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[00:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:57] <exec> 08└─As far as actual facts go, the people of the US voted Trump in and they are the ones who should be punished for it.
[00:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:58] <exec> 08└─Do as I say, not as I do. It would be interesting to learn how many elections around the world the US has NOT meddled in. Bipartisan support, eh? That is also interesting. I thought the R's were denying everything. So, now everyone admits that Russia was involved in our elections, except for the Tru...
[00:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:01] <exec> 08└─Alright, you don't like Americans. You especially don't like Americans who disagree with you. We get that. Now - do you have ANYTHING to contribute to the discussion? No? Oh well - you do have the right to babble meaninglessly.
[00:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:03] <exec> 08└─You're gonna try and tell me we don't try to meddle in other country's elections? Quite frankly, I hope to hell we do. The Russians hacked the DNC servers? Really? They had to get in line, from what I've heard it wasn't that hard to do. I'm guessing there were a few dozen hacker/hacker groups around...
[00:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:05] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I didn't vote Trump in. I voted HRC out. The choice sucked ass, I did the best I could. Not regretting my vote at all, even though Trump is turning out to be worse than anyone ever thought he would be.
[00:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:07] <exec> 08└─It all feels like one big setup. The executive branch has consolidated more and more power, will Trump be the Duterte and Erdogan of the US? Will the citizens let them get away with it? Or is it all really just a big giant shit show? Rhetorical questions, but feel free to discuss.
[00:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:10] <exec> 08└─My opinion? Trump doesn't have the support to become dangerous. Nor does he have the smarts to be dangerous. At worst, he can muck up the machinery some, but he can't really damage it. I think Richard Nixon was a lot brighter than Trump, and he most definitely had more support than Trump. But, Trick...
[00:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:12] <exec> 08└─To reply to my own comment, was on the phone with a friend. He pointed out that if the payoff for being bad is high, and the chance of getting caught is low, and if caught the penalties don't matter, then bad behaviour will happen. I should make that a sig somewhere, except I don't use sigs anymore....
[00:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should punish people from Norway or Australia or some other random country? Apparently the mind of your average American is so weak that it can be swayed by... postings on the internet? ...infomercials? ...alternate facts? Come on! The people of the USA got exactly what the majority of them...
[00:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:28] <exec> 08└─It's also worth noting that according to reports, the fire alarms didn't work. So it's very likely that people on the upper floors didn't realize what was happening until it was too late and the only exit route, a staircase in the middle of the building, was burning.
[00:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:30] <exec> 08└─The residents were apparently also threatened with defamation lawsuits for their campaigning.
[00:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:32] <exec> 08└─Also a heat proof, smoke proof room with 6 hours worth of oxygen tanks. And guns to protect yourself from neighbors. Might as well keep gold coins in case the currency crashes. Fuck it, put it underground with 20k cans of tuna and salted beef and camo gear.
[00:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:34] <exec> 08└─Were it not fire proofed? I think the blockage is likely being smoke not fire. But who knows with these incertitude managers.
[00:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:36] <exec> 08└─Being able to climb out on the non-smoked outdoors through the balcony does improve the odds to survive for a very small cost. The same goes for a face mask with breathing filter to enable running through smoke filled areas like the exit stairs etc. Taking responsibility for ones own safety when the...
[00:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:38] <exec> 08└─Remember folk, we don't need those intrusive regulations. Who cares about fire safety when it only affects poor people [standard.co.uk], or poor artists [wikipedia.org]?
[00:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:41] <exec> 08└─Last board meeting on 2016-09-29 [kctmo.org.uk] (1.54 MB PDF) shows on page 10 who is on the board. And here's the executive team [kctmo.org.uk].
[00:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:43] <exec> 08└─Remember folk, we don't need those intrusive regulations.
[00:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:45] <exec> 08└─On their personal properties, perhaps?
[00:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:47] <exec> 08└─No one said anything about having the government run the place. If you don't understand the incredibly obvious point about regulation, and the need for regulation to prevent these problems, well then you're a bigger idiot than I thought. Oh! I'm sure you always wanted a fancy medieval lord sounding...
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Soup Nazi" Company (Soupman Inc) Files for Bankruptcy Following Executive's Tax Evasion Indictment - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:28] <exec> 08└─Al Capone's story is enlightening. The man got away with all kinds of illegal activities, for which he was never convicted. But, he was convicted of tax evasion. Don't mess with the IRS or any other agency's money. When it comes to taxes, the government has super-judicial powers, and extra-judicial...
[00:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02 - 06U.S. Congressman, Aide, and Law Enforcement Officers Shot in Virginia - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is why he's being called a "gunman". The rule seems to be that non-muslim white guys who shoot people are "gunmen", non-muslim black or latino guys are "gang members", and all others are "terrorists". Gunman has a bit of a Wild West ring to it, surprisingly neutral in connotation...
[00:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─>Simple fix: send the signals out of the state and back! Simple, and almost certain to get the inmate in terrible trouble. Call forwarding is strictly forbidden in every facility I've heard of and the regulations are viciously enforced. You can end up in the hole for eight days, four of them on 24-h...
[00:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─But wait, there's more! Those phone vendors with exclusive (monopoly) contracts pay a "commission" to the prison. If you're a warden, just award the phone contract to the company with the worst rates, and you get a stream of money for your budget independent of what the legislature doles out to you.
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─Not only that, when they get out it will be critical to their re-integration to have live family ties. Simply as a public safety thing the phone calls to family should be charged at market rates at most.
[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─Correct. I don't feel like spending the time to dig up citations now but there's plenty of empirical evidence that recidivism goes down when connections to the outside go up.
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:37] <exec> 08└─I haven't been hit with any ransomware yet. Why am I always left out? :( That other bug that was reported recently about navigating to C:\$MFT\123 or whatever also did not seem to have any effect, presumably because I run FAT32.
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loneliness Contributes to Self-Centeredness for Sake of Self-Preservation - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's hard to make friends when you're superior to everyone else. We're nerds. We understand.
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Backup Life on Earth Ahead of any Doomsday Event - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:17] <exec> 08└─How many angels can dance on the point of a needle? And, how many people give a damn? Sophistry is sophistry is sophistry.
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Backup Life on Earth Ahead of any Doomsday Event - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─You are confusing medieval theological metaphysics with modern epistemology and philosophy of science. Ignorance is ignorance, and ignorance. There is a vast difference between sophistry and philosophy. I could explain it to you, if you are interested.
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[01:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:10] <exec> 08└─> Trump is turning out to be worse than anyone ever thought he would be Not really. What makes it worse is the majority of both houses.
[01:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:12] <exec> 08└─I gotta tell you, I kinda disagree. Trump is not nearly as bad as I expected. No, no... I didn't vote for him. I don't even really hate him. Then again, I don't really hate anyone.
[01:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:14] <exec> 08└─The people of the USA got exactly what the majority of them wanted.
[01:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:16] <exec> 08└─Those emails should have been available to the public anyway. Also, it was the choice of the American people how to respond to the contents of those emails; it wasn't Russia's fault just because they chose to respond in a particular way. But at the same time, our security is terrible, and that's con...
[01:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you are so fucking high all the time you can't be bothered to hate anything (which is not entirely a detraction). Trump is worse than anyone could've imagined, including Trump. What part about the complete fucking clusterfuck Trump is orchestrating right now *doesn't* bother you? I find...
[01:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:21] <exec> 08└─This legislation won't go anywhere. If the House passes it it will get vetoed, and Congress won't have the spine to override a veto.
[01:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:23] <exec> 08└─What part about the complete fucking clusterfuck Trump is orchestrating right now *doesn't* bother you?
[01:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:25] <exec> 08└─Unless you believe that nearly 1/3rd of all illegal aliens in the U.S voted for HRC
[01:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:28] <exec> 08└─So the fuck what? It doesn't matter if theft is happening everywhere, you still seek justice! We have an illegitimate President that won't release his tax returns, or do jack diddly shit to eliminate his MASSIVE MASSIVE conflicts of interest. He is not a lawful person, uses lawyers as weapons, and w...
[01:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:30] <exec> 08└─Oh, wow... I don't think we're gonna have a productive conversation on this subject. I really don't. I will say, to ensure clarity, I am not a Trump voter. No, no... I'm on the crazy left side of the spectrum. I will try to show you why we can't have a productive conversation. Ready? You just told m...
[01:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:54] <exec> 08└─No one said anything about having the government run the place.
[01:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Clean Inside the LHC - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:21] <exec> 08└─Take some iron (Fe), arrange in a wheel pattern, and you get a Fe wheel.
[01:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:44] <exec> 08└─I dunno, its not outrageous enough to be a decent troll. Reeks of teenage idealism and naivety.
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─Not according to Google. The percentages are much lower, abiut half for Feds and it looks like about 16% for State.
[01:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─What do you recommend for email?
[01:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:40] <exec> 08└─There were some ways to get USB support in NT4, with varied amounts of success. Not that it'd have done you any good, but it was possible even though I don't recall MS ever supporting it. We used some sort of card and software combination. Buggered if I can recall the name ;-) No, this is not someth...
[01:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:42] <exec> 08└─Huge Opera fan here. As in, since the days when we had to pay for it. It sucked, from v. 15 to v. 23, and by v. 25 it was not bad. It's pretty good, now.
