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[00:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:15] <exec> 08└─We have scientists routinely announcing the existence of planets circling suns light years away - but they can't quite decide how many planets circle our own sun. I think to many people are publishing guesses based on inadequate information. Which is perfectly fine, really. But, maybe those news rel...
[00:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:17] <exec> 08└─We can detect exoplanets when they get between us and their star...for Planet Ten, that won't work.
[00:33:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:31] <exec> 08└─Well, you're forgetting that Germans have a strong history of banning certain types of speech — ones that are disliked by the government in power — a few years before the war.
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─Really, at the end of the day. You think the police state gives a shit about your actual political views?
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─Have your own red pill: http://www.spiked-online.com [spiked-online.com] PS: Does nobody realize the Matrix stole that fucking pill from total recall where it's poison meant to kill you?
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─How stupid are you really? Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email origin...
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─Why? They're harmless. Just ignore them.
[00:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─Hey boobies!!!!!
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Oh please... Left/right... show me any real difference. Authoritarians are authoritarians. This whole left/right bullshit is nothing but a distraction, but that does not diminish its effectiveness amongst the plebs obviously.
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─They're about as harmless as flies at a barbecue. One or two can be ignored. Too many and everyone packs up and goes home early.
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─The irony of bitching about this on a post that is ostentatiously about free speech.... Free speech means just that. If you draw a line somewhere then you can move that line around to please whatever political whim you want.
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─No no no! Every AC needs to be banned permanently! Except the one special AC who self identifies as Gewg-Jewg-Jewj-Niger-Nigger!! The ORIGINAL NIGGER is the ONLY NIGGER and the ONE TRUE NIGGER deserves PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT!!!!!!!!!
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, your one example is in total parity with the hundreds of examples from the left. Every ideology must be perfect except yours, eh?
[00:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:01] <exec> 08└─Scope. Currently the ideology of the left is pushing damned hard for censorship of all sorts. The right isn't. They have entirely different things that make them cocksuckers.
[00:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─Downmods are about as harmless as flies at a barbecue. One or two can be ignored. Too many and the troll gets pissed off and bypasses your stupid fucking bans and becomes a prolific shitposter because your site deserves to be full of shit. What did Obi-Wan say about striking me down? Good work, idio...
[00:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─Ignore inappropriate behaviour...
[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:07] <exec> 08└─The supreme court has put limits on free speech.
[00:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:10] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping that Ethanol isn't German! Run, Ethanol, run!
[00:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, threats are. "Hate speech", however, is not and likely never will be because it is entirely undefined as anything but "this disagrees with leftist ideology in some way".
[00:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:14] <exec> 08└─I'd say he's safe but he's out in Cali last I heard so not really any safer.
[00:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─So you expect me to do the legwork for you and dig up more ample examples? I have to admit though, I wish I had your telepathic gift of being able to deduct someone's "ideology" from a single off-hand post like that. Must come in real handy.
[00:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─The left ladies and gentlemen.
[00:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:21] <exec> 08└─Col. Kurz: "You don't approve of my methods?" Capt. Willard: "Frankly, Sir, I don't see any method" Prepare for Apocaylpse Now analogy: AC: "And you want to censor the free speech right to keep posting "n****" posts? Me: "Frankly, I do not see any speech. I see flies. Flies that are born in shit, gr...
[00:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:23] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered about how Ethanol-fueled gets away with his rants on things like "niggers in my yard", and still has "Friends" on his account who include some of the editorial posters on Soylent. I guess that's the part of Soylant that disturbs me the most.
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─"Red Pill" is a back-formation from "red pillar", which refers to a certain male appendage that has been, um, abused to the point it bleeds. Makes for Sad Puppies, and misogyny. Thus, these types are called, "Red Pillars". Seems like they want to speak about something.
[00:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─No ideology has a perfect followership unless nobody actually holds it. Humans are one and all imperfect.
[00:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:14] <exec> 08└─Gee, if my wife gives birth to another baby this year, he or she will be a teenager by the time this launches. And me, I'll be well on my way to becoming a senior citizen. I certainly hope that they make good use of the seventeen year deadline.
[00:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─After a certain age, one gets what one can as a bed partner. (grin)
[00:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─I meant the memory module area, not CPU/GPU area where fans and heatsinks are provisiioned from the original design.
[00:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─Very good, little AC, you are familiar with one of Asimov's stories. And, did Asimov establish that space travel would put an end to religion? A simple yes or no would do very nicely here.
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[01:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─The extrasolar planets are discovered by detecting the wobble of the star caused by the planet and/or the fall in the amount of starlight received when the planet passes in front of the star. There is really nothing else that could be creating this data except for planets. However, neither of these...
[01:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Come on, Runaway. Would it kill you to do some research on space topics [soylentnews.org]? http://www.planetary.org [planetary.org] Basically, you can monitor a distant star's brightness. If you see it dim numerous times over months or years,...
[01:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─All science is provisional. [hermiene.net] The lack of disclaimers is something of a convention. If you're sure enough about something to several sigmas then you might as well say it with certainty. The exoplanet data is certain enough to that degree. A substantial planet though, even one on the sca...
[01:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─However, the most recent available data disfavours the existence of such a large planet of Uranus/Neptune scale in the Kuiper belt
[01:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─A) He doesn't take himself seriously, ever. B) He's funny in IRC.
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Flaming or not is up to you. Nothing stopping you from posting a perfectly rational disagreement except your own mind. I don't have those kinds of super powers.
[01:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:21] <exec> 08└─That's what I'm saying though. I don't need to point out examples of either because I fully understand the point that they take turns. You clearly understand this too. Which is why it's so damnably confusing that you can at the same time be one of the types that condenses it down to either wing's is...
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─Go read some history of Germany before WWII. The Wiemar Republic banned hate speech as well. It failed hard because such trials became big propaganda venues for the Nazis. It is a self-check to prevent the atrocities that lead up to the war from ever happening again.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─I agree with you on that.
[01:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2, Offtopic) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─You are acting as an editor with your original posting of the articles. That's hardly the same thing as a normal post in response to articles. Whatever. Until Soylent cleans up and finds a way to avoid this kind of blatant partisanship in article summaries I won't take Soylent seriously and it won...
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:30] <exec> 08└─A) He doesn't take himself seriously, ever. B) He's funny in IRC.
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:33] <exec> 08└─authoritarian leanings, which would be the right Nope. You would only say such nonsense if your completely-wrong "knowledge" of politics is 1-dimensional. Left and Right, properly labeled, would be Socialist and Capitalist, respectively. Now, there is often some overlap with folks' position on anoth...
[01:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:36] <exec> 08└─Why, you ask? Because if group A is doing something you disapprove of, you point the finger directly at them. It doesn't matter if group B is doing something different that you disapprove of; that changes not one iota of the blame for group A.
[01:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─Being as you've never spoken to us outside comments, I hold your opinion to be of very little value.
[01:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:40] <exec> 08└─No, I'm acting as a submitter same as you lot. We allow a certain amount of editorializing per story and that wasn't even really editorializing because it was absolutely factually true. The left is currently running the German government and they are unequivocally the ones who ordered these arrests.
[01:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:42] <exec> 08└─Just think. EF has you triggered. And he didn't even post in this thread. That's funny.
[01:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:44] <exec> 08└─The left used to be the right and vice-versa That's nonsense. ...and it's clear that you don't understand those terms in the slightest. They're ECONOMIC positions. Right==Capitalist; friendly with management and large stockholders Left==Anti-Capitalist; worker-friendly; The Workers are the owners an...
[01:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:47] <exec> 08└─The left is currently running the German government
[01:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:49] <exec> 08└─Being as you've never spoken to us outside comments, I hold your opinion to be of very little value.
[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Sunday’s Launch, SpaceX to Test “Significantly Upgraded” Grid Fins [Update 2] - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:24] <exec> 08└─For anyone wondering about the names, they are both ships from the Iain M Banks culture series. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This series has to be my favourite SF.
[01:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocoin GPU Bubble? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:18] <exec> 08└─"Do not play it for this is what I'm saying. But it is being played for that." Although he graduated from Harvard College, has been editior in chier for the Harvard Crimson and then a reporter, he cannot be quoted saying anything coherent?
[01:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocoin GPU Bubble? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:19] <exec> 08└─That might answer my previous post.
[01:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:30] <exec> 08└─I'm at a university that has access to all the journals. I STILL go to scihub because you cut and paste the title and it just gets it for you as a pdf download. There's no cumbersome Javascript whizzbang grinding away trying to autolink the references, or recommending crud to me or "not finding" my...
[01:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:17] <exec> 08└─A simple yes or no would do very nicely here.
[01:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's New Mission - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─It seems being surrounded by drones is part of life and the remedy is to get elsewhere when the drones are about to learn about brick walls and reality.
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─How much RAM is needed for non-de-duplication ZFS ? (per TB etc)
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[02:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:24] <exec> 08└─In other news, buggy whip makers join forces with coal miners and computer repairmen to Build A Wall.
[02:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:25] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks this is a normal act needs to read a 20th century history book NOW. They're not even pretending to be secretive about stuff now!
[02:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:27] <exec> 08└─No worry. Cameras are still allowed. Only the venue has changed. http://www.cc.com [cc.com]
[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:41] <exec> 08└─Come on, Runaway. Would it kill you to do some research on space topics [soylentnews.org]?
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:43] <exec> 08└─This is not "Planet Ten" or "Planet Nine" because by definition, and specifically mentioned in TFA, this cannot be considered a planet. It has not cleared its "neighborhood" which is why they refer to it as a "planetary mass object".
[02:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:45] <exec> 08└─Planet Nine is just a common name for the hypothesized Neptune-like object at this point. The rest of the references are in quotation marks, or it is referred to as a planetary mass object.
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─Again, I wish you lazy humps would learn and use the correct terminology. Those are Reactionaries and Progressives.
[02:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:47] <exec> 08└─Personal attacks? You know me better than that. When has anyone here ever been in doubt if I was issuing a personal attack? As for IRC, that's where the staff do the vast majority of our communicating, so we're almost always logged in. Quite a lot of discussion goes on there that you're apparently u...
[02:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:49] <exec> 08└─The left is currently running the German government Heh. Yeah, Angela Merkel is so completely anti-Capitalist. I just don't understand how German bankers have come to dominate Europe on her watch. (In a few more weeks, I expect them to completely own Greece.) Those damned Leftists and their deep con...
[02:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:51] <exec> 08└─More pre-Nazi. They're working up to it though.
[02:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:54] <exec> 08└─She matches up with our far-left-wing politicians pretty nicely. What else would you prefer I call her?
[02:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:56] <exec> 08└─So, O Mandatory Buzzfeed, you are not familiar with the American roots of German anti-hate speech laws? Lots of people, ones usually not involved in rocketry or chemistry, were prohibited from speaking out publicly for quite some time after the fall of Nazism, like Martin Heidegger, because of thei...
[02:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:58] <exec> 08└─I won't belabor this: This is actually a good thing. Assume you want to send a message to a group of people you think are a threat. A group of people who choose to operate in the shadows of society and use the veil of anonymity to push their sleaze and hate. What do you do? Well, if you are the stat...
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[02:35:00] <exec> 08└─American Far Left? Ha! You make me laugh. Christian Democratic Union (CDU) / Christian Social Union (CSU) – Christian democrat, centre-right: 311 seats
[02:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:02] <exec> 08└─First, they're proper nouns, defining groups, so they're capitalized. Next, having participated in several threads on the topic, you already know about Reactionaries. For others: It references a longing for a time in the distant past [google.com] when e.g. - there was segregation/Jim Crow - women co...
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[02:35:05] <exec> 08└─Hit the carriage return TWICE. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[02:35:53] <exec> 08└─Why?
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[03:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:35] <exec> 08└─Tha IAU established the scientific definition of a planet...which hadn't been properly defined before that. Colloquially though, anything spherical will either be considered a planet or a moon depending on whether it's orbiting a planet or a star. We'll worry about redefining the word planet if and...
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[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─The left ladies and gentlemen.
[03:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 2038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:46] <exec> 08└─It's pretty disingenuous to say then that your group A is the one that likes to use laws established with good intent for fascist purposes without also including group B. It's not that you're pointing out the wrong at-fault party. Just that you're blaming one component of the organization as if to i...
