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[17:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:40] <exec> 08└─What can you do with a hash-collision to turn it into an attack on Git? A quick google seems to show that SHA-1 collisions aren't that scary for git. [theregister.co.uk]
[17:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─"GIT", the overly complex CM system created by hipster dufuses.
[17:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─Linus still has one claim to fame and world domination.
[17:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, fuck you, Git Torvalds is GenX.
[17:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:49] <exec> 08└─You're right, of course, we should all go back to SVN and let every tree conflict be the cause of 1 to 3 suicides.
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─Git is complex, but is it overly complex? I don't know of any other CM system that can handle projects with the number of contributors of the Linux kernel and is significantly easier to use. I've heard people say Mercurial is easier to learn, but it's not all that different from Git in my opinion. Y...
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Did Netcraft confirm it?
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─Git is absolutely fantastic for because now when I want to contribute to an open source project I don't need to diff a patch and mail it to a list where my patch will be summarily ignored. Instead I can open a pull request on Github where my pull request will be summarily ignored. Git makes the comp...
[17:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─Assuming IBM want to meet frim deadlines, they cannot keep their workers busy 100% of the time. Apparently Earliest deadline first scheduling can get you close to 100% utilization, but is not used too often becuase: ...when the system is overloaded, the set of processes that will miss deadlines is l...
[17:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:08] <exec> 08└─...what if -as seems likely- all the 'fat' is in otherwise parasitical departments like HR, mgmt, marketing, etc ? ? ? . IF most/all of your contracting is going out to folks who ACTUALLY PRODUCE shit -like programming-, how is suzy creamcheese marketing droid supposed to fill that job ? ? ? joe PHB...
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─They want the workers to burn out and resign.
[17:18:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1037 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:57] <exec> 08└─What you say is similar to why I predicted a few years back that Surface RT would fail. The entire value of Windows is one thing: the legacy applications. Take that away, and Windows has NO VALUE. In fact, maybe negative value. Microsoft's attempts to modernize it's system are the very thing that wi...
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─Promise: Windows OS X, er . . . um, I mean Windows 10 is the future! Forever!
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what that is? No, you don't. It is a translation layer that rips apart x86 binaries and builds something that Alpha can sort of run. How well do you think that worked? Well enough for some big programs, but you could not expect it to work 100% of the time. It might choke on some wei...
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─My company is strictly windows 7 only.
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 4396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:18] <exec> 08└─No, not every article has to be about women being excluded from programming…. Before I get into that, I also noticed that Google Chrome won't work under Windows 10 S, not because of an arch or ABI/API change but because of Digital Restrictions Management, when this article was in the submissions y...
[17:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─Expecting a program compiled for one architecture to work on a completely different one is one of those things that laypeople may expect but is insane. I thought we had a lot of programmers here on SN? We're not seriously surprised about this, right?
[17:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:23] <exec> 08└─DBAN stands for Darik's Boot and Nuke. Saying "DBAN Boot and Nuke" is like saying ATM machine.
[17:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:25] <exec> 08└─Are we going to have the browser/Netscape lawsuit against Microsoft monopolizing tendencies AGAIN?!
[17:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:27] <exec> 08└─No, not every article has to be about women being excluded from programming…. Before I get into that,
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─My guess is that at that point they may try to push for legislation to make producing such devices illegal.
[17:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:32] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. Win7 is nearing EOL, and it also doesn't even run on the latest hardware (though some 3rd party came out with a patch for that, for now...). Sooner or later, your company is going to be forced to change: the software will have massive security problems, or 3rd-party software you...
[17:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:34] <exec> 08└─If I wanted Walled Garden I'd go Apple, they do it much better. Microsoft needs to release a version of Windows that supports VR and AR in a way that actually augments people. It's hard to get enthusiastic about crippleware that's also spyware. Leave the lock-in market to Apple. I'd be interested in...
[17:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:36] <exec> 08└─I want to be a misogynerd! That sounds way cooler than "Mr. President", or any of those other stupid titles. I'll bet most girls can't even spell misogynerd. Thank you kurenai.tsubasa, whatever the fuck you are! You're an inspiration.
[17:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─yes, as i've gotten older, i find i have more of a floppy drive than a hard drive... (NOT just a 3.5 incher, ladies, oh yeah, a full 5.25 ! ! !) the seek time is atrocious, the heads are always crashing, and i can't tell you the last time i could fetch my cache... it is hell waiting for final deprec...
[17:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:41] <exec> 08└─But, Linux? If all the adjoining gardens are walled, what happens to Linux? Are we going to be walled in too? Will there even be a gate for us to come and go through? Will we be trespassing if we go through the gate? Alright, more seriously, I've been bitching for years about Microsoft maintaining t...
