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[00:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:10] <exec> 08└─It helps that I don't live there, But it looks nice. I also like this: Unlike many tech companies, which remove themselves to suburban all-inclusive campuses when they get large enough, Amazon has chosen to stay within Seattle’s urban core, adding buildings at an astonishing pace but not sequester...
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:11] <exec> 08└─Must be fun to be homeless in Seattle where you can look at the gigantic glass spheres full of rich people who got rich by fucking over the poor. Almost makes you want to take a fucking sledgehammer to their gigantic glass spheres. In fact there's no "almost" about it. Justice will be done when Amaz...
[00:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:14] <exec> 08└─Well, it's three spheres right in front of a rectangular building, not two beneath a cylindrical one, so it's pretty clear that you're being fucked by automation.
[00:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─pgf
[00:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─Mil(itary)-Ind(dustrial) Complex, because Eisenhower [wikipedia.org]
[00:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:33] <exec> 08└─Is being published the only consideration scientists get from publishers?
[00:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:34] <exec> 08└─What if your neighbor is attacking a ship? Would it be wrong to help them?
[00:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:36] <exec> 08└─sh(((ari)))ng p(((ira)))cy Coincidence detected.
[00:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:38] <exec> 08└─You got it, that's all researchers get. They get to say that the reviewers who did the review for Prestigious Journal, for free, thought their paper was good enough for the journal. If the journal persuades some sucker to pay their exorbitant fee ($30 is a common amount) for a copy of one paper, the...
[00:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I mean, put someone in jail for five years, and hit them with a real fine, sure. But put them in jail for five years and fine them a hundred bucks? Why even bother? is there some class of criminals for whom a 5-year sentence is no real deterrent, but adding a $100 fine will put the fear in...
[00:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:24] <exec> 08└─Boot stomping fascist rubber stamping government abuse. Awesome job, keep it up. Or better yet, retire early to an island without modern communications and save us from your bullshit. Trump's war on the media is finally resulting in some actual scary abuse. He was YELLING sir, lock him up he hurt my...
[00:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:58] <exec> 08└─Could this IBM halt on contractors be that there's a recession in the works? Wouldn't be surprised if big capital intend to manufacture one. Which their board obviously would know about.
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[01:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah let's train the homeless to code! Train the homeless to train the H1Bs who will do their jobs! We can have a revolving door from homeless to training and back to homeless again! It's just brilliant enough to work! Quick somebody twit a tweet to Bozos about the brilliant plan!
[01:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─You're not gonna smash shit, limpdick. Glass technology has advanced in the past 40 years. Of course, the only glass you care about is that glass dick you're smoking for your Pozz party. Also, Seattle sucks ass and is boring. Fuck off Hipster Nancies, go to Austin instead.
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─I like Washington state but I hate Seattle and everybody from there. How can I allow the good ones while rejecting hipster fuckers?
[01:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─Build a Wall around Seattle.
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─Be very afraid for all that terrorist shit you have stashed in the GovCloud, bitch.
[01:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─This is stupid. How on earth did a bunch of software developers "fuck over" the poor? By building up a website that out-competes Walmart, and offers lower prices? (Or, by building up a website that lets Chinese counterfeiters sell more easily here?) You might be able to claim that Amazon has fucked...
[01:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─One could point out that retail does employ millions of people with little education, and that killing retail (not just Amazon's feat, but the Web in general) is putting them out of a job. Being too efficient at retail, and concentrating the jobs in a few warehouses and distribution companies, is pr...
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:50] <exec> 08└─The blame lies with the American voting public for choosing shitty politicians who do nothing to address the problems, and usually make them worse with the terrible economic policies they pursue.
[01:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:41] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just usually MIC? Don't think I have ever seen the abbreviation MilInd used before.
[01:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:43] <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
[01:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:45] <exec> 08└─been done already : ringworld and its variants... pretty sure it is easily doable with a million repraps... well, you start with one...
[01:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:03] <exec> 08└─I've said it before and I'll say it again, there are a few users on this site who are very capable of rational thought, yet they push agendas of tyranny in an attempt to normalize unacceptable behaviors. Jmorris and Khallow are the two most obvious trolls. VLM could just be mildly insane. The rest I...
[01:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:05] <exec> 08└─No, no no. Didn't you get the memo? The correct solution is to give them a nice helicopter ride [crypto.fashion].
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[02:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Offers $20,000 to Join OSS-Fuzz Program - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:17] <exec> 08└─It's Google so how is it evil? Any GPL code you submit gets copyright assigned to Google and re-licensed under BSD instead?
[02:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:36] <exec> 08└─who hate working there.
[02:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:37] <exec> 08└─Lol. Better to work at Amazon in Seattle than to be homeless with no Universal Basic Income, or turning tricks for heroin/fentanyl in a dilapidated building.
[02:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:40] <exec> 08└─Speaking of "awash"...don't the three spheres remind you of anything? How about chemistry models of H2O (Bohr atoms, represented by spheres). Polar molecule, symmetric about the larger Oxygen atom. Tfa doesn't say anything about the joke or pun, but putting a giant water molecule in rainy Seattle mu...
[02:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:54] <exec> 08└─wtu
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:36] <exec> 08└─And twenty years off of their lifespan because of radiation - which we cannot mitigate.
[02:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:38] <exec> 08└─But one manned mission will get funded, 100 unmanned probes will not get funded in the same timeframe. Keep the political reality in focus - whether you like it or not, it exists and will not only influence but determine funding.
[02:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:10] <exec> 08└─I don't think editorial ethics would change; I merely included that statement to reply to the previous post's assertion that we don't know if peer review is done well or at all. Good journals already do it well. The rest of my post is about a few potential negative effects of open peer review. Havin...
[02:21:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1889 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:51] <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,...
[02:22:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <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...
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Swervin [2444] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DSL Inventor's Latest Science Project: Terabit Speeds over Copper - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:43] <exec> 08└─It tends to get tricky the more higher frequency DSL you send down a cable though. In the end you'll end up needing newer (or separate) copper cables if too many people want service in the same cable, even if there are extra pairs still available. They ran into the situation with VDSL2, which they u...
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[03:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:11] <exec> 08└─It would be the first time in U.S. history that a state legislature has legalized cannabis, rather than a voter initiative. It would be a rare example of representatives representing their constituents (although the sweet tax money they could collect might be the decisive factor). https://www.leafly...
[03:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:39] <exec> 08└─> Must be fun to be homeless in Seattle where you can look at the gigantic glass spheres full of rich people who got rich by fucking over the poor. Amazon.com have a conventionally shaped building under construction too: In 2016, Amazon bought an old motel in downtown Seattle, Washington, and turne...
[03:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:36] <exec> 08└─Usefulness vs cost, though? Personally, if we had the money for the deltaV, I think it would make a great tourist attraction in a stable Lagrange point - but that's a lot of deltaV and that money could put new hardware in orbit...
[03:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:38] <exec> 08└─Without the "Red Menace" looming, between fast and cheap, we get cheap. So cheap that fast has become multi-generational.
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:40] <exec> 08└─NASA pork = jobs, so, no, pork doesn't get cut, it just ages on the budget.
[03:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─Radiation concerns are real, but trimming 20 years off lifespan is overblowing it. Occasionally one astronaut will get unlucky with the radiation effects and lose 20 years of life to it. Just like commuting to work on the freeway will occasionally do terrible things to lifespan, but not most of the...
[03:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:44] <exec> 08└─Not everyone is so quick [space.com] to dismiss the danger of radiation: The Mars rover Curiosity has allowed us to finally calculate an average dose over the 180-day journey. It is approximately 300 mSv, the equivalent of 24 CAT scans. In just getting to Mars, an explorer would be exposed to more...
[03:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:16] <exec> 08└─The whole thing fucks up science, any real review of science, and discussion of science by the layman. Just one more piece of evidence that we are ruled by toxic MBAs and the bullshit antics of the Owning Class. They need to find every place in our world that they can fuck up, and fill with the "ben...
[03:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 3075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:18] <exec> 08└─I like the whole moral superiority of it and all, but you can't simplify like that. Often times whether or not it is sharing or "piracy" is determined by rather corrupt people, institutions, and processes. YouTube can kiss my fucking ass. They say "piracy", I say their algorithms are fucking retarde...
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[04:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:20] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Trump and the Republicans won't let this happen again. They want the FDA to only ensure that drugs are not harmful. They don't want the FDA to concern itself with effectiveness. Somehow, according to the Republicans (and, no doubt Libertarians) the magic free market will stop people ove...
[04:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:21] <exec> 08└─Naturopathy Homeopathy Chiropractic
[04:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:23] <exec> 08└─How did you manage to turn this into a political rant? Are you seeing a doctor about your rage-hate issue?
[04:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:25] <exec> 08└─So you are not concerned about Trump's stated desire to stop the FDA from reporting on the effectiveness of drugs? This is a great story abut the FDA saving Americans billions of dollars, yet we know that this administration wants to prevent the FDA from performing this type of assessment. You don't...
[04:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:28] <exec> 08└─My guess: as those are not drugs nor food, they aren't a concern of FDA. Then... what you want to do about? Ban them? At most, a consumer protection agency could be interested, but in the worst case scenario, that agency should at most be interested in making sure they aren't advertised as "medicine...
[04:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:30] <exec> 08└─Are you seeing a doctor about your rage-hate issue?