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[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─And now g_weg is trying to censor all of us who, along with Matt Damon, prefer the "wall of text"! I blame TMP. Besides, that is not enough, you need a line holder, or the blank line will be ignored, just like the Nazi leanings of certain Soylentils.
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[03:34:50] <exec> 08└─When you log in.
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[03:34:52] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. I still see it as hypocrisy. Saying some speech is 'ok' and other is 'not allowed'. When you draw a line you will find yourself on the wrong side of that line at some point. People in power do not give one fuck about your line. What you say can and will be used against you. Count on it. Fre...
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[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─uninformed opinion of both myself and EF means your opinion is objectively worth very little.
[03:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─No, just a friendly suggestion. the "wall of text" Some folks will just skip over a comment that is the slightest bit difficult to read. Want maximum readership? Make it easy. Once your text blob is over 100 words, a paragraph break is about due. At 200 words, it's way past due. you need a line hold...
[03:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:58] <exec> 08└─Currently the ideology of the left is pushing damned hard for censorship of all sorts. The right isn't.
[03:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:01] <exec> 08└─So you're in opposition to freedom of speech, then. Even if these people are morally in the wrong, that doesn't make the government morally right in suppressing their speech. Sleaze and hate in the form of speech should not be illegal, no matter how sickening it is. This is the true test of whether...
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[03:35:03] <exec> 08└─Note: in the German culture context, the proper meme-adaptation to reference is Run, Lola, run [wikipedia.org] (rather than Forrest Gump)
[03:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:18] <exec> 08└─The laptop can be physically moved without any care in the world, and casually takes power drops without the slightest worry. Nothing quite as annoying as having a summer brownout and "oops, machine rebooted." Hell, even if you never took the machine out of the house, just being able to bring it fro...
[03:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:50] <exec> 08└─So if taxpayers have already paid for the research, why should they pay AGAIN for the report of what they paid for?
[03:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Simple Solution to Protect Critical Infrastructure - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:11] <exec> 08└─s/At each of the test chamber/At each end of the test chamber -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[04:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:17] <exec> 08└─The power surges and transients must be impressive.
[04:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─I'm assumed they preventing cameras and recording gear, so that the next time Mr. Trump goes off his meds they can call the reports FAKE NEWS.
[04:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 2264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:29] <exec> 08└─It's so sad that the left, in large part thanks to echo chambers, is becoming so conspiratorially insane as the right. No, Jade Helm was not Obama about to declare martial law and become Hitler. No, the white house secretary doing press gaggles instead of formal briefings is not Trump about to becom...
[04:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who needs and additional deliberately chosen bad picture of the president? I glad I'll never see Obama's pursed lips again. Any time the press wanted to make him look tough or disappointed, another pursed lips shot. Its been a game lately trying to get the worst possible, most unflatterin...
[04:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, I thought the press run the country and advised the population which candidates they are obliged to vote on. ;-)
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:36] <exec> 08└─The White House press briefing has been a pointless exercise for a long long time, in which reporters ask questions to try to get famous while the poor schlub at the podium does everything they can to avoid saying anything at all. The media should ignore it entirely.
[04:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 1681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:38] <exec> 08└─Not a chance in million there. Note even in CNN's 'no cameras sketch' front and center there are cameras. In typical fashion, they couldn't be bothered to explain evidence that seems to directly contradict what they're sensationalizing. Just as importantly, however, is the fact that all conferences...
[04:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─Right, I wonder why would those fake news enemies of the people be hostile towards this administration. I don't feel like writing essays about you being an idiot, but I'd just like to point out that The Orange One is not at the press briefings.
[04:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─Yep - wobble and occultation. Now, some folk think that there is an invisible planet in our own backyard. So, how hard is it to calculate the most likely places for that planet to be, then watch for it to occlude the stars behind it? I mean, that planet can't just be anywhere, can it? If it's creati...
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[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─Please scroll up just a bit, see my reply to Weasley.
[04:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:20] <exec> 08└─Why, you ask? Because if group A is doing something you disapprove of, you point the finger directly at them. It doesn't matter if group B is doing something different that you disapprove of; that changes not one iota of the blame for group A.
[04:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:21] <exec> 08└─The American concept of freedom of speech isn't a universal truth.
[04:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:23] <exec> 08└─She matches up with our far-left-wing politicians pretty nicely. What else would you prefer I call her?
[04:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:26] <exec> 08└─Wait. Haven't Germans spent the last several decades making sure that the Nazi situation does not occur again?
[04:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah. This sucks. We used to have a fun IRC channel. The usual problems happened. They were dealt with. One day this guy starts spamming the channel with pages of swear words. It went on for weeks. Most people moved to another channel. The channel died. People just could not stand to be in there. Th...
[04:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:30] <exec> 08└─I won't belabor the point. You've confessed that your fundamental values are incompatible with western, liberal democracy. Please move to some authoritarian shithole, you'll like it better, and the rest of us will be happier without you. Thanks.
[04:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, we run stuff from both sides with regularity. gewg_ (aka -- OriginalOwner [soylentnews.org]) has plenty of stuff that gets through the editorial process that leans to the left. Many (most?) of his usual sources, (World Socialist Website, Common Dreams, etc) are heavily left leaning. Pretty...
[04:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:35] <exec> 08└─So, groups like the ACLU or People for the American Way are 'right wing'? And all those religious wackos that want to censor books for 'profanity' are 'left wing'? What about present day prohibitionists? Left or right? I'm just trying to get my bearings here. It seems like everything reversed itself...
[04:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:37] <exec> 08└─A story about raiding the homes of those accused of hateful postings must send a chill up Mighty Buzzards spine. Imagine if he lived somewhere like that...he would have been incarcerated so long ago nobody here would even remember him.
[04:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:39] <exec> 08└─Its funny, this site is ostensibly for free speech. So how can they ban a shitposter and maintain their values. Also, the person is obviously capable of getting around IP bans so it isn't even possible. Don't feed the trolls is the only thing that can be done, obviously being downmodded upsets their...
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[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─Inciting violence and calling for illegal activities is not given license by law. Where does it say you need a license?
[04:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Sunday’s Launch, SpaceX to Test “Significantly Upgraded” Grid Fins [Update 2] - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:17] <exec> 08└─The timing was right, but I am not sure if it really was the launch. I was hiking at the top of the ridge-line in the coastal hills about 100 mi north of the launch site, today and heard the loudest jet-like (?rocket-like?) noise I've ever heard. It lasted quite a while too. Is it expected that the...
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[04:36:19] <exec> 08└─Probably because the rumbly end was pointed in your general direction ;-). I was 10 miles away and could feel the pressure waves.
[04:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:14] <exec> 08└─Why did god take multiple days to create the earth and a single day to create the rest of the cosmos? Was he slacking off?
[04:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:15] <exec> 08└─Eat my shorts.
[04:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:17] <exec> 08└─The story of creation, as narrated in the Bible, is only concerned with the earth.
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[05:33:26] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks this is a normal act needs to read a 20th century history book NOW. They're not even pretending to be secretive about stuff now!
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[05:33:36] <exec> 08└─Just as importantly, however, is the fact that all conferences are also transcribed. You can see a list/log of all conferences [here](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings). If anything was overtly left out or faked for malicious purposes, that is something the entire media would...
[05:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:38] <exec> 08└─But, 1998 - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:40] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder if the Glass getting an upgrade is a coincidence. It may be time for "citizen journalism" using Google Glass now, if this is how they're gonna play. God damn it. I knew on 9/11 this was gonna happen, I was just hoping to be in Canada by now.
[05:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:42] <exec> 08└─I think it's kind of interesting that people take these systems, which are a product of a time without the internet, as something that must exist today. The purpose of the white house talking to the media has never been to talk to the media, but to talk to the people that put them into office. The p...
[05:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:44] <exec> 08└─But what would Saturday Night Live and Colbert do for material? Those two shows are providing the truest take on the current state of politics here in the US.
[05:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:47] <exec> 08└─Pretty tyrannical, never thought I would ever hear of a day where the President of the United States has press conferences that are not televised. I don't think this has ever happened before, we should impeach him as soon as possible.
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[05:34:06] <exec> 08└─Because it is really fucking hard. I am actually so very impressed with how much we have learned. I was just a wee lad when we put a man on the moon. I stayed up late to watch it. I wore pajamas with feet and they had astronauts on them. I was like 11, or something. It has been fantastic to witness....
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[05:34:08] <exec> 08└─If you want some fun, ask a geologist for the definition of 'continent.'
[05:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:10] <exec> 08└─"Tha IAU established the scientific definition of a planet" No. No one has the authority to 'establish the scientific definition' of anything. Just the concept betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the word 'science.' Dr. Mike Brown does not own the word, well any of these words. He is not the p...
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[05:34:12] <exec> 08└─How hard is it? Pretty hard. Also, space is fucking huge.
[05:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course space is huge. But, we are only concerned with the ecliptic plane, and only a relatively small part of that. And, did I mention that there's a pretty good chance that there are seas of unobtanium hidden under the stealthite crust? ;^)
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─So this little one would be Planet 8.5?
[05:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:19] <exec> 08└─If a large and influential group of scientists in a field decides to give a particular term some official definition, that definition tends to stick, because otherwise it becomes difficult for them to communicate their results to each other. The IAU is such a body of astronomers, and if they say tha...
[05:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:21] <exec> 08└─Are you trolling here? No, it's not a small portion of the sky. It's a very large portion of the sky. There are other factors too. Objects that far out move much more slowly around the sun. You have to get two or three pictures of the object in different positions to determine if you're looking at a...
[05:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:51] <exec> 08└─This is all they have left, they found themselves loyal and deeply embedded in the conservative train wreck. So they do what they do best, claim the high road and project their own group's issues on to "the left". Can we all just agree that both political parties are corrupted beyond redemption? Whi...
[05:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:53] <exec> 08└─TMB is highly disingenuous, realize that first then stop engaging in "discussions" because either you circle jerk or he is intellectually dishonest as a primary resort.
[05:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:55] <exec> 08└─These are the people who would enjoy coming up with the most horrific insults while gaming, or chatting in IRC. They never grew out of their teenage troll mentality. They get jollies from pissing people off online, then hide behind freedom of speech and such so that they can sound superior. What els...
[05:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:57] <exec> 08└─I will continue to use lower case because proper nouns are used for unique entities not vague (and often non-existent) groupings. Proper nouns are used in discuss of ideology, religion, and other belief/philosophy systems, but when it does, it refers to a unique system with fairly well-defined chara...
[05:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:59] <exec> 08└─It's pretty disingenuous to say then that your group A is the one that likes to use laws established with good intent for fascist purposes without also including group B.
[05:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:02] <exec> 08└─Don't bother. Uzzard is another useful idiot for the authoritarians, precisely because he's deluded himself into thinking his personal disagreeableness (and no doubt terrible hygiene) is the same thing as actually Stickin' It To The Man (TM). Fact is, he's got his head so far up his own ass he's bec...
[05:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:04] <exec> 08└─Eth is actually funny sometimes. I mean he's still going to hell but at least he's given us a few laughs along the way. Then there's J-Mo, Uzzard, and sometimes Runaway, who are just the cancerous melanomas on the ass of the body politic.
[05:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:07] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered about how Ethanol-fueled gets away with his rants on things like "niggers in my yard", and still has "Friends" on his account who include some of the editorial posters on Soylent.
[05:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:09] <exec> 08└─You are not buying into khallow's ingenious revisionist history where censorship caused the rise of Fascism, are you?
[05:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:27] <exec> 08└─Give us a 16:10 or 3:2 screen, put the 7-row keyboard back--doesn't necessarily need to be chocolate-bar-style, just give us the old layout!--and the ThinkLight. Lenovo, give us what made the T series up to the ?20 generation so great. And you will rule the market. No more chasing Apple in the pursu...
[05:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:21] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. 1GB per TB is the minimum for comfort whether you have RAID or not. 5GB per TB at a minimum is the guideline if you use dedup. You can make it work with less, but performance will suffer to an excruciating degree.
[05:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:22] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. 1 GB per TB is the minimum for use without dedup. If you have dedup enabled, you need at least 5 GB per TB. But it's not a straight line. If you only have 0.1 TB, it's NOT going to work with 0.1 GB. Basically you need 4GB to get ZFS off the ground; then you add 1 GB per TB on top of that....
