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[00:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─If the kid was black, she'd be dead.
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─Why is this considered newsworthy? What's next? "5 AMAZING treatments for acne you wont even believe would work!"
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:24] <exec> 08└─If she was black, she wouldn't be in HB.
[00:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:27] <exec> 08└─That was cute. Just what I needed after a crappy Monday at work.
[00:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:29] <exec> 08└─The fact that it is newsworthy makes it even more depressing. Remember: if it's on the news it's an unusual event. A positive interaction between a family and a police officer? STOP THE PRESSES! If the girl had been shot we probably wouldn't even hear about this encounter.
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:46] <exec> 08└─Life there seems hampered by having religious police and nosy neighbors watching you for doing any religious transgressing. Free speech is probably not a thing..
[00:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─Are you aware of FLIR and Cognex systems? Both are highly advanced, with FLIR doing things like individual precision resistor inspection searching for material inconsistency, and Cognex Vision systems I have personal familiarity with, and can attest that dozens of custom geometric, gradient, and/or...
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─Banking and Insurance industries in Iran are heavily sanctioned by the US and EU, so even if related industries are technically not covered, there is effectively no way to engage in business in Iran without a lot of red flags coming up for US and EU banks. You will need to engage in lengthy consulta...
[00:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─So, like Kansas?
[00:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:03] <exec> 08└─What do the sociopathic poor do? Go on the internet and bitch about it, accomplishing nothing but feeding their own egos.
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─You're a fucking dumbass then. We've come up with plenty of ways to do things better, without money even, and make sure that we prosper and thrive. Japanese researchers even modeled a resource distribution system that eliminated bias and corruption. That would be interesting to try out in a special...
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─What a convincing argument! You must be right. Kind of surprised you didn't go with the all-powerful "NUH UH" comeback.
[00:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:09] <exec> 08└─No, they mostly go to jail for THEIR anti-social behavior.
[00:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps that bone-setting specialist was no longer available? - joined a medical group - became a salaried "hospitalman" MD - system required a referral to go to a specialist - retired early (possible from large earnings) - ... When I dislocated a small toe, the ER doc never even foun...
[00:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:14] <exec> 08└─One guy I know got tripped did a cartwheel and snapped his leg. Took 8 weeks to heal. Another dude I met was a pro. Spiral fracture. It can be a pretty rough game. We used it as an excuse to beat each other up and trip each other flat.
[00:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:14] <exec> 08└─That is time spent learning the idiosyncrasy of those build scripts and pandoc that could been spent on writing code.
[00:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:15] <exec> 08└─Without proper docs it's possible to charge more for support calls..
[00:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:17] <exec> 08└─Which of the LISPs are worthwhile btw? as in being powerful to do whatever one might wish without over complicating matters? * Erlang * Common Lisp * Clojure * Haskell Compuserve was like a BBS that were powered by mainframes connected worldwide right? Usenet.. killed by eternal autumn a...
[00:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:37] <exec> 08└─Either way, the result is fewer houses on the market
[00:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:38] <exec> 08└─While those are interesting problems which probably actually do manifest a little in the real world, I don't buy that they strangle cities. Point one is spurious. Airbnb is part of "the market" so apartments selling on Airbnb are by definition still on the market. Similarly, when I spoke of living o...
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:21] <exec> 08└─I've used Android for years and recently switched to an iPhone. I like iMessage and how smooth a lot of things run. However I can't fucking stand iTunes and how it manages mp3 files. Alright so I have a bunch of music on my phone but don't like Apple's built in player. I can download other players b...
[00:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:23] <exec> 08└─That's when you install something like AutoHotKey and write a small script to automate granting file permissions for you. ~From one of the only Windows Phone fans
[00:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the ~$4000 fine is a sentence based on existing law while the extraordinary sentences are bluster not based on law. I don't see the latter surviving a court challenge.
[00:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 2500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:52] <exec> 08└─"Thirty going on forty years of backlash building up, and it's not stopping any time soon by the looks of it. Meanwhile those in power keep killing those they're intended to represent (as well as plenty of others), a few with theatrics, most without." See: https://web.archive.org
[00:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:43] <exec> 08└─Don J. "Smallhands" Trump ran businesses all right, to the ground.
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[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 2803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─I'm amazingly great at building. Look at the Trump Building in New York City. I paid $1 million for a $400 million building, terrific deal. Right there on Wall Street. 40 Wall Street, it's amazing. 71 stories. You know what, 71 is 69 with two fingers up your ass. That's great, I just made that up. I...
[01:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─Qatar is well-documented as a primary banker for Daesh/ISIL/ISIS/Al Nusra. The only people these salafist mercenaries hate more than heterogeneous, secular societies like Syria are Iranian Shi'ite. Tarring Iran with an unsourced and evidence-free link to jihadism has been a frequent conservative mem...
[01:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─Make America Graft Again.
[01:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:32] <exec> 08└─It is host to a forward headquarters of United States Central Command, headquarters of United States Air Forces Central Command, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF. Qatar proven natural gas reserves stand at approximately 25 trillion cubic meters. Qa...
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─yep, that is what parents are teaching their children. if I did that 60 years ago I'd still be digging boot leather out of my ass.
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:49] <exec> 08└─Positive spin: they taught her to run away from scary-looking strangers trying to talk to her.
[01:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have to say I was questioning myself earlier today because I submitted an article last night on studies about preschool curricula that I found interesting, because I saw the submission queue was really low. This morning I found myself thinking -- was that really on-topic for this site? Then...
[01:36:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 613 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─It's not like they are able to go and get the appropriate licenses for the intellectual property due to the sanctions and general exclusion from the global economy, so calling it 'copyright violation industry' is not really appropriate. They are not under the jurisdiction where this copyright is rec...
[01:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 944 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─Iran has a thriving and prosperous minority of religious Christians, mostly ethnic Armenians and Assyrians, both of whom are native within Iranian borders. Christian doctrines and religious imagery are a noticeable component in the historical development of Persian mystical and love poetry, with a v...
[01:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─We had a radio host (Dave Ross, KIRO-FM) travel to Iran back in 2010 and he found the same as a Catholic. He also mentioned that when he asked about all the "Death to America" chants he was told to take them in the same way he would take Red Sox fans yelling "Yankees Suck!" Understandably they don't...
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─This is a great opportunity for liberals in Silicon Valley to journey away from the racist and oppressive United States and travel to the promised land of Freedom, Feminism, and Progressivism: Iran.
[01:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:18] <exec> 08└─At least get it politically correct.... Sheep porn.
[01:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:20] <exec> 08└─Religious vigilante neighbors aren't a real problem. Not in Tehran, for the most part. Instead, it's like the US. Don't get into grudge feud with your neighbor, or they will use your vodka-fueled party night to call police, as a nuclear option. Mostly these are fines and reprimands, but the Baseej l...
[01:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:22] <exec> 08└─Give it 25 years. This may be a startling prediction, given current trends.
[01:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:39] <exec> 08└─And I'll match you with a Great A'Tuin.
[01:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, MOND fits galaxy rotation curves. It was designed to do so. But what happens when you try to apply it to stuff bigger than a single galaxy? Galaxy clusters, large scale structure formation, CMB anisotropies, for all of these, MOND theorists have been forced to resort to some fudge factors that...
[01:37:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:09] <exec> 08└─If you were the filthy rich guy, would you want to be denied special treatment though you were willing and able to pay for it ? No, you'd want the special treatment and you'd get it. I'm not saying I like this, but the people who are going to whine about it have the maturity level of a young child....
[01:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:41] <exec> 08└─No solution is proposed because there is not a problem to be solved. You only believe there is because of your own avarice.
[01:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:42] <exec> 08└─So now that they don’t have to wait, they shouldn’t be called ‘patients’ any more? :P
[01:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:45] <exec> 08└─Sounds like your area needs more doctors. Get on the AMA's case and find out why they are limiting the number of new docs, causing scarcity (and consequently higher doctor wages).
[01:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─Here is the key to not hate. Do not worry about others money. Worry about how you spend yours and what you invest it in. They may be making their money in a bad way but that does not affect you. Only you affect you. Jealously breads hate.
[01:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─The Russian tsars never expected the 1917 revolution, but that's one case where the wealthy (or thereabouts) were axed for real. As well as getting rid of all the rich hereditary inbreds, the revolution also killed off a lot of the smarter people, which kept most of Russia a 3rd world country--to th...
[01:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:38] <exec> 08└─I agree some of this theory sounds pretty vague. On the other hand, what he says has a lot in common with stuff other psychologists have proposed about intelligence. The "g factor" theory of IQ tests has been widely criticized, even among psychometricians. Tests like the SAT used to be heavily g-loa...
[01:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:55] <exec> 08└─Go onto any Windows computer and press F1 at almost any time. That's their documentation. And that's what comes of following standards. Luckily must programs have yet to crap all over Window's old shortcut standards even if they did abandon everything else. Sadly many companies are turning those doc...
[01:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 3445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:17] <exec> 08└─As someone who is trying to buy his first property on the way to becoming a landlord, it's way more complicated than that. Any landlord only looking at rent vs mortgage will quickly turn into a slumlord as they are likely losing money the instant they buy the property. There's taxes, minor repairs,...
[01:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:02] <exec> 08└─A few decades ago, you could just specify something like DISPLAY=spinach:4 when you start X and the processs started would use display number 4 on the machine known as spinach. Windowing over the network was that easy. The program running would just send all its draw requests to the other machine ju...
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[02:35:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 688 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:21] <exec> 08└─Qatar is well-documented as a primary banker for Daesh/ISIL/ISIS/Al Nusra. The only people these salafist mercenaries hate more than heterogeneous, secular societies like Syria are Iranian Shi'ite. Tarring Iran with an unsourced and evidence-free link to jihadism has been a frequent conservative mem...
[02:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 835 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:23] <exec> 08└─It is host to a forward headquarters of United States Central Command, headquarters of United States Air Forces Central Command, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF. Qatar proven natural gas reserves stand at approximately 25 trillion cubic meters. Qa...
[02:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:25] <exec> 08└─If you want to be great... Stay the *uck off of Twitter.
[02:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:27] <exec> 08└─Clearly, there is something about it that isn't halal.
[02:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:30] <exec> 08└─So, they fund the terrorists but let us have an airbase in their country so we're cool. I'm so fucking sick of the middle east. We have the gas due to fracking and CAFE standards, we don't need them anymore. Why can't we just get the fuck out of anywhere within 1,000 miles of Iran (hoping that inclu...
[02:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:32] <exec> 08└─This verbosity seems to be a bit beyond "your" usual experience. Try some paragraph breaks next time. Ultimately we're going after Iran The latest webcast [libsyn.com] of The Jimmy Dore Show [google.com] includes a whole bunch of stuff using one of "your" guys as a punching bag, specifically about t...
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:34] <exec> 08└─Funny, tho'. With presence on Golan, these ISIS death-culters never seem to attack Israel, nor even mention cause with the struggle for Palestine.
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah there's some heavy-handed misdirection at work here. This isn't about their funding Salafis, even though some certainly comes from or through them, much more is coming from the other folks that are cutting ties with them, that certainly can't be the real cause of the outrage. This seems to be 1...
[02:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:39] <exec> 08└─> Al Jazeera news network is funded by the Qatari govermnet. Is that why you edited out the quote from Al Jazeera, saying that the Qatar News Agency's Web site was broken into and fake videos were posted there? Qatar's government categorically denied that comments in which the country's leader expre...
[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:41] <exec> 08└─I think they breed faster than they can kill each other. So.. according to Sun Tzu: "One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own" The US may/may not need the resource, but their enemies sure do..
[02:35:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:52] <exec> 08└─A US cop doing his duty without beating or killing someone is newsworthy I would say...
[02:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:26] <exec> 08└─Oddly, I had just the opposite experience ~10 years ago. Was contacted by an engineering student from Iran who wanted to translate part of our reference/text. Said that his faculty would not even let him start on a translation until there was proper permission. Our publisher wouldn't touch it, due t...
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Catalytic Converter Composite Reduces Rare Earth Element Usage - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:01] <exec> 08└─In the USA, I think that once a car gets to 25 years old it starts to be exempt from further emissions testing? Something like that. Certainly true classic and antique cars slip through with no problems.