[04:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:39] <exec> 08└─"I think it reflects that Vermont elected officials are more in touch with our constituents than a lot of elected officials in other states,"
[04:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Offers $20,000 to Join OSS-Fuzz Program - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─For tonight's episode: Commander Queer in "Goodbye, Gnu!" And the gays play on.
[04:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:10] <exec> 08└─One could point out that retail does employ millions of people with little education, and that killing retail (not just Amazon's feat, but the Web in general) is putting them out of a job. Maybe, but Amazon itself also employs a LOT of people with little education, to pack boxes in those warehouses....
[04:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:11] <exec> 08└─I could certainly be wrong, but the plant those guys are planting in the first picture looks an awful lot like a Punga or New Zealand Tree fern. If it rains a lot in Seattle they would probably quite like growing there, as New Zealand has some of the wettest places on the planet. [doc.govt.nz]
[04:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:14] <exec> 08└─"Gimme Basic Income! Eat the Rich!" Since you're posting anonymously, how are we going to know who to write the checks to, or where to mail the frozen 1 percenter flesh to?
[04:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:16] <exec> 08└─I'm using MIC for microphone. Sorry about that, happens on other time zones, especially in other countries; next time I'll use the full name. OGHIHA (Oh, God! How I hate acronyms!)
[04:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:18] <exec> 08└─I think you don't understand how unbelievably expensive it would be to boost ISS to that high of an orbit. Not only that, it would become prohibitively expensive to send manned and resupply missions to it.
[04:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:20] <exec> 08└─We've done all the science that we need to do at the ISS. It now serves as nothing more than a mountain survival hut. A great place to seek shelter if you happen to need it - if you can get there.
[04:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:55] <exec> 08└─I'm about ready to submit a research paper which may have broad interest and will not require deep technical knowledge of some arcane subject to understand. I am thinking about really spreading it around. Put a preprint on Arxiv, put it on my personal website, and even see if I can do it up as a sto...
[04:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:45] <exec> 08└─"They breached the multiple defences of the castle" seems like correct English to me and could include the moat, the outer wall and the keep, so multiple things.
[04:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DSL Inventor's Latest Science Project: Terabit Speeds over Copper - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not altogether certain the same reasoning applies: with VDSL you're still pushing electrons down the wire, which will generate a substantial electromagnetic field that in turn interacts with the fields generated by adjacent pairs, causing crosstalk between the channels. I'm speaking outside my e...
[04:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should spend a decade researching animal behavior before making that claim. Animals do kill and torturer each other 'for fun' and when a pride switches male owners the females kill their own offspring to make room for the new male offspring. Most humans handle divorce far more civil than...
[04:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 36% of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's time to use a better language. I almost never get syntax errors in Python. Sometimes (~5%) I misspell identifiers; choosing good variable and function names helps). Overall, I write non-logic errors maybe ~7% of the time. That's a credit to the language not being completely retarded like...
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[05:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:07] <exec> 08└─yet we know that this administration wants to prevent the FDA from performing this type of assessment.
[05:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:08] <exec> 08└─Now look at it from a viewpoint other than trying to make the failed FDA look like it did good for a change. Imagine the drug had been greenlit, It didn't work, even after a few years on the market and a lot of people taking it. We would have known that for certain years ago, the whole medical world...
[05:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:10] <exec> 08└─At least two of those do masquerade as medicine for consumption. The FDA can impose efficacy requirements on medicine. Why not on watered down medicine? Why not herbs sold as medicine? Efficacy simply means they need to be proven to work above the level of a placebo.
[05:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:12] <exec> 08└─Here, have some more radium toothpaste, dipshit. "Failing FDA." Christ.
[05:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:15] <exec> 08└─So are you claiming that I am wrong? Or do you think that an snarky comment will further your point of view?
[05:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:17] <exec> 08└─> Why not herbs sold as medicine? What have you got against herbs and traditional medicine? Some of it is very effective and certainly very cost effective. Personal anecdote -- I have a painful arthritic big toe, it was dislocated 45 years ago, started to swell and hurt ~30 years ago. If I drink a f...
[05:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:19] <exec> 08└─If the efficacy standard is removed, most new medicines simply won't work. The drug companies will concentrate on new and exciting ways to market placebos.
[05:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:21] <exec> 08└─All dirt cheap compared to what would have been charged for solanezumab. Of course, so is a BMW. OTOH, some alternative cancer treatments are anything but dirt cheap and so should see some scrutiny.
[05:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:24] <exec> 08└─I don't know, frojack. I can't recall. Hmm.
[05:17:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:32] <exec> 08└─It would be the first time in U.S. history that a state legislature has legalized cannabis, rather than a voter initiative. It would be a rare example of representatives representing their constituents (although the sweet tax money they could collect might be the decisive factor). https://www.leafly...
[05:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:35] <exec> 08└─Anyway, glad to see states exercising their individual rights to fight against Der Trumpenreich with initiatives such as this, not to mention places like California refusing to cooperate with ICE and such. Even though the core of this apple is rotten (or, at least Cheeto-flavoured) there is still a...
[05:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Offers $20,000 to Join OSS-Fuzz Program - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:45] <exec> 08└─Are you gay for Billy Blaze?
[05:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:09] <exec> 08└─A virtual "insightfunny" mod for you.
[05:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─Cascades to the east, Puget Sound to the west and bottlneck on I5 if you try getting into or out of it. Almost walled in already -- I hate when I have to go to Seattle for anything. As for the buildings, it gets pretty hot here in the summer -- the energy that will be required for AC is going to be...
[05:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:13] <exec> 08└─Vaguely, in the sense that almost all three-atom molecules look vaguely the same. But it lacks the two most iconic features of a water molecule: the large size difference between oxygen to hydrogen, and the 105* angle they form. Really, it looks a lot closer to carbon dioxide, with its two slightly...
[05:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─I quoted out of context: the shelter will take up roughly half of the smaller of two buildings. The Seattle Times has drawings that show it clearly. http://www.seattletimes.com [seattletimes.com]
[05:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:21] <exec> 08└─I am totally fine with postponing human missions to Mars until they take 30-60 days one-way instead of 180. It will be too bad if those propulsion technologies are not ready to use by the 2030s.
[05:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:23] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that, once there, the astronauts might no longer remember how to get back. [go.com]
[05:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:49] <exec> 08└─Not OP AC. Legalese, unlike common language, is more like programming language. The "and" here is not the "and" we use normally, but specifies two different types of penalties as possible punishment. What it really means is that you can be fined monetarily and/or incarcerated. The left side of "and'...
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[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:20] <exec> 08└─Social butterflies want attention, let them get their attention. I don't get nuisance calls. I don't get any calls at all. I don't socialise with shite.
[06:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:21] <exec> 08└─I haven't had coffee yet, but that looks like half-a-cent per call. That's not a penalty. That's just overhead.
[06:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:44] <exec> 08└─Some of it is very effective and certainly very cost effective. Personal anecdote
[06:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:46] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with you drinking cherry juice, or with you saying it help you with a condition, or even recommending others try it. I do have a problem with the cherry juice bottler, or the store that sells it, or anyone profiting from it in any way, saying the same without efficacy testing. Expe...
[06:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:48] <exec> 08└─[Begin coded Massage] Special SJW Action Group, jmorris Squad, Lt. Boner reporting. New development. Target seems to have acquired delusions of medical competence. We have not seen this before. Evidently thinks that entire disease theory is in error. Checking right-wing nut-job conspiracy database....
[06:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that dilute the term "medicine"? Consumers should be informed that "medicine" means FDA approved, and FDA approved means proven to be effective and reasonably safe (a cancer-drug is IMO reasonably safe if it really eradicates the cancer but causes a 10 percent chance of developing diabetes...
[06:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:52] <exec> 08└─Somehow, according to the Republicans (and, no doubt Libertarians) the magic free market will stop people over paying for ineffective drugs, despite the lack of information available to consumers.
[06:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─The failed clinical trials have done the job of forcing the re-think just fine. Even interested laymen have known for a while now that Lilly's trial was just a desperate attempt to find any tiny shred of efficacy to rescue their expensive dud. Given that other drugs also aimed at amyloid plaques hav...
[06:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:41] <exec> 08└─Bear with me please for just a moment. I know what I'm about to say may seem like pushing a point. Most "skyscrapers" start with a large base and extend to a smaller tip at their zenith. They are, to put it bluntly, phallic. Note that this is very, very masculine in nature. We think of it as normal....
[06:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:51] <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...
[06:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:52] <exec> 08└─I don't buy here that a NASA with balls could be forced to take on so much pork. Pork isn't irresistible. Instead, the bureaucracies, including NASA, are packed with people who don't care and don't have an interest in keeping out pork spending.
[06:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:54] <exec> 08└─Imagine, we have them there. They walked out and dug up a pit in the sand. Let's assume the walls did not cave in. They found some rocks. That took two days. Now what?
[06:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's like trying to live out of your car. Completely unpossible.
[06:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 245 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:08] <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!
[06:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:34] <exec> 08└─There's more than just one: Sharing information is antithetical to scientific progress.
[06:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DSL Inventor's Latest Science Project: Terabit Speeds over Copper - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:08] <exec> 08└─I peeked at TFA. It looks like they would have to pull new cable. The presentation slide shows 3, rather than 2, wires grouped together.
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[07:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:11] <exec> 08└─People responsible for robocalls should be forced to answer them 20 hours a day until they freely choose to strangle themselves with the phone cord.
