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[00:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─The solution is to make it cheaper and easier to hire people. There are too many regulations to deal with that make employers limit themselves to only the employees they can't do without.
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:33] <exec> 08└─Me, I'm off to Chipotle.
[00:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you can get seriously screwed ordering your favorite dinner-plate during lunchtime and finding wimpy portions and missing items. Eating out for lunch is alive and well in the local businessparks here, though, whether it's ordering from a counter or a waiter. The problem with hourly scum li...
[00:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:37] <exec> 08└─Disadvantages of break room lunch: * Those nasty FOB Asians stink it the fuck up like an unwashed 10-dollar hooker's vagina with their rotten fish-head stew * That nasty stink lingers for hours after the break room clears completely out
[00:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:39] <exec> 08└─I don't think he takes any more time for lunch than what is required to eat the sandwich.
[00:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03metarox [788] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─That's about what I do. I come in the office to get shit done for 8h and leave. The faster that can be done the better so I can get back to living and doing something else.
[00:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─I feel like I can slack about an hour per day, salaried, it seems mostly accepted, and I can either interrupt sitting on my butt in front of a computer with sitting on my butt at a restaurant for an hour, or I can shovel in some healthy snack at my desk and get about 59 minutes of walking exercise....
[00:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─I've worked at telecoms and other utilities where the annual turnover rate for positions is either low caste and like 1200% annual turnover for customer "support" or its like 1% annual turnover. Thats probably what OP is implying. The closer your hands are to revenue the worse the working conditions...
[00:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:48] <exec> 08└─My go-to is: 1. Cast-iron pan on high and set oven to 350F. 2. Put chicken leg quarter in the pan. 3. Season one side, flip, then season other side. 4. Place in oven for 35min. I usually shower and get ready while the chicken is in the oven. The hands-on time is less than 2 minutes. Potatoes usually...
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:29] <exec> 08└─I think you may be batting .500 which is ok. First sale is all about the limits to your IP rights, so to say it only helps with patent infringement issues is like saying it only helps where it is supposed to. The EULA stuff needs limits as well, but sadly, this ruling does not seem to be it. I agree...
[00:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:30] <exec> 08└─The point was that the ruling settled that. A willing sale in another country exhausts the patent rights in this country.
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─That would mean that the EULAs that limit liability [apple.com] for most software producers is also invalid?
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah I know some of you lay awake at night quaking at the thought somebody might package up poison and sell it as platinum.
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─Patent exhaustion has itself become exhausted in the intervening years. Not ONLY by people like Lexmark. But also by prior court ruling. So yes it is new. Its a major bitchslap to a lot of courts. You would have thought that Quanta Computer, Inc. v. L.G. Electronics,Inc (2008) would have made Patent...
[00:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:39] <exec> 08└─Caveat emptor. Free market rulez. This incident is literally why we have the FDA.
[00:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─1935 This year, two separate teams were at work developing and testing a polio vaccine. Both projects came to disastrous ends. At New York University, Maurice Brodie, MD (1903–1939), a young researcher, prepared a killed poliovirus vaccine, testing it on chimpanzees, on himself, and finally on chi...
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:44] <exec> 08└─Printers will become more expensive, a cost that can not be avoided. In return, ink will be cheaper
[00:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:16] <exec> 08└─This is correct, and has been used insidiously as a tool to thin the ranks without providing due benefits. What they will do is have a quack rubber-stamp a "personality disorder" (well, no shit, people who participate in combat are going to be a bit fucked-up) and then accuse the serviceman of not d...
[00:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 4 to 18-Core Skylake-X CPUs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:45] <exec> 08└─even with the upcoming threadripper chips diminishing some of the awesomeness of the R7 parts
[00:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony's Latest E Ink Tablet Comes to the US in June - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:20] <exec> 08└─It's a good thing, but if it can't beat an e-reader on battery life, it can't replace the e-reader.
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[00:42:35] <exec> 08└─The paranoia of society has always got me down. A recorded voice incessantly says "Stay alert and stay safe. Report suspicious objects or persons to TriMet personnel, or dial 9-1-1." There are lots of Muslims in and around Portland. Whenever I meet a new one I make a point of apologizing for my coun...
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[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─Can it help diagnose cancer? Look at MRI's and recognize diseases? Look at data and figure out something cosmological? Look at trends and do economics better than those that get lucky? I get playing go is a win/no win game, but the other's not only aren't but are more important.
[01:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─It's not untrod territory. See: Watson.
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─YeaH! Right on. Lets put it to a real test. Like cracking everybody's encryption for the NSA, and reading all the email to find out who's got the best weed and where he gets it. Seriously, there are very few problems in the real world that this kind of AI can solve that don't involve massive collect...
[01:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:44] <exec> 08└─You are out of work and presumably have no income, yet you think that eating at Chipotle is a good decision?
[01:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:46] <exec> 08└─They make tasty food at cheaper than competitive prices. I can spend 2 minutes walking to it, opposed to 10-15 minutes driving. I get tasty food some 10% cheaper than wherever I go. I don't have to spend 10 minutes with co-workers deciding on where we go. And I'm not expected to tip.
[01:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I eat at my desk while I'm working (or, "working", but most studies show that office workers are lucky if they get in 2-3 hours of real work in a day), so I can get home before it's too dark, without having to be there at some ridiculously early hour. On top of that, how do people even go o...
[01:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:50] <exec> 08└─Part of it is cost, eating out is getting stupid expensive for mostly crap food ( when you only have an hour, your choices for quality are limited ). Personal time is part of the equation: I would rather eat something i have with me, and have 45 mins to wander around ( exercise during lunch is on th...
[01:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:52] <exec> 08└─Disadvantage of break room lunch: having to be in a big, open room with a bunch of other people flapping their lips. Solution: eat at your desk. (Note, depends on your workspace: if you sit at a big, open table for your workspace, get another job.)
[01:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 2316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's complicated and can be expensive to hire people in many places, BUT... Employers always limit themselves to people they can't do without... No normal business hires people just for the fun of it, or to 'create jobs' regardless of how 'easy' it is to hire/fire people. Companies can do a lot...
[01:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:57] <exec> 08└─With certain conditions. 1) There is a good selection within walking range. Just leaving the office on foot makes a big difference for my sanity. I don't think snarfing a sandwich and circling the parking lot would have anywhere near the same effect. -or- 2) I have a cadre of co-workers that I actua...
[01:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:46] <exec> 08└─How well did that work for Kurig? Now we'll give printer manufacturers a teeeeeeeeeny bit more credit than Kurig and say that I doubt their DRM would be as easy to defeat as clipping the top off a legit cartridge and taping it to the sensor but the end result will be the same. No one will want buy t...
[01:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:47] <exec> 08└─What was Impression Products doing that got then sued? I see all kinds of info about patents and so and so on, but no info on what Impression Products was actually doing to bring on the lawsuit in the first place.
[01:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you rather buy a (lets suppose) $200 printer once, and then inexpensive ink so that you could afford to print as much as you like?
[01:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─I'm suggesting people could have a choice.
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─Most people don't have the expert knowledge necessary to make informed choices about the safety of drugs. Some will be tempted by the lower price on the unsafe drug into making a poor decision. Some will be financially forced by their insurance plan into buying the unsafe drug. Some, particularly ch...
[01:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:56] <exec> 08└─From this summary [wtvbam.com]: The decision came in a dispute between Lexmark and Impression Products Inc, a small business based in Charleston, West Virginia that buys empty Lexmark cartridges from consumers and then resells refurbished cartridges to the public for less than Lexmark charges.
[01:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Observed Collapsing Directly Into a Black Hole - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:29] <exec> 08└─Well fuck. That sucks.
[01:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:24] <exec> 08└─Ummm, no. They should be locked up even tighter than that. That crash in Europe occurred because the pilot/co-pilot left the cockpit. Period. That nut wasn't going to do anything till that other person left, or he would've also needed to incapacitate the other pilot somehow. You lock the pilots into...
[01:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:26] <exec> 08└─The "flamebait" modders might want to look into Apple's history of lobbying for DMCA extension against 'jailbreaking' their phones, their lobbying against user repair laws, and their general policy on installing "unauthorized" software. They are frighteningly anti-consumer freedom.
[01:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:54] <exec> 08└─Troll!?!?! Get some laughs in your lives, people! Sheesh!
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[02:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:15] <exec> 08└─Came out of nowhere, blew me and several others away. Elysium was heavy handed and flat out not a good movie. Interesting to see how he does for his next movie.
[02:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:17] <exec> 08└─Does the Steam platform currently have streaming video aside from gameplay footage and trailers?
[02:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:19] <exec> 08└─Yes. http://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com] http://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com]
[02:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:07] <exec> 08└─"how do people even go out to lunch within an hour?" Location, location, location. When I was in New York, it seemed that damned near everyone went out to lunch. Take the elevator to the ground floor, walk to the corner deli, place your order, and eat it on the way back to the office. The luckier fe...
[02:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:09] <exec> 08└─"Yeah I like my $3000." "Hey why are you raising my taxes by $3000? What do you mean you have to spend more on Food Stamps and other Well-fare because all the low-skill restaurant jobs died out?" Pick your poison.
[02:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:11] <exec> 08└─My coworker Matt Ackeret refuses to believe that fresh squeeze tastes better than reconstituted orange juice. I used to have a cup of fresh squeeze every single day. Google has even better cafeterias, and they don't have cash registers, in an effort to keep employees on campus. (I've interviewed the...
