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[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─Doesn't look modern (Score: 1) by tftp (806) Subscriber Badge
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─The problem with "off the grid" is storage. If you're using solar panels, then you need to store power for night time use, and if you're using electrical heating for use in case of, e.g., snowstorms. This is do-able, but it can get expensive. So many people also have a generator if they live in a re...
[00:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ [statista.com]
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─But as people move towards electric vehicles ... something something ... Summer, perhaps, with a large battery ...
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:53] <exec> 08└─Just leave me alone, and GET OFF MY SOLAR PANELS, you statist, corporatist, communitarian, you! All together now: "We are all individuals!" [cite: "Liff of Brian" Monty Python, 1979]
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─Nice little farm you got there, libertaritard! Be a shame if something were to happen to it. Irrigation cooperative meets on the 14th of this month. Might be a good idea to be there.
[00:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:13] <exec> 08└─I can't remember a single survey about computer capabilities that has been correct. Even approximately. Sometimes they think things will be super easy that turn out to be incredibly hard, and sometimes the opposite. People, even experts in the field, have a horrible time estimating how difficult it...
[00:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:14] <exec> 08└─You know, unbribeable software?
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German "Network Enforcement Act" to Force Websites to Remove "Obviously Illegal" Content - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:33] <exec> 08└─"Is Germany pining for better days of yore?" Almost certainly. Not openly. You don't have large groups of people openly discussing how to reclaim the power of the Third Reich, or any other period of German history. But, in small groups and individually, people wish that they could reclaim the power...
[00:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed. If you want to smoke pot, maybe consider moving to a place where it is legal.
[00:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:15] <exec> 08└─Don't strain your little brain. Just sit in the corner and drool on yourself, like you usually do. And, no, you can't have a copy of the book - you'll just drool on it, then anyone who touches it will be infected with your brain eating bacteria.
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[01:33:26] <exec> 08└─Put it in your contracts, people. Why don't you get this yet? PUT IT IN YOUR GODDAMN CONTRACTS.
[01:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─the reliability of the software becomes priority number 1
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't care if the submitter is the author, as long as the article is of sufficient interest and quality. This one doesn't offer a lot of insight, but it is reasonably interesting if you weren't aware of these incidents before.
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─That's what is going to happen for orgs where the engineers still have authority, say car and plane manufacturers. Elsewhere, like for voting machines, you'll get a bodge job.
[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:34] <exec> 08└─The goal when something goes wrong is to locate and punish an Official Scapegoat. The ideal scapegoat is somebody who is no longer associated with the company, such as a subcontractor (who did not get the gig because they were a friend of an executive) or some developer who left for greener pastures...
[01:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─I thought it was okay. The examples section was kind of a thinking man's "Daily WTF."
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─It’s hard to scare someone with a freaked out coffee-maker...
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[01:33:49] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Comes off as an advertisement.
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:16] <exec> 08└─IMO, the largest obstacle to the idea of having solar on everyone's roof is lack of economy of scale. Each solar installation is tiny, but has its own site, wiring, inverters, connections to the grid, batteries, switches... It's like owning a house vs. renting an apartment - the house owner spends a...
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[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─You are not cut off from civilization just because you are not on the grid anymore. A house in the north using a heating boiler becomes unlivable if that machine breaks down. The solution is service companies that react fast, and live a few days in a hotel if all else fails. So this is clearly a pro...
[01:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─Duh... hookers.
[01:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German "Network Enforcement Act" to Force Websites to Remove "Obviously Illegal" Content - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:59] <exec> 08└─Germany, Sweden, and the UK are doomed. Poland and Hungary are safe for now. Italy, France, and Austria are up for grabs.
[01:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I appreciate the job you do. I just didn't have anything useful to post, but hate seeing an effort to with no posts. Thanks again for posting.
[01:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extensive Study Concludes Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:12] <exec> 08└─The headline reads, "Extensive Study Concludes Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees" Let's simplify. "Extensive Study Concludes (bug sprays) Harm (bugs)" Gathering additional evidence from the summary itself, it appears that there was an extensive study once and for all to see whether it appears that...
