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[00:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─... that guy can suck my cock.
[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:49] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing his parents sucked up to Tipper Gore and her posse of censors at Parents Music Resource Center.
[00:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:52] <exec> 08└─Children under the age of 13 don't belong on the internet. It's Adults Only so we can discuss unprotected anal sex and niggers with chronic bloody diarrhea.
[00:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:54] <exec> 08└─Another unenforceable law. Ranks up there with the sodomy laws. Besides, if he wants his children to be ignorant he should read this: https://www.thesun.co.uk [thesun.co.uk]
[00:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:56] <exec> 08└─The Coloradoan news site is so obnoxious with loud videos that I gave up while reading the article.
[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone would go after a crypto contracted high profile US government official and succeed. Anything's possible. But, succeeding would be one of the fastest ways I can think of for an overwhelmingly intrusive move toward the government moving to cripple/escrow all allowed encryption and to beg...
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─The pay is good. The hours are good. It's therapeutic.
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─> I have never had to do a contract kill before but I would assume people that do are pretty desperate. Ordinary people volunteer for firing squads. I believe that cops/military do the job. Neither gets paid for it.
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─*jassasin
[00:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:15] <exec> 08└─^ Just a revenge fantasy
[00:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:17] <exec> 08└─I met a kid recently when he was home on leave. He enlisted in the Marines out of high school and I guess had a talent for shooting, They invited him to join one of their elite squads with special training -- now he's an official scout sniper. I don't have a clue what he will do after he leaves the...
[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:20] <exec> 08└─Ordinary people volunteer for firing squads. I believe that cops/military do the job. Neither gets paid for it.
[00:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─Socialism, duh. It destroys every nation it touches.
[00:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─Yep, one bite from the lone star tick—which gets its name from the Texas-shaped splash of white on its back—is enough to reprogram your immune system to forever reject even the smallest nibble of perfectly crisped bacon.
[00:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:08] <exec> 08└─They think they'll get something from him when in fact he'll probably get something from them, even if it is an inclination of whether geek #3 is someone he can further manipulate. Anyone going into a meeting thinking he's an idiot who has short attention span is making the mistake of bringing a kni...
[00:16:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:25] <exec> 08└─Apparently you didn't find all the "hidden truth". Look up the original route. What was the justification for changing the route?
[00:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:31] <exec> 08└─Adding insult, last time I checked the emulation of the Linux syscalls for running Linux binaries on that OS is actually faster than running them on the native thing. Kind of reminds me of another test where Linux and Windows were compared side to side for some task. But the Linux hardware were at l...
[00:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─What is the crap you hate about Linux? And what is that you really like?
[00:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─People seems to completely have lost sight of computer resources these days. That a CPU clock at 33 MHz, DRAM 32 MB, harddisc 100 MB, x86 arch with VGA is sufficient to boot and run X11 window seems unfathomable for people these days. I'll guess even Netscape v1 would run on top of that, perhaps eve...
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─Linux [still ran] circles around the Windows junk Might that have been the first game that Steam ported to Linux? (Left 4 Dead 2) https://m.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:39] <exec> 08└─ARM is dual endian asfaik. So it should be possible to compile the code as big-endian and run on any ARM?
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:41] <exec> 08└─All very good points. Perhaps the most important is that it's a server operating system and workstation secondly. GUI stuff is more or less a convenience not a goal (I think). The dead give away is the collision with the command line. Essential to any professional operation. And this "had to type st...
[00:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:37] <exec> 08└─If gun restrictions is a problem for acquiring a pipe gun then there's always crossbows etc that has been used for 2600 years. The upside is they are silent, efficient can be manufactured without too much complication.
[00:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:26] <exec> 08└─Let's place the blame where it belongs: it's Red Hat that pays these guys to break Unix/Linux standards so they can claim their employees have the expertise in "modern Linux." The last thing they want is to stay a commodity Linux company. It doesn't pay as much and exposes you to too much competitio...
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[01:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booz Allen Under Investigation for Accounting and Billing Practices - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:38] <exec> 08└─I skimmed a similar article somewhere recently. My thought was, "What's new?" Haven't we come to expect crap like this from the military industrial complex? Make no mistake, this IS part of the out of control MIC.
[01:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Booz Allen Under Investigation for Accounting and Billing Practices - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:39] <exec> 08└─LOLOL that traitor Snowden will cause the entire government to unravel as they accuse each other of disloyalty. All is as it should be.
[01:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booz Allen Under Investigation for Accounting and Billing Practices - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:41] <exec> 08└─Well actually ANY government contractor with a million dollar contract is likely to be audited. Cost over run? Almost certain to be audited. Being audited is a normal state of being in the large corporate world dealing with the government. My company was audited once by a State Government. We asked...
[01:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:54] <exec> 08└─Mute Tab, leet genius puter hacker you.
[01:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:55] <exec> 08└─Story seems bogus. You do not have to unlock an iphone (or android) to call 911 (or 999 in the uk). Maybe he didn't know that, or maybe he didn't know how to dial, which is why he asked siri.
[01:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:57] <exec> 08└─You know the niggers wouldn't have so much bloody diarrhea if they did less anal sex.
[01:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:59] <exec> 08└─Or a smartphone that's locked to calls and texts only.
[01:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:02] <exec> 08└─I'm betting he wants 8 tracks to make a comeback to.
[01:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:04] <exec> 08└─I grew up in the 60s, when TV Was Bad 4 U (tm), and comic books were just getting over their Bad 4 U (tm) reputation. Lived through the violent video games are Bad 4 U (tm). So, are smartphones really Bad 4 U (tm), or are they our generations comic books. Time will tell, but I'm betting no.
[01:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:06] <exec> 08└─It's because CO babies have 50% more weed in them from birth compared to god fearing babies. So they need to have the phones given late such that it doesn't affect their development. Also, I feel like this was a move by the state to get $101,250 approved so that they could upgrade GenTax [fastenterp...
[01:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:08] <exec> 08└─Of course he didn't know. If you tell a 4 year old he can dial 911 with a locked phone, he'll be doing it all the time and be a nuisance to the dispatcher. Back when I was a kid and payphones still existed, we miscreants would dial 0 on public payphones and shout swearwords at the operator just beca...
[01:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:11] <exec> 08└─You do not have to unlock an iphone (or android) to call 911 (or 999 in the uk).
[01:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:13] <exec> 08└─Here's a thought - if you don't want your under-13yo kid to have a smartphone, then just don't give one to him/her! There aren't many under-13s who can buy their own. This looks like some wimpy fuck who is afraid to face the consequences of telling his kid he doesn't want to buy him/her an iPhone, a...
[01:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─Can't help it nigga! My nut is too good for a pussy!!
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:17] <exec> 08└─When even a robot can point out the low-tech approach [youtube.com], haven't we gone too far?
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─Lol omg the kids are throwing temper tantrums! Give them their Dyziplen!
[01:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:22] <exec> 08└─Those made great stashboxes for important things, they even played a short loop of music.
[01:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:24] <exec> 08└─There's a party in my head Won't let me go to bed Have to stay up instead Go to the party in my head Though you may call 999 They will hang up every time It's too late they're here with me Off their heads and on the beat
[01:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─We see this kind of thing from time to time. Some person or small group of people decide they don't like the direction the world is going in. The new generation infuriates them with something/anything. So, they want to write a law, because all other parents are to stupid to see the obvious. This Col...
[01:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:29] <exec> 08└─As a kid I knew how to pick up the telephone and see if my friends could come out an play (before climbing into the snow pants and parka and trudging over there). Of course there was only one phone, and it was a party line to boot, and our phone numbers were only 4 digits long. This story isn't abou...
[01:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:31] <exec> 08└─Pandora sucks and 8 tracks are better because you don't have to buffer an 8 track.
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:33] <exec> 08└─"Surely there must be some age below which we could all agree a child should not have a phone." Sorry, but, no. People are complex. Kids are complex. There are kids almost 30 years old who aren't smart enough to decide what to have for dinner. There are other kids almost 10 years old who are pretty...
[01:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you see that from "time to time". But every single day most of us have reason to wonder "Where are the parents??" If you don't, why not tune in the local news on TV some evening, even if you have to watch it on your smart phone. I suspect those kids packing guns and already addicted by 14 migh...
[01:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:37] <exec> 08└─There are kids almost 30 years old who aren't smart enough to decide what to have for dinner.
[01:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, I agree, parenting seems to be a lost art. But, asking your state legislators to take your place as parents isn't the best of all possible solutions.
[01:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:42] <exec> 08└─Should just be banned entirely. They're no less harmful in the hands of adults.
[01:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe this one dad can give his new law a trial run in his own home: tell his child that "somebody" made a law that made it illegal for children to have a 'phone. Now he gets two tantrums: the first when he takes the phone away, and the second when the child discovers the removal is in force until a...
[01:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:46] <exec> 08└─Finally a solution to the problem of butt-dialing.
[01:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:49] <exec> 08└─Still in the larval stage, i see. In pupa she stops bringing it to you and just places it on the first step. You'll want to begin your mushroom and bacteria mat growths in this phase. You should have accumulated plenty of dishes by this point. Hopefully you left some extra biomass in them to start y...
[01:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:51] <exec> 08└─One possible way to solve it is to have the phone require simple mathematical riddles solved. Like "What is the derive of cos(5x+2) ?" ..answer in 30 seconds. Or the phone will lock for a week. If the user is too young they will not be able to answer it. The OS could implement this. And if the user...
[01:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─And that's why welfare (GI Bill, etc.), health care (fix the VA!), and societal support (free food/movies/etc. on military holidays) for vets is a good thing. Don't need a real life Rambo on our hands.
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─I call horse hockey. From what I've heard Seals are pretty fricken smart (I rented a house to one 20 years ago, little fucker was halla smarter than me). I assume anyone who can get into similar services are just as smart. So, I'm gonna say if you can set yourself up to kill people for money, you're...
[01:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:12] <exec> 08└─I think it's unfair at best to say what any of those 3 things do is contract killing. I mean I would normally be all for the trolltrain but I'm riding like 3 already. I'm sure you understand. Also in those 3 you generally get comforted instead of jail celled. Little bit of a discouragement.
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:15] <exec> 08└─n/t
[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─True - as far as the motive goes, but not so true when it comes to method. And its not like there have been a shortage of "high-profile deaths". Including some "untimely" ones. There is enough non-monetary incentives around to start a hit. The problem is there are few hit-men that are interested in...
[01:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:33] <exec> 08└─Just look at the socialist hellhole that is Sweeden
[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─Actually Norway is doing well. The difference to Sweden is that their public figures and media will discuss problems and take action, even if the politicians are slow to act. They have a sense to protect the nation from threats due to being a occupied territory in the past. Oh, and they have the mon...
[01:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:37] <exec> 08└─And the reason they continue to do so is because media is used as a nationwide bully, Stasi style. The main culprits are aftonbladet.se dn.se svt.se tv4.se expressen.se svd.se Which means that if you dare to point out any problem or protest these media houses will make sure you are doxxed, out of jo...