[02:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:53] <exec> 08└─Good for you, but mutilating other people's genitals based on personal preferences, religious beliefs, or generally for any reason other than to solve an imminent medical emergency is a violation of their fundamental right to control their own body; it should be illegal unless you have the person's...
[02:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:56] <exec> 08└─There are two interesting Lisps; both of them are Scheme implementations. (1) Racket: Racket's specialty is multilingual programming. You can define new syntaxes and new semantics (i.e. new languages) and compose a program from modules written in those languages. The feature seems to cover everythin...
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[03:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:11] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that... Capitalism is failing to meet our needs???? What an absolute travesty! Whatever will we do without Hyperconsumerism aka Capitalism!? Money save us!
[03:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:13] <exec> 08└─No, no, no. Millennials can't afford to $x because they spend too much eating out! let $x = eat out
[03:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:15] <exec> 08└─Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants
[03:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:17] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is merely the recognition that resources are best allocated when those resources are allocated solely by a person who has gained control of those resources through voluntary agreement with others. This is an iterative process by which voluntary interaction becomes the overwhelming norm, a...
[03:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:19] <exec> 08└─I've been to Buffalo Wild Wings once. It was tasty, but not $$$ tasty. Haven't been back. Don't know if it's the rising minimum wage or whatever, but going to places like these fast casual joints just aren't worth the tasty vs price. The price has exceeded the value, big time.
[03:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:22] <exec> 08└─Or it's the process by which those who have unethically gained control of resources launder and grow their wealth
[03:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. If I'm going to blow a large amount of money on a meal (realistically considering drink+entree+tip it's what, $15, $20? For a 'casual' restaurant, I mean. How much does it cost me to spend 45 minutes making it at home, $5?) I'm going to go somewhere good, like the local Thai place or the place...
[03:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vokbain [2372] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:26] <exec> 08└─N/t
[03:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:28] <exec> 08└─The real answer is that prices are kind of high -- sure, running a restaurant has a filthy amount of overhead, but ultimately, if I'm spending $12 a plate and then $2+ for a drink and then tax and then tip, I'm probably just not going to go to a sit down and eat place. Like the article mentions, Chi...
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:31] <exec> 08└─The minimum wage has some effect on this, but the bigger issue is that corporations are sucking people dry at every opportunity. People have less money than they previously did because corporations refuse to pay people for their time and effort and to make that even worse, they're expecting to charg...
[03:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:33] <exec> 08└─Well, that's true because men are not angels. Maybe GP can help us understand how men may become angels, so we're not stuck with some violently imposed monopoly where those who have unethically gained control of resources launder them and unethically gain control of more resources at an exponential...
[03:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:35] <exec> 08└─Damn Millennials have woken up and are not willing to sacrifice both wealth and health to keep Applebees and TGI Fridays alive? Talk about entitlement... CEOs feeling entitled to the consumer's money and blaming consumers for not wanting to buy their crap.
[03:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:37] <exec> 08└─Read what I wrote; by my definition, what you wrote is not an example of capitalism.
[03:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:39] <exec> 08└─I love KFC, it's great. I mean, the silverware isn't great. It's plastic, so I use my own. Silverware and goldware. When I eat KFC. When I drink my little Coke -- which is about the only Coke I have -- and have my little chicken, I guess that is a form of belonging, and I do that as often as possibl...
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:42] <exec> 08└─So when are these places going to sell avocado toast? https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Seriously, why are all these "older people" blaming and shaming millennials for the problems the previous generations created? Most of the millennials are cer...
[03:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:44] <exec> 08└─Except that capitalism as generally conceived is based upon a completely unnatural principle: the ability to accumulate large amounts of capital. That depends on the ability to restrict transactions to the small subset which are mutually voluntary, and thus completely disconnects the concept from a...
[03:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:03] <exec> 08└─I think they breed faster than they can kill each other.
[03:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:04] <exec> 08└─"Why can't we just get the fuck out of anywhere within 1,000 miles of Iran (hoping that included Afghanistan) and let them just shoot each other." Are you mad? Without a terrorist threat how could you justify mass surveillance along with unrivaled and ever-larger military budgets?
[03:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:07] <exec> 08└─This pretty much nails the problem on the head. Forget the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail", we have "Let's make a shit ton of hammers and look for nails".
[03:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:09] <exec> 08└─It's a huge project. They will dredge up nonsense like Sunni/Shi'a sectarianism, when the issue is global geopolitics - the struggle between USian vassal-states and those establishing alternative power outside the shadow of the Phantom Empire.
[03:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─It seems Afghanistan was tolerable until circa 1978. It's the same with Iran pre-1979. Have a look at photographs from these periods and how fast the circumstances changed. Then compare with what's going on in the west.
[03:36:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:19] <exec> 08└─Cute stuff from FB on SN? How dare you challenge my ultra-cynicism and dare me to point out that 4-year-old Abdelkader Muhammad, doing the same in a black pickup truck would have been droned, shot in the back, tazed, and taken to Gitmo? I'm not falling for it! You will not get me!
[03:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:31] <exec> 08└─Is it possible I can see the video without FB? Cuz at this point I can guarantee you the words printed on my tombstone will be "stubbern fucker refused to make a FB account". / well, except my body is donated to science // whats left (likely close to 100% of it) will be cremated /// the ashes dumped...
[03:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:32] <exec> 08└─parents should have been charged with reckless endangerment; at a minimum, forced to parenting classes through child protective services. Before you whine, she's just lucky some cell-phone-gazing asshat in an SUV didn't crush her.
[03:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:29] <exec> 08└─So you can't see any of the tens of thousands of pages of MSDN, Technet, or Windows Help? Does your cult prohibit you from reading non-GPL'd docs or something? In any case though the qualifier wouldn't be "no-one can see it", it's only "members of my cult aren't allowed to look at it".
[03:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:30] <exec> 08└─Do any of these LISPs make efficient use of multi cores that are common now, but were not when those languages came into being? They should be able to exploit that even better than many other languages simple by their nature.
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[04:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:39] <exec> 08└─As men are not angels, why would you ever entrust them with a bizarrely blessed-and-ordained monopoly on violence (e.g., the power of a "government")??? Are you insane? Indeed, in the world at large, there is no such thing as One World Government; governments actually must compete—despite their...
[04:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─This is fascinating. As someone who enjoys cooking (and was baking my own bread before "artisan bread" became fashionable to bake at home again), I think it's great to hear people taking an interest in cooking more. A question though: I completely get the aversion to Applebees, etc., especially due...
[04:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:43] <exec> 08└─"Seriously, why are all these "older people" blaming and shaming millennials for the problems the previous generations created?" I blame it on a stunning lack of self-awareness
[04:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:45] <exec> 08└─Whatever will we do without Hyperconsumerism aka Capitalism!?
[04:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:47] <exec> 08└─When the fox eats the rabbit, the fox is re-appropriating the resources of the rabbit against the rabbit's will; clearly, this is not a voluntary trade, and thus this is not an example of capitalism. (And, please, let's not forget that capitalism is an iterative process; it doesn't matter that the c...
[04:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:50] <exec> 08└─I've seen these sort of news pieces increasingly commonly lately. Millennials spending less on cars, less on food, less on television, less on housing, and less on just about everything except coffee. It's like nobody has considered the fact that spending is going down as a result of wages going dow...
[04:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:52] <exec> 08└─You'll notice that when realDonaldTrump is around, DannyB isn't. At least he finally registered a specialty account for his neurosis.
[04:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:54] <exec> 08└─Also, that 20% lower wages is understating the problem. Many critical industries including education, healthcare, and housing have been increasing in cost far more rapidly than inflation. There are also far more 'things' people can, and arguably must (try living without internet), spread their money...
[04:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:56] <exec> 08└─If the internal of KFC stores were completely gold colored, and I mean EVERYTHING, then I'd probably visit them once this year to see what it's like.
[04:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:58] <exec> 08└─Other venues of socialization has arsed that gives a better value of the resources put in?
[04:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, we don't need this "Milennials are killing x" clickbait here.
[04:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:03] <exec> 08└─Any local bar can make wings as good as b-dub. It does not take any skill at all to defrost frozen food and cook it. Just like McDonald's, Coke, Pepsi, and Bud Light... they drive demand via marketing alone. None of these overpriced items are putting money into quality.
[04:36:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 2803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:11] <exec> 08└─I'm amazingly great at building. Look at the Trump Building in New York City. I paid $1 million for a $400 million building, terrific deal. Right there on Wall Street. 40 Wall Street, it's amazing. 71 stories. You know what, 71 is 69 with two fingers up your ass. That's great, I just made that up. I...
[04:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:28] <exec> 08└─This seems to be 100% about Qatar being insufficiently enthusiastic about the prospect of a war against Iran.
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:30] <exec> 08└─That should have been included, the summary has been updated. My apologies.
[04:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:32] <exec> 08└─I love this site, I can say what I want and I don't run out of space, I mean, it never tells me there's no more space and I have to break things up. Break up my message. It lets me finish my thoughts, and that's terrific. Because I have a lot of thoughts. Believe me, folks. I have a lot of thoughts,...
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[04:36:34] <exec> 08└─* If the United States won't use the oil then it may enable less than friendly nations to do so and make them prosper. Those nations may be unfriendly to United States. * There are corporate profits to be made in USA and national profit to be made in the middle east. So they have the financial i...
[04:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:36] <exec> 08└─It's gone to lets make a shit ton of hammers AND secretly provide nails... http://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]...
[04:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:38] <exec> 08└─And stop repeating yourself, it makes you sound like an idiot.
[04:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 3456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:40] <exec> 08└─There was an eerily prescient document laid out by all the big names during Bush's presidency called, Rebuilding America's Defenses [informationclearinghouse.info](PDF). The think tank behind this was Project for the New American Century [wikipedia.org]. That Wiki page has some notes on Rebuilding A...
[04:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:43] <exec> 08└─So, they fund the terrorists but let us have an airbase in their country so we're cool.
[04:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:03] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't be alive for long anyway ;).
[04:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─The mid-east has had several thousand years, but yeah, could change in the next couple decades.
[04:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Sounding Rocket will Release Early Morning Artificial Clouds Lighting up the Mid-Atlantic Coast - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─Can't wait til I can do this experiment in KSP... Go Jebidiah: make clouds! Oh Jebidiah... I didn't mean FART!?!
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[05:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:02] <exec> 08└─But what does this chip do?
[05:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:03] <exec> 08└─It destroys jobs.
[05:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:39] <exec> 08└─I suspect web- and app-enabled millenials have much more information and means to efficiently spend their money on pretty much everything except smartphones, cellular data, and internet access. When you can search for: * a well-reviewed restaurant * in your price range * nearby * serving the food yo...
[05:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:41] <exec> 08└─I'm having my doubts about this being the real Donald Trump.
[05:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 3953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you, no. Not completely gold. The parts that are white now will be gold, and the parts that are red now will be mahogany. Don't get me wrong, white is a great color -- it's my favorite color, believe me -- but gold and mahogany. Fake gold, except the breading. The breading of the chicken will...
[05:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:45] <exec> 08└─Yep...If pone really wants salty, fatty food they can go to Trader Joe's, Safeway, or GrocOut and pop it in the microwave for a third the cost...including wine or beer.
[05:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:47] <exec> 08└─You sure? It does sound like him.
[05:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:19] <exec> 08└─Thank you!
[05:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:42] <exec> 08└─oh, hi. I'm one of the other 23. i just wanted to say that I like you post.
[05:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:29] <exec> 08└─There is literally 0 evidence of this. Arguably there is less than 0 since there is substantial evidence to the contrary. In particular Maric failed out of university after being unable to achieve the necessary 4/6 on her final examinations - scoring a 2.5 in, you guessed it, mathematics. She then t...
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[05:37:31] <exec> 08└─Nobody is saying he didn't build off the shoulders of giants. Relativity is, in effect, a direct result of the Michelson-Morley experiment. [wikipedia.org] However, at the same time - he was not just a product of his times. Michelson-Morley was 1887 when Einstein was 8 years old. Einstein's first pa...
[05:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:44] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised everyone left out another reason for no docs these days: many of the developers can't really speak English. They know their English is so bad, they don't bother writing any.