[02:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:13] <exec> 08└─^That. I don't have the big freezer anymore - it died on me, and I've never replaced it. But, we used to cook stuff and freeze it. Ground meat dishes are great for that - cook enough for five or more meals, divide it up, and put into freezer bags or bowls. We could make little portions for the kids,...
[02:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:15] <exec> 08└─"2) I have a cadre of co-workers that I actually like that are reliably willing to go out." I miss those days. There was a time when I worked with people that I liked and respected. Nowadays, not so much. Ohh, there are a couple, but our schedules never match, and I'd rather avoid most of the people...
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─And what will it mean for MS's EULA that basically says "you don't own this software, you're just renting it" . Will it become "you don't own this printer, you are renting it. If you do something we don't like, we will fine you",?
[02:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─* Chief Justice Roberts contended that Lexmark's heavy-handed approach to discouraging cartridge remanufacturers > only emboldened them to find new and innovative ways to circumvent the company's defenses* The RIAA/etc heavy-handed approach to discourage 'pirates' from downloading torrents only embo...
[02:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:15] <exec> 08└─I can buy a brand-new laser printer for less than what that ink cost me. I have a good contract now, maybe I'll get a color laser. I'm in no hurry so I can shop intelligently.
[02:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Rime' Creators Will Remove Anti-Tampering Code If It's Cracked - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:44] <exec> 08└─WTF are you ppl talking about, this game already has a P2P release that works on Day 1...this is nothing but a PR stunt. DRM is dead and has been since the day copy machines were invented (and no I don't care about your transparent red plastic strips!)...where's the GOG release? Time to pay the pipe...
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[03:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:22] <exec> 08└─Get it right the first time: did the humans shoot first? I don' wanna see no cgi "aliens shot first, but missed" shit in a 're-imaging' director's cut, man! (Read it in a Stewie voice, bitches).
[03:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:24] <exec> 08└─The apartheid theme was very curious, depicted in a matter-of-fact style.
[03:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:26] <exec> 08└─A better question, is there any difference between video games and movies? Games these days have so many cutscenes and such limited gameplay, playing a game is exactly like watching a DVD that dumps you to a menu between chapters and makes you push a few buttons on the menu to find the next chapter....
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─You're playing the wrong games, asswipe!
[03:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:40] <exec> 08└─"Google-owned DeepMind will now focus on creating advanced general algorithms to help scientists find elusive cures for diseases, conjure up a way to dramatically reduce energy consumption and invent new revolutionary materials." And most importantly... find even more creepy ways to data mine their...
[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:25] <exec> 08└─No option to order the food before even leaving the office?
[03:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:26] <exec> 08└─How did you get a piece of the meat without re-heating the whole piece every time you took something? And why not buy a new freezer?
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─I should have mentioned that. Break room is usually equal to alone with the computer. No hustle or chatting people. Besides it means one can chew the food without stress..... 100 lines of code, food, 100 lines of code, food.. GOTO 10
[03:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:31] <exec> 08└─Having some slack and margins is usually more efficient and makes a robust operation at tough times possible. It's probably all perverted incentives and cognitive fallacy. Save money now and incur future losses that eat up all short term gains and then some.
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:33] <exec> 08└─What kind of job is that? coding sweat shop? Microsoft hardcore fans? last American in a Indian-H1B army? ;) Or is the people seriously uneducated or lack cognitive ability?
[03:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─Location, location, location.
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─Why do you know so much about $10 hookers? Seriously, everything you post is making me wonder what kind of fucked up childhood you had.
[03:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:40] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting that GP's attitude is carefully fostered by many sources of information fed to the economically ignorant. Employers never hire people out of generosity. They hire people due to increased demand for their products, or due to a perceived opportunity to invest in something new. Period...
[03:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:42] <exec> 08└─You forgot the bash the millennials for their economic circumstances because they're eating out so much they can't afford to eat out. Then in the next thread we can get back to bashing them for their economic circumstances because they're eating out so much they can't afford a house. Moral of the st...
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:42] <exec> 08└─You're a single father who has a sick kid and you rush to the store. You do not earn a lot of money, and you want to get home to your kid. You look, and side by side the two drugs look the same, but one is cheaper, so you grab it (not even stopping to look for an FDA sticker). You rush home in order...
[03:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:43] <exec> 08└─Nope. The ruling is only for products manufactured in the U.S. and sold abroad. If said product is manufactured by a third-party abroad under a license from the patent-holder, this ruling has no effect on that contractual relationship; meaning, it does not apply and the patent-holder can withhold pe...
[03:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:45] <exec> 08└─If you print something only once every few years, use a service like FedEx Office or borrow somebody's printer. For many years this is what I did, since I only needed a printer (and scanner and fax machine) to fill out paperwork for HR when I changed jobs. If you print frequently, surf Craigslist fo...
[03:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:47] <exec> 08└─Ergo, software patent rights now expire at first sale. This has tremendous positive implications for the right to repair movement.
[03:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:21] <exec> 08└─Rules: (0) The teacher is always right. (1) If the teacher should for any reason be wrong, see rule (0) Happy life! ;-)
[03:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:22] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the attempt, however you are confusing stupidity with mental illness.
[03:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:24] <exec> 08└─While medical doctors use and practice a science that have at least a good shoot at being researched and practiced using deterministic and statistical truths. Ie predictions actually tend to predict reality not fantasize about it. The same cannot be said for shrinks and humanities. There is simple t...
[03:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:26] <exec> 08└─Oh man, this is the best post ever. It explains pretty much everything about you. Now I'm no big fan of stoners, but I can 100% say you would benefit SO much from a decent group of tolerant pseudo-conservative pot smokers. Preferably with a woman borderline enough to find you interesting. You would...
[03:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:29] <exec> 08└─Daaaamn, just re-read what you wrote. "diagnosed based on arguing with the teacher and being right" "punished for arguing with the teacher and being wrong" one is a learning disability, the other is a discipline problem for saying the teacher is wrong? Wow, goodbye independent thought, goodbye thoug...
[03:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 4 to 18-Core Skylake-X CPUs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:58] <exec> 08└─Honestly, there's not much point unless the chip is going into a server, or you have some really special applications.
[03:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 4 to 18-Core Skylake-X CPUs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:59] <exec> 08└─I think you are doing the video processing wrong. When they did some of the later Star Wars movies. It was partly edited on a simple laptop using a low quality version. But when the edit was completed. The edit file were sent to a server cluster that rendered the real thing. No creative wait there t...
[03:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─people should stop with the 'land of the free and home of the brave' nonsense Why? It sells tickets... That's what flag waving is all about. If you don't keep the illusion alive, people will start thinking, *what's the point?*.
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[04:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:17] <exec> 08└─Burger King wins. News at 11.
[04:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:19] <exec> 08└─American companies are as out of touch culturally as only American companies can be.
[04:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:21] <exec> 08└─This is the funniest post here in a long while. BTW, Hadn't the Belgian Leo done a job in Congo that would make the Nazis blush?
[04:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:23] <exec> 08└─American law says you can make fun of presidents and governors all you want, and a Belgian king is like a state governor in the Overseas or something, right?
[04:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:37] <exec> 08└─All I want is a flimsy excuse plot and a maze I can get lost in. Old man doomguy shakes fist at games these days.
[04:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:38] <exec> 08└─Music by "die antwoord"?
[04:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:41] <exec> 08└─It makes Doom seem tame in comparison, even if you disable the special zombies and just go with normal zombie hordes. Most of the Open Source FPSes are multiplayer only sadly, although there is a Thief remake on the Doom 3 engine.
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:44] <exec> 08└─French food is great, and having the time to enjoy it is a benefit. But, man, it's kind of like a grand piano with one key. Don't you crave variety? Also, maybe I have had extraordinarily bad luck but everytime I go to Paris the place wants to shut down at 10pm. 10pm! What kind of world capital shut...
[04:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:45] <exec> 08└─Downtown small town America has largely been sold to immigrants, who tend to run different businesses.
[04:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:48] <exec> 08└─I forgot to say that the reason for the decline in such restaurants is a combination of fewer people having "walkable" jobs in small towns, the growth of fast food chains (which often can drive lunch prices down even further and cater to those who are willing to drive a short distance; you don't eve...
[04:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:50] <exec> 08└─I stopped taking lunches when I realized it meant I could go home sooner and that the company did not care if I ate while I worked if I choose to eat at all. I have recently been using lunch as an excuse to walk around with a coworker while in a non-office setting to hear out their problems with var...
[04:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:53] <exec> 08└─but hey, you can resell your toner cartridges. Nifty.
[04:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:55] <exec> 08└─The average consumer goes into Walmart, in need of a printer.
[04:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:57] <exec> 08└─finding out which models are worthwhile that allow third-party cartridges can require more time & energy than many people can (or wish to) dedicate to the task.
[04:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:59] <exec> 08└─The summary isn't wrong; GP just misread it. The standard phrasing for SCOTUS decisions is "opinion authored by X, joined by Y and Z" or whatever. This opinion was authored by Roberts and was joined by 6 (other) justices, hence 7-1. You're right that Ginsberg only dissented in part.
[04:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:01] <exec> 08└─Quite likely that particular toner cartridge is no longer manufactured.
[04:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not 100% certain, but I believe copyright can't stop you from modifying software you have purchased - it only stops you from distributing such derived works. And obvious solution if you wish to distribute a modification, is to distribute patches against the official version - just as was done fo...