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[02:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:33] <exec> 08└─A connected coffee-maker crosses the line from amusing novelty to disgusting sloth -- but then again I'm one of those stubborn motherfuckers who prefers to use Thomas Guides and road atlases rather than smartphone shit for big road-trips. That being said, a Turkish coffee pot is a good backup to you...
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[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─The mesh already exist. It is.the power grid. In my area, it is a power co-op. We all belong too. It is wear I buy and sell power. They handle the inter-connects and spot power generation and buys when local is not enough.
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[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─Phoenix has 299 sunny days per year. What happens when you get a few cloudy days in a row? I guess you can run to the supermarket and stock up on AA batteries.
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[02:34:56] <exec> 08└─when the next group of would-be Nazis assume power
[02:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, that might work as well. But I have never been all that clear about the mechanics, and if it really did cure depression, there should be a lot less depressed people.
[02:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:58] <exec> 08└─Realistically, for how many people is it practical to move the whole family and find new employment whenever laws change?
[02:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:45] <exec> 08└─Runaway! Say it ain't so! You are a germophobe as well as an islamophobe? Is there nothing you are not afraid of?
[02:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:47] <exec> 08└─There is actually a long-term, someone nasty debate over the race of the ancient Egyptians.
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:49] <exec> 08└─Not afraid of poking AC with a few barbs here and there. And, you always come back for more.
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[03:33:16] <exec> 08└─...pity about the Sir David Attenborough.
[03:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:31] <exec> 08└─I do that already. It's summer in TN which means 90-ish in both temperature and humidity. Swamp-ass is a region-wide concern.
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[03:33:43] <exec> 08└─The game was OK. A good solid 90s LucasArts style game. Considering it was one of the dudes who basically invented that genre. Not too surprising. The puzzles were fairly logical and not too much orthogonal thinking. Plus the clown was fucking amazing :)
[03:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:15] <exec> 08└─AU has a high level of household solar, and is continuing installation. The average daily electric power usage in AU is about 20 KWh per household. Solar installations are generally 3, 4 or 5 KW (max power). With average levels of cloud, sun angle, etc, you get the equivalent of 4 to 6 hours of max...
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[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─Solar power in AU is 3, 4 or 5 kW usually. Occasionally 8. Most of the roofs I see it on would have enough space to easily double the size of the panels. The main problem would be that power is mostly generated during the day, when the car is parked at work. What is needed is easily swappable batter...
[03:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─What happens when the unbribable software wants to build a highway across your house?
[03:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:49] <exec> 08└─"Sephardim? I barely even KNOW 'im!"
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─Blonde haired, blue eyed people are Africans too. (South Africa) They have been for as long as white people have been "North American." For some reason, a lot of people can't accept that. Where you live is not the same as your race.
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[04:33:24] <exec> 08└─I want to suck your frigid clit.
[04:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:25] <exec> 08└─Rule of thumb: expand acronyms on first occurrence, or at least if they occur in the Fine Summary? Anthropogenic Antarctic Boatface Water? Antinomian Anticyclonic Bathyspheric Waves? Australian Antipode Beer Warblers? Abysmal Alterclarine Biological Waste? I give up, but only because I can't be both...
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[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─American Association of Black Women
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[04:33:43] <exec> 08└─Can't be done, not even once they finish upgrading the big doughnut in 2047. You're talking about surviving a journey with a divergence over 80%! I doubt there'd even be a solar system there much less an Earth!
[04:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updates to Thimbleweed Park Allow Characters to Talk to one Another Plus an Inbuilt Hint System - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:56] <exec> 08└─I would. But only as a Soyvertisement for a game that looks interesting
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[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─Appears to be some kind of video game. But no one has asked the most important question: "Does it run on Linux?"
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[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─Worth buying then
[04:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is a dramatic change. Home storage needs to be cheap, reliable and maintenance-free, but most people don't care about size and weight (within reason). Do you really care whether that block attached to the back or side of your house occupies 2 or 4 cubic metres, and whether it weighs...
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[04:35:16] <exec> 08└─How is this different from the crusades? Who cares what jews do? They are not killing people in the name of religion?
[04:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German "Network Enforcement Act" to Force Websites to Remove "Obviously Illegal" Content - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:17] <exec> 08└─Austria and Italy will be fine. France is fucked.
