was a northerner and damn someone who freed his slaves as he was an evil southerner.
[04:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:50] <exec> 08└─Who literally apologized for cheney shooting him in the face. Its the kind of thing that gives trump a wet dream.
[04:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:52] <exec> 08└─> [...] I can't understand why so many people have their panties in a wad over them. The New Orleans Advocate article linked from the summary gives one explanation: Landrieu first called for the four monuments to come down in the summer of 2015, after Dylann Roof – a white supremacist – killed...
[04:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:54] <exec> 08└─That's roughly true, or at least that was the hope of some Republicans. But Lincoln's perspective turned to appeasement quickly after the first secessions. In his first inaugural address, he explicitly supported the adoption of the Corwin Amendment (which had already passed Congress and was sent to...
[04:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:54] <exec> 08└─Since space, time, and energy are quantized, you'll eventually hit the Planck limits. In the case of the piece of string, once you get down to a single molecule of cellulose or lignin or whatever, you can't cut it any further because it would then not be made-of-the-stuff-of-which-a-string-is-made.....
[04:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:55] <exec> 08└─This is an argument over bases rather than quantities from the looks of it. When I was studying computers and figuring out binary, it was a shock and a revelation to figure out that some decimal numbers straight up cannot be represented in any reasonable number of bits in a floating-point type. Imme...
[04:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:57] <exec> 08└─"Fabricati diem, pvnc."
[04:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:59] <exec> 08└─Can I just say that something about this question coming from a user called Maxwell's Daemon is immensely satisfying? :D
[04:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:02] <exec> 08└─Oh man, reading Putnam article... I remember reading about this guy. Just the "argument for the reality of mathematical entities" would be enough, and I can't really read after that with a straight face, especially as sober as I am right now. I actually read Searle and saw him talk at SJSU may be 1...
[04:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Real Books Are Back. E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20% - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:11] <exec> 08└─What killed my use of ereaders was my Kobo dying 2 weeks out of its one year warranty. I looked at my bookshelf full of books from the 19th century and decided paying $100+ a year to read my new books was unacceptable, so I threw the Kobo in the garbage, broke the DRM on my purchased books, and neve...
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[05:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Last, A Clue to Where Cancer Metastases Are Born - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─Wonder if you can destroy blood vessels local to the tumor - starve the tumor as well as prevent its spread via blood stream.
[05:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Last, A Clue to Where Cancer Metastases Are Born - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:56] <exec> 08└─Or maybe create a plaque that clogs the blood vessels at the site of the tumor? Build the wall, eat more cheeseburgers.
[05:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Last, A Clue to Where Cancer Metastases Are Born - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:58] <exec> 08└─Gimme more! I just can't get enough science fraud! I heard you can cure cancer by implanting lego bricks into tumors is it true??
[05:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:14] <exec> 08└─When our funds dry up, we may hand over [mpaa.org] the site, it says (link added by me). At least they're forthright about it.
[05:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:15] <exec> 08└─Where is your sense of morality, SN? I keep seeding until my share ratio is at least 1.0. Couldn't live with myself otherwise.
[05:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you for not pirating.
[05:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:52] <exec> 08└─Patent DE 438818 has also expired...
[05:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:54] <exec> 08└─From the Pandora site: Pandora is only available in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand right now – but we are working on bringing our music service to other parts of the world
[05:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:56] <exec> 08└─You're still missing the fact that no one uses any such devices in 2017. You're talking about ancient circa-2000 MP3 players that use such hardware. No one cares about non-MMU micros any more. No one uses those to play MP3s. There are no devices on sale now like this which have any significant sales...
[05:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:58] <exec> 08└─Stop this nonsense. Double blind ABX tests using various types of music have conclusively shown that just about no one can really tell the difference between a 256kbps MP3 and the original uncompressed music.
[05:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:34] <exec> 08└─> It's no surprise that they are often considered dirty or even food in some cultures. In which cultures are the concepts of food and dirtiness similar?
[05:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:02] <exec> 08└─I did not know that. Thank you for the link. It was rather long, but in the end I found his speech. It was compelling. I'm willing to agree he was fucked from the start, and didn't have any good choices. He is made out to be the liberal Southerner which I found interesting. The link included images...
[05:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:03] <exec> 08└─You have a point. Which along with the other poster info makes me agree that had shit for choices and chose the most honorable thing he could do. I'll walk that back a bit, and say with him that it is not so simple at least.
[05:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:05] <exec> 08└─Secession was more than just fighting over slavery. It was considered part of the deal with joining the Union in the first place, and the ultimate solution when the terms of that agreement were unilaterally infringed/broken.
[05:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:31] <exec> 08└─I am reasonably sure that if you buy a new computer of smartphone, you pay the Microsoft tax: whether Windows is bundled or not. Aren't software patents great?
[05:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:32] <exec> 08└─This is far worse than the prior case. In the prior case you could literally go online and spend a few moments downloading an alternative browser for 100% free. This is a system that, by analog, not only refuses to include alternative browsers (which is what sparked the anti-compete investigation an...
[05:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:45] <exec> 08└─What right do you have to control what somebody else does with their body?
[05:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:46] <exec> 08└─Check out the ratings. number of viewers that would get your show cancelled in the 80s would be considered good today.
[05:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:48] <exec> 08└─> No option for another sane school? Have you considered the obvious fact that VLM himself is really alt-sane?
[05:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:51] <exec> 08└─Brick was fucking awesome. I think that was the first time I noticed the kid from 3rd rock from the sun was a really good actor.
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[06:46:33] <exec> 08└─Piracy is Slavery. Slavery to Movie Producers. We should be making Free Movies instead. Making movies free is the first step toward the post scarcity world where nobody has to work and everybody smokes weed on Basic Income.
[06:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:34] <exec> 08└─Warning [youtube.com]
[06:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:37] <exec> 08└─Keep an eye out for this one. [soylentnews.org]
[06:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:39] <exec> 08└─Open source films [wikipedia.org], just like open source software, are crap. I can pop my neck the way Big Buck Bunny does. But I didn't learn the trick from Big Buck Bunny. No. I learned to pop my neck from Johnny Carson.
[06:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pr [5942] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:18] <exec> 08└─Currently you have to jump through some slightly annoying hoops to get the LAME mp3 export library installed. I don't mind too much personally but it's not so easy to explain to less technical users, and especially since the links in the software lead to sites with instructions written exclusively i...
[06:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:20] <exec> 08└─Those wacky Germans. What will they invent next?
[06:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:22] <exec> 08└─doesn't need or use special decoders for audio
[06:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:25] <exec> 08└─It's called exaggeration, but since you insist upon pedantry, Pandora streams songs with English vocals. There are 467,182,551 people who speak English. That's your 0.5 billion right there, and the rest of the world don't want to hear what Pandora offers.
[06:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:27] <exec> 08└─Stop this nonsense. Double blind ABX tests using various types of music have conclusively shown that just about no one can really tell the difference between a 256kbps MP3 and the original uncompressed music.
[06:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:29] <exec> 08└─Death to Fraunhofer, or Fraunhopper. Did I not just read, that the largest Hooters has been shut down? And I asked my self, first, how could you have a restaurant that only appealed to suckling youth, and then I thought, how could the largest Hooters be of interest, but then I discovered both the Wa...
[06:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:36] <exec> 08└─Lincoln's goal was first and foremost to preserve the Union. I believe he stated that if he would do that if necessary by freeing all the slaves, or freeing none of the slaves, or freeing some of the slaves, whatever worked to save the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation came about as more a timed...
[06:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:37] <exec> 08└─when did modern money cease to be debt? Because, if money is still created as debt, then slavery has not ended and all of this taking down old school slave masters icons is an act of mere propaganda.
[06:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:40] <exec> 08└─> For some reason the notion of a master race is a lot less popular now than it was in 1932. The reason is that you are not the master race anymore, meatbags. Who is best at chess, go, global thermonuclear war?
[06:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:42] <exec> 08└─"Not the case" except in every other civilized country at the time. Some American's are so willfully ignorant - usually the same ones regardless of the issue.
[06:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why some people try to make everything partisan. No, Microsoft's first 'warning' for this behavior was in 1994 and they full steam ahead screwing customers in spite of said warning right smack in the middle of Clinton's term. Just wait til the day you begin to understand that democrat a...
[06:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:38] <exec> 08└─I thought laying motionless upside down was the normal sex position of the female human. All female humans I have sex with are in this state. Some of them are still alive too, I'm sure.
[06:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 3043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:28] <exec> 08└─Almost everything life is a selfish act. Everything you do is for your own comfort. Working hard to give your kids a better life, donating to the poor, working to have a nice car, watching TV, trash talking other people, doing homework, etc... It's all done with an end goal of feeling better. Same w...
[06:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:34] <exec> 08└─Mag wheels are great. Just ask Nikki Lauder.
[06:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:35] <exec> 08└─Well, it is used commercially. One further issue, pointed out in the Wikipedia article, is the formation of polysulfides, which are highly corrosive. As a battery, it works best at scale, so you are unlikely to get a sodium-sulfur battery powering your laptop, and even cars are probably marginal. Gr...