[04:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony's Latest E Ink Tablet Comes to the US in June - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:47] <exec> 08└─PlayStation, no Linux for you [wikipedia.org]: PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 consoles also featured support for Linux-based operating systems; Linux for PlayStation 2 and OtherOS respectively, though this has since been discontinued.
[04:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony's Latest E Ink Tablet Comes to the US in June - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:48] <exec> 08└─Any reports if it's possible to install Linux or *BSD on it? Ie any signed bootload mess. Sony DPT-RP1 - Technical specifications [devicespecifications.com]: Dimensions: 224 x 302.6 x 5.9 mm Weight: 349 g SoC: Marvell IAP140 CPU: ARM Cortex-A53, 1200 MHz, Cores: 4 Storage: 16 GB Display: 13.3 in, E...
[04:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Observed Collapsing Directly Into a Black Hole - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:45] <exec> 08└─First way: start with a very massive star, watch it burn through all its nuclear fuel, and wait for the core to collapse in a violent supernova explosion, leaving a black hole behind. Second way: start with a neutron star, and let it accumulate enough mass to push it over the edge, either by accreti...
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[05:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:09] <exec> 08└─How about "no weapons." (Sounds scary, doesn't it? Nonviolence-- the most terrifying idea of all!) Enough kids die in the streets of the US already. Atomic bombs somehow aren't enough to enforce Amerikkka's global dominance? Or the endless disruption of the Mideast? Now we have to go full Moonraker....
[05:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:10] <exec> 08└─A laser gun is a tool, not a weapon.
[05:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:12] <exec> 08└─Laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic.
[05:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that there was somewhere discussion of how Belgium did not even exist. http://zapatopi.net [zapatopi.net]
[05:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:25] <exec> 08└─You can't put up such a depraved profanity on a family website.
[05:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:27] <exec> 08└─<whine>When will Elizabeth II just die already?</whine>
[05:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:29] <exec> 08└─HHGTTG fans are towelhead terrorists!
[05:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:32] <exec> 08└─Here, suck this.
[05:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:34] <exec> 08└─Gargle Blaster, Eris Blastar, Michael Dudditts Crowfard! Belgium your zarking ass!!
[05:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:36] <exec> 08└─A Capitalist King challenging a relic of European colonialism. The backdrop: The Era of Der Trumpenfurher and Shadow of Racist Nationalism. Truly, truly: life is stranger than fiction.
[05:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDmV0_Uzq4 [youtube.com]
[05:36:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:51] <exec> 08└─You're playing the wrong games, asswipe!
[05:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:55] <exec> 08└─Don't give them any money. https://defectivebydesign.org [defectivebydesign.org]
[05:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─The longterm goal of DeepMind, the team behind AlphaGo, is generalized intelligence. The reason Go was an important test is because it's a game with an impossibly large search space paired with a much slower pace that makes traditional game algorithms like minimax + alpha/beta pruning completely ine...
[05:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:08] <exec> 08└─Lee Sedol lost 1-4. I think Starcraft 2 is effectively infinite, not literally infinite. For example, at the first frame of the beginning of the match, you may have only 3 moves: add 1 or more probes to the Nexus build queue, do nothing, or hit the delete key with the Nexus selected and lose. Once t...
[05:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:06] <exec> 08└─How did you get a piece of the meat without re-heating the whole piece every time you took something?
[05:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:08] <exec> 08└─Cost of a frozen meal: $3 Cost of a fast-food meal: $8
[05:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:18] <exec> 08└─They've already tried coffee makers that will only take a certain brand of coffee.
[05:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earliest Evidence of Dog Breeding Found in Siberia - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:46] <exec> 08└─Dogs are better, much better than people. Even cats are better then people.
[05:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:59] <exec> 08└─The claim doesn't get more right by putting it in the title.
[05:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 4 to 18-Core Skylake-X CPUs - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:30] <exec> 08└─All I meant is that the initial "Woo! 8c/16t? This is sweet!" turned into "Whoa, threadripper looks insane! ...but my R7 is still pretty sweet." :P None of that makes me wish I'd waited, though. I specifically went for the 1700 with its 65w TDP (instead of the 1700X or 1800X), so I'm not particularl...
[05:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 4 to 18-Core Skylake-X CPUs - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:32] <exec> 08└─Will you be getting any of these chips? No. I don't need much more than a Core 2 Duo provides. I say much more because I find the A9 in my iPhone SE handles most of my banking and financial transactions quite well. The Core 2 Duo in my Thinkpad gets about 90% of my computing needs done, and I get a...
[05:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conch Shells Hold the Secret to Impact-Resistant Armor - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:41] <exec> 08└─Coconut? Nope. Think of the children who have nut allergies!
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[06:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:24] <exec> 08└─Lasers don't contaminate the battlefield with lead, tungsten, uranium, and worse. We can even power them with renewable energy sources. So this is a weapon type for democrats.
[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─History is usually written by the gang with more and better weapons.
[06:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:27] <exec> 08└─AI brinksmanship is where each side builds a Skynet and threatens to switch it on.
[06:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:30] <exec> 08└─It's actually the other way around, much technology is originally created for arms purposes and is later put to other uses. War is the father of all.
[06:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:49] <exec> 08└─But... God Emperor Trump didn't get that memo...
[06:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:07] <exec> 08└─Chappie was good, but in some ways a bit too close to the other two. I do hope Blomkamp doesn't turn out to be a one trick pony. There is more to cinema than action Sci Fi.
[06:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:22] <exec> 08└─You must have a really nice break room. Where I am now, there's no room at all, but I did have a job once where they had a break room, and it was the most un-relaxing place possible, with ultra-bright lights and a stupid TV blaring CNN at all hours.
[06:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:23] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for him, but sometimes you just find yourself with coworkers that aren't stupid by any means, but you just don't "mesh": you don't have enough interests in common, you don't really like them well enough to want to hang out at a restaurant with them, etc. Personally, as an introvert it'...
[06:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:25] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself; maybe you don't need food mid-day, but I certainly do. My performance would go to utter shit if I didn't get some kind of meal in there.
[06:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:27] <exec> 08└─Think private office. You go to the (nice) lunch room and warm your food or buy it downstairs. Bring it back to the office room which you don't share with anyone. Then you code and eat interleaved. No buzzing sounds or stress. And no time break time needed for lunch so quitting earlier. That most of...
[06:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:39] <exec> 08└─Or get the cheap printer on clearance for $20 or $30 with ink in it every time it runs dry. Comes with a free scanner too.
[06:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:40] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I wonder if I could get ink for the Xerox Memory Writer. Used to use that as a printer for the IBM PC.
[06:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not 100% certain, but I believe copyright can't stop you from modifying software you have purchased
[06:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earliest Evidence of Dog Breeding Found in Siberia - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:11] <exec> 08└─Daughters are a much better investment than sons.
[06:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:26] <exec> 08└─People should gain control of resources by means of voluntary interaction (meaning that interaction occurs according to rules to which the parties agree in advance); resources should be allocated solely by those who have gained control over those resources (a restatement of the first sentence, reall...
[06:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:28] <exec> 08└─If the incumbents are the danger, then it doesn't help that the incumbents regulate; if you cannot trust men to interact in a market of voluntary trade, then you certainly cannot trust men to interact through a culturally blessed and ordained monopoly founded on violent imposition (i.e., "government...
[06:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Observed Collapsing Directly Into a Black Hole - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:36] <exec> 08└─I really thought my pandering to anti-capitalists, and my general wit, would have garnered at least one upmod. Oh, well.
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[07:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:13] <exec> 08└─Bing doesn't require HTTPS. HTTP still works. Shocking, I know, right?? The top four are Google, Bing, Baidu, and Yahoo. Bing and Baidu still use HTTP. HTTPS/SSL/TLS is overrated.
[07:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:14] <exec> 08└─Chin€se Micro$oft shill begone.
[07:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:16] <exec> 08└─This is beyond my knowledge - any experts out there who can comment? Basically, as I understand it, the Firefox team is claiming that they are the only browser in the world to correctly refuse to connect, if the certificate's attached OCSP (certification that the certificate is not revoked) is incor...
[07:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:19] <exec> 08└─how pathetic is that?
[07:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:21] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, it wasn't an endless tragedy. It seems to work fine now.
[07:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:34] <exec> 08└─If what you say is true, how do you explain Our Tech is Shit [soylentnews.org] despite all those lovely wars by Bushbamarump?
[07:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:36] <exec> 08└─As long as some people think that stealing others work by threatening them with weapons is a workable business. It will be better to have the better weapon than letting others have it. Another aspect of this is there is a breed of people that for some reason always end up being at the top of large c...
[07:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:57] <exec> 08└─That was Leopold II, the grand-uncle of Leopold III.
[07:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:59] <exec> 08└─Seriously? To have kings and such in this day and age is just insane, let alone caring about them or their feelings. This advertising campaign is utterly trivial and innocuous.
[07:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:01] <exec> 08└─Go burn a flag to celebrate your right to burn a flag.
[07:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:19] <exec> 08└─I loved chappie. I don't know why, it was full of inconsistencies and stupid cliches. But I loved it.
[07:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:33] <exec> 08└─Relevant song. [youtube.com] Out analing you there, there's time which does indeed make the game tree infinite, even if the state space is technically (and only technically) finite. Go and Chess are guaranteed to end so long as both players make moves, StarCraft 2 is not. If the server update rate i...
[07:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:39] <exec> 08└─Religious engineers, must be USA ;) If they ever disagree with your professional advice. Just tell them that god told you it must be like you said. :p Why not move on? keeping face at that level all day seems like a extra work burden you are not paid extra for in comparison with other workplaces.