[04:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:09] <exec> 08└─As you say, "if you know what you are looking for before you start, you are trying to bolster ideology, not engaging in actual science", but that applies equally well to modern leftist anti-white sentiment. If you decide before you start that you will reject scientific results that happen to show wh...
[04:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:11] <exec> 08└─OMG! It's White Science Genocide! Told ya! No, we don't fund these kinds of studies the same reason we do not invest in Peter Thiel ventures: they are not interesting questions, and even where they might be, the glombing on to them be racists destroys all scientific value. I would much rather fund s...
[04:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Sues Western Digital as it Seeks to Sell its Memory Business to a Third Party - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:52] <exec> 08└─It's a shame, but Toshiba is about to go the way of Yahoo. This just goes to show that there is no such thing as immortality in the corporate world, even with companies that seemingly had a claim to it during their most successful periods.
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[05:33:31] <exec> 08└─The real Boaty McBoatface is currently misnamed RRS Sir David Attenborough. It's a huge injustice. If you want public support for this research, you suck it up and paint "Boaty McBoatface" on the side of your ship. The thing was already going to be bright red. It needed a smiling face on the front,...
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[05:33:33] <exec> 08└─Of the two articles cited, the BBC is far better. People who find the freezing point of water to be remarkable either live in tropic zones, or live sheltered lives.
[05:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:59] <exec> 08└─> my consent to nuke us all A more efficient solution, one that any worthy AI will surely reach, is to assassinate parent.
[05:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:00] <exec> 08└─Then it would probably pay you for the value of the property.
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[05:35:25] <exec> 08└─I hope World War 3 goes nuclear.
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[05:36:27] <exec> 08└─well certainly a lot of people told to be less depressed.
[05:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:20] <exec> 08└─And Slavic Poetry! It's counter Teutonic!
[05:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extensive Study Concludes Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:51] <exec> 08└─Tomatoes are self-fertile. The flower parts sort of crash into each other as they grow. Bananas, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are all vegetatively propagated. There are flowers, but we don't give a damn if they are pollinated. Vanilla is pollinated by people with electric toothbrushes. There is some...
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[06:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─DC's generally safer because you don't have a single 'live' wire, you have to actually complete the circuit, unlike AC. Plus at 42 volts I don't think that's enough to overcome the resistance of unbroken skin, is it? So unless you're like, bridging the wires across a pair of open wounds you should b...
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[06:33:39] <exec> 08└─They send it far away and into conditions harsher than almost anywhere else on the Planet. Isn't a maiden voyage supposed to be a fairly mild shake down mission so any bugs can be discovered and fixed before sending it into a deep, freezing Hell? It almost seems they didn't want Boaty McBoatface to...
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[06:34:12] <exec> 08└─That's on purpose. It's replicating the pixel art of the 80s, with dynamic lighting, parallax and antialiasing thrown in.
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[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─It would have gone for 40-50 bucks back in the mid 90s. It is of as good of quality as any of the LucasArts advent style game. Does its graphics hold up to current titles? Not as good of graphics as the wadjet games which are of the same genre. Which is also of the retro pixel art style. But those u...
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[06:34:15] <exec> 08└─Yes it does.
[06:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03brausch [3519] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:49] <exec> 08└─If you're talking solar or wind, your neighbors may very well be down/out of power at the same time you are.
[06:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German "Network Enforcement Act" to Force Websites to Remove "Obviously Illegal" Content - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:38] <exec> 08└─I think that is what everybody on this planet fears. It *will* go nuclear. After which, life as we knew it will be changed drastically, as the factories which used to make all our stuff no longer exist.
[06:35:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Issues 100 Millionth Certificate - 322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:56] <exec> 08└─Lets just remind everybody that the current model of trust is a bad design. Even if it's better than none. An arbitrary list in the browser decides which CAs that get to authorize anyone to pretend being any site. A DNS based approach is one alternative, but trusting the DNS administrators is also n...
[06:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:42] <exec> 08└─That depends on the individual and the laws in question.
[06:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:43] <exec> 08└─Fix the cause instead of treating the symptom.