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[05:42:56] <exec> 08└─The trouble is that in practice Airbnb reduces living options by taking appartments off the market, reduces living quality by saddling neighbours with unaccountable tourists who are loud, litter and are gone in two weeks and it disrupts the local economy to the point where shops catering to the loca...
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[06:35:12] <exec> 08└─"If you didn't want us to pirate it, you should've used Denuvo DRM!"
[06:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:22] <exec> 08└─The atomic radius of a single silicon atom is 0.111 nm. At 3 nm and below your minimum feature size is only a couple dozen atoms or so across.
[06:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:03] <exec> 08└─You see the blue check mark next to my name. That means it's me. My verified account. I'm going to ask them for gold, but a blue check. Right now it's blue. But I'm going to ask for gold. But it's really me and that's how you know. Terrific! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! #TrumpWater
[06:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:04] <exec> 08└─It almost sounds like Donald Trump but there are quite a few giveaways that he's fake.
[06:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:07] <exec> 08└─* https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[06:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 3633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:09] <exec> 08└─I will quote something I read a long time back on the old website: A transaction is not a 0 sum game. If you have water and I have uncooked rice, we will both survive if we trade and we will both die if we don't. Even communism doesn't confuse trade with a fox eating the rabbit. It only says that it...
[06:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:11] <exec> 08└─I think that may be more a matter of availability? Not that my friends and I don't socialize when we're at a sit-down restaurant, and I don't think we count it against it. The thing is that restaurants are kind of shitty for socializing, more noise, etc. A lot of the time when we just hang out and t...
[06:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:13] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why are all these "older people" blaming and shaming millennials for the problems the previous generations created?
[06:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:15] <exec> 08└─The thing is that restaurants are kind of shitty for socializing, more noise, etc.
[06:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:18] <exec> 08└─It almost sounds like Donald Trump but there are quite a few giveaways that he's fake.
[06:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:51] <exec> 08└─Great idea, I mean it could be great. I'll think about that. Could be a smart idea.
[06:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:52] <exec> 08└─I should have been more sceptical of the story about the news service being hacked. I knew that Al Jazeera was based in Qatar and I noted that, but I forgot it was partly funded by the royal family. I don't speak Arabic and I haven't seen the videos myself. I thought it was an aspect that readers he...
[06:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:16] <exec> 08└─Toddler flees California officer's 'traffic stop' in Barbie Jeep https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:17] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that... I have here this wonder-cream made from an exotic South American bean which cures acne, cancer and prevents hangovers. Just walk this way for our no-obligation demo...
[06:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:46] <exec> 08└─You are speaking of Iran, which produced spherical trigonometry about 800 years ago. Among about two-dozen of the mathematical and chemical fundamentals upon which Newton and others built. Without Khayyam, there's no ballistics. Even today, there are more engineers per capita produced in Iran, than...
[06:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:17] <exec> 08└─Hasn't Trump dismantled the FCC yet? If not, why's he being so slow about it?
[06:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 2407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:25] <exec> 08└─A nice IDE can be, well, nice. In fact, I'd say that they're commonly *too* nice. They molly-coddle you and make it trivial to jump through 16 levels of function calls across a dozen source files (or even components). And this is a problem in my opinion. A developer is not penalised for writing conv...
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[07:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:17] <exec> 08└─It would be helpful to have a central site of these kinds of events, where defenders of strong copyright infringement penalties show up as intentionally having infringed copyright themselves without providing appropriate restitution.
[07:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:28] <exec> 08└─Lets you watch cat pictures on FB for an extra 5 minutes, before your 4K 6-inch screen finishes the battery.
[07:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor [wikipedia.org] http://www.purdue.edu [purdue.edu] https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com]
[07:35:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1707 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:50] <exec> 08└─I love KFC, it's great. I mean, the silverware isn't great. It's plastic, so I use my own. Silverware and goldware. When I eat KFC. When I drink my little Coke -- which is about the only Coke I have -- and have my little chicken, I guess that is a form of belonging, and I do that as often as possibl...
[07:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe part of it is just "not eating where the older people eat" (read: previous generation). People identify with all kinds of things, food chains probably among them.
[07:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:20] <exec> 08└─You won't believe the 10 Reasons millennials are killing clickbait! Find out why.
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─I hate the term, I hate what it connotates when it's correct, I hate old fucks thinking they're the smarter generation when this has never been true in history and I especially hate the general reasoning involved when committees try to figure out why crappy food in crappy overpriced cookie cutter re...
[07:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:58] <exec> 08└─Pentagon's getting a 10% raise. All those not-repaired schools and bridges will need a justification soon enough...
[07:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:59] <exec> 08└─I've always said, I don't think we should have overthrown Mosaddegh. Shouldn't have given so much power to the Shah. Because some of what he did with Savak, what the Shah did with them, with his secret police, was terrible for his ratings. Very unpopular. The Shah, I assume, was a good person. He wa...
[07:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:22] <exec> 08└─You don't say "Put me on your DNC list." You say, "I'm *supposed* to be on your DNC list!" in your sternest tones, then enjoy the frantic apology, and you will never hear from that outfit again. The real trick was to get on a master DNC list, such as via a major newspaper, since those get circulated...
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[07:41:23] <exec> 08└─Joke's on them. I have nominal voicemail, but it doesn't work. :P
[07:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:32] <exec> 08└─a legacy feature, then?
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[08:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:17] <exec> 08└─Could it be possible to mitigate the worst effects by releasing alkaline agents locally? I'll assume it's the acidic nature of the sea that is causing this directly.
[08:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:18] <exec> 08└─the thing is just in the way of ships, anyway. Once it's dead, more ships will be able to get through, and we'll even be able to dredge some better channels. Get that iron ore and coal and gas out of the country, faster! More profits for other countries! http://www.abc.net.au
[08:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:28] <exec> 08└─If you include hollywood accounting used to shave royalties, your list is pretty much just defenders of strong copyright infringement penalties.
[08:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:30] <exec> 08└─One of the TFA commenters, thisguy1337, seems to be doing something like that. TorrentFreak uses Disqus for comments, though.
[08:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:42] <exec> 08└─But what does this chip do?
[08:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:44] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see you're getting the new Galaxy Note 8 [knowyourmobile.com].
[08:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see you're getting the new Galaxy Note 8 [knowyourmobile.com].
[08:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:38] <exec> 08└─Around here, it seems eating out is slightly growing - so I'm happy to extrapolate from anecdote into alternative fact and proclaim that this seems more a US problem than anything else. I'm seriously curious: what's the status in countries that are not the USA?
[08:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:40] <exec> 08└─So capitalism is fundamentally based on evil? That certainly explains a lot. The invisible hand is not the hand of god. It's the hand of the devil.
[08:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:42] <exec> 08└─I've always said, I love the Irish. One thing I like to say: "Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you." A lot of us know that, we know it well. It’s a great phrase. And it's a quote. What a great quote. I said that to the...
[08:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:44] <exec> 08└─So you think you are free to redefine words as you see fit? Communication is possible because words have generally agreed-upon meanings. Terminology matters. Otherwise I'll redefine "what" as "how" and "to write" as "to be a complete idiot", and therefore interpret Read what I wrote
[08:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:46] <exec> 08└─The video link in the summary works just fine without an FB account. So: yes, you can see the video without an FB account. On FB, even. If you would prefer not to view it on FB, see OrigOwner's comment for the YT link.
[08:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:36] <exec> 08└─Strange - I'd have mentioned Lorentz and Poincare (and how they addressed issues raised by Michelson) as the essential precursors to Einstein. And once he was on track with his own mathematical approach, Minkowski helped bolster his earlier theories to help him progress to even greater things. Howev...
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[09:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:03] <exec> 08└─I would find being addressed by my name offensive and invasive, unless we had been introduced. As a rule, I don't introduce myself unless I expect to have an ongoing or detailed relationship, nor do I expect others to introduce themselves under similar circumstances. One of the nicest thing about st...
[09:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:22] <exec> 08└─I seem to be misunderstanding something here. VMProtect costs their company X amount of money to develop, so they put a price tag of 500$ on a license. However when Denuvo go to buy a copy of it they are told "Because it would cost you hundreds of thousands to make something similar for yourself, th...
[09:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:23] <exec> 08└─Because the standard license fee don't cover the their intended use? Like in any other bussines then license terms and prices must be negotiated as any other contract.
[09:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:34] <exec> 08└─That's very interesting, what you said about Millennials spending less on just about everything except coffee. What you wrote. Do you know any Millennials? Do you think they'd like a restaurant that served nothing but coffee and duck à l'orange? Ivanka likes cabbage soup with sour cream. It drives...
[09:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:35] <exec> 08└─Let's just hope that these restaurants don't take their hints from the music and film industries, or we may end up with NOT buying food from them being considered piracy and people being sued for the money they "lost" by not selling food.
[09:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:48] <exec> 08└─Go onto any Windows computer and press F1 at almost any time. That's their documentation.
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[10:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:15] <exec> 08└─It's supposed to make the person being addressed feel important. Like they own the boat or something. Don't forget your smoking jacket and cheap wine.
[10:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:36] <exec> 08└─Whether you consider it extortion or not, copyright and patents are basically all about this. They give monopolistic control over who can do what with their stuff. Denuvo doesn't have permission to ignore copyright law just because they disagree with what they're told. They can try to take it to cou...
[10:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:48] <exec> 08└─"Blaming and shaming the previous generation for societal woes is literally one of the oldest tropes in history." Then why are the older generations blaming the -later- generations in this case? Seriously though, if millennials are eating healthier and the like, then all the more power to'em. If it...
[10:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:50] <exec> 08└─Except that capitalism as generally conceived is based upon a completely unnatural principle: the ability to accumulate large amounts of capital.
[10:37:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:03] <exec> 08└─So, they fund the terrorists but let us have an airbase in their country so we're cool. I'm so fucking sick of the middle east. We have the gas due to fracking and CAFE standards, we don't need them anymore. Why can't we just get the fuck out of anywhere within 1,000 miles of Iran (hoping that inclu...
[10:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:53] <exec> 08└─USA seems weird. Allowing/having your kid walk hom from school on a known path is child endangerment but having the child run from the police is cute. :) (Add salt to taste)
[10:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:04] <exec> 08└─Might be minus the -. What killed usenet wasn't the volume per-se, it was the BINARIES being pushed to newgroups, even non-binary usegroups once ISPs started filtering those. There was a chart up a few years back showing usenet daily capacity from the 80s to the early-mid '00s. The content amount we...
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[11:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:37] <exec> 08└─Average age of cruise ship passenger: "well beyond middle-aged" Average income "not really rich" (or, potentially: "rich after inheritence"). Together, these amount to "not born to money", and likely, with a bit less money, these people would be comfortable at a local country club/Australian RSL. An...
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[11:35:38] <exec> 08└─These medallions track the users, likely all the time, even if you have chosen not to share with anyone in your group. Management of thousands of people is going to be simpler when you know where they all are, and at what time they do things. This will lead to better planning of activities, meals, a...
[11:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds great until someone connects to the smart ship network bus and has fun with the whole ship from the comfort of a cabin. Oh and wireless on top of that. What could go wrong? WEP? firmware backdoor?
[11:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─Any word on if they're going to try to keep the boats upright?
[11:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:05] <exec> 08└─My reading was that VMProtect generally license their product as a DRM solution for use by ordinary software-as-a-product packages, but of course Denuvo isn't an ordinary software-as-a-product package, it's a rival DRM solution. In other words, Denuvo would essentially be 'selling on' the VMProtect...
[11:36:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1488 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:50] <exec> 08└─I've seen these sort of news pieces increasingly commonly lately. Millennials spending less on cars, less on food, less on television, less on housing, and less on just about everything except coffee. It's like nobody has considered the fact that spending is going down as a result of wages going dow...
[11:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:21] <exec> 08└─Dibs on the hot chicks.
[11:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:23] <exec> 08└─Eh, their wings are quite frankly shit. Their breading runs a minimum of 5 on the Mohs hardness scale. Wingstop is by far the superior competitor from strictly a food perspective.
[11:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:25] <exec> 08└─Yup. Welcome to capitalism, bitches. Resources have to be valuable for you to get value in exchange.
[11:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─The only problem is that people are born with Americans are indoctrinated into a tribal mindset.
[11:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:29] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that... Capitalism is failing to meet our needs????
[11:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:31] <exec> 08└─Get it yet?