[17:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─Tell that to Linus Torvalds. The DEC stuff worked well enough that Transmeta thought they could succeed. As far as I know the cpus worked, they just didn't perform well enough.
[17:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:45] <exec> 08└─This branch of the conversation makes me wonder how many understand the differences between Win9x and WinNT. Win9x lacked ANY kind of security. I mean, quite simply, there was no security. A password to login, that was it. FAT file system, easily read by any operating system. Nobody owned anything,...
[17:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:47] <exec> 08└─And what happens when Microsoft drops support for non-UEFI/non-locked down CPU's and mobos? Might still be able to run Linux on them, but "nobody" would buy them, so hardware vendors aren't likely to supply such boards.
[17:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:49] <exec> 08└─She bit her tongue a few times in recent days.
[17:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─You're going to buy and use Windows S whether you like it or not.
[17:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:54] <exec> 08└─*sigh* typo "It evolved with service packs up to SP2, then became Longhorn." That should have been SP3, not SP2. SP2, in it's first iteration, was the one that screwed many AMD machines. The AthlonXP, especially, was sent into an endless reboot cycle if you installed the first version of SP2.
[17:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─Nah, Microsoft is only jumping on it 10 years afterwards when everyone is trying to get off....
[17:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:58] <exec> 08└─Great listing, thank you! And to beat a dead horse, behold the old sins: https://web.archive.org [archive.org] I think this is a wonderful opportunity to ditch Micro$oft. Something I myself did for good more than 10 years ago.
[17:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:01] <exec> 08└─Sometimes chips have the ability to emulate other architectures built into their instruction sets (or at higher levels) but a native compilation of the program will always perform better.
[17:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:03] <exec> 08└─They tried it 10 years ago. Going as far as advocating an "internet license", and having the hardware attest as to who is using the computer.
[17:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:05] <exec> 08└─You are fully entitled to replace your motherboard and keep the same Windows license.
[17:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─They actually included a Windows XP emulation layer with Windows 7 Pro. Why it was not part of the Vista roll-out, I don't know. I have a guess: they thought licensing DRM would be more profitable than making a system that was actually secure. They could have required all CPUs running Vista to inclu...
[17:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:10] <exec> 08└─"Even with all of the OS's running at the same time." I've daydreamed about that. I work with some troglodytes, and they work on crap equipment. I'd like to bring my laptop in, prop it up, and boot to Linux. Anyone looking over my shoulder will recognize immediately that it isnt' Windows. So, I offe...
[17:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:12] <exec> 08└─an OEM Windows license is tied* to an individual motherboard
[17:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:14] <exec> 08└─Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage [gnu.org] As I commented to another AC, trying to lock down industrial protectionism is what got us into this mess. Microsoft spent a lot of money securing Windows Vista: the only problem is that they were working against the user inst...
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─You're going to buy and use Windows S whether you like it or not.
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Intellectual Property Rights are a deal between makers and users. They can be trumped by overriding public need. (I think the library of Congress has a mechanism to do this?)
[17:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─Allow me to make the minimal changes to comment #508133 to bring it in line with FSF goodspeak: Significant socially irresponsible choices like this call for strong measures. Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and rights of publicity are a deal between makers and users. They can be trum...
[17:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Swervin [2444] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DSL Inventor's Latest Science Project: Terabit Speeds over Copper - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:36] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I used to work for a small independent phone company. Almost all of these new DSL standards are designed to avoid rewiring apartment buildings. The idea is that you bring Fiber, or Coax, or a multi-pair Circuit of some sort to the distribution point of a building, then you can re-use exi...
[17:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:50] <exec> 08└─Nope. They'll just point at the bots' messages, and their own reduced funding, and declare that they cannot process any comment, therefore the decision to kill NN stands.
[17:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:52] <exec> 08└─I mean just look at the stupid obnoxious message and low brow spam tactics. But don't investigate Russia as the source, supremo Trump might fire you...
[17:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:54] <exec> 08└─Evil Trumpkins using technology to hold sway over the populace! But we must mindlessly follow along with whatever brainfart huffs out of John Oliver's faceanus! "You see comrade, unlike the capitalists, our astroturf is the real thing!"
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─Uses 'humanlike' in both the title and the summary, but doesn't even bother describing/defining what it means. Reads like a mindless PR blurb.
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:11] <exec> 08└─Although it is clear what the ending phrase "but ape-like thinking remains" was intended to convey, the roles of "ape-like" and "human-like" are reversed. Over decades of both direct observation and reading recorded history, it has become obvious to me that animal behavior is the source of any good...