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[07:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:18] <exec> 08└─As an admin, I have worked in union-driven environments. I have been in large utilities, manufacturing firms, and other unionised environments. I have never seen a union that struck me as worth the bother. However, I have seen union stewards violate the law with impunity, I have seen open abuse of n...
[07:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:20] <exec> 08└─No union for you. Work 100 hours per week for peanuts and get laid off as soon as you turn 30. Shut the fuck up whining you replaceable cogs! More H1B!
[07:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:29] <exec> 08└─Why 42V? I mean both 24V and 48V are the standards for DC in industrial uses and would make more sense (not uncommon to find industrial buildinga with several small 24V or 48V DC grids)
[07:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:31] <exec> 08└─Why 42V?
[07:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─I member freeDos. Mainly being disappointed it wasn't MS-Dos. Back around windows 95 days.....
[07:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 1112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:02] <exec> 08└─The goal when something goes wrong is to locate and punish an Official Scapegoat. The ideal scapegoat is somebody who is no longer associated with the company, such as a subcontractor (who did not get the gig because they were a friend of an executive) or some developer who left for greener pastures...
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[08:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:22] <exec> 08└─Unions seems like a good thing and they are created to protect salaried personnel from abusive employers. The catch is they are almost with certainty predestined to become a sour deal. Otoh, there is the problem with abusive employers. Which might need some solution. But unions may not bee that solu...
[08:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:23] <exec> 08└─But unions may not bee that solution.
[08:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─The solution is a large industrial shredder and a live TV feed. Once a few abusive employers end up getting turned into gory confetti in the real-life equivalent of a Mortal Kombat arena deathtrap--and several million people see it live--there will be some change.
[08:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:36] <exec> 08└─54.
[08:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:38] <exec> 08└─Why 42V?
[08:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:08] <exec> 08└─Expect a 10-20kWh/day as an average, if you don't switch on your electric oven or AC. A Tesla car battery will see you through 3-5days. Probably, you'll need 12kW peak power worth of installed PV panels; given that PV will shed about 15-20% efficiency in the first 2-3years, you'll need 15kW installe...
[08:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt Issues 100 Millionth Certificate - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:18] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but shttp:// [wikipedia.org] seems vulnerable to downgrade attacks. There is no mention either how to determine who to trust to avoid MITM.
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[09:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:25] <exec> 08└─I'll see the silent IT worker avengers in the works ;)
[09:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:27] <exec> 08└─More likely, President Camacho will empower Brawndo Corp. to use said shredder on troublemakers.
[09:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:29] <exec> 08└─The mere threat of a class-action lawsuit prevents all sorts of shit. Sadly, lawyers have figured out that they can just demand that you waive your rights. No waiver means no deal, and everybody is demanding the waiver. This is thus something you shouldn't be able to waive. To prevent pretending, in...
[09:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─DC's generally safer because you don't have a single 'live' wire, you have to actually complete the circuit, unlike AC.
[09:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─...which is 42 in Base 13. (I admit that AnonTechie's H2G2 Wikipedia link jogged my memory.)
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:44] <exec> 08└─I am, I even met D.A IRL (at a signing, but still). I just am curious why they opted going for humor instead of following a standard where parts are readily available and where setup is a painfree standard since at least a few decades ago.
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:21] <exec> 08└─It's one of those abstract worlds like Flatworld next to the cannibalistic ant lords who can only walk in clockwise circles. Great place to visit if you're compatible with the physics.
[09:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German "Network Enforcement Act" to Force Websites to Remove "Obviously Illegal" Content - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:04] <exec> 08└─Vive la résistance!
[09:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German "Network Enforcement Act" to Force Websites to Remove "Obviously Illegal" Content - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:05] <exec> 08└─They just make sure others can do it.
[09:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:04] <exec> 08└─Did they build pyramids with precision? managed to move big stones over waterways? have land surveying? advanced shipbuilding? mathematics? literature? I'm sure there structure in a lot of places. The difference is when it can accomplish serious technological projects that can improve the overall st...
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[10:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:14] <exec> 08└─What, in your opinion, makes this better than Devuan? I'm genuinely curious, being a Devuan-refugree after the systemd-clusterfuck hit.