[11:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:34] <exec> 08└─how of it is just interest in slightly cheaper and FASTER places to eat?
[11:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:36] <exec> 08└─Dine out or pay a penaltax. It's Roberts approved.
[11:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:40] <exec> 08└─That's actually the kind of discussion that I thought might come about when I posted it up.. On the one hand, its nice to occasionally see cops not being a$$holes. On the other hand, would the cop have reacted the same if it had been an ethnic child? Would we have perceived the entire incident the s...
[11:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:30] <exec> 08└─In hard sciences models of the world should be replaced with a model that more accurately predicts the world, not a story that sounds more "fun".
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[12:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:18] <exec> 08└─Why does the low voltage matter? I would have thought that it is the wattage that matters. Is there a single car out there that doesn't provide at least 12 V? Indeed, I'd expect that reducing those 12 V to 0.5 V would come at its own inefficiency.
[12:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:45] <exec> 08└─I've always said oil in ships in a big, big problem. Pipelines are the way to go. With a ship, the oil can spill. It can make a mess. Like it made on the Great Barrier Reef. A great, bloody mess, they say in Australia. They say that down under, a bloody mess. Like Kathy Griffin, like what she did. A...
[12:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:47] <exec> 08└─Acidification is a theory tossed out by the climate-panic crowd, because dissolving CO2 in water changes the pH. You'll find articles showing the shells of molluscs dissolving in seawater, but if you read the fine print, these articles make some drastic assumptions. Funny, how there were molluscs mi...
[12:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:02] <exec> 08└─It's exactly as much extortion as the following: While OEMs can get licenses to put Windows on the computers they sell, if they then decided to make their own operating system using those Windows components, Microsoft would likely sue them because that is not covered by the license. Even if they sel...
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[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─If I buy a song on iTunes, repackage it on a CD and start selling it, how is that much different from what Denuvo did? The VMProtect technology is key to providing the "uncrackability" of Denuvo, it is literally the key component that makes Denuvo's DRM valuable. At least with music, one could argue...
[12:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:28] <exec> 08└─Their breading runs a minimum of 5 on the Mohs hardness scale.
[12:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:29] <exec> 08└─Gotta watch that bottom line after all.
[12:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:31] <exec> 08└─I'm seriously curious: what's the status in countries that are not the USA?
[12:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:33] <exec> 08└─That's right. They're willing to sacrifice wealth and health to keep Chipotle alive.
[12:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:36] <exec> 08└─Not a millennial, but I can empathise a bit with this article. Most of the time I'll cook at home, and if I don't it's for one of three reasons: I'm too busy and want something quick. I'm too tired and want something low effort (lower effort than walking to the shop 5 minutes away and buying ingredi...
[12:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─They always ruin everything! Now get off my lawn! What is this cryticle about? Do they want government bailout? Sorry man, you are going out of business. Your food is shit tier (50% salt by volume), and I don't drink so you can't fool my taste-buds. How can you even "blame" someone for doing what th...
[12:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:40] <exec> 08└─They'll be eating each other. You'll be stuck with Emo boys and Justin Bieber.
[12:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, landline was dropped about 10 years ago, so we're cell only. Used to be the opposite, land full-o-junk and cell was relatively quiet. I remember in 2005 threatening one for calling my cell phone and that shut them up where nothing else had before. Not so much, anymore.
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[13:35:33] <exec> 08└─More appropriately the nitrogen and carbon dioxide of crypto-"currencies".
[13:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:35] <exec> 08└─The idea is to prevent large, deep-pocketed organizations from being the only ones who can afford to providing mining services; that is, the idea is to prevent the centralization of mining. However, the deeper your pockets, the more GPUs you can buy—the supply of GPUs is exhausted probably because...
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[13:35:37] <exec> 08└─I still think the whole idea of making computers work in order to "make value" is stupid and wasteful. you want safe and secure transactions? go work for a bank and fix their stupid systems, and the job is done. the electricity wasted on these "currencies" would have been so much more useful if it h...
[13:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it is a Catholic thing, but people may be called by a name that isn't their first given name. John Michael Andrew Smith may have been Andrew Smith to everyone with occasion to know his Christian name. But the boat demands names as printed in the passport and, screw Mr Smith, his name...
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:51] <exec> 08└─Average age of cruise ship passenger: "well beyond middle-aged" Average income "not really rich" (or, potentially: "rich after inheritence").
[13:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should spend that money on performing maintenance on their ships to avoid events like this [cnn.com]?
[13:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:03] <exec> 08└─There needs to be a financial incentive for barrier reef restoration, perhaps in the form of tax credits for companies that can spend the money on repairing the reef and improving water quality. Simply pleading with other people to fix the problem hasn't worked well in the last 100 years and I doubt...
[13:36:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:46] <exec> 08└─Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:51] <exec> 08└─Number 8 will surprise you!
[13:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:53] <exec> 08└─That's why you should learn the other guy's definition of "capitalism"; it's the only in this entire thread is even remotely coherent.
[13:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:55] <exec> 08└─Not enough meat on them bones.
[13:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:57] <exec> 08└─Capital is any phenomenon that can be put to productive use; "capital" is just a synonym for "resource".
[13:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:59] <exec> 08└─You're wasting characters. It's called shchi, not cabbage soup with sour cream. Ask Ivanka. She's smarter.
[13:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:01] <exec> 08└─how of it is just interest in slightly cheaper and FASTER places to eat?
[13:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:03] <exec> 08└─Minor correction...where I said "fast casual" should have just been "casual" I guess by the terminology of this article. Goddamn they're breaking out some fine-grained categories...
[13:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:06] <exec> 08└─Once in a while as comic relief we like to yell "Git off my lawn!" or "Suck it, grandpa!" Clickbait is good for that.
[13:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─Yet in China it's one of the only places you'll want to eat because you're most likely not to get an attack of dysentery from it.
[13:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:10] <exec> 08└─You might as well. It's what the chains like the ones in TFA do. They're not taking raw chicken and breading it and the like. They're not chopping the salad ingredients. All that is done in a central mechanized location and bagged and sent out to the branches. The "kitchens" are a re-heating and pla...
[13:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:12] <exec> 08└─So, how much of it is more cooking, and how of it is just interest in slightly cheaper and FASTER places to eat? Is speed important? One reason I remember going out with friends to a "casual dining" restaurant was to hang out.
[13:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:14] <exec> 08└─Another reason to avoid the chains is variety. They don't offer much. Same thing, no matter where, no matter when. The sameness allows them to save money on production, because customization costs money. If you're lucky, you get a chain that might offer regional dishes like, dunno, grits or somethin...
[13:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:17] <exec> 08└─No, it's pretty apparent studying cultures throughout history and across the globe that men are tribal animals. It's one of the reasons they aren't angels, maybe the main reason. People are willing to kill people from the other tribe and steal from the other tribe, and no contract between parties ca...
[13:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:55] <exec> 08└─Which Yemeni government is that? The government that has wide support within the population, or the contras that Saudi Arabia is supporting with US backing?
[13:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─#21 here. We should start a website where we can all talk about how we don't use social networks. Let's call it "SoylentNews," just until we come up with a better name.
[13:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:55] <exec> 08└─It really makes me wonder whether globalization is as great as its proponents claim. The commonly cited historical example of isolationism working out badly was China, but I think the real problem there was informational isolation, not physical isolation. Sure it's simple enough to make an Uber clon...
[13:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:20] <exec> 08└─And now she's supposed to be double checking Einstein's work which were, almost entirely, based around advanced theoretic applications in the field Maric failed out of?
[13:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:21] <exec> 08└─MOND makes the model fit measured rotation curves by letting you chose a single parameter that makes the curves seem to fit the model. There's one fudge-factor. DM makes the model fit measured rotation curves by letting you chose where you drop dollops of invisible stuff in order to make the curves...
[13:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:38] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone enable voicemail anymore? Answerphones made sense in the '80s and early '90s before SMS and email. Now, if someone wants to send me something non-urgent, they can send it in email or SMS where things like copy-and-paste work so that if there's anything important I can deal with it ea...
[13:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:40] <exec> 08└─That's true. I had forgotten that. Burn Notice was the same for yogurt. If they're gonna do something like that, work it into the story and characters organically at the very least. Everything shy of that is groan-worthy.
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[14:35:37] <exec> 08└─... I don't understand why these obviously capable people put their limited time and energy (Yes! We're all going to die very soon) into "resurrecting" these old ways of doing things. Why not instead put those resources into creating a new system that maybe borrows some of the few good ideas from th...
[14:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:39] <exec> 08└─Motif-alikes, CDE-alikes, call them what you will. Butt-ugly 90's nonsense is what I call them, but as I use DWM (a tiled window manager mostly usable without the mouse), I'm hardly immune from "that's old-tech" criticisms.
[14:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:41] <exec> 08└─Or, I could just go turn on my old Indigo II.
[14:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:43] <exec> 08└─If you knew anything at all, you'd be using xmonad [xmonad.org], and learning Haskell [haskell.org] just to write your config program.
[14:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─I'm unsure whether you're saying it's a clone, but what I read on one of the project's pages says it's based on SGI's code: The MaXX Interactive Desktop for Linux® Community Edition, also known as “The MaXX Desktop”, is based on the SGI Indigo Magic™ Desktop for IRIX® under limited license f...
[14:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:54] <exec> 08└─Because if people work out these are microwaves, they really won't want to know what Wattage they'll be cooked at.
[14:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:04] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The argument which says that ASIC-resistance is a good idea is indistinguishable from the argument which says that GPU-resistance is a good idea. Except Mr. Ponzi has a nice little rack of GPU-laden machines, and doesn't want the latter argument to be heard.
[14:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─The computers are making value because they are doing the work necessary to secure these payment networks; that is valuable. Put another way: Before Bitcoin, there was no way that you could have run a 100-million-dollar drug market through a website. Clearly, Bitcoin provides some kind of value that...
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[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─Put another way: Before Bitcoin, there was no way that you could have run a 100-million-dollar drug market through a website.
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Put another way: Before Bitcoin, there was no way that some 20-something, starry-eyed man-child could have even set up a 100-million-dollar illegal-drug market through normal, consumer-grade website infrastructure.
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:12] <exec> 08└─Directly advertising to miners! OMG won't someone think of the children!!!
[14:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:28] <exec> 08└─Average age of cruise ship passenger: "well beyond middle-aged"
[14:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:41] <exec> 08└─Dibs on the hot chicks.
[14:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:42] <exec> 08└─Small hands, smells like Trump cabbage soup.
[14:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:44] <exec> 08└─Jimshatt himself at #9!
[14:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:47] <exec> 08└─I'll stick with the neighborhood pub where you can actually hear the person you're trying to talk to... And if I *am* drinking I wanna actually drink BEER not the pisswater Bud Light crap
[14:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:49] <exec> 08└─It was tasty, but not $$$ tasty.
[14:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:28] <exec> 08└─"The idea of middle east with nukes seems like a suicidal scenario for the middle east." If you're thinking that's something to be avoided, well, you're waaaaay too late. Israel went nuclear in '66, probably has enough weapons to make the entire region uninhabited and uninhabitable for a long time,...
[14:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:08] <exec> 08└─Why is life so dismal?
[14:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 2651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:09] <exec> 08└─For a good time do some retrocomputing using the Hercules emulator running MVS/360 just like my Aunt was operating at the plant rapidly nearing half a century ago. The "Stuff" before and after is JCL which tells MVS/360 what to do. Its a gross simplification but its kinda like executables aren't lin...
[14:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 7381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:32] <exec> 08└─I would agree that Racket and Gambit are interesting. If you are interested in Scheme. There is also Chez Scheme, which was commercial, but then became open source. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.scheme.com [scheme.com] https://github.com [gith...
[14:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─Duh. "Or Azul's Zing -- which is a free binary build" I meant Azul Zulu. Zing is the one that runs on hundreds of GB of ram with up to 768 cpu cores.
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 4122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─THANK YOU I find my preferred editor is Brackets. Used to use Kate, still like it a bit better (NOTHING handles opening multiple projects/documents as well as Kate did), but I don't use KDE anymore and Kate was getting a bit buggy for a while anyway. Both are text editors with a few IDE features --...