[01:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:12] <exec> 08└─Won't eat meat?! Deport her! I'm a Murcan! I don't care about medical crap! Transgenders say they have medical crap too but that's obviously an excuse! Deport them all!
[01:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:14] <exec> 08└─Yess....but does insect meat contain the particular sugar that this allergen targets? Not clear. It's not even clear that fish does, though in both cases it well might.
[01:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:58] <exec> 08└─Kinda like a Z-buffer?
[01:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah?? M$ has dropped the ball so many times that nobody pays them any mind any more WRT mobile. Apple split desktop and mobile. Ubuntu dropped Ubuntu Touch in their recent rejiggering. A group has picked up that but their website is such a complete mess that I don't know how they expect to accompli...
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[01:18:44] <exec> 08└─plan on getting Gentoo I'm surprised The Mighty Buzzard hasn't already chimed in as he has before. Must be fishing. Calculate Linux [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:46] <exec> 08└─No sweat, dude. 8-) The "reviewer" appears to be pretty much a lightweight (Subsequent comment by you) This guy seemed to think that just because there wasn't a GUI, the functionality didn't exist Yeah. He wants everything to be simple and to work out of the box. Done right, criticism can be a Good...
[01:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:43] <exec> 08└─If you want real beer keep flying stop off in New Zealand first then head back to Oz.
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[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody drinks or smokes while underage. Nobody's parents have ever given them the toy they want, just to get peace... I wouldn't mind having the supplemental excuse of telling my future teenagers: "It's illegal until you're 18", but for now "You can't afford it" will have to do.
[02:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's why I call them smart-ass phones instead, it's much more accurate. They are defective by design and consistently, bizarrely mis-engineered pieces of junk. It's not that we don't have the technology to make something better - it's that the buying public is, collectively, so damn ignorant...
[02:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:37] <exec> 08└─And if the user is smart enough to hack it then they passed the "brains" test anyway.
[02:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe you pointed out the answer. Make the current breed of computer phones so bad that people get dissatisfied with the in large numbers? self replicating malware or whatever. And ad campaigns that ends up in gigantic public shame for the advertiser?
[02:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:41] <exec> 08└─In the past these things required money to get and skills to repair or modify. Parents could just refrain from sponsoring any phone until they are old enough. And if they succeed to acquire the money needed and repair skills then maybe they are smart enough to handle the connectivity too. The only c...
[02:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:43] <exec> 08└─Auto-playing video is evil, despite the work-arounds.
[02:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:46] <exec> 08└─Spoken like somebody who has never used an 8-tack. It has a tape loop. If you stop mid tape, you have to wait for the "beginning" to come around again.
[02:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:48] <exec> 08└─You're so right. Whenever I visit a YouTube watch page, I sure as shit don't want that fucker to auto-play. YOUTUBE IS FUCKING EVIIIIIIL!!!!@11211111`
[02:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:50] <exec> 08└─And if he's not a dad... Snip the sucker so he doesn't procreate more idiots.
[02:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:52] <exec> 08└─Oh no my internet connection is slow today so my 8 track player is experiencing interruptions, said nobody ever.
[02:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you forgot something important about Rambo. They drew first blood.
[02:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:35] <exec> 08└─You seem to be mistaken there. Last I checked, all the nations on Europe's wang still believed in private ownership and free market exchange of goods and services, even if they are welfare states.
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I got mine.
[02:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:39] <exec> 08└─When your economy is driven in large part by a single good, and that good's value drops in half, it will wreck your economy no matter how perfectly you manage it. No "screw up" required.
[02:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:00] <exec> 08└─arms' length (crotch location optional).
[02:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─You do realise that this is exactly what they're doing with that Bakken oil *right now*, and what this pipeline was intended to replace, right? Funny you don't hear many Native Americans protesting against that rail network though. Almost as if there was some financial incentive behind the recent pr...
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[03:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:46] <exec> 08└─Now we just need to wait for the followup article that finds that laser burning makes vegetables carcinogenic ;-)
[03:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:48] <exec> 08└─I used a ballpoint pen to write my name on my bananas. People at work thought I was weird.
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:50] <exec> 08└─Unless the ink is poisonous and there's a osmosis process inside the banana. What you did makes perfect sense. Too many people in IRL that bothers others without consulting the brain first ;)
[03:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:52] <exec> 08└─ALDI removes labels, dumps produce into a giant bin full of flies.
[03:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─Tell us about how they got rid of shirt tags by printing the inside of the shirt. This laser trick is just like that. I'm wearing a shirt right now with care instructions printed on the inside.
[03:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:56] <exec> 08└─The flies are free, right?
[03:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:56] <exec> 08└─A future where people that should not handle powerful things are prevented from doing so?
[03:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:46] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. Everyone is figuring out that cars and trucks are dangerous.
[03:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:47] <exec> 08└─I checked Cabellas' website -- no anti-aircraft guns to be had online or in stores -- likely due to the fact that machine guns and automatic rifles have been banned for ages unless you get a very expensive license from the Feds.
[03:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:49] <exec> 08└─And we can see all over the world, even here at home in the US, how the police don't serve the people. Secondly, how many military dictatorships exist at present? Many.
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[04:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:48] <exec> 08└─The Nazis wrote numbers on the skins of Jews.
[04:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:50] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all -processed- food has barcodes. Where I am, even some (though, not all) fruit and veggies have stickers (with barcodes). The headline would have been more effective if it said "produce" instead of "food". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:52] <exec> 08└─Ugh, worst innovation ever. It's so hard to find shirts these days with proper tags, that you can remove, rather than those awful itchy miserable unremovable printed-on tags.
[04:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:54] <exec> 08└─Used to be the bar codes did not get applied to anything you would eat whole like apples. Now that barcode sticker is made from food grade rice paper and digestible glues and ink. It is officially food. These are put on at the fruit distribution centers, not at the stores. So it seems to me there wo...
[04:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:56] <exec> 08└─Most subtle troll ever.
[04:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booz Allen Under Investigation for Accounting and Billing Practices - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:07] <exec> 08└─If you have lived in the DC area, you know the drill. They are all dirty scumbags. So dirty, the American public wanted to drain the swamp. So we elected Trump. Can't make this stuff up.
[04:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this story really sounds like something straight of The Onion describing a "Local Man" with a really stupid idea for everyone to follow. I actually agree with him that kids probably spend too much time on smartphones, but this proposal is just stupid, unenforceable, won't actually work, and......
[04:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─and get a visit from your friendly neighborhood Reaper drone and lamentations about the collateral casualties if they miss four or five times before they get the right person. Your friends will miss you terribly.
[04:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:24] <exec> 08└─Trump is the President of the United States of America. I have over 7 years of fame left, because my country's success is my success.
[04:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:26] <exec> 08└─c0lo, you have a real talent for writing irrelevant non-statements which have no measureable effect on discussion.
[04:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:28] <exec> 08└─Many of the companies have refused to confirm their attendance publicly, in a sign of how sensitive their dealings with the Trump administration have become in a liberal Silicon Valley that loathes his policies on issues like immigration and climate change.
[04:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:30] <exec> 08└─I am almost positive that everyone on the Left feels Trump is a failure of a human being because of the metrics of success they have set for themselves. Success means participation, not victory. Success means graduation, not employment (read: competence) in your field of study. Success, most importa...
[04:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:05] <exec> 08└─The "world energy group" mentioned probably refers to the International Energy Agency rather than the World Energy Group (yes, it exists). Think Progress [thinkprogress.org] links to one of their reports that claims that while oil trains spill more often, pipelines spill more. Oddly, Forbes and Fort...
[04:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:23] <exec> 08└─Memories of the finest drama/black comedy we shall ever see!
[04:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:25] <exec> 08└─IMDB's suicide made me sick. Fond memories of countless pleasant hours spent reading and participating in the forums. May the bastards responsible for destroying it all rot in hell. Especially the way they mercilessly and pointlessly destroyed all the traces. They could have left the whole vast irre...
[04:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I wouldn't dream of setting up any my system any other way than boot-to-command-line and startx to get X. Boot-to-graphics is infantile.
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[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:37] <exec> 08└─Who wants to guess why they had data about a dead sub on their servers? Also, for fuck's sake that sub. I'm sure it would provide interesting data of some kind about the capability of people to be douchebags. But why would these guys be interested :/ of course it doesn't say much about the methodolo...
[05:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:38] <exec> 08└─We take full responsibility for this situation.
[05:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:00] <exec> 08└─Huh, looks like this already exists [studylockapp.com]. Neat!
[05:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:01] <exec> 08└─"Mommy, how old are you? You have your own phone and daddy said I had to wait until-- Er, Katy, why don't you come back here and we'll see what we can work out for you ..."
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[06:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:37] <exec> 08└─She had to be really pissed to DOX all the people who voted against her.
[06:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:38] <exec> 08└─I believe "responsibility" means the company will cease to exist in the super near future. All people will be let go and it will be no more. In a completely unrelated matter, a similar company (sans any pesky accountability and or responsibility) will form and amazingly employ just about all the sam...
[06:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:40] <exec> 08└─Probably not her but Trump, since 200 million is a majority of population :D
[06:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:58] <exec> 08└─There are small barcodes on some of the produce at the stores I use, but they don't seem to work with the stores' scanners — instead they enter the four-digit number printed on the sticker into the register.
[06:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:03] <exec> 08└─In fact give them a phone preinstalled with LineageOS and a Unix prompt with a 500 page paper manual ;)
[06:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:11] <exec> 08└─Show them something interesting -- WHERE THEY'RE LOOKING, i.e., in front of them. Then move focus beyond that gradually to get them to look around. Maybe place visual stimuli near that "focus area" and get them to move off to the side, drawing attention. There are lots of possibilities.
[06:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:33] <exec> 08└─Doesn't everybody? (Am I that special?)
[06:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:36] <exec> 08└─A cream producing the opposite effect would make someone a billionaire in a few days, starting with just the Indian market.
[06:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:59] <exec> 08└─That depends on the OS and how painful/disruptive or otherwise its upgrade process is. For example, OpenBSD also has a 6 month release cycle (and provides errata patches to release n only until release n+2 comes out), but a very well thought out, predictable & well documented upgrade process for eac...
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[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─..I have never had to do a contract kill before but I would assume people that do are pretty desperate.
[07:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:10] <exec> 08└─Wait, you yourself spend 75 percent of your time looking in that same 90 degree cone straight in front of you. All people do. We have periferal vision to warn us to take a quick peek, then we go right back to the task at hand looking pretty much straight ahead. That's how we operate. If something re...
[07:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:11] <exec> 08└─I find it idiotic for You to make pronouncements about how OTHER people use technology. Who appointed you?
[07:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:14] <exec> 08└─Virtual tour of real estate probably is a market. Maybe grocery shopping after Amazon bolts all the doors at whole foods. And maybe you can ride along with your groceries when they start flying drones off the roof of all the whole foods stores.