[17:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:02] <exec> 08└─Seriously, all word processors come with spelling and grammar error checkers... Here's a war story. I worked for Xerox in software and they transferred us to HCL where I stayed 5 months before I found a new job. When training my replacement (and feeding him Christmas dinner) I got to hear what the c...
[17:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:03] <exec> 08└─36% is not "optimistic", it's just testing for a very low threshold of competence. They gave them two problems, and 36% managed to write compilable (not necessarily correct) code for one or both problems. Only 14% wrote compilable code for both problems, and even less would have written correct and/...
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─I was wondering about that too. My first thought was that this 36% number is meaningless to me because I do not have another number for a different demographic group to compare it to. Then I tried to find this Automata test so I could see whether I could attach a meaning to that 36% number by evalua...
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─Easy on him, Azuma, he has like a four digit UID!
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─Tunnel sealed, most workers back to normal, no radiological contamination detected [world-nuclear-news.org]
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─Wait why are we paying non-essential employees? If they're not essential then they don't deserve to get paid and they don't deserve to live either. Fire all the useless employees and let them die on their own time.
[17:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:27] <exec> 08└─The whole point of the exercise is to use -locally- grown foodstuffs. Tropical fruits are the complete opposite of that. I was thinking that the short growing season at high latitudes might leave them short of product. Turns out, there are tomato varieties that produce in under 60 days. [google.com]...
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─Banana sauce was invented because of a local shortage of tomatoes and an abundance of bananas. I'm not a food nationalist so I don't mind foreign products.
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[18:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─"Hey man what are you in for?" "Yelling." "So were you high?" "No." "Come on man you had to be on drugs." "No I wasn't on drugs." "Man I bet those are some good drugs." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Sure man your drugs make you forget you're on drugs!"
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─Where's the video, to know whether he was "Yelling press questions" or "actively breaching the secret service agents"? One is constitutionally protected (if you do it in a professional manner and setting), the other is indeed asking for trouble. People refusing to answer questions is bad, but not a...
[18:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:32] <exec> 08└─Guy is a blogger with a poorly designed website making grandiose claims. USA Today willingly falls hook line and sinker for his act, but while "Public News Service" might sound like it is vaguely related to NPR, which is obviously intentional, and thus gets a pass as fellow members of the Blue Chec...
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:34] <exec> 08└─...people trying to fight back, being silenced by the state. We need to keep pushing harder before this becomes even MORE normalized than it is in the early days of Der Trumpenfurher.
[18:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─Collision attacks pretty much only matter for signature schemes. The problem is this: if I can generate two documents (one innocent, the other nefarious) with the same hash, then get you to sign the innocent version, I could later substitute the nefarious version and still have a valid signature fro...
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─You missed the step before: 1. First you lay off all the experienced employees that know how to get shit done. 2. Then when you need to get something done (which the green newbies can't possibly figure out) you hire back the experienced staff as contractors. My guess is that IBM Oz is already past s...
[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─Can I quote you to my boss? Most of the engineering team is getting really angry at overtime (unpaid) and week-ends, and looking at other options, yet he is oblivious ... Can't let Daddy's startup miss deadlines, instead it's gonna blow up.
[18:18:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─10$ per student per month
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─Are we going to be walled in too?
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:40] <exec> 08└─- well we'll find another OS.
[18:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:42] <exec> 08└─That was my 1st thought as well when I saw "Win32" in the summary. These days, if you have an old Windoze-only app to run, your chances of getting it running under a supported version of MICROS~1's OS are lower than just using WINE under Linux. Just get (gratis and libre) Zorin OS (an Ubuntu derivat...
[18:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:45] <exec> 08└─You're welcome! One small nitpick. Here's GamerGate: A Closer Look At The Controversy Sweeping Video Games [forbes.com] by Erik Kain of Forbes. Please reference section 2 under “Interlude - Definitions:” The same forces behind the "Gamers are Over" campaign have batted about plenty of labels to...
[18:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:47] <exec> 08└─How does Microsoft expect to port Visual Studio to Windows 10 S....
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─Concerning Win10, people have no choice, because they're not even basically competent with computers. Have you watched the average user? They are clueless; they are as lost, if not more lost, on Windows as on a decently set-up Linux. I have my father on a simple Xfce desktop--think "Ubuntu 7.04 styl...
[18:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─🙅‍♂️
[18:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:54] <exec> 08└─You are clearly repurposing the plight of literally billions of women over the years to troll for comments. Misogyny and sexism are NOT jokes, and they are NOT tools to be used by people like you to gain leverage over others. Please don't be so vain, or at least transparent, about it. The usual rule...