[14:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─If by "legacy feature" you mean "something I still use on a daily basis in a non-ironic fashion," I guess. - a 27yo emacs user
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[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─People that have had more training do better at subjects that need training than those without training, good jorb there accademidian It's no wonder that education policy is screwed most academics need a bit or in most cases a lot more training themselves
[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:39] <exec> 08└─things: logic puzzles.art.socialization; learning how to interact with others in civil manner. Of course, we all know the real purpose of pre-school (and schooling at large): To provide a (usually government-funded) daycare, so that parents are free to earn tax monies for the State. That's why they...
[15:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─I think it is contrary to previous studies that showed informal "training" works better for younger kids. Not my field though.
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─There is a selection bias (i.e. only rich kids with smart parents go to kindergarten). They may attempt to subtract it, I only skimmed the paper. Nonetheless I see no estimate in the paper of systematic uncertainty/bias. They report statistical uncertainties only. I don't believe the systematic unce...
[15:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:57] <exec> 08└─The benefit with old window managers is that they use resources efficiently because when they were created you made the best use of them or have the machine stalling on swap. And they keep things simple, down to the business.
[15:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:59] <exec> 08└─Because a lot of the new hipster-designed interfaces frankly suck, which only drives the nostalgia even more for the UIs of old.
[15:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:01] <exec> 08└─I mean, OP literally said "good for Masson, but...".
[15:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:03] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind running this on my SGI 330 system. It was SGI's last attempts to make a Windows workstation which used a standard ATX case so I stuck a new power supply and an AMD board in it.
[15:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:05] <exec> 08└─I'll give you my FVWM [wikipedia.org] when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. In all seriousness though, it's amazing how tied to a particular desktop people will get, and then wonder why people are unwilling to leave behind their Mac or Windows. A million choices is what makes Linux, etc. both gr...
[15:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:08] <exec> 08└─The software can only be used on certain architectures: The limited license from Silicon Graphics, Inc. permits The MaXX Desktop to be deployed and executed ONLY on the following Linux platforms; x86, x86_64 and ia64.
[15:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:10] <exec> 08└─DWM is nearly as hard-core: Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.
[15:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:12] <exec> 08└─... Windows NT, Pentium, itanic... The rest, as they say, is history.
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder if these penetrate walls..? Maybe Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited could sell some 100 GHz semiconductors.
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:25] <exec> 08└─Current mode amplification is where its at. Any voltage dropped above zero is just wasted wattage. Not all the different from CPU cores, really. You could run a modern CPU at a core voltage of 5 volts like we did in the 80s, you'd just need a firehose of liquid nitrogen to keep the junction temps be...
[15:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:27] <exec> 08└─A whole lot of new applications could be created
[15:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─crypto currencies and block chain are being used for research, etc. there are coins for that. why are you running your mouth when you can't even be bothered to look through coinmarketcap to see what people are doing with these coins?
[15:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:44] <exec> 08└─These manufacturers are some dumb ass bastards. So sick of all of them(not just gpu manus). How many years does it take you to learn where your cards are going? Here it is 2017 and there are no cards sold for mining, and the gamer (maxXtreme4!!!!) cards are sold out everywhere. do these idiots sell...
[15:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:46] <exec> 08└─go work for a bank and fix their systems? are you trolling? they're lucky they aren't being bombed and shot! fuck the banks and their systems of usury!
[15:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:04] <exec> 08└─This will lead to better planning of activities, meals, and also better extraction of money from the guests.
[15:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 2260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─Walgreens had a customer service crazy about knowing customers on a first name basis. It seems like it's the latest cargo cult attempt at good service. Only problem like you noted is I didn't introduce myself to any of them except the pharmacy tech. So it's just weird. I mean, yeah, I recognize ever...
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─I could do without the illness. Passenger ships are such great ways to concentrate people and spread disease.
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─If we just spill some oil on it, won't this help kill it quicker and get it out of our way? Then we can get back to putting the coal miners back to work.
[15:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:51] <exec> 08└─Makes 7nm chips dirt cheap-- Raspberry Pi cheap.
[15:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:27] <exec> 08└─* a well-reviewed restaurant
[15:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─You going to need to start ending these with "dictated but not read". There is no way Trump read, let alone write, that much.
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─exactly, it's not just millennials. it's the fact that the internet makes it possible for people to learn that your "food" is overpriced poison. food manufacturers, grocery stores, etc are all figuring it out. That the awakening is happening amoungst consumers, though i still see people buying chips...
[15:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:32] <exec> 08└─Monsanto has them beaten at the source. I think they are also trying to patent photosynthesis so you have to pay them for using Oxygen.
[15:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:12] <exec> 08└─Pakistan is a bit away, no substantial report on Saudi Arabia having them, Iran isn't ready and Israel seems to not be that trigger happy. So while there is some small beginnings. There's yet be a race.
[15:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:14] <exec> 08└─around this!
[15:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:58] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where those spam messages get delivered directly to voicemail, by agreement with your carrier
[15:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:59] <exec> 08└─How are you getting to the $250?
[15:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─I didn't get a cellphone til 2011 (and I still don't drag it everywhere like most folks do) but yeah, even in this relatively short span ... the junk calls accelerated about 2 years ago. Suspect Verizon is filtering known bad numbers as I'll get spasms, then nothing for a long time. (I'd block them...
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─Eh I don't like that style of engineering. Intuition and gut feeling is for when you don't have hard numbers and results that work. Never toss out hard number that actually work and replace with feels.
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sick of typing a loop only to have the script fail because my editor decided it needed to throw in some extra loop closures for me. Who are these systems designed for? What coder is such an atrocious typist that typing a damn closing parenthesis is something that needs to be automated? All that...
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[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─As usual, we see a clueless Internet commentator unable to see through their own hindsight bias, tell everyone how obvious are the results of science. No, it isn't totally obvious that 'structured' nursery time is beneficial to children's cognitive development, hence the mention of those who believe...
[16:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─I read just the other day that if you take poor black kids and poor white kids with the same IQ score, then they have the same longitudinal probability of climbing out of poverty; the only thing that seems to matter is a person's intelligence. The following is becoming hard to deny: It's not the cas...
[16:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:00] <exec> 08└─The children should be playing with blocks, but that play should be structured in a way that naturally gets the child to focus on some aspect of critical or geometric thinking. Emphatically, children should not be forced to sit and listen to a teacher explain a shape's geometric characteristics. You...
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─Education research is the cesspool that spawned NHST in the 1940s (ie EF Lindquist). Sure enough this paper is filled with the usual misconceptions and even has a bunch of editorial comments still attached to the pdf.
[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is related to GP - a bit trollish. It might be true; however, IQ is correlated to how good the education i.e. the argument is circular. Also, citation needed.
[16:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─Before we carve out yet another big chunk of childhood and put the kids to work, other studies like that have also found that the head start disappears by 1st grade. At the rate we're going, we'll have parents sweating bullets flashing cards at 1 month olds telling them they'll never get into the ri...
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:09] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the comment saying that the problem is a lack of discussion in the original document about some of the potential bias? The mention of rich kids or whatever was to illustrate the value what wasn't being commented on. It's possible I am missing something here, I don't see how your point relates...
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:11] <exec> 08└─The children should be playing with blocks, but that play should be structured in a way that naturally gets the child to focus on some aspect of critical or geometric thinking.
[16:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:14] <exec> 08└─How else is the average 10 year old [youtube.com] going to have a basic understanding of calculus by stardate 41509.1?
[16:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:16] <exec> 08└─"[Citation]" is a lazy man's retort; here [blogspot.com], specifically here [pewtrusts.org]: Individuals with higher test scores in adolescence are more likely to move out of the bottom quintile, and test scores can explain virtually the entire black-white mobility gap. Figure 13 plots the transitio...
[16:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─See here. Right here. [soylentnews.org]
[16:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:20] <exec> 08└─What does outperforming mean in a school system that is propagandized as a failure yet is actually pretty top tier?
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─If you can imagine making tinier and tinier slivers, or getting closer and closer to some number, etc., then you can master calculus. Calculus is one of the most important branches of mathematics as far as modern civilization goes, and yet it sits very firmly within the realm of humanity's innate in...
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─The old stuff worked pretty well at the time, and let's face it - there hasn't been a huge amount of innovation since then that has improved the desktop in very meaningful ways. OSX was on a roll for a few years with a desktop that worked great for users, and from about Snow Leopard onward, have bee...
[16:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─Many sensors, especially analog ones, operate at millivolt and milliamp levels. The O2 sensors on your exhaust system, for example, give off a signal between 0.1 and 1.0 volts which is interpreted by the vehicle to determine the O2 concentration and adjust the air/fuel ratio or monitor the catalytic...
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─Isn't Carnival the cruise line that caters to alcoholics? Also, cocaine users. I took a Caribbean cruise once, and we hired a private driver at one of the ports of call. He did a lot of business like this with cruise ship passengers and had some interesting observations about them. Many, many passen...
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demonstrates 5nm Chip With Horizontal Gate-All-Around Transistors - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:21] <exec> 08└─Those scanning electron micrographs of the chip boggle the mind: it looks like IBM is digging out from under their silicon nanosheets and filling the gap with high-k metal gates. I don't know how you would go about that: these structures are indeed tiny but gravity still affects them. Not to mention...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─The marketing that worked for oldsters doesn't work for youngsters. Franchise chains are ok for hotels and burgers, but not eating out otherwise. Why? The struggle against boring is becoming more important.
[16:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:03] <exec> 08└─Hang out? When there's fifty big screen TVs blaring three different football games at full volume all day and night?
[16:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:05] <exec> 08└─Minarchism (a minimal State) is still statism; it's still based on coercion. Every time you establish a State that is more libertarian than the last version, you end up with a State that can be made yet more libertarian. When taken to the limit, one ends up with anarchy (no State), where the intera...
[16:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:07] <exec> 08└─Here I thought your 404 link was the whole point.
[16:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:10] <exec> 08└─I don't get the idea this is about money, it's a matter of shifting tastes. I'm middle aged, so not a Millennial, but I'm not a huge fan of those chains either, though I will from time to time eat there. You walk into one and you know exactly what to expect - and that makes it boring. Tastes change...
[16:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:53] <exec> 08└─http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24823846 [bbc.co.uk] No, nothing shows that Saudis have nukes, but a betting man would probably bet that they've got 'em.
[16:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:24] <exec> 08└─it wasn't cute. it was disgusting. stupid pig comes over to play good guy while interfering with people's day, family sucks up like crazy, kid leaves to try and continue wtf she was trying to do. dumb mom posts her bs to facebook. dumb ass posts it here.
[16:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:44] <exec> 08└─Be tempted by the dark side: check out GoogleFi with their $199 Nexus5x, $0.01/MB pay for usage data, and all the privacy invasion you can stand to configure. Verizon marketing acts like they are staffed by convicted rapists.
[16:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:35] <exec> 08└─Sarcastically speaking slightly off topic, the standardized admissions test of the future is going to be the student's parent's credit report and probably not much else.
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─In theory true but even if generally true there's a spectrum of it and Cisco for example used to have legendary good docs online AND I was personally involved at a company where Cisco Certs meant a price deduction on the huge bill, a deduction big enough that paying me to shitpost and play video gam...
[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─There are no obvious factual errors in Danny's reply to the best of my knowledge at this time. A very short answer to your very specific question in a limited sense is "yes" A longer answer to that specific question including plenty of low level implementation examples is at: http://www.braveclojure...
[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─Surprised no-one seems to have mentioned this, but I suspect a major reason for bad documentation of FOSS is boredom. To be sure, plenty of FOSS is written by paid developers, but lots of it is written 'for fun', and writing documentation isn't something many programmers enjoy doing. I don't see any...
[16:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:14] <exec> 08└─A nice IDE can be, well, nice. In fact, I'd say that they're commonly *too* nice. They molly-coddle you and make it trivial to jump through 16 levels of function calls across a dozen source files (or even components). And this is a problem in my opinion. A developer is not penalised for writing conv...
[16:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:16] <exec> 08└─This [objectcomputing.com] is an intro that I found useful as an into to Clojure, a long time ago. I think I remember an amusing YouTube video where Rich Hickey mentions running some cool core.async program on Azul's custom hardware with hundreds of cpu cores. I am excited to try Pixie Lisp on a Pi....