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[02:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:19] <exec> 08└─Lolz. Come on little guy, I am sure there is still a toy somewhere in your cot you have not thrown out because mummy told you its time to move up the big big boy bottle for your feed.. As far as I can see (from, thank god, not america) HE IS SIMPLY CARRYING ON THE PROUD TRADITION OF THE US PRESIDENC...
[02:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:20] <exec> 08└─Ohh, fuck you. There has been ZERO evidence of wide spread voter fraud. One or two incidents doesn't get you to the 2.5 million required for Trump to have won the popular vote. Every single time they spend millions looking, they come away with maybe one example out of literally millions and millions...
[02:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:23] <exec> 08└─Hmm, is your 'friend' Scott Adams? Because his post today was on exactly that subject. That exact quote is in a pullquote box.
[02:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:25] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there video evidence with a top level DNC staffer admitting to conspiring to enable voter fraud? Oh... that doesn't count though, because, reasons! *plugs ears* NO EVIDENCE!!!
[02:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, I voted for Gary Johnson. I couldn't stomach either HRC nor Trump, even though Gary had 0% chance of winning. We are not being run by Russia. Russia can barely run their own country, let alone some shitstain like Mexico. Or the US. We are being run by the nutjobs on the right, and the nutj...
[02:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:29] <exec> 08└─You seem angry, I just pointed out that they did find around 1/3rd of illegal immigrants in a number of Virginia districts had cast ballots. Don't you think the sanctity and security of electoral systems matter?
[02:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:32] <exec> 08└─I will say, to ensure clarity, I am not a Trump voter. No, no... I'm on the crazy left side of the spectrum.
[02:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:34] <exec> 08└─The bill was passed with an easily veto proof majority. If Donald was a strong leader he might be able to shift the sentiment into his favor, but I don't think he is enough of a leader to accomplish that.
[02:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:36] <exec> 08└─This weeks bogey man: illegal aliens. Next up, seniors followed by millenniums and then "people that don't believe in the same sky daddy that I do".
[02:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:38] <exec> 08└─Dunno, not sure what websites he visits. But seeing the Scott Adam's website I'm all "um, err, I'm an idiot". That said, I first heard the quote some 40 years ago. Then again, had George not said it I would have never made the connection.
[02:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:41] <exec> 08└─The State Department's preferred term is "political renovation".
[02:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:43] <exec> 08└─If we want to sanction Russia for Crimea / Ukraine that is one thing, of course we already did that. But this Russia! Russia! Russia! nonsense is getting out of hand. Can someone explain in an elevator speech what Russia is actually accused of doing? Something serious? Because best I can figure out...
[02:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:45] <exec> 08└─I can't tell the difference in how they behave, or their mental stability. Not to mention, Trump is fond of dictators. Lemme see.... oh yeah... Trump has talked and joked about killing/imprisoning the press. I could go on, but yes, there are striking similarities between Trump and Little Kimmie. The...
[02:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:48] <exec> 08└─That is the magic of the Internet at work. Meme magic; Kek is smiling.
[02:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:50] <exec> 08└─That is evidence of an attempt, not a success. Subtle difference perhaps. If they was a success, this man would be in jail awaiting trial and we would be talking more about it. There has been ZERO EVIDENCE of any widespread success in voter manipulation, until you include gerrymandering, and that is...
[02:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:52] <exec> 08└─You CANT prove that we are NOT being run by Russia
[02:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you can go fuck yourself with the childish character attacks. There was literally nothing in your response to me of substance. All that matters is that high level people in our intelligence community have informed of us that it has happened, a leak of top secret material has confirmed it, and...
[02:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 2157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:57] <exec> 08└─I have stood guard while children risked death, just to get food aid from the UN. I have been in Somalia, while enlisted and as a civilian. The second time was for the same reason, to help. I have met actual armed members of the now defunct FARQ. I have changed the diaper on a child who had no chanc...
[02:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:59] <exec> 08└─It is just a rumor without evidence. It is a violation of privacy, violation of the civil rights of illegals to vote, whatever it takes to ensure there is never a full investigation that might produce evidence. This is all entirely coincidental. Nothing to see here, move along. It is illegal for ele...
[02:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:24] <exec> 08└─It was an old building. Before sprinklers. The building infrastructure couldn't have handled the weight of water in sprinklers had they been installed. But Jeebus, watching that thing burn like a pile of wooden pallets at a beach party? What's This Feature? This needs to be a lesson learned and othe...
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Soup Nazi" Company (Soupman Inc) Files for Bankruptcy Following Executive's Tax Evasion Indictment - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's telling that a decade or so ago Trump sued the NYT for libel after they published a story with people close to him claiming his net worth was only a few hundred million. But, IIRC the lawsuit was dismissed partly because Trump refused to produce records actually showing his true net worth...
[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Soup Nazi" Company (Soupman Inc) Files for Bankruptcy Following Executive's Tax Evasion Indictment - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─Normally, I would side with Trump about him keeping his wealth private. However, not when he wants to be my President. The most damning part of it all, is that he strongly supports the accusation that he must hide how much he is worth due to megalomania. To this day he can't admit that his inaugurat...
[02:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber CEO Taking a Break - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:39] <exec> 08└─Uber was designed to route around existing regulations and laws (kind of like AirBnB). On one hand, this allowed them to make taxis look like dinosaurs and reduce fares. On the other hand, there is little to no transparency in their pricing algorithms and drivers and executives alike have been arres...
[02:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Need More Cobalt - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:34] <exec> 08└─late to the party, just looked up the spot metal price for Cobalt -- http://www.infomine.com [infomine.com] over the last 12 years it's mostly been around USD $10 - $15/pound with a spike in 2008 up to $50/pound. Current price $26/pound and futures are rising...
[02:38:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06USA's Cyberwarfare Failure - 1536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:41] <exec> 08└─This is direct evidence of the lack of value in censorship. Censoring things doesn't make them disappear. It doesn't make people stop believing them. It doesn't even meaningfully change outside acceptance. It could even have a paradoxically positive effect on outside perception. The key to combating...
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[03:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:52] <exec> 08└─Since it has not cleared its orbit. It has more trash than Pluto.
[03:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:54] <exec> 08└─My understanding of the idea of "clearing the neighbourhood" (which has been quantified in several different ways) is weak. On Wikipedia I read that satellites are excluded from the criteria. Whether Charon is counted as a satellite of Pluto for that purpose, I don't know. The barycentre of the Plut...
[03:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:56] <exec> 08└─Dude, let it go. I can understand why some people feel the new definitions are unnecessary, but I'll never understand this irrational affection for Pluto.
[03:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:58] <exec> 08└─Some other TNOs [wikipedia.org] cross Neptune's orbit (sort 'q' column ascending. Centaurs [wikipedia.org] can cross past Saturn, making their orbits unstable and short-lived. Huya [wikipedia.org] is a named dwarf planet that crosses Neptune's orbit.
[03:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:01] <exec> 08└─I assume they meant two previously undiscovered moons? Or maybe two previously unknown moons? Or perhaps even just "found two new moons." Whatever they are, I don't think we can call them "undiscovered moons" now. [/pedantry]
[03:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:03] <exec> 08└─GP is Setsuna Meioh.
[03:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:49] <exec> 08└─You're not actually all that good at reading comprehension. At no point did I say I didn't mind it. I said that he wasn't as bad as I expected him to be. I also said that I don't hate him. If you can't be intellectually honest with yourself, you sure as hell won't be honest with me.
[03:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:50] <exec> 08└─"And it is really hard to discern a compelling reason to poke the bear like this." To keep the population alarmed and distracted, of course. It's always the same reason.
[03:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:53] <exec> 08└─You can't expect everyone to have the same level of emotional reaction. Trump is terrible and the GOP is green lighting some of the worst stuff because trump is dumb enough to go along. However, this is nothing new. Rights eroding, public services defended, par for the course really. KGIII has a ver...
[03:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm shocked that that much of the building was able to catch on fire. Around here there are rules about having firebreaks in highrise buildings. I used to work security in one years ago and they had a firebreak every few floors. So, the standard fire drill involved exiting via the fire-doors...
[03:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:13] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why the logic of just about every other Commerce Clause case in the past 75 years doesn't apply here. Wickard v. Filburn was based on the notion that even stuff you grow on your own land affects the "market" for everything around you. That's generally how Congress gets around "int...
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need More Cobalt - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:32] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to support the Cobalt we already have, but aren't business trying to move away from that language?
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[04:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:50] <exec> 08└─Bake the backdoors directly into hardware. Fuck those open sourcers up their penniless asses!! Fucking poor people. Google is God.
[04:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:51] <exec> 08└─Why are Apple's custom ARM chips so much faster than the competition? Is it just because they focus on single-threaded while Samsung Exynos, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Mediatek Helio, etc. try to cram in 6-10 cores? What is this specific designer going to reveal to Google or anybody else that couldn't be...
[04:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:04] <exec> 08└─Have a look at this: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] It quantifies what is meant by "clearing the neighbourhood around a planet's orbit". No planet can ever fully clear its orbital zone, because gravitational and radiative interactions are inevitably going to push asteroids and comets a...