[07:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's a real "fine" of just 0.4 pence per call made. Terrifying the court was in this insignificant 'consequence'. And, conveniently, now the perps are in "liquidation". Wonder how long the exact same operators pop up again, under a new name, new company and offshore call center.
[07:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─Not even that - the fine can't be levied against the liquidated company, so the fine is the next step beyond "tokenistic".
[07:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─>"Making directors responsible will stop them avoiding fines by putting their company into liquidation," the ICO said. As stated in the summary this is a good first step. A reasonable punishment for the directors would be proportionate to the amount of damage they have called. Chemical castration se...
[07:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:19] <exec> 08└─Chemical? I'd suggest blunt!
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─A few days ago at work I heard a weird noise coming from a copy/fax machine; at first I thought it was a severe weather alert because it had tones interspersed with speech. It turned out to be a political survey robot calling a fax machine. The survey just kept repeating its opener while the fax mac...
[07:17:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:40] <exec> 08└─If the efficacy standard is removed, most new medicines simply won't work. The drug companies will concentrate on new and exciting ways to market placebos.
[07:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:50] <exec> 08└─You should be concerned about institutional programs that will overpay for snake oil whenever the regulatory process gets gamed enough. We're fortunate that this situation didn't turn into a two billion USD per year exploit.
[07:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:52] <exec> 08└─At least two of those do masquerade as medicine for consumption.
[07:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Offers $20,000 to Join OSS-Fuzz Program - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:11] <exec> 08└─http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest [c2.com]
[07:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:52] <exec> 08└─For example, tftp claims that a human mission would cost as much as 100 robotic missions. Even if we made the unwarranted assumption that 100 robotic missions would generate a competitive amount of scientific ROI, we still have the problem that we're doing Martian missions at somewhere around the ra...
[07:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:54] <exec> 08└─It's meant to be universal basic income, everyone gets it. If indexed it shouldn't just disappear as an inflationary effect. If we can't get past the zero-sum game mentality we don't deserve to leave the troposphere let alone colonize other planets.
[07:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:31] <exec> 08└─You wish to use the results of your hard work, usually paid for fully or at least in part by the taxpayer, that is the public, to educate the world, that is, those who actually paid for it to begin with? Without the world paying us?
[07:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:32] <exec> 08└─I agree with essentially all of your points. When I was a grad student, and later a post-doc, part of my duties involved reviewing papers in our group's area of research (under the auspices of my supervisor). I certainly wrote some critical comments, and I remember one particular research group whos...
[07:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:34] <exec> 08└─I know you were being sarcastic, but actually comments like that do help. Because while the claim itself is clearly silly, it draws from a meme (which is exactly what makes it funny to begin with), and therefore causes your mind to, metaphorically speaking, put that meme into the criticism arena. An...
[07:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:37] <exec> 08└─I like the whole moral superiority of it and all, but you can't simplify like that.
[07:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:39] <exec> 08└─by Anonymous Co(((war)))d. Coincidence detected. ;-)
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[08:17:25] <exec> 08└─All good points, but what's the solution?
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:56] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with scientists - they claim things and then we find out they were lying and it ends up costing American business a lot of money. LOCK THEM UP LOCK THEM UP
[08:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:57] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. The next doctor will simply prescribe you an ineffective drug and keep you coming back for checkups until you or your insurance (if you still have it) will no longer pay.
[08:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:08] <exec> 08└─Quite frankly, the state of Vermont apparently doesn't give a shit about what you prefer.
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[08:18:09] <exec> 08└─At some point, the basket case States that are net receivers of federal money need to be allowed to hit bottom.
[08:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:34] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America so much? Why do you not support the troops?
[08:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:36] <exec> 08└─Sir, please stop yelling. I'm going to have to taze you. Sir, please stop breaching me. *TAZED*
[08:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:56] <exec> 08└─I've heard people say Mercurial is easier to learn, but it's not all that different from Git in my opinion.
[08:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:57] <exec> 08└─Come on now, you can't get a respectable version-control flame-war going unless you name your preferred alternative.
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[09:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:12] <exec> 08└─Why can't Google just *collaborate* with Owlchemy Labs to.. do whatever it is they want to do? Why does it always have to be a purchase? Everyone knows this is going to end with "Owlchemy Labs gets shut down by Google".
[09:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:13] <exec> 08└─Jews. Jew-related problems.
[09:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:15] <exec> 08└─Enjoy the glamorous life of an American Homeless. Begging for change and being ignored. Pissing yourself because no public restrooms. Sleeping on a train because the shelter closed down. Free Wi-Fi Everywhere! You can still receive Google ads! Life is GREAT.
[09:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:17] <exec> 08└─Damn, nigger. That's a lazy troll even for you. Nigger.
[09:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:20] <exec> 08└─Nigger al-Nigger Jihaaaaad! Allahlalalalah!!!
[09:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:22] <exec> 08└─Get to piss on motherfuckers and get away with it.
[09:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:30] <exec> 08└─The average new car is somehow about $40k, and the average new consumer would be willing to pay another 10% for extra safety... Great, except that the median American household income is $55k per year. Methinks people with lots of cash are skewing both the average and the study, because half the hou...
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[09:17:32] <exec> 08└─Does "consumer" only include "buyers of new cars above $30k"?
[09:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:19] <exec> 08└─We have similar nonsense here in the UK. Shysters can pretend their secret herb cocktail will cure all ills, and the government just stays silent. See also the works of Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma. An example. [badscience.net]
[09:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:04] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you're not the only one who's realised that the current situation is insane. The movement to fix this mess is called open access. [wikipedia.org]
[09:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:06] <exec> 08└─Agree. Paywalling work isn't always unreasonable, but it's outrageous when it's done to a body of work produced with public funds. Suppose Alice pays Bob to build her, say, a chair. Suppose Bob comes back telling her All done. By the way I handed it over to Eve. If you want it, just go buy it off he...
[09:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:59] <exec> 08└─> Sorry, if I yelled at Mrs. Conway and Sec Price [...] it is highly probable I'd see the inside of the bars in a cell for a bit. So why shouldn't this asshole? Because freedom. Specifically, freedom of speech includes the freedom to yell. Note the word "or" in this passage, distinguishing it from "...
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bot Floods the FCC's Website with Anti-Net Neutrality Comments - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and re...
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[10:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:11] <exec> 08└─Another antibody towards amyloids, waste of time. It is so obvious that is a symptom or protective measure*, but I'm a crackpot who gave up on NIH dominated research. * Hint: Amyloids are the most thermodynamically state for many peptides/proteins to form. Rather than an abberation it requires etern...
[10:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:12] <exec> 08└─* Hint: Amyloids are the most thermodynamically stable state for many peptides/proteins to form. Rather than an aberation it requires eternal and effective vigilance to prevent.
[10:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:14] <exec> 08└─aberration
[10:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:28] <exec> 08└─The new male lion kills any still-nursing cubs in order to bring the females back into estrus. The females don't interfere with what he's doing. The much-larger male wouldn't tolerate that anyway. There are several videos on YouTube that document this. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[11:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:25] <exec> 08└─Another study will find that consumers are suddenly willing to pay more for a car that they can drive by themselves!
[11:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:18] <exec> 08└─LOCK THEM UP LOCK THEM UP
[11:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:19] <exec> 08└─To quote Tim Minchin: "By definition", I begin "Alternative Medicine", I continue "Has either not been proved to work, Or been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine That’s been proved to work? Medicine
[11:19:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 1097 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:40] <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...
[11:19:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:49] <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...
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[12:17:10] <exec> 08└─How does a chip get "noisy"? Do they mean the fans required to keep it cool were noisy?
[12:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:11] <exec> 08└─Snotnose wrote :- How does a chip get "noisy"? Do they mean the fans required to keep it cool were noisy?
[12:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA's Volta Architecture Unveiled: GV100 and Tesla V100 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:19] <exec> 08└─4 of these things, in a nice box with 512gb-1tb ram. A perfect node to add to one's home network. Too bad i can't afford it.
[12:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:32] <exec> 08└─Why can't Google just *collaborate* with Owlchemy Labs to.. do whatever it is they want to do? Why does it always have to be a purchase? Everyone knows this is going to end with "Owlchemy Labs gets shut down by Google".
[12:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:43] <exec> 08└─> Another study will find that consumers are suddenly willing to pay more for a car that they can drive by themselves! The saying "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics" comes to mind. You can make a survey say pretty much whatever you want it to, to fit your agenda. It used to be that you would...
[12:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:59] <exec> 08└─This is a drop in the ocean of robot calls, here in the UK at least. I get about 8 a day, the last one about 10 minutes ago. You cannot just block the calls because the calling numbers are mostly different from each other (even if obviously from the same outfit). On top of that there are lots of "sm...
[12:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:39] <exec> 08└─Isn't all government meddling bad? Free market, all drugs should be allowed until proven guilty by consumers not buying the stuff.
[12:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:41] <exec> 08└─It is not fucking obvious. Prions also form amyloids and their formation directly induces disease. How is it obvious that the amyloids in Alzheimer's are benign? Populations with genetic determinants that specifically predispose them to producing amyloid beta in the brain develop early onset Alzheim...
[12:20:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:03] <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...
[12:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:45] <exec> 08└─If pork is all that's on the table, that's what you eat. The "core" NASA people, the ones who care about the mission, who know the rocket science, who make real things happen, also happen to be less politically inclined and less politically capable than your average agency. They've got some people w...
[12:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:30] <exec> 08└─I know you were being sarcastic, but actually comments like that do help.