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[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─Jobs doesn't really even register on the radar of big ideas people. If you swing your dick around in silicon valley, even today, you are more likely to find a big idea person. And y'know what? The ones who aren't full of themselves, cash out early, and move on to the next project are probably still...
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:33] <exec> 08└─Great ideas are still there, but with current day societies (and obligations one has to them) it is virtually impossible to properly execute them in a timely manner. And the last alinea is a bit of market-liberalism BS... companies hardly do innovative development any more these days. They just iter...
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:35] <exec> 08└─No they aren't, come on. Stuff has been crazy for like two solid decades easily. I mean, a handful of examples, without getting into good/bad/right/wrong/etc: laptops, cellphones, tablets, self-driving cars, private space flight, ubiquitous GPS access. I think the problem is people remember the hits...
[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─Truly inventive work involves things that haven't been done before. To an extent, the fact that there are a few billion people with enough leisure time and education to do something "inventive" is making it harder to find unturned stones - back in the days of Newton, Pascal, Galileo, et. al. there w...
[17:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─Modern-day inventors—even those in the league of Steve Jobs—...
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─If you want to bend a socio-economic angle into the topic, it has always been hard for small-time inventors to be competitive with well resourced competitors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth comes to mind, but even in Eli Whitney's day and before, those with resources could usually ou...
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, WTF is this stupid article talking about? Jobs was never an inventor or any kind of dreamer or ideas person. He was a salesman. Jobs was exceptionally good at identifying good ideas that would sell well, and pushing his employees to refine the ideas in ways that would make them sell (and makin...
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:47] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Woz did the inventing and Jobs was but the hustler.
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:49] <exec> 08└─The same goes for Thomas Edison. Perhaps it is also harder to find bright people to exploit.
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─Daycare is the essential function with concrete pass/fail criteria, if they screw that up, they're busted - out of work. Education is a much softer goal, especially in early years - you can't take a single year's sample and determine whether or not the school is doing a good job, or they just got go...
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─Successful people mate with successful people and produce fairly successful people; people fall from the heights, others rise up, but one basic overriding aspect remains the same: Successful people mingle with each other, and there are various strata of successful people. What you and many people se...
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:18] <exec> 08└─A troll is someone who says silly things, especially things the troll knows are wrong, in order to provoke outrage rather than to foster discussion. Just because a statement raises the heckles of someone somewhere in the world does not make that statement "trollish"; it's impossible to make progress...
[17:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:21] <exec> 08└─First, get the term right. It's hackles, not heckles. http://www.dictionary.com [dictionary.com]
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─Social science is an oxymoron.
[17:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:25] <exec> 08└─All depends on how it is taught, I aced one semester of Calculus based on concepts, mechanics, doing the work, getting results. I took another semester of Calculus that was tested closed book, based entirely on memorization of large numbers of pre-computed integrals formulas, no instruction in the m...
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─You have a good point, but just as every time it has been made before you attach it to a false premise: that intelligence is an "innate qualit[y] of the child". It's not. IQ is not assigned at birth by genetics, unless you want to claim that the typical 18th century peasant would have the same IQ as...
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─Please. PLEASE. Read modern research on the matter; there is very clear evidence that genetics plays a humongous role in determining IQ. Obviously, you can hurt a person's IQ in the same way that you can stunt a person's height. However, you cannot make any random person taller by feeding that perso...
[17:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─Finland's approach is as far as I know more or less the Scandinavian approach. You can put your offspring into daycare from around the age of 1, they stay there to about 6-7 when they are transferred to basic elementary school (which lasts for 9 years), followed by another 3 years (upper secondary s...
[17:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─I too had a similar experience in uni. Had a really great calc I professor who taught the mechanics, let you bring a page of notes to a test, and got myself an A plus a great insight into the mathematics (Meaning I actually understood and learned the math). Contrast that to the idiot who taught calc...
[17:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:57] <exec> 08└─I find your post highly offensive, especially the part about Gnome3 being a "festering pile of monkey shit, truly". This is very offensive to both monkeys and their droppings. Monkey turds probably aren't even that smelly; it's the pure carnivores that have the worst-smelling shit, because of the hi...
[17:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─Why not instead put those resources into creating a new system that maybe borrows some of the few good ideas from that old system? Because no one will use it or join your project, that's why. Instead, they'll use garbage like Gnome3 and devote their resources to that, instead of helping with your pr...
[17:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─Yea, that was when I lost interest, the license. Restrictions on use are unacceptable. Which means it can't be packaged and put into repos so it will never be used. Period, full stop. I'm guessing this guy is maintaining this for a couple of diehard customers in Hollywood. Maybe one of the charnel h...
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─To all the monkeys and apes out there, I apologize. These software products are far worse than your shit.
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─Hey! Get back to curing cancer, slacker!
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─(crying with laughter) Why am I out of mod points.... My favorite is this: "If X and a pile of dog feces were about to be ran over by a bus I'd sooner risk my life to save the dog feces"
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─I would guess no. Airport full body scanners are millimeter and they cannot penetrate fleshy people.
[17:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─do you not understand that when you are the underdog you are supposed to look for any areas where you are competitive or could be and maximize that opportunity? because your upper management is so incompetent, people are buying nvidia cards for both mining and gaming because graphics cards manufactu...
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:41] <exec> 08└─I feel so sorry for them, having sold out their ENTIRE MANUFACTURED STOCK of GPUs. What a horrible position to be in, zero inventory, and 100% sold out. Wait...isn't that the goal for every company?
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─if it buys time until better ways are developed then it's good enough for me. i'm profitably mining because asics resistant coins exist and it's important to me financially.
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─the point is that an asics machine costs thousands and once a coin can be mined with an asics it pushes out the smaller miners. what is so hard to understand about that. yes, with gpus big players can still buy cards but so can the poor bastard with only $250 to spend. with an asics resistant coin,...
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─actually, right now mine are doing like $125 each card a month after the elec bill. $50 was from initial estimates but the price of the coin has gone up a lot since then.
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─Processing power will accumulate around the most successful operations. Decentralization will never result from the fact that Joe Miner can afford to run mining hardware, but rather from the fact that geopolitical considerations will always result in multiple successful operations dotting the plane...
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─It means you're missing out on sales.
[17:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:41] <exec> 08└─In case anyone else was wondering, "making bank" means acquiring a significant amount of money in a short time period [urbandictionary.com].
[17:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:45] <exec> 08└─Were I to guess I'd guess that it's because they have less free cash and less time.
[17:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcklspckl [830] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:47] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help when most "ma and pa" restaurants'/diners' menus consist of Sysco and Food Services of America. Each place has practically the same things which are arranged in a predictable form, i.e. chicken sandwich patty w/pickle and fries. I get practically excited now if I find my food really...
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[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─Anarchy is unstable. There have been a few pleasant genuine anarchies studied, but they tended to degrade horribly under stress. The others were more like war-lordism, which was usually even more unpleasant than feudalism, but which, after a period of warfare, tended to evolve into a dictator-ship w...
[17:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─See subject. The US is a consumer economy. Laborers are consumers. With labor being slashed up like a bunch of horny teenagers in a Jason Voorhees movie, your consumers no longer have what to consume *with.* Every greedy fucking C-suite exec can go to hell.
[17:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:53] <exec> 08└─I think it's important to note here that both the USSR and the Chinese Communists arose not from revolts against capitalism, but from revolts against feudalism, and that was probably a major factor in how they ended up. If you want an example of a successful revolt against capitalism, you have to lo...
[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─It sounds like Iran is in an isolated environment perfect for testing isolationist policies. We shall see how their economy fares without pressure from the global economy. Do they succeed without cheap foreigners undercutting their labor costs? Or do they fail without foreign markets for their surpl...
[17:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:38] <exec> 08└─Right, you can't judge American's by Trump just as you can't judge Iranians by Khamani. Main difference is Khamani has been there for 30 years, the US has at most 8 years of Trump.
[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─You're doing that "geek" thing again. There's at least 200 million VM boxes out there, and someone clearly sees that as a big enough market.
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[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 2698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is people remember the hits and forget about the gaps between. Music and movies and books and poetry are the same way, that's why people always complain modern stuff isn't as good. This just isn't true. There are rises and falls with different things, and the way the music indust...
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─Hasn't this always been the case? The lamentation of how all the good and easy ideas are already thought or invented. Now we just keep making derivative work and copies of other previously thought of things. That we are somehow stuck. I'm sure that happened before to. I'm fairly sure even Grog the c...
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─I know there are some who hate when I bring this up... but once again look at figure 2. The blue curve (their index of research efficiency) is basically the inverse of NHST adoption. This is the mass confusion predicted by Ronald Fisher: "We are quite in danger of sending highly trained and highly i...
[18:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─That was my Calc II experience exactly, except that I just stuck it out, got the D on my transcript, and forever had to convince placement counselors that, no, I am actually very good at math as you can see from my SATs, GREs and dozen As and A+s in other math courses, so could you please get over t...
[18:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─My uni experience was the reverse. The teacher for Calc I was an idiot that just droned on like he had been for the last 30 years or so, the persons that thought Calc II and III had to correct all his fuckups and put the students straight.
[18:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─Sometimes (many times?) failure rates in courses like Calc II are intentional to "thin the herd" heading into majors that require higher maths. Unfortunately, the way these weed-out courses are executed often has little correlation to actual ability in the topic. Sure, people who are less mathematic...
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 2476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─I find it quite curious that the argument linking intelligence to social success seems always to be made next to the argument that intelligence is genetically predetermined. This treads very dangerous ground, because "genetically predetermined" is just one mental leap away from "racially predetermin...
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─I guess they do that now. How else would they know that some kindergartners outperformed others? Which means that kindergarten is now more structured and formal than when I was that age. Back then, preschool (any preschool) was still something of a novelty. I guess it stands to reason that if kinder...
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:25] <exec> 08└─How about me saying that I make my leaving while using GNOME 3 and I like it. Sorry for not entering your group masturbation with old UI, I am actually caring about things that matter.
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─I get modded troll because I call out on joking about people who like GNOME 3 with a joke. Nice mod, yay for freedom of expression.
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─Owning your own FIB & electron microscope to patch chips for pleasure? -dbe
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─I have SMD gear. Honestly, I can't imagine what you'd do with wire-bond gear that would actually be useful, as a hobbyist. I guess the fact that I don't give two shits about ham radio (if I want to talk to people, I'll meet them in person; if I want to communicate over a long distance, I'll use the...
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─? at least explain it
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Gold and silver are worth something intrinsically. Buttcoins are not, and are evidenced by the CO2 from wasted electricity in their generation.
[18:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─That's true. He'd have to start his own implementation of MySpace at an ivy league school instead.
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─Colds do tend to spread in concentrated settings, but the cruise industry, in cooperation with regulators, is casting safe food handling issues as a passenger hygiene problem.
[18:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:47] <exec> 08└─are you high? pipelines leak like crazy all the time
[18:39:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02 - 06Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─"Seriously, why are all these "older people" blaming and shaming millennials for the problems the previous generations created?" I blame it on a stunning lack of self-awareness
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:54] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest trying to keep it to 1 really good one per thread. It tends to get redundant as the moderator noted.
[18:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:26] <exec> 08└─...but having the child run from the police is cute....
[18:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─Last time I bought a Real Phone, Virgin Mobile basically hijacked my bought-and-paid-for hardware. (Original provider bought by Virgin, and my phone's ID is lost in a crack somewhere so I can't transfer it to another provider. Virgin is all roaming here at $60/hour.) I only want it as a phone that's...
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[19:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:32] <exec> 08└─Just about every terrorist has been reported before, MULTIPLE TIMES. If I didn't know any better I would say that being reported as terrorist turns one into a terrorist. But the reality of the situation is a lot shittier, and that is there are tens of thousands people who have been reported as terro...
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─Ha ha. You think she's including herself in this removal of encryption? That's not how it'll work. "National Security Interests" and all that.
[19:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:35] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the problem of the security services is that the haystack is not big enough.
[19:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:38] <exec> 08└─This is Brexit for you. Yet another example added to already too many.
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:40] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you'd need to be dumber than snake mittens not to see this for what it is: a transparent, fascist power grab. She's worse than goddamn Thatcher.
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:42] <exec> 08└─What, you think the European Commission's position on this issue is better than hers? At least *she* stands for election and might in theory be voted out for her idiocy.