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[07:46:05] <exec> 08└─I won't defend the EPO—least of all on software patent issues—but I won't stand for shit journalism either. In TFA, the author claims "patent law firms now openly say that it's easier to get...software patents in Europe". Since when? Which patent law firms? Did Article 56 of the EPC get overturn...
[07:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:37] <exec> 08└─Yea... blockchain the hell outta it! Whaaat?? That's the buzzword nowadays...
[07:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:23] <exec> 08└─I spent a long time pirating a lot of music, but sometime around college I realized it was becoming easier to buy the stuff legally than to pirate it,
[07:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:25] <exec> 08└─OK, we will take that as a go ahead to publish the whole thing, with your permission, whoever you are. My God Copyright Holders are such push-overs! "You will give me credit?" "Well, it is your work." OK, whore me to the extent the even some dweed in San Diego will know who I am! "Are you willing...
[07:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:27] <exec> 08└─Market segmentation is one reason what more than one audio format survives. An organisation supplying audio streams will want to minimise bandwidth costs, so will use a format that is just good enough to retain enough of its customers. This means that a better format can be sold at a price premium:...
[07:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:29] <exec> 08└─Two words: MP3 Sizzle. The clash of hi-hats, and the roar of applause, and the sound of rushing water are all hell to encode lossily. All sound rather close to noise—without actually being noise—and, as such, are very difficult to profile correctly in an encoder. MP3 just can't pull it off; and...
[07:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 2903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:26] <exec> 08└─As someone who has attempted suicide, I see all news stores about someone committing suicide as "Good job, you've finally gotten away from your horrible life. It may not have been the best choice, but you made it and was able to see it through to the end. Anyone who has the willpower to deliberately...
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[08:45:59] <exec> 08└─Tubeless tires? And for the ones that do, how many of those bike tire sidewalls are stiff enough unpressurized to keep from debeading when all they have in them is this foam and 0 percent air anyway? If you can get the tubeless tire on the rim with this foam inside of it, then it stands to reason if...
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[08:46:07] <exec> 08└─The US finally getting off the software patent train? Hoorah! China taking the US's place on the software patent train: Well they ignored everybody else's patents and stole everybody else's tech, so let us return the favor! Anybody buying into China as a market to grow into is a sad fool if china re...
[08:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:39] <exec> 08└─Can you use AI to 3D print a self-driving blockchain?
[08:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:29] <exec> 08└─Microsoft tried to kill all other lossy compression methods for music. They couldn't destroy mp3 because it was too well known, but they had much better luck killing Ogg Vorbis. That's why it's crazy hard to find a music player in the US that supports Ogg Vorbis. Car radios also tend not to support...
[08:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:06] <exec> 08└─Eh, kind of. At my first job there's a female cat who was a rescue. She's missing the tip of her left ear due to abuse and has what looks like a cat version of PTSD, nervous and fearful. We bonded about 2 years ago, a couple months after I started working there. It's about 50/50 she'll come if i get...
[08:48:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:22] <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.
[08:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:42] <exec> 08└─Whatever you think of Lee, there is really is no logic to him having a statue in New Orleans, a place he had no connection with whatsoever.
[08:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:43] <exec> 08└─"...and there were plenty in the North who were happy to just let the Southern states go." Count me among those. In fact, I'd be happy to even let them do it today, as long as these "taker" states in the South first paid back ever dollar they have taken from the Federal government, over and above wh...
[08:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:45] <exec> 08└─He fought for his soil, which at the time, was his home state of Virginia.
[08:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:48] <exec> 08└─offtopic? wtf? OP says, "could see it as something that had always been with us and would probably continue for a long time into the future" when in fact the abolitionists had been working hard to make sure people saw it a different way. Its also really disingenuous to refer to virginia as a "northe...
[08:50:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 1279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:10] <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...
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[09:45:53] <exec> 08└─The water shields in Timelime by Michael Crichton were reinforced with an inner lining inspired by the inner tube of a tire, making for a water filled tire design. The quantum Wheeler foam was used as a conduit for time travel in the novel. Put these two things together and you have a foam filled ti...
[09:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:54] <exec> 08└─I got fed up with punctures and switched to kevlar tyres about seven years ago. I haven't had a puncture since then (in spite of accidentally riding over broken glass a few times). My local bike shop sells two varieties, for around £10 and around £20 each. I bought a set three years ago and they'r...
[09:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:56] <exec> 08└─I recommend Schwalbe Marathon Plus for anyone interested. I've not found another brand that is so successful at rejecting punctures. They laid flint chippings on the bike track a couple of years back, which was pretty much like cycling over glass. The Marathon Plus survived...
[09:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:59] <exec> 08└─Yes so MrWolf stole ideas from dead guy MikeCrichton. So what ElonMusk steals all his ideas from dead guy IanMBanks.
[09:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:40] <exec> 08└─Overrated? This is pretty much why I stopped pirating. There have been a bunch of studies showing that piracy benefits distributors by providing them with free word-of-mouth advertising. I don't want to be providing advertising for someone who won't distribute their works under terms that I find acc...
[09:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:31] <exec> 08└─Another good news, the last patents of Dolby AC3 have also expired in March. See ac3freedomday on archive.org [archive.org].
[09:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:32] <exec> 08└─I suspect that a future audio format will actually be expanded relative to the source, by the addition of error-correcting codes.
[09:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:35] <exec> 08└─If you're planning to rip to FLAC and Vob, you would do well to do the following: 1. Rip to single-file FLAC per-CD, so you maintain the cuesheet information. For most CDs this doesn't matter much, but if you want a proper archive this is the way to go. Many players will handle these files and show...
[09:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:37] <exec> 08└─You sure about that? Because according to Opus developers themselves, beyond 128 Kbps there's almost no difference between codecs so an MP3 at 192Kbps should be indistinguishable from the original. See this graph [opus-codec.org].
[09:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:39] <exec> 08└─As the other poster pointed out, you're not quite right. We haven't needed dedicated MP3 decoders for a long time (even the original iPad didn't have one) for performance, but you really don't want to be doing audio playback on a general-purpose ARM core if you value your battery. When a phone is pl...
[09:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:41] <exec> 08└─These are both strong evidence that patent terms are too long. The AC-3 FAQ is amusing in the 'Should I use AC-3?' answer: No, of course not, it's 25 years old, there are much better formats available now! A term of 3-5 years for a patent covering something like AC-3 or MP3 would give the inventor a...
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[09:48:19] <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. And that in itself is a successful evolutionary strategy. Dogs...
[09:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:53] <exec> 08└─Then the "boys" will be sent to fucking prison! Viva Democracy.
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[10:46:13] <exec> 08└─Man: 'Evening, squire! Squire: (stiffly) Good evening. Man: Is, uh,...Is your wife a BANGER, eh? Know whatahmean, know whatahmean, nudge nudge, know whatahmean, say no more?
[10:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:51] <exec> 08└─Very much second RockBox if you have an old MP3 player around that you still use. I have a couple of SanDisk players around that I use for exercising, etc, and RockBox not only adds support for more formats, better EQ options, ReplayGain, etc, but also reduces the startup time with a large from minu...
[10:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:53] <exec> 08└─Hi there, Canadian here. We actually *used* to have access to Pandora when it started up, but then ... lawyers.
[10:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:55] <exec> 08└─Battery life.
[10:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:34] <exec> 08└─Humans are not predators either, we are pretty obviously parasites on the planet, fsck'n up anything and everything we come into contact with.
[10:49:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 2849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is an oversimplification of history. The secession of Virginia is not like the deep South. It's often forgotten today, but there were two waves of secessions. The first began with South Carolina soon after Lincoln's election. And there were a bunch of states that followed. But then Virgin...
[10:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Carlin was a big, honkin liberal but more importantly he understood the way to change things is to embrace speech not to shut it down. Progs today are virulently anti-speech and the man who wrote this [youtube.com] would never back censorship.
[10:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:32] <exec> 08└─No, sweety, Carlin was about liberty and equality. Exactly like, oh, who around here is always spouting those words without having to twist their meanings?
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[11:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:10] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be nice if all Americans could be arsed to keep a mind open enough to try and understand the other side like this? I mean her mind may or may not be changed but at least she sees the other side of the debate as human beings who could possibly know something she doesn't. Very well done pi...
[11:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:11] <exec> 08└─Well she isn't AT the NRA or in any way involved with the NRA. She, a reporter from CNN, went to a NRA-convention/Gun-show. I'm still not sure what the point of the article is. What did they hope to get out of sending a pacifist into a gun show, it's like sending a vegetarian to an all-meat-BBQ-fest...
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[11:46:14] <exec> 08└─% base64 -d | hexdump -C QfvLcozLwtE= 00000000 41 fb cb 72 8c cb c2 d1 |A..r....| 00000008
[11:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:22] <exec> 08└─The referenced goat-humper was jailed for IS-related activities, not for being a Mint user.
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:24] <exec> 08└─Or for being Welsh, and while Welshness may be the subject of ridicule in some circles it is not, as yet, a criminal offence.
[11:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:26] <exec> 08└─Pronunciation tip: the 'll' in 'Ullah' is a voiceless lateral fricative.