[04:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:54] <exec> 08└─Hahaha, and boy, ARE they going to get exactly what they wanted! Wringing one's hands about the electoral college won't fix it either. The system worked as it was intended. It was designed so that the country couldn't be overruled by the cities. I voted for HRC, but now that I'm over being frightene...
[04:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:55] <exec> 08└─Will the citizens let them get away with it?
[04:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:24] <exec> 08└─It's not weird, that's standard procedure in highrise buildings. If you can feel the door knob and it's cold, you can crack the door and if there's no smoke you can make your way to an exit. Otherwise, the safest thing to do is to shelter in place and put a blanket or similar out the window to let e...
[04:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:25] <exec> 08└─Even if that's not the case. If one asshole on a smoke filled floor leaves the door to the stairwell open that makes it impossible for anybody above that floor to exit the room. Bottom line here is that your best bet is to just remain in place if there's any reason to believe that the fire is on you...
[04:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─The sprinklers would have made a difference, but they weren't retrofited in part due to cost and in part due to what you said about the structure not being able to support it. The sprinklers would have been great, but the bigger issue here is the apparent lack of firewalls within the building. I don...
[04:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:29] <exec> 08└─Good luck doing that from 5 or more stories up. At a certain point, you just have to be able to trust that people are going to be regulated in a way that prevents things like this from happening. It's just not practical to keep all the buildings to a few floors. Personally, I'm on the second floor o...
[04:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─No sprinklers was my first thought. Do you have a reference about the weight of fitting them to an older building? I'm sure I've seen sprinkler upgrades on some older buildings in USA -- expensive, but required to meet codes so they were installed. The Guardian has an interview with a fire protectio...
[04:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:34] <exec> 08└─See new thread which starts with a note on sprinklers -- the main part of the fire was foam insulation retro-fitted to the *outside* of the tower. Stepping out on a balcony (if there were any) would be instant incineration when the foam is burning. Foam might be up to a foot thick in some cases, not...
[04:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─The outcome may have been different had it been appealed to the Supreme Court. But since the new government just gave up on the case, we won't know.
[04:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need More Cobalt - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:47] <exec> 08└─... Crikets ..
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[05:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:00] <exec> 08└─Is trying for a flyby.
[05:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:22] <exec> 08└─These additions are also about 1-2 km in size...
[05:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:24] <exec> 08└─Point your telescope at it.
[05:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:15] <exec> 08└─I found this interesting, informative, and insightful, and so I figured an anonymous reply would do your post more justice than a single-point mod....
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:17] <exec> 08└─My opinion? Trump doesn't have the support to become dangerous. Nor does he have the smarts to be dangerous.
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Clean Inside the LHC - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─No. No.
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[06:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe if coal were discovered in the moon, Trump would make the moon great again. Until then, let's watch the Chinese videos of something actually getting done.
[06:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:08] <exec> 08└─Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm ... lag considerably behind Apple's SOCs.
[06:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:10] <exec> 08└─Almost all of the general purpose benchmarks in that article show the A10 to be faster than the SD 821. One by as much as 126 percent. The only ones that contradict this is the C test which is so specific and tuned in favor of the Snapdragon as to be completely worthless. The bottom line is that the...
[06:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:12] <exec> 08└─Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm ... lag considerably behind Apple's SOCs.
[06:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Used to Predict Locust Plagues - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:02] <exec> 08└─Insects as food was my first thought, too. But why only for export? We might change our own eating habits. Locusts (and some other insects) are supposedly quite tasty and have a high nutritional value. The could probably fully replace meat with a much lower CO2 footprint, less water-consumption, eas...
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[07:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:43] <exec> 08└─I notice that many of the Fine Articles posted on SoylentNews were never in the queue. Are the editors ignoring community submissions in favor of their own conception of what SN is all about? Inquiring minds want to know. We could just quit submitting, if it doesn't really matter.
[07:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:44] <exec> 08└─I notice that many of the Fine Articles posted on SoylentNews were never in the queue.
[07:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:04] <exec> 08└─Why are Apple's custom ARM chips so much faster than the competition?
[07:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:05] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think it'll be differently evil.... A few years ago a friend who then worked for Google on Android showed me a new Android tablet. I looked at it a bit, said, "it's nice, where's the memory card slot?" His answer was that they wanted to leave some functionality for other manufacturers to buil...
[07:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 2062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:08] <exec> 08└─Almost from the very beginning, the main difference between the iPhone and Android has been how the software on the iPhone is perfectly in tune with the hardware as opposed to Android where the makers of the software (Google) often have no idea what it'll end up running on. This has been Android's a...
[07:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:10] <exec> 08└─No, they don't; in fact, Apple's processors sort of suck in comparison to Snapdragon. See here: http://www.androidauthority.com [androidauthority.com]
[07:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:50] <exec> 08└─The "landlord" was the not-for-profit Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation [wikipedia.org] created to manage a huge amount of properties, apparently all "council housing" of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the local government. So the government ran the place.
[07:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:51] <exec> 08└─Poor people live there. That limits the options. If well-off people lived there: a. Put on SCUBA gear, get a "space blanket" (metalized plastic emergency thing) for heat reflection, and make a run down the hallway. b. Jump with a parachute. You'll need to be near the top, and you'll want BASE jumpin...
[07:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:53] <exec> 08└─Sprinkler policy in the USA is crazy. I can see having them if you are storing a huge pile of coal. For a building? Why would you rely on a complicated failure-prone mechanical system when you could just choose stuff that won't burn? I saw this done to Olsen Hall in Lowell, MA. The building was abou...
[07:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 2771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─You've probably nailed why there were so many deaths. The building had 24 floors, and only one staircase. It is reported that the fire started on the 4th floor. The 'stay put' policy is the only sensible policy that could be offered, as trying to evacuate residents down the single staircase while fi...
[07:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:51] <exec> 08└─No prisoner should be able to contact any person who has ever been convicted of a crime or any person who is currently charged with a crime. Yes, this requires sound-proof doors and ventilation ducts. Prisoners should be able to talk to lawyers and prison staff. Anything else invites trouble, but we...
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[07:37:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and I really don't understand why it has such a small following. I've been using it since 1998 or so (IIRC) - I don't remember version numbers, but the per-site control of cookies, javascript, etc., is awesome. I used to talk about it on the green site and I got verbally smacked down. I know I...
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[08:31:52] <exec> 08└─What makes you say that?
[08:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:01] <exec> 08└─你的情况如何？我是个土豆！
[08:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:17] <exec> 08└─I just hope when Google is finished whatever they're doing and come out with something that it'll still be easy to unlock the bootloader, and make custom ROMs. For the current crop of Snapdragons, my understanding is it's more or less easy depending on how much extra effort the OEM puts into securin...
[08:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:33] <exec> 08└─Some of us aren't going to give up easily, princess.
[08:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:27] <exec> 08└─Bingo. And the reason behind it? Because the middle is emotional, egotistical and lacks conviction. It has the biggest number, but it is always looking for someone to give power. And it has no regard for who is using that power, even though it is a mathematical certainty that all power is always use...
[08:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:29] <exec> 08└─before punishing others of alleged meddling.
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[08:34:07] <exec> 08└─When it was built, UK building codes were probably a great deal more lax. As for sprinklers, of weight of water is an issue, would it not at least help if the escape routes had dry plumbing for sprinklers and the firefighters could 'simply' attach a pump and supply water at ground level to the empty...
[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a typical government exercise in the absence of accountability: cronyism and corruption; ignoring/bypassing existing regulation; private profit, public loss; and the best connected get the best deals. Maybe this disaster will be big enough to break up this mess.
[08:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:10] <exec> 08└─I don't get why a building that tall apparently had insufficient firewalls to prevent fires from burning up so many floors.
[08:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Used to Predict Locust Plagues - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:21] <exec> 08└─Wasn't this already covered in Exorcist 3 or 4? James Earl Jones, and some demon or the other, and the rubbing of the wings, and Linda Blair, of course.
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[09:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:34] <exec> 08└─his hits from. *puff puff* "Pass. I'll have medically prescribed opiates as God intended!"
[09:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:44] <exec> 08└─How many? That depends on whether it's an OCR of the library of congress, a scan of the library of congress, or an unboxing video of the library of congress.
[09:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:10] <exec> 08└─Its been my observation is often just one individual can make or break a company. I remember how it was at an aerospace company I worked for when we lost our RF designer to Qualcomm. Although management seemed to think all it took was a headhunter to replace him, the rest of us engineers knew we had...
[09:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:11] <exec> 08└─Trying to sell me that kind of stuff is like trying to sell be a box of machine bolts no wrench in my toolbox will fit.
[09:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Used to Predict Locust Plagues - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:14] <exec> 08└─I was thinking to make fertilizer or animal food out of them if nothing else. Who knows, the chemist geniuses may figure out how to make petrol products from them, like they did with corn. If nothing else, they appear to have a lot of organic nitrogen in them which makes for good fertilizer. With...
[09:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr_barnowl [1568] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Need More Cobalt - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:21] <exec> 08└─No cobalt! And maybe you can even make it with no lithium, out of cheap and plentiful sodium. Just downloaded their paper (free with registration) [rsc.org], no mention of cobalt in it.
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[10:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrial [5162] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:54] <exec> 08└─A petabit is capable of transmitting 5,000 two-hour-long high-definition videos every second.