[07:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:40] <exec> 08└─How did you get a piece of the meat without re-heating the whole piece every time you took something?
[07:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:43] <exec> 08└─100 lines of code, food, 100 lines of code, food.. GOTO 10
[07:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:45] <exec> 08└─Face it, this whole going-out-to-lunch thing was never a sensible idea.
[07:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:47] <exec> 08└─Missed it..
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[08:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:20] <exec> 08└─M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha
[08:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:21] <exec> 08└─I always trust Microsoft's SSL certificates. After all, they are signed by, um... Microsoft?!?!? Seriously, until I read this, I wasn't aware that there was a problem with Microsoft's sites, even though I am a Firefox user. Do people actually visit these sites? At least, they seem to have fixed the...
[08:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:23] <exec> 08└─Relevance vs Irrelevance. Security doesn't sell to the mainstream. And anybody who has been paying attention laughs at Mozilla claiming they are concerned with security (their security is sometimes better than their competitors, but they've been bolting crap on without concern for security for 2 dec...
[08:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:25] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware that there was a problem with Microsoft's sites... Do people actually visit these sites? Job requirements, so yes.
[08:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:27] <exec> 08└─M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha
[08:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:30] <exec> 08└─I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Trolls "R" Us kid There are a million sites on the web where I can post shit I don't wanna grow up, cause maybe if I did I couldn't be a Trolls "R" Us kid
[08:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:46] <exec> 08└─How about "no weapons."
[08:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:47] <exec> 08└─We can even power them with renewable energy sources.
[08:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:49] <exec> 08└─War is the father of all.
[08:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:52] <exec> 08└─...the one eyed man is king.
[08:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:16] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is Good! Colonialism is bad! Racism is good! Nationalism is bad! I can't even anymore, these are dark times indeed.
[08:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:17] <exec> 08└─This advertising campaign is utterly trivial and innocuous. And disrespectful. As disrespectful and legal as calling you an idiot.
[08:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for Schizophrenia in Teens Identified in New Study - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:58] <exec> 08└─... (if only for a time).
[08:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony's Latest E Ink Tablet Comes to the US in June - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:10] <exec> 08└─Amen to that. I would *love* a standalone e-ink display, preferably connected via usb/serial with some simple serial protocol. I tried buying an e-ink screen for a teensy project but no substantial displays are available for mere mortals, only smallish 'price tag' displays for exorbitant prices (whe...
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[09:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:12] <exec> 08└─This is so great. Now I can get handjobs from a stranger without the awkwardness of social interaction. I want to marry my prosthetic arm buddy!
[09:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:30] <exec> 08└─Your work requires you to use hotmail!?
[09:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:32] <exec> 08└─Chrome tries to use the stapled OCSP reponse. If that fails, it falls back to fetching a regular response through the network. (And if that fails, it ignores it) - When possible, we take the stapled response and hand it to the appropriate cryptographic library. The underlying OS libraries consistent...
[09:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:34] <exec> 08└─Outlook can probably be a job requirement. Bing maybe.
[09:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:54] <exec> 08└─I thought that title went to porn. That industry always seems to be at the forefront of technology, or so I have heard.
[09:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:21] <exec> 08└─Not as legal [wikipedia.org], in Belgium [wikipedia.org]. Though I doubt it will come that far.
[09:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:41] <exec> 08└─You are talking about Uncharted 4 or Last of Us. Good movies. You can play Batman: Arkham Knight (now fixed on PC) which is similar to the previous but not many cutscenes.
[09:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:07] <exec> 08└─They hire people due to increased demand for their products, or due to a perceived opportunity to invest in something new.
[09:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony's Latest E Ink Tablet Comes to the US in June - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:15] <exec> 08└─Apparently this isn't to even have a browser, not of any kind.
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[20:36:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Progress in Antibiotic Development - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:23] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Have they tried: * Disrupt chemical coordination signals between bacteria? * Viruses that infect bacteria? * Macrophages?
[20:36:25] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Progress in Antibiotic Development - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Time for the bad SN car analogy So cars could have different kinds of paints. Gram-negative paint, a bird poops on it, and it can be washed right off completely. Gram-positive paint, a bird poops on it you get a permanent stain. Turns out its easier to strip gram-positive paint off a car (intentiona...
[20:36:26] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Progress in Antibiotic Development - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:27] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Damn you for misrepresenting a paint analogy as a car analogy.
[20:36:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Progress in Antibiotic Development - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─What really matters is that womyn are involved in that development.
[20:36:31] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Progress in Antibiotic Development - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Why do you care what sex the discoverer is? Bacteria don't discriminate; this is welcome and sorely-needed news. Would you refuse a treatment because someone without a Y chromosome helped develop it?
[20:36:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:41] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's a vaccine.
[20:36:42] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Exciting - looking forward to seeing results replicated with a much larger group of people.
[20:36:45] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─No, it's a fidget spinner.
[20:36:47] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─From Wikipedia: Suramin is a medication used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness. It is the treatment of choice for sleeping sickness without central nervous system involvement. It is given by injection into a vein. [...] Suramin was made at least as early as 1916. It is on the Wo...
[20:36:49] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─More exciting -- looking forward to this hundred year old drug costing $100,000 per dose. One man's replicated results with a larger group of people is another man's 'job killing burdensome regulations'.
[20:36:51] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─a course of treatment is about 27 USD
[20:36:54] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─"Upon further review by our company's scientists, the drug has significant side-effects and is too dangerous to use. However, the new patented strawberry-flavored version has passed all our tests with flying colors, despite all the sacrifices we had to make in order to reduce our manufacturing costs...
[20:36:56] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─No bet
[20:36:58] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─If you gave a miracle autismo cure to a 30-something year old Chris-Chan, or even a 10 year old, they would still have to work hard to understand the ways of the world and overcome their own shitty behavior.
[20:37:00] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:01] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's almost as if it takes resources to do to things in this universe.
[20:37:02] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's all fffffFFFFFake!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joking aside, if this can be duplicated then this will be an amazing "miracle" for 1000s of families. Anybody with any experience with autism knows it's not just the one with autism that suffers, their families are impacted as well!
[20:37:04] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─No, it's devil grass?
[20:37:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03shipofgold [4696] 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 789 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Russia Today is always a trusted source, but here is the link to the original press release: https://health.ucsd.edu [ucsd.edu] Important note at the bottom: Special note from the researchers: Suramin is not approved for the treatment of autism. Like man...
[20:37:09] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─OK, the auties who can't talk probably need help. But as someone with a more moderate case, I don't want anything turning me neurotypical. Within the "talking autie" community we have a certain level of disregard for neurotypicals. It's like you have a mental disability. Can't stay focused on a task...
[20:37:11] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─As treatment gradually dries up membership for tech news websites, I'll remember you all fondly.
[20:37:13] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:14] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Fuck you shit head! Go suck a nigger!!
[20:37:16] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:16] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─. . . furthermore, our new drug must be taken weekly for life. We don't need no steenkin' single-dose cures. What we need is an ongoing treatment. And just for spite we're going to make it an injection children take rather than an orally taken medication. Think of the children.
[20:37:18] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The most frequent adverse reactions are...
[20:37:20] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:21] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Well let's see now, if all you self-obsessed freaks with your tunnel-vision and inability to function socially take this treatment, suddenly you'll stop whining for basic income to make the rest of us pay you to be worthless leeches. Hey guess what, treating you with drugs is cheaper than taxing eve...
[20:37:22] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's almost as if some people have no problem vastly enriching themselves on the back of other people's pain and suffering in this universe. And those television commercials don't come for free you know.
[20:37:24] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And you just happen to be "too autistic" to see the irony in your criticism of others and their "hive mind" when your entire post is nothing but bigotry and gross overgeneralizations that you picked up by hanging out on an extremist website?
[20:37:27] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The hyperfocus / socially inept group that is well paid to make the things everyone else wants, are hardly the leeches. Maybe you're thinking of the "can't code my way out of a paper bag" in between googling for snippets of already written code, while reading FaceTwit crowd.
[20:37:29] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's almost as if it takes resources to do to things in this universe.
[20:37:31] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's a good thing they named it Suramin instead of Sauron.
[20:37:33] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You've been following the tech news sites so you've seen the trends. Tech nerdery is a dying art which is being replaced by social apping. Purely technical roles are disappearing back into unpaid hobbyist niches. Soft social skills are the only marketable skills and old skool autistic nerds just do...
[20:37:36] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:36] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─A course of treatment for autism may be very different (chronic?) than that of sleeping sickness (acute). The paper mentions "low-dose suramin", but the real cost of the treatment would probably be monitoring the patient response and not the drug itself.
[20:37:38] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Medical evaluation of the patients, checking for adverse effects, tracking outcomes, study design, data analysis, regulatory paperwork, etc. The cost of the drug itself is usually minimal compared to the rest of a trial's cost (possibly exempting biologic drugs such as antibodies).
[20:37:40] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:41] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─doi/10.1002/acn3.424 [wiley.com] on toxity: The low dose of suramin used in this study produced blood levels of 1.5–15 μmol/L for 6 weeks. Previous studies have never examined the side-effect profile of suramin in this low-dose range. The side-effect profile of high-dose suramin (150–270 μmol/...
[20:37:42] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:43] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─There's a natural alliance between the autists and the alt-right. I'm not even kidding. That cross pollination between /pol/ and /r9k/ led to some success last November, the good guys finally won one. Of course the natsoc think they deployed weaponized autism, while the Autistes more correctly obser...