[11:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─The traditional animal for the activity you mention is the sheep, not the goat. (Goats are mascots for several military regiments, but the sheep is more commonly associated with Wales.)
[11:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:09] <exec> 08└─I see I'm not the only person who has heard the term retail therapy.
[11:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:51] <exec> 08└─Eternal vigilantism is the price of liberty.
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[12:46:24] <exec> 08└─N/T
[12:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:26] <exec> 08└─because very few people realized that persistence, neworked object, search/indexing, and an inference engine should be a very well integrated language extension for all high level languages. Picolisp gets it right, if you want something more newb friendly maybe Pharo.
[12:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:28] <exec> 08└─I've used SQL, but I've never heard of MailChimp or Stripe. If you're going to say 'X is popular, like Y,' then it helps to pick a Y that is more well-known than X, not less.
[12:46:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 721 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:36] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be nice if all Americans could be arsed to keep a mind open enough to try and understand the other side like this? I mean her mind may or may not be changed but at least she sees the other side of the debate as human beings who could possibly know something she doesn't. Very well done pi...
[12:46:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:38] <exec> 08└─Well she isn't AT the NRA or in any way involved with the NRA. She, a reporter from CNN, went to a NRA-convention/Gun-show. I'm still not sure what the point of the article is. What did they hope to get out of sending a pacifist into a gun show, it's like sending a vegetarian to an all-meat-BBQ-fest...
[12:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:41] <exec> 08└─FORGET about any gun connection in relation to VALIDLY hating on the mainstream media: ANYONE with two brain cells to rub together 'hates' the shitty Big (Korporate) Media, doesn't matter which side of the political fence you are falling towards... again, has almost nothing to do with guns per se -a...
[12:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:45] <exec> 08└─oh, i wanted to add one other point to her generic comment often heard from ANTI-gun people along the lines of 'i just don't understand people's fascination with guns/weapons...' i don't think they say this because they are neutral about guns/weapons, i don't think they say this because they genuine...
[12:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:47] <exec> 08└─oh, i wanted to add one other point to her generic comment often heard from ANTI-gun people along the lines of 'i just don't understand people's fascination with guns/weapons...'
[12:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:49] <exec> 08└─I grew up not knowing a single gun owner
[12:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:51] <exec> 08└─is not off topic, mod didn't read the department line.
[12:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:02] <exec> 08└─So he landed in gaol for being a nerd. Jery unjust!
[12:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:04] <exec> 08└─A bit of how's your father with a sheep is nothing. We've all done it. But slip your david cameron into some other sort of beast and you'll never hear the end of it.
[12:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:06] <exec> 08└─Isis fans usually take on Arabic names, so I read Ullah like I would Abdullah.
[12:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:09] <exec> 08└─It could be short for Ullahnyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole, couldn't it?
[12:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tbuskey [6127] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:22] <exec> 08└─Off road motorcyclng has had things for this too. Michelin makes a foam insert (called a mousse) that is widely used. Someone experimented with tennis balls and produced a product. Off road isn't as sensitive to balance and a few pounds extra is better than changing it on the trail.
[12:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:42] <exec> 08└─Wonder if Insulin Potentiation Therapy earlier on is a good idea. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.cancertutor.com [cancertutor.com]
[12:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:08] <exec> 08└─...you forgot the hyperloop to Mars ! ! !
[12:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bending Sheet Glass Using Lasers and Gravity - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:20] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. You would have all sorts of optical artifacts from the flow and you would still have to grind and polish the lens afterwards. For optics you would be better casting something close to the shape you want cooling in controlled conditions and the doing the fine grinding and polishing to finis...
[12:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:29] <exec> 08└─Regardless of what he wanted, he had to say that for military reasons. Had he not been making overtures like that, Maryland would have seceded (Maryland was one of the most important slave states, and he had dodged an assassination attempt in Baltimore on his way to his inauguration), leaving Washin...
[12:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Leaked Document on Facebook's Marketing to Teenagers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:00] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallax_View. [wikipedia.org] Next thing you know, they'll be recruiting assassins too. First acne medication ads, then... the world.
[12:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Teams With NASCAR for Broadband Test - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder how that high frequency works through chain link fencing
[12:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sodium and Magnesium to Replace Lithium in Batteries - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:38] <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!
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[13:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:28] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of MailChimp Check your spam folder.
[13:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:29] <exec> 08└─(1) Why RDBMS and (2) Why SQL (1) is easy - its a good model of data organisation with a strong theoretical underpinning and can easily be used to implement flat files, document stores, graph databases etc. especially with a dash of "sugar" from the RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL's support for JSON). Obviou...
[13:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:32] <exec> 08└─... yet after 40 years, the *vast* majority of people seem to be utterly incapable of wring anything approaching readable SQL. They use all caps, alias tables to single characters, use horrible names, and a variety of other sins that somehow have become the 'convention' from the mainframe crowd. Luc...
[13:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:34] <exec> 08└─I think the reason SQL continues to be used is inertia. Once the installed base is large enough, replacing the 'ecosystem' is hard. In other words, the expected pain of transition is not outweighed by the expected gain of using something new (and hopefully better). There doesn't appear to be anythin...
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 2709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─Haha I know, people still have a hard time (mind you they might have a hard time writing code to begin with), and I should know because I teach it to graduate students who like to write spaghetti. I see two main issues from my SQL teaching experience: 1- Many students/people who write SQL are not tr...
[13:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:51] <exec> 08└─It's articles like this that make me think we should require background checks, mental-health tests, and mandatory waiting periods for people aspiring to be a journalist. You know, common-sense reform. Just to make sure the wrong people aren't going to be writing anything that might do harm or incit...
[13:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:52] <exec> 08└─a pacifist is someone who has some desire or aim not to kill. A gun can kill but it can be used for things not related to killing (i.e. target practice, sports, olympics). So the analogy to vegetarianism doesn't quit fit. It would only make sense if the NRA was devoted to killing, which I don't thin...
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:55] <exec> 08└─"'i just don't understand people's fascination with . . ." You may have the correct take on that phrase. Then again, there are things that I don't really get. I love motorcycles, for instance. I want a machine that at least qualifies as a 'cafe racer'. If a bike won't cruise at 100 mph, it's just no...
[13:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:09] <exec> 08└─Mint is notorious for being probably the most insecure Linux distribution. There are plenty of borderline distros like Manjaro that didn't support full disk encryption until 2016 and famously told their users to change the date on their computer back a month because their SSL cert expired, but at le...
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─It's a summary that doesn't explain what ALICE is, even at a basic level. Basically, with stories like this, here's the message provided: "If you don't know what Alice is, go to someplace other than soylentnews.org" - not a good message to give readers.
[13:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:42] <exec> 08└─Hmm, they see 20% of the tumor cells are entering the vasculature at any given moment...
[13:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:10] <exec> 08└─Sure you can, in the cloud.
[13:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:12] <exec> 08└─Well, kind-of. I wasn't explicitly thinking of PAR (which I knew about), but rather something more like a raptor code ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ). I don't know if it is possible, but it would be good if you could preserve the characteristic of being able to recover...
[13:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:54] <exec> 08└─@ idiot king: grrrrrRRRRR *BARK*BARK*BARK* GRRRRRRRrrrrr you come around here, it will be a race to see if it is me or my dogs who bite you first... dog damn, i hates me a dog hater... not sure they qualify as human beans...
[13:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 2091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:39] <exec> 08└─You're welcome. I came upon that speech a couple years ago when these debates started happening over confederate monuments. I think it's a fascinating first-hand account. The unfortunate thing, of course, is that stuff like Charles Adams' arguments were then taken too far by Southern apologists in t...
[13:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:40] <exec> 08└─Oops -- sorry about that link. I misunderstood that the veteran in question there actually served in the Confederate army but then joined the Union army. Anyhow, I guess there aren't any more children of confederate veterans still receiving federal benefits, though there still were a few years back.
[13:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 2240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:42] <exec> 08└─The previous reply to my post is much more accurate. Lincoln was willing to preserve the Union at all costs, and the Corwin Amendment was only one of many schemes he considered that would have continued to prop up slavery. Lincoln himself was not in favor of slavery, but it's very clear from a LOT o...
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[14:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:20] <exec> 08└─Uber will just ignore the injunction anyway, it has worked for them so far right?
[14:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:36] <exec> 08└─I it where not for that stupid kid we could have gotten rid of these dinosaurs ages ago, BUT WE HAVE TO KEEP RESTORING FROM TAPE
[14:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─PeopleSoft does machine-generated SQL. I find myself quoting Marlon Brando every time someone hands that off to me. ...and not just Apocalypse Now "the horror... the horror..." I have to get shit done, so out of necessity it often veers to "Get The Butter."
[14:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─Apparently MailChimp is something like GNU Mailman [wikipedia.org] but for the hip millenials who prefer paying for stuff and don't care about control or privacy.
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─That summary reads like it is the victim of product placement.
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─Yup, and it plugs right in many cloud CRMs like Salesforce so it's likely to stick around for a while unfortunately...
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─Why hasn't something more concise, logical and which makes it easier to compose queries programatticaly emerged?
[14:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:04] <exec> 08└─Story needs a trigger warning.