[18:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 * Service Pack 1 January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020 2020, so a little more then 2 and a half years left for MS to pull their heard from their forth point of contact.
[18:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─LeCroy? Back in the day at sci.electronic.design, John Larkin would tell us about his dealings with Walter LeCroy and how that dude was a slimeball in his business dealings. In picking M$'s software for his stuff, he demonstrated poor insight WRT technology as well. My Tektronix scope ran Linux. (I...
[18:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─I actually get less calls from my parents, now that they run Mint. They got used to it pretty quickly (because does behave like XP/7, what most MS customers want), despite being low-tech and in their 60s.
[18:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─If it can run on walled garden hardware.
[18:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:35] <exec> 08└─The fine article does not make any statements on how many of those identical comments are fake.
[18:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:37] <exec> 08└─People like to cling to the notion of having "free will", so do not like to be labelled as bots.
[18:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─For the record, I'm a male-type human, so use of "he/his/him" is perfectly correct. And I appreciate the shout-out.
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─If real people are posting real comments under their real name, and not getting paid for it, then it's not astroturfing; by definition. [wikipedia.org]
[18:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:00] <exec> 08└─It was not very funny.
[18:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:01] <exec> 08└─tldr: "What != How"
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─Compounded by the irony of the fact that coal already releases more radioactive material than existing nuclear technology. [scientificamerican.com]
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─A 404 and a token black guy. Touche!
[18:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─We put relish on both hot dogs *and* hamburgers. That's how inclusive we are!
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─The comma got mixed in with the URL. And it is, from left to right. An Asian lady White male black lady Asian lady Looks like a black man (but it could be Hispanic) white female Black male white female Totaling: 3 super minorities, 4 minorities, and a single white oppressor. (a ratio of 8:1) And the...
[18:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fuchsia UI Previewed - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─From the linked Wikipedia article: This was shortly followed by news that the main CyanogenMod project would migrate, renaming itself as "LineageOS".
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[19:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─Science Censors Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing
[19:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─You wish to use the results of your hard work to educate the world? Without the world paying us? How dare you?
[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─Guy is a blogger with a poorly designed website making grandiose claims.
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:39] <exec> 08└─I need to point out how we essentially attempt to say the same thing, but your post is accusatory, condescending and confrontational...
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, that's much simpler. Thank you for explaining. I've been trying to figure out this whole time whether we have any witnesses or video footage to corroborate the administration's version of events, but I see now that such things aren't necessary. He was arrested, therefore he did something wrong....
[19:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:44] <exec> 08└─aggressively breaching the secret service agents
[19:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:46] <exec> 08└─Well presumably both sides have video, but none seems to be in evidence at this time, so both are subject to the same criticism for pushing their narrative while sitting on the evidence. Presumably, both are doing this on the advice of counsel. What's actually happened should come out at trial, unti...
[19:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─Since when do the authorities ever willingly film themselves interacting with the public?
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─Did this happen to you often?
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:53] <exec> 08└─Politicians pretty conventionally do, up until January 2017, for some reason.
[19:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:55] <exec> 08└─The actual website looks like it was designed twenty years ago but only claims 2007 for a start. You didn't think I posted without doing a quick Google search? You must be new around here. :) They have to get their jobs done...
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─I was mostly quoting Wikipedia myself. Computer scheduling algorithms should be the ideal case. I doubt humans can do better. However, keep in mind that there is a "low priority" loop-hole where you can be asked to do busy-work while not trying to meet firm deadlines. I have not really tried it on m...
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─Which doesn't matter. If your school board gets a kickback from Microsoft (or more likely a Partner to provide deniability) they will mandate Microsoft and you will use it. Why do you think the utterly obsolete TI 84 was a required purchase so many years and before that an older model? Students are...
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:13] <exec> 08└─Alternate approach that skip the intermediate step of cursing pulseaudio: go straight to BSD.
[19:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:15] <exec> 08└─Read the license sometime. An OEM license is bound to the motherboard hardware ID and ends when it does. In theory, but after looking at the rest of the theory it becomes obvious it ain't the whole story. By the book if your motherboard dies the entire Windows install becomes trash, only fit to salv...
[19:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:17] <exec> 08└─They will, seeing how gaming consoles sell like hot cakes compared to the vastly superior desktop platforms running open hardware.
[19:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DSL Inventor's Latest Science Project: Terabit Speeds over Copper - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:35] <exec> 08└─Quite. Though I imagine even 10Gb/s speeds will remain acceptable for non-corporate usage for a long time to come, in which case that 500m range (~1/3 mile) could easily service not just individual apartment buildings, but entire city blocks.