[20:37:44] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─From the paper: The terminal half-life was 14.7 ± 0.7 days. A self-limited, asymptomatic rash was seen, but there were no serious adverse events
[20:37:47] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:47] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The cost of the medicine is hardly what makes the clinical trial expensive. Lab work, monitoring, neurological exams, blood work, evaluation, plus a bunch of other things I'm sure I haven't thought of... Just the wages for the people doing all this and the cost for lab use & tests would add up to qu...
[20:37:49] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:50] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Have a look if "Autism Speaks" is in anyway involved in this. That would tell a lot.
[20:37:51] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:52] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Oooh interesting. Of course treatment for ASD would seem to be weekly for life so the long term low dose will also be interesting to study. Hopefully a tolerance doesn't build up.
[20:37:53] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You're hilarious because you think the hyperfocused socially inept group have jobs making the social media platforms everyone else wants. Coding is not a solitary endeavor anymore. You work in a social group or you don't work at all. Look at GitHub and you see the successful coders who have jobs are...
[20:37:56] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Hey guess what, treating you with drugs is cheaper than taxing everybody to pay your basic income. That settles it. You're getting the drugs.
[20:37:58] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:59] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I'll suspect there's a difference between people that have autism and asperger. In that people with autism really do have issues that blocks them from being happy. And a medicine like this might unlock certain regions of the brain. What to watch out for is people that are so determined to make these...
[20:38:00] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Yeah OK putting "medical" on anything makes the price 100x whatever. None the less, just saying, from a normie non-medical perspective, for way over $500K we're expecting a real world implementation of "The Fly" or "Spiderman" Either that or we're expecting better sets and special effects for "The F...
[20:38:02] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:03] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─More exciting -- looking forward to this hundred year old drug costing $100,000 per dose.
[20:38:05] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Doh, the lost link [wikipedia.org]: Suramin is a medication used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness... In regions of the world where the disease is common suramin is provided for free by the World Health Organization.
[20:38:07] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:08] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Word of advise... don't read the comments on that article. The amount of breathtaking stupidity makes me want to cry. It's like the entire anti-vax-iverse descended on that article and are spewing every nonsensical meme they can think of.
[20:38:09] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Right, it was all the internet brigading on reddit and obscure forums that really turned the tide! You are nuts, and even think Trump represents the "good guys"? For your own safety, and the safety of others please sell / give away any weapons you've collected.
[20:38:11] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─From the same source: In regions of the world where the disease is common suramin is provided for free by the World Health Organization.
[20:38:13] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:14] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─As long as those systems have a deplorable load of bugs they will be exploited by people with high level of technical skill.
[20:38:16] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─they would still have to work hard to understand the ways of the world
[20:38:18] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:19] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Here or elsewhere?
[20:38:21] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─That's already a thing in the USA. Specifically, in Alaska. Since 1976. It's called The Alaska Permanent Fund. the rest of us pay you That's not how they do it in Alaska. The money comes from "the commonwealth". Unlike other (clueless, corporate puppet) states who give away for free the privilege to...
[20:38:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:24] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I suspect asperger are high IQ autistic who are able to cope by using their advanced intelligence to overcome some of their issues.
[20:38:26] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:27] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─When crabs are in a bucket, they pull back down any crabs that try to clamber out and escape.
[20:38:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#Adverse_reactions [wikipedia.org] Thankfully, the way this works is to reset stuck cells so it works once and you're done.
[20:38:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─A great many people are perfectly happy to consume daily doses of caffeine to function in the waking world.
[20:38:33] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The solitary coders who ... don't chat with their friends ... are the unemployed basement dwellers who don't make any money.
[20:38:35] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:36] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─the good guys finally won one
[20:38:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─"I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that?! What the hell is wrong with you people?!"
[20:38:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Let's hope this result proves out. It sounds like a miracle. The last time there was such a clear medical triumph was when they figure out how to fix ulcers.
[20:38:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Trump's far from a 'good guy' but the real world doesn't really tend to fit that comic-book level of analysis anyway. And Hillary makes Trump look good.
[20:38:44] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:45] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Let me guess, you don't work in isolation. You report to a boss to whom you write reports. You know just how much irrelevant social posturing you need to lace into your reports to keep your job. I can do QA too but I can't get paid for it, because my idea of QA is firing off a patch with a note that...
[20:38:46] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Game-Changer for Autism’: 100-Year-Old Drug Reverses Symptoms, Study Finds - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:47] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You're hilarious because you think the hyperfocused socially inept group have jobs making the social media platforms everyone else wants. Coding is not a solitary endeavor anymore. You work in a social group or you don't work at all. Look at GitHub and you see the successful coders who have jobs are...
[20:38:54] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silk Implant for Patching Up Perforated Eardrums - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:54] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Probably much better to have a working eardrum than a cochlear implant.
[20:38:56] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silk Implant for Patching Up Perforated Eardrums - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:57] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You can't always get what you want.
[20:38:58] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silk Implant for Patching Up Perforated Eardrums - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:59] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And this is all well, because you usually want the good stuff and the good stuff is usually immoral, illegal or fattening.
[20:39:06] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irkut Flies Carbon-Based Jetliner - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The article has a bubble map with the range, seats, and number of orders for new narrow body planes. What is interesting is that it includes Bombadier and Embradier on the same chart as Airbus and Boeing. You can see the regional jet manufacturers still don't compete for number of seats per plane, b...
[20:39:08] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irkut Flies Carbon-Based Jetliner - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:09] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Please don't accuse me of looking at the article, but . . . promising to save money on fuel by replacing most metal parts with lighter carbon.
[20:39:11] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Irkut Flies Carbon-Based Jetliner - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:11] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Carbon fiber also takes a great deal of energy to make, but don't have a comparison with aluminum. One advantage to aluminum is ease and low cost of recycling; I have not seen any effective methods for reclaiming carbon fibers from an epoxy-carbon composite. As far as resin-transfer molding vs autoc...
[20:39:13] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irkut Flies Carbon-Based Jetliner - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:14] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─If the material is hardened without heat there must be some other factor that initiate the process to make it hard. Just vacuum is unlikely to do that by itself. Something is missing in the description. And then, will this material handle long term rough handling? burning sun, freezing cold, pressur...
[20:39:15] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Irkut Flies Carbon-Based Jetliner - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:16] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─> If the material is hardened without heat Epoxy resin (the most common binder used in carbon fiber composites) is a two part catalyzing reaction. Depending on the specific formulation, some varieties cure (harden) very slowly when cold. Typically the "pre-preg" material (carbon fiber and epoxy comb...
[20:39:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA "Solar Probe Plus" Announcement at 11 AM EDT - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:23] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Why don't they just dump their presentation online, rather than always trying to do this old-school announcement-about-an-announcement government crap?
[20:39:25] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA "Solar Probe Plus" Announcement at 11 AM EDT - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:26] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I can think of a lot of people that the world would be better off firing into the sun.
[20:39:27] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA "Solar Probe Plus" Announcement at 11 AM EDT - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:28] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Well, if you don't have a pre-announcement about an announcement, they how will you know that the announcement is something you want to be interested in.! People also like to have meetings about meetings. It makes them feel important when in fact they have nothing of value to a process.
[20:39:29] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA "Solar Probe Plus" Announcement at 11 AM EDT - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:30] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─From my experience, that includes most politicians, corporate executives, police, car salesmen, churchgoers, telemarketers, and software developers.
[20:39:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─My blockchain is safe from being cracked even by the surreal horse power of quantum computing. You doubt me? Prove me wrong!
[20:39:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Could there be a blockchain that prevents quantum computing from ever being invented in the first place? If so, what if we use bitcoin and edit it with CRISPR?
[20:39:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Quick, scale up the quantum computers! [hpcwire.com]
[20:39:44] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:44] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I have a $5 wrench that says you're wrong. We might not be able to crack your codes but we can crack every bone in your body, or those of your family and friends.
[20:39:46] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:47] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Is the code open source? Given this statement: An entirely new class of various products for distributed data storage and management is being planned based on a combination of networks of quantum communications and blockchain technologies. [www.rqc.ru] it seems more likely to be a proprietary produc...
[20:39:48] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:49] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Well, unless you give details of how your blockchain works, nobody can prove and disprove anything about it. Meanwhile, quantum computing, no matter whether we will ever be able to actually implement it in a scalable way, is well-defined and therefore one can prove claims about what it can do. Those...
[20:39:50] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Researchers Claim First Quantum-Safe Blockchain - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:51] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─This [arxiv.org] apparently is what is talked about. At least it's the same topic, and he Russian Quantum Center is given as affiliation for the authors.
[20:40:00] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:00] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─If companies are desperately looking for employees, shouldn't the wages go up, and therefore the number of people with low income go down?
[20:40:02] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:03] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─article doesn't say how many of the jobs pay 'proper' wages. are the Japanese starting to open Indian-style call centres?
[20:40:04] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:05] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And its not, so you can tell its fake news. Note the careful lack of detail. Admittedly its about 18 months old, but "demographic driven" things like this don't change very fast http://www.zerohedge.com [zerohedge.com] T...
[20:40:06] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Perhaps this can start a move towards reducing the number of bullshit jobs like in elf-and-safety, tele-maketing, advertising, liaising with other liaison personnel, walking around waving pieces of paper, management conferences, conferences on how to organise management conferences, agencies arrangi...
[20:40:08] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:09] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─So the economy is at an all time high. jobs for everyone who wants one, and then some. But everyone is poor and getting poorer? Women, retires, have to enter/reenter the workforce. What is going on?