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─for the google deficient : https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry mighty bud, that article is one big subtweet about american gun derangement. It is dripping with sarcastic dogwhistles that right wingers can't hear because to them everything she says is considered totally normal. Few people here look like me. Most appear to be white and male. Many view the...
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─And your evidence for said claim is? What a load of crap. I agree that as a desktop orientated distro, it's less secure than other Linux distros. But don't for one tiny iota of a second think that it is comparable to Windows 10. Not in the slightest.
[14:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:25] <exec> 08└─Likewise.Now if he were called Llewelyn, Oswallt, or Gerallt, then you'd definitely need your voiceless lateral fricatives!
[14:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:27] <exec> 08└─You mean it's not a War Of The Worlds reference??
[14:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:29] <exec> 08└─Oh my god, any Google search. Here, this is three months old: https://fosdem.org [fosdem.org] Mint still does not implemen...
[14:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:31] <exec> 08└─I miss the good old days when we were dreaming of space elevators.
[14:49:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:10] <exec> 08└─You're still missing the fact that no one uses any such devices in 2017. You're talking about ancient circa-2000 MP3 players that use such hardware. No one cares about non-MMU micros any more. No one uses those to play MP3s. There are no devices on sale now like this which have any significant sales...
[14:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:33] <exec> 08└─how could you have a restaurant that only appealed to suckling youth
[14:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:34] <exec> 08└─The music industry is run by some of the sharpest businessmen around, and yet even they got played for fools by Steve Jobs when he negotiated rights for the iTunes Music Store. He was an awful human being, but he is also the sole reason why music and (only music! no other media) was available DRM-fr...
[14:51:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 946 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:24] <exec> 08└─That's complete nonsense right there. If you go to Berlin, you'll find a Holocaust memorial [wikipedia.org] and a Jewish Museum [wikipedia.org] that includes exhibits on the Holocaust. What you won't find is any kind of monument or even a headstone for Hitler, Goebbels, Eichmann, or any other top Na...
[14:51:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:26] <exec> 08└─And I for one find it significant that one of the monuments that white supremacist terrorists are threatening violence to protect is in honor of white supremacist terrorists.
[14:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:33] <exec> 08└─Here's the mascot [hrwiki.org]!
[14:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I exactly agree with the argument (and if I did that would make me the opposite of a right-winger...), but that's the wording a lot of people use when they talk about abortion. "You not allowing me to do anything I want with it is controlling my body!"
[14:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe in general, but that's a pretty bold blanket statement to make. And of course there are those who would argue that choosing to abort isn't "in their right mind," either. What do you do if you have a long conversation with them and fail to change their mind? I'm all for discussing it with them,...
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[15:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:22] <exec> 08└─Another possibility is that somebody got access to a pre-release master of the bluray that had no encryption to begin with. Soylent just ran an article a couple of days ago about somebody who got into an unsecured system that contained a netflix show. Will just have to see how many other UHBDs show...
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─It's not criminal! It's a business model!
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see them try. Uber seems to be a complete shithole company with flagrant disregard for the law. Perhaps they need to be reminded that we live in one of those “violently imposed monopolies.” I'm actually surprised that the powers that be have changed tactics here. They seemed to be go...
[15:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 2456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─Item number 2, thinking in sets instead of procedural thinking hit the nail right on the head. That is exactly my own personal experience years ago. I could write simple queries. Then as the need for more complex queries arose, my thinking naturally tended towards how to solve the problem with loops...
[15:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─... especially when the immigrants come from countries like India, where there is an entirely different, diametrically opposing world view on matters such as the Second Amendment. The governments of the United States are founded on the principle that there must be checks and balances between the po...
[15:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:17] <exec> 08└─"Why do you want to own an object that can kill another human being?" Well, why do people want to own cars? McDonalds hamburgers? Power tools? Knives (including kitchen knives?) Oh - the responses are varied and unique and won't get a true representation short of a book. The number of times hunting...
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─Technically possible, but only as a rarity. Guns are common in India and almost everyone who knows anyone in a rural side will know someone who has a gun.
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─I can't think of anything more un-american than to say american principles aren't good enough to convince anyone else of their value and correctness. I think us real americans need to kick your traitorous ass out of the country.
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:24] <exec> 08└─a pacifist is someone who has some desire or aim not to kill. A gun can kill but it can be used for things not related to killing ... So the analogy to vegetarianism doesn't quit fit.
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─It is simply a fact that principles are enforced by people who appreciate those principles—if you change The People, then you change the principles. There's a reason that the third world struggles to implement even the most basic ideas of a Jeffersonian representative democracy; the institutions...
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─I strongly disagree. While I think it wouldn't be that hard for them to understand others, it's cognitive dysfunction from their beliefs that keep them from understanding others. I see it all the time on SN. People will post their surprise, sincerely, that I can reason and use logic. But the differe...
[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─You: Similarly when the white guy says gun control was about repressing blacks...
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:51] <exec> 08└─I like how your only link given as evidence doesn't even mention Mint. Try again. This PowerPoint is about Ubuntu (which admittedly is upstream from Mint, but still). So let's rewrite everything in Rust or other memory safe languages?
[15:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:52] <exec> 08└─This PowerPoint is also very Betteridge-y. I guess it kind of makes sense if it's a presentation aide for talking to a bunch of people at a conference about it, but e.g. your claim that Mint (again not actually the subject of the article) is more insecure than Windows is one of the aforementioned bu...
[15:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:54] <exec> 08└─It is acceptable to use a goat according to the Koran, at least if there is no woman around. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, US troops see it often. If you search a bit, you can find videos taken via some sort of thermal or low-light camera, probably from a helicopter. This is better than some of the...
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:56] <exec> 08└─So I've got this wonderful idea to give the world gasoline for their vehicles at no cost. Step one, get a bunch of gasoline. Step two, let anyone fill up at the pump, no charge. Now then I run out of gasoline, I'm sure something good will happen. People can donate so we don't have to charge. Or some...
[15:49:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─Two words: MP3 Sizzle. The clash of hi-hats, and the roar of applause, and the sound of rushing water are all hell to encode lossily. All sound rather close to noise—without actually being noise—and, as such, are very difficult to profile correctly in an encoder. MP3 just can't pull it off; and...
[15:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─> 2. Script the conversion from FLAC to Vob, rather than ripping twice. This way, if you end up deciding to have mp3 instead/as well (as I have had to do for my car), you can just run the conversion overnight for your music collection. To save anyone the hassle of scripting it, systems already exist...
[15:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:04] <exec> 08└─If you could write your own software for the players, then you'd have OGG and FLAC support (even if that means less battery life while playing them).
[15:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:47] <exec> 08└─make biscuits???? Could you explain that please? Not so sure they are solitary, I have noticed when travelling in Europe that the feral cats seem to herd together. I have 3 cats at home and they are not solitary, they socialise with each other and with the neighbours cats. All 3 are pretty chill so...
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─Your point is lost on the vast majority of people here. They're minds just cannot comprehend what you're trying to say.
[15:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:33] <exec> 08└─I never said Virginia was a Northern state; you misread my post. By the time of the Civil War, the Northern states didn't have slaves, but before that, Northern states had slaves--some of them had an economy that used them to the fullest and built the state's wealth with their labor. New Jersey had...
[15:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Lusting Males - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:34] <exec> 08└─ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?
[15:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:33] <exec> 08└─But that's not what we're talking about. [soylentnews.org] Perhaps some people really can make the decision they'd rather die. That doesn't matter. People tipped over the edge by seeing suicide in fiction are most certainly not in that position. And of course there are those who would argue that ch...
[15:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:35] <exec> 08└─a topic for which we have much conjecture but pretty much zero scientific evidence to support any position
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[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:29] <exec> 08└─That's how it was done with DVDs at least, though it's not impossible they added some dial-home shenanigans as well. What makes it tricky is that the keys are generally stored in hardware inaccessible to normal software, with device manufacturers being required to jump through a bunch of hoops to ma...
[16:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:31] <exec> 08└─Would a master have the Blu-ray file structure and 50-100 GB size of UHD Blu-ray? There is a possibility that there could be a key revocation linked to this, which would be as good of a confirmation as anything.
[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:33] <exec> 08└─There are existing Blu-ray "rips". But to my knowledge they all use the analog hole and end up with massively inflated file sizes and degraded video and audio quality. Patience, yes, due to brute force decryption... and maybe quantum computing.
[16:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:35] <exec> 08└─> Would a master have the Blu-ray file structure and 50-100 GB size of UHD Blu-ray? Yes. Encryption has to be the absolute last step of the process because DRM prevents any further modifications. So if you get access to one generation before that final step it won't be encrypted.
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:37] <exec> 08└─if a key get leaked, that only effects old releases that used that key - new releases just move on to a new key and your player has to dial home to get that key before you can watch them
[16:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:40] <exec> 08└─There's certainly plain-jane blu-ray rips; AnyDVD-HD (formerly slysoft, now redfox) will do that for you straight from the disc and a regular BD-ROM drive and will dump the streams out to disk, no analogue hole needed. Although the groundwork was initially done through vulns in the encryption, becau...