[19:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:55] <exec> 08└─Encouraging people to petition their government is fine. Using scripts/bots/programs to flood a system with identical comments is not.
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:17] <exec> 08└─Not being funny is not flamebait.
[19:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Networks F-15 and F-22 Fighters While in Flight - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:19] <exec> 08└─Internet Hate Flying Machine!!!
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fuchsia UI Previewed - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:37] <exec> 08└─Android developers are all 20-year-old Indian coders whose careers last at most 5 years so the developers will be phased out as they grow too old to work in the industry. Reply to This
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[20:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:33] <exec> 08└─Sign over my copyright to get published, and take the sting out of the unfairness of their demands by ignoring their restrictions. Academic publishers can die in a fire. They're total rent seeking, thieving parasitic scum. Remember Aaron Swartz!
[20:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:35] <exec> 08└─Let the scientists do the science. Meanwhile, the publishers should be hacked into submission and everything leaked. Open access publishers with endowments could handle the costs of publishing and peer review.
[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─I criticize scientists harshly for their publishing habits, but in a way they got catch 22 going, so it's not all their fault they keep going back to feed the sharks. The prestigious (and slimy) journals such as Nature are still the surest way to build your resume as a research scientist, so a talen...
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:39] <exec> 08└─Some billionaire's foundation should just set up a free website and pay for reviews. Once they hit a critical mass of people who don't have the patience to wait for a Nature/Science rejection, plus those who pay minor eyebrow-raising publishers, they'd become the reference, wikipedia-style (with leg...
[20:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─"We are going to give iTunes customers a choice—the current versions of our papers for the same 99 cent price, or new DRM-free versions of the same papers with even higher quality and the security of interoperability for just 30 cents more,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
[20:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:44] <exec> 08└─The tax payers are already paying for fundamental research, as many people think they should. Peer review is an crucial part of that research, and should be fully funded from the same source. If corporations want to pitch in, they are welcome to, but we should not depend on them for anything importa...
[20:17:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─Where's the video, to know whether he was "Yelling press questions" or "actively breaching the secret service agents"? One is constitutionally protected (if you do it in a professional manner and setting), the other is indeed asking for trouble. People refusing to answer questions is bad, but not a...
[20:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:06] <exec> 08└─The actual website looks like it was designed twenty years ago but only claims 2007 for a start. You didn't think I posted without doing a quick Google search? You must be new around here. :)
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:07] <exec> 08└─The thing which caught my eye was: "The misdemeanor carries a possible fine of $100 and up to six months in jail." Really? 6 months in jail is roughly equivalent to $100? I would have assumed the order of magnitude would be more like "a fine of $5000 and up to six months in jail." I can't help but w...
[20:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:09] <exec> 08└─Lets Hear it for the Pedant! My pedant he don't talk sweet He ain't got much to say But he posts crap, posts crap, posts crap I know that he posts crap anyway!!!
[20:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─Is the concept of "and" too difficult for you to understand?
[20:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─Pretty much since cameras got inexpensive enough for it to be possible. Having raw footage and deciding what to release (and how to edit it) is great for politicians as much or moreso than any other profession. But I wasn't actually talking about the politician. If I got the story right, he was arre...
[20:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:16] <exec> 08└─> We have no journalists and it is time everyone accepted that. Says who? Freelance journalists have always existed. They used to publish in papers, now they can publish online. The clowns on TV are not doing journalism, but that doesn't mean that no person ever does. You constitutional don't need a...
[20:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:18] <exec> 08└─...people trying to fight back, being silenced by the state. We need to keep pushing harder before this becomes even MORE normalized than it is in the early days of Der Trumpenfurher.
[20:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:21] <exec> 08└─Well presumably both sides have video,
[20:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:23] <exec> 08└─Guy is a blogger with a poorly designed website making grandiose claims.
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:25] <exec> 08└─6 month in jail is essentially a $20000 fine for the taxpayers, and therefore probably a $200 campaign donation to the tough-on-crime Party. Or is the kickback up to 2%? I didn't get the latest bribery brochure...
[20:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:27] <exec> 08└─"The defendant was sentenced to three titty twisters and a beheading." It would still make more sense if the two things were of comparable severity.
[20:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:29] <exec> 08└─So we don't like mainstream news media because they are too cozy with the government and are only mouthpieces. Check. And we don't like independent news sources like bloggers because... um... their website looks old? And... err... they have to yell their questions because they are kept away from the...
[20:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─Every few years ever since the 2003 Invasion of Iraq when public opinion turned strongly against people of differing opinions.