[10:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:22] <exec> 08└─Also, like the old parable of "I don't have to outrun the lion, I only have to outrun *you*", Google doesn't necessarily have to rely on this new hire to bring amazingness to their tablets, they only have to keep him from benefitting Apple.
[10:32:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:50] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I didn't vote Trump in. I voted HRC out. The choice sucked ass, I did the best I could. Not regretting my vote at all, even though Trump is turning out to be worse than anyone ever thought he would be.
[10:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:33] <exec> 08└─"But, Tricky Dick couldn't get away with screwing up the machinery. Trump won't either." Unfortunately there's been MANY decades between the two consisting of people throwing small wrenches into that machinery, causing a slow but clear degradation in it's performance.
[10:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:15] <exec> 08└─Given that company execs can be held to account under corporate manslaughter legislation, you bet there's going to be a circus in the courts - not to mention the media - when this inevitably goes to trial. There's clearly a pattern of negligence across multiple KCTMO properties spanning several year...
[10:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:16] <exec> 08└─The UK has a great deal less experience of building and operating tall residential buildings than many other countries, and as a consequence probably has less stringent and less stringently observed fire-codes in this area. Many of the buildings are old as there is no economic way to demolish reside...
[10:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:18] <exec> 08└─How hard it it to just use concrete, glass, and steel?
[10:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Clean Inside the LHC - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:49] <exec> 08└─Sucked through a near perfect vacuum, yeah, I'm sure that would do the trick.
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[11:31:44] <exec> 08└─That's word because you know Can't touch this (oh-oh oh oh-oh-oh) Can't touch this (oh-oh oh oh-oh-oh) Break it down (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh) (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh) Stop Hammer time
[11:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:12] <exec> 08└─The Chinese space agency has noted a sudden wave of astronaut applications from Ireland.
[11:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:13] <exec> 08└─> The whole event with the development of plants and insects on lunar surface will be live-streamed to the world, Expect the internet to go crazy over the sad plight of these poor, doomed silkworms. I predict they will reach cult internet celebrity status within hours of hatching, with some enterpri...
[11:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:15] <exec> 08└─Aren't mentioned in the article. I wonder what the plan is? Store alot of energy during the daytime to power uv lighting during the night time?
[11:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:35] <exec> 08└─"Tuned in favor of Snapdragon"? WTF do you mean? How? The benchmarks were C code to do stuff like SHA1. The guy didn't write optimized assembly for the SnapDragon pipeline; there are probably only 15 people or so in the world who would even know how to do that. I was a little surprised by the result...
[11:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:37] <exec> 08└─Look, I don't care what your benchmarks say. Especially benchmarks from an Android site. Every single other respected review and hardware site on the net including Anandtech says the cores in the A series are far beyond the rest of the industry in overall performance and IPC. Personally, I've used a...
[11:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:32] <exec> 08└─Apparently nothing was learned from 9/11 in this regard. I recall reading, with no little astonishment, that evacuations from the twin towers were initially delayed by announcements for people to return to their workplaces.
[11:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm shocked that that much of the building was able to catch on fire. Around here there are rules about having firebreaks in highrise buildings. I used to work security in one years ago and they had a firebreak every few floors. So, the standard fire drill involved exiting via the fire-doors...
[11:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:35] <exec> 08└─It looks on first glance to unexpert eyes that the fire spread via some cladding that had been recently installed on the outside of the building, which seem to have been made of tindling for some reason. Firebreaks don't help in that case
[11:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:38] <exec> 08└─If you can feel the door knob and it's cold
[11:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:38] <exec> 08└─We got that covered: http://cdn.images.express.co.uk [express.co.uk] When the food stops being eaten, just drop another prisoner into the hole. No unnecessary contact.
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[12:31:36] <exec> 08└─I don't do goog because hygiene.
[12:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:44] <exec> 08└─Mozilla ran its own memory usage benchmarks, which showed significant memory usage reduction compared to Chrome
[12:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:46] <exec> 08└─Just upgraded to Firefox 54, kept my usual addons and played a 10 minute game of Agar.io. I didn't notice any game affecting slowness at all whereas normally I would have.
[12:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:48] <exec> 08└─Switching to a simpler extension model allows Firefox to enable multiple processes and also
[12:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:06] <exec> 08└─You're often much more interested in the latter. Of course, we're informed on the need to know basis... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(engineering) [wikipedia.org]
[12:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:41] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to be reading the actual words in the post above yours. Of course if you're saying "I don't care what your benchmarks say" I guess it's irrelevant.
[12:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:58] <exec> 08└─Good job on the moon hunting, guys. 69 is a great number, one of the best numbers of all time. But I'm liking 71 a lot, so far. Don't be afraid to find a couple more, to find 2 more moons. Because 71 is totally great. If I'd stopped at 69 I'd be the Number 1 guy on TV, the biggest star on TV. But I...
[12:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Wipes Out Inmate Intrastate Calling Price Caps - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:45] <exec> 08└─A government granted and enforced monopoly, to boot jackboot.
[12:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:42] <exec> 08└─Statistics from various sources say that 50-95% of machines out there are "pwned". Yet if you ask their owners the rate would be something like 5-25%. Cuz you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
[12:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:44] <exec> 08└─A free software client and some small time provider, preferably one that seems focused on privacy instead of the usual (lawyer required, marketing suggested) "we care so much about your privacy" tired line buried somewhere on their homepage.
[12:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:46] <exec> 08└─The latest ruby on rails vulnerability didn't work at all I tell you!!!1
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[13:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:45] <exec> 08└─An Anonymous Coward asked: Is there a non-google link? I don't do goog because hygiene.
[13:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:47] <exec> 08└─...for posting. Made my day too. Those Terrans...individually shite but what cannot they achieve as a race.
[13:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:59] <exec> 08└─Too legit... Too legit to quit (hey... Hey...) Too legit... Too Legit... Too legit to quit... (hey...) Too legit... Too legit to quit (Too legit...) too legit... Too legit to quit...
[13:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:00] <exec> 08└─This is what worries me. I'm concerned that Chrome and Blink will become the new defacto standard like IE6 was and stop playing by the rules.
[13:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:09] <exec> 08└─... the Secret Service, whose only two jobs are to provide security for the president and his family and investigate financial crimes
[13:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:12] <exec> 08└─Temporal proximity of applicant to college campus life.
[13:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:25] <exec> 08└─It's a proper router, it'll have interfaces speaking SDH/SONET, so the core routing engine would need extremely tightly controlled and accurate timing/minimal latency to handle transfers at these speeds. Routers like these can't buffer much.
[13:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:38] <exec> 08└─I wish my country still had the drive to do things like this that will inspire young people to reach for the stars, but ultimately I am just glad that someone is stepping up to do space things like this!
[13:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:40] <exec> 08└─One rover with a potato is more important than decades of rovers and tests on the ISS and the huge advances in privte space? A four year step-back in US space operations still leaves us ahead of most of the world
[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:21] <exec> 08└─Yup, as I told my wife when she asked me, "Why is Neptune a planet when Pluto crosses its orbit?" "Well, the definition is that a planet has cleared the orbit of anything more than 2/3s its own size. So those two cross, but Neptune is huge while Pluto is small, so only Pluto loses out as it is no wh...
[13:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─Another thing worth thinking about: Illegal immigrants aren't stupid, and the very last thing they want is to interact with the government. They know full well that every single time they do they risk deportation, even if the government agency in question swears up and down they won't alert ICE. Bes...
[13:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:07] <exec> 08└─Folks, this is what happens when you put Muslims in power. Radical Islamic terrorism. At least 17 dead and 78 wounded in this terror attack and the Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!" And because of political correctness, no one calls it Radical Islamic terrorism. No one in the...
[13:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:08] <exec> 08└─What's "tindling" ? The cladding material of mostly Polyethylene that melts completely at 135 °C and is likely to create acutely toxic vapors. Then combined with Aluminum that is a component of Termite where it reacts at high temperature which the chimney effect is likely to accomplish. It's just a...
[13:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:11] <exec> 08└─What materials are used to create the firebreaks ? Most high rises uses concrete anyway which won't burn.
[13:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure the "non-natives" factor is as much of a factor as "run-down area". Landlords of run-down areas, at least in the US, routinely abuse their tenants, For example, I recently heard of a trailer park filled with poor white people that (illegally) shut off the water supply to try to force th...
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insomnia Not Purely Psychological Condition: Insomnia Genes Found - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:48] <exec> 08└─To me it seems obvious that it is more physiological than psychological, even when genetically predisposed. Blood sugar state, body temp regulation, itchy skin, creatures crawling in the night - all play into lack of sleep.
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[14:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06"Epic Battle" Over the Details of China's Next Large Telescope - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:45] <exec> 08└─China: the astronomers want something simpler, the engineers want something revolutionary. US: the astronomers want anything they'd be able to get, the govt wants to cut their funding.
[14:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:56] <exec> 08└─You do realize they can read this right?
[14:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:57] <exec> 08└─I'm just happy nobody knows I'm actually naked under my clothes.
[14:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:12] <exec> 08└─Is this version that no longer has support for ALSA on Linux compiled in? The Firefox developers have made the bold decision to make PulseAudio a dependency on Linux, which has upset folk who either can't, or won't (for various reasons) run PulseAudio. A bug was raised, and has been closed 'WONTFIX'...