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[06:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:23] <exec> 08└─Wipro said it's paying for in-home bed bug consultations and treatments for employees.
[06:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:25] <exec> 08└─> What are the worst conditions you've had to work in? Just watch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, plenty of unpleasant jobs that are still waiting to be automated.
[06:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:27] <exec> 08└─I remember one night when the coffeemaker broke down...
[06:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─The LED lights were installed in 2012, here is an overview, https://www.esbnyc.com [esbnyc.com] And this link has the application for special lighting in a web form, https://www.esbnyc.com [esbnyc.com] Looks like anyone can apply.
[06:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:58] <exec> 08└─No, we aren't "waay past that point." Let me give a simple example [politifact.com] from 'politifact' of a lie. Trump's statement, they rated as false was: "When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed." They seems like a pretty lol, Trump...
[06:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:00] <exec> 08└─Well then let me help to inform you! These are known as Press Gaggles [wikipedia.org]. The term was supposedly coined in 1993 by Clinton's press secretary, but the practice certainly goes back much further than that. That said it's almost certain that a much greater percent of Trump's press events h...
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[06:34:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course space is huge. But, we are only concerned with the ecliptic plane, and only a relatively small part of that.
[06:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:30] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that the body in question will be very faint. The Hubble Space Telescope can resolve an object at magnitude 31.5, but that would require an incredibly long exposure time. This might be enough to be able to see a Neptune-size planet at 100 AU, but you would definitely need to know exac...
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[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─"If a large and influential group of scientists in a field decides to give a particular term some official definition, that definition tends to stick" Sure but that's a very weak point. Just because we expect a 55% chance of outcome a we don't forget about the possibility of outcome b. "The IAU is s...
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[06:36:12] <exec> 08└─(and no doubt terrible hygiene)
[06:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:13] <exec> 08└─I'd say "is hanging off the Left edge", but whatever. 8-) Many (most?) of his usual sources, (World Socialist Website, Common Dreams, etc) are heavily left leaning ...and the most Leftist stuff doesn't make the front page. After Trump's Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: The [Socialist] Solution t...
[06:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:15] <exec> 08└─I dunno, a guy who spends several hours a day with his beaky schnozz up a dead water buffalo's decomposing rectum probably isn't gonna smell all that good...
[06:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:17] <exec> 08└─Scope. Currently the ideology of the left is pushing damned hard for censorship of all sorts...
[06:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:20] <exec> 08└─Which is in no relation whatsoever with the authoritarian trait of his character (I won't deny it, he might though) or his chances to be wrong or correct in any given situation. (character assassination is irrelevant and, IMHO, a worse waste of time than posting on SN).
[06:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Sunday’s Launch, SpaceX to Test “Significantly Upgraded” Grid Fins [Update 2] - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:58] <exec> 08└─Cool! Did you see it?
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[07:33:21] <exec> 08└─(or more accurately, the worst thing I was asked to do). During High School I had a casual job at the local supermarket, stacking shelves etc. One week there was some issue with the cleaners (quit, fired - don't really know) and the manager asked me to clean the public restrooms at the supermarket....
[07:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:55] <exec> 08└─No. Impeaching Trump requires a majority vote of the House. Whatever they decide to impeach for they can. A simple majority is required. OTOH, impeaching isn't convicting. The trial of the impeachment is done by the Senate. It requires a 2/3 vote in favor of impeachment to convict. IOW, not going to...
[07:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:11] <exec> 08└─I await your evidence for your assertion.
[07:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:12] <exec> 08└─Even if these people are morally in the wrong, that doesn't make the government morally right in suppressing their speech. Sleaze and hate in the form of speech should not be illegal, no matter how sickening it is.
[07:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:15] <exec> 08└─Except what you are seeing is Alt-Right psyops. Using the successful tactics of the Crazy-left against them.
[07:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:17] <exec> 08└─A story about raiding the homes of those accused of hateful postings must send a chill up Mighty Buzzards spine. Imagine if he lived somewhere like that...he would have been incarcerated so long ago nobody here would even remember him.
[07:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 3688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:39] <exec> 08└─Weight of it has never bothered me. Not once have I cared about it, even when lugging it around on holiday. The power brick is actually slim and small. It all fits in a slim rucksack only slightly thicker than the laptop itself. The numpad isn't off-centered, it's a full numpad. The trackpad isn't e...
[07:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─My work laptop spends 98% of the time on my desk, but I still have the option to bring it home, e.g. if I need to be home to let in a plumber. I also bring it home when I have vacation, just in case there is some problem that I'm the only one who can fix, because though I'd rather not have them call...
[07:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:42] <exec> 08└─Will it run Windows 7? Most new laptops will only run Windows Surface edition, which makes is absolutely terrible on a machine with a keyboard (though it's not any better on a tablet as long as half the settings still only available in REGEDIT). Oh sure, you could use Linux or something, but I'm a ....
[07:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:00] <exec> 08└─God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
[07:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:02] <exec> 08└─PS: The "original" bible text was copy/pasted from the Enuma Elish and saw generations of gods turned into days of work.
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[08:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:17] <exec> 08└─My impression is, this cladding is basically hollow inside. Bolt some stadoffs to the old building facade, then bolt the cladding to the standoffs. This works for brick, very well. But, brick aren't very combustible. In a wood frame house, the carpenter usually nails firestops between the studs. It...
[08:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:18] <exec> 08└─My bet: plastic (polystyrene foam?) between two sheets (foils only?) of something structurally stronger.
[08:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:20] <exec> 08└─The UK regs call for such firestops, the UK regs also have such combustible cladding banned over 1/2 story, the UK regs also have this type banned. This is corporate manslaughter
[08:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:22] <exec> 08└─So the whole country is full of unsafe tower blocks. There's a full blown epidemic of unsafe construction... and the fire inspectors didn't notice a single one before the Grenfell disaster? What on Earth do they spend their time doing?
[08:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─And yet the fire safety people somehow didn't notice that the whole country is full of tower blocks that break these regulations.
[08:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:35] <exec> 08└─Name: Wipro Limited Founder: Mohamed Hasham Premji (in 1945) Headquarter: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Chairman: Azim Premji CEO: Abidali Neemuchwala Indian standard of management in a nutshell ? So what is the US law on quitting the job unilaterally ?
[08:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:36] <exec> 08└─For years the US have exported their shitty jobs to India, now the tables have turned.
[08:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 2598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:39] <exec> 08└─Installing ceiling insulation in the summer in Queensland Australia. 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the breezy shade. Actual temp where we had to work would run 130-140 maybe more. Unbelievably hot. Wasn't always fiberglass but placed enough of that my work clothes had to be burned when I quit that job,...
[08:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:43] <exec> 08└─Trolling? Please, look at the title I chose for my post. "Amusing perspective". Come on man, isn't it obvious that I'm not really serious here? I'm amused. For a comparison, let's imagine the person who can't find his own possessions in his own bedroom - but he pretends to know how to find his way a...
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[08:34:44] <exec> 08└─LOL Space is huge. Like, bigger than you can actually picture in your head. The number of units has no meaning to you - or me. It's that big, and that just that far away. It keeps getting bigger, too.
[08:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:26] <exec> 08└─When replying to these dark matter topics, could everyone please state which country educated them? The normal assumption is that most anti-science trolls were "schooled" in some US backwater, but we need some scientific evidence to back this claim.
[08:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:58] <exec> 08└─Where have you been hiding? We have Windows 10 now. It's not much better, but still..
[08:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:31] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain how Google Books is still getting away with it?
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[09:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 2861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:25] <exec> 08└─Fire safety rarely check on what's actually going into the building. They aren't present for building works, these things were built back in the 70's and then cladded later too. It's down to building control, but ultimately down to architectural design and the materials that ACTUALLY end up on the b...
[09:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:27] <exec> 08└─What on Earth do they spend their time doing?
[09:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:29] <exec> 08└─One engineer seems to be saying that this type of cladding is allowed, at least with some restrictions, in "D.C. [District of Columbia] and three states — Minnesota, Indiana and Massachusetts." http://www.npr.org
[09:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:31] <exec> 08└─They won't save you from a cladding fire. Nobody puts sprinklers inside the cladding, and you can't breathe when the cladding burns. Sprinkler pipes fail. You don't need them if you don't build crap buildings. Concrete, steel, glass, brick, tile, brass... not a problem. You don't even need wooden st...
[09:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:18] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how "Waagh Trump is a Nazi" is considered insightful. I mean come on people, even if you actually agree with this sentiment there is not shred of insight or novelty to this comment, we get a few of these in every single goddamn article that talks about Trump and occasionally even under...
[09:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:19] <exec> 08└─I admit I hate Donald Trump. I don't trust him at all. IMHO, he is trying to eliminate any type of real statements. He is tired of his press secretary saying one thing only to contradict it with his actions or words a day or two later. (e.g. the Comey firing was rife with this). He is thinking that...
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─Good correction. I was mostly using the colloquial usage of 'impeach' which most people conflate with removal from office. Impeachment itself is a meaningless gesture should the senate choose to acquit, which they have done both times a president has been impeached. And it would not be 50% of republ...
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[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─The President, he is just new at this
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─Google Glass has a light that comes on when you record. It's one of those features intended to prevent what became the Glasshole hate. Maybe you can find a way to disable it. But I think the security there can find your obvious recording device.
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[09:34:59] <exec> 08└─Come on man, isn't it obvious that I'm not really serious here? I'm amused.
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[09:35:00] <exec> 08└─> If you want some fun, ask a geologist for the definition of 'continent.' Continent is the opposite of incontinent, don't worry - even the geologists will get there in the end...
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[09:35:03] <exec> 08└─Planet Nine is believed to be somewhere from 200 to 1200 AU away, and smaller than Neptune (I would assume this would be exasperated by a lower temperature which shrinks gas planets). So the conditions for imaging it are probably worse than what you listed. But there is some good news [wikipedia.org...
[09:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:38] <exec> 08└─Cannot! Too little! I knew you could not help but respond, oh Runaway of very little brain! Now, tell me what you think of this post! The power of Christ compels you! The power of, oh, fuck it, you just can't help yourself, can you?
[09:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:17] <exec> 08└─Umm... it's not false information. I've just finished reading two ZFS books ("FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS" and "FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS"; also applicable to other operating systems BTW for anyone wanting to know more about ZFS), and I've also read quite widely about the memory requirements before tha...
[09:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Parliament Hit by Cyber Attack - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:33] <exec> 08└─What am I missing here? How does this have any connection to Trump?
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[10:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:17] <exec> 08└─Volcanoes are cool hot
[10:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:19] <exec> 08└─1 - Buy shares in companies selling tinned food and ammo 2 - Write a hyperbolic doomsday version of TFA and spread it around the usa via social media. 3 - THERE IS NO STEP 3 4 - Profit!!!
[10:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:21] <exec> 08└─Average Russian: ... six months ago we liked Trump. Now, ... we, again, like Yellowstone.
[10:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:36] <exec> 08└─Polyethylene: the manufacturer's product name is Reynobond PE. The manufacturer also makes a fire-retardant version filled with mineral wool: Reynobond FR. (source [theguardian.com])
[10:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 2898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:38] <exec> 08└─Your post is pretty accurate, even for the US. But, there is something missing. It's also missing in many small to medium private construction jobs here. There needs to be an inspector, who answers to the paying customer. Construction jobs that I have worked on often have an "inspector" who is emplo...
[10:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think they use aluminum studs, rather than steel. Or, that's what I've seen. Maybe it's just the area I live in? Steel may be more popular in other areas?
[10:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:42] <exec> 08└─It's the same issue with all preventive safety-related jobs: If they do their task well, nothing serious happens, and therefore the bean counters think they don't need those people because nothing serious happens anyway.
[10:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting points, thanks. Wonder if such a paying-customer's-inspector was present on these construction projects. It would always be in the interests of whoever funded the construction, to hire such an inspector, right? Even if the building is to be sold or rented-out, the incentive for good cons...
[10:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:47] <exec> 08└─The cladding consisted of "aluminium sheets with a flammable polyethylene core." https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Polyethylene, also known as polythene, is a long-chain hydrocarbon. Polyethylene...
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:00] <exec> 08└─Probable management reaction on hearing that there are bed-bugs in the building: "Well, the employees are paid to work there, not to sleep there. So why do they care about bed-bugs in the building?"