[12:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:31] <exec> 08└─habitually attacks your neighbour's ships without provocation?
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─my git --version just replied with 2.5.0, I think this is on an Ubuntu 14.04 base... never gave it much thought, it works, haven't had to do anything about version issues in git since I started using it around 2012.
[12:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Freezes Contractor Hires to Keep Full-time Workers Fully Occupied - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─A large corporation like IBM can probably afford to slip up on deadlines and projects. Maybe DeathStar #75 were accomplished this way? :p
[12:23:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement. - 1782 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed, you got it. This was utterly predictable. Everybody's jumping on the "walled garden" bandwagon, because they want to carve out their niche and make it harder for users to bolt and change systems. Everything needs to be locked down and under central control. All TFA's fretting is a bit of smo...
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[13:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:06] <exec> 08└─Is it reversible once back on Earth?
[13:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:16] <exec> 08└─And what systems can actually run on this shiny new chip? Is there even a distribution left? Windows 2008 Server (dropped in 2012) -- well into LTS. Debian squeeze (dropped in wheezy) -- EOL. Red Hat RHEL 5 (dropped in 6) -- LTS. Suse SLES 11 (dropped in 12) -- well into LTS. Gentoo -- long since un...
[13:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:18] <exec> 08└─I guess they are speaking about electrical noise.
[13:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:20] <exec> 08└─If you're buying Itanium right now then you have existing systems that can't be migrated. You're not running Linux either. I wish OpenVMS had gained more traction and not stayed a niche operating system.
[13:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:22] <exec> 08└─Here's another one: there was success: [...] a number of customers cling to these systems like a child clings to their favorite blanket due to the way they are integrated at the core of the company.
[13:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─You know "Whheeaaooww .... Whheeaaooww ..." with the lights dimming up and down at the same time.
[13:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:55] <exec> 08└─How much is it to have a road without possible crazy bug cars or CIA controlled ones? :p
[13:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:13] <exec> 08└─Well, they could bring back the death penalty... I used to be against capital punishment until I realized it's the only way to deal with psychopaths. They are 'incurable' and simply must die.
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─9 mm may also be part of life.. :P
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:17] <exec> 08└─In some countries there are free web services that let users add numbers that are spammer numbers and thus people can block them using caller-id. It's not that complicated to setup, the hard part is getting the word out.
[13:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:09] <exec> 08└─In a shocking turn of events society's innovators spurn authoritarian and regressive areas, flocking instead to cultural centers where world knowledge is more widely shared. Shocking.
[13:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:49] <exec> 08└─What did you smoke this morning?
[13:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:51] <exec> 08└─How will they make sure this glass sphere won't cook people at a temperature of at least 80 ⁰C ? (176 F) Sun light in, downconverted by the glass into infrared which the glass then reflects back = oven. And of course it will enable Amazon corporation to leave others to breathe all those wonderful...
[13:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:06] <exec> 08└─So these artificial human cells will be resistant to viral infections, radiation, and cancer. Sounds like..*drumroll*.. cancer! Industrial drug production may also let enough of these modified cells into the free to screw up people on a large scale. I think many people, even smart ones underestimate...
[13:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:08] <exec> 08└─That scientist probably had the goal post set higher than contemporary citizens of meh..idiocracy? That person should however have some compensation as the ability to work again may be diminished.
[13:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:10] <exec> 08└─A underground facility on the Moon or Mars would be a shelter. The ISS would be roadkill if things get really bad.
[13:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:12] <exec> 08└─There is technology to be mostly self sustaining on a Moon or Mars base or just free floating. Being on site as a human immersed in the environment without any time lag of minutes would enable research and ideas on a whole new level.
[13:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:14] <exec> 08└─Radiation doses don't add up like that. To get radiation poisoning from 1 Sv all of the dose needs to be delivered over a short time span, think hours rather than days. If the dose is spread out to e.g. 10 mSv per day for 100 days there will be no immediate health effects. There would be an increase...
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:01] <exec> 08└─These science publishers are stealing the investment from taxpayers and the interest of citizens to take part of what they gave up resources to the researchers to conduct their business. So if they want to continue the hijacking of public resources they can pay for the research they hijack and the f...
[13:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03charon [5660] 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <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...
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[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─God bless itanic, and all who sail on her.
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:00] <exec> 08└─Well, there's NonStop Kernel on Itanium-based HPE Integrity Nonstop [hpe.com] systems. But even those are moving to Xeons these days. Apparently they're also now supporting virtualized NonStop, which...ummm... the strength of NonStop was that everything - including the hardware - ran in tandem (in f...
[14:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:03] <exec> 08└─The main feature of this CPU was "wide instruction set computer" (WISC) - it crams multiple instructions into a single 64-bit word and execute them simultaneously. It effectively offloads to the compiler the task of figuring out how to cram multiple op-codes into a single word that can be executed s...
[14:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, wikipedia does have an entry for "VLIW" - very long instruction word.
[14:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:07] <exec> 08└─Someone took the trouble to list the remaining operating systems for Itanium on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Among the discontinued ones, there's NonStop OS, and as someone else hinted, there's OpenVMS. https://en.wikipedia.org [wi...
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[14:18:09] <exec> 08└─AT&T had quite a few Superdomes running RH5 last I had access (2013). Some of theses were new systems that existing apps and data were being migrated to.
[14:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:11] <exec> 08└─The article says the chips will "start at $14500" but it has a table showing prices from $1300 to $4650.
[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─I recall that we (organizers of a Linux conference) got ahold of a demo server, back in the early days of Itanium. It came already preloaded with a Linux distribution, can't remember which one (maybe RedHat?). But man, was that box slow. We had experience with all sorts of hardware, including x86, P...
[14:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my first thought on reading the title was "Demographics????" I suspect that as well as being wealthy, the people who replied to the poll were also Greens, and/or progressives, or other people who are opposed to traditional industries. Personally, the only "self driving vehicle" I am ever likel...
[14:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:06] <exec> 08└─It's not the only prosecution; they're touting it because the amount of the fine is, notionally, a record. A few others: A Bognor Regis firm broke the law because it called people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). IT Protect Ltd has been fined £40,000 by the Information Commi...
[14:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:48] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, were there some snake oil sales-people back in your family tree?
[14:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:49] <exec> 08└─> I do have a problem with the cherry juice bottler, or the store that sells it, or anyone profiting from it in any way, saying the same without efficacy testing. Sure, I'm all for that. I think I first tried it after reading a tip in the newspaper "People's Pharmacy" column (...don't know if they h...
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[14:20:03] <exec> 08└─A Republican governor, you say? Seeing as how Republicans and feminists and now in bed, seeing as how Republicans view it as their mission to act against anything and everything that might be rooted in “science” or at least principles of small government, seeing as how cannabis is a date-rape dr...
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:05] <exec> 08└─It's the Idiot Queen! Oh can the slavery crap. Without states rights, how could you have bathroom laws? After all, without bathroom laws, a “man” like me could just stroll into the women's room and rape away any time I want, right?! And the only thing stopping me are bathroom laws, because I wou...
[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:54] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder: "free speech zones"
[14:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─The whole question is: at what point does the Secret Service "have to intervene" ? Is it when the man is physically breaching established boundaries in space, or is it when his voice is reaching Mrs. Conway and Mr. Price at an audible, understandable volume? Interestingly, what is the overlap betwee...
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[15:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:15] <exec> 08└─President of the United States -or- Baghdad Bob? (Memba him?)
[15:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:16] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, President Trump has undermined the White House's messaging on Comey's firing, saying that he planned to fire "showboat" and "grandstander" James Comey regardless of any recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein.
[15:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:19] <exec> 08└─He wasn't fired, he resigned. I saw it on Fox News. #Fake News!
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─The liberal media are saying that Mr. Sessions recused himself from the investigation of possible connections between the Russian government and the Donald Trump campaign. They're saying that Mr. Sessions nonetheless recommended that Mr. Comey, who was leading that investigation, be sacked. http://w...
[15:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─him. Any wagers how long this guy lasts?
[15:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:26] <exec> 08└─I member! Baghdad Bob 2024!
[15:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:28] <exec> 08└─He's trying to get out in front of something: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! [thehill.com] “Two people who have heard his account of the dinner” told The New York Times that Trump asked Comey to pledge his political l...
[15:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:30] <exec> 08└─The liberal media are saying that Mr. Sessions recused himself from the investigation... I don't know if you're being sarcastic with the liberal media bit but this is a direct quote from Mr. Sessions himself: “I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any ma...
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:39] <exec> 08└─I have not read the paper, nor am I a medical doctor, but I would assume they can grow new blood vessels just like the rest of us, the process is called Angiogenesis. So I would assume when they are back at normal gravity and not floating about on ISS and start to exercise they will eventually grow...
[15:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds good. This will however surely have implications for any Mars trip. 6 months? in zero gravity and then 1/3 gravity on the surface for years. While they will need to walk, use wrenches, lift, build, farm etc..
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─Most HA systems use virtualisation under the hood. You basically have a hypervisor that ensures that multiple machines get exactly the same set of sources of nondeterminism. On x86, that's basically the RDTSC and RDRAND instructions (both of which can be trapped), plus the same data delivered from o...
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:06] <exec> 08└─NOT FUNNY
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:08] <exec> 08└─Anyway, in the real world, FAIL, not just because it's WISC. "WISC" isn't even an entry in wikipedia anymore.