[10:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:30] <exec> 08└─Mixing normal union behavior with typical Bay Area politics, 99% of union dues would go to people like Feinstein. Say, how did she get $200 million on a US rep salary? Maybe unions? Some of us aren't down with that. We oppose unamerican activities. MAGA!!!
[10:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:31] <exec> 08└─There is a rather lot of theory on "professions" and the idea of what was considered a "trade" becoming a profession, something that has happened with nursing, for example. I could provide a skeletal outline on what it would mean for IT to become a profession, if anyone is interested. The key alway...
[10:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:46] <exec> 08└─With AC, the advantage is the transformers and price to pay is the large diameter conductors due to skin effect [wikipedia.org]. DC doesn't show skin effect, but it's a pain to raise the voltage. In any case, AC or DC is costly at low voltages - to draw enough power, one needs to crank up the curren...
[10:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:48] <exec> 08└─> I just am curious why they opted going for humor instead of following a standard where parts are readily available and where setup is a painfree standard since at least a few decades ago. Because it is a gimmick, done for PR purposes more than any other reason. I don't see the point of it myself...
[10:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:08] <exec> 08└─woosh.
[10:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─Rule of thumb: expand acronyms on first occurrence, or at least if they occur in the Fine Summary?
[10:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in my previous employment they were known as the "sacrificial lamb", and it worked pretty much as you say it does. Best thing (for the company) is the wronged employee would be wise to not sue for constrictive dismissal, even if they had a case. If it comes out that you sued your former empl...
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure whether off grid living is such a good idea anyway. Nearly all progress humanity has made has been by banding together. Insulating yourself from the world seems like a step backwards.
[10:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:24] <exec> 08└─I have no give-a-shit. Is that close enough for your purposes?
[10:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:48] <exec> 08└─Then it would probably pay you for the value of the property.
[10:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:50] <exec> 08└─No, there's at least a few for the foreseeable future: animal training/handling, plumber, electrician, plus the professional level of live performance for athletics (including equestrian sports), dancing, inventing, acting, writing fiction, and other non-visual creative disciplines. Doubtless there'...
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[11:33:20] <exec> 08└─Primarily this: Neither its Gentoo base nor the Calculate distro are new. I value this extremely highly in a server OS and moderately in a Desktop OS. Secondarily this: You get every bit of the minute customizability of a Gentoo system where you want it and binary packages with the common build opti...
[11:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:38] <exec> 08└─Class-action lawsuits do nothing to address, and indeed are not even possible in, the situation described above re: SMBs where the entire IT staff could consist of yourself.
[11:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:16] <exec> 08└─AABW = Anscombe-Ayer-Baudrillard-Wang is a theory focusing on inconsistent propositions which can become (subjective) reality and exert influence on the objective reality. See "Jobs distortion field" and the latest evolution in American politics. The theory is best stored and consumed cold, 't'is wh...
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[12:33:18] <exec> 08└─Unions in the UK got a very bad reputation in the 1970s and 1980s. I remember news reports of the Miners' Strike [wikipedia.org] in the early 1980s where the unions were often portrayed as being violent, unfair and unreasonable, intimidating innocent workers who didn't want to strike and being awkwa...
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:36] <exec> 08└─Except to AC the earth itself is one side. so no. you don't really have to 'complete the circut' like you do with dc. just to be standing on the ground will do it.
[12:36:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 749 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:54] <exec> 08└─I live in Vegas. I voted in favor of this. Since one minute after midnight last night, my neighbors have been shooting at each other, a plane fell onto the street in a fiery crash in front of my house, people are running out of the casinos throwing stacks of hundred dollar bills into the air, and an...
[12:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:06] <exec> 08└─OK, Runaway smartypants, tell us again why Egyptians are not Africans. Why is this important? Surely there is some monument to knockover or club to shoot up, there in the Great State of Arkansas (which is not American, by the way).
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[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:21] <exec> 08└─This is the NSA's equivalent of yelling "It's coming right for us!" before shooting illegal game.
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[13:33:30] <exec> 08└─I will say that BOTH of them come with caveats, but both of them also work excellently, outside of some gotchas around package dependencies, and configuration files (both of them have inconsistencies in their package configurations, don't always cleanup or prompt for cleanup when configuration file...