[14:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:14] <exec> 08└─I think that was version 53. That's probably why Slackware is on 52 ESR.
[14:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:16] <exec> 08└─I stopped using Firefox on all my platforms nowadays. It started a few years back, maybe two... When i was running an ARM Linux thingy as daily driver... with HIDPI screen, and Firefox just would not fit the bill (shitty HIDPI support, extra buggy ARM incompatibility and crappy touch-screen support)...
[14:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:18] <exec> 08└─Sadly, it already has.
[14:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:29] <exec> 08└─What is it that happens between 24 and 28 that increases the period from a year to five years?
[14:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:32] <exec> 08└─Expected to have started a family and have a mortgage to pay? I.e. act sufficiently responsible to be controllable?
[14:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:45] <exec> 08└─Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers
[14:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:01] <exec> 08└─We don't care about contaminating extraterrestrial bodies anymore?
[14:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not in it for mod points. ;-)
[14:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:35] <exec> 08└─Portmanteau of tinder and kindling?
[14:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:36] <exec> 08└─WTF? Would it be possible for you to express your thought in comprehensible english?
[14:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 2245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:39] <exec> 08└─The mask? Uhhhmmmmm - maybe. If you're willing to invest in an expensive flame retardant, non-plastic, non-rubber mask with an attached OBA - or Oxygen Breathing Apparatus. With a Navy issue OBA, I have helped to fight fires aboard ship. No major fires, thank God, but I've walked into those smoke fi...
[14:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:41] <exec> 08└─Aluminum is a component of termites? The US and the UK both have strict laws on high-rise cladding but it needs to be properly installed, and in some cases if the temps exceed a certain threshold, well, anything can burn in the right conditions. It sounds like the fire got out of control on one or...
[14:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:43] <exec> 08└─You can use all sorts of things for that, but concrete is a good choice because it's virtually impossible to burn. The main downside is that it is rather heavy. The main time you'd have an issue with a concrete firewall would be if one of the tanks that houses the diesel fuel for a generator cracks...
[14:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─That's why you feel the door knob. You're going to feel that it's hot before you touch it if it's so hot that you're going to burn yourself. Heat travels by convection and conduction, so you should know that the knob is hot enough to scald even before you've actually touched it. Touching the panel i...
[14:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:48] <exec> 08└─Scuba gear is an extremely bad idea in the case of a fire. The last thing you want is a compressed gas cylinder blowing up when exposed to high temperatures. Now, if you happen to get the ones that are designed to be used like that, such as the ones firefighters use, then that might work. But, reali...
[14:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:50] <exec> 08└─That is true, but that's why there's supposed to be firebreaks in the cladding every several floors to prevent the chimney effect. And presumably the firebreaks would be on floors that also have firewall for that very reason. The foam on the back side is much more easily set on fire than the aluminu...
[14:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:52] <exec> 08└─They didn't have a Linux build for their new one. I think they call it Opera Next? It sounded neat but they didn't have one for my OS. I just use the current version of regular and beta. I think I have dev installed, but never use it.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─"I really don't understand why it has such a small following" Funny thing about Opera. It positively ruled the internet, in Eastern European countries that use the Cyrillic aphabet. But, it never caught on strongly anywhere else. Something psychological about cyrillic language people? I dunno, just...
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[15:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:49] <exec> 08└─Turns out it's a toughie for humans as well. Many have tried to reach Ms. Pac-Man's top score, only coming as close as 266,330 on the Atari 2600 version.
[15:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:50] <exec> 08└─Though AI has conquered a wealth of retro games, Ms. Pac-Man has remained elusive for years, due to the game's intentional lack of predictability.
[15:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:53] <exec> 08└─Dog Shit Eater
[15:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:55] <exec> 08└─Have it repeated it over and over again or was this some kind of one-time fluke? One would think the score could be different depending on which score-fruit drops and such. Did it die anytime during the run? Also how come it always seems to be the Atari 2600 versions of games? Are they some how easi...
[15:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:57] <exec> 08└─Yup. Random is one of my least favorite and most favorite subjects. At best, as I'm unfamiliar with the specific architecture, this game has a fairly trivial PRNG. Why do I like random, as a topic? It boils down to a philosophical argument. Throughout history, we've thought of many things as being r...
[15:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Epic Battle" Over the Details of China's Next Large Telescope - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:07] <exec> 08└─It's a slow slide into oblivion for the USA. Greed and corruption has won. The government has completely failed us. China is going to be the next great superpower thanks to the greedy fucks who sold us down the river for profit. The USA is the next Russia, a has been loser. One day we're going to be...
[15:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:20] <exec> 08└─Excellent video, I just wish they'd hacked in a few frames with an obelisk leaving the atmosphere. Just for fun.
[15:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:21] <exec> 08└─https://vimeo.com/219993811 [vimeo.com]
[15:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:40] <exec> 08└─Alright, I've bitched in the past about applications being memory hogs. I don't "like" for Firefox, or other software, to use up a lot of memory. But, being a realist, I built my last box with lots of memory. The machine on which I do everything, has 24 gig of memory. When the wife was ready to buil...
[15:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:41] <exec> 08└─troll face Did you ditch Intel for ECC support, or did you go with a "workstation" class machine?
[15:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 2544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:43] <exec> 08└─I simply cheated, LOL $ inxi -F System: Host: sabayon-pc Kernel: 4.7.0-sabayon x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Sabayon Linux amd64 16.12 Machine: Mobo: Supermicro model: H8DM8-2 v: 1234567890 Bios: American Megatrends v: 080014 date: 10/22/2009 CPU(s):...
[15:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:55] <exec> 08└─*crush chrush snort snort* FTFY
[15:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:56] <exec> 08└─The amusing thing about that is, from everything I hear, kids in their twenties, for the most part, can't afford to start a family and a mortgage. The government that expects this, doesn't make it possible for most people to have it. So it would mean that they would recruit increasingly from those m...
[15:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:59] <exec> 08└─The government that expects this, doesn't make it possible for most people to have it. So it would mean that they would recruit increasingly from those more well off who can afford a family / mortgage. But the more affluent those people are, the less they may want this particular job. There's anothe...
[15:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:01] <exec> 08└─They shouldn't be relaxing these rules at all, they should be making them even stronger. After all, the Attorney General himself thinks weed is the worst drug there is and wants to increase prosecution of it, including medical uses. It's completely hypocritical for the Secret Service to go against t...
[15:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:03] <exec> 08└─Duuude why so harsh. What is it that happens between 24 and 28 that increases the period from a year to five years? That said can they even detect it after five years?
[15:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:18] <exec> 08└─Doesn't buffering cause latency? Or perhaps latency is due to lead in the water being routed? It would be best to be clocking the bits of a packet out the destination port as the packet is still arriving from the source port. Enough bits of the packet must be buffered to get the address information...
[15:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─Who's "we"? Some of you may worry about "contaminating" a lifeless rock, but obviously the Chinese are more worried about getting stuff done.
[15:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Countries that can't get their shit together and do useful stuff in space should just step aside and let others who have the will do so, and get the recognition.
[15:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─The sanctions gonna hit European companies too -- and especially one key project, the Nordstream-2 gas pipeline. As a common statement by the German and Austrian governments put it (German) [tagesschau.de], this amendment brings a new and very negative quality in the European-American relations ......
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─The answer is that you don't rely on that fire suppression system. There's generally also places for firefighters to attach their hoses and fight the fire on whatever floor it is. There's also usually firewalls every other floor or at some regular interval so that if the fire suppression system does...
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:20] <exec> 08└─It's not just that you can have those firebreaks in the cladding, it's that the code at the time that the work was done required the firebreaks and they didn't install them.
[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed, changing thought process halfway through a word, quite common for me I'm afraid, when typing on aphone and thus not looking at what I'm writing.
[15:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─Not hard, but unfortunately not cheap either...
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Clean Inside the LHC - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:56] <exec> 08└─I guess nobody gets the joke.
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[16:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:45] <exec> 08└─Also how come it always seems to be the Atari 2600 versions of games? Are they some how easier or?
[16:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know what it is, but it's not very - uhhh - Maybe it's just not what I expected. Maybe it's my bad eyes. Hell, maybe it's my brain. The images seem - off? Distorted? Weird? Strange? None of those? All of those? I'm reminded of all the nutters who see stuff on Mars. The Martian landscape is s...
[16:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:10] <exec> 08└─And if you don't want to use in-browser exploit/leakage engines to play vimeo vids, then there's always jwz's youtubedown (which my g/f & I use) or youtubedl (which everyone else I know uses).
[16:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:12] <exec> 08└─>what cannot they achieve as a race? The list is long, and sad, and mostly has to do with lack of respect for those (people, animals, plants, ecosystems) which make the incredible possible.
[16:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:15] <exec> 08└─The recomposition of the individual color bands has a lot to do with the final image quality deterioration on closest approach. If you wanted to look at a monochrome channel, it should be sharper.
[16:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the human perception aspect is an interesting one - I too got strange mythical not-quite-human creatures. Sometimes the whorls became eyes, sometimes they were right out of the mandelbrot set. We're of course programmed to recognise whorls as they're something we have been witnessing in nature...