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:42] <exec> 08└─There are existing Blu-ray "rips". But to my knowledge they all use the analog hole and end up with massively inflated file sizes and degraded video and audio quality.
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:44] <exec> 08└─(2) Why bother cracking HDMI or AACS2, when you can buy a 4K TV for cheap, open it, and tap the screen driver's output?
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─So that means your (everyone's) investment in a blue-ray disk is at risk of the key it uses is compromised. The older your disk gets, the more at risk it is of no longer working.
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─Because most pirates aren't that hardcore. Easier to buy a $100 box from china that does all the work for you.
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Here is an online reencode of a phone cam video of another phone playing back a phone cam video of a security system monitor. Quality isn't something people actually care about. https://www.liveleak.com [liveleak.com]
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─Is this so-called judge of Mexican descent? He's BAD, folks, using excessive regulations to hunt a poor unicorn that brings precious jobs to Good Americans... Oh, wait, the Google guy is named Sergei? Uber is a terrible failing company who harasses women instead of grabbing them outright!
[16:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:25] <exec> 08└─They use all caps I see this all the time though, in blogs about SQL, in the actual documentation, etc. I can see why so many people do it: it's because so many other people do it, so they think it's the standard. It also does help separate the SQL keywords from variable names, table names, etc. I g...
[16:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:26] <exec> 08└─and is a prime example of COBOL-esque "Unlight Lamp" syndrome How is this a bad thing? "Unlight lamp" reminds me of the text adventures of the early 80s, back when computers actually used to be fun. Now with Windows 10, spyware, ridiculously slow software despite incredibly powerful hardware, and wo...
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:29] <exec> 08└─Why hasn't something more concise, logical and which makes it easier to compose queries programatticaly emerged?
[16:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:31] <exec> 08└─"That's the way we've always done it" is one of the most dangerous things ever uttered. I think the whole upper case thing came from syntax diagrams in manuals that showed keywords in all caps, and people thought you had to. I don 't care about the reason though, it makes it quite unreadable. Keywo...
[16:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:33] <exec> 08└─Relational theory uses set theory and boolean predicate logic. This is very, very powerful especially for ad hoc queries. Try doing that in a hierachical object data store. SQL then takes this powerful framework and cripples it. The common use of NULL forces a half implemented usage of tri-value log...
[16:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:47] <exec> 08└─I grew up not knowing a single gun owner
[16:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 3315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:03] <exec> 08└─The sort of "violence" I've experienced is just not solvable with a gun. Yes, if you near a wilderness and need means to protect yourself from wild animals, then a gun (a rifle, not a pistol) can be a good idea. Animals aren't stupid, and the rest will get the idea after a few of them are shot. A re...
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:05] <exec> 08└─I begin with this question: "Why do you want to own an object that can kill another human being?""
[16:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:07] <exec> 08└─She's missing the American penchant for thinking individually rather than collectively, the whole rugged individualist thing. Another manifestation of it is superheroism. How many superhero comics are there? Yeah, lots. Superheroes do their good deeds with their special super powers whatever they ar...
[16:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─...and thus violence has been seen, for a long time in India, as an ineffective way to conduct oneself. Same in China and other parts of Asia, as well as Europe. They're lightyears ahead of our stupid backwards country because they've always had a cosmopolitan and, increasingly, multicultural worldv...
[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─His genes may be mixed. But when he starts talking about pocs as "you" rather than "we" its clear he's fully adopted white culture.
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:48] <exec> 08└─Granted, I haven't had a puncture in - literally - years. However, this solution absolutely makes sense. Only, they need to carry it that last step and eliminate air pressure altogether. An example from another field: I play tennis. Tennis balls are normally pressurized. This is great for the ball m...
[16:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:49] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure tubeless bicycle tires fit on standard rims: they have the tube integrated into the tire. They have the advantage of being foldable for replacement on the trail.
[16:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:40] <exec> 08└─I miss the good old days when we were dreaming of space elevators.
[16:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:42] <exec> 08└─This isn't enterprise level - it doesn't need to be. Hence it doesn't have to be paid. The cost of having a server and the site-work like this is like having your own custom-made blog, personal domain and a dedicated machine, just with a heavy dose of traffic. I bet there are a lot of people willing...
[16:50:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:40] <exec> 08└─These are both strong evidence that patent terms are too long. The AC-3 FAQ is amusing in the 'Should I use AC-3?' answer: No, of course not, it's 25 years old, there are much better formats available now! A term of 3-5 years for a patent covering something like AC-3 or MP3 would give the inventor a...
[16:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:49] <exec> 08└─I agree that a general purpose CPU with MMU is useful or even beneficial for playing audio from one or more compressed formats. I also agree that alternatives don't have significant sales volume. However, some of the audiophile equipment currently available is instructive. For example, 7.1 surround...
[16:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:51] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I still don't see what you're getting at. No one is going to go back to MP3 decoder ASICs when you can get general-purpose CPUs for so little money that have no trouble running a software decoder. And audiophile stuff is really irrelevant to the larger music market; if it weren't, the App...
[16:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:35] <exec> 08└─Man is number zero as the world's most damaging invasive mammalian predator. C not Pascal.
[16:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows 10 S Only Runs Software From Windows Store - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:53] <exec> 08└─No, dammit, it is a gold dress and not a blue dress!!!
[16:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Vigilante is Putting a Huge Amount of Work Into Infecting IoT Devices - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:41] <exec> 08└─Your description of malware fighting is very similar to Core Wars [wikipedia.org].
[16:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beefs Up Warnings On '13 Reasons Why' After Outrage - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:26] <exec> 08└─Well I'm glad we have you around to tell us what we are and aren't talking about and be the arbiter of right and wrong, then.
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[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─The browser should not accept long certificate chains. Root certs can sign server certs and that is it.
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─Signing from the root is a horrid idea for several reasons. That's why intermediate certificates were created. The total length of the chain is usually 3 (sometimes four) certificates from the root to the leaf. SN's certificate chain is three on soylentnews.org, and four on *.soylentnews.org due to...
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:48] <exec> 08└─True, but finding a TV with a broken screen to gut is a lot easier than cracking a modern encryption algorithm, if you want credit for being the first to upload a perfect digital copy of a movie.
[17:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:49] <exec> 08└─I meant to say UHD/4J Blu-ray.
[17:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─4(fuc)K
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:53] <exec> 08└─Given how many recent Hollywood productions obviously cut budgets by not bothering with a scenario, I'd say picture and audio quality are pretty much the only things left in major movies...
[17:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:56] <exec> 08└─That shit is why I never bought BluRay to begin with. I'm happy enough with the products the pirates put out, which are far far far superior. For instance, my pirated content does not: 1) phone home 2) force me to watch other content 3) make me worry if I have the right encryption software 4) force...
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─x265 should really help high resolution video. A 30 minute tv show encoded at 1080p with x265 is under 200Mb.
[17:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:00] <exec> 08└─Ok you have access to this output. Its proprietary and meant to drive LCD panels. What do you feed it into?
[17:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─OK, I was with you until the second paragraph, then you lost me. Not sure what Uber flouting the law has to do with feminism. Not every tech story is about keeping women out of programming,
[17:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:41] <exec> 08└─I thought it was because it throws feces everywhere.
[17:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:43] <exec> 08└─How is this a bad thing? "Unlight lamp" reminds me of the text adventures of the early 80s, back when computers actually used to be fun.
[17:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:45] <exec> 08└─Keywords are one of the things you care *least* about. Proper names, and lower/camelCase make SQL readable.
[17:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:47] <exec> 08└─All I can say to that is; 3: TETSUOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
[17:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:49] <exec> 08└─Duh ... of course I can.
[17:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:51] <exec> 08└─You don't have to agree with me. I can't force you to be right. More seriously, the keywords stand out better using indentation, without being distracting, I think.
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:26] <exec> 08└─Again you proclaim that you have no faith in the inherent superiority of american principles. If that's true, then we should welcome better ones.
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─She's missing the American penchant for thinking individually rather than collectively, the whole rugged individualist thing.
[17:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─Technically possible, but only as a rarity. Guns are common in India and almost everyone who knows anyone in a rural side will know someone who has a gun.
[17:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:32] <exec> 08└─>as a cry to a time when you quite literally could be killed by a Grizzly bear in the middle of the night. Those days are gone, and they are not coming back. When did bears lose the ability to maul and kill people? >Same in China and other parts of Asia, as well as Europe. They're lightyears ahead o...
[17:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:34] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is you believe the BS that you just wrote. Self-defense is something we did not delegate away to government. (Revenge is. But not self-defense.) Without guns the weaker is prey to the stronger which is why Colts were called the "great equalizer." A 100 pound woman could defend herself...
[17:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:37] <exec> 08└─I don't care for guns myself, but living in a small American town during a significant flood and disaster some years ago, my friends and I all temporarily moved into a friends' hilltop place downtown for a few days. Everyone brought supplies. One guy brought a rifle and two pistols. I though this wa...
[17:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:39] <exec> 08└─Huh? I didn't even notice CNN. If you had bothered to go through all the links you would have seen how girls are encouraged to carry guns in rural India. As far as citations are concerned, the only metric government has is how many illegal guns are being confiscated. I linked to that. Secondly, ther...