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─If it was an early Linux distro, it was almost certainly compiled with GCC. At the time, GCC had basically no decent VLIW support and was atrociously bad at generating Itanium code - bundles were almost always padded with a lot of NOPs and so you ended up using a lot of i-cache and not using many ex...
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─> How does a chip get "noisy"? Do they mean the fans required to keep it cool were noisy? What do you expect? Its anandtech. A site by and for 'enthusiasts.' If it doesn't run call of duty and can't be pimped out with LEDs they don't know how it works.
[15:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─> Even HP's own HP-UX cancelled their Itanic port before release. lolwut? Itanium systems shipped with HP-UX from the very start and for a while it was the only available OS.
[15:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:17] <exec> 08└─Hell, it might have even been x86 code running on the 'emulator' / co-processor part of the chip. That was dog slow.
[15:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:49] <exec> 08└─My household income is about $250K, but I find it a stretch to pay even 26K for a crossover SUV. I think I have better use for that money. I would only pay more for a car that required no gas.
[15:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:51] <exec> 08└─Yet there is a middle ground, shockingly, a whole segment of consumers who don't count since they never buy vehicles. These are what we call the working poor, and they pay rent in the form of bus fare.
[15:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Fined for Robo-Calls - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:12] <exec> 08└─I'm very annoyed with companies that call me too. But really, the solution these days for most people is -- don't answer the phone. I don't know about the UK, but in the U.S. even if you still have a landline, most people have caller ID. If you don't know the number, don't answer. I realize that peo...
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[15:19:14] <exec> 08└─The Guillotine.
[15:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─The FDA just prevented Abbot labs from collecting ten billion dollars to offset the costs of their research on this drug over the past 16+ years. They prevented the release of a mostly harmless, potentially helpful agent into the market to allow the market to decide for itself whether or not it is w...
[15:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:59] <exec> 08└─What have you got against herbs and traditional medicine? Some of it is very effective and certainly very cost effective.
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:15] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, we've just watched every state on our borders legalize marijuana. It's still a felony here if you've got a bag on you and the police decide to frame it as trying to sell (possession is "only" several hundred dollars and a misdemeanor). I wonder if we'll be next, or if th...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─AAAAIYEE! (try mouseover...) <abbr title="Acronyms Ain't Always Awful If You Explain 'Em">AAAAIYEE</abbr>
[15:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─Or you send those 100 robotic missions to different places. Send flyby or orbital missions to Pallas, Uranus, Neptune, Eris, Sedna, and Planet Nine if it is located.
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah but you explicitly put the word "multiple" in that.
[15:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─So "and" doesn't really mean "and" in legalese. This is why people don't like lawyers :P
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─I do support the troops. What I don't support are the orders given to them by the asshats in charge.
[15:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─git-2.13.0-1
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[16:17:44] <exec> 08└─Regardless Baghdad media will support all truth! :-) Brought to you by OwnEverything Inc.
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations I said, I'll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're...
[16:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─The guy admitted to obstruction of justice on camera and republicans still love him. Whitehouse Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders also admits to obstruction of justice by Trump Administration [deathandtaxesmag.com]
[16:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:49] <exec> 08└─How do we know what Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe says about FBI employees actually is true?
[16:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:52] <exec> 08└─There is ample evidence that Trump lies but there is no evidence McCabe does.
[16:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:54] <exec> 08└─from your linked article: “We want this to come to its conclusion, we want it to come to its conclusion with integrity,” Sanders said in regard to the bureau’s Russia investigation. “And we think that we’ve actually, by removing Director Comey, taken steps to make that happen.” Sanders...
[16:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:56] <exec> 08└─There's a certain subset of American voters for whom being both stupid and asinine are not only tolerated, but the only things they strongly value in political candidates. 50 years ago, these people were more evenly split between the two major parties, making them a dominant bloc in neither. Now the...
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─Even when he does the right thing, it seems to be for the wrong reasons, then he can't even remember his reasons. Comey SHOULD have been sacked. Usurping the authority of the AG was more than enough reason to be fired. But, WTF did Trump fire him? His reasons made decent sense, the first time around...
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─Trump should have fired Comey the moment he was sworn in as President. The guy refused to prosecute Hillary because the polls and media showed her cruising to an easy victory. Firing him now is less optimal. Then again, if he fired him two years from now it would make no difference as far as percept...
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Republicans called Hillary supporters. Stupid and asinine both apply perfectly.
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─huge chunks of mass break free and begin free-fall
[16:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─He wasn't fired, he resigned. I saw it on Fox News.
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─This makes me wonder whether the lack of convection in microgravity might have anything to do with it. If you think about it, capillaries are usually dumping heat as well as transferring oxygen, and the resulting convection might cause some turbulence that keeps the blood flow from being totally lam...
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─Oh damn, clearly I didn't RTFA. The smart people already thought of that.
[16:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:09] <exec> 08└─I have developed app with 8 recipes for octopus.
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:26] <exec> 08└─I make $85k, spent $4.5k on my last car (though it was listed at $6.5k, my dealer/uncle helped me out).
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:36] <exec> 08└─>>Are you seeing a doctor about your rage-hate issue? >I was, but the doctor diagnosed an incurable personality disorder, and then gave up on me. Happens all the time, it's bad for drug sales - we need to teach these doctors to keep trying.
[16:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:37] <exec> 08└─The obvious problem is regulatory capture - it is extremely expensive to test something for safety and efficacy and navigate the bureaucracy, and the pharmaceutical companies like it that way - keeps out competition. Herbal treatments are not especially profitable, nor do they get any patent protect...
[16:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:36] <exec> 08└─Funny, first thing I thought on reading the summary was: Bezos' big glass balls
[16:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:37] <exec> 08└─200 square feet per person, plus pets, in family units. Seems pretty luxurious for a homeless shelter.
[16:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:40] <exec> 08└─Retail doesn't require traditional education (college degrees, etc.) for front-line employment, but they are educated in other ways: fashion, style, social grace, etc. WalMart lowered the bar below ground in those areas, but upscale retail (which Amazon is hitting pretty hard) is actually pretty sel...
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[16:21:42] <exec> 08└─I always thought it was an interesting question: are heroin addicts less, or more happy than non-heroin addicts? Sure, they've got short life expectancy, minimal productivity, negative social integration value in the bigger picture, but if you're just measuring happiness....
[16:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:44] <exec> 08└─And, there's a question: what produces more CO2, UPS trucks delivering cardboard boxes direct from warehouse to customer, or individuals in private cars driving to multiple brick and mortar retail locations browsing, purchasing, and driving home?
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[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─Kahhhhhhhn!
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[16:24:58] <exec> 08└─You didn't think I posted without doing a quick Google search? You must be new around here.
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[17:17:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds like either a weird sex act or a spoiled drink.
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─MCabe is under investigation: http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] Let us not forget that his HRC ties netted his wife half a million in donations and he played some part in the email whitewash.
[17:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. "Both sides are bad" is a flagrantly retarded argument whose sole intent is to ignore the tremendously awful by pointing to vague dislike. Sorry if this is condescending, but you're a completely dishonest fuckwit for acting this way.
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─> Usurp You keep using that word, I do not think It means what you think It means. The AG requested Comey's recommendation. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over the federal investigation of Hillary...
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─It's written as if the White House had asked the FBI to stop its investigation. Or am I the only one who gets that impression? I'm also pretty sure that as an employee I'd also love an FBI director who required that apparently nothing get done about blatant crimes, that the law would not need to be...
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the more mistakes you make when you open your mouth, the more ammunition you give the other party.
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─The guy refused to prosecute Hillary because the polls and media showed her cruising to an easy victory.
[17:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:19] <exec> 08└─A possible interpretation is that she meant they were taking steps to bring integrity to the investigation, rather than that they were taking steps to end the investigation.
[17:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─Any wagers how long this guy lasts?
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:23] <exec> 08└─I think that is the way she meant for it to be interpreted. President ManBaby does not have the impulse control to lie for very long. But spin is what spokespeople do for a living. So it is unlikely that deliberate obstruction of justice was the idea she was trying to communicate.
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─It's the perceived legitimacy of the system, which is critical to every system's perpetuation. In the United States and many other places in the world the post-WWII consensus is riven. I'll stick to the US for the moment because that's the subject of TFA, but we have the credibility of major chunks...
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, President Trump has undermined the White House's messaging on Comey's firing, saying that he planned to fire "showboat" and "grandstander" James Comey regardless of any recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein.
[17:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─The guy admitted to obstruction of justice on camera and republicans still love him.
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─Hedging his bets, is how it seemed to me. It sort of worked. He got several more months in the job, and now he has a great future with a tell-all book and as a wonk on the talk-show circuit. Interesting, though, that you would characterize me as extreme left or extreme right. It rather says your lab...
[17:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─Perhaps people just don't trust anything but just go on about their lives? Regardless the government still yield control via the police and by extension the military. They enforce taxes and laws. As soon as that breaks away all is up. Another possible outcome is that people will start to workaround...
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─Frankly that's a silly reason to make an account. You don't get full post history without subscriptions. It's just an account that gives you a fancy uid and name and way to shill your site. As well as a nifty scratchpad/journal. and no given stuff like this [newyorker.com] and what I have to do ever...
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─Hedging his bets, is how it seemed to me.
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─Which deep patterns have you observed to have persisted?
[17:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:44] <exec> 08└─I didn't say search-able history. People have memories. When you post under a username you develop a reputation based on history as people experienced it with each new post.