[10:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can find a way to disable [the] light that comes on when you record. [sharpie.com]
[10:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:16] <exec> 08└─Planet 8.1 service pack. If these objects are found they can get real names that don't have "Planet" in them, and we can give the IOU a couple of decades to figure out if the solar system has more "planets".
[10:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:17] <exec> 08└─WE are not amused.
[10:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:19] <exec> 08└─And how are you going to know what wobble is caused by an exoplanet and what is going to be caused by "Planet Ten"? More importantly, a single wobble in a star isn't enough for them to verify "YES! THAT WAS A PLANET!" They see a wobble and they go "Oh hey, let's keep watching that to see if it happe...
[10:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:55] <exec> 08└─I respond once more, just to see how goofy your own response can be. You won't let a sleeping dog lie, why should I? Kick that bitch again!
[10:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:37] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest looking at the books I posted in my other reply, and looking at the existing guidance out there on the net. 4GB is a reasonable minimum; file-level prefetching is disabled on systems with less memory, but I have as little as 2GB in some of my virtual machines. The more you have, the bigg...
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[11:33:15] <exec> 08└─Buy tinned food. The shares won't help you without a civilization to go with them.
[11:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:37] <exec> 08└─In these cases, the paying customer is the local council, or worse, the trustee of the committee that runs the building. For them, cheaper is *always* better. They only put the cladding on the buildings because the people who had to look at (not live in) the buildings thought they were an eye sore....
[11:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:39] <exec> 08└─The Rochdale Herald said it best: Tower Block residents look forward to less health and safety legislation post Brexit [rochdaleherald.co.uk].
[11:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:33] <exec> 08└─He doesn't want to believe that he is ultimately responsible for his actions
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[12:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux on a Chromebook (and Why You Should) - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:16] <exec> 08└─may find Chromebook functionality limiting
[12:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux on a Chromebook (and Why You Should) - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:18] <exec> 08└─I would. I'd buy one just to do this. If it wasn't for the stupid "we're going to warn you on every boot" and the rest of the security problems mentioned with doing so. A Chromebook would make a great "no-OS" laptop, but they don't care about that market at all. Sorry, but if I'm going to have to go...
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─Doom or Quake, you Heretic, which one?
[12:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:30] <exec> 08└─Swoosh?
[12:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:32] <exec> 08└─Woosh !! You may have noticed, civilisation didn't end in 2002, 2004, 2008 or 2010...
[12:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─Doom follows Quake (in the natural universe timeline), of if you prefer the Antarctic version: "dissent leads to division, division leads us to doom." Heretics are everywhere, the primary source of dissent.
[12:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:12] <exec> 08└─The worst experience to come to mind was working with my father felting/guttering a slanted roof. Lying down on the roof, head hanging over the edge to hold the felt/guttering in place.. in torrential rain. Closest I've ever been to being waterboarded.
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:14] <exec> 08└─For IT, I've never topped this story [thedailywtf.com] about a company that put its offices right next to a city dump.
[12:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─C'mon folks. Let's stop the bickering about whether or not this could actually be a real discovery. I think the important concern is being overlooked. We should be debating whether this is Planet Nine or Planet Ten, instead.
[12:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Primer on the Crises and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO) - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Try again!
[12:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Primer on the Crises and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO) - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:40] <exec> 08└─A government is an organization founded on the principle of coercion. How do you enforce contracts? Well, you hire people to enact whatever the contract says you can do, as agreed upon by both sides prior to enforcement. How do you ensure that the enforcers don't turn into a government? As always, t...
[12:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:19] <exec> 08└─Agreed that's pretty much "all of physics" response to the astronomers when the astronomers are all unhappy about their rotating galaxy models not being stable or not working. Either their observations are wrong, or are not viewing the funky stuff that must exist, or their mathematical models are fa...
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[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux on a Chromebook (and Why You Should) - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─The Chromebook traits of high battery life, small SSD, low power CPU with no fan needed, etc. are starting to get copied onto some Windows laptops/netbooks.
[13:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux on a Chromebook (and Why You Should) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─high battery life, small SSD, low power CPU with no fan needed
[13:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux on a Chromebook (and Why You Should) - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:23] <exec> 08└─Checkout GalliumOS [galliumos.org]: A fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices. Performance Optimizations that eliminate system stalls and improve overall responsiveness. Touchpad Integrated ChromeOS mouse driver provides a touchpad experience similar to ChromeOS. Xubuntu Buil...
[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux on a Chromebook (and Why You Should) - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:25] <exec> 08└─I've tried doing this with a Chromebook using an AMD CPU. Got 3-4 FPS in Minecraft. Another Chromebook (same pricerange) which had an Intel CPU/GPU got acceptable FPS in Minecraft. This was about a year ago, so YMMV...
[13:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03b0ru [6054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─You might say it's the primary source of Descent.
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─+1 Informative.
[13:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─But 2018... Then we finally all die in a horrible world ending scenario, promise. The signs are all over the place.
[13:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:07] <exec> 08└─Scottish bu7ilding regulations on fire safety in 2005 means that we don't have any-local govt/housing association building with cladding that can go in fire. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk [eveningtimes.co.uk] Se...
[13:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─Its very unclear whether these tests are ones the buildings should have passed when they were refurbished, or whether they are new standards that with "20:20 hindsight" should have been applied... Its equally unclear whether the cladding was "as specified" when the plans were approved, or if someone...
[13:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:11] <exec> 08└─There is much more to it than this. There is insulation behind the cladding (which is basically a rain screen) and the insulation was flammable too. You can make a gap in the insulation and put in a "fire stop" of some sort - but that would also be a thermal bridge which defeats the purpose of the i...
[13:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:13] <exec> 08└─I'm visualizing something with a substantial exterior sheet of aluminum, but the interior is probably not much more than foil. http://omnisexteriors.com [omnisexteriors.com] I'm browsing a little here, trying to find specs on the cladding. http://omnisexteriors.com
[13:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that's bullshit. In wooden construction, there is little you can do to slow down the fire much. Heck, they allow for "engineered joists" which are basically plywood-like structural elements. These burn soooo much faster than solid lumber, yet, they are allowed for single family homes. You hav...
[13:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:17] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhmmmmm - no, it's really not bullshit. I understand what you're saying about cheap construction, and cheap materials. But, reputable craftsmen still build with real wood, and they take the time to make the structure as strong and as safe as possible. The wooden, 2x4 firestops are only mentioned...
[13:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:34] <exec> 08└─They are not bed bugs; they are bed features.
[13:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:35] <exec> 08└─Diatomaceous Earth. Get that, and sprinkle protective circle around your work area, if possible. For example, http://img03.deviantart.net [deviantart.net] Then bedbugs shall not cross!!! (ok, some of this advice is actually r...
[13:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:56] <exec> 08└─So no one has the authority to define a planet, then you go to state Pluto is in fact a planet. So I guess you and only you have that authority, then? My opinion is all that counts, fuck everyone else!
[13:36:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:46] <exec> 08└─Go read some history of Germany before WWII. The Wiemar Republic banned hate speech as well. It failed hard because such trials became big propaganda venues for the Nazis. It is a self-check to prevent the atrocities that lead up to the war from ever happening again.
[13:36:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:56] <exec> 08└─The left is currently running the German government
[13:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:43] <exec> 08└─What evidence for GR is there that doesn't come from astronomers?
[13:41:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:09] <exec> 08└─ZFS is great. But beware ECC RAM is not optional, it is an absolute requirement for ZFS data consistency. See here for why: https://pthree.org [pthree.org] . Running ZFS in a VM is a good test but you get no benefit from doing this...
[13:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playing with ZFS (on Linux) Encryption - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:20] <exec> 08└─You know your file system is massively over complicated when you need to read two fucking books on how to correctly use it.
[13:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Parliament Hit by Cyber Attack - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:38] <exec> 08└─Seems to be a play on this [youtube.com]
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[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─It's easier to roll up a Linux From Scratch system... Why the hell can't MS put out a roll-back machine to do it for us?
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─If microsoft has published this in the *RELEASE* channel of its update service, as a RECOMMENDED UPDATE, then AFTER THE FACT stating that it hasn't been QA'd with some of its MOST CRITICAL BUSINESS SUBSYSTEMS, what does that say about Microsoft's capability of handling 5 9s corporate infrastructure,...
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─You probably mean ARM not AMD I have not bothered with android apps on my chromebook but I've read about it. You get to chose your poison in that ARM chromebooks supposedly run Android apps better/faster/less bugs in general. I've seen some really stupid arguments about that, however, for example th...
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─The current chromebooks are just below my radar in specs buts the next generation will cross my lines in the sand with the rockchip RK3399. The rockchip-linux people have been making progress with the RK3288 based devices and distros are appearing for it. If the pattern continues for the RK3399 I mi...
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─I would. I'd buy one just to do this. If it wasn't for the stupid "we're going to warn you on every boot" and the rest of the security problems mentioned with doing so.
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─Then again anything written in the last decade or two is probably a web application anyway.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─Libreboot uses essentially the same boot software but the warnings are substantially less intrusive and the automatic boot delay is changed from 30 seconds to 3.
[14:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:00] <exec> 08└─I got a ~$92 Chromebook. 11.6 inch screen, which was just fine in terms of size (soyquitter Gravis would disagree). My problems with it are the APU and 2 GB RAM. The system will hang or crash likely because of the dual-core Celeron N2830. The default video playback software sucks and VLC performance...
[14:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:02] <exec> 08└─Right, I have never seen an AMD chromebook. I'm eager to see AMD mobile Ryzen of all flavors, though I might skip it and spring for 7nm which may be appearing sooner than you think (AMD will skip 10nm).
[14:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:20] <exec> 08└─I'm on Edge: what are you guys talking about? and What's With the Captials in The titles Anymore? they make The Whole thing un-NON-Insensible
[14:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if a terrorist would get better results nuking yellowstone than, say, LA. Even the biggest fusion bombs don't make deep enough craters to get all the way down. Then again you don't have to get all the way down, you just have to loosen it up such that "sometime in the next 10Kyrs" is instead...
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─In fact, given the current situation, an extended camping trip to Yellowstone sounds like a pretty good idea.
[14:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:54] <exec> 08└─aluminum studs
[14:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:55] <exec> 08└─Its one of those two countries separated by a common language things. I live in the colonies and have this cladding on my house. Aluminum siding with a thin insulation layer. Theoretically the foam is fireproof. I live far enough east that excessive rain is more likely to be a problem than desert wi...
[14:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:58] <exec> 08└─Something I have always wondered about steel studs, having never used them, is its hard to destroy wiring by pulling it thru a wooden hole unless you're really screwing something up, but I imagine the sharp edges of steel studs makes pulling cable rather difficult without destroying the insulation.
[14:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:17] <exec> 08└─Or they just ask if the fines, suing etc are larger than the profit of squeezing the last drop out of the employees. Profit as priority one.
[14:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:18] <exec> 08└─...but one of the worst jobs i had as a CAD drafter/designer, was one of my first jobs with a local architect who was an asshole... (when he had visitors to the office, he would come back to the drafting room and make sure nobody was chewing gum, etc) stuck me in a room where the blueprint machine w...
[14:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:20] <exec> 08└─What are the worst conditions you've had to work in?
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─The title is lying: this has nothing to do with the Grateful Dead. This is some stupid band called "Dead & Company"; who the fuck are they anyway? The SN staff needs to fix this. Just because some crappy little band has the word "Dead" in their name does not mean you can use phrases like "Dead conce...
[14:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:04] <exec> 08└─The answer I wax expexting was more of pointing out that the first president to do a televised press conference was Kennedy. I
[14:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:05] <exec> 08└─But Trump didn't say (per your post) "discouraged worker" or "marginally attached worker." He said (per your post) "employed." I don't give a fuck what he meant because anything Trump says is a Rorschach test. You're reading something Trump didn't actually say into something he said.
[14:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:07] <exec> 08└─>But the media has sunk to new lows and is not only reporting gaffes as statements of official view, but actively seeking to provoke said gaffes. This surely has nothing to do with the administration's position that such gaffes *are* statements the administration's of official view? "All (non-vetted...
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─dog almighty, you ARE dense, and simply overcome with TDS... geezus, i don't like tee-rump, but you people are seriously delusional... . THE FACT of the matter is (aside from this being a GOOD example of the mediawhore's grandstanding gotchas the previous poster was very capably explicating), the un...