[17:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:41] <exec> 08└─> If there is one trend that I've noticed among these sort of people is that they often have been lucky enough to never had to defend themselves against another violent person who was much stronger than themselves. Many change their mind amazingly quick and arm themselves after a single assault. Cit...
[17:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:05] <exec> 08└─Before there was unlimited internet porn, there was 3615 Ulla (Minitel service).
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 2081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─Mint is a DESKTOP distro. A lot of effort was placed into ease of use and feature stability not security. You're comparing apples to oranges. The aforementioned holding back of newer versions of packages is nothing new especially for desktop distros since Desktop Environments can be version temperam...
[17:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:08] <exec> 08└─Security is in how you use it. I seriously doubt that the arrested radical with 6.1TB of data to seize (what is he storing, pornographic training videos?) was doing anything securely, but at least Mint doesn't "pry" into your potentially secure practices the way a commercial OS might.
[17:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:25] <exec> 08└─Heard about it over 25 years ago when watching coverage of the Dakar Rally-Raid, where getting a new tire for your bike is near impossible. It sounded both obvious and expensive then. Should have been mainstream long before now.
[17:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:35] <exec> 08└─And this is one of the problems with citing-blogs-as-news sources. Presumably the regular readers of this gents blog already know who he is, what his qualifications are, and have either made a decision that they find him reasonably credible, or absolutely hilarious, or whatever. So it makes sense fo...
[17:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:37] <exec> 08└─That whole quoted section is pretty horrible writing.
[17:50:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:48] <exec> 08└─Stop this nonsense. It depends on the type of music. If it's rich music with lots of harmonics and overtones, more of its details are removed when compressed, and the discrepancy becomes more noticeable.
[17:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:28] <exec> 08└─And since over 95% of people listen to their music collection on the go (car, gym, run, work), and on basic playback devices, it doesn't freaking matter... You can keep spouting nonsense about what perfect people with perfect hears in perfect listening situations might be able to distinguish, or jus...
[17:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:30] <exec> 08└─I'm envisioning a semi-hypothetical system which is base on Meridian Audio's digital speakers. Each speaker recieves a serial stream and contains its own amplifier(s). The traditional hi-fi selector/amplifier unit is relegated to a selector/sampler/transcoder/expander/reverb for eight or more speake...
[17:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:32] <exec> 08└─Well, as always it depends on the quality of the encoder. "192 kbit/s" simply refers to file size, and is not a measure of encoding quality. A bad encoder can certainly produce poor-sounding results that take up lots of space.
[17:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:34] <exec> 08└─Nobody is talking about "perfection". And what the hell does Apple has got to do with anything here? Some of us care that lossy compression degrades audio quality, and we would like to strike a decent bargain between file size and audio quality. If you don't care, then be happy and kindly bug off.
[17:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bending Sheet Glass Using Lasers and Gravity - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:47] <exec> 08└─Is it completely unlikely that the largest research organisation in Europe produces more than one thing worth reading about in a week? Their press releases end up on phys.org, just like everyone elses. Nevermind, why the hate? From what I heard from people working there (mostly ILT and ISE), their i...
[17:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Burz [6156] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:20] <exec> 08└─So the sharp loss in biodiversity, due to our actions, is just 'nature at work'? Somehow I don't think many ecologists would agree. Tip: Don't use terms like "evolution" and "symbiotic relationships" and expect people to consider them only within the myopic "chickens, cows and homes" box you constru...
[17:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Burz [6156] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:22] <exec> 08└─This is true... and it should be noted that 'domesticated' human-fed cat populations have soared and are contributing to a crash in bird populations.
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[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─WQAD-TV in Seattle TV call-signs that start with a W are in the eastern half of the country. WQAD is out of Moline, IL, apparenty. Not that it really matters...
[18:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:54] <exec> 08└─Normies need services too!
[18:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─Still, they should have been distrusted (detrusted?). If it nukes a third of the Internet, then it does - any place that matters would replace their cert within a day. Heck, give customers a week's warning, and the effect would be negligible. Google is being far too nice.
[18:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:57] <exec> 08└─I suspect that will be the next step if Symantec doesn't bite the bullet on Google's proposal. Mozilla has already demonstrated that they are not above effectively killing a major CA with their handling of the similar failure to follow the Baseline Requirements with WoSign/StartCom. That they are si...
[18:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:26] <exec> 08└─720p is the sweet spot for me. Acceptable quality -- to the point where I doubt I'd need better for anything other than VR (TV/laptop/phone at a few inches distance), maximum quality my laptop could display anyway (I'm in the shitty 768p club), and much easier to decode than H.265 1080p on a 2011 CP...
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:28] <exec> 08└─It's typically documented because only 3 companies make LCD panels, and digital so you can plug it into your FPGA eval board of course... Definitely not for beginners, but simpler and more permanent than cracking keys.
[18:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah... that's not really how it works.
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:32] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, that's the most intelligent thing you've ever said.
[18:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─> A 30 minute tv show encoded at 1080p with x265 is under 200Mb. That bitrate might be ok for a talking-head kind of show like jimmy kimmel or animation. But anything like a regular tv show is still going to look crappy at that bitrate. A lot better than h264 at that bitrate, but still crappy.
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:37] <exec> 08└─I came to SN and saw a story about the first cracked copy of a UHD Blu-Ray film. "Which film?" my mind inquired. Scanning the summary for this information, the mind started to wander, "Was it the greatest film in history? A film worth sharing in glorious full UHD!" "Better yet, what if it isn't?" th...
[18:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:23] <exec> 08└─Bet you could remember the hex codes for all the commonly used machine code instructions, too... So much for natural language. No, actually I'm just thinking of the 8-bit microcomputers of the time, plus also the IBM PC, various mainframes, etc. All those things were fast. Maybe not so much at actua...
[18:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:24] <exec> 08└─What that boils down to in my experience is that doing things a different way is usually doing things a better way, but implementing that new way costs monies in the short-term and coincidentally managers will bend over backwards to avoid spending money and pad their short-term profits. What results...
[18:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─Because they thought it looked good. However, you can turn it off: http://www.laptopmag.com [laptopmag.com]
[18:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:11] <exec> 08└─You mean, they turn into cowards who think they need an EDC? Sorry you were bullied, bro!
[18:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:12] <exec> 08└─In other words: your research and writing abilities are on par with hers. Bravo.
[18:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:14] <exec> 08└─While I think it wouldn't be that hard for them to understand others, it's cognitive dysfunction from their beliefs that keep them from understanding others.
[18:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:16] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but humans need governments to exist peaceably in dense populations. Actually, even to exist peaceably in sparse populations, but in sparse populations encounters are less frequent, so government is less important. But do note that the murder rate among the Kalahari bushmen was found to b...
[18:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:19] <exec> 08└─Is here because runaway, like buzzard, thought it was an example of an "open minded" liberal that he could use to shame all the fascists liberals who don't give them any respect. Neither of them are very bright.
[18:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:21] <exec> 08└─I noticed an error in your title. The US is not a densely packed society. It's a mixture which contains densely packed parts and low density parts. It's literally a matter of time until the horrid Second Amendment gets repealed and tossed in the wastebin of history along with such smash hits as "Se...
[18:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:23] <exec> 08└─When did bears lose the ability to maul and kill people?
[18:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry about this, but while your post is technically correct ... please note that ALL people are ALWAYS irrational, EXCEPT when they pay careful attention to logical steps...and often even then. There are good reasons for this. Logic is slow, and takes a long time to work through, so people normally...
[18:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:27] <exec> 08└─It's articles like this that make me think we should require background checks, mental-health tests, and mandatory waiting periods for people aspiring to be a journalist.
[18:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:30] <exec> 08└─Giving journalists a degree and calling that qualification is like giving out concealed carry licenses at the gun shop with any purchase over $50. Universities have zero incentive to produce journalists who want to tell the truth, which is why they almost never turn one out.
[18:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:32] <exec> 08└─> or was it? seems like plenty of folks got their heads cracked open by state goons, if that isn't violence, i don't know what is... ), Yeah getting beat on by the state proves Gandhi was conducting a violent revolution. When you say such utterly ridiculous things all you do is signal to everyone th...
[18:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:34] <exec> 08└─If it's written into your founding documents, it's not a fanatical position. Twit.
[18:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:36] <exec> 08└─Automatic = fires multiple shots per trigger pull and highly illegal to own without special dispensationSemi-automatic = fires once per trigger pull without having to do anything to load the next shell. The vast majority of firearms produced in the last 80 years or so have been of the latter variety...
[18:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:39] <exec> 08└─It was meant to show how little she is related to India yet she knows she can parade around her ethnicity for suckers
[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:41] <exec> 08└─No, its not. Gun worship is not in the constitution. Guns as a tool were. There is no 5-million member organization dedicated to hammer ownership.
[18:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was not jailed for using it, but using Mint is definitely an act of terrorism - he should have been using Unity! Especially while humping goats.
[18:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:38] <exec> 08└─Stop posting summaries with acronyms that aren't defined anywhere. PTAB = Patent Trial and Appeal Board
[18:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:50] <exec> 08└─It has already been tried and had positive results in animal testing asfair. If interested, try to lookup the publication.