[20:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:49] <exec> 08└─I was expecting you to mention this part of the story specifically. "Tell me about the rabbits^W dinosaurs, George." "That's just God testing your faith, Lenny." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:42] <exec> 08└─Dig into that PDF. 2.21% produced code that was functionally and logically correct.
[20:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─Building bridges has been done quite frequently and rather ubiquitously to supposse only a small % of human can design and build one (obviously, non St. Francisco size, I mean). Something alike happens with destilation and spirituous beverages.
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:51] <exec> 08└─> Civilian nuclear reactors run on Uranium, as I understand, not on Plutonium Some use mixed-oxide fuel (MOX), which is both plutonium and uranium blended together. It's been used to reduce the size of plutonium stockpiles for weapons. Russia sold a lot of its plutonium to the US for power generatio...
[20:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:15] <exec> 08└─Pretty amazing that whoever modded you up was able to tell that from a broken link... Pretty amazing indeed...
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[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:30] <exec> 08└─Fuck Space! Gimme Basic Income! Eat the Rich!
[21:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─Mars has been there for 4.503 billion years, and it can wait a few more until we get the infrastructure ready to do Mars properly. Just ditching someone in a tin can to bounce onto Mars and then maybe bounce back doesn't seem like a worthwhile project. Going there and thriving there as colonists i...
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:33] <exec> 08└─At first I thought that he wanted to haul the ISS to an orbit around Mars. Which, on second thought would be the greatest thing ever.
[21:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:36] <exec> 08└─I tell you what the roadblock is: the defence budget, gobbled by the MilInds. It is not in the interest of the MilInd to have people on other planets; the colonists will need to get to a certain population density for them to become a new market; it will take some hundred years and the profit report...
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is now sucking the MilInd tit! [soylentnews.org]
[21:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:40] <exec> 08└─Sure thing, just bolt on an EmDrive and get your ISS to Mars.
[21:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder if ISS can simply be refactored and raised higher, or stuck in the Earth-Moon L1 point [wikipedia.org]. I believe we absolutely need to maintain both an open space habitat and an international collaboration, and ISS is a shining example of both. I would go as far as to say that our long-ter...
[21:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:45] <exec> 08└─Is the ISS really useful? If we develop inflatable module technology some more, it might be possible to get an ISS-sized station in orbit for much cheaper than the ISS construction cost. Launch costs have also fallen. What is it that we are doing or could do with ISS that is so great? A dark matter...
[21:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:47] <exec> 08└─And I would argue a colony is useless until we have developed terraform technology because all you are doing is shipping a handful of people to live in a tin can, no different if that tin can is on Mars or the Moon or an asteroid, its still gonna be completely inhospitable to human life outside the...
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:49] <exec> 08└─Licking rather. Let's hope it doesn't develop an addiction.
[21:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:51] <exec> 08└─I think Aldrin is missing the point, politically. It's not that the Space Station is "sucking up all the resources," it's that nobody is excited to allocate resources to a Mars mission. WMD was enough to excite W to spend over $700B in Iraq, 1% of GDP for some years - if we could shake loose 0.1% of...
[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─Being in the tin can, on site, getting first hand data and more importantly immersion exposure to the challenges, should be enough value add to justify the tin can mission - just like the ISS. 10,000 scientists poring over scant data returned from robotic probes aren't likely as effective as 1000 sc...
[21:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─The ISS isn't sufficiently radiation hardened for human habitation in Mars orbit (nevermind the support logistics issues...)
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:13] <exec> 08└─undeserved obscurity
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:15] <exec> 08└─Some billionaire's foundation should just set up a free website and pay for reviews.
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─Is being published the only consideration scientists get from publishers? It seems like they would have to exchange something of value for the copyright to the paper, and, as noted elsewhere in the comments, merely being published isn't of much intrinsic value, what with the internet, and all. I cou...
[21:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 4425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─While I completely understand the impetus behind your ideas (and agree with a lot of the principles), I'm not sure completely "open" peer review is the best idea. The way we know peer review is done and that it is done well is by trusting editors at reputable journals. Everyone in most fields knows...
[21:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─the surest way to build your resume as a research scientist
[21:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:24] <exec> 08└─The way we know peer review is done and that it is done well is by trusting editors at reputable journals.
[21:18:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─I need to point out how we essentially attempt to say the same thing, but your post is accusatory, condescending and confrontational...
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─"Russia! Russia! Russia!" idiocy.
[21:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:00] <exec> 08└─The pharase up to includes the number zero. Don't tell me you rush out to every bedding and mattress store every weekend, taken in by their "Save Up To 90%" sales ads!
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─How is this in any way relevant to the conversation?