[17:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:46] <exec> 08└─What didn't Trump know and when didn't he know it?
[17:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:48] <exec> 08└─...he is a businessman who's used to being the boss, not a politician trained up in the thousand ways to backstab his friends and undermine the legitimate needs and desires of honest people.
[17:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:00] <exec> 08└─Every one of these "medical research on astronauts" papers has been beyond awful, eg: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The low quality is just too shameful and depressing.
[17:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:30] <exec> 08└─I think "WISC" was one of the labels used to refer to this architecture style in its early days (back in the 80s?), but, yeah, VLIW is the common general term.
[17:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:10] <exec> 08└─I think I have better use for that money.
[17:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:11] <exec> 08└─Driving is a chore. I don't commute by car, but the one time per week I do it the traffic still causes me a lot of aggravation. Far better to have the car drive itself to the destination so I can read or enjoy the scenery or catch up with my kids. Having to feather the gas pedal to try to smooth the...
[17:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:23] <exec> 08└─When a regulatory agency actually doing their job is newsworthy we have some problems. Remember when the DoJ used to enforce antitrust laws, or when the FTC would prohibit mergers that would substantially compromise competition or harm consumers? Reminds me of another recent great result from the FD...
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─Hardly. These companies are protected from competition due to patents. They set their price to as high as the market will bear. Their actual costs are, at best, tangentially related. Put another way if you could somehow magically cut all their expenses by 50% tomorrow, drugs would be just as expensi...
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:27] <exec> 08└─I honestly can't tell if you are trolling. "How can two things be correlated if one doesn't cause the other?" Is that what you want me to explain?
[17:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, I see that this is NHST-disease again. You are concerned with determining whether correlations are "real" vs "coincidence", so you can commit a slew of logical fallacies you were taught in school; eventually leading to acceptance of your favorite explanation. "Real" vs "coincidence" is not...
[17:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:31] <exec> 08└─I agree with the absurdity, but I think there's another side you might not be considering. The FDA often approves drugs that end up ineffective or even dangerous. I think a lot of our protections tend to result in people, over time, gradually ceasing to think for themselves. This is dangerous since...
[17:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think the FDA has any regulatory power to approve/influence the price of drugs. Do you have evidence that they do?
[17:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:36] <exec> 08└─...potentially helpful...
[17:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:38] <exec> 08└─Don't know about all of those, but Chiropracty does have some benefits in certain cases. This has been demonstrated in accepted research. It seems clear that the results *do* depend on a qualified practitioner, and on his correctly diagnosing when Chiropracty is the correct approach, and that seems...
[17:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:40] <exec> 08└─Even that's not correct. There is obviously *some* causal connection between the presence of amyloids and Alzheimer's disease. But it's not at all obvious what the connection is. One might directly cause the other, one might be a (protective?) reaction to the other. They might both be caused (either...
[17:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─Yes. By removing the generic form of Colchicine from the market they caused the price to rise from around $0.05/pill to around $5/pill. They didn't set the exact price, but they sure influenced the price.
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:45] <exec> 08└─I bet if you look up any top 20 list of diseases (just to use as a proxy for the amount of study they have gotten) and then check the literature, you will find the presence of amyloids associated with every one. I mean that 100% of disease states are going to be associated with the presence of amylo...
[17:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:47] <exec> 08└─> They're really popular in Eastern European cuisines, Ah, that explains something -- the brand of tart cherry juice I use is from Turkey.
[17:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:03] <exec> 08└─Didn't the big D promise to legalize MJ during the campaign? I mean, more often than he promised to crack down on it.
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─Well it's past noon in Vermont and the bill is not dead yet. Plenty of Republicans must have voted for the bills (still looking for the breakdown), and the Senate one had a Republican co-sponsor. We're living in a glorious time where Republicans can embrace their newfound love of taxation and ignore...
[17:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─4/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm [soylentnews.org] Trump's position on cannabis has been ill-defined [cpr.org], although he supports medical use and has indicated that states should handle the issue. But the same can't be said of his Attorney General, former Senator Jeff Sessions.
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Still Looking for Funding - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─I'm no expert in the field, but from what I know I pretty much agree. We're about up to synthesizing a bacteria genome, and, IIRC, even that one used a lot of "code" from an existing species.
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─OGHIHA (Oh, God! How I hate acronyms!)
[17:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─The premise here seems to be that Mars is more valuable than the ISS, therefore we should use the ISS budget to fund Mars exploration instead. But that's not how NASA funding works. NASA gets earmarks for specific projects which can change due to political pressures. Nobody really has the authority...
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─Being on site as a human immersed in the environment without any time lag of minutes would enable research and ideas on a whole new level.
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:27] <exec> 08└─Even a soft crash on the moon could help future moon missions (or become the first attractions park, if near an Apollo site).
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─Can you expand on that?
[17:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─"If". I believe the top Mars science goal is helping to figure out how to colonize Mars.
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─Your bad habit of not Googling is showing: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─I bet it's still orders of magnitude cheaper than a Mars base.
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Not to mention everyone on board the ISS would die from radiation during the transit of the Van Allen belts, and anyone inhabiting it after would get a huge dose as above the Van Allen belts you are not protected by the Earth's magnetic field, the ISS would need shielding retrofitted for higher orbi...
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─NASA gets earmarks for specific projects which can change due to political pressures.
[17:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─So what kind of time lag do you refer to? That failed experiments of the past would cause a time lag seems not connected?
[17:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:30] <exec> 08└─The prestigious (and slimy) journals such as Nature are still the surest way to build your resume as a research scientist
[17:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─The "Scientific Method" involving sharing of research results has been a going concern for 1000+ years, though it really only got going strong in the last 200 or so. All of that time, up until the last 20, scientific publications were providing a valuable service, and actually increasing the distrib...
[17:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:34] <exec> 08└─Academia has placed "publication" on a high pedestal, just having your name on a paper elevates your standing within the community leading to better jobs with better pay and benefits. This is your "payment" in exchange for the legal copyright, or at least it was up until the turn of the millennium....
[17:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─My first job put me "near" academic authors, I helped them with some aspects of their papers, and I was named author (3rd or 4th place) on a few. As the years went by we started working with some pretty intense post-docs doing cutting edge stuff and I started actually authoring word-for-word the pie...
[17:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:37] <exec> 08└─That's not the issue. The sentence is still perfectly good English without "multiple." That sentence makes sense because one understands implicitly that the "defences" are barriers, and each is breached. The problem is more basic -- in idiomatic English, we don't generally "breach" persons. We breac...
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[18:18:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:20] <exec> 08└─It's the perceived legitimacy of the system, which is critical to every system's perpetuation. In the United States and many other places in the world the post-WWII consensus is riven. I'll stick to the US for the moment because that's the subject of TFA, but we have the credibility of major chunks...
[18:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─WTF? The point of jury nullification is to allow the jury the power to refuse to convict because they disagree with the law, not because they like the defendant. If you don't like jury nullification, then you need to get rid of juries altogether; almost every other nation on the planet has. Asking l...
[18:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, the Clinton deflection. She lost, get over it. From your article: Among the points of inquiry was whether McCabe should have recused himself from the case because of his family's political ties. Before McCabe was promoted to deputy FBI director, his wife, Jill, took money from Clinton ally and V...
[18:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:36] <exec> 08└─You may even get tired of integrity and you'll say please, please mister president, It's too much integrity! We can't take it anymore!
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:38] <exec> 08└─Both sides are and were bad and corrupt. Hillary deserved to lose. But Trump & cohorts are and were considerably worse. Unfortunately, the two main minor parties appear to be nearly as bad as Trump...though not as corrupt, but that may be due to lack of opportunity.
[18:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps people just don't trust anything but just go on about their lives? Regardless the government still yield control via the police and by extension the military. They enforce taxes and laws. As soon as that breaks away all is up. Another possible outcome is that people will start to workaround...
[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─But is the current Vice-President any better? It's not clear that he's as impeachable, and even for Trump that's going to be a major effort, with Republicans in charge of both the House and the Senate.
[18:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─Jury nullification has value, but not within the rhetorical framework of "law and order." [google.com]
[18:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:47] <exec> 08└─I have trouble making any sense of his actions. The report on the re-opening of investigations of Hillary seems to have been fabricated to grab headlines (which it did). It's quite possible that he did it because he was in political sympathy with Trump, but then had a personal falling out with him....
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─What part of the system do people still trust and have faith in? Who still has moral authority in America, and who has the daring to reach for greater things? Who has a vision for a future for people who are free, healthy, productive, courageous, and good?
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:51] <exec> 08└─Looking over all the he said-she said and hyperbole in the whole pathetic Trump-Hillary-Russia kerfluffle, what bothers me is not some ham-fisted blundering by the FSB for whomevers' sake, but the utter politicization of all the intelligence and law enforcement agencies involved. The Deep State seem...
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─Still no evidence that he lied about it.
[18:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:56] <exec> 08└─I think you are coming a conclusion that is not supported by the facts. If any of the other top institutions (small business, churches, the police, the medical system) on that list were the most trusted would it be plausible for them to take over the government? I don't think so.
[18:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─The Republicans are waiting for the perfect mistake from Trump to impeach him. They love that he brought the WH and Congress to them, but can't stand him. Pence/Sessions is their predictable hardline wet dream. But he is too popular with his base, and could be a major threat to the party as an indep...
[18:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─WTF? The point of jury nullification is to allow the jury the power to refuse to convict because they disagree with the law, not because they like the defendant.