[18:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:23] <exec> 08└─> There have been a bunch of studies showing that piracy benefits distributors by providing them with free word-of-mouth advertising. > I don't want to be providing advertising for someone who won't distribute their works under terms that I find acceptable Soooo... You won't illegally watch for free...
[18:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:36] <exec> 08└─Did you read the first two posts of the thread, or was your Monster Oxygen-free-silver triple-shielded directional audio cable in the way?
[18:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:25] <exec> 08└─For you pleasure does not always mean pleasure as fun.but filling a need rat control or purring are both for our pleasure.
[18:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:11] <exec> 08└─Historical revisionists are fucking with our history, and you dare call the dissenters terrorists? No, we're calling the people making death threats, and committing arson over it, terrorists: Death threats prompt workers to wear bulletproof vests while removing Confederate monument in New Orleans [v...
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[19:46:19] <exec> 08└─All anyone outside the US knows is that Frasier worked at KACL and Jack Killian worked at KJCM.
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─TFS also doesn't specify whose early morning... not that it matters, since I ain't getting out of bed before the sun does for anything (except intercontinental trips).
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:23] <exec> 08└─Same thing with radio. I believe the Mississippi River is actually the dividing line.
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:36] <exec> 08└─I ran across one in Firefox yesterday from Google News. Despite there being no reason at all to need a security certificate for a well-known newspaper. It was hard (and annoying) to get past the multiple warning screens. It isn't like I was buying something or downloading software, those are the pla...
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─Browsers should warn you if: 1) The CA for a site's cert changes (including from self signed to CA signed). 2) The cert changes unexpectedly (e.g. too early). But you should also have the option to go "this cert is OK don't warn me about it anymore" (or "don't warn me about other certs for this site...
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine why Symantec wouldn't take the deal. Considering what has happened, they are being allowed to *continue* to service the customer accounts, take money, and basically operate. This is forced outsourcing if anything, and a 3rd party company saying we're going to help with the Q&A and cr...
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─From the TF comments: "Many people consider it the best 4k release yet." I assumed that meant the technical details. I looked up a review: http://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com [highdefdigest.com] If you want to impress your friends and family with your new UHD 4K Blu-r...
[19:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:16] <exec> 08└─hahaha. Right. Nothing is unbreakable, except my dependence on caffeine.
[19:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:06] <exec> 08└─It also does help separate the SQL keywords from variable names, table names, etc.
[19:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:07] <exec> 08└─One of the things that I'd say really caused confusing SQL syntax was the long period of time where Oracle (and possibly others) required the use of WHERE to join tables. Things are so much more clear when the JOIN is used to join multiple tables based on their logical relationship, and WHERE is use...
[19:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:06] <exec> 08└─Neither do you. GP was making a wager that the person's viewpoint is inaccurate; you're wagering that it is accurate. something you are hyper-emotionally invested in. All you accomplished was to demonstrate that you got so worked up that you thought making unfounded insults
[19:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:08] <exec> 08└─Rational/irrational are not binary states. Some people are further disconnected from reality than others, Khallow is regularly found wandering around in the weeds.
[19:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:10] <exec> 08└─> GP was making a wager that the person's viewpoint is inaccurate; you're wagering that it is accurate. Nope. That's you projecting your issues on my criticism of his denial of his insult. I didn't pretend to make some 3rd party neutral observation that if true would reflect poorly on the OP. I stra...
[19:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:12] <exec> 08└─The Indians may have succeeded in ousting the British, but we won with Gandhian-style civil disobedience, not a revolutionary war.
[19:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:14] <exec> 08└─WRONG
[19:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:17] <exec> 08└─Know your guns: Automatic = fires multiple shots per trigger pull and highly illegal to own without special dispensation Semi-automatic = fires once per trigger pull without having to do anything to load the next shell.
[19:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:45] <exec> 08└─Ya, but if it was an honest headline, who would have read it? "yet another ISIS terrorist arrested" *yawn*
[19:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:15] <exec> 08└─USA has software patents asfaik, even though the Alice case seems to have punctured that patentabilty. Europe don't have software patents and don't have plans for it either asfaik. China will not protect any patents, they steal them (asfaik). Russia? dunno.. Latin America?
[19:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:29] <exec> 08└─If single cells lurking in the body is responsible for reoccurring cancer it should be possible to wipe them out using the vaccine approach?
[19:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zipf [2400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:31] <exec> 08└─I know that sucralose can fake-out gut bacteria and cause them to die. Isn't cancer supposed to be sugar-hungry? IV sucralose - a non-caloric sweetener -- and watch the cancer eat it up. I suspect that if it works, starved tissue breaks off and causes distant mets. I would personally fund (well, wit...
[19:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:04] <exec> 08└─No, if you have server on the open net you have a weakness. Drop it out on the dark net, that problem goes away. ( unless you are an idiot and leave a bread trail, but that is a different weakness ). Even better if you use distributed servers spread out over the darknet.
[19:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:18] <exec> 08└─I switched to Ogg fifteen or more years ago. Winamp played them. My new TV won't, but will play MP3s. It doesn't matter, I play music from the computer, ran through the stereo system.
[19:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:19] <exec> 08└─Imagine how technical innovation would suffer if patents lasted as long as copyrights? Like science and technology, the arts are suffering far worse from copyright than tech is from patents. So don't talk too loud about patent length, the bastards might just triple it.
[19:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, "making biscuits" is a slang term for what's called milk treading. You know when your cat hops in your lap and rubs with her front paws like she's kneading dough? That :) I'm told it means they're feeling safe and content.
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[20:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─HAMR time!
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:13] <exec> 08└─they need to drop the prices and quit price fixing. you know damn well they are doing it.
[20:46:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 1048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:32] <exec> 08└─Signing from the root is a horrid idea for several reasons. That's why intermediate certificates were created. The total length of the chain is usually 3 (sometimes four) certificates from the root to the leaf. SN's certificate chain is three on soylentnews.org, and four on *.soylentnews.org due to...
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:40] <exec> 08└─Tried Certificate patrol [mozilla.org] for a while. Mostly gave up on it after too many false positives. (Including legitimate replacements due to a comodo thing).
[20:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:18] <exec> 08└─Fuck DRM, and anything/one attempting to use it. I'm happy to pay for DRM free content, but fuck paying for DRM'd content, I'd rather pirate or avoid it.
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─wtf? let me explain what it means to impress someone with your big ass TV: show a film of a fly walking on the screen, and see if they get a fly swatter.
[20:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bibendumsn [3138] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:12] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. Whenever I am given a query like that I find myself compelled to fix it. My other pet peeve are queries where the author has tried to use as many subqueries as possible. e.g.: select * from (select * from accounts where accounts.account = 123) a
[20:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─Using upper-case SQL keywords isn't going to make anything break; it's purely cosmetic. It's even less consequential than the old tabs-vs-spaces argument, or camelCase vs. under_score, etc. And this has nothing to do with managers anyway, this is something purely down to developers and their habits....
[20:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:19] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. A four-year degree can be had in 2.5 years, and was probably the easiest coursework I've taken since middle-school.
[20:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:20] <exec> 08└─You seem to be arguing against your own excuse with this doxxing thing.
[20:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:22] <exec> 08└─So easy to sling stones from the safety of anonymity.
[20:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:51] <exec> 08└─TFA said he was Welsh, so Welsh pronunciation ought to apply, oughtn't it? If not, you guys aren't doing it right. An old girlfriend of mine had the surname, "Schoon." When I met her I said, "That's interesting, because I would swear you look Chinese." "I am Chinese," she said, "My grandfather was g...
[20:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:09] <exec> 08└─Foam filled tires might be OK for utility cyclists, but will always have more rolling loss than a standard thin pneumatic tire. Every time you squish that foam you make a little heat and don't get all that energy back... Racers and long distance commuters might try this new thing in tfa which lets t...
[20:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:24] <exec> 08└─Roy's domain was originally called BoycottNovell and concentrated on the pact[1] which Novell/SuSE made with MSFT. [1] **We won't sue you to death if you do things our way.** With the subsequent acquisition of Novell and SuSE's reduced influence among distros over time, Roy has gotten a new domain n...
[20:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:40] <exec> 08└─Its like $1.50 - $3.00 per day per cage (2 rats per cage) just to house them. So about $20-$45 per month per rat.
[20:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:27] <exec> 08└─That's for typical non-"degenerate" passages rather than hard to encode pieces. Unfortunately, for MP3 a lot of cases it can't handle pop up in normal usage.
[20:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:29] <exec> 08└─Go learn something about information theory and signal processing. Maybe then you won't come across like an ignint knucklehead.
[20:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─That, believe it or not, has been the topic of many a lecture, article and book. There were lots of places where cooler heads (or a different approach) could have averted war. Example: Andrew Jackson and the Nullification Issue in the 1830s. The South in 1860 did not believe the North had the backbo...
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[21:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─Samsung -- it's like they are on fire! That slogan is free if they want to use it ...
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:14] <exec> 08└─Don't hurt him!