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─awwww, pouh liddle tango got his feelfeels hurt!
[21:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─1) First amendment is not limited to some set of "official" reporters. 2) The Gov't knows that the best way to eliminate rights for all people, is to start with the ones people generally despise. Our domestic mass surveillance system is based on making sure a purse snatcher/stalker did his year (or...
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─What version of git, if any, are you running?
[21:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:24] <exec> 08└─Bet you don't have the balls to call Linus a "hipster dufus" and NOT hide as an AC...
[21:20:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:12] <exec> 08└─Just wait until you want to release a commercial application. You'll wish you had developed using something more platform neutral. Just as with a drug dealer. Don't be tempted by the addictive sweet drug. Just as with a politician. Don't be tempted by their promises. (I'll lower the deficit, increas...
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DSL Inventor's Latest Science Project: Terabit Speeds over Copper - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─Often there is fibre to the wiring closet (cabinet) on the street anyway (FTTC), I think fibre to the distribution point (often top of a pole round here) is next (FTTDP). DP will I think usually involve a wiring joint, so this would have to run only from there. Which also avoids crosstalk (from DP o...
[21:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:59] <exec> 08└─One danger is that the FCC leadership will deliberately overlook the sources and use this to say public support for net neutrality is weak, because their corporate backers want net neutrality killed. That would be a classic Trump administration move. Seems it's only a question of when Trump finally...
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[22:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:19] <exec> 08└─Have a shitstarter.
[22:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─Baitcoins plz
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:22] <exec> 08└─That's good for things that cost low millions with an m. The original human genome project cost 2.7 billion. With a b. And it was 10% under budget.
[22:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:43] <exec> 08└─I am all for Moon base, I think it would be waaaaay more useful and fun than a Mars base.
[22:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:44] <exec> 08└─His argument sounds like it's based on the shaky premise that cutting the ISS line on the budget would divert the money to Mars missions, yes. From that article about how long and over-budget the big lifter rocket thingamajig is, people don't seem overly motivated. I guess since we're not racing the...
[22:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─The tin can is useful if it is self-sustaining and can be expanded using resources that are on site. And Mars is better than say, Ceres or Pluto because it has higher gravity and more of an atmosphere (even if it is not hospitable at all). The Moon is a useful destination simply due to being so clos...
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:49] <exec> 08└─True. But if they built it sturdy enough to keep its panels aligned, filling it to the brim with supplies for orbital comms/resupply of Mars or Moon missions could be useful. Even a soft crash on the moon could help future moon missions (or become the first attractions park, if near an Apollo site)....
[22:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:51] <exec> 08└─In FY 2015, Pentagon and related spending totaled $598 billion, about 54% of the fiscal year 2015 U.S. discretionary budget. For FY 2017, President Obama proposed the base budget of $523.9 billion, which includes an increase of $2.2 billion over the FY 2016 enacted budget of $521.7 billion. By 20 Ja...
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:53] <exec> 08└─The NASA budget doubled would be about 1% of the federal budget. That's a good minimum. I have also said that it should be quadrupled at the expense of the military (which does some space stuff anyway like satellites and the X-37B), but the only one in the room who may have been in the position to c...
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:55] <exec> 08└─What does "Millnd" mean and why?
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:58] <exec> 08└─It is a lot of mass in a controlled orbit, ditching it is therefore stupid since for our lifetime at least, putting that much mass into orbit is going to be expensive. If NASA can't justify the upkeep somebody else probably will and should be given the opportunity. Having a base in low Earth orbit i...
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─Attacking a ship is wrong. Helping your neighbor is admirable. There's nothing in common between sharing and piracy, and that propaganda campaign does not deserve our support.
[22:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:21] <exec> 08└─I am not actually advocating "open review" as described on the wiki, but I do think it's better than a traditional model where we know nothing at all. I actually agree with your points, especially (1), and do believe that making reviews blind may help to reduce the "nice guy" bias. But once the proc...
[22:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:23] <exec> 08└─What if your neighbor is attacking a ship? Would it be wrong to help them? Both sharing and piracy share ari, so they have 46% of themselves in common. Your disinformation campaign does not deserve our support.
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:03] <exec> 08└─You might get a faster response if you tweet @realDonaldTrump. He's very honest, the most honest person I know. He wouldn't... I mean, come on. Mr. Trump is a good guy. A very, very good guy. He'll respond to all of your questions, all of them. Believe me, all of them. He's very, very on top of thin...
[22:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:05] <exec> 08└─Well, if it's OK to laud the guy that did the "expose" on ACORN, then why the hate for this guy? Shouldn't we favor independent citizen journalists asking hard, inconvenient questions of the high and mighty? We all know the mainstream media have no interest in doing that at all. There is a lamentabl...