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:02] <exec> 08└─So we can conclude that Jeff sessions must part of the liberal media! :)
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─He is dangerously contagious too. Witness the "Nobody dies because they don't have access to healthcare" size 20 foot-in-mouth guy... http://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com] The next campaign will sadly be a best-of of video...
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:06] <exec> 08└─That didn't give Comey blanket authority to flap his gums to the media every other week on that and other issues. Historically, getting information out of the FBI is like pulling teeth - from a chicken. They don't give information away. But, there was Comey, running his mouth constantly, to any repo...
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:09] <exec> 08└─The VP is probably more stable than the current president. But, few of us are going to like his politics. The liberal left will DAMN SURE not like any of it.
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 2640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─So let's say, for the sake of argument, that a juror disagreed in theory with the law being used to charge somebody with a crime. But they also hate the defendant's guts for reasons which have nothing to do with the evidence of the crime presented in the courtroom (e.g. the defendant is a neo-Nazi a...
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Astronauts Experience Decreased Fitness Due to Impairment of Blood Vessel Function - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─Demand and offer: moving in a tiny box in space requires little effort, and gravity isn't fighting blood flow, so the body optimizes resource allocation. People who spend many months in a hospital bed can regen their muscles and endurance afterwards, if they didn't get past a permanently damaging po...
[18:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:54] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember reading somewhere rants by Linus implying that any compiler for itanic would have to be very clever indeed, in that it would have to be able predict the future. The decision not to put certain things into the hardware meant that itanic wasn't much use for anything other than tight...
[18:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─Entry level systems start at 14500 USD. Seems expensive compared to an x86_64 box, but if you compare it to a power or sparc instead, it is right in line with the reason 2/3 of those processor architectures are dying off in the next few years (Fujitsu was the last remaining developer of SPARC and is...
[18:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─I reckon it's an error or a clumsy attempt at telling us the minimum price of an HP-UX Itanium server.
[18:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─When NetBSD doesn't support it and still supports the Sega Dreamcast, you know it's a dead architecture.
[18:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─it's still impossible to lock up a business.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─What is up with websites these days, no sooner had I loaded the main article and a vague click on the browser window made it disappear like lightning. Then as I try and find it amidst the animated boxen of news something like a kitten video drifts down one side of the screen to alert me about someth...
[18:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─Tell that to NASA.
[18:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:48] <exec> 08└─If pork is all that's on the table, that's what you eat.
[18:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:50] <exec> 08└─That failed experiments of the past would cause a time lag seems not connected?
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─given how scared of the real world these sort of politicians are is it outside the realm of possibility for them to ask for Secret Service protection?
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[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:25] <exec> 08└─So when does the offer expire?
[19:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─I stopped buying games from them because their website sucks. Payment problems, missing or invalid codes, shitty customer support, etc. I just tried getting this game and all I get is "An error occurred while processing your request." They used to be a good source until they got popular.
[19:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─I stopped buying games because masturbation is cheaper.
[19:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:30] <exec> 08└─It only lets you checkout if you use Steam anyway. Humble *used* to care about DRM-free games (and multi-platform support) -- I purchased many of their bundles in the past for this reason. Oh well. I'll keep giving my money to Good Old Games.
[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─Seen it. Life originated in La Barre, France in the same place where Picard was later born. It was the reason Q was obsessed with Picard as representative for all of humanity.
[19:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity what was the atmospheric pressure 3.48 billion years ago? Another observation is that it took roughly less than a 1 billion years for life to establish itself on Earth from it's generation by condensed and gravitated matter.
[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:00] <exec> 08└─If you want to understand Comey you have to break out from the simplistic 2-party theory of washington. In washington there are more than two power centers. It isn't just democrats and republicans. There is also the CIA, the FBI, the Army, the IRS, the CDC, the DEA, etc. They are all jostling for po...
[19:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:01] <exec> 08└─"government still yield control" That was just s simple spelling mistake, right? Should be "government still wield control". It threw me for a second, LOL!
[19:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─The majority of the population couldn't be bothered to vote for him back in the Primaries, so it really doesn't matter what they think. Bernie is also 75 years old. By the time Trump is done, he'll either be almost 80, or around 83, depending on whether this "majority" bothers to vote for Bernie in...
[19:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:05] <exec> 08└─"military takeover of the government." That possibility is extremely slim, in this country. Before that is likely to happen, large swathes of the population would have to be engaged in active insurrection. That's the way things are set up. Every military officer who has graduated from the academies...
[19:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:08] <exec> 08└─FWIW, that line is actually republican orthodoxy going back to before Obama. But it is really just a semantic trick. What he meant is that hospitals are required to treat anyone having a medical emergency regardless of ability to pay. And that's totally true. But they aren't required to cure them, j...
[19:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:10] <exec> 08└─Go ahead, mock conspiracy theories. While you're mocking, you seem to fail to see an obvious conspiracy that was exposed. The Clinton "dynasty" had it's woman installed as the head of the DNC. Ultimately, their woman was forced to resign in disgrace, because the conspiracy was exposed. You use the t...
[19:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:12] <exec> 08└─But is the current Vice-President any better?
[19:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:14] <exec> 08└─But how would that graph look different if you polled various other industrialized nations, including Japan and western European nations? I don't think it should be too surprising that the military leads that list, because it's pretty much the only selection there which doesn't have too much of a pr...
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:16] <exec> 08└─And everyone knows it to be an expensive lie ... regular and preventative healthcare saves both money and lives. Even Insurance companies agree.
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:19] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that Trump's supporters still stand by him after all this crap.
[19:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─"(because it's the revealing of the wrongdoing, not the wrongdoing that is bad - sort of sounds like how Republicans think of Snowden!)" I have no evidence to support the idea, but I do believe you are right. Half the politicos in Washington probably do know who did what, when, where, and how - but...
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─you are just pure id aren't you? princess foot-stamping snowflake id
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─Even USA can end up in that state. Even worse is that it will by its own doing. People could take control of the government again, but that requires a gigantic effort. It seems what really lacks is people with proper values in position of power. What nations are the most successful ones really from...
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:27] <exec> 08└─As for Bernie and a majority - sorry, I think that's wishful thinking. Maybe, but I don't think so. Bernie had a majority of the left, I think, but that doesn't directly translate into a majority of the US population.
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─WTF? The point of jury nullification is to allow the jury the power to refuse to convict because they disagree with the law, not because they like the defendant. Yeah, right. I've got two words for you on that: Oh. Jay. As in O.J. I don't think the jury felt the law against murder was the problem, o...
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─the only selection there which doesn't have too much of a profit motive
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─Yep, Japan and various small north/west European nations (the Scandinavian ones in particular, probably ones like Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland too). This isn't to say these countries are perfect. Japan for instance has an enormous problem with a workaholic culture, but that's not a problem w...
[19:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:36] <exec> 08└─You're probably right..... ;)
[19:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're right about that. But I think the citizens tend to look over that stuff and concentrate on the regular servicemembers, not just the top brass. Enlisted servicemembers aren't getting rich (though they do have a pretty good deal with educational benefits). Whereas with the police, for ins...
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but having had grow-up in a communist "uptopia" - no not the one describe by uncle Bernie, because the true form of communism has never been tried - people often made 10% of car (if you can call the communist distopian vehicle a car) price in a given year. I think making 70% odd percent...
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─I have not owned an automobile for a long time, until 3 years ago. And yes, if you have no need for one this would seem like meh type of news. However, you will still interact with these vehicles, and it could be a blessing or a curse depending on implementation and the wideness of the adaptation. I...
[19:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds that Consumers are Willing to pay $4,900 More for a Car with Self-Driving Technologies - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:11] <exec> 08└─people often made 10% of car (if you can call the communist distopian vehicle a car) price in a given year. I think making 70% odd percent is much much better.
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─Car insurance provides a service, even if it's merely "can drive on a road" access. Two billion USD per year for a placebo provides considerably less than that. To use a better car analogy here, it's like, after an accident, proclaiming that the effectiveness of the airbags shows that driving is sa...
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buzz Aldrin: Retire the ISS to Reach Mars - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─You're right on. And it's time to go to Mars not because it's easy or cheap but because it can bring benefits we just won't realize without presence. The possible risk is contamination of Mars which could mess up testing results. And of course the really serious risk of any back contamination. Proba...
[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah it is more like 'or' while actual or is more like 'xor'.
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Git 2.13 Released - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:40] <exec> 08└─Slackware64-14.2: bash-4.3$ git --version git version 2.9.0 Git is so easy to use. I love it.
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[20:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:24] <exec> 08└─I've read there's a severe gender imbalance in Seattle, ie you won't find any girl.. Oh.. and Microsoft.
[20:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:25] <exec> 08└─I like Ansible https://en.wikipedia.org(software) [wikipedia.org]
[20:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:28] <exec> 08└─Puppet Master Controls Devs! Chef Serves Them Up As Dog Food To Globalists!
[20:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:30] <exec> 08└─Seattle is a well-known sausagefest [returnofkings.com] but it has 2527 furries [meetup.com].
[20:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:32] <exec> 08└─That makes it all better then?
[20:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:34] <exec> 08└─pssh ...
[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:36] <exec> 08└─Amazon sells fleshlights.
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:39] <exec> 08└─and turned to ansible for sanity
[20:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─I've read the same thing, that it's #2 for a bad male/female ratio only to the Bay Area. The other thing I've read over and over about it is that you can't get high-speed internet service at home there within Seattle city limits (but it's ok in the other municipalities). Yeah, MS is there but they'r...