[14:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:12] <exec> 08└─He said you're be considered statistically employed, and that is 100% accurate. Imagine there was literally not a single job available in the US and everybody wanted one. After exactly one month we'd have, according to the official numbers, 0% unemployment. That makes 0 sense, but it's the absurd sy...
[14:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:53] <exec> 08└─>or actually the true "Planet Nine"? For a minute there I read this as "Plan 9", that would've been troubling....
[14:40:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:37] <exec> 08└─Kazakh republic and Seychelles sincerely says f-ck you to Evilvier? ;-) Or perhaps.. USA did what? doh? hahah.. now, next on today's program. There might be some luck with Seychelles since they have a link to Britain. But any action may simply result in the servers taking a flight to some territory...
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[15:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─The place I work depends on a mission-critical Windows-only software package. :(
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:28] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM^H^H^H Microsoft.
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:30] <exec> 08└─Why the hell can't MS put out a roll-back machine to do it for us?
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:33] <exec> 08└─"mission-critical" and "Windows-only" are probably two phrases that don't belong together in the same sentence.
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─According to Rockchip [wikidot.com]: It also integrates Mali T860 MP4 GPU.
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─If you're riding public transit
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah the level of hassle on that is much like tablets or phones where the sub $100 ebay special is likely a lot more hassle than a more expensive one. I was motivated to check amazon and I apparently blew $300 some time ago on "Acer Chromebook 14, Aluminum, 14-inch Full HD, Intel Celeron N3160, 1920...
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─I need to get a Chromebook's power jack serviced after having installed libreboot, how do I go about doing so?
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─does require opening the case to enable write access to the flash
[15:34:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─Doom or Quake, you Heretic, which one?
[15:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:22] <exec> 08└─The beginning of the "end" is so close now. Of course, the Earth will not truly end until the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs it. Until then, men go and come, but Earth abides. Following the eclipse at the end of this summer, there will be a global market crash. In 2018 there will be riots in ev...
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─Hmm, there was a fun BBC docudrama show called End Day [wikipedia.org] that had a Yellowstone scenario, but that one didn't air in the US version. Conspiracy?
[15:34:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─What on Earth do they spend their time doing?
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─They'd noticed in Scotland. After a tower block fire in Scotland in 1999, Scottish building regulations were changed [bbc.co.uk] by 2005, stating: Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that in the event of an outbreak of fire within the building, or from an external source, t...
[15:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:59] <exec> 08└─Citation needed; I think you're just mistaken, perhaps because steel studs are so light. Steel studs are light because they're super-thin; they're not meant to support any kind of load at all, except for the drywall that's screwed to them. There's no possible reason to use aluminum for any building...
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:01] <exec> 08└─They only put the cladding on the buildings because the people who had to look at (not live in) the buildings thought they were an eye sore.
[15:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:03] <exec> 08└─These cladding sheets were rather thin (a few mm) and the main fuel for the fire seems to have been the thick insulating foam (150 mm) between the cladding and concrete exterior. Why is the cladding getting 95 % of the attention?
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:05] <exec> 08└─Those are good links. Now that building energy conservation initiatives are increasingly taking center stage in the U.S. and beyond, there is a desire by the design community to use an increasing amount of combustible components within high-rise exterior wall construction, for insulating materials,...
[15:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:08] <exec> 08└─In 1991, I had a house built in Canada and for the finished basement, the contractor used aluminum studs to hang the drywall on for the interior walls. Before doing so, he asked my permission and after confirming there would be no upcharge, I agreed and he used the aluminum studs. I don't know why h...
[15:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─For office jobs, it can be worse: you could be required to work in a building with a serious mold problem. People have gotten seriously sick and died from this. I haven't read TFA, but honestly I'm not sure how bedbugs can be such a problem in an office. Are they sure these are bedbugs? Bedbugs norm...
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:32] <exec> 08└─In any at will state you can walk off the job any time. A chap at my job quit at end of his day on Friday. Was rather interesting....
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─No pets!
[15:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:03] <exec> 08└─That depends on how big it is and how far away from the sun. We don't know either of these things about the hypothetical body yet. If it's at least a quarter Earth mass at 100 AU then it will probably fit the definition of a planet. The further away it is the more massive the body needs to be in ord...
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 2932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:04] <exec> 08└─A couple of reasons (IANAastronomer BTW): 1) Effectiveness at this distance. 2) Light. 3) Cost. Launching some satellites in Earth orbit is only going to do so much. We already have a couple of space-based telescopes: the Hubble which has been operating for some time now, and the James Webb which is...
[15:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:06] <exec> 08└─If there is a "Planet X" out there in the Kuiper Belt, it'd be utterly useless for human habitation: it's too cold and too far away. That's why we don't bother expending that many resources looking for stuff out there. If you want to do mining in the Solar System, there's plenty of other places far...
[15:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:08] <exec> 08└─Your analogy is silly. Here's a better analogy: Personally, I live pretty close to a creek and a river (each less than a half-mile away as the crow flies), and about an hour's drive from a very large metro area. I also live close to some various little towns, rural roads, etc. Which do I know more a...
[15:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─"Science" is a process of observation, hypothesis development, and repeated testing. The way you use the term suggests you view science not as a process, but as some sort of religion.
[15:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:57] <exec> 08└─Well, I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition!
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[16:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─I thought NASA was basically forbidden now from pointing out scientific fact that conflicts with shitty TV celebrities' worldviews.
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:26] <exec> 08└─I thought NASA was basically forbidden now from pointing out scientific fact that conflicts with shitty TV celebrities' worldviews. Only if that shitty celebrity is a member of the Master Race, identifiable by orange skin, bad hair, and a bank account full of stolen money.
[16:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:28] <exec> 08└─Sigh. So someone claims some stickers "come pre-programmed to an ideal frequency" and we're arguing over whether they used the same base material in a space suit or not? I think we've missed the point.
[16:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─This story is useless without a .webm or .gif of Gwyneth demonstrating this intriguing sounding jade egg. Somehow that's more inspirational than the rest of the story. Her career sank around the turn of the century and I assumed she was yet another dead heroin victim, but good for her, for remaining...
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:32] <exec> 08└─So which of those doesn't Gwyneth Paltrow have? :P
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─See! I pause to think "Is this really a good SN story?" Then VLM comes along and MAKES it a good SN story without even having to mention NASA. This is the shit that keeps me coming back for more and more and more, yeah baby! safe word is jade-egg
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─Not really, NASA is a space agency and they're concerned with the use of their name as a sort of endorsement for the product. The FDA and possibly FTC are the ones that would be concerned with that detail.
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─No, they've gone for the claim that can be easily and conclusively proven false.
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─People with GOOP for brains cannot appreciate or understand science. (e.g. The Orange POTUS) They will, however, understand a lawsuit.
[16:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:43] <exec> 08└─The FDA and possibly FTC are the ones that would be concerned with that detail.
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:56] <exec> 08└─That's the biggest problem with trying to move away from MS. Web backends have thankfully been able to shake loose the grip of MS. But desktops and local infrastructure tend to always need MS in some capacity. The big culprits are productivity software, engineering software, and ERP software. And I'...
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─Windows-only is not suitable for mission-critical situations.
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to unroll baked spaghetti?
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Acer C720P-2666 Touchscreen Chromebook | Intel Celeron The advatage of Crouton it is a chroot so not need to reboot but on my hardware it had issues of volume buttons not working and after some times when running multiple stuff it will lock. So shifted to chrubuntu ..it is dual boot but it takes may...
[16:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─We are closer to the end than we have ever been! Well, we are.
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:50] <exec> 08└─Forget the tinned food. Just buy the ammo.
[16:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the cladding also functioned as insulation?
[16:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 2183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─Bingo. There is also the interesting issue of whether the various panels actually pass the fire tests that they are certified to have passed, and apparently some do not. This brings the system of independent testing labs and supply chain (possible fake products) under scrutiny as well - fire retarda...
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─'who the fuck they are' is Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, along with some other dudes to fill out the band. It's every surviving founding member of the Grateful Dead except Phil Lesh.
[16:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:40] <exec> 08└─He doesn't want to believe that he is ultimately responsible for his actions
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:46] <exec> 08└─There may be some truth in what you say, but I doubt that is the whole story. As anybody who has gone through office politics, nobody reads the "meeting minutes," until way later when there is a problem. If Trump says, "I'm going to pay $30Million to Education," nobody's going to check the White Hou...
[16:39:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06For Sunday’s Launch, SpaceX to Test “Significantly Upgraded” Grid Fins [Update 2] - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─first stage safely landed on the barge "Of Course I Still Love You",
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Selects Grand Gravity Mission - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:21] <exec> 08└─Interesting if the dark matter, string theory, etc propaganda is less strong/effective in the US/UK. It would make for a great misdirection campaign to keep other countries in the "dark".
[16:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:55] <exec> 08└─I see you've never heard of a "docking station".
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[17:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:19] <exec> 08└─She'll just make a huge GOOP patch for the planet to get our chi back in order. Or something.
[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─When is the hazard due to this asteroid? Are they uncertain about how close it will pass this time, or just about a later time (in 10 years or whatever)? The way it takes info about a specific asteroid and combines with a claim about asteroids/comets in general, really makes this story look like fak...
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:23] <exec> 08└─The included articles seem rather sparse and sensationalist. This is the first I've heard of this asteroid, so I seriously doubt it's much of a concern. 7.9 lunar distances is pretty huge; we have asteroids come that close all the time. The ones that are worrisome are less than 2 or 3, or worse, les...
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─While, in the UK, miss May is pondering whether she will have to close this wonderful quarter with yet another disaster, numerous NASA and NOAA scientists received discrete phone calls over the week-end from people asking about the odds of someone acquiring the capability to redirect asteroids towar...
[17:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─Well, you can totally put a cell antenna or RFID tags into a sticker so it isn't total nonsense. Just mostly, probably, and dont-invest-your-money-ly levels of stupid.
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─Duh, it doesn't vibrate/generate anything as mundane as radio waves. These'll be quantum-consciousness waves or some other bullshit.
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─I wondered what you are talking about and looked for jade egg. Gonna delete my browser history now. Here is a quote from her website: The word for our womb, yoni, translates as “sacred place”, and it is a sacred place—it’s where many women access their intuition, their power, and their wisdo...
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Because First amendment, Orrin Hatch, and Alternate-facts Presidency... Unless you lie to shareholders or prosecutors, any kind of BS you can come up with to sell is now fair game. Old-school advertisers are even jealous they were born too early. Sure, they could bang any skirt in the office, but th...
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─Seeing how It's just a decorative adhesive bandage, It's fair to say it does promote wellness. Also, 0Mhz is, indeed, the ideal frequency for its operations. Additionally, I have it on good authority[1] that when spacemen get a boo boo, they don't cry but slap an (non-brand specific & EVA tested) ba...
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Just wait until we start seeing the claims to cure cancer, cleanse "toxins," and connect you to a higher consciousness by using Unruh waves.
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─>> it’s where many women access their intuition, their power, and their wisdom ... "so we'd really like you to stick an expensive dumb piece of hard rock in there. And if you do, you will have proven the point." MY ironometer exploded. again.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─Who has a tougher job saying technobabble with a straight face, Geordi Laforge or Gwyneth's lawyers? Geordi was a trained actor; Lawyers like money. Will be interesting to see how they compare.
[17:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─Speaking of dumb hard things, guys have been fairly successful at talking their way in there for a very long time, so the real oddity is a woman like Gwynneth talking her way into another womans... Dammit not another side-topic that's useless without a .webm or .gif... This is like the best SN story...
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─Didn't the God Emperor himself say something about grabbing them by their intuition, power, and wisdom? It kind of changes the news media narrative about that story, when it's read in Gwyneth's voice. Truly the God Emperor's prophet, Gwyneth is.
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't saying "women think from their vagina" criminal or something?
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─The FDA and possibly FTC are the ones that would be concerned with that detail. Nope, sorry. Unfortunately, in the US, you can sell any kind of bullshit you want as a "medical device" or for "healing" as long as you put some disclaimer that says "these statements not evaluated by the FDA" or similar...
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─I promise, I won't install it.
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe not fired, but not displaying external signs of deep devotion to the Apple cult is a career hindrance in some trendy circles. You ain't one of us, boy...