[20:40:10] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:11] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─This. The article is just to set the stage for a following article about how Japan has to open its doors to immigration to save the economy.
[20:40:13] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:13] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─In fact the sociologists were worried about what people would do with all the extra spare time they had; the sociologists failed to predict the rise of the non-job.
[20:40:15] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:16] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Thanks for the article. specially this insight: [zerohedge.com] "Senior citizens and housewives are source of part-time workers" The WaPo somehow turns this around into how women are not being encouraged enough to fill the part-time job demand, while completely ignoring the high male suicide in Japa...
[20:40:17] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Nor does it say what the unemployment figures are, or how the available skills correlates with the sectors where the jobs are being advertised. A scenario with the bulk of the population employed in low-paying jobs where there are no real recruitment issues, but lacking the skills/qualifications nec...
[20:40:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I'd agree with that assessment. "If we replace our people with Chinese, and replace our government with a provincial Chinese government, then we will be super successful" Who is this "we" exactly? And whats so wrong with the Japanese people themselves, that they need to self genocide themselves in o...
[20:40:22] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Empty jobs with low wages are a self-correcting problem in a capitalist society. Just not instantly.
[20:40:24] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:25] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─We only work perhaps 2 days a week across a long term societal average, its just that we're all required to sit around the workplace for 40 to 100 hours per week. Its like decriminalizing drugs. You might get the police to stop busting down your doors and shooting your kids and pets over personal us...
[20:40:26] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:27] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The country is expected to lose more than one-third of its population by 2060, according to one article I read. So.. no real estate capital gains, no housing pressure, and a falling GDP and tax base. They can't jack up export prices, or people won't buy (especially with competition from Indonesia an...
[20:40:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And its not, so you can tell its fake news.
[20:40:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Single parents are expected to be poor in a nation where women make up a significant part of the workforce. When you increase the supply of labor by 50%, the demand goes down in accordance. Thus wages go down. Thus it is essentially a requirement that you have two people in the household working. As...
[20:40:33] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Perhaps this can start a move towards reducing the number of bullshit jobs like in elf-and-safety
[20:40:35] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:36] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─So.. no real estate capital gains, no housing pressure, and a falling GDP and tax base.
[20:40:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─This confirms my belief that all the talk of women-empowerment is basically just a way to increase labor pool and depress actual wages.
[20:40:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─but lacking the skills/qualifications necessary for the higher paying jobs where there are vacancies would lead to the sitation being described.
[20:40:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─We're still at a 63% labor participation rate. Your narrative isn't accurate even if we assumed everyone who doesn't currently have a job would have one in the absence of automation and globalization.
[20:40:43] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:44] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Yes but the actual caveat is that there is legal requirement to have women MBAs in the top position. Furthermore, society will rise up to ensure women are being given equal pay for the 5 kids they are raising without the father while father goes to suicide paying that alimony. What? You thought the...
[20:40:46] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:46] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Yeah, the two articles don't make much sense together.
[20:40:48] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:49] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─AND afford childcare
[20:40:50] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:51] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Its interesting culturally that centuries ago it was expected that only minor lowest level nobility would own enough slaves or servants to raise their children for them, but now a days its assumed even the lowliest wageslave will have a hired servant raise their kids.
[20:40:52] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:53] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─63% labor participation rate
[20:40:54] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:55] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And when they collude to keep wages low? Or bleat to the government that they can't afford to pay minimum wage plus taxes plus shareholder dividends, so please can we have some corporate welfare (and here's a small contribution to your campaign fund so we understand each other)? What you've describe...
[20:40:57] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And when they collude to keep wages low?
[20:40:59] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Wages can't go anywhere but down, with decreasing local demand for goods and services from the decreasing population and the decreasing wages (yay, feedback loop)...Add those increasing taxes, and even people working in "good" jobs will eventually fall below the povery line.
[20:41:01] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:02] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─"no change" Oh, I dunno. With more women working, and more men idle, the prison idustry is booming. And, that puts more women to work.
[20:41:03] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:04] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─"just this side of xenophobic." That would be more meaningful, if you told us which side of the xenophobic line you are on. ;^)
[20:41:05] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:06] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Wages have gone up in Japan. Not a ton, but it was the very first thing I looked up upon seeing this headline.
[20:41:08] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:08] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Correct. I would be perfectly fine with wife watching the kid if I made triple my salary, being that my wife makes somewhat double what I currently make (pay-gap my fucking ass). She wants to stay home, but seriously I can't agree to it as financially it would be awful undertaking (Pay mortgage in 3...
[20:41:10] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:11] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Suicide booth industry is going to be the next hot-tech-trend as men, now totally demoralized and destitute take it upon themselves, in a true manly fashion, to take what they perceive to be the problem out for everyone's good: themselves. Soon women will complain that there are not enough men to go...
[20:41:12] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:13] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Because where I live and everywhere else we also hear about labor shortages (perhaps not on that scale though) in certain sectors. Companies are supposedly not able to find people to do those sexy jobs that they have to offer. In many cases, when you look at those jobs, they entail: unreasonable hou...
[20:41:14] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:15] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Whatever side the xeno's aren't on!
[20:41:16] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 2100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:17] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I think this is one rare time I agree with your analysis. Just have one nitpick. It's not racial supremacist beliefs. It's the belief that people raised in any and all cultures are interchangeable cogs. I don't know that it fits with racism, but it strikes me as just as bad a racism, maybe even wors...
[20:41:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:19] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─This leads to other jobs with a similar skill level having to pay a similar amount or risk not being able to fill it when the current occupant leaves for one of the better paying jobs.
[20:41:21] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Perhaps this can start a move towards reducing the number of bullshit jobs like in elf-and-safety,... I fail to see how killing more workers is going to improve a worker shortage.
[20:41:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:24] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─To be fair, it has to be pointed out that this extra 0.48 job that remains mostly unfilled, has quite difficult requirements: mangakas generate huge demand for teenage girls modeling as innocent rape victims, with DD cups or higher.
[20:41:25] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:26] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Um, just trust the market, its wonderful invisible hands will fix everything.
[20:41:27] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Has 1.48 Jobs for Every Applicant - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:28] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Agree that falling GDP does not necessitate falling wages, but wages haven't been following productivity to any meaningful degree for decades.
[20:41:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I want to feel puffed up and important! I want more followers! --H.R. Puffnstuff (@highasakite) June 3 1970's or something
[20:41:40] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Ban Muslims in Lebanon? Problem solved?
[20:41:42] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:43] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Someday, the last one left will invade Europe... Please remember to turn the lights off in the mosque on the way out, OK thanks bye.
[20:41:44] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Muslims aren't going to be the target demographic for a scantily clad, strong, central woman hero. The target demographic is clearly the West, especially now that we are well into the age of the celebrated female (come on! They put that statue of the little girl standing in front of Wall Street's Ch...
[20:41:46] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 1935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:47] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Mostly correct. I had a theory that maybe pushing progressive "girl power" using a relatively hot chick was a reaction to the somewhat dismal Girl-Ghostbusters film from 2016 starring several not so hot chicks, but I was bored enough to look up the WW 2017 article in wikipedia and they film WW in la...
[20:41:48] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:49] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Or abandon hollywood and its tired formulas and produce something other than a special effects demo reel that might sell to more people ... This is a terrible idea. ... I donno, do a Bollywood and have her break out into interpretive dance periodically. The odds of my watching it are very low And th...
[20:41:50] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:51] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Currently, this formula is working for them
[20:41:53] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Well they would certainly have to have something special going for them to pull that off, seeing's how the European Union has 508 million people and the entire Middle East, including Turkey, Iran, and Egypt with the rest (because we all know those guys are exactly the same and have no differences am...
[20:41:55] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:56] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─When Muslims send their people, they're not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economic...
[20:41:57] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:58] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Eh, I'll probably go see it. I can only rewatch so many episodes of Xena:WP and the animated Justice League (plus Unlimited) to get my Amazon women fix. Question though. Since the OMG Moooooslims! have decided that this movie is evil, does this mean that I'm going to be sitting in the theater with a...
[20:41:59] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:00] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─That simply isn't the case with movies (at least the "special effects demo reels" you refer to): the audience has gotten ever larger, mostly thanks to foreign exports. That's why these movies have such dreadfully simple plots and dialog: they're easy to translate into different languages and foreign...
[20:42:02] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I like movies that don't have Arnold Schwarzenegger in them. I like Last Man Standing. Very bad what ABC did with that. They canceled it, I mean. Bad for U.S. economy. Unacceptable. One more thing, I never used the word or the name Israel. I never mentioned it. Never said it. So there's another stor...
[20:42:04] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:05] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Dreadfully simple plots have always been the forte of action movies. There is nothing new there. Action movies aren't any dumber than they ever were, its just that the economics of foreign markets have caused hollywood to make more action movies.
[20:42:06] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─They put that statue of the little girl standing in front of Wall Street's Charging Bull, even against the wishes of the Bull's artist
[20:42:08] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:09] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Sad!
[20:42:10] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:11] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You sexist liberal hypocrite; you never cared about art, unless it pushed your ideological agenda.
[20:42:13] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:13] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I didn't bother with Ghostbusters because it took soooooooooo long to get out the door, and that after trying so hard to get the original people back and failing: i figured they probably said: "meh, lets just kick this thing together with dogs, no burrows, no.... ummmm, okay, lets use women, fine wh...