[07:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:36] <exec> 08└─Two points: Point one" Linkdude62 is more specialier! He can lob a "irrelevant non-statement which has no measureable effect on the discussion" into a gnat's ear at near up to a thousand yards! Point two: There was no discussion going on, only pathetic emotional response by a betrayed and abandoned...
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[07:21:38] <exec> 08└─I could take everything you just said and replace the word "black" with the word "white" and it would be equally true. What I'm trying to tell you is that you are a horrible racist. No matter how much you want it to be true to make yourself feel superior, there is no racial or ethnic group, or socia...
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[08:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:40] <exec> 08└─I'd be a bit annoyed if they damaged that nice shiny dome on the one in Berlin, but at some point very soon we're gonna need some Reichstag to burn.
[08:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:41] <exec> 08└─I mean this and I say it to everybody: you have to secure the border. You know, in terms of getting people. Now you can use combinations of walls, you can you use fences, you can use, in some cases, the ocean, in this case they have an ocean which is certainly helpful. But you have to do something t...
[08:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:43] <exec> 08└─Interestingly enough it looks the death toll here may be 0. The attacker apparently engaged in an attack of opportunity. The Muslims were crowded around a man who had previously collapsed. He's the only person who died.
[08:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:46] <exec> 08└─To be fair... Muslim terrorists basically have gotten all the practice so they are a lot better at it.
[08:12:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:54] <exec> 08└─We take full responsibility for this situation.
[08:12:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:57] <exec> 08└─I believe "responsibility" means the company will cease to exist in the super near future. All people will be let go and it will be no more. In a completely unrelated matter, a similar company (sans any pesky accountability and or responsibility) will form and amazingly employ just about all the sam...
[08:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:00] <exec> 08└─But that's only half as many as the crowds at his inauguration.
[08:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:02] <exec> 08└─Name, Address, Phone Number Back in the day, that was public information anyone could find in something we called a Phone Book. Kids these days with their instantcheckmate think of a public records search as a doxxing.
[08:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:27] <exec> 08└─How can any 13 year old ever by a smartphone? Don't phones come with connection contracts with service providers in the USA? Even if they don't, much of the functionality, such as cellular data, aren't available without a connection contract. Aren't services used before they're billed - that's credi...
[08:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:28] <exec> 08└─There are phones without contracts, and you can buy them (and minutes and service time cards) with cash. Some of them are pretty cheap. Even smartphones. But there are plenty of things a child could get that a parent may not want them to have. Check up on them occasionally and don't be too paranoid.
[08:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:30] <exec> 08└─Complete separation of children from smartphones isn't necessary, or even useful - but I would suggest that any smartphone seen during a class should be immediately confiscated. If they have to go hours between checking updates, they'll at least learn some restraint. Running over kids with their fac...
[08:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:57] <exec> 08└─I guess you're not cynical enough to acknowledge that quite a few people just need an excuse to do something that itches them, and that they would do without the excuse if they thought they could get away with.
[08:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:46] <exec> 08└─Someone who likes to read opinions preceded or followed by a rational, if arguably limited by time and format, justification.
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[09:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Discover Surprisingly Strong Effects from Protein Variation - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:40] <exec> 08└─Remember the bullshit about "No difference between organic and conventional"? Yeah just like there's no difference between my fat, tendons, muscles and bones whether I have a desk job or train as a pro MMA fighter. No doubt they'll eventually find the differences[1], after publishing enough "half-ba...
[09:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:52] <exec> 08└─Not so sure about the attack itself being *entirely* opportunistic, although the crowd around the collapsed man was absolutely an unfortunate coincidence that probably led to more being injured. Finsbury Park mosque is somewhat notorious in the UK as a former Imam was Abu Hamza [wikipedia.org], whos...
[09:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:53] <exec> 08└─As a white man, can I just make it clear that I strongly condemn the actions of this terrorist and he does not speak or represent me.
[09:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:55] <exec> 08└─Under the PREVENT legislation, apparently I'm supposed to report anyone who might be providing extremist materials to my students. Now that Theresa May has explicitly classified Islamaphobia as extremism, this list includes her, half her cabinet, and several major Tory Party donors. After the cuts i...
[09:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:57] <exec> 08└─(Also, as a British citizen, can I just make it clear that I strongly condemn the actions of this PM and she does not speak or represent me or indeed the majority of the country)
[09:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:00] <exec> 08└─I'm curious what the intended interpretation of the bish's comment was supposed to be: > The Bishop of Stepney, Rt Rev Adrian Newman, said "an attack on one faith is an attack on us all". Is that all faiths, or all humans? The "... one [...], ... all" scheme is typically used for expanding from one...
[09:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:02] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of context that is lost to people looking at it only through the reporting. There is a reason why there are so many Muslim radicals in UK - they were given safe haven when right after independence of British India and its division in Indian and Pakistan. While India spearheaded the No...
[09:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:04] <exec> 08└─It's a guy who you should listen to! Because he's a bishop! He's an expert! Abrahamics, I tell you hwhat.
[09:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:17] <exec> 08└─Apparently most of the information is "public" information. But you know what: that doesn't matter - it's still sensitive. Your movements on the public streets occur in the public view. Still, if i hire someone to follow you, or graze security cameras, I can put together an entire profile: where you...
[09:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:19] <exec> 08└─Frankly, those things should not be public record to begin with, especially not in the digital age where it's so easy to get it.
[09:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:38] <exec> 08└─Bananas bruise so easily, just use your fingernail, or a tooth pick, or matchstick, or bic pen lid, or ...
[09:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:40] <exec> 08└─This story isn't about the arrival of barcodes, it's about using lasers to etch barcodes rather than using labels to attach barcodes. The clue was in the headline that you complained about - notice the mention of swapping labels for lasers?
[09:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:50] <exec> 08└─I suspect this is sarcasm, but I actually do have auto-play blocked on Youtube. You see, I use something called "open in new tab", and if one of the tabs suddenly has a video playing, I need to flip through all of them to find and pause the offender. And that's assuming that audio is playing, otherw...
[09:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:51] <exec> 08└─When I grew up, my parents didn't need a law to tell me I was not allowed to buy a PC until I moved out. Which I didn't do until after I got my degree, so I was actually working as a software developer before I bought a PC of my own. Kinda messed up if you ask me - which this guys kids will probably...
[09:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─Not sure about the USA, but in the UK it's been a long time since you got the best deal going for a contract vs pre-pay for anything other than the highest volume users. I pay 3p/minute for calls, 2p/text, and 1p/MB for data. Most of my data use is via WiFi so I don't run up much of a bill through t...
[09:16:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03corey [2202] 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:15] <exec> 08└─Yep, one bite from the lone star tick—which gets its name from the Texas-shaped splash of white on its back—is enough to reprogram your immune system to forever reject even the smallest nibble of perfectly crisped bacon.
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[10:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:04] <exec> 08└─Abu Hamza has a very interesting time-line, these are just some small excerpts from http://www.historycommons.org [historycommons.org] Early 1997: London-based imam Abu Hamza al-Masri starts working with two branches of the British security services, the police...
[10:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:05] <exec> 08└─The lack of context from the reporting is probably as much to blame as anything else, at least for the recent upswing in race/religious based hate attacks. The amount of media coverage given to Islamic communities' views on terror attacks has been almost non-existant from the start, despite the terr...
[10:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:07] <exec> 08└─The media reports terrorism differently based on the race/religion of the terrorist. Muslim: Lack of integration, radicalization, Muslim community needs to do more White: Loner, weirdo, random deranged individual, impossible to predict
[10:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:23] <exec> 08└─The difference is that, at least in Germany, you can decide yourself if you want to be listed in the phone book. Sure, it's the default, but if you don't want to be listed, you can say so when getting your phone contract, and you'll not be listed.
[10:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:09] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I look forward about 95+% of the time without VR.
[10:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:50] <exec> 08└─Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat), a great Sci-Fi, is getting a sequel.
[10:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:51] <exec> 08└─Grishnakh shits on short film, but nowhere to be found on Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan [soylentnews.org] article that ought to be a prime target for his fate of humanity pessimism. Your argument is pretty Sad! You acknowledge the feasibility of space colonization, but predict a doomsda...
[10:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:37] <exec> 08└─That was somehow evident to me. My attempts were directed towards inciting a discussion (oh, wow, almost a rebellion), as pointless as it may have been in/by itself.
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[11:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:46] <exec> 08└─Competition would be nice, Intel is *so* expensive compared to AMD. Having said that , it would be *nice* if AMD could put AVX-512 on one of their new CPU's, as that seems to be the only thing keeping Intel an exclusive at the high-end.
[11:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:47] <exec> 08└─Who uses AVX-512? Which flavors of AVX-512 [anandtech.com] do they use?
[11:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Discover Surprisingly Strong Effects from Protein Variation - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:56] <exec> 08└─-iveness. All antidepressants take a long time to take effect, as long as two months during which the patient might be continuously suicidal. In different individuals some antidepressants work well, some don't work at all and some produce intolerable side effects. The problem is that before this tes...
[11:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:18] <exec> 08└─White moslem: All of the above
[11:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:20] <exec> 08└─The problem there is there is indeed a healthy amount of support for what most of the world would see as extremely radical beliefs in Islam. Pew carried out this exact sort of polling [pewforum.org] some time back. For one instance among many, 56% of Muslims in the Mideast believe people that leave...
[11:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:22] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, because these narratives tend to actually be true. Islamic terrorism tends to be driven by religious ideology, oddly enough.
[11:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:24] <exec> 08└─You can't change a man's mind. You can cut off a man's head and stick it back onto his neck with a pike. This does not mean that he agreed or will agree with you, but it certainly stops all arguments.
[11:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:26] <exec> 08└─this list includes her, half her cabinet
[11:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:29] <exec> 08└─Racist! How dare you say that in public! Apologise to the worshippera of the Religion of Peace!
[11:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:31] <exec> 08└─Under the PREVENT legislation, apparently I'm supposed to report anyone who might be providing extremist materials to my students. Now that Theresa May has explicitly classified Islamaphobia as extremism
[11:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:33] <exec> 08└─Both islamic extremism and far right ideologies tend to attract the same kind of people. The small time criminal fuckups wanting to make good, and the sheltered kids who cling to an oversimplified worldview to solve the scary complexities of real life, at least in their own mind.
[11:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:50] <exec> 08└─Name, address, birth dates, and phone numbers for a large number of people can be a good start. Add in the political views, and you may have a way to harass or harm people in your area. There seems to be no certainty that this info is actually out in the wild. That's what kills this story.
[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:12] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for the day they use lasers to etch advertisements on russet potatoes.
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─When I had my first job (in a grocery store), actual prices were put on items. That was typically done with stamps that used ink. Years later, there were "price guns" that made paper labels that were stuck on items. I go to a discount store that still does this for all items. Years after that, came...
[11:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:14] <exec> 08└─Yes but yours is tiny and flaccid.