[17:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─If you're riding public transit, and you're not paying hundreds of dollars per year to a cellular ISP for a second Internet connection in addition to the wired connection you use at home, you're offline.
[17:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:51] <exec> 08└─Yup but this 11 year old laptop has an nvidia gpu, at least with the chromebooks we get libreboot as an option and no intel backdoors (I've not found the arm backdoors yet.)
[17:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, sweet! I've got a c100 running crouton, and I'm looking forward to getting rid of the scare warnings.
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─From memory this was a BIOS-like switch on my ACER, I certainly didn't open it up when I was messing around with it before I returned it to default. Hold down a bunch of keys while turning on power. Not a traditional BIOS in the sense of stereotypical desktop but conceptually similar. Probably worth...
[17:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 2379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─Because they think the best way to serve me 2.5KB of text is to serve me half a meg of javascript and one meg of JSON. Here's the payload from the USGS's #yvo link above for those who refuse to bow to the USGSs retarded demands: """ YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO OBSERVATORY INFORMATION STATEMENT U.S. Geologic...
[17:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:23] <exec> 08└─It started as game titles, and degenerated from there....
[17:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:25] <exec> 08└─Thing is, if you nuke yellowstone and it goes off really big, no one will ever likely find evidence to back your claim of starting it and it will be treated as a natural disaster. On the other hand if it doesn't go off really big, you just nuked a bit of national park and comparatively few people an...
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:27] <exec> 08└─I noticed the government sites (nasa, etc) started getting crappy about 2 years ago. Maybe it is related to accessibility?
[17:35:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 2861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─Fire safety rarely check on what's actually going into the building. They aren't present for building works, these things were built back in the 70's and then cladded later too. It's down to building control, but ultimately down to architectural design and the materials that ACTUALLY end up on the b...
[17:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, the insulation functions as insulation and the cladding functions as cladding, and the air gap between the two functions as a chimney. Turns out the insulation used was as flammable as the cladding (maybe more so) and also has the nice friendly effect of releasing cyanide when burned, some...
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─There are plastic snap-in bushings that protect the cable where it penetrates a steel stud. These are required by the National Electric Code in the USA, and probably similar codes in other countries.
[17:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─I thought they moved all the transits out of NY in the 90s.
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:26] <exec> 08└─but that isn't news -- even the last administration acknowledged this definition of how employment numbers are counted. Each administration will even take advantage of something they claimed the previous one couldn't claim. It's like negative profit instead of taking a loss--the numbers are the same...
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:28] <exec> 08└─We need a new category: too stubborn to relocate and too dumb to retrain. Are they unemployed? Sure. Do they want a job? Sure. Are they waiting for a messiah to save them? Sure. Are they going to get one? Hah hah hhaah. I mean, sure. Trump.
[17:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:30] <exec> 08└─Why can't we all just let The President's words speak for themselves? Next question. GOTO 10
[17:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─Looks like a job for Randall Munroe.
[17:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 is obsolete, not sold any more, and won't have any more security updates from MS before too long. Get with the times and use Windows 10. If you don't like Win10, then find another OS; stop expecting MS to sell you an OS that isn't sold any more. If you absolutely must use .NET, Visual Stud...
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[18:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:31] <exec> 08└─If we can't do anything to stop it, and aren't ready to get off the planet inside the next 12 months, who cares? Let it wipe us out. What does worrying about it accomplish?
[18:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:33] <exec> 08└─A 230 meter jade egg squeezed with the force 300 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. This sounds slightly exaggerated. I'd still watch the .webm or .gif though.
[18:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:35] <exec> 08└─What does worrying about it accomplish?
[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:37] <exec> 08└─If it ends up being the closest, .03 LU) x 250,000 then the closest approach = 7500 miles. Since LD is measured from the planet center you have to subtract the Radius of Earth 3958mi to get about 3542 miles above surface of earth..
[18:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─"influenza epidemic at the end of WWI that probably killed more people as a percentage" They were also giving people now-illegal dosages of aspirin, when they got sicker they would keep dosing them more and more, which causes the same symptoms as the pandemic...
[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─If it were to strike, its weight could impact with a force 300 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb, scientists have predicted.
[18:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:44] <exec> 08└─With each annual close approach the uncertainty builds. A small unanticipated nudge this year could translate to a collision in 2021.
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─One mega-bomb dropped somewhere random won't wipe out mankind, but the (likely) tsunami would make for a hell of a rebuilding project. The fun part would be trying to evacuate places like the U.S. East coast if it were to strike in the North Atlantic, or Japan if it were in danger of Tsunami - becau...
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─Keep saying that: "it's not going to hit." The last asteroid close approach was a fun one, where they knew one was coming (and near-missing), but another blindsided Russia 16 hours before the one that was being tracked. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] That one was 1/...
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ [nasa.gov] Then sort by date column. Select plus/minus 30 days. The story was in the queue so long the date has past. 2017-Jun-24 06:38 ± 00:01
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─A meteor strike will destroy the Lie-Node containing SoylentNews and nothing else. Oh No! How will the Earth survive without the world's Central Repository of Fake News for Niggers?!
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Are we actually sharing articles from The Sun now? Really? Editors, get your heads out of your asses.
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─300 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. Sounds impressive.
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─Their spouses head? Now I'm getting confused.
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─So which of those doesn't Gwyneth Paltrow have? :P I was going to say "stolen money" but then I realized nobody would ever voluntarily watch "Shakespeare in Love." (just kidding you tall, wafer thin, delicate beauty (from her IMDB bio)) (P.P.S actually pretty difficult to find a really crappy Paltro...
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─I think we've missed the point.
[18:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Qlaras [3198] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:48] <exec> 08└─Surprise - testing big, complex things isn't an instant thing! Who knew? Anytime a new major version of the .NET Framework comes out, you usually need to skip it for Exchange, Skype for Business (Formerly Lync) and SharePoint until the next Cumulative Update. (Which are usually quarterly) ElReg maki...
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:18] <exec> 08└─>remind me again why I "need" to spend 10x as much on an apple laptop I just went to Starbucks to kill 20 minutes between appointments (my second time in a Starbucks in the last 6 years or so...) if you haven't mated yet, there's a common class of seeker out there who will pay more attention to you...
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:48] <exec> 08└─You may be overlooking some political issues. Nuke a beloved park and the general public will be pissed... nuke California, well, not so much, at least in the red states. With the population loss there would be long term effects WRT electoral college strategy and polarization. Economically I'm not s...
[18:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:50] <exec> 08└─Understand, I read a lot of spam weekly because i manage a mail system. There's a lot of people doing precisely this, actually. Though lately their thing is "tactical flashlights" they've done tinned food and stuff in the past too.
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:52] <exec> 08└─> nuke California, well, not so much, at least in the red states I know Florida's ramped up production, but the loss of Chatsworth would be felt all around. Internet providers do tell us that Red States are huge consumers of all forms of porn (surely as training against the demon, and to learn about...
[18:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─You're assuming that said terrorist wants to watch as much of the world burn as possible. Lots of terrorists are happy if they can just take out their ex-office mates.
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:56] <exec> 08└─As long as the world has girls and cameras that will pretty much take care of itself. Actually there are a lot of enjoyable Reddit subreddits about that general topic.. Sometimes I wonder if there's only a finite amount of that content, and once enough is generated, its done. I mean, they're not inv...
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:58] <exec> 08└─I think they get one more go-around to re-record everything in 4K. After that, they need to figure out going around bandwidth caps, to VR you your own walk-around live orgy, with force-feedback... All that tech, and the average hotel porn viewing is under 7 minutes... Back on topic: the Earth won't...
[18:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:01] <exec> 08└─and 6 earthquakes with magnitudes of less than zero.
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─Define "ending" 2016 signs: - The Cubs won - The Cavs won - Portugal won - Trump won I suspect we have gone past the "ending" and straight into Hell without really noticing.
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─If they do their task well, nothing serious happens, and therefore the bean counters think they don't need those people because nothing serious happens anyway. Not just bean counter... It's also the voters.
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─Friend of a friend was doing some volunteer work for the local fire brigade, mainly checking/fitting smoke alarms for the elderly, so he wasn't even being paid apart from the odd hot drink. The smoke alarms were free to the elderly, as was the (volunteer) labour for fitting them, but it all fell by...
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─I think your point is quite valid and a lot of governments are toying with alternatives. The former Conservative government of Canada tried a number of ways to do end-runs around the press, including producing a YouTube channel out of the Prime Minister's Office entitled "Twenty Four 7" that followe...
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 2354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─Except it isn't just office meeting minutes. It is a word for word transcription of what is said. After the meetings you're going to have people looking through every word that was said looking for a way to make tomorrow's headlines. On the topic of gaslight, I will say something I've observed about...
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─A dwarf planet is still a planet.
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[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hojo [4254] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:34] <exec> 08└─I don't answer the phone any longer unless it's from someone I know. Period. Plus I disabled voicemail, so no one (even those I know) can leave messages. That means I don't get any junk, and also means that my ability to get emergency stuff is also limited. Note that I don't block texts. I do share,...
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:36] <exec> 08└─Do you have suggestions on how these scams could be stopped ?
[19:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:38] <exec> 08└─I deal with this stuff a lot. There's various approaches. It's hard to stop calls for various reasons. Caller ID is easy to fake though. I have seen people's personal numbers get flooded because scammers used their number for the Caller ID; a friend of mine had to get his number changed twice becaus...
[19:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─...to send a man to the moon, the power to nuke our enemies to glass, but we don't have the power to stop Rachel from card services!
[19:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─You have the two worst things in the world of logistical progress: Old technology that must not break. Monopolies created and protected by government. What did you expect? From a similar thread [soylentnews.org]: No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? Because FUCK...
[19:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─Not drastic enough. I just stopped talking to people. I especially stopped talking to people I know. I don't have a phone and I don't use email and I'm not on social media. I live under a bridge and I don't interact with society at all. The end result is I'm a hobo. And I'm so happy!
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─You are greedy in that you want a phone service without spam; you want to dominate the would-be spammers; you want to be famous for killing the problem; you want people to pay you respect or, even better, money for solving this problem for them; you want to go down in the history books; you want to...
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─Found John Galt.
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─People will respond by saying "I'd like to solve the problem just to feel good about making the world a better place", but that's still greed: People are searching for that high one gets when one knows one has done well by others.
[19:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─Are we actually sharing articles from The Sun now? Really? Editors, get your heads out of your asses.
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:16] <exec> 08└─What does worrying about it accomplish? They want to find out how many atheists there really are.
[19:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:18] <exec> 08└─I saw that but not how I can assess future hazard due to this object. Basically I need to take info from here [nasa.gov] and plug it into my own solar system sim (I do happen to have one, not that it is so great)? But what about the 99.9999% of people who do not have a sim ready to go they can plug...
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:20] <exec> 08└─But it's not going to hit, humans would rather kill each other over a disagreement about mythology, and until one does finally hit, humans care a lot more about that mythology dispute than a problem nobody's even encountered in documented history, so who cares?
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─She is a jewess. What were you expecting her to do? Make an honest living? This is only an indication of what jews do. They sell wares that are substandard and expensive, while claiming that their wares are the best and are the cheapest. Nothing has changed about the jew. Remember that jews invented...
[19:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─I was just reading about the theory of relativity. Maybe you should reject that too, and turn off your GPS forever.
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:56] <exec> 08└─As an antisemite, he has already turned off all tracking devices.
[19:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:16] <exec> 08└─> The only other serious contender is Apple [...] I notice that the story posted just before this is about Chromebooks.
[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:17] <exec> 08└─My hope is that companies which absolutely depend on Windows for mission-critical stuff will end up being destroyed by this dependency, driven out of business when MS goes just a little too far somehow and causing those companies downtime which results in their failure. It's the only way to really u...
[19:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:19] <exec> 08└─Trendy circles: * Creative types working in media * No nothing makers and IoT trend followers * web dev's * indie game crowd
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─Ahhhhhhh, the Game of Titles: Ariel Winter is Coming...
[19:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:14] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed the part where fire safety checks are no longer the responsibility of fire safety people in the UK but the law was changed that the owners are responsible to check fire safety in whichever way they feel like essentially...
[19:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:15] <exec> 08└─You forgot: multiple stair case. At least that was reported in Germany as being rather strange/unusual that a building this large and tall would have only one single staircase.