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[13:33:37] <exec> 08└─As an admin, I have worked in union-driven environments. I have been in large utilities, manufacturing firms, and other unionised environments. I have never seen a union that struck me as worth the bother. However, I have seen union stewards violate the law with impunity, I have seen open abuse of n...
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[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that is far more sane than the union situation in the US and something I might even be agreeable to. Here, unless you are in a "right to work" state, pretty much every unionized shop is a closed shop with only one union present; you either join it or you don't work there. Unions routinely cont...
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[13:34:07] <exec> 08└─DC's generally safer It really depends on the expected failures. AC has points in time (50 or 60 times a second) due to the waveform where the voltage is zero, so it is more difficult to sustain an arc. If you want to avoid arcs then go for AC (or use better spacing). It is my understanding that DC...
[13:37:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:57] <exec> 08└─No, the irony is that you complain about people that rewrite history to their liking, while complaining about a piece of history that you don't like.
[13:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:00] <exec> 08└─modern Egyptians share more genes with African populations than their ancestors.
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[14:33:24] <exec> 08└─How the hell has someone not been sent to prison for this?
[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─... and here I was, thinking that this would be a projection of when Kernel 17.6 would be released. These folks need a new distro name! I bet they didn't... take that into calculation in their decision process. (thank you, I'll be here all week)
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─Having said all that, use devuan if you don't want to have to deal with time/configuration to build packages and gentoo if you are going to need to install packages considered 'off the beaten path' for normal linux distros.
[14:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─President Camacho sounds like a very smart cookie. I'd like to meet him ASAP. Please ask him to call me at 202-456-1414. #MAGA
[14:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:22] <exec> 08└─Whenever I need to run a BIOS update, it's a life saver (unless it's one of those "Windows-only" type of utilities).
[14:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─(Hi everybody, my computer broke down and I was busy) I lost the plot of AI developments a long time ago, unfortunately. Can anyone give an update on "what's hot and what's not" in the past decade, w.r.t: - spiky networks, i.e. time-based NNs not just floating point scalars like in backpropagation -...
[14:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians not African - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:47] <exec> 08└─I was making a JOKE, you dummy. The Chariots of the Gods. Have you ever read it? Have you ever read any related material? It's kinda like a big conspiracy theory thing, but even bigger than that infamous 'vast right wing conspiracy'. You may wish to google for it. Here, let me help - http://lmgtfy.c...
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[15:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:15] <exec> 08└─A piece of chocolate cake really clears the head. Or two pieces. It's my superfood. Ivanka is always eating radishes and avocados for her skin. But I eat chocolate cake. It's brain food. 🇺🇸
[15:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:17] <exec> 08└─I must be a genius then!
[15:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:26] <exec> 08└─You really that naive?
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─Before unions, construction workers didn't even have yellow jackets!
[15:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─They are "a union for all workers", after all: https://iww.org [iww.org]
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─I'd take Camacho over Trump any day - at least Camacho genuinely cared about his people and country, even if he had no idea how to do it himself.
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─Correction, my friend: ANY electrical system, AC or DC, that uses one pair of wires has a SINGLE live wire. The other wire is neutral. Touch the live wire and you risk current travelling thru you as the electricity finds an alternate path other than the usual one. Most people call this "ground". Sou...
[15:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─Same with DC.
[15:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:25] <exec> 08└─animal training/handling and live performers - agreed, will be ok for a long time. athletes - don't know, I don't follow sports much. I do know that attendances at the big football games here have been slowly falling for years. Attendance at local amateur games is up. plumber, electrician - won't go...
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[16:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:22] <exec> 08└─A quick energy push does wonders for the brain power...
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─How do you define "trade" and "profession?"
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─Except to AC the earth itself is one side. so no. you don't really have to 'complete the circut' like you do with dc. just to be standing on the ground will do it.
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─In the late 90s, there was a program afoot to move automobile electric systems from 12V DC to 42V DC. There is a 6V standard, but that was phased out in favor of 12V more than 60 years ago. They picked 42V because that was about the highest voltage that was not too dangerous for people. Yes, current...
[16:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─It's pretty clear that this has already happened [sourceforge.net] when it comes to high level corporate management.