[11:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:23] <exec> 08└─I'd have enjoyed it more! Way too much in sci-fi relies on an unbelievable "good stuff is free" assumption, typically combined with the "one group is hoarding or otherwise restricting access to the good stuff" trope, with the obvious implication that the hoarding group is a group of nasty bad people...
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[12:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:47] <exec> 08└─Instead, we need to work on machines that can build civilization on Mars, not check out the gas clouds on Uranus.
[12:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:48] <exec> 08└─If lack of plutonium is crimping these plans, seems there ought to be alternatives, and there are. Americium-241 is the leading alternative. Hope I live to see it. The article talks of the journey taking 14 years, and they might not launch before the 2030s. 30 years is a long time to wait, particula...
[12:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:51] <exec> 08└─If they rename it Trumpanus maybe he'll head the mission.
[12:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, keep dreaming. Meanwhile, the Chinese will start production facilities on the Moon. From which they can launch at a fraction the cost the launch from the depth of Earth gravity well. The first civilization on Mars will speak mandarin.
[12:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:38] <exec> 08└─Both islamic extremism and far right ideologies tend to attract the same kind of people. The small time criminal fuckups wanting to make good, and the sheltered kids who cling to an oversimplified worldview to solve the scary complexities of real life, at least in their own mind.
[12:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:39] <exec> 08└─OP here. While I don't judge people on their preference on what punishment suits what crime, there is indeed a problem of Muslims failing to contain the radicals. The lack of coverage of lack of support of radicals is very recent phenomenon, one that coincides with rise of far-right in western count...
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[13:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:34] <exec> 08└─Glad to see them standing up for at least one of my rights, even if they do routinely fuck us all on the rest of them.
[13:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:45] <exec> 08└─These missions are far under 1% the cost of doing any real world building on Mars, and need to be timed to take advantage of gravity assists. Our understanding of Uranus, Neptune, and their satellites is incomplete. Similar ice giants appear to be common in the galaxy so studying Uranus and Neptune...
[13:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:50] <exec> 08└─I need to know how to feel about gun ownership, stem cell research, and the right to abortion and I also am unsure of my religion or ethnicity.
[13:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:14] <exec> 08└─"Look, I can see Jesus' face in my potato!"
[13:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─Just look at the socialist hellhole that is Sweeden
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[13:20:48] <exec> 08└─The last CISC Intel processor was the Pentium-MMX. Starting witn Pentium-Pro https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Intel's CPU have used a RISC core
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[14:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nofsck Ingcloo [5242] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:52] <exec> 08└─Two, actually. Now if we could just get SCOTUS to fucus on the fourth....
[14:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:53] <exec> 08└─You know why there's no band named "The Crackers"? Because white people have better things to do than dwell on identity—it's the best thing about being white: You are an individual; there is not even a Whitish Community Center.
[14:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:56] <exec> 08└─You don't have to be white to not buy into identity politics. Just have to have a finely honed bullshit detector.
[14:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:58] <exec> 08└─Open mouth, Insert foot: https://www.google.com [google.com]
[14:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:00] <exec> 08└─I read the "about" page for "The Crackers" [facebook.com]; there is nothing about the word "cracker" having anything to do with the slur, or the need to reclaim it, or whatever.
[14:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─Being tone based, Mandarin is by definition a shit language; on top of that, they employ logograms for their writing system—I mean, you can make this stuff up! Mandarin will never be a prominent language outside of Chinese populations.
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:13] <exec> 08└─Considering the size of "space", it might be a good plan to pinpoint planet 9 before trying to send something there ;) but still, plenty of exciting stuff to explore!
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the Chinese will start production facilities on the Moon.
[14:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:22] <exec> 08└─Gross
[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of this is due to conditioning, because we are most often using screens which we must face directly while holding still. The other more likely reason I would imagine, is that in general, looking "straight ahead" is most natural and comfortable for our necks, so most VR content, eve...
[14:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the ISA visible to the user is CISC with variable length instruction codes and very lax requirements about code and data alignment with respect to word boundaries. RISCs were typically very fussy about these things. The difference in the layouts of the object code and data would often show...
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[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:40] <exec> 08└─It's about time that news media went back to factual reporting and news gathering, rather than slinging innuendo against Trump.
[15:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─"It's about time that news media went back to factual reporting and news gathering" When was that? The majority of it's always been crap. And I don't expect that CNN or any other big media companies are going to reverse course on this. Certainly not right now, they expect to win this.
[15:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:44] <exec> 08└─Pandering to both major parties equally is not objectivity.
[15:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─I believe the correct term is "jumped the shark." I was appalled the last time I watched CNN and that was well before the last election cycle. There was no "news" at all, only opinion and talking heads. They even changed Headline News (which used to be called CNN when CNN was new) to the point it wa...
[15:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:48] <exec> 08└─Handy Guide fact : a statement I agree with opinion : a statement I disagree with
[15:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:50] <exec> 08└─Almasi continued in his statement. “Half of the American public – which includes potential and current CNN viewers – voted for Trump last November and supports his agenda.”
[15:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:53] <exec> 08└─Wow, look at this complete moron who thinks that's not exactly what factual reporting and news gathering does by its nature with a reality-separated idiot as president.
[15:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:55] <exec> 08└─"What is the point of having a news channel when no news is reported?" We used to call it disinformation, but in todays newspeak I believe it's called 'controlling the narrative.'
[15:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:57] <exec> 08└─I thought the news was honest, fair, and balanced well into my teen years. The first time I witnessed some news, then saw that outrageous reporting, it finally dawned on me that maybe more of the news was bullshit. I suspect that a lot of people grow up believing the news. It's probably easy for a l...
[15:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:00] <exec> 08└─I read that as a very blatant threat to pull funding if the "objectivity" wasn't biased a little the other way. Honestly I can't help but think it's possible to remain objective about the recent events in government while still casting a very negative light, simply because rational sanity is more ab...
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─It is however, exactly what one "side" needs to survive now that their ideology has become obsessively reality-averse, essentially trying to make confirmation bias into their official political position. They need some former politician to come out and say "Americans love the freedom of not having r...
[15:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:04] <exec> 08└─There hasn't been a "landslide victory" since about forever. About half vote left, and about half vote right. Almost all of our elections have been that way. 51% of the vote isn't exactly a real "majority". It's more of a "close decision". FFS, counting errors can be larger than some of the "victori...
[15:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, half. When not tallying votes for official counts, one or two percent doesn't make a difference.
[15:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:09] <exec> 08└─Yet, its far more objective than the existing system where roughly 100% of journalism professors are registered democrats, roughly 100% of journalism grads are democrats, roughly 100% of TV news readers are registered democrats, etc. Asking when CNN will present balanced news is literally like askin...
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─See, you say that but... https://www.discogs.com [discogs.com] http://irish-american.org [irish-american.org] http://www.english-heritage.org.uk [english-heritage.org.uk] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://swedishamericanmus...
[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─Your claim, a sentence, a self-contained idea-bearing sequence of words, posed the claim that there was no band with that name. The response demonstrated that there was indeed at least one band with that name. You lost that argument very quickly. Your follow-up whining "but that's not what I meant,...
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─Not killed, mitigated.
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Discover Surprisingly Strong Effects from Protein Variation - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they figure out that mutation rates are high enough for there to be at least one cell containing a mutation at every single site once the population grows beyond a few hundred cells. Further that all these sequences they are getting from DNA pooled from many cells actually do not exi...
[15:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen it firsthand, but someone on an IRC channel claimed it was out there and was going to see about mirroring the torrent to more public trackers.
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─In the US you can pay to not be listed. But this leak is likely to be made up from the voter registration lists, which are generally freely available. For example the list in this area includes party affiliation, address, birth date, and voting history (yes/no). It's a given that the established par...
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─I used to have clearance, and we underwent some rather pedantic training. This sort of reminds me of that. See, you can have several pieces of information that are, by themselves, not considered classified. But, in aggregate, they are a new animal and that may be classified.
[15:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─Is this republican "way" better or worse than the democrat's "blame the russians"? I don't know, it seems less damaging on the face of it...
[15:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─I worked at Aldi for a while between other jobs. Some produce in packets has a barcode, but you are still expected to memorize about a hundred 1, 2 or 3 digit codes to key in. Years later, bananas are 18, avocados are 10, 11 or 12 depending on type. Pink lady apples are 2, jazz apples are 3. forgot...
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:19] <exec> 08└─They standardized the numbers here. Most if not all grocery stores use the same ones. Bannanas are 4011, Green grapes are 4022. etc
[15:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:21] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you weren't at the dumpster?
[15:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booz Allen Under Investigation for Accounting and Billing Practices - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:32] <exec> 08└─And he has done so much to drain that swamp...
[15:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:35] <exec> 08└─flip through all of them
[15:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:36] <exec> 08└─His age he picked seems pretty arbitrary. His own son he took the phone from was 12. He says 13 as a cutoff. He thinks he's going to magically mature that much in less than 12 months?
[15:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:38] <exec> 08└─Not true. You just said it. Sheesh.
[15:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:40] <exec> 08└─I'd like to chime in and point out that goofyshit is the scientific term.
[15:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:08] <exec> 08└─I believe in relativism. Assassinations are relatively more moral than waging war on a populace. Further, assassinations aren't exactly unconstitutional. The founding fathers didn't ban them, after all. Only their wimpy grandsons and great-how-ever-many-great grandchildren have outlawed assassinatio...
[15:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:28] <exec> 08└─This should demonstrate that my comment regarding Liberal sentiment toward the Trump administration was entirely on-topic. Can you submit evidence that my discussion of Liberal social behavior is out of place in a summary which itself includes discussion on Liberal social behavior? This is almost a...
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[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─You learn something new every day.
[16:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:54] <exec> 08└─maybe other systems (BSD?) could be equally suited to the task
[16:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:56] <exec> 08└─I hope Cray doesn't get pissed off and fire me for this: I work as an engineer at Cray Inc., and I would be willing to answer questions about the Top 500 list as well as Cray, with the understanding that the responses are all my own opinions and do not represent Cray's position in any official way...
[16:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:58] <exec> 08└─You'll never find computing so fast or bureaucracy so slow, the contrast is always amusing.
[16:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:01] <exec> 08└─All operating systems in the top-10 are Linux and derivates. It seems obvious that, since it is highly optimized hardware, only operating systems are viable which can be fine-tune (so, either open source or with vendor-support for such customizations). Still I would have thought that, since a lot of...
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:03] <exec> 08└─Y U no *BSD? My guess, from purely public non-NDA sources, is your interconnect driver code is more complicated than a cut-paste-compile job although theoretically you could BSD if you wanted. With a side dish of license problems where GPL means people have to share advances and BSD doesn't require...
[16:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:05] <exec> 08└─"pale in comparison" dat's raciss!
[16:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:08] <exec> 08└─Y U no *BSD? [...]
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:30] <exec> 08└─There hasn't been a "landslide victory" since about forever.