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Just downloaded it now. The humble store seems to work fine, the Steam site is jacked and took almost 45 minutes to login to my old account. You have to link your humble account to your steam account, but for a free game I can live with that. You CAN link your GoG account as well but I've not tried...
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─Think I'll pick GOG and then copy it over to a different computer and see how it likes that.
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:56] <exec> 08└─It's only on Humble, not GOG, and Humble gives you Steam redemption codes which means there's fundamental DRM involved, so no, it's not free. It may be free as in beer right now but it's not free as in speech. I'd rather pay for the game and have no DRM, which is why GOG has my attention and others...
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[20:18:22] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, President Trump has undermined the White House's messaging on Comey's firing, saying that he planned to fire "showboat" and "grandstander" James Comey regardless of any recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein.
[20:18:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. "Both sides are bad" is a flagrantly retarded argument whose sole intent is to ignore the tremendously awful by pointing to vague dislike. Sorry if this is condescending, but you're a completely dishonest fuckwit for acting this way.
[20:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:44] <exec> 08└─We need more popcorn. Lots more popcorn.
[20:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:45] <exec> 08└─The majority of the population couldn't be bothered to vote for him back in the Primaries, so it really doesn't matter what they think.
[20:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:47] <exec> 08└─We told you your candidate was bad. Because either we had better information or were better thinkers. Please. You won. Get over it. Now the egg will be on your face because we told you so. You can deny it's there but that just means we can laugh at you walking around with rotten smelly slime smeared...
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:49] <exec> 08└─Your question about successful countries got me thinking, but not too much as I'm supposed to be working and we can't have thinking at work. If you download the PDF from http://worldhappiness.report [worldhappiness.report] you can get a ranking of countries by happiness. The top ten: Norway...
[20:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─the two main minor parties appear... not as corrupt, but that may be due to lack of opportunity
[20:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─That didn't give Comey blanket authority to flap his gums to the media every other week on that and other issues.
[20:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:56] <exec> 08└─Your smugness and low iq were demonstrated nicely by your post. Thanks.
[20:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:58] <exec> 08└─Jury decisions have to be unanimous
[20:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:00] <exec> 08└─Have you ever asked yourself who leaked Comey's letter to the press? Or thought about it for more than one second?
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─Another interesting link: " rel="url2html-18842">http://thealternativehypothesis.org
[20:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:05] <exec> 08└─Where by "The majority", you mean the superdelegates. No, I don't mean that at all. Why do people like you keep complaining about the superdelegates? They were not a factor AT ALL. Bernie lost the popular vote in the primaries, full stop. Hillary had several million more votes than he did. The regul...
[20:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─Well, we're talking about jury nullification here, which is something that's only a real factor with criminal trials.
[20:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:09] <exec> 08└─On the evening before the biggest state primary (California), the DNC announced that HRC had "won",
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:11] <exec> 08└─While you are indeed correct about it being implausible for those institutions from taking over the government (in the US at least; the church taking over the government is a real thing in some other countries), the historical truth is that it's not that unusual for the military to take over the gov...
[20:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─The Clinton "dynasty" had it's woman installed as the head of the DNC. Ultimately, their woman was forced to resign in disgrace, because the conspiracy was exposed.
[20:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─I think this is a pipedream. It's a pipedream that I am now thinking very very hard about.
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FDA Saved Taxpayers from Paying Billions for Ineffective Alzheimer's Therapy - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─Remember solanezumab? ... Remember when the DoJ used to enforce antitrust laws, or when the FTC would prohibit mergers that would substantially compromise competition or harm consumers?
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─If you work for Amazon and live near Seattle then you probably have a good job. If you work for Amazon and don't live near Seattle [stallman.org] then you probably have a really terrible job [bbc.com] to the extent that it would probably be preferable to work for WalMart [bbc.co.uk]. That's bad.
[20:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Spheres Add to Seattle's Quirky Architecture - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─The brief for the Burj Dubai was for it to be the tallest building in the world. If this could be achieved most easily with a sphere or pyramid then that would be the shape of the building. Instead, it consists of a spiral of structural posts. Each post has a different length. This ensures no common...
[20:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's another thing most people don't notice - or vs xor. Programming bitmasks :)
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[21:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:20] <exec> 08└─That's a bummer, man.
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─These companies are tired of the talent wars in California, so they all open offices IN THE SAME CITY? They got the whole country to choose from and they all open Seattle offices? Why anyone would willingly pursue an MBA is beyond me.
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─I heard everyone is homeless in Seattle so they don't have homes for dialup internet at home. And there's mobile coverage so who cares about wired internet anyway.
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:40] <exec> 08└─Comcast, CenturyLink (Frontier in some areas?) are the main ISP's that service Seattle. You likely have a choice between Comcast and CL . Century Link is busy deploying 1 Gig fiber around Seattle. For real high-speed internet, Comcast was the only choice, until CL stared their deployment a year or s...
[21:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:02] <exec> 08└─Why are you asking us? I've heard you can use thing thing called Bing. no not that... Google! to find things out. If you have a computer, click the button that says IE6 or AOL and you'll be right there.
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity what was the atmospheric pressure 3.48 billion years ago?
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─And this paper [washington.edu] suggests that pressure at 2.7 billion years ago may have been less than half modern air pressure at sea level. Looks like asking the question of what the atmospheric pressure was in the geological past is a much harder question than at first glance.
[21:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:00] <exec> 08└─because it's the revealing of the wrongdoing, not the wrongdoing that is bad
[21:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House, Will Maintain Russia Probe - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:01] <exec> 08└─Trump won by a slim margin. Before the DNC sandbagging, Sanders was ahead of Clinton. That suggests that sanders did have a majority for the country, though possibly by a slim margin.
[21:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA's Volta Architecture Unveiled: GV100 and Tesla V100 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:59] <exec> 08└─WTF are you doing that you need 4 of these monsters???
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Legislature Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─Previous experiments with drugging the populace into compliance(anti-depressants) resulted in too many retaining personal autonomy and creating incidents(shooting sprees). A clear need has been identified for narcotic agents(cannabis) to remove individual agency as well as promoting happy thoughts....
[21:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Publishers Try New Tack to Combat Unauthorized Paper Sharing - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:42] <exec> 08└─Good luck :)
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[22:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:28] <exec> 08└─And I think it's gonna be a long long time 'Till crap out brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm rectum man Rectum man cutting up his colon in here alone
[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:29] <exec> 08└─...so this is the new probe mission to Uranus
[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─It sounds like it is exploring a planet, or region of space :) Perhaps it should be "A Colon", Colons plural? Dr. Obstein and his team tested the capsule robot, which has a tether that is smaller in diameter than conventional endoscopes, 30 times in the colon of a pig.
[22:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:34] <exec> 08└─It's a robot going up my fucking ass, and the only thoughts I will have are,
[22:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:36] <exec> 08└─It failed half way, so it only explored a semicolon.
[22:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:38] <exec> 08└─Rectal ransomware?
[22:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Puppet Plans Expansion - 2264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:58] <exec> 08└─Houston has a low cost of living for a city its size. It has more to recommend it. Houston's home to Rice University, the University of Houston system, Texas Southern University, University of St. Thomas, University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Strayer University,...
[22:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Depends on if you go dry or use lube.
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly how simple does it look at your first glance? I mean, I can see how questions of atmospheric composition might be answered by finding mineral formations that trapped air samples from that time... but pressure? Where would you even begin?
[22:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earliest Known Evidence for Microbial Life on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Old - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─Exactly how simple does it look at your first glance?
[22:20:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:50] <exec> 08└─You know "Whheeaaooww .... Whheeaaooww ..." with the lights dimming up and down at the same time.
[22:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:12] <exec> 08└─Too soon?
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─Good luck becoming a serious competitor to Intel with an architecture that can dodge their patent portfolio...
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:16] <exec> 08└─Also, intel's failure to deliver a working Jacob's Ladder driver allowed PPC and ARM to get a head-start in serious scientific computing.
[22:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA's Volta Architecture Unveiled: GV100 and Tesla V100 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:26] <exec> 08└─Living in a cold cold cold place would be my first guess. With cheap power. But we'll be happy to get crushed by that setup when it gets added to SN's folding@home team [stanford.edu]...
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[23:17:34] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a TV Western that was never made: "Doc Holiday: Frontier Proctologist!"
[23:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:36] <exec> 08└─But the doctor and anesthetist both charged for the whole period.
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Capsule Robot" Explores Colon - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─Somehow my spidey sense, and basic statistic notions, told me it was a shitty job from the first two words of the title.
[23:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:13] <exec> 08└─it's not free cmn32480 is a Windoze guy and thinks Free Software has something to do with money. (One assumes that he's a monolingual USAian and becomes totally confused if someone uses the word "gratis"; "libre" is also an unexplored dimension in his tiny little world.) ...and any time you see him...
[23:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:14] <exec> 08└─Real men go dry.
[23:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Itanium's Last Breath - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─I came across an Intel/HP Linux Itanium development CD from I got at PC Expo (TechXNY) back in 2001/2002. I think that was the same show where Compaq was demoing the 1GHz Alpha. One thing is certain, Compaq was fucking stupid to sell Alpha to Intel.
[23:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Buys a VR Game Studio - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:41] <exec> 08└─Such bad words ... your mommy would be ashamed. We've already told you: it's called "trickle-down".
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