[19:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─Murika should have shown by now that the current issue in the modern arena is not so much the assumption that we're stupid. Just taking advantage of fear and complacency. It'll work.
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─> So if they can't keep tabs of the known people, how are they going to cope with a lot more people on the radar once they start snooping all the messaging on top of it? They can't and they won't. They won't and they won't care. The push for pervasive control has begun well before the terrorist/refu...
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:49] <exec> 08└─I'd take Thatcher over Labour any day. One's an asshole, but the other truly is a Fascist.
[19:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:51] <exec> 08└─What, you think the European Commission's position on this issue is better than hers?
[19:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─Well if only people would let her MAKE A SUCCESS OF BREXIT then she would have time to show STRONG AND STABLE LEADERSHIP. It's the annoying losers in Britain who hate themselves and use encryption just to spite her - they are ruining STRONG AND STABLE LEADERSHIP possibilities and threating the outco...
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I see it as either a BS excuse for power gain or just real honest stupidity. If removing all encryption was actually possible, only law abiding citizens would stop using it. The criminals would still find a way to use encryption. Even without encryption there are plenty of other ways to commun...
[19:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:57] <exec> 08└─This article jarred something loose in my mind that'd been awash in metric fucktons of bullshit for the last few years... All those people whining about "safe spaces" are just suckling from the same propaganda teats that want to ban encryption. It is funny how in American politics most people on bot...
[19:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─She's worse than goddamn Thatcher. Yeah? Well Trump is worse than Reagan, so we're even, ok? This is what the voters want. Let's learn to accept it, at least until you come up with something better than majority rule, which really has hit the brick wall.
[19:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─It seems that about 40-50 people have died due to terrorism in the UK since 2005 (52 died in the July 7th, 2005 attacks [wikipedia.org]). That small number of deaths is enough to push through broad new surveillance powers and waste time debating lame encryption bans. And you (Brits) pay for it.
[19:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:04] <exec> 08└─Just about every terrorist has been reported before, MULTIPLE TIMES.
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, Edison slaved in his workshop for years finding thousands of ways _not_ to make a lightbulb. Then he accumulated over 1000 US patents before he died. Surely the 1092 non-lightbulb patents were all direct fruits of his inventive thought, his personal experimental toiling, blood, sweat an...
[19:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 2852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─I humbly suggest my OneModel project, for taking how mankind managed knowledge, to the next level. Due to competing things I haven't got as far as I'd like, but it is a useful product now, and code and concepts are there, as are discussion and (very low-volume) announcements lists. Latest at the mom...
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 2402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to argue with the premise of the article, but I've thought about this in the past and have some points to add. I remember being a fresh face in tech during the first dot com boom and being really worried I'd miss the boat as all the good ideas would be gone and I wouldn't become a bill...
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─Not everything is "cultural construct". Sorry.
[19:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zafiro17 [234] 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─To all the monkeys and apes out there, I apologize. These software products are far worse than your shit.
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:42] <exec> 08└─The past participle of "to run" is "run": If X and a pile of dog feces were about to be ran run over by a bus, I'd sooner risk my life to save the dog feces.
[19:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─Denuvo is using the software under license, so the only real question is whether Denuvo's use is covered by that license, as written. That's what a judge is going to care about, anyway. We can make all the fancy analogies we want, but they're not really relevant.
[19:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:10] <exec> 08└─"Pakistan is a bit away" A bit away? Really? A little geography lesson for you. Pakistans westernmost province borders both Iran and the Gulf of Oman. "no substantial report on Saudi Arabia having them" The other poster gave you a link you might want to check. As I said, they might not have them, bu...
[19:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:15] <exec> 08└─Will need to run a double-blind test with North Korea...
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:06] <exec> 08└─I was on a flip phone with Verizon, but they were charging me something like $50/month just for "cheapest voice" service I could choose back in 2012. We switched to T-mo and got no-contract, smartphones with data and unlimited talk/text for the same price as Verizon. Did that for 2 years, then I cra...
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[20:35:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:48] <exec> 08└─Lets get rid of end to end encryption for politicians. Maybe once a few of them get their bank accounts drained they'll start to wonder if maybe they should first figure out what it is, what it does, and why it's important.
[20:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─But the reality of the situation is a lot shittier, and that is there are tens of thousands people who have been reported as terrorists.
[20:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:07] <exec> 08└─How many years was Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister? A) 900 years B) 3,000 years C) 11 years. Of course, they want you to say 11 years. And that makes me think that it must be A) 900 years. It was a very, very long time.
[20:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:09] <exec> 08└─May: I’ll rip up human rights laws that impede new terror legislation [theguardian.com] Just as well we're leaving the EU, then, or we wouldn't be able to do that since we'd be obliged to remain signed up to the European Court of Human Rights [coe.int]. Who needs Human Rights [coe.int]? I don't ne...
[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─Theresa May was talking about this stuff before Brexit, when she was Home Secretary. She was actually anti-Brexit, but she did want one specific bit of EU influence gone: the European convention on human rights [theguardian.com]. EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention [soylentnews.or...
[20:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:14] <exec> 08└─Your guardian link is newer than mine [independent.co.uk], but still check out my comment above. Maybe the EU will eliminate human rights faster than Theresa May can pull out? It's a race to the bottom!
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:16] <exec> 08└─Theresa May is a Tory. Tories are obsessed to the point of mania with cutting costs, especially in public services. Before she was made Prime Minister, Theresa May was Home Secretary, i.e. in charge of the Police. To cut costs, she cut the number of police officers by tens of thousands. The intellig...
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─Just imagine citizens classifying their own documents and communication "top secret" and arresting government employees for surveillance. Follow the leader.
[20:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─It seems that about 40-50 people have died due to terrorism in the UK since 2005
[20:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:23] <exec> 08└─Britain is a step or two ahead of the United States on the Orwellian scale. They have CCTV cameras everywhere, and the GCHQ monitoring every communication in that country. They don't even have to wipe their ass on a Bill of Rights to do it. So why isn't anyone in that country asking the obvious ques...
[20:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think the French will be that stupid. They won their freedom in a very hard way and are very protective of it. I know quite a few French people and talk to them daily about these things.
[20:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:27] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your comment, your time is up. You may step down from the podium, please. The adults in the room are trying to have a conversation RE: encryption. We don't need someone chiming in with their two cents and turning the conversation into a partisan 'damned libruls' rant. You and the PM ar...
[20:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─Automatic facial recognition (AFR) technology has been used to arrest a man, the South Wales Police told Ars. [arstechnica.com]
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:32] <exec> 08└─The EC has been pushed into backing down on it only to resurrect it again repeatedly, so no, I don't put any credence in their current official position of convenience.
[20:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 2738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─Trouble is that there are still people - and quite a few of them, at that - who think Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister we've had since Churchill. They are, of course, wrong; were some of the reforms she rammed through necessary? Yes, of course. But the way she got them enacted - and for some...
[20:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:36] <exec> 08└─All of the perpetrators in the latest 3 atrocities were known to security services.
[20:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:38] <exec> 08└─It is funny how in American politics most people on both sides have
[20:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─We're they just using SMS before?
[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─We killed it with regulations. It's now too expensive to start a small scale business. Most large businesses started as smaller businesses, but now you need far too much capital to start a new business. Innovation does not come from large corporations. Large corporations only want to make money, the...
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─FM radio, as a counter-cultural outlet, was credited with the shaping of the classic rock icons of the late 60s / early 70s. By 2001, the stations were "owned" to a point that John Lennon's "Imagine" was placed on a "Do Not Play" list following the September 11 attacks. The internet is even more "fr...
[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying: “It can’t be done,” are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.—Puck.
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─Wanking. Jobs would do fine.
[20:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─I know that it is trendy to shit all over Edison, but he was an inventor and a very meticulous experimentalist. The amount of detail in and the level of organization of Edison's laboratory notebooks is astounding. Also, the sheer volume of his notes showed his dedication. http://edison.rutgers.edu
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:14] <exec> 08└─Whiner, all you need to start a small business is a few people who are independently wealthy - not needing income for however long it takes to get the business going, and sufficient investment capital to do the startup activities. Increase your investment capital and you can even afford to pay some...
[20:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:16] <exec> 08└─Edison bought the method to obtain vacuum for better lightbulbs from our fellow Malignani in 1896. The same fellow patented an all-electric car capable of 18km/h and 60km autonomy in 1891. But I wrote to say that it's full of big ideas, mostly by lone inventors, mostly ending up in a drawer, because...
[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 3158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─The internet is even more "free" in the flow of information, music and video, but it's not a focusing influence the way an FM radio station used to be. Exactly; as I said before, the way the music industry works today is very different. Sure, there's tons of bands and musicians out there doing their...
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─Really everything will speed back up once someone comes up with an innovative way to generate innovative ideas efficiently. I can see the algorithm coming together now: Inputs: Currently unsolved problems, Currently solved problems, Constant feed of new proven technologies Outputs: Lists of potentia...
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─I thought the full-duplex radio [technologyreview.com] that came out of Stanford was pretty cool. E-ink still impresses me as something electronic that makes you think it isn't. There is also that low-tech mini-centrifuge [nature.com] that reaches 125,000 rpm. White LEDs for interior lighting are im...
[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─I don't have "the goods" on Glam Metal, but the Journey story (Arnel Pineda replacing Steve Perry) is a pretty strong example of cultural icons echoing around the globe - before he was discovered Arnel didn't just sing Journey songs, he was a huge fan and did great homage, but it's not a stretch at...
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[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, there are alternative methods of teaching basic calculus principles that can easily be understood by 10-year-olds today. The algebraic formulations may be too complex for the average 10-year-old, but geometric approaches can actually teach kids a lot, and with a surprising amount of rigor....
[20:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:41] <exec> 08└─yay for freedom of expression
[20:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:47] <exec> 08└─Even worse, this will completely ruin most of the plot of Titanic.
[20:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:21] <exec> 08└─In case anyone else was wondering, "making bank" means...
[20:42:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 3456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:59] <exec> 08└─There was an eerily prescient document laid out by all the big names during Bush's presidency called, Rebuilding America's Defenses [informationclearinghouse.info](PDF). The think tank behind this was Project for the New American Century [wikipedia.org]. That Wiki page has some notes on Rebuilding A...
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:14] <exec> 08└─but a betting man would probably bet that they've got 'em.
[20:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:45] <exec> 08└─Honestly, get over yourself :) It's a three year old. They're little escapists. Bath? Escape. Bedtime? Cry, scream, escape. Nap? See bedtime. Drawing conclusions about society from three year olds makes as much sense as determining the motion of the planets from grains of sand at the beach. I don't...
[20:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:47] <exec> 08└─Whether it is a slow news day or not, it's nice to have little breaks like this. I would think it would be hard to politicize it, difficult to be cynical about it, but everyone here proved you can still do it :P I know we like technical articles, and love articles about science without paywalled bs,...
[20:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:45] <exec> 08└─Michelson-Morley was 1887 when Einstein was 8 years old.
[20:45:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:31] <exec> 08└─That's a story the sociopathic rich tell themselves to excuse their actions.
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[21:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─Calling DannyB realDonaldTrump!
[21:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:34] <exec> 08└─... because I have a functioning brain that can fabricate decent definitions based on the context.
[21:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─The team say they have no evidence to link the growth of this rift, and the eventual calving, to climate change.
[21:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:38] <exec> 08└─Move along, move along. Back to the coal mines! Murrica!
[21:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─I mean here is a partial list of things related to climate change: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com [whatreallyhappened.com] Now that Trump is US president are we going to get endless news stories about how this or that is not related to climate change?
[21:35:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you'd need to be dumber than snake mittens not to see this for what it is: a transparent, fascist power grab. She's worse than goddamn Thatcher.
[21:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─So, super secret document it is then.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─lmao
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing is, I'm not even sure what side he was trying to claim it as a rant for. The cognitive dissonance and projections have gotten so ridiculously bad among people like that they all pretty much look like textbook cases of someone not capable of making such decisions for themselves.
[21:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:29] <exec> 08└─Interesting that The Economist endorsed the LibDems. I was mildly surprised, but not very, and I definitely see their point. Maybe it's time for the centrist labourites to split off from The Corbyn Party and talk to the LibDems about a renewed Liberal Party?