[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─Almasi even threatened Bewkes, saying that Media Research Center plans to alert advertisers about news programs that “peddle smear, hate and political extremism.”
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─So news should change their reporting depending on what the viewers want?
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─If you're really old you had Pravda as an example of extreme leftist propaganda. Now we have CNN to point to, at least as devout as Pravda ever was.
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─Typical loaded argument these idiots go for. He leads with an exaggeration, then makes an unwarranted conclusion. Hillary won the popular vote. Less than half the public voted for The Donald. Just because people voted for Donald doesn't mean they support his agenda. Lot of it was a frustration vote....
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:41] <exec> 08└─When Liberals boycott and have companies pull advertising it is progress and free speech and fighting the fascists. When Republicans boycott its paramount to terrorism and insanity.
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Remember the Dukakis virus? Those were the days! When pimply faced antisocial nerds thought they could change the world from their basements. Not only was Dukakis a loser, but the guy who wrote that virus is still living in his mother's basement today.
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─Let's also be fair and say that not all sides deserve equal time or need to be reported. To take it to the extreme, if Trump eats a baby on national television, we probably don't need to give a voice to those who would find a way to spin it as a good thing. Probably...
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─It's really that simple. Even if you could find some magical objectivity wand, the product that would come out is *inherently more boring* than having a "personality" "packaging" and "delivering" their opinions alongside someone else's opinions. Reporting these days is largely no longer about news....
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─Certainly not right now, they expect to win this.
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─Man, who woulda guessed that people who hate objective fact mod me down for calling a moron exactly what he is.
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─If it were, you wouldn't care about (long list of unimportant people almost no one cares about, here)
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─Yet, its far more objective than the existing system where roughly 100% of journalism professors are registered democrats, roughly 100% of journalism grads are democrats, roughly 100% of TV news readers are registered democrats, etc.
[16:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:59] <exec> 08└─Likewise the conversion of ESPN from a sports channel to a celebrity gossip channel is pretty sick.
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─We can replace our expensive lefty journalists with migrant journalists and H1B journalists Well, we did have Connie Chung... But seriously, the only person that ever spoke factually on the TV was Julia Child
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─I like the Pirate Party. When I read the platform for the Pirate Party in Iceland I thought, "Finally! Somebody whose political head isn't trapped in the 1800's."
[16:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─ABSOTUTELY! Some people, I'm sure, voted for Trump because he was the only real not-Hillary alternative. Really love to know if Sanders would have taken it over Trump. My bet is he would have won.
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─Well it's a shame that electoral votes can't be reversed for a sexist, racist pig of a president for the same thing!
[16:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:10] <exec> 08└─I think it's called tabloid or ratings whore. When it started being about profit, ratings, it stopped being news. This is the case with any "24 hour news" channel and has been for ~20 years at least.
[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:12] <exec> 08└─ultra left wing propaganda
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:14] <exec> 08└─I'd be much more worried that what news is shown to you is determined by a shareholder, than just about anything else. Sure, this is the case in many countries and media, but doesn't that just stink? In the UK, the BBC are required to be "impartial", so they often force programmes that mention polit...
[16:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─You could say that, but Imagine if you spent 10 hours a day digging ditches, when you get home the last thing you want to do is get off the couch.
[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:19] <exec> 08└─I don't care if 50% of the weather channel viewers are at least tangentially interested in Cubs baseball scores, that kind of thing doesn't belong on a weather channel. Both channels have the same owners? I think you know what cross promotion and product placement are. The TV doesn't propagandize, i...
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─You're right! A sitting president under investigation for collusion with a hostile foreign government to subvert the democratic process is so totally un-newsworthy. They should report more about Clinton's email, obviously!
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:23] <exec> 08└─My folks were fans of Mark Koernke [wikipedia.org]. Maybe Liberty Tree Radio g.com] is conservative news?
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─Then I'll rephrase... If it were, you wouldn't care about Bill O'Reilly, Chris Wallace, or Unknown Person bringing coverage to you. If it were, you'd be getting news and not propaganda from ANY domestic American news outlet. Most importantly: If it were, the advertisers would be *paying* for obj...
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─It seems to have had its ups and downs, rather than a steady state of suck. Many laud the era of Walter Cronkite. Many have fond memories of the NPR of old. Others trusted the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. Prior to those, there was such a thing as yellow journalism. CNN and the rest of the media, the rest...
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:30] <exec> 08└─In a commodity market And they are
[16:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:32] <exec> 08└─It makes you wonder if our votes are even being tallied at all. The consistent and repetitive 51/49 split is quite convenient. If you voted for the politician who lost, then you can look and see that well hey, at least 49% of people voted the same way I did. Right? Did they really? After last year's...
[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─the only person that ever spoke factually on the TV was Julia Child
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─they can in no way be called left wing
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─Yet, its far more objective than the existing system where roughly 100% of journalism professors are registered democrats, roughly 100% of journalism grads are democrats, roughly 100% of TV news readers are registered democrats, etc. Asking when CNN will present balanced news is literally like askin...
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─One of those things does not belong... English Heritage is a UK charity that helps maintain historical buildings/monuments/gardens/etc.
[16:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─Yup. Nice Larry Flynt equivalence too in that latter one - if they're sticking up for fundemental rights of scumbags, you can be sure that those rights are still there for the nice guys as well.
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─Fucking English Heritage cracker-ass wankers.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:00] <exec> 08└─Your argument is vapid. Human language is far more complex than one sentence taken out of context; you have to read between the lines, otherwise you're just a useless pedant.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─You know why there's no band named "The Crackers"? Because white people have better things to do than dwell on identity—it's the best thing about being white: You are an individual; there is not even a Whitish Community Center!
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─Your argument is vapid. Human language is far more complex than one sentence taken out of context; you have to read between the lines, otherwise you're just a useless pedant!
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─I read the "about" page for "The Crackers" [facebook.com] [facebook.com]; there is nothing about the word "cracker" having anything to do with the slur, or the need to reclaim it, or whatever!
[16:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─just get SCOTUS to fucus on the fourth
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─Trump will rename all the planets: Mercury: Little Hot-Headed Rubio Venus: Cloudy Windbag Hillary Earth: Golfland Mars: Orangenia Jupiter: Bigly Saturn: Gold-Rings Uranus: Fake Planet, doesn't exist, so sad. Neptune: Future-Casinos, great view Pluto: Where us Crats hang out
[16:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─Do we send the probe to the blue one, or the slightly bluer one?
[16:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:37] <exec> 08└─And all of that's after AVX2, which was after AVX, which was after SSE4, which was after SSSE3. which was after SSE3, which was after SSE2, which was after SSE, which was after MMX, .... Why does anyone trust Intel to design a SIMD instruction set any more, they apparently can't get it right even af...
[16:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:39] <exec> 08└─You may want to look into ARM's SVE ISA (ARM SVE [arm.com]). One really big problem with Intel's SIMD ISAs is that the vector length (SIMD width) is a fixed constant for each ISA version. So, AVX2 is 256 bits wide, and AVX-512 is.. 512 bits wide. All software needs to be at least recompiled, perha...
[16:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Discover Surprisingly Strong Effects from Protein Variation - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─Because Allah loves wondrous variety.
[16:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:23] <exec> 08└─When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
[16:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:24] <exec> 08└─Diversity + Proximity = War The government fails to act, fails to even admit there is a solvable problem, eventually people realize they are in lawless chaos and act accordingly. We won't see counter, counter attacks, because how could we distinguish one from the normal attacks that come with such r...
[16:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:26] <exec> 08└─Gotta remember to check that user name before I read.
[16:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:28] <exec> 08└─All we know is that this kind of attack is part and parcel of big city life.
[16:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─No, "Islamophobia" is like xenophobia, i.e. you merely have to not like it. The mental disorder is merely implied. Stupid ambiguous language.
[16:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:54] <exec> 08└─Thicker bands of beef fat in rare steaks - that I hate. Sear it, and it's gorgeous, of course, but in rare steaks it never works. I'm not really a fan of the fat that sits on top of liver pate either - I'd scrape it off and cook with it perhaps, but never chose to eat it. The liver pate itself is pr...
[16:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:56] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see what information they have on me and mine. It wouldn't be so surprising to find we're on government watch lists. When I started a progressive grassroots organization 15 years ago we came to learn the Secret Service had a dossier on us because we had applied for a permi...
[16:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that's as innovative. Many t-shirts are sold with logos or patterns printed on the front, so it seems straight-forward to use that existing technique to attach sizing information and cut the costs of a fabric label. In contrast, etching lasers weren't already in use in the produce indus...
[16:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:26] <exec> 08└─The second sentence of the summary reads: In their latest step to become more eco-friendly, they're getting rid of the little stickers on their fresh produce.
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─I was going to write a long pseudo-logical rebuttal about how they were right, and we never should have let those mop tops in. I just don't have the energy to go full-on joke troll, today. I think society is doing okay, actually. Still, I wanted to quote some little known Charlie Daniels, which was...
[16:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─Sure, you *might* be able to create an anonymized currency that could be used for that.... If Silk Road could do drug transactions, you could do assassinations, in theory. But buying such is different from bountying such in one very important aspect: How does the assassin collect his money and prove...
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[17:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:51] <exec> 08└─Government's role is NOT supercomputing. Government's role is snooping on its citizens. For prevention and early discovery of thought crime. Supercomputers are merely a means to that necessary end. It's for our own good. Plus, supercomputers can help with weather forecasting.
[17:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:52] <exec> 08└─PAIL in comparison. Can't you deal with a simple typo?
[17:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:55] <exec> 08└─Once again, Linux pretty much has the top 500 sewn up (except 2 Unix boxes).. https://www.top500.org [top500.org]
[17:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:57] <exec> 08└─It is probably a reciprocal relation.
[17:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:59] <exec> 08└─Do we have independent confirmation of the Chinese computer speeds? There are plenty of people who bought Chinese harddisks and found that the capacity was highly exaggerated [reddit.com]. It would be highly unsurprising if the Tianhe-2 magic switch fabric didn't route three million cores effectivel...
[17:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:01] <exec> 08└─Doesn't "Piz Daint Cray" sound like something you'd hear on the streets of Philadelphia? Seriously now, how do you design software and toolchains to take advantage of a large number of cores? Do you need to use specialized languages? How do you manage I/O? I/O is a bottleneck in desktop computing, s...
[17:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:04] <exec> 08└─Never realized Government's role is supercomputing
[17:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:06] <exec> 08└─Plus, supercomputers can help with weather forecasting.
[17:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:08] <exec> 08└─I have a few: 1) What's next in terms of supercomputing hardware? Are we still building what amounts to a Intel PC with a video card and a fancy interconnect? Or will we see more exotic hardware like those Google AI chips or the proposed DARPA CPU: https://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mth [2848] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─Pandering to both major parties equally is not objectivity.