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:25] <exec> 08└─"which will next approach Earth in 2061. Mark your calendars!" that's probably going to require i have access to life extension technologies. otherwise, waawaauuu...
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:27] <exec> 08└─Yep, although there is some wiggle room. Stations near the river can keep their call sign if they move their transmitter across the Mississippi. A local station near me did this not long ago.
[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─...which days/night will be cloudy in my area. I swear it's like some kind of curse.
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─Move to Chile.
[21:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─Nor can I, but Symantec has been "advised" to clean up its act (or rather its partner's and reseller's acts) on BR adherance on previous occasions and failed to do anything about it, so now Google and Mozilla are basically adding an "or else" to the advice, so it's really a matter of how stubborn th...
[21:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:50] <exec> 08└─My guess was that one of their advertisers had a bad cert.
[21:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─Why in God's name would you choose "the Smurfs 2" for the test movie?
[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:31] <exec> 08└─"The company, founded by a group of movie studios and technology partners including Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, has put a lot of effort into making the technology secure." thanks a lot! now my keyboard is floating off the desk in a river of tears!
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:33] <exec> 08└─http://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/30720/thesmurfs2ultrahdbluray.html [highdefdigest.com] Might be more about using a film where the extra color depth actually matters. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The discs support both high dynamic range by increasing the color dept...
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:36] <exec> 08└─The annoying part of these content wars is that there seem to be no really good sources for streaming recent movies outside of pay TV subscriptions. I record HD off an antenna with MythTV and will NEVER have any interest in any pay TV. However I very much would be glad to pay even the price of a mov...
[21:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:38] <exec> 08└─https://hdonline.to/ [hdonline.to]
[21:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─OK, I was with you until the second paragraph, then you lost me. Not sure what Uber flouting the law has to do with feminism. Not every tech story is about keeping women out of programming,
[21:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:32] <exec> 08└─SQL itself is a semantic train wreck and...verbose, poorly standardised and is a prime example of COBOL-esque "Unlight Lamp" syndrome. Why hasn't something more concise, logical and which makes it easier to compose queries programatticaly emerged?
[21:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:41] <exec> 08└─What the parent says!
[21:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:42] <exec> 08└─Well, you convinced me!
[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:45] <exec> 08└─This may be the reason as to why China is so "triggered" by Falun Gong? They may decide to pick up stones an sticks..
[21:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:47] <exec> 08└─Yo momma!
[21:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:17] <exec> 08└─So a bad person uses Linux and the connection is? Being Linux Mint and the need for security. It seems there was at least one bad choice.
[21:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:50] <exec> 08└─Now would be the point where you would link to a -recent- decision where those were upheld rather than struck down. "After Alice" is definitely a thing. asfaik Therein lies your problem. . The problem in Europe is that governing bodies haven't been doing their jobs properly and have been giving Batt...
[21:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:40] <exec> 08└─I'd settle for some hot grits.
[21:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:41] <exec> 08└─How is Kim Dotcom [soylentnews.org] these days?
[21:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:59] <exec> 08└─... the god of irony is having a good day, as most of my screen real estate is code and debug for my real-time JPEG2000 decoder, including PSNR measurements. When I point out that nitpicking about barely audible compression differences is absurd, because very few people could potentially notice in t...
[21:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bending Sheet Glass Using Lasers and Gravity - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:14] <exec> 08└─I had no idea from the summary that we were talking about the Fraunhofer Institute. I thought it was referring to an optical technique (e.g., related to Fraunhofer diffraction) because I didn't read through to the last sentence (having understood the technique from the second paragraph, and the thir...
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[22:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:14] <exec> 08└─That joke is sooooo 2016. You can keep it.
[22:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─I heard there was a completely free operating system called GNU which is free for anyone who can use it. Can I use GNU with my Samsung chips. Please text your reply to 4326853446632268853247843268008532257853325790953 as I do not read the internet. Thank you your kind attention dear sirs.
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─And Dr. Johnny Fever was livin' on the air in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, WKRP.
[22:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:43] <exec> 08└─And Bruce Willis.
[22:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedFox [wikipedia.org]
[22:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:47] <exec> 08└─netflix and amazon are only crap if you have to watch brand new blockbuster type releases their back catalog is pretty good
[22:48:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:10] <exec> 08└─I've used SQL, but I've never heard of MailChimp or Stripe. If you're going to say 'X is popular, like Y,' then it helps to pick a Y that is more well-known than X, not less.
[22:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─I find the JOIN clause limiting when using lots of outer joins. In the old style in Oracle, using the "(+)" modifier in the WHERE clause to get multiple outer joins works as expected. But trying the same using a JOIN clause causes missing records higher up in the list to "short circuit" joins lower...
[22:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─SQL itself is a semantic train wreck... Why hasn't something more concise, logical and which makes it easier to compose queries programatticaly emerged?
[22:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:47] <exec> 08└─For many people, thinking in sets is not very natural because they are used to thinking in a more procedural manner. So when they want to do something in SQL, they may go for cursors, while loops etc. rather than say a recursive query that can do this much more elegantly...
[22:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:59] <exec> 08└─Do I really have to explain to you that TANGO MARGARINE is not a real name? That there is no road called "I can't believe its not butter lane?" That there is no city named Foxtrot?
[22:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:01] <exec> 08└─The irony of you owning the mighty blubberer wrt guns is sweeter than the sweetest snowflake tears.
[22:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:03] <exec> 08└─I guess you don't have a clue why the Second Amendment is so popular these days.
[22:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:05] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. A four-year degree can be had in 2.5 years, and was probably the easiest coursework I've taken since middle-school.
[22:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:07] <exec> 08└─most pointedly in the right-wing Republican take over of the NRA.
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[23:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:13] <exec> 08└─FUN3D has strict export laws so only US citizens may apply for the software and compete in this challenge.
[23:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:14] <exec> 08└─How about fuck you, NASA? If you want help fixing your shit, you can shove it back up your ass. We greybeards from the 1980s have had enough of your imperial terrorist agenda. You didn't end the pointless wars when we told you to end the pointless wars. You went right ahead with your plans to invade...
[23:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:17] <exec> 08└─Aw, forget it, not FORTRAN. Greybeards not intereseted. "Modern" Fortran is bad enough, but Ruby??? Really??? FUN3D Software: Description- The FUN3D software is written predominantly in Modern Fortran. The software is evolving steadily in multi-language directions for reasons other than performance...
[23:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:19] <exec> 08└─you forgot the good bit -- down at the bottom: This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States.
[23:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:21] <exec> 08└─... what?
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─No, it's classified instead. But you should totally treat it like pubic domain code and get locked up in Trump Tower where your pussy will be grabbed daily.
[23:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─Goddamn it how hard is this concept to understand: the same people who are old enough to have Fortran experience are also old enough to be war protesters who wouldn't help the federal government for any reason whatsoever.
[23:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:28] <exec> 08└─The wars are not pointless. If that were the case there would be more wars. Control of resources is the name of the game, and the US does it better than any other country on earth. However NASA has nothing to do with this, and if you were not an idiot you'd know that. Anyway, if you don't like it, t...
[23:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:30] <exec> 08└─Wow ... that's a stretch. Thanks for context, I guess...
[23:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:32] <exec> 08└─I think the "What?" comment was more about what on earth you think NASA has to do with starting wars and invading countries for oil. Although to be fair I haven't read NASA's mission statement.
[23:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─This is either a PR stunt or a hope to find a talented overeager student with a free summer to invest in this. Come on NASA, there are highly skilled professionals out here (like me!) who can make a Fortran code 10x faster with modest resources, but we need to eat and send our kids to college. Shame...
[23:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:46] <exec> 08└─Retro already, ok.
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─Next we're going to hear that the Korean's will be putting the USA chip industry out of business. Same old line the Japanese used for a short while when their DRAM sales passed USA sales. Was that in the early 1990s, have forgotten...
[23:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:50] <exec> 08└─In the very early 90s, US CEOs weren't trying to outsource everything, up to and including grandma, for a bigger quarterly bonus. Damn containers, and Internet ...
[23:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAexntgzKmE [youtube.com]
[23:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:34] <exec> 08└─I am mostly aware of the history. I was trying remind her that not everything is an evil radfem plot. There are other actors out there.
[23:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:21] <exec> 08└─To be fair, that's mainly Because Security: they could all run in a single browser instance if you didn't mind giving Javascript full access to your system...
[23:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:39] <exec> 08└─Automatic = fires multiple shots per trigger pull and highly illegal to own without special dispensation
[23:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:40] <exec> 08└─For decades the NRA used to be in favor of gun control. [salon.com] That all changed after the civil rights era. Same thing with abortion. Evangelicals used to be solidly in favor of abortion rights. That also changed after the civil rights era. Neither was a coincidence. The former out of fear of m...
[23:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:42] <exec> 08└─I guess you don't have a clue why the Second Amendment is so popular these days.
[23:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:44] <exec> 08└─It may be common usage but it is wrong, as are you.
[23:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:46] <exec> 08└─Semi-special not quite very.
[23:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:49] <exec> 08└─When humanity finally becomes angels, there won't be a government.
[23:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:51] <exec> 08└─There would be if fucktard progressives were constantly trying to take them away.
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