[20:42:15] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:16] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The butthurt is not over. [nbcnews.com]
[20:42:17] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:18] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Why bother trying to understand what an artist was attempting to express, when you can just re-interpret his work as what you want to express, amirite? Why bother engaging in the introspection that an artist is trying to induce? Why bother trying on someone else's thoughts when you can just bask all...
[20:42:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:20] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─But he does seem to have his Donald character typing down pat... if you read it, you can almost imagine him standing in front of you, lol.
[20:42:21] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You're pushing your own ideological agenda. You see any excuse to whine about feminism, then jump on it.
[20:42:24] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:24] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Nice troll typing: you do the Donald well. Can you do Hillary too? George Bush would be funny: troll typing but getting it COMPLETELY WRONG/BACKWARDS AND FUCKED UP! That would be funny to see. Bush: "I like Donald, but i think he's got it wrong when he says we should build a wall between us and Chin...
[20:42:26] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Marvel is destroying DC on the big screen, and arguably does better with TV and Netflix [wikipedia.org]. If they can pull off The Defenders and The Punisher this year, then DC is toast. This list [wikipedia.org] includes X-Men stuff and the trippy Legion [wikipedia.org] show on FX. And what is this...
[20:42:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─One could argue that if it isn't obvious what the artist's intent is from first seeing it, they're not a very good artist.
[20:42:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─"I'm just gonna say something outrageous against Israel or the West, and since I'm Muslim, the western media will make me important." They shouldn't blame the Israeli girl for playing a role with super powers. They should distribute photoshops of Bibi with the WW costume (adjusted to the other star)...
[20:42:32] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Marvel's Civil War I: Taking sides on superpower registration Marvel's Civil War II: Taking sides on precrime DC's Civil War I: Taking sides on the Middle-East conflict Heck, if DC doesn't want to get into something so controversial, maybe one of the smaller comic book publishers (Image, Valiant) co...
[20:42:34] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:35] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Can't do a little 'cause you can't do enough.
[20:42:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:37] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─@TimesofIsrael Please don't watch the movie wonder woman, boycott. The star gal gadot is a pro-IDF Zionist who herself served in the terrorist organization pic.twitter.com/fvWSHRIx2w — Tee (@boyzinthehoood) May 29, 2017
[20:42:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You could argue that, but you would be wrong. Most things that art is intended to represent are not expressible in words. ... Well, except for the textual arts, and even then there's a difference between reporting accurately and art. That said, most art is, and must be, ambiguous. There's no other w...
[20:42:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I didn't bother with Ghostbusters because it took soooooooooo long to get out the door, and that after trying so hard to get the original people back and failing: i figured they probably said: "meh, lets just kick this thing together with dogs, no burrows, no.... ummmm, okay, lets use women, fine wh...
[20:42:43] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:44] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Something 2/5 the population of Europe won't sink into obscurity, but it would become economically much less significant. OTOH, what people seem to keep ignoring is that the real reason that the "middle easterners" tend to be upset with the US is because the US has been fucking around with them. The...
[20:42:45] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 2214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:46] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─44% of people under five years old in Germany are migrants. That number has been going up about 5% per year for some time now. At the current growth rates the Germans have at most a generation or two. Its strange to think that about half the kids in Germany right now are not Germans. Soon half the a...
[20:42:48] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:48] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─10 years later and Bush Derangement Syndrome is still going strong. Stay Delusional.
[20:42:50] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:51] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─"How dare those misogynists boycott a movie starring a strong female protagonist! Do they hate women? We should bomb their whole backward patriarchy back into the stone age!"
[20:42:52] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:53] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I can't stand neocons so I'll chime in with my suggestion of building a little sand castle wall out on the beach, or maybe using a couple pieces of lego, and then staging a huge "mission accomplished" media celebration. Also any proper parody of a neocon would involve asking Israel which country we...
[20:42:54] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:55] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I still don't see how that's the end of civilization some make it out to be. Castro gave America all his prisoners at once and the US did not implode. Or, for an even more dramatic example, Britain dumped nothing but convicts on the continent of Australia and they turned around and made a country ou...
[20:42:56] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:57] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─as Israel has mandatory conscription
[20:42:59] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:59] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─but after the vi vs. emacs religious wars we ought to be inured to that by now.
[20:43:01] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:02] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Anytime you want to start citing sources, feel free. Then you might get responses to your long-winded, opinionated, narrow-viewed, evidence-free rants. And by responses, I mean responses other than ACs or the four people who regularly chorus you.
[20:43:03] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:04] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─They are middle eastern terrorists..Yes, they hate women.
[20:43:05] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lebanon Calls for Ban of Wonder Woman 2017 Movie - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:06] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It is great that your sarcasm actually ties quite nicely to the actual bombing. Why are we messing with them? Oh right, to prop up our empire. Good reason, gotta stay on top of the pile! What's a few thousand innocent casualties?
[20:43:18] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:18] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Why should these arms be strapped to you and not the chair you sit on? Imagine having to get up to do something and having to choose between getting the harness off your feet and knees or stepping awkwardly with it still attached (perhaps slapping everything around due to the metaarms responding to...
[20:43:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:19] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Anyone found the price of this thing?
[20:43:21] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:21] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The obvious answer is that they can sell two pairs to every comic book fan boy who wants to be Doctor Octopus. I think the control scheme may need some modifications for that to work, though.
[20:43:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:24] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I don't think he was intending to pay..
[20:43:25] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:26] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─...need to hold.. very still.. while.. soldering... [moves foot one inch to right - arm tries to push PCB up his nose..] [flex toes - arm lets go of book, drops it into dinner] [...] this will be fun, until someone sneezes and pokes themselves in the eye with a tool orr tears off their dick (see fir...
[20:43:27] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:28] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I always knew those Japs were very smart! Look at my Japanese Americans over here -- look at them. Folks, these hands are gonna be huge! Big league. Congratulations and God bless the USA!
[20:43:29] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:30] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─orr tears off their dick (see first comment)
[20:43:32] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:32] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I'll just leave this clip from Total Recall [youtube.com] here. Keep your nose clean and safe -- you'll never know when you'll need to go upside your nose with an electromechanical contrivance.
[20:43:34] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MetaLimbs Gives You an Extra Pair of Robotic Hands - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:35] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Goro Wins!
[20:44:01] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:01] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Please don't intermix Microsoft BASIC string variables and PHP variables. It hurts the eyes.
[20:44:02] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:02] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─why keep your company secrets within the company, when you can put them on googledocs or Office365! oh, then there is this story: "Macquarie Uni shifts from Gmail to Office 365 over privacy concerns ... Macquarie University will move its staff email accounts from Gmail to Office 365 over concerns ab...
[20:44:04] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:04] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Chrome tries to use the stapled OCSP reponse. If that fails, it falls back to fetching a regular response through the network. (And if that fails, it ignores it)
[20:44:06] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─They simply optimized the hell out of it: return(page)
[20:44:08] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:09] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Did anybody actually think that only pertained to *WINDOWS*-build testers? Rail whatever strapped together crap you have right into production, testing is for sissies anyway!
[20:44:10] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:11] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Without TLS, what prevents an attacker from installing Firesheep [wikipedia.org], copying your session cookie, and then sending spam as you from Outlook or from spending your Bing Rewards?
[20:44:12] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:13] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It's embarrassing that something that simple (cert & domain expiration) is still a frequent problem, and for BIG tech companies too!
[20:44:15] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:15] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─This makes me wonder how much recent improvements on browser speed benchmarks is due to convoluted ways of making the browser less secure.
[20:44:17] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:18] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Yes! And, the whole idea of abruptly making a certificate invalid after a certain date is stupidly crude. Where is the graceful degradation of service? Further, there is security fatigue. The policy of changing passwords every 30 days or 6 months, or some other short period of time, just in case, is...
[20:44:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:20] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─For a while I was getting errors because I dared to type hotmail.com instead of www.hotmail.com. No idea whose fault that was.
[20:44:21] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─frying pan/fire...
[20:44:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:24] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Yes it is stupid that someone are MS did not calendar maintenance. But the browser actions are worst I daily hav to keep going to "bad" sites because of browsers report all self signed keys as bad. Yup that include all printers on your local network. Firewalls (private) I am surprised that they do...
[20:44:25] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:26] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─There was a story once where the Microsoft.com domain name expired, and some kind soul purchased it and turned it over to Microsoft. It was a long time ago. I cannot find anything about this on Google or Duck Duck Go. A bit unrelated, but I was surprised that SSLLabs [ssllabs.com] only gives bing.co...
[20:44:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Without TLS, what prevents an attacker from installing Firesheep [wikipedia.org], copying your session cookie, and then sending spam as you from Outlook or from spending your Bing Rewards?
[20:44:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Using Bing, Hotmail, Live, Outlook, etc., seems a bit pathetic, so,...
[20:44:33] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Sure, the ssl part is great, but run this very page through validator.w3.org http://validator.w3.org(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&gro...
[20:44:35] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:36] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Firefox's shrill hissy fit over seeing self-signed certificates is indeed certifiable. Try Skip Cert Error [mozilla.org] for saner behavior, though it's still recommended to keep notifications active so you know that "something was unusual" with the certificate. Since HTTPS is effectively broken as...
[20:44:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Oh crap, don't cross the strings! It would be bad.
[20:44:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─1) Zero windows required. The issue exists independent of OS. 2) You probably do allow session cookies. Those are basically one-time passwords. Without https, those session cookies can be "taken" and used to impersonate you. 3) That older browser that doesn't run "modern code"? It also doesn't run m...