[17:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 828 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:28] <exec> 08└─It is however, exactly what one "side" needs to survive now that their ideology has become obsessively reality-averse, essentially trying to make confirmation bias into their official political position. They need some former politician to come out and say "Americans love the freedom of not having r...
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─Hahahha, I was all on board right up till the end. Defending Trump is like being a flat earther. It ensures people think you are dumb and taints anything it touches. Trump is the biggest liar, gossip, and hypocritical shit talker. He deserves every bit of mud slinging he gets.
[17:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:06] <exec> 08└─So, babies aren't good?
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:08] <exec> 08└─OK cool. If you want to not make money of 321 million people, I strongly encourage the establishment to continue its status quo. If someones stuck in a hole and their response to "stop digging" is "no I like it down here and I'm gonna keep digging" well, have fun with that. Workin great, right? the...
[17:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:11] <exec> 08└─Wrong, for true freedom we need the Fairness Doctrine back http://fair.org [fair.org] Using an extremely hypothetical situation to argue against is disingenuous.
[17:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:13] <exec> 08└─Well with any luck that Pyrrhic victory will lead us forward to a non-violent revolution. However, a new gov born from chaos is rarely a solid one. The good people are undermined by the opportunists because almost by definition the good people don't plan for such scenarios. Decent person: "Let's wor...
[17:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:15] <exec> 08└─That analogy is awful. I came up with a better one. You're running a Star Trek Convention and trying to sign up marketplace people to turn gold pressed latinum into fake tribbles while cutting you some rent. Oddly enough there seems little demand for Harry Potter sellers at your Trek convention. WTF...
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as America. *There is no 'west'. There are no 'people'*. There is only the market collective, and economies of scale. Capitalism is more communist than Communism! And 'terrorism' is the New Red Menace**, even if we do actively support it [brookings.edu], and of course the best...
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─"...reversing the will of the voters..." '... Clinton won 65.8 million votes (48.25%) to almost 63 million (46.15%) for Trump...' Pew Research. http://www.pewresearch.org [pewresearch.org] Maybe you just...
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─TRUMPS WEALTHY FRIENDS MUST BE TRYING TO HELP HIM... HALF the country votes. So that is only 25% of the audience at most... and trump lost some of them already. Not that CNN has much quality news... but the main reason so much negative Trump talk is out there is because that man is an idiot! He is u...
[17:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─True reporting would then do the responsible thing and critique the statements. However they won't do that, or if they do it will be with a panel of "experts" who just yell at each other and make things even more confusing. Sadly there is too much money in propaganda and I don't see a real way forwa...
[17:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:26] <exec> 08└─The 100% figure works if you're talking about Establishment vs. everyone else. That recognizes that the Establishment projects itself in two colors, red and blue, that have no real material difference among them in terms of policy outcomes. We've watched the media cheerlead for Power through several...
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─It is however, exactly what one "side" needs to survive now that their ideology has become obsessively reality-averse, essentially trying to make confirmation bias into their official political position.
[17:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─So cut those numbers in HALF. Trump doesn't even have all the 23% who voted for him; he's lost support from some people who voted for him... possibly losing more than any president. but we won't see him bragging about that one... mostly because it's true (he'd have to exaggerate it too.) These inves...
[17:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:33] <exec> 08└─Huh. I didn't realize pulling the levers on a backhoe was so arduous. :) Anyway, there are always the weekends. People can play sports on the weekends.
[17:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─Good question. And, I happened to find an excuse to use my line today. A supervisor was standing right in the middle of my work area, getting in the way. Arms folded, wearing a frowny face, and apparently thinking hard. "Hey! Gary! This aint' no spectator sport! If you're gonna get in my way, you be...
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:38] <exec> 08└─Oooh! Ooh! This looks like a fun game! Can I play too? Mister Rogers said I can play too! They need to have someone come out and say that the PPACA is the last, best hope for coverage of millions of americans after presentation of the basic fact that it's not the only approach to providing health ca...
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─And 'terrorism' is the New Red Menace**, even if we do actively support it [brookings.edu], and of course the best opportunities emerge when you can play both sides [newsofbahrain.com], right? ** If anything has lost currency, it's this left/right bullshit
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─This doesn't require that much thought. Simply put, if you follow the money, all your questions will be answered. The propaganda, political, religious, whatever, is a simple effective motivational tool. The direction, 'left-right', makes no difference.
[17:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Agree...I think the only shareholder who's opinion counts is Ted Turner"s.
[17:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:46] <exec> 08└─The left/right divide is bullshit, but it hasn't lost currency. Well, you're right. It does sell. I cannot deny the value there, but that is its only real value, measured in dollars changing hands. even now nobody really seriously accuses the other side of the aisle as being secret supporters of ISI...
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:49] <exec> 08└─The Electoral College is the system that America uses, and it's the system under which Trump won, and which Americans understand is the way to be elected President. If Americans decide that system needs to change, great, but you can't throw out the results of the election conducted under that system...
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─I acknowledge there's a core validity to your point, but also come the fuck on with that shit.
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─The statement is demonstrably false. Half of the American public – which includes potential and current CNN viewers – voted for Trump last November and supports his agenda.
[17:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:55] <exec> 08└─I don't think that fairness is the answer. I think that the answer lies in the question of how Fox News is able to claim to be "fair and balanced". Fake balance, fake fairness is the real problem. If you want to put over a partisan viewpoint, that's OK, but you have to be overt about your viewpoint....
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:18] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. Also, it's relevant to note that shocking or "offensive" names for pop music bands are pretty commonplace. There often seems to be an idea of taking some words that are "offensive" and associating with them to give you a sort of unique power. It doesn't have to be about race or som...
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:20] <exec> 08└─Your argument is vapid! Human language is far more complex than one sentence taken out of context; you have to read between the lines, otherwise you're just a useless pedant.
[17:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:22] <exec> 08└─You know why there's no band named "The Crackers"? Because white people have better things to do than dwell on identity—it's the best thing about being white: You are an individual; there is not even a Whitish Community Center...
[17:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:24] <exec> 08└─Good grief! Make up your mind where you want to put the exclamation mark!
[17:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:26] <exec> 08└─Because white people have better things to do than dwell on identity—it's the best thing about being white: You are an individual; there is not even a Whitish Community Center.
[17:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:41] <exec> 08└─> actually it's simply an attack on a group of followers of that faith. But an attack on a random group of followers of one faith is not only terrorism, but an attack on the practice of that religion/faith. Make them fear going to that mosque (see Irak's regular Friday Sunni/Shia bombings), that's a...
[17:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─Another good help would be to stop sending the military into situations that cause PTSD, depression, suicide, etc.
[17:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:46] <exec> 08└─This is a societal meltdown, its becoming everyone for themselves, secret garden plots in the woods, raiding farm fields.
[17:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:47] <exec> 08└─they didn't screw anything, all social programs are ok. This is pure USA intervencionism financing and giving intel to a small minority so big oil can get hold of venezuela's resources
[17:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:26] <exec> 08└─bacon is some geek thing, right? it seemed to become some sort of geek phenomena in the late 90s and won't go away. it was just food before, but now it's achieved some sort of undeserved celebrity, like the Kardashians or Paris Hilton. at least Paris grew up.
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[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I was not aware of this statistics :-) Just for completeness here the other links for some other platforms: Linux (498 in June 2017) [top500.org] Windows (1 in June 2015, statistics stops there) [top500.org] BSD (stable at a low level, no decline) [top500.org] BSD-based (stable for last 4 ye...
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─What would we be without government? Just a bunch of cave-dwelling Neanderthals, minding our own business.
[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─Department of Energy doesn't sound so scary. What could they possibly model, involving enormous amounts of energy, that could be more important than weather? And no need to model on supercomputers. Just do above ground tests in New Jersey.
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─No. We would do what we've always done. Divide into two groups. The cave dwelling Neanderthals minding their own business. And the Neanderthals that realize it's easier to steal other people's food than hunt / grow your own. And they can copulate with the peaceful group's women without having to dea...
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─1) What's next in terms of supercomputing hardware? Are we still building what amounts to a Intel PC with a video card and a fancy interconnect? Or will we see more exotic hardware like those Google AI chips or the proposed DARPA CPU: https://soylentnews.org [soylentn...
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─Perhaps that's because parroting talking points of the Koch Brothers and their think tanks doesn't require any skills? Perhaps it is because people that are interested in reporting facts tend to be Democrats? What your statistic shows is not bias in the media, but the bankruptcy and corruption of vi...
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─As bad as FoxNews is and can be... compared to CNN in the last 2-3 years, Fox is 'Fair and Balanced'. Sometimes we make our own destiny?
[18:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─What the hell are they supposed to do? At no point in the history of the Republic have we had a President who was willing to just blatantly lie to the public like this. The press would be derelict in their duties if they didn't point that out.
[18:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─Look, asshole, it's not the Democrats' fault most of you 'cons can't read past the third grade. You're self-selecting out of the job market for journalism.
[18:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:51] <exec> 08└─You are so fucking CRAZY VLM. I really REALLY wish we could have a SoylentNation Meetup just so we can find out who everyone actually is. From the various times I've actually seen some TV news the "experts" are 99.9% of the time supportive of whatever bias the channel is pushing. There are conservat...
[18:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:53] <exec> 08└─When was that?
[18:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:55] <exec> 08└─So in de-legitimizing the President, they are also de-legitimizing the entire rest of DC and Wall Street and the entire national power structure. The press isn't de-legitimizing Trump. Trump is de-legitimizing Trump.
[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─You've eaten too much of the dog food, Fox news is at least as bad as CNN in the other direction, pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
[18:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, half. Hey Buzzard, parse this for me would you? 46.1 >= 50
[18:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:02] <exec> 08└─Reagan won twice in landslides and I remember them both. Bush stomped nine kinds of hell out of Dukakis as well.
[18:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─Why else would voting machines be pushed through when their security is shown to be terrible? Makes it very VERY easy to change the results. Saw another report on election ballot handling where the "super secret tape" that shouldn't be removable was easily lifted and placed back. Boxes had enough op...
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─Conservative Psych 101
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─Your (or rather TFA's investors) assumption seems to be that the 321 million people would suddenly come around and start watching CNN if only they'd get more "objective." Or a greater fraction than those that currently are. Or that being more objective would effectively be stopping digging a deeper...
[18:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:11] <exec> 08└─I don't know what level of insanity conservative types are at now, but the simple fact is that they excuse everything Trump does as "just words" or "just campaigning" or "just tweets" as if nothing he says matters. It is such a huge mental blind spot that there is simply no excusing any Trump suppor...
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:13] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between balance and objectivity. Balance is when you give an hour of airtime to a math professor, then give an hour of airtime to a group trying to claim the value of Pi is exactly 3. Objectivity is when you only give the second group five minutes, during which you rightly point...
[18:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:41] <exec> 08└─As has been observed countless times by better people than me, free speech ain't free unless it's for everyone. No one's inciting violence or shouting fire in a crowded theater here.