[19:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─> downward trend in fires and fire deaths justifies making further cuts to the fire and rescue service. I wished they'd apply the same to terrorism. "Considering that this year far fewer people died due to terrorism than fires, anti-terror laws and spending should be drastically reduced". Makes sens...
[19:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─There have been studies that say that adding external insulation on an old building is also a lot more efficient -let alone less disruptive- than putting it inside. Since it's faster too, and doesn't shrink living space, that is the recommended retrofit method for millions of homes across Europe (un...
[19:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─> I didn't expect high-rise external insulation to be flammable, though. And neither did I quite frankly. Hopefully we will find out who's really bright idea that was in the end.
[19:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─> Turns out the insulation used was as flammable as the cladding (maybe more so) and also has the nice friendly effect of releasing cyanide when burned, some of the victims were treated for cyanide poisoning in hospital. Sounds like they couldn't have made the situation worse if they had tried delib...
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─Corpse in the toilet. What's the story behind that?
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─There is a demand for cooling work suits, ether self-contained (ice or batteries) or with a hose. It is a testament to the disposability and slavability of the US poor that it isn't a huge market.
[19:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─You fed it, it's yours now. *g*
[19:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:04] <exec> 08└─Not a founding member, but Phil's one time roommate and a very early member (keyboards) is still living too, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Primer on the Crises and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:43] <exec> 08└─Don't feed the troll. He's read the same valid arguments dozens of times.
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[20:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─Young and Republican means they want to exploit H1B workers.
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─That's an excellent variation on what I've been saying for several years now, with regards to passing laws and creating protocols that are supposed to protect us from terrorism: How can we expect to be protected from terrorism if our country can't even protect us from robocalls?
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─Very few people are searching for the pure satisfaction of having done the world a favor, because the reward for selfless altruism is unending exploitation. Once someone discovers you're willing to work for free, you can expect everyone to dump all their shitwork on you, because you're obviously fuc...
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─Wait, how do you kill her with your dick? Is this like an immediate stab wound, or a slow disease kind of death?
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─Obviously robocalls are terrorism. The government is powerless to completely stop either. But I wouldn't mind if the government carpet bombed the telemarketers.
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─Damn Rachel from card-holder services!
[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─Assholes.
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─You cannot fix/cure/stop stupidity with technology. The absolute best that you could ever hope for is to try to use technology to bring awareness about the problem.
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─It's on topic, you illiterate assholes; pick another downmod qualifier. ----- You are greedy in that you want a phone service without spam; you want to dominate the would-be spammers; you want to be famous for killing the problem; you want people to pay you respect or, even better, money for solving...
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─What else to expect from the ASSHOLE NIGGERS of SHITSTAIN NEWS.
[20:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─It's on topic, you illiterate assholes; pick another downmod qualifier. I mean, seriously, you gave "informative" (!) to "Kill all humans. Until then, you can't stop greed." Pig fuckers. ----------------- You are greedy in that you want a phone service without spam; you want to dominate the would-be...
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─E.g. from the 419 pages: """ Total 419 losses around the world- The best 419 statistics ever published untill our 419 Unit published its first edition of 419 stats in March 2006, were given by Special Agent Craig Spraggins of the US Secret Service, who was Special Agent in Charge of the now defunct...
[20:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─How about (-1: Discredited By History) We're living right now in a Randian paradise where tech moguls pay the absolute minimum for labor and don't pay any tax. As a direct result of not taxing the rich, we have the Greatest Recession since the Great Depression. The epitome of greed is a society wher...
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─Spam! Spam! Spam! Damn, now I'm hungry.
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─Wow, I did not realize we had some TRULY fucking nutsos here. Time to leave, fuck it I'm done, blacklisting soylentnews.org to save myself from my own bad judgment.
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─Choke on my cock!
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─Wow, you're more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─Bye, ASSHOLE!!!! Don't accidentally your own ass on your way out!
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─For everyone's safety, can you use metric when calculating trajectories of objects near a planet?
[20:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─The story was in the queue so long the date has past. 2017-Jun-24 06:38 ± 00:01
[20:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's really, really close to exactly yearly. How come? Is there a visualization of the trajectory, somewhere?
[20:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:50] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure I would rather die than read the headline "metric saves the planet".
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:52] <exec> 08└─Comes close on October 12nd at 06:07, what timezone is this? Wondering if there will be part of the world that will be Friday, October 13th. Spooky.
[20:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:48] <exec> 08└─Hope is the keyword. I find Windows in places it doesn't belong. We bought a new Trumpf Laser workstation last year. I don't know what runs on a Siemens SINUMERIK 840 but the two Beckhoff systems in it run Windows embedded. One runs the UI for everything on a Beckhoff embedded PC, the other is a CX9...
[20:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:50] <exec> 08└─That article is about installing Linux on a chromebook. I am talking about the push to rid MS from the desktop. I'd love to see it happen. But most developers I know are either happy with Windows or switched to Apple. Mention Linux and you get nothing but Linux sucks comments or rants. Not everyone...
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─<0 = Your kid brother next to you on the back seat parping a noisy trump.
[20:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─Wonder what insulation they have up in Scotland (possibly a lot of it...), since that turned out to be as bad as the cladding...
[20:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retro Thinkpad is Real - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─[edited terribly depressing comment about aging partners] Time to hit the lottery and get a newer model...
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[21:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:25] <exec> 08└─I'm certain, because I'm doing it. Out, out, out! All things considered, immigration doesn't help the people who are already here. Automation is killing jobs, outsourcing is killing jobs, and we're supposed to want to bring in more mouths to feed? No. There is nothing that requires the USA to have n...
[21:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─When difficulties experienced by immigrants are discussed. It matters what kind of immigrants that is referred. And what kind of difficulties that is meant. Keep in mind that even a professor in robotics from Australia of English descent would be a "immigrant". And that person will likely be more de...
[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─Feminists say they want equality, but they don't want equality. Feminists want revenge. Feminists will not stop until every woman is employed and every man is unemployed. Women once endured a second class life as housewives, but men will not be allowed to stay in the kitchen. There will be no place...
[21:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─A nation is a people and a culture.
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─You're the particular individual who can't grammer. "A people" is used correctly in context.
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─The local liberals seems to be anything but. Instead ideological lock and fanaticism seems to be more fitting. I read that Spanish has become so big even in the 1990's that it posed a problem. Is that still so? what kind of problems creep up? The immigration disaster can be mitigated be expelling th...
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─We are not improving our nation when we bring in people who are useless and horrible.
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─Islam remains incompatible with democracy. Muslims aren't "immigrating" so much as they are "colonizing". But, white guilt has blinded people to the realities of life.
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─Time to block feminists in all aspects of life?
[21:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─We're seeing massive failure to integrate. Not many even try, because
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─Runaway is more imcompatible with democracy! Go back where you came from, Runaway!
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─Bring your testes a little closer, you Red Pillar Sad Puppy Momma's Boy!
[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─Time to fuck every feminist to death, starting with self proclaimed feminist Joss Whedon.
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. But again, justice has always been blind. Playing by the rule of law and all that, doesn't it matter anymore?
[21:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─He's not wrong though. Islam is incompatible with Western democracy. So is Christianity, but thankfully most Christians are fat, lazy, theologically-illiterate morons who wouldn't recognize Jesus if the guy smacked them across the face hard enough to leave a big red handprint with a size 98 nail hol...
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─not sure if troll or just plain stupid, learn some history before opening your piehole
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─Let us again worship Bacchus for truly we should return to the old ways of democratic representation by drunken senile pederasts.
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:01] <exec> 08└─Don't tell Western capitalists about Christian communism.
[21:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 1965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─I've come to the conclusion that people in this country are still too inherently scared and unexposed to the world to see the potential value of immigrants for exchange of culture and ideas. So I'm going to say that these "young republicans" are less liberal about immigration and more that they have...
[21:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─Things might not be so terrible if we were choosy. We aren't, and that mostly isn't about to change. It's better that we admit this and just shut down immigration. I mean really, can you imagine us being appropriately choosy? You must demonstrate a willingness to eat a bacon cheeseburger. Your party...
[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:08] <exec> 08└─"return"?
[21:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:42] <exec> 08└─nothing says pulled-out-of-someone's-arse more than a government study
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:43] <exec> 08└─Recent history has proven that we are NOT in a "Randian" paradise; sorry, pal, but bailouts of centrally-managed fiat banking, economic "stimulus", etc., is the exact opposite of a world based on rigorous, free-market contract negotiation, dispute resolution, and enforcement.
[21:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:46] <exec> 08└─It's on topic, you illiterate assholes; pick another downmod qualifier. I mean, seriously, you gave "informative" (!) to "Kill all humans. Until then, you can't stop greed." Pig fuckers. ----------------- You are greedy in that you want a phone service without spam; you want to dominate the would-be...
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─I'm living in the real world where Apple has a cash reserve of $250 billion and pays tax at a effective rate of 0.1%.
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─Telephone PSTN access can be controlled by the means of caller-ID and in addition with a PIN-code for cases this won't catch. If a realtime link can be established with your bank then you can rig your phone to require a funds transfer before a call is let through. The problem with the PSTN system is...
[21:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─Technology is excellent to build firewalls that keeps most of the scum locked out.
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:24] <exec> 08└─I don't know anything beyond what's in TFS, but apparently it's a co-orbital [wikipedia.org] object, likely in a horseshoe orbit similar to 3753 Cruithne, the first discovered and best-known Earth co-orbital. These orbits are in resonance (astrospeak for a phase-locked loop) with Earth, so the insta...
[21:35:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:35] <exec> 08└─This story is useless without a .webm or .gif of Gwyneth demonstrating this intriguing sounding jade egg. Somehow that's more inspirational than the rest of the story. Her career sank around the turn of the century and I assumed she was yet another dead heroin victim, but good for her, for remaining...
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─That's a short-sighted mentality. The main reason many pieces of hardware don't work on GNU/Linux-based operating systems is because of non-free proprietary user-subjugating software; hackers are forced to reverse engineer, which takes time. I guess these useless developers can have fun living in th...
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─The actual news is that M$ fired their entire testing department when the new CEO took roost.
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─You're right, business as usual - people who have dealt with this for years will feel right at home. Also business as usual, daily nag notices on ALL of my Windows 10 boxes about how MS would like to schedule a convenient time for me to restart the system, and somehow hasn't been able to perform the...
[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, hope is all I can offer at this point. Hopefully Win10 will turn out to be a complete disaster for embedded/industrial control applications like this, forcing huge losses on companies that use it. If they're not smart enough to use something else (maybe Linux, maybe some other RTOS), and...
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:32] <exec> 08└─The only OS I've used that was worse about these kind of "oh, you want to use your device now?, well, just wait a few minutes while we try to get it ready for you" kind of notices was Sony's PS3 And people keep trying to tell me that newer game console are so much better than the NES I grew up with....
[21:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Install Linux (Crouton) on a Chromebook - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─I did mine on the first day i got it.. then found it was mostly pointless. If you mostly do stuff online, might as well use native chrome apps ( or remote desktop.. ). If you are doing dev work, and use Linux side for that so you can do it locally, its too slow, and kills the battery..
[21:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─Are they also selling a lot of spam? https://en.wikipedia.org(food) [wikipedia.org]
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself! As an enlightened being I view time equally in all three directions.
[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─* And some tinned food. Just in case.
[21:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:40] <exec> 08└─NOOOOH! Don't you know regulation kills business. Anything you do that gets in the way of business is going to destroy America. You better roll over because business needs your asshole to drive a cock into right now.
[21:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:41] <exec> 08└─Sure, mark my comment as a troll. Meanwhile architecture and engineering firms push their green, energy-saving, and affordable designs, which end up being fire traps. Why do you think fire-safety regulations are being cut in Washington, DC, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin (all blue states). Indiana is...
[21:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah but it was cheap. Any more questions?
[21:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:46] <exec> 08└─Additionally, tower blocks of Grenfell's vintage are designed on the principle of compartmentalisation, and containing any fire within the flat in which it starts. Each flat is a separated concrete block, with sturdy (~1hr rated) fire doors fitted at the entrance. This approach has worked [london-fi...
[21:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:48] <exec> 08└─Yes because their landlords will be free to make more profits at their expense. And the great capitalist people of Rochdale love that.