[16:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:19] <exec> 08└─Thank you to NASA for having the foresight to put soft science on board. Real scientists will get very little from this eye-candy, but the general public will stop and stare, transfixed for a moment, hopefully, and maybe let out a little "wow!". That's what keeps the public wanting NASA to remain pu...
[16:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:40] <exec> 08└─nice. I got an old server instead of buying ECC RAM too.
[16:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:41] <exec> 08└─Chrome gains market share for one reason only: because Google! Chrome is as chatty as Edge privacy wise, suffers from very bad security/privacy plugin support, and otherwise blows chunks from an advanced user perspective. As long as FF provides the best option for privacy and security, it will be my...
[16:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:43] <exec> 08└─To be fair, there's no real reason not to be using as much of RAM as possible. That's why it's there, right? To be used? It's just a problem when you want to multitask $program with something else.
[16:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:01] <exec> 08└─Just because Sessions has psychosis, respiratory issues, IQ loss and no accepted use in the US, is no basis for him to crack down on weed.
[16:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:02] <exec> 08└─We all know he prefers Peruvian booger sugar. Powdered, of course, not rocks of it because hurr hurr only inner city hooligans use crack.
[16:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:04] <exec> 08└─Starts between 45,000 and 75,000 and then some additional bonuses, up to about 25%. That will vary by location and specific detail.
[16:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:20] <exec> 08└─The Nokia division that makes this is not the same one which once upon a time made mobile handsets, that portion that Microsoft managed to gobble up, which is why Maemo/Meego never had a chance. Nokia is a huge company: once upon a time they even made vehicle tyres [nokiantyres.com], though they div...
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─You are a Fake President!
[16:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:28] <exec> 08└─Posting from a win XP machine due to software that won't run under wine (last software I actually paid money for). Obviously, I have been avoiding too much recreational use of the machine. Every website I visit is a risk of getting pwned.
[16:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches XP to Avoid Another WannaCrypt - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:29] <exec> 08└─I have a similar laptop with DOS 2.0 (now restrictive open source even). The reason what you suggest won't work is the invention of Return-Oriented Programming [ucsd.edu] (and ubiquitous network access).
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[17:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:41] <exec> 08└─Rumor on the street is that Disney (so far the last remaining 4K Ultra HD hold out), is about to enter the fray with a 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray release of "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" in a couple of months. I wonder if they'll force some changes to deal with this.
[17:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:42] <exec> 08└─"Historic" Smurfs 2, Patriots' day, Inferno ... Those pirates are going after the most successful blockbusters of all time, of all time!
[17:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 1983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:56] <exec> 08└─To add to this, Mrs. Pac-Man has been used for AI testing in the past. Specifically, the 2600 version. (I think any carts for newer systems were just simple ports. I am not an authoritative source, however.) This topic popped up years ago and I'm unable to find the source. If my memory is correct, t...
[17:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:57] <exec> 08└─... I smoke a lot of pot.
[17:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Epic Battle" Over the Details of China's Next Large Telescope - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:07] <exec> 08└─First thing I thought when reading this article. This makes me sad. It feels like our country is a train wreck in motion, but one that's playing out the progress a tiny fraction of an inch per day. An even bigger downside is that China is a very insular nation. Hopefully the fruits of these labors w...
[17:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:52] <exec> 08└─It's just a problem when you want to multitask $program with something else.
[17:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:54] <exec> 08└─I built my last box with lots of memory.
[17:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:56] <exec> 08└─How? What have they done?
[17:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have to concede that. I have an ancient laptop that only supported 196 meg. Don't ask me how they ever arrived at that number, but that was the limit. It really sucked when I fed it WinXP. It made a half-assed decent Linux machine, but only half assed. Another laptop that the boys dropped he...
[17:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:19] <exec> 08└─That said can they even detect it after five years?
[17:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─Just an observation. 12 months = 1 year. 24 - 1 = 23 28 - 5 = 23 I have absolutely no clue what is significant about 23. It's a government policy on drug use. I'm pretty sure there's not a whole lot of rationality involved. Call it a hunch. *smokes the rest of the joint*
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─Why exactly were we worrying about that? I mean if the mission is to look for life, you dont want to bring any signs of it with you, but thats not the end all be all. We hope to live up there someday, that will mean we have to import some stuff first.
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─That's obvious, but it doesn't explain why.
[17:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 1429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:06] <exec> 08└─Ohh, fuck you. There has been ZERO evidence of wide spread voter fraud. One or two incidents doesn't get you to the 2.5 million required for Trump to have won the popular vote. Every single time they spend millions looking, they come away with maybe one example out of literally millions and millions...
[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─Zero evidence never stopped a good witch hunt. e.g. Meuller-Comey.
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─Tell me again what's catastrophic about improved economic growth, the beginnings of renewed real earnings growth, lower unemployment, increased workforce participation, and lower illegal immigration? It's still the economy, stupid.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:41] <exec> 08└─You, sir, win the internets today. Well done.
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Lacking anything bad to say about the economy, the political/media establishment is stuck with a playbook that consists of "All Russia, All The Time!" Boring.
[17:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:49] <exec> 08└─Hillary lost. Here's some Preparation H for that butthurt.
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Used to Predict Locust Plagues - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─> It's not clear, if insects do feel pain, fear or are conscious in a relevant way I default to assuming that all living being can feel pain in one form or another, and have consciousness. Every time we claim that something is only for humans, some animal comes around to prove us wrong, or we actual...
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[18:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:44] <exec> 08└─This does NOT mean that I'm insinuating that this is acceptable, I just figure I should make this clear. This fingerprinting, if the various articles are to be believed, is only applicable to those seeking asylum. For better or worse, this doesn't seem to apply to citizens.
[18:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:53] <exec> 08└─If you want 100 GB of sh*t, just smear it on your phone lens and record.
[18:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, these are all movies that I was wanting to see so badly. /sarc Maybe they only use the strong copyright protection on good movies. Are there very many good movies anymore?
[18:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:58] <exec> 08└─It might be intentional. If they aren't cracking a major blockbuster, the heat they get from doing this is probably lower.
[18:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:13] <exec> 08└─For the sake of realism, does the emulation come with a little brother who Wants!His!Turn!, a friend telling the algorithm to take the opposite direction, that amazing girl who is definitely not interested, and a creepy guy who's eyeing your underage sister while you're playing?
[18:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but only in passing. I'm too old, now. I served as a Marine as a way to pay for my education, then I went back in and saved money up so that I could get my Ph.D. 'cause the GI Bill didn't (doesn't still?) even give you a stipend beyond the 4 year mark.
[18:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:45] <exec> 08└─The irony: I'm concerned about privacy online, so I went online and found more details about the author and am posting them here. :-)
[18:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:14] <exec> 08└─I have an ancient laptop that only supported 196 meg. Don't ask me how they ever arrived at that number
[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:37] <exec> 08└─At least that's from before every single elected official was handed an excuse to ask for bodyguards yesterday, triggering a sudden increase in recruitment.
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Gaaahd, starting $75k would seem more in line with a job with incredibly strict requirements, dire consequences, and your life on the line. I don't discount police putting their lives on the line, but SS is supposed to be the top tier "police force" in the US. $45k? That just seems insulting. But he...
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─I can't tell your level of sarcasm here or if you're 100% serious. Sessions is an authoritarian windbag and I am VERY glad that our various agencies don't immediately bow down to whatever crazy shit "the boss" may think. This is a completely reasonable change of policy and represents a major shift t...
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like he would benefit from a medical marijuana prescription...
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─For the mandatory car analogy, we've already had the Tesla fast vs quick discussions.
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─I'm almost done setting the thrusters under the Capitol building. Going up: Over 500 specialists in the fine art of generating and stirring up shit, hot air, and wind. Also committed to unlimited CO2 emissions.
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─We don't care about contaminating extraterrestrial bodies anymore?
[18:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:06] <exec> 08└─If you'd stopped at 69, who would be doing your job today?
[18:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─Because the new definition is silly. It's just designed to point out that 8 planets are traditional, and avoid having to refer to dozen of newer ones in the same breath. Mercury is smaller than a few moons, Jupiter is its own mini-system, there's maybe a big one hiding pretty far but we'll find it s...
[18:35:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:18] <exec> 08└─Do as I say, not as I do. It would be interesting to learn how many elections around the world the US has NOT meddled in. Bipartisan support, eh? That is also interesting. I thought the R's were denying everything. So, now everyone admits that Russia was involved in our elections, except for the Tru...
[18:35:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KGIII [5261] 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 2157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:52] <exec> 08└─I have stood guard while children risked death, just to get food aid from the UN. I have been in Somalia, while enlisted and as a civilian. The second time was for the same reason, to help. I have met actual armed members of the now defunct FARQ. I have changed the diaper on a child who had no chanc...
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─They already hate us, both for policy disagreements and basic big stick envy. So who gives a happy fuck? What exactly does Europe have to offer? Culture? Nope. All dead white guys, can't have that. Money? They're as beholden to the global banking system as everyone else. Friendship? Right, who needs...
[18:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it would be helpful to have a +WTF moderation.
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:25] <exec> 08└─Notice how the building facade, which went up in flames, was new thermally-insulating stuff. If our priorities ranked fire-safety higher than energy savings, we would not have had this disaster.
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─Did you spot the Chief Executive is Black?