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, you mean like the SDP [wikipedia.org]?:-)
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─Corbyn? Head of State? I don't think that you're in any position to talk about people losing their marbles. For starters, in the UK the head of state is the crown. Unless you know something I don't about a republican revolution on the horizon, I think that's not a hot prospect. Odds for the next fiv...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Lord knows they can hardly do much worse.
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:12] <exec> 08└─I forget who "invented" it, but there's an old patent on a solar energy plant that works by covering acres with a funnel shaped greenhouse and running a turbine in the updraft of heated air. Hugely expensive to build, a little creative maybe, but nobody cared at the time so it didn't go anywhere. Th...
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─You didn't even have to read the article, just the summary, to understand that they're not setting up Steve Jobs as the paragon of inventors. That's why it's written as "even those in the league of Steve Jobs". As in, even the ones who aren't the "greats", like Steve Jobs.
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs was never an inventor, that's the whole point. He's not just not-the-paragon, he isn't even in that class. TFS tells me that they don't even understand this: "Modern-day inventors—even those in the league of Steve Jobs" Again, Steve Jobs was never an inventor. He didn't invent anything...
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:32] <exec> 08└─links dont work - not a good sign! and how come sourceforge is still around after their malware idiocy?
[21:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─Switchers FTW. Can you even buy a high volume produced amplifier that isn't class D anymore?
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─Something is either useful or its not. Clearly, at the moment, people find Bitcoin to be useful.
[21:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:20] <exec> 08└─Like tulip bulbs were, but in the end you could still eat those.
[21:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there ;) Right? No?
[21:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:20] <exec> 08└─You're probably right. I was hoping for a list with links to news articles showing when/where/what they infringed.
[21:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:13] <exec> 08└─On many carriers, calling your voice mail doesn't count against your minutes. And most non-basic plans have unlimited minutes ... which once again means it's the poorest who get shafted.
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[22:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:33] <exec> 08└─I can think of other things 100 times more important. Why the hard-on for AC? Oh that's me... *blush* :)
[22:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:34] <exec> 08└─Fridges are just air conditioners in a smaller box.
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:36] <exec> 08└─The Peltier effect was understood in 1834. With the application of electricity to it you have a solid state air condition circuit in 1834. Probably horribly inefficient and way too expensive, and I think material sciences needed 100 years or more to catch up and make efficient Peltier/Seebeck device...
[22:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03amlu [6052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher [wikipedia.org]
[22:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─varying humidity levels when trying to print in colour.
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, but what's interesting is that refrigerators came before air conditioning. See Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]. Fridges (the vapor-compression type we use now, not simple iceboxes) were invented in the 1830s, and the first practical ones in the 1850s, with commercial ice-making machines being in use...
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─You don't need the crappy Peltier effect for cooling air, you can use vapor-compression refrigeration just like we do now and like they did with the first A/C systems. Vapor-compression refrigeration goes back to the 1830s too [wikipedia.org], though it wasn't really used practically for another 15...
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that finds AC just makes me feel ill? I end up with inflamed sinuses, headache and other cold-like symptoms whenever I am in an air conditioned room for more than a few minutes. It is absolutely awful! Even in hot humid climes i found basic fans were good enough for comfortable tem...
[22:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:50] <exec> 08└─Why do you think the Peltier effect is crappy? The efficiencies they have now make it work. I'm just curious what you think is wrong with it.
[22:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─Does this explain why some AC environments are tolerable and some just strip the water from your eyes, throat and lungs? There's an interesting scene in a Leonard Bernstein documentary when he's brought in all these famous European opera singers to sing West Side Story in New York and they all fucki...
[22:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─Screw coal mines, let's get back to burning wood and dried cow patties. That's progress!
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─The thing that worries me is that it is winter in Antarctica. It has been getting colder for the last few months, and yet this rift is still growing.
[22:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─This is proof that fully grown ice berg... cows... are healthily reproducing on schedule. No global warming happening at all.
[22:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─Obligatory sci-fi clip.. dude, run! [youtube.com] Makes me wonder if this means that the global weather system is in for serious disruption.
[22:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─Possibly it's past the point of no return? Images captured by the British Antarctic Survey in February showed that the rift was quite wide and, while jammed with smaller bergs (growlers), the ocean under the ice shelf was clearly visible in places, so there may not be structure to keep the mass of t...
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[22:36:15] <exec> 08└─Global weather has already gotten a bit wonky and now we're on the brink of losing Earth's biggest heatsink. Shit is gonna go sideways, I hope we can cope.
[22:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─LOL AC thinks the enhanced powers would be used to go after terrorists. LOL the government likes those people. The enhanced powers would be used to go after people complaining about the government not protecting them, people noticing the government plan of demographic replacement. The enhanced power...
[22:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─She was actually anti-Brexit, but she did want one specific bit of EU influence gone: the European convention on human rights
[22:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─All those people whining about "safe spaces" are just suckling from the same propaganda teats that want to ban encryption.
[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:10] <exec> 08└─Having said that, Theresa May's proposal to deport terror suspects directly addresses this issue of perpetrators known to security services.
[22:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 5197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:12] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 > And of course, days later after that announcement you have attacks in London and on innocentz at pop starlet concerts. Innocentz? Just how innocent are these people, from bombers' point of view? We are dealing with asymmetric warfare here. On one han...
[22:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:51] <exec> 08└─If you swing your dick around in silicon valley, even today, you are more likely to find a big idea person.
[22:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:53] <exec> 08└─You can get your bot to write this garbage and I'll get my bot to filter it. While we get busy working on how to defeat eachother's bots. Sounds awesome!
[22:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:55] <exec> 08└─That's some cool shit bro. I also heard M&Ms is innovating a new color.
[22:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst your bubble but Jobs indeed invented the greatest thing: the persona of Steve Jobs the inventor! He was a con man and a ruthless, thieving bastard but people at large perceive him as the great inventor of the Universe, the Internet and everything within.
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:42] <exec> 08└─Day care in Australia is usually longer, even up to 6am to 6pm. Pre-school is meant (in the year before school) to be 600 hours in the year, roughly 9 to 3 for three day a week, or 8:30 to 4 for two days per week. Pre-schools expect children to be toilet trained, and usually 4 or 5 years old (fundin...
[22:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─But wire-bond? What do you need that for?
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't this going to fuck with the bats?
[22:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:30] <exec> 08└─So this line: an opt-in location service that lets you keep tabs on everyone in your group and shows you where they are at any time.
[22:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:31] <exec> 08└─Hi-tech? Woop-de-doo Basil. Let me know when they offer a usable internet connection.
[22:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:46] <exec> 08└─Funny, how there were molluscs millions of years ago, when there was massively more CO2 in the atmosphere that there is today.
[22:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:48] <exec> 08└─Their is financial incentives but they're going the wrong way. The Australian Government is providing massive funding ($1B) for a huge new coal mine inland from the GBR, which will export through a major expansion of a port in the middle of the reef. More runoff, more leeching, more degredation. Rel...
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[22:44:35] <exec> 08└─The parenthesis regarding salt [oxforddictionaries.com] was to indicate it was a non-serious comment.
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[23:35:27] <exec> 08└─VA Linux is dead, Jim.
[23:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:29] <exec> 08└─From an insider... It's not the software failing, it's the doctors and staff that's too fucking stupid to use it. Calling up tech support because you didn't know the tab key moves you to the next field burns through half an hour of wasted time.
[23:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:31] <exec> 08└─The VA is totally fudged up and has been for some time, we can assume their software is no exception. That said, moving from an open system implementing an open API to a closed system and a closed API doesn't sound like a wonderful idea for the long term. On the other hand if they are adopting the s...
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:48] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate AC so much? Soldiers died for your right to have AC 24/7, indoors and out. Think of the soldiers, damnit!
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 1743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─This is all true, though there's an even simpler summary metric: dew point [wikipedia.org], which is essentially a measure of absolute humidity. I've never quite understood why modern air conditioning systems don't adopt a "constant dewpoint" setting, particularly in humid climates, which would actu...
[23:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─AC has also been shown to increase worker productivity and was supposedly responsible for boosting US economic growth. https://link.springer.com [springer.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com [...
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:54] <exec> 08└─Steam engines were well developed by 1850. It was used in 1837 to drive ventilation fans. https://en.wikipedia.org(machine) [wikipedia.org] Having spent a good portion of my adult life in tropical climes I've found that lacking shade and a cooling ocean breeze, a ceiling fan works wonders....
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─25C isn't all that hot. Except when necessary to remove excess humidity, I rarely would put a home AC thermostat below ~25C. If you live in a climate where summer days consistently have highs of 30-40C and dewpoint is above 20C for long stretches, you realize the necessity for A/C to do more than si...
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with it but unless there have been massive improvements in efficiency in the past twenty years, phase-change cooling is more efficient.
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Beg to differ. Spend a summer in Oklahoma where the temperature gets up to 110-115F in the day and only cools down to 95F by the next morning. It is less than pleasant to sleep or work in.
[23:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─Just make sure you learn to swim and you'll be like the 1 eyed man in the world of the blind. It'll be a 1 eyed man's paradise!
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─The problem of explaining the catastrophic changes that is going to happen in simple terms... In simple terms when ice in a glass of water melts the water level does not rise it even goes down a bit because ice contract when melting. Then why are we worried with global warming...it is the planet is...
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─This isn't the bible buddy.
[23:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 704 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─> So if they can't keep tabs of the known people, how are they going to cope with a lot more people on the radar once they start snooping all the messaging on top of it? They can't and they won't. They won't and they won't care. The push for pervasive control has begun well before the terrorist/refu...
[23:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:19] <exec> 08└─I hear a hell of a lot of whining about people who want safe spaces for this, that or the other thing. I want my safe space because I was traumatised! Because I was oppressed! Because I was micro-bullied with micro-aggressions! Because Peter Thiel is still alive! Waaah! Or maybe that beanbag-and-leg...
[23:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─Modern-day inventors—even those in the league of Steve Jobs—...
[23:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:03] <exec> 08└─It was always hard, but in any field as the field is developed it's harder to find something that someone else hasn't already found. At any point in time there are only a finite number of plausible next steps. Occasionally a "next step" will open up a huge new raft of next steps, but those are unpre...
[23:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─When Nikola Tesla came around it became obvious where the genius were.
[23:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:07] <exec> 08└─symptomatic of an industry where the most powerful figures are no longer music fans or people with musical backgrounds, but business people.
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─AI has some fundamental problems. Think of it as a landscape of mountain tops. If a optimization for the X,Y position with the highest top is sought then it will find the nearest top. It kind of gets stuck there in different ways. While a human can realize there are other higher tops without trying...
[23:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─Someone here mentioned the importance of calculus and how we should teach that to 10 year old. Fuck that. Calculus is a relic from a pre-computing age.
[23:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─That pupils outperformed peers in academic subjects may be an incomplete picture. Do they outperform others in creativity? awareness? wisdom? Not everything is measured using academic performance.
[23:39:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 1003 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─I find your post highly offensive, especially the part about Gnome3 being a "festering pile of monkey shit, truly". This is very offensive to both monkeys and their droppings. Monkey turds probably aren't even that smelly; it's the pure carnivores that have the worst-smelling shit, because of the hi...
[23:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─They're honestly only comparable to Microsoft Bob, clearly the source of inspiration behind both Gnome 3 and Windows 8/10.
[23:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:21] <exec> 08└─"Sold out" isn't just a boolean - it's a float. You can be "more" sold out than another sold-out product. You want to have produced exactly enough to fulfill demand (or at least, demand at the price point that brings you the most profit). For ever person that would buy one, but can't, they're leavin...
[23:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:22] <exec> 08└─Moreover, there is no such thing as "resistance" to ASICs; sure, the algorithm used by Ethereum means that the dedicated ASIC hardware is more expensive to make than similar hardware for Bitcoin, but guess what? That just means that only the large, deep-pocketed organizations will be able to afford...
[23:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:48] <exec> 08└─Start by imagining a smart home, decked out with sophisticated tech and sensors. But instead of a residence for a few people, it can handle 3,560 guests at any time. That's exactly what Carnival has done with the Regal Princess
[23:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Tech on the High Seas: Carnival Cruise's Smart Makeover - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:50] <exec> 08└─Do you also remember all those times the characters removed their comm badges to opt out of location tracking? On duty personnel carrying tracking devices while on duty, truly shocking.
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