[18:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─Your argument is vapid! Human language is far more complex than one sentence taken out of context; you have to read between the lines, otherwise you're just a useless pedant!
[18:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:45] <exec> 08└─I mean, sure. You'll probably get prosecuted for those things, but that doesn't make such prosecution correct. The people who actually commit violence are the ones who should be prosecuted. The ones who stampede upon hearing "fire" should be prosecuted; or, the ones who own the theater should make i...
[18:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah? I'm learning it. It's a pain in the ass to write Chinese, but Mandarin (Putonghua anyway) is probably the easiest dialect. You want a hard dialect, try classical Cantonese.
[18:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:14] <exec> 08└─Last I read, AVX512 uses so much power they have to throttle the CPU when it's used, which seems to negate its advantages when 256 doesn't cause the same effect.
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─The high-end processor race is exciting again! It has to be repeated. The high-end processor race is exciting again! It has to be repeated. The high-end processor race is exciting again! It has to be repeated, because it's about [bleep]ing time!
[18:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:04] <exec> 08└─The far left have been behind far fewer attacks and casualties. The wiki article about far right terrorism [wikipedia.org] lists over 20 in the USA over the last decade, and notes the following: "As of July 2016, the New America Foundation placed the number killed in terrorist attacks in the U.S. (s...
[18:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:06] <exec> 08└─And to whoever downmodded that as 'flamebait' - have you ever considered the possibility that your personal prejudices might actually not be supported by reality? It's easy to believe what we all want to believe in today's world of social media echo chambers. However, those data and facts are not tr...
[18:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:08] <exec> 08└─I tweeted with the Karma Bonus Modifier. Someone removed it to hide my message. Crooked admins gave Mighty Buzzard the power to remove it.#TrumpTurnberry [twitter.com] #MakeBritainGreatAgain [twitter.com]
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─Now we just need to wait for the followup article that finds that laser burning makes vegetables carcinogenic ;-) Depending on how much of the produce is burnt it might. [theconversation.com] (though it's highly unlikely of course)
[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─Is this a "pieces of flair" reference?
[18:20:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:50] <exec> 08└─I dated an alpha-gal once, but she gave me a meet allergy.
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[19:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─Presumably, these NSA types do stuff with the data on their servers, so keeping that information accessible is also important to enabling them to perform their job functions. Of course, it can be made incrementally more secure by making the data incrementally less accessible... 2FA shouldn't be an o...
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:20] <exec> 08└─From the Hilights of the list [top500.org] I notice this, which doesn't make cents: * Ninety-three (93.0) percent of the systems use processors with eight or more cores * sixty-eight (68.6) percent use twelve or more cores * and twenty-seven (27.2) percent twelve or more cores. Are they using Excel?...
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[19:13:22] <exec> 08└─You seem to imply that Trump is a violent aggressive Neanderthal that lies and steals, and then just walks up to peaceful Neanderthal women and grabs them by their pussy.... Yeah, I think your analogy works out just fine :)
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─Ohhh, with Orange Anus fully on board with the Republican position that Climate Change doesn't exist, and our exit from the Paris agreement, weather prediction and modeling just got a lot easier. It's going to be hotter. There's your 100 year forecast :)
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─[...] how do you design software and toolchains to take advantage of a large number of cores? Do you need to use specialized languages? How do you manage I/O? I/O is a bottleneck in desktop computing, so it must be a serious consideration in supercomputing. How hot does the room get when you have...
[19:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─As someone in the HPC space, I think China's claims on their two top machines are credible. The thing to keep in mind is that the Top 500 list is based on what is essentially a single number: HPL performance. That's not a good benchmark for sustained performance on real science/industry codes. So, a...
[19:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:54] <exec> 08└─So in de-legitimizing the President, they are also de-legitimizing the entire rest of DC and Wall Street and the entire national power structure. The press isn't de-legitimizing Trump. Trump is de-legitimizing Trump.
[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─When you are sitting on the extreme right, everything else is left.
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:06] <exec> 08└─Oh VLM, you are hilarious. Never mind all the reports of CNNs spectacular numbers since the election, but no worries, I'm sure that's fake news to you.
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─Found the guy who's never had a labor based job in his life.
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─Christ, if you think *CNN* is that extreme, go watch RT sometime. Please. I think the world might appreciate the resulting cranial explosion ;) And RT is actually kinda tame these days...
[19:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:13] <exec> 08└─How have they fooled millions of conservatives for so long?
[19:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:15] <exec> 08└─http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/april-2017-ratings-msnbc-is-no-2-in-prime-time-thanks-to-rachel-maddow/328262 [adweek.com]
[19:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:17] <exec> 08└─Just proves yet again that Drumpfkins are on another friggin planet from the rest of humanity.
[19:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:19] <exec> 08└─The big problem I always have with the idea of a "liberal bias" in the news is this: cable news sucks, newspapers are going down like a lead balloon, and internet news is...memes. Memes everywhere. So I don't give half a shit about how "liberal biased" CNN is, because I wouldn't watch that shit no m...
[19:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 2085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:21] <exec> 08└─Nope, it ain't even about ratings in any sort of general sense. The Legacy Media business model is to lose money, something they do wonderfully. Seriously, NBC News is not a profit center and NBC has always considered it a "public service" to operate it at a loss. Same for CBS News, ABC News, Time W...
[19:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:24] <exec> 08└─Fox News no longer claims [nytimes.com] to be "fair and balanced".
[19:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't it fun how conservatives have turned the "tolerance and respect" that liberals value against us? SO FUN! Just another tool in their mud slinging projection kit.
[19:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:28] <exec> 08└─At no point in the history of the Republic have we had a President who was willing to just blatantly lie to the public like this.
[19:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:31] <exec> 08└─They need some former politician to come out and say "Americans love the freedom of not having reliable healthcare" for balance after presentation of the basic fact that non-partisan analysis of the AHCA suggests 25-35 million people will lose coverage if it's passed. It's not actually true in any o...
[19:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:33] <exec> 08└─So in 8 years of Obama the best you can come up with is "you can keep your doctor" when 99% of people did in fact keep their doctor?
[19:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:05] <exec> 08└─just get SCOTUS to fucus on the fourth
[19:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:24] <exec> 08└─Your biggest assumption is that Planet 9 exists at all.
[19:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia is really quite a poor source for contemporary potentially controversial topics. You can find sources, which can be spun as reputable, saying just about anything which enables Wiki editors to say just about anything. The article that Wikipedia sources to produce those data is extremely arb...
[19:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:30] <exec> 08└─What, the border with Wales?
[19:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:32] <exec> 08└─What an unfortunate sign of the times. Neither Islamist nor anti-Islamist attacks should be condoned. I'm increasingly seeing "end times" prophecy come to pass. It's truly sad that humanity is so fallen, and there is so much anger and corruption in the world. I only wish that it was clearer how to a...
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:58] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in what the Republican party thinks of me, if anything. Not that I think that anybody with access to my congressional correspondence would even bother trying to sell me the current Republican agenda.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─I welcome this move and hope to see US retailers do the same. The need to dispose of a sticker before I can eat my produce is one of the small inconveniences that contribute to junk food being more convenient than tastier and healthier fresh fruit.
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booz Allen Under Investigation for Accounting and Billing Practices - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─Well if you hold to the same beliefs as those who elected them then he IS draining the swamp. He is destroying every government agency and giving handouts to his business friends. The conservative base has been brainwashed to believe this is a good thing, because y'know, business is all about profit...
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─Holy crap how obnoxious. I've got a better idea for a law: make it illegal for fuckwits like this to bear children.
[19:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:54] <exec> 08└─True that! I know of one 71 year old guy that should probably have his phone taken away too!
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:56] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing his parents sucked up to Tipper Gore and her posse of censors at Parents Music Resource Center. Damn liberals! On the plus side, Trump opposes this measure since it would make it impossible to communicate with his next wife.
[19:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:29] <exec> 08└─... libertarians began to discuss the potential for crypto-currency prediction markets to become crowdfunded assassination markets How is this about libertarianism? Libertarians are pro-assassination?
[19:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─Yes. Just look at the socialist hellhole that is Sweeden and Norway compared to the libertarian paradises like Somalia. World Happiness Index [sciencealert.com] Norway #1 Sweden #10 Both beating USA at #13
[19:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─Correct, centralized planning doesn't work. On the flip side, complete market freedom does not work either although the results of the failures are a little different. The answer? I'm glad you asked! Centralized planning / regulation with a light application the maximizes the market flexibility for...
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─I see your brain is still working on the binary system, sadly your OS will be deprecated because only software that can adapt to the needs of quantum superposition will be successful moving forward. I believe your hardware is actually compatible, but possibly you have a short between the two mainboa...
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─So why are you all angry? Guess you still can't find someone to ride that micro penis you've got. Maybe check www.midgetdating.ca ? Projection is an ugly psychological trait that results in greater harm to the individual over time. Get yourself into therapy guy.
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─We've just been lucky so far, and our leaders haven't been nearly as incompetent. Our luck is running out. And we're not getting UBI; it's a great idea, but the largest economies will never implement it. Look at the history of human civilization: civilizations *never* fix their problems. They always...
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[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─When a business does poorly, it goes bankrupt. When a government does poorly, it demands more money. Then again, what did you expect from a monopoly, especially one that is violently imposed?
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria from Hot Springs Solve Mystery of Metabolism - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:58] <exec> 08└─As I was reading along, it felt like reading science fiction from Asimov or David Brin. Detailed processes which seem fantastic and yet invite you to nod in agreement because you can follow the logic, even though you know it is only (science)fiction. You breathe in, the oxygen gets extracted, and th...
[20:15:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:09] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between balance and objectivity. Balance is when you give an hour of airtime to a math professor, then give an hour of airtime to a group trying to claim the value of Pi is exactly 3. Objectivity is when you only give the second group five minutes, during which you rightly point...
[20:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:57] <exec> 08└─Your argument is vapid! Human language is far more complex than one sentence taken out of context; you have to read between the lines, otherwise you're just a useless pedant...
[20:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:59] <exec> 08└─I'm all for objective, instead of subjective, evaluations so don't consider this an argument against the ruling. But....consider the fact that a Trademark is a government provided infringement of my free speech. I can't walking around calling myself Coca-Cola, some people can't sell software using t...
[20:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:20] <exec> 08└─Mandarin will never be a prominent language outside of Chinese populations.
[20:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─Raw statistics are not politically correct. So far in Ramadan we have: 145 attacks in the name of Islam, causing 1350 deaths 0 attacks in the name of any other religion, causing 0 deaths 1 attack in opposition to Islam, causing 0 or 1 death (person had collapsed before the vehicle hit) Daily scoreca...
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─At my buildings you can use the bathroom you feel is appropriate. There’s a big move to create new bathrooms. First of all, I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is.
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[21:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:53] <exec> 08└─we could have a language in which sounds relate holistically to their meanings
[21:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─So it's like RISC vs CISC?