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Used to Predict Locust Plagues - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─Actually consciousness is as far as I know not really scientifically defined. Nor is "suffering". I could possibly implement an avoidance-algorithm for an mbot, to move and avoid bright areas, ane still wouldn't feel guilty to shine a flashlight at it. There is afaik no way to distinguish between a...
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[19:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:34] <exec> 08└─those are the countries who are not letting hoardes of muslim invaders flood in.
[19:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:35] <exec> 08└─This fingerprinting, if the various articles are to be believed, is only applicable to those seeking asylum.
[19:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:38] <exec> 08└─Fascism is the new black. The US, UK, Germany, once considered bastions of freedom, are tossing their freedoms because of media and government spread fear. I would have thought these countries in particular would have a better memory about why this is so bad.
[19:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:40] <exec> 08└─I mean... FINGERPRINTS!
[19:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:42] <exec> 08└─Finally found a source article in German [spiegel.de], rather than a (sometimes questionable) translation. "The security services must legally and technically be able to access messages in messaging services, as they can do with phone calls and SMS." However, unlike the UK, they are just calling for...
[19:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:44] <exec> 08└─Fascism is the new black. The US, UK, Germany, once considered bastions of freedom, are tossing their freedoms because of media and government spread fear.
[19:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:46] <exec> 08└─Not seeing your argument. Having your borders under control, deciding who is allowed to cross those borders - that's a pretty fundamental feature of a sovereign country. It doesn't matter whether it's the US, allowing millions of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, or Europe, allowing...
[19:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:49] <exec> 08└─Of course, they could also close the borders against illegal migrants. Apply for asylum correctly, instead of sneaking into the country, or else you get sent home immediately.
[19:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:51] <exec> 08└─Or Germany could do some historical penance and welcome these migrants.
[19:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:03] <exec> 08└─I think you need to see a doctor. When I take a shit, it's maybe 3-4GB, and that's with a lot of fiber going down the pipe. Feeling sorry for your interface.
[19:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:05] <exec> 08└─On one hand, I'm impressed with these pirate groups figuring out how to copy the data off these UHD BR discs, somehow bypassing the AACS2 encryption measures. I guess they're keeping their techniques a secret for now, but I'm highly curious as to how they pulled this off. It sounds like a very inter...
[19:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:23] <exec> 08└─That's how I feel about quantum physics.
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[19:32:24] <exec> 08└─Mrs. Pac-Man
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[19:32:26] <exec> 08└─side comment: quantum mechanics gives truly random numbers. Bell's inequalities being broken is experimental evidence of that.
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─triggering a sudden increase in recruitment. No, this will trigger a sudden increase in attempted recruitment. But the Secret Service is obviously having trouble with recruitment if they're resorting to relaxing their drug-use rules.
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─I'm 100% serious; did you miss the part where I said how much I hate hypocrisy? It's hypocritical in the extreme for an institution to demonize pot use on one hand, and then relax its rules regarding pot use for recruiting people for guarding the most powerful person in that institution on the other...
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─$45k? Good luck even renting your own apartment for that much in the DC area within reasonable distance to a Metro station (for commuting into downtown DC for your job protecting the president). So the most elite police in the country, protecting the highest office in the land, have to resort to liv...
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─yes, they should feel the pain of their stupid positions/decisions. otherwise, they'll never get it and it will never change.
[19:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they have gone with 'slackens spliff statutes'?
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia Shows Worlds Fastest Routers - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:18] <exec> 08└─I have submitted articles in the past as well that have been ignored. Yes the editors have a heavy hand in deciding what goes in the queue. Non-censorship indeed! Perhaps they could have the "frontpage" like reddit, and any/all stories can be viewed in a specific sub group. The only heavy handedness...
[19:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 2023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─I would say yes. The rovers have been absolutely incredible and given an incredible insight into Mars in particular. But it often feels like NASA is not goal oriented, but rather shifting from one project to another with no real direction or path. I think a natural goal for humanity is colonization...
[19:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─It would be whoever I endorsed. And let me tell you, I might have endorsed Rudy. I might have told Rudy to run for President, if I didn't run myself. And he would have, if I'd told him to. He does what I say. I like that in a man or in a woman. Especially in a woman. Rudy Giuliani, great Jew, one of...
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─you can sanction yourselves for running interference for corporations instead of funding GNU/Linux security research and implementing more secure systems throughout Gov. The US has consistently squandered it's lead in IT and totally failed to educated the nation's children in regards to Free Softwar...
[19:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Soup Nazi" Company (Soupman Inc) Files for Bankruptcy Following Executive's Tax Evasion Indictment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:27] <exec> 08└─When it comes to taxes, the government has super-judicial powers, and extra-judicial authority.
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[20:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:02] <exec> 08└─Your comment is an affront to Western Liberalism.
[20:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:04] <exec> 08└─And you wonder why conservative types get regularly labeled as authoritarian boot lickers. Too many of you are frightened little children. I'm all for immigrants to apply legally, that is a fine thing to support. However fingerprinting the population is a fear based tactic that history shows only re...
[20:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:06] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the EU! No Brexit for you!!! That's the problem, the EU has superceded sovereign states and mandated immigrant asylum and the states with the most compliance now have the most immigrant issues.
[20:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:08] <exec> 08└─Oh wait, actually it was repeated after the mustache times with the sickle times.
[20:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:10] <exec> 08└─Refugees are a real problem. Your oh so christian solution is to turn your back on people in need? Send them back into a warzone where they will likely die? Gotta love the religious people displaying their complete lack of morality when it bumps against their nationalistic fervor.
[20:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:12] <exec> 08└─"this doesn't seem to apply to citizens. " Not yet. Once they build out the system, and it is working, they can start with asylum seekers, then "why not criminals", then why not those "undesirables", then eventually "why are you not in the system? Do you have something to hide citizen?" The whole "G...
[20:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:15] <exec> 08└─> What for? You'll have to ask them. I swear, I had nothing to do with it. ;-)
[20:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:17] <exec> 08└─Wanting access to all messages is not "controlling the borders", nor is fingerprinting people "in case they do something wrong".
[20:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:19] <exec> 08└─Refugees are a real problem.
[20:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:21] <exec> 08└─> The whole "Getting the foot in the door", "thin edge of the wedge", "down the slippery slope" comes to mind. Agreed. I sure as hell don't condone this, I just figured I'd add the clarification as it wasn't mentioned in the summary and nobody RTFA. I'd speculate that this is a test to see how far p...
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[20:32:24] <exec> 08└─> those are the countries who are not letting hoardes of muslim invaders flood in. And they are getting sued for it. I do find that concept of the EU strange, so Merkel says "Refugees welcome", and they start pouring into Germany, who invited them in. Now other countries never agreed or said "Refuge...
[20:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:26] <exec> 08└─it was the EU who invited them in. there were discussions among the various EU countries, they concluded they cannot turn refugees away, and Greece, Italy etc asked for help dealing with the millions of people coming in. quotas were assigned to each country. It's true that Hungary etc disagreed, but...
[20:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:28] <exec> 08└─other countries never agreed or said "Refugees welcome" themselves
[20:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:31] <exec> 08└─"It's true that Hungary etc disagreed, but they are supposed to respect the decisions taken even if they disagree (that's the way that democracy works). that is why EU countries that didn't meet the quota are being punished." Thanks for the clarification. I thought the EU had to work on consensus. I...
[20:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:33] <exec> 08└─Finally found a source article in German [spiegel.de], rather than a (sometimes questionable) translation.
[20:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:35] <exec> 08└─Your comment is an affront to Western Liberalism.
[20:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:50] <exec> 08└─Arrival came out on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray a few months ago. The Fifth Element and Close Encounters of the Third Kind come out next month. Those are all great science-fiction films, IMO.
[20:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:51] <exec> 08└─I already answered this last time. [soylentnews.org]
[20:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More "Cracked" Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases Appear Online - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:53] <exec> 08└─Whilst I have the crypto nerdiness to want to know what's being done, right down to the gritty details, I'd rather they worked away in secret getting the studios to run around like headless chickens wondering what went wrong with AACS2. I'm sure it will leak out eventually, it's a guaranteed blackha...
[20:33:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:09] <exec> 08└─For the sake of realism, does the emulation come with a little brother who Wants!His!Turn!, a friend telling the algorithm to take the opposite direction, that amazing girl who is definitely not interested, and a creepy guy who's eyeing your underage sister while you're playing?
[20:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:14] <exec> 08└─We think... Again, I'd suggest that it becomes a philosophical question, at some point. I'm familiar with Bell's theorem. I believe the best way to sum that up is that local deterministic and local random variables can not reproduce what is predicted by QM. It's important that I point out that I'm a...
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─Quantum Physics has a whole lot of repeatability - but is not yet fully understood. I guess, how to say this? Hmm... I'm not yet ready to pop the cork on a bottle of bubbly until we've a unified theory that has been demonstrated to be repeatably sound. Yes, yes I do realize that's a pretty high expe...
[20:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─No, but do you have a bunch of nerds with Cheeto fingers and mountain dew breath on your keyboard fiddling with your life purpose and understanding of the world?
[20:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:21] <exec> 08└─Nyet, Tovarich. No Cheetos since sanctions. Hard times.