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─Folks could start throwing 'journalists' into woodchippers and I wouldn't bat an eye, Niemoller be damned.
[22:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:25] <exec> 08└─I would say that git is very well suited for development of the Linux kernel, and poorly-suited for almost everything else people use it for. It was not developed by hipsters but it surely is used by many trend-following incompetents.
[22:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─This gang didn't care whether Trump or Clinton won. Once it was down to those two, they knew that no matter who won they'd have a corporate-owned president with no real principles who would gladly do what they wanted for a quick buck. According to opensecrets [opensecrets.org], Comcast gave $1.8 mil...
[22:25:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:04] <exec> 08└─There is a great ketchup made in the USA. Of course you may have to search a bit for it cause it's sold mostly in places like Whole Foods and quality local markets. It's Sir Kensington's Ketchup. It is a bit spicy as it contains some jalapeno pepper. https://sirkensingtons.com [sirkensingtons.com]
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:53] <exec> 08└─I looked for moderations on the GP and found none. There was a karma bonus for logging in, though...
[22:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:55] <exec> 08└─Look, we need a trade war, and Canada was the first available. Thus, trade war with Canada. We do need a trade war, right?
[22:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:57] <exec> 08└─Locally grown foodstuffs will result in Canadian ketchup gradually changing the formula until they invent moose sauce.
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[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─design a synthetic genome to make human cells resistant to viral infections, radiation, and cancer. Those cells could be used immediately for industrial drug production.
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:20] <exec> 08└─vgc
[23:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:22] <exec> 08└─I heard the genome project was so well funded and so well planned that one student did all the coding for the project in one month without any breaks and he never regained full use of his wrists. Seems to me if that was the level of desperate sacrifice required to do it, the human genome project was...
[23:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:51] <exec> 08└─Is the ISS really useful? If we develop inflatable module technology some more, it might be possible to get an ISS-sized station in orbit for much cheaper than the ISS construction cost. Launch costs have also fallen.
[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─Millititty Indickrial complex.
[23:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─Buzz was really ahead of his time on this one (and still is). But for Mars exploration, an asteroid in an Earth-Mars cycler orbit would be even better. Spin it up for artficial gravity, radiation shielding by bulk, then you can ferry goods and humans for a ride with minimal energy expendature. it wo...
[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─His argument sounds like it's based on the shaky premise that cutting the ISS line on the budget would divert the money to Mars missions, yes.
[23:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:59] <exec> 08└─I try to think of analogies to describe the absurdity of the notion that we can somehow colonize space. The problem is that the only analogies that apply are astronomical.
[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─I sometimes wonder if we just sold Mars to some corporations if we wouldn't be there a lot faster then whatever the current projection is. That said Mars has been there for a really long time, I'm sure it will still be there in a century or whatever it will take for us to get there -- get there in t...
[23:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:03] <exec> 08└─You'll get your basic income soon as you pick up the shovel and dig the martian red dirt!
[23:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:06] <exec> 08└─As long as we don't accidentally blow it up... otherwise the dolphins won't be too happy
[23:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:31] <exec> 08└─A DRMed journal wouldn't be worth the paper it couldn't be printed on.
[23:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:32] <exec> 08└─Both sharing and piracy share ari
[23:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─Well, isn't it possible that when any elected or non-elected representative of government whom is engaged in destroying many American's access to affordable healthcare perusing publicly unpopular yet party popular legislative actions and actively avoiding any conversation on the subject with ANY mem...
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:17] <exec> 08└─Is the concept of "and" too difficult for you to understand? for Republicans? It was wrong for Comey to editorialize about Clinton when he determined charges weren't warranted; AND It was wrong for Trump to fire someone who was investigating him. I think so!
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skydiver Dangles Under Plane for an Hour, Survives - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─any ideas.
[23:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are good developers in India Most of the ones who are any good have h1b or green cards... It really is just about cost. One project I was on was 20k. Not much at all. But that got me 4-6 devs for 6 months. Tossed out the whole quagmire on the other end. As it didnt do what it was supp...
[23:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:10] <exec> 08└─> Huffpost Editorial Board You're saying that the Huffington Post are white nationalists, right? Because they're not a Canadian company.
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French's Introduces "100 Per Cent Canadian" Ketchup - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:12] <exec> 08└─Bananas are grown in the southern part of Ontario: Terry Brake and business partner Laurie Macpherson started Canada Banana Farms six years ago. They now cultivate papayas, pineapples, lemons, guavas, bananas and more. Macpherson said the bananas get a lot of attention when they take them from the...
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