[20:44:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─When it comes to certs, Firefox seems to be the only one that cares. Companies that want to MitM you have an easier time with Chrome and windows because they can push self-signed certs as root certs to every machine on the domain. Firefox uses it's own cert store that is at the user level.
[20:44:43] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hotmail, Live, Outlook, and Bing Connection Errors, and Browser Security - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:44] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Microsoft is stupid for not having a system in place to handle routine expiration of dated certs. Firefox is also stupid for throwing a warning over some bullcrap 'stapling' thing that few use in this case. It should be caching server certs and keys and if it is seeing the same cert it has seen for...
[20:44:52] <SoyGuest90617> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 571 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:53] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─How about "no weapons." (Sounds scary, doesn't it? Nonviolence-- the most terrifying idea of all!) Enough kids die in the streets of the US already. Atomic bombs somehow aren't enough to enforce Amerikkka's global dominance? Or the endless disruption of the Mideast? Now we have to go full Moonraker....
[20:45:07] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:07] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I get the idea that since we are so heavily invested in "megaweapons", an adversary could well suddenly pop up somewhere with thousands, maybe a million, small drones, preprogrammed to wreak havoc on specific targets. We would be like a hunter with scads of high powered rifles, prepared for bear, bu...
[20:45:09] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:09] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Do not look into laser with remaining eye. http://www.electricstuff.co.uk [electricstuff.co.uk]
[20:45:10] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:11] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Deadbeat dad.
[20:45:12] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:13] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Blind [wikipedia.org] "... Nuñez slowly starts trying to explain sight to her. Medina-Saroté, however, simply dismisses it as his imagination. When Nuñez asks for her hand in marriage, he is turned down by the village elders on account of his "unst...
[20:45:14] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:15] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─That is both an insane proposition and quite dangerous one (should it actual catch on). And I don't know how something this ludicrous was modded up. There will always be weapons and violence as long as there are Humans. If at any point the sentient being on this planet somehow get on without both of...
[20:45:17] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:17] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─>And sometimes they are the only solution that will work permanently. I'm struggling to think of any example of that - ever. Other than total genocide (which is its own problem), violence almost always begets further violence a little ways down the road, once the most-recently-wronged group gets bac...
[20:45:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:20] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I read the story a long time ago and found it entertaining but ridiculous, as with much of HG Wells work. Seriously - it's trivially easy to prove that vision exists (I can tell how many fingers you're holding up from across the room!), and if everyone else actively refuses to believe you, you still...
[20:45:21] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Which do you prefer, lasers or plasma weapons?
[20:45:23] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:24] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Doesn't work, because nobody believes it's Skynet ahead of time. Actually, Skynet itself doesn't make much sense. What's going to happen is that increasing levels of AI will hollow-out middle management *and* the workers until all that's left is a figure-head top-guy. And the AI will do whatever it'...
[20:45:26] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:26] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─A valid point, but there's no real advantage in having the most weapons if neither you nor the guy with the second amount of weapons dare to use them (against each other). In the current environment the 3rd or 4th down seems to be more advantageous than being in the top position.
[20:45:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Exponential growth in space is a delusion. At least if you're thinking of any very high exponent. Mere survival in space is going to be quite difficult. I will agree that it's highly worthwhile, and the only real future that isn't eventually disastrous, but it's not going to lead to a rapid populati...
[20:45:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I want my laser gun to have recoil.
[20:45:32] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I want my laser gun to have recoil.
[20:45:35] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:35] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Back of the enveloppe math says the a 5kW laser firing 200ms is 1kJ. Counting losses, that about the same energy as a .45 ACP or 9x19 parabellum, but over a much longer period. Not quite sure what it feels like. I need the 30kW Akira-style bazooka, so the shots can be shorter, and provide that final...
[20:45:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─It can be both. [merriam-webster.com] 1 : something (such as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy If it's purpose is to destroy things then it's a weapon.
[20:45:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Plasma weapons are superior. Laser Sword is only +58 attack, whereas Plasma Sword is +70 attack.
[20:45:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─China is the only country that could beat the USA in drone mass production. The USA is pretty damn good at producing things. This is the ideal nuke substitute. Picture a fully autonomous drone, firing sideways like a tiny AC-130 gunship, just large enough to contain a .223 (5.66 mm) rifle embedded i...
[20:45:43] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:44] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The recoil comes from the impulse transfer (over time). A shotgun has a typical muzzle velocity of 500m/s with a slug of 28g - about 14 kg*m/s impulse (and around 4200J kinetic energy). Now, with light the energy is m*c2. Computing the "equivalent mass" for a 14kg*m/s impulse for light (using impuls...
[20:45:46] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:46] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─A 5mW laser can blind from a distance. A 5KW laser is a million times more powerful, it does more than pop black balloons - calling it a tool instead of a weapon is like calling a Samurai sword a really good butter knife.
[20:46:15] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:15] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─There is room for one king only. Unless you are in Spartaaaaaaa. I'd have Burger King forcibly renamed to Burger Man In Disgrace or kicked out Belgium.
[20:46:16] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:16] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─This is basically like a trademark issue. There is no problem mocking the king, joking about the royal family or having a democratic party that wants to abolish the monarchy. (Which is currently actually the biggest party in the government) I remember several shows on where they made a caricature of...
[20:46:17] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I for one expect the monarchy to open their own joint with the king his-majesties-self flipping burgers.
[20:46:19] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:20] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─agrees with the king, hope he can stop these yanky merchants.
[20:46:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:22] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─As a side-note, the current king is actually doing a good job and much liked by the people. Overpaid, questionable hiring practices, sure, but I'll chose him over Trump or anything else I've seen coming from the US lately.
[20:46:24] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Those libel laws are very bad for USA. Time to change them! Open them up.
[20:46:26] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03John Miller [6613] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─He's a great king, one of the best in the Middle East, but nobody can match what President Donald J. Trump has done in his first 100 days. He's taken bold action to restore prosperity, keep Americans safe and secure, and hold government accountable.
[20:46:28] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:29] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Does anyone else find BK commercials creepy?
[20:46:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─You watch commercials?
[20:46:32] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Democratically elected officials on the other hand is guaranteed to give you the best person for the job
[20:46:35] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:35] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Monarchy may be preferable to perpetually corrupt system where campaign finance is "King".
[20:46:37] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:38] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─No I'm inspired to creep
[20:46:39] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:40] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Nice try. They still won't let you touch *their* glowing orb; you might as well stop sucking up.
[20:46:41] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:42] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─He's a great king, one of the best in the Middle East
[20:46:43] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:44] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The Era of Der Trumpenführer
[20:46:46] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Yes.
[20:46:48] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:49] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─The chain being named Burger King, okay. Running commercials saying that people should elect BK the king of Belgium over the actual king, rather rude but whatever. Using the king's likeness in the commercial without asking? Come on, dude. Now you're just asking for it.
[20:46:50] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:51] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Well the other end of that link was funny, but not what I expected. On the serious side, Belgium is not a nation state, which for many today is a synonym for country.
[20:46:52] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:53] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Democratically elected officials on the other hand is guaranteed to give you the best person for the job...
[20:46:54] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─woosh indeed
[20:46:56] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:57] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─And disrespectful
[20:46:59] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:59] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─There's only one way to stop it, at the polls. Don't forget to vote!
[20:47:01] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:02] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Well I've heard of the Antwerp suburb Borgerhout described as "Borgerokko" (Borgerhout + Marokko, get it?), and some people complain that Molenbeek in Brussel feels like it is in the Middle East. That's where the Bataclan terrorist lived. But I've never been to either towns so this is only (possibly...
[20:47:03] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:04] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─As they say...respect is earned, not inherited.
[20:47:05] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:06] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Hilter was the worst Fürher.
[20:47:07] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgian Monarchy Angered by Burger King - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:08] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I mean, when you specifically make up a foreign-derived title for someone, the least you can do is spell it correctly. If you don't, you just look like an idiot.
[20:47:30] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:30] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Your comment is unnecessarily provocative, but I think you're onto something. Video game storytelling has taken Hollywood film modalities wholesale, when to really flower as an art form it needs to develop a narrative approach more germane to the medium and its possibilities. Take the early 'talkies...
[20:47:31] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:31] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Perfect, Volume 1 will be a decent movie, Volume 2 will be absolutely EPIC and will set the scene for a grand trilogy, which will never come.
[20:47:32] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06‘District 9’ Director to Debut His New Sci-Fi Film on Steam - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:33] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─After taking a lengthy absence from sci-fi,
[20:47:48] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:48] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Can it find the answer to life, the universe and everything? :-)
[20:47:49] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:49] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Or maybe they'll use it to solve this problem. [xkcd.com] (See the bottom panels)
[20:47:51] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:53] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─I think the next step would be games with incomplete information. In go, as in chess, all information about the game is available to both players; indeed, the position on the board already tells you most of what you need to know (in go, I think it tells you everything; in chess, there's some extra i...
[20:47:54] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:55] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─To be clear here, you are asserting that Starcraft 2 is literally a more difficult and strategically complicated game than Go is? Forgive me if I disagree with you.
[20:47:57] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─Did it drop the mic on the way out?
[20:47:59] <SoyGuest90617> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Wins Again and Retires From Competition - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <SoyGuest90617> 08└─A far lesser AI system just completely destroyed [ieee.org] 4 of the best heads up no limit hold'em players in the world. It was a decent sample size and hands were mirrored to minimize the impact of luck. In other words if he ran his kings into aces, he would be simultaneously running his aces into...
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