[20:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:23] <exec> 08└─LOL Good catch. I'll expect angry people on my lawn. She was probably fat anyhow. She ran around eating everything. ;-)
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:22] <exec> 08└─You forgot to blame gay marriage.
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─I'm using Seamonkey for most things (web and mail). Some websites will completely overwhelm Seamonkey though, and then I open them in Vivaldi. Vivaldi seems to be a good compromise between FF and Chrome, but it has some very strange glitches. Had been using Seamonkey for mail and Vivaldi for all web...
[20:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's all the fault of gay marriage. If Brendan Eich were still in charge, none of this would have happened. The gays roont Firefox! They roon everything! Gays are a bunch of rooners!
[20:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─"Firefox continues to be criticized for their new versioning system and being a memory hog."
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:59] <exec> 08└─I wish them luck. ;-) I'm too old and too happy being retired. They do get some additional funds to cover COL with regards to their locality. The numbers given are base pay. They go up from there. I didn't dig deep enough to find out more - but all salary information is publicly available.
[20:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:01] <exec> 08└─You may not want to look up how much we pay our infantry members.
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─How about, they're human beings capable of such things as friendship and collaboration on important matters in common such as climate change and anti-terrorism? Besides which, I'd like to be able to travel without having to pretend I'm Canadian to be treated nicely. We're a big country here in the U...
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Clean Inside the LHC - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:15] <exec> 08└─You used the chemical symbol for iron, which suggests to me that your intended audience is people with a fair bit of chemical knowledge. For such an audience, it may be best to specify that the iron is in the +2 oxidation state; for a general audience, you can omit the mention of the oxidation state...
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[21:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:12] <exec> 08└─That is the entire point of the EU. Same deal in the US with states vs. federal. How can the feds dictate some things to the states? Cause that is the point!
[21:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:14] <exec> 08└─"When rulers need such extreme security measures, one has to wonder why is their conscience so heavy. What have they done wrong to dread their own peoples so much?" I don't remember to whom to attribute this...
[21:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:16] <exec> 08└─What happened to hammer-time?
[21:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:18] <exec> 08└─People are like "well, I am being monitored, tagged and tracked already, what difference does it make if they have my fingerprints as well".
[21:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:21] <exec> 08└─Don't quote scripture then, plenty of examples not from the bible. The future is more open borders, we're in the awkward and painful middle stages where the global economy is getting sorted out. Yes we need to be careful handling the issues, yes illegal immigrants can cause problems, but you scaredy...
[21:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:23] <exec> 08└─A blog from a grad student whose thesis is that liberals want a welfare state and that can't work with immigrants. Yup, solid gold /s And crime by immigrants saw an increase in Germany, but from specific groups. How does this make Turgid's response invalid again? Don't forget this gem from your 2nd...
[21:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:25] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately. I sincerely believe they know about this kind of thing. This is them sincerely trying to do something about it before it can repeat itself. But problem with this per dept line is that you just fall right into the historical mistakes again by wearing down freedom and privacy. That's th...
[21:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:27] <exec> 08└─Please educate yourself on this issue, because it is much more complicated. One thing Germany wanted is for these countries to take these economic-parasites (they are not refugees) and keep them in their own borders, by force. Because guess what happened the last time Poland tried to take some actua...
[21:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:30] <exec> 08└─Yes your comment is double-plus-good, Comrade.
[21:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:32] <exec> 08└─Don't quote scripture then, plenty of examples not from the bible.
[21:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:34] <exec> 08└─Umm, the EU is not a "union of equals." You think France and Germany are equal to Poland, Grease, and Latvia? There was an established set of successful 1st world countries that formed the EU. A bunch of second world corrupt shitholes asked to join and receive metric tons of cash in aid, and after t...
[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─> By the way, his use of God was metaphorical. "I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." -- Einstein Some would place that as a type of pantheism, though Einstein himself shied awa...
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:18] <exec> 08└─Where exactly did Pac-Baby come from then?
[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I couldn't really think of a good way to describe it. If I had to speculate, I'd probably say he was probably agnostic, at least in determination of a traditional deity. I'm not sure if the reference really speaks to a higher power, or to a higher order? The latter not needing a deity, nor imp...
[21:33:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:49] <exec> 08└─Thank you to NASA for having the foresight to put soft science on board. Real scientists will get very little from this eye-candy, but the general public will stop and stare, transfixed for a moment, hopefully, and maybe let out a little "wow!". That's what keeps the public wanting NASA to remain pu...
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─I think it's because JunoCam only took a handful of 2D images which were then projected onto a sphere to make this 3D movie.
[21:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─Laptop memory is about $40 for 8 GB. This is higher than it was years ago, probably due to Elpida going bankrupt and supply reduction in response to anemic PC demand. Prices are similar for DDR3 and DDR4. https://slickdeals.net [slickdeals.net] https://slickdeals.net [slickdeal...
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─You can see the problem by looking at this chart: v = c(1, 1.5, 2, 3, 3.5, 3.6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, ...
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Relaxes Reefer Rules - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─The SS is great, but Kerry O'Grady is a disaster for America. She said my candidacy was a disaster for America. She violated the Hatch Act, like no violation you've seen in your life (I call it treason). Now I'm President and now, she's fired! #WINNING [twitter.com]
[21:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:41] <exec> 08└─I'd take termites over a raging fire any day.
[21:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:43] <exec> 08└─The Evening Standard doesn't seem top have a copy editing department.
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[22:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:44] <exec> 08└─No shit. Old dude died cuz 74 is too fucking old.
[22:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:50] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you are visible. You become a target they can hit. Everyone needs to get off the 'opennet', today.
[22:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:37] <exec> 08└─Presumably, such an installation would be subject to the same legal protections as eavesdropping on your phone calls.
[22:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:39] <exec> 08└─A blog from a grad student whose thesis is that liberals want a welfare state and that can't work with immigrants. Yup, solid gold /s
[22:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:41] <exec> 08└─The proposal, coming from the Ministry of Interior Affairs, is about giving the police/security services a technical/legal capability of following electronic communications during a criminal inquiry. Breaking the encryption protocols used by different messenger apps is off-the-table. The proposal is...
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Jupiter Mission - Flyby "Movie" - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─This movie leaves me wishing for a geosynchronous observation over a span of at least months for time-lapse viewing of the cloud dynamics (and potential discovery of slow moving life in the cold upper atmosphere.)
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 54 Improves Multi-Process Architecture - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:34] <exec> 08└─When you buy a laptop, the extended specs should tell you how many DRAM slots there are and how many are occupied.
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Tiny New Moons Found Around Jupiter - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─I am still upset they revoked Earth's planetary status, then mis-stated it in the press-release.
[22:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─The Evening Standard doesn't seem top have a copy editing department.
[22:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─But global warming!
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[23:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:38] <exec> 08└─Still stinking up the place like a loose stool that clogged the shitter.
[23:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside Walt Mossberg's Gadget Museum - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:39] <exec> 08└─From the title I thought this was going to be about shotguns, I never even heard of this Walt guy -- I guess I don't read enough WSJ. That said most of the items on the big image (- the once mentioned in the article) are fairly easy to identify since you can read the labels or they just are not that...
[23:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC, Ethernet, and Tablet Computer Pioneer Chuck Thacker Passes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:50] <exec> 08└─You say that like computers are even relevant anymore. They're not. Zuckerberg is the Founding Father of the modern era. Thacker is old school and dead just like he should be.
[23:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:58] <exec> 08└─This is what happen when you centralize resources. I imagine that many of those add-ons still exist, but almost no one knows how to find them. I imagine that github is also vulnerable to attack. -- hendrik
[23:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodi Add-on Library "TVAddons" Disappears After Lawsuit - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:00] <exec> 08└─If anyone has the original download link it just might still be there even if the main website is unavailable. This happened a long time ago with another app (A game), the website was taken down but the download link still worked.
[23:32:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Germany Considering Fingerprinting Children and Spying on Personal Comm - 684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:16] <exec> 08└─Not seeing your argument. Having your borders under control, deciding who is allowed to cross those borders - that's a pretty fundamental feature of a sovereign country. It doesn't matter whether it's the US, allowing millions of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, or Europe, allowing...
[23:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft AI Achieves Perfect Ms. Pac-Man Score - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─(Not even close to true random, I *do* have a whole rant about the subject of randomness but you don't want to hear it.)
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China to Send Potato Farming Test Probe to the Moon - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─Because it has no atmosphere, it cannot sustain life unless that life brings its own ecosystem. That's called a terrarium. [google.com] Properly done, those are a sealed environment where there is a perfect balance between oxygen-consuming organisms and carbon dioxide-consuming organisms. N.B. If it...
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─You can only hope a fucking ton of Trump voters get sick and fucked over by their choices in the next 3.5 years. We can call it lessons in personal responsibility if it makes it more palatable. Even better would be if the liberal States withhold federal payments... yeah, that $4B sink is a rrrreal h...
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Approves Sanctions Bill to Punish Russia for Meddling - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:52] <exec> 08└─You are totally self-absorbed tho. You should get something to do with yourself, keep busy, stave off dementia etc.
[23:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Towering Inferno in London; At least 12 Dead, Dozens More to Hospital - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:06] <exec> 08└─Touching the panel is dumb as there's a gap in time between when it's no longer safe to be in the hallway and when it's hot enough to register as hot.
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