[21:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:50] <exec> 08└─Smoke detectors cost $5 each. Multiply that by 1000s of pensioners and you easily have $5000. Everyone needs to tighten their belts so the Brits can afford a new $6B aircraft carrier and Trident nuclear missiles that will SAVE BRITISH LIVES. Unlike boring smoke detectors.
[21:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:52] <exec> 08└─Hi Troll. I coat my penis in petroleum jelly to make sure it is protected in case of friction burns. Little did I realize that a simple fridge fire in the lower levels would set the whole thing ablaze. I got quite the shock I can tell you! Thanks for all the tips xxx
[21:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Show on the Empire State Building Synced to Dead Concert - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─Are you being purposefully dense or just trying to be annoying? Yes, the band, such as it is, agreed to stop touring as "The Gratetful Dead" after Jerry Garcia died. They've toured under various banners employing the name "Dead" for over 15? years now. As it is, the current line-up with John Mayer i...
[21:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:18] <exec> 08└─This way, the US has half the unemployment of the pinko commie socialists in Europe... Do you really want to be like Europe? Look how their silly socialist system doesn't work, with all the unemployment! Big government is bad, if all those people are unemployed! Stay in the US and vote consevative,...
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:20] <exec> 08└─But in today's state of the media this would be reported front and center as 'US PRESIDENT DOES NOT KNOW HOW MANY STATES THERE ARE' with the video of him stating 57 states used as supplemental evidence.
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[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:29] <exec> 08└─I have Ubuntu 16.04 and my wife has Window 10. Every 1-2 days one of us has a computer f-up that can only be resolved by hard reboot. What the fuck difference does an occasional Intel-induced reboot make? Fucking computers suck my dick.
[22:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:30] <exec> 08└─They've only got a microcode fix for two Skylake processors, and all the Kabylake CPU's requires a UEFI update (good luck with that). This is the kind of shit someone should be sued for. The fix for the rest of the affected processors is to turn of hyperthreading. Unacceptable. I do have a question,...
[22:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:33] <exec> 08└─Here's a nice perl script some kind soul wrote you can run on your Ubuntu system to see if it is affected: https://lists.debian.org [debian.org]
[22:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:35] <exec> 08└─Machines with Linux could at least be expected to stay online. Seems it may be better to buy an old processor..
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:37] <exec> 08└─1994 Pentium FDIV bug [wikipedia.org] 1997 Pentium F00F bug [wikipedia.org] 2017 Intel AMT, "strncmp()" Seems they keep up the tradition? ;)
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:39] <exec> 08└─This seems to be the essence of it (and can be decoded manually using dmesg): if( $vendor eq "GenuineIntel" and $family == 6) { if ($model == 78 or $model == 94) { if ($stepping eq "3") { ...
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─Even the Mexicans are trouble. Part of the reason for historical economic success in the USA is a single language.
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:11] <exec> 08└─Anthony Wiener [wikipedia.org] did nothing wrong.
[22:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─> We're seeing massive failure to integrate. Not many even try, because they come in large groups Correct! Those Black immigrants living in their own "town" with their own church should be stopped! Correct! Those Irish immigrants living in their own "town" with their own church should be stopped! Co...
[22:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:15] <exec> 08└─Things might not be so terrible if we were choosy
[22:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─Globalism killed those jobs. You outsource and import and hire immigrants, and fashion the law such that alternatives are uncompetitive, because those fly-over people are sub-human to you. They don't matter in your world. They don't wish to leave communities filled with family and long-term friends....
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:20] <exec> 08└─Things might not be so terrible if we were choosy.
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─Make the minimum salary be 3x the median household income. Block anybody with a belief system that includes a restrictive diet, required clothing on the arms/legs/head, a required system of law, or similar trouble. Block anybody who would likely isolate themselves in a non-English community. That wo...
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─Plus you invent new things, like computers and technology, that destroy real American jobs in typing and labor. For Chrissakes, the vacuum cleaner alone cost Americans billions of good paying cleaning jobs. Modern cutlery and its fancy liberal "knife" with a silent k and have literally dessicated th...
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─So how did that Plymouth town work out for the North American natives? I'm sure there were liberal members of the tribes who thought it was proper to welcome the immigrants. Hey, share some corn and beans and squash and cranberries and turkey! Go to the Thanksgiving party! Life will be great with al...
[22:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about libtard?! I speak American like God wrote it in the Bible.
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─It always amuses me that literally zero Americans I have asked have said they are English-American. Proud of heritage fail?!
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 1931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─You must demonstrate a willingness to eat a bacon cheeseburger. Why? I'm American and I really hate bacon. I like cheeseburgers as much as the next American, but fuck that bacon shit. Honestly, that sounds like a Southern thing to me, and as someone who actually grew up in the South, I fucking hate...
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─I read that Spanish has become so big even in the 1990's that it posed a problem. Is that still so?
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:37] <exec> 08└─Are you afraid? Your grandparents weren't exterminated by Germans or the Chinese. Their grand parents weren't decimated by the Irish. There are more Indians and Chinese than Latinos or Muslims, and they work better jobs when the immigrate to the US, paying more taxes and creating more riches than ma...
[22:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:40] <exec> 08└─Are you so sure that this would not just result in your own demise, since Feminists are stronger than you, and they are after your vital fluids?
[22:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─But "grammer" is not. This is why we cannot have white supremacy. Defective language.
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll was close to 1000x the hiroshima bomb and didn't make such a large tsunami as to make serious trouble for ocean-side cities. 300x is smaller than that. There's factors to consider like the depth of the water, resulting in different levels of di...
[22:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─Plenty. Death is inevitable. Dull mechanical forces(such as the kinetic energy of a hunk of rock) of the universe dominate our existence.
[22:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─The actual news is that M$ fired their entire testing department when the new CEO took roost. It'd be nice if this were more publicized, but it was absolutely the right move for MS. They don't need a testing or validation department, it's just a waste of money and produces negative shareholder value...
[22:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─You can't safely rollback an Exchange VM because it will get out of sync with AD and often crap itself in ways that are difficult at best to fix. (it's a similar story to if you rollback an AD controller when you have multiple ones; the dreaded invalid SID error).
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Recommends you Ignore Microsoft-Recommended Update - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─I just switched back to PC gaming after the last generation because I got fed up with that type of crap; at least with Steam, it will always start in offline mode if nothing else. I like to have my games ready to go on demand. I can understand installing updates for multiplayer, but waiting forever...
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:18] <exec> 08└─Even assuming that were possible, observation doesn't imply relocation. So, now you're even closer to the end of the world! Probably a couple of hours closer!
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─No, but logarithms could be arranged.
[22:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomsdayers on Edge as Quake ‘Swarm’ Rocks Yellowstone Supervolcano - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:22] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine it would be any more effective than setting off a firecracker on top of it. Digging holes isn't easy, even with a nuclear weapon for a shovel. The deepest crater ever made with a nuke was 100 meters deep, and that was made by placing the warhead almost 200 meters underground in what...
[22:38:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 2898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─Your post is pretty accurate, even for the US. But, there is something missing. It's also missing in many small to medium private construction jobs here. There needs to be an inspector, who answers to the paying customer. Construction jobs that I have worked on often have an "inspector" who is emplo...
[22:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CNN Sends Sketch Artist to White House Press Briefing - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─I'm only 71, not 80. Great number, great age. I don't think of myself as the oldest President ever, but as the most mature. Crooked Hillary, let me tell you, is 69. Which is a great number too. I had a great time when I was 69. I'll tell you about it if I see you in a locker room. Great experience....
[22:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:37] <exec> 08└─In this era of widespread human obesity, we should all applaud planets with don't fatten up by absorbing everything in their neighborhood, just enough to be rotund and smooth. Small is beautiful!
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[23:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─Couldn't have come at a better time for AMD. Right in the middle of its struggle to regain market share. And AMD is trying to compete with Xeons as well.
[23:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs Have Nasty Microcode Bug - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:32] <exec> 08└─All the microcode updates involve SRAM changes in-cpu, meaning powering the system off reverts the processors to their fused microcode. The only exception I have heard of is the OEM motherboard/cpus having an e-fused key which locks the cpu/motherboard together, but you would need to read online for...
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:19] <exec> 08└─He will end up as a debt slave (to alimony) and then later into prison because "rape".
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─You might be able to make that argument if the US *had* a unified culture (no, consumerism isn't a culture) or homogenous racial makeup. Practically every other country on the planet can make this claim except the US.
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─Getting off lucky, in view of what he done. And so easily avoided! If only he had been a real man, a strong, confident, sensitive feminist man! One without this wussy victim mentality and fear of Xenia.
[23:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─Those are called, "Canadians". After the Revolution, all the Loyalists left to places they could still grovel before a monarch.
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─"Xenia" means hospitality. Xena is the warrior princess.
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:30] <exec> 08└─it's your hate
[23:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:32] <exec> 08└─I did say "part", and our economic success didn't really kick in until German went out of style. Mexico does have multiple languages. The non-Spanish areas are in horrific poverty even by Mexican standards. Mexico might seem bad now, but they'd be way worse without a fairly dominant language.
[23:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:34] <exec> 08└─I'm American and I really hate bacon. Ha! Sleeper terrorist detected! :)
[23:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:36] <exec> 08└─WTH are you talking about? It is not easy to migrate to the U.S. as a professional, compared to countries that uses a point based system like Oz or Canada. You need basically a job sponsorship or lots of money. If that is not choosy I don't know what is. Yes, there are loads of Indian tech companies...
[23:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:39] <exec> 08└─The Pagan gods laugh inside their tomb in oblivion..
[23:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:41] <exec> 08└─Xena-phobia, plural: Xeniaphobia "fear of warrior-princesses". Besides, that sharp ring-thingy she carries? Do you know what that is originally for?
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:21] <exec> 08└─So ... does anyone know where the money actually going? It's not like it's being funnelled into the "Reimburse Bill Gates for eradicating malaria nearby" fund, I'll bet.
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Scams Cost Billions -- Why Isn't Technology Being Used to Stop Them? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─I'd trust a peer-reviewed study from a university which is disinterested in the issue, and which has a reputation to uphold
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─really makes this story look like fake news to me...
[23:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Set for an ‘Asteroid Encounter’ This Week; 750ft Space Rock Could be ‘Potentially Hazardous' - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─In a row: Microsoft recommending against its own update, Gwenyth's Goop, and the Sun. Forgot the Yellowstone MEGA-ULTRA-SUPER volcano. I am detecting a pattern. Well, on the upside, at least there is nothing from Brietbarf.
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:36] <exec> 08└─I was telling myself to get my mind out of the gutter since it can't possibly be what it sounded like to me, but then I googled it myself... From *ahem* previous research, pink eggs seem like much more fun :)
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─As an anti-semite, probably is up there with VLM: six, yeah, six jade eggs in! And going for seven! Please, VLM, no video, for the love of God.
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Disputes Origins of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop "Healing Stickers" - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─This goes back to a giant lobbying push a bunch of years ago for deregulation, made by the supplement pill manufacturers. Mel Gibson (a whore who will do anything for money, apparently) made a commercial for them. [google.com] I seem to recall Ted Danson (John Becker MD) making one too. Eventually,...
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:26] <exec> 08└─The foam is part of the cladding. Both the foam and the aluminum are a single integrated product called Reynobond PE [arconic.com]. It's basically a sandwich of foam and aluminum you can slap on the outside of the building to improve insulation and make it look shiny. The problem is what was used is...
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK: All Building Cladding Samples Tested Failed Fire Safety! - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:28] <exec> 08└─The cladding is a sandwich of aluminum-plastic-aluminum which has a few mm total thickness. Between this outside cladding and the old exterior concrete, there are 150 mm of insulating foam. This foam is not part of the cladding, but was a large contributor to the fire. See discussion here [telegraph...
[23:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees to Work in Bed-Bug-Infested Building - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:57] <exec> 08└─My friends mom had a fridge in their carport, there were several blackouts that year and she had flipped the circuit breaker off and apparently forgot the fridge was full. About a month later, she paid me $100 to clean out the fridge. There were puddles of juice from meat in the bottom of the fridge...
[23:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars-Sized Planetary Mass Object Could be Influencing Nearby Kuiper Belt Objects - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:48] <exec> 08└─It's worse than you think. The tenth planet, Mondas, is where the Cybermen originated...
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