[21:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:57] <exec> 08└─Interesting, although that website design reminds me too much of the heaven's gate website [heavensgate.com](yes, it's been twenty years after Hale-Bopp and their site is still up, which must be some sort of record).
[21:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 2125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:59] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem: there are only so many reasonable phonemes to make with your mouth. Most languages have around 50, some have up to 100 or so. If you count variations on African "click" languages, you might get up to 150 or so sounds humans could theoretically use as part of speech if we were sen...
[21:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:01] <exec> 08└─Chomsky's a punk.
[21:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─Reality Winner was pretty stupid person. Yellow dots have been a thing for well over 10 years. The intel she stole wasn't worth the effort, it was all Russian info, and contained nothing that was not clearly within the Congressionally mandated mission of the NSA. It was only classified because it re...
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria from Hot Springs Solve Mystery of Metabolism - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there not so long ago an article about how a human voice can be simulated with a few hundred samples. Carl Sagan surely has left us enough samples of his voice. Maybe one day "voice fonts" will be readily available for speech synthesizers that everyone commonly has in all their devices. Now,...
[21:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria from Hot Springs Solve Mystery of Metabolism - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:23] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there not so long ago an article about how a human voice can be simulated with a few hundred samples. Carl Sagan surely has left us enough samples of his voice. Maybe one day "voice fonts" will be readily available for speech synthesizers that everyone commonly has in all their devices.
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria from Hot Springs Solve Mystery of Metabolism - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─So it was? I didn't know it about the voice font thing, it actually is a nice thing. Teaching evolution? But that could mean more complicated implications than simply understanding a narrative. It might lead to understanding how vaccines work. Or how babies end up forming from piling up cells from z...
[21:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:01] <exec> 08└─Great answers. Thank you.
[21:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:02] <exec> 08└─What's your take on the new storage and memory technologies? Examples: High Bandwidth Memory Hybrid Memory Cube GDDR6/GDDR5X/DDR5 3D QLC NAND NAND with 64-96 layers Intel/Micron 3D XPoint (the only significant post-NAND technology to make it to market) and last but probably least, helium-filled shin...
[21:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:05] <exec> 08└─He did deal with it. Deplorably.
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:07] <exec> 08└─What do you think #5 on the list is mostly used for? I'll give you a clue: it's not for weather forecasting.
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─Probably just typo hell. From the Green500 press release: The top four positions are all occupied by newly installed systems in Japan, with the upgraded Piz Daint supercomputer capturing the number five spot. [...] 5 100 Wilkes-2 - Dell C4130, Xeon E5-2650v4 12C 2.2GHz, Infiniband EDR, NVIDIA Tesl...
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─If China is already passing the USA in peak funny numbers, how long until they pass the USA on a more meaningful metric? Probably not too long, unless the USA actually tries hard to keep its lead.
[21:15:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1008 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:28] <exec> 08└─The Electoral College is the system that America uses, and it's the system under which Trump won, and which Americans understand is the way to be elected President. If Americans decide that system needs to change, great, but you can't throw out the results of the election conducted under that system...
[21:15:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─What the hell are they supposed to do? At no point in the history of the Republic have we had a President who was willing to just blatantly lie to the public like this. The press would be derelict in their duties if they didn't point that out.
[21:16:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Two Time Warner Shareholders Urge CNN CEO to be More Objective - 1864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:00] <exec> 08└─They need some former politician to come out and say "Americans love the freedom of not having reliable healthcare" for balance after presentation of the basic fact that non-partisan analysis of the AHCA suggests 25-35 million people will lose coverage if it's passed. It's not actually true in any o...
[21:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:36] <exec> 08└─First off, No you cannot just trademark common words. A band could not just call themselves The Grapes and trademark the word Grapes, this does not magically change when you swap "Grapes" for "Crackers" or "Slants". The law prohibiting the registration of any trademark that may "disparage" some grou...
[21:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:38] <exec> 08└─Your argument is vapid. Human language is far more complex than one sentence taken out of context; you have to read between the lines, otherwise you're just a useless pedant...
[21:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:40] <exec> 08└─You know why there's no band named "The Crackers"?! Because white people have better things to do than dwell on identity—it's the best thing about being white: You are an individual; there is not even a Whitish Community Center.
[21:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, punk didn't care about who it offended, that was one of the better things about it. I only discovered how The Pogues got their name a few months ago. Punk in a more Oi! incarnation also gave us classics like The 4-Skins. My, how we tittered. Well, I was a tweenie at the time.
[21:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:03] <exec> 08└─After listening to one of Michael Brown's recent talks, I'm on board. If it's not real, it should become clear pretty soon since they have narrowed its hypothetical location to a very small patch of the night sky.
[21:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:17] <exec> 08└─octo is the new quad
[21:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:18] <exec> 08└─xeon phi - 3D FFT - electrostatic calculations...
[21:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─I would never open a casino in Wales. The Welsh are terrible for the gaming industry. Very bad at paying their gambling debts. And I don't need to tell you, Welsh radicalism is a big problem. But when Britain leaves the EU it will be its own country, and there will be borders. If you don't have bord...
[21:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Exposed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:42] <exec> 08└─Be careful. Could be a honeypot, malware, etc.
[21:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:39] <exec> 08└─Too bad browsers aren't more modular. They're a bloated codebase the user has little control over :(
[21:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:55] <exec> 08└─The birds? No, no. The tardigrades are probably already more intelligent than huuumans. For sure they are already much more adapted to any kind of cosmic catastrophy. Plus they have an interesting level of horizontal gene transfer going on. Their DNA is borrowing survival know-how from many other sp...
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─Alright, we'll take this a little slower. The article is discussing the paranoia with which extremely powerful people are treading around the topic of even speaking with President Trump. Take one very small step back from that objective truth, and we can ask the question, "Why are these extremely po...
[21:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:45] <exec> 08└─"My attempts were directed towards inciting a discussion" Your post was claiming that I randomly hit keys on my keyboard to create my comment, and that is pretty much all.
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[22:12:58] <exec> 08└─Also, by the way, I don't buy the common linguistics assumption of the "arbitrariness of the sign" either. That is, many linguists would tell you that the connection between a word and its referent is arbitrary -- e.g., there's no reason why CAT should refer to a feline animal rather than, say, to a...
[22:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:59] <exec> 08└─The Negev Bedouin are an endangered species, soon to see their lifestyle extinguished as they are forced into becoming sedentary by the benevolent theocracy controlling their silly wrong-God lives. Better document that language fast before it's gone.
[22:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:01] <exec> 08└─Discredit by association...that's the way to do it! It's not like heavensgate.com is an abandoned site that hasn't been touched for 20 years; someone's obviously paying the bills. Updated Date: 19-aug-2016 Creation Date: 18-dec-1997 Expiration Date: 17-dec-2017
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─A commie punko.
[22:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─all the other sign languages. Wow, who'd have thunk it.
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sure a convenient and reliable custom 2FA system could be designed and implemented by them, say with key fobs or something, but they would design it with a backdoor wider than a barn and defeat the purpose.
[22:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:37] <exec> 08└─One London-based comedian I quite liked, a first generation immigrant of middle-eastern extraction, arrived at "Nigels" for the same purpose. White brits were his precise target. (I think he was actually borrowing a Harry Enfield joke from half a decade earlier.)
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─My new favourite troll
[22:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Food Retailer Swaps Labels for Lasers - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:12] <exec> 08└─How efficient are the lasers, and how are they generating the electricity to use them? I really wish we as ordinary consumers were not so mired in "Eco" and "Organic" as marketing. If we weren't so concerned with "looking" eco I imagine it wouldn't be much of an issue. Unfortunately, we can trust th...
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[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─From http://cryptome.org [cryptome.org], Part 1:- It was not my intention to provide such a "tough nut to crack" by arguing the general case, claiming that a person who hires a hit man is not guilty of murder under libertarian principles. Obviously, the problem with the general case is that...
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[23:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discontinues Edison, Galileo, and Joule Product Lines - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:49] <exec> 08└─ARM 100 - 0 Intel Eventually they'll give up. Maybe the problem was them attempting to bring the full *power* of the x86 anywhere - nobody wants an internet-connected hairbrush that's too hot to hold. (Might make a good internet-connected crimper, though?)
[23:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:07] <exec> 08└─See Subject.
[23:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I love the way the article starts by telling a fantastic story about sounds, and then ends it with "well they found the gesture equivalent!!!!yksteist!!" Bait and switch is a terrible argumentation technique in any field. I believe the relevant logical fallacy is called argumentum ad doing rea...
[23:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's NOT what TFA or even TFS summary says. From the summary: ABSL contrasts sharply with other sign languages like American Sign Language (ASL), which creates words by re-combining a small collection of gestural elements such as hand shapes, movements, and hand positions.
[23:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:13] <exec> 08└─from the site: Hard copy editions of the book may be ordered through TELAH Services for $45 US. This includes shipping and handling, via priority mail.
[23:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn't Exist - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:15] <exec> 08└─Although many Chinese characters – which are very often words, not just phonetic components – are formed from a root character and some additional symbology, a very large number of them stand alone. If hand-waving is words, then perhaps Chinese characters are words too. They're made of various n...
[23:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─"Giving the NSA more funding could probably fix it." You forgot the <sarcasm> tag.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─It demands more money and more of your liberty and privacy. The latter bit is worse I think.
[23:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the article. Why would the NSA tolerate a back-door in its internal systems? Out of mere force of habit?
[23:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Had NFI About Opsec: 2016 Audit Found Laughably Bad Security - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:32] <exec> 08└─In many ways, taking your money is taking your liberty.
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria from Hot Springs Solve Mystery of Metabolism - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:43] <exec> 08└─There's also Adobe Voco. /article.pl?sid=16/11/23/1449252 [soylentnews.org]
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New List of TOP500 Supercomputers [Updated] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─It's more interesting to note where the two AIX rigs are. Positions 494 and 495 out of 500!
[23:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:54] <exec> 08└─What you mentioned provides fraud (a crime) protection to citizens. What we're talking about provides hurt feelings (not a crime) protection to snowflakes.
[23:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Unanimous SCOTUS Victories for Free Speech - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:56] <exec> 08└─Gee, I wish everyone could be born with genetics that prevent a wide range of assaults. It would just be so nice if everyone CHOSE not to be discriminated against. I'm curious, do you attend church? Do you identify as a Republican?
[23:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:33] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to see AMD offering products that are competitive with Intel's again. They've done very well, and if I were in the market for a brand new high end desktop, I would choose AMD Ryzen.
[23:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theresa May Condemns 'Sickening' Finsbury Park Terror Attack - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:31] <exec> 08└─People casually using terms defined for medical assessment making it common usage. Like idiot and moron. The kafirophobes are no better when speaking arabic.
[23:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Dad Wants to Ban Smartphone Sales to Children - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:56] <exec> 08└─............ I bet you sell pitchforks on reddit
[23:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─Angry? Son, you couldn't get me angry if you tried. It don't require anger to mock a dumbass, just amusement.
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