[16:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:36] <exec> 08└─AI is the magic in "any suitably advanced technology will appear as magic to those unfamiliar with it." Expert systems, database searches, speech recognition, these are all fairly simply explainable algorithms, well understood by many, easily explained to the uninitiated. What's got (some of) the AI...
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[17:33:35] <exec> 08└─Because they are above the law. Simple as that. The law only exists to keep us little people in line now. This is why I'm always warning people not to confuse law with morals.
[17:33:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 884 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─Primarily this: Neither its Gentoo base nor the Calculate distro are new. I value this extremely highly in a server OS and moderately in a Desktop OS. Secondarily this: You get every bit of the minute customizability of a Gentoo system where you want it and binary packages with the common build opti...
[17:33:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─But unions may not bee that solution.
[17:34:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 3598 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─Unions in the UK got a very bad reputation in the 1970s and 1980s. I remember news reports of the Miners' Strike [wikipedia.org] in the early 1980s where the unions were often portrayed as being violent, unfair and unreasonable, intimidating innocent workers who didn't want to strike and being awkwa...
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, we've all seen out-of-control union leadership go a little nuts and make unrealistic demands and end up having companies shut down plants. And corruption (or even mob involvement) steal funds. This is nothing compared to all the good unions have done. The 1% has been trying to convince people t...
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─The only reason I can think of for that number: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But everyone else uses some multiple of the 12V number, derived from the 12V lead acid automotive battery where the cell voltage is roughly 2V per cell. 48V in telecom and mission...
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:01] <exec> 08└─The article mentions that it's short form for Antarctic bottom water, the water at the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Same as it ever was. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:45] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the 5th Amendment to the Constitution will be in the "rule set" : ) http://constitution.findlaw.com [findlaw.com]
[17:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:47] <exec> 08└─The problem with most government "algorithms" to-date is that they are full of pork, inserted by lobbyist bribes. Just for starters, look at the tax code.
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[18:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:20] <exec> 08└─For the most part, flying on European or Asian airlines is still beats flying on 'any' U.S. based airline by a wide margin. I've used Ryanair before while in Europe and I was treated like a King compared to even flying business class in America. If you are flying on an economy ticket in the U.S., th...
[18:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. "Allocated randomly" does not mean that the results are necessarily uniformly distributed. As director of a statistical department, Dr. Rogers should know better.
[18:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─Despite the fact that Gentoo and its ilk are treated by others as blowhard ricers, the truth is that you couldn't meet a nicer, more informative, more helpful community that is interested in just getting stuff working for you.
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Unions are worse than you have been told. When I was young, I worked in a non-union sawmill across a creek from a union sawmill. When they went on strike, we would have mysterious fires in the middle of the night. Also, we would start to find metal spikes in the logs. Fuck unions and fuck union memb...
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─the unions that I have worked with It doesn't sound at all like you "worked with" the union. It sounds like you laid back and let things happen. ...and if you don't like what the union officers are doing, VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT. (If your ideas are so much better than what's happening, it should be a...
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 2462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─Obviously, Cafebabe shouldn't have used the trigger word “union.” (OMG unions! Fees! Corruption!… hmm… gonna have to work on that one.) Doctors are licensed and have the AMA. Lawyers are licensed and have state bar associations. These aren't blue-collar people. We aren't blue-collar people....
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─The nurses' unions kick ass. There's no better example of how to do things union-wise. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:32] <exec> 08└─american labor movement has always been about fair wages and has never been about "control of the means of production"
[18:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 1785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:34] <exec> 08└─Unions in the UK [...] in the 1970s and 1980s The era of Thatcher and union busting. the Miners' Strike Thatcherism writ large. Ronnie Raygun copied her methods with the mass firing of PATCO workers. (Reagan had been a union president. Total piece of shit.) [union leader] was a Communist A lot of pe...
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─So GPP should have voted against the mob's chosen stewards, and run against the mob's chosen stewards... and this would make his life better, more comfortable and longer how? Your ideas fascinate me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Oh, and when the aggregated funds are split between mobs...
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:39] <exec> 08└─1) No serious action to repeal Taft-Hartley. 2) Additional anti-union legislation at the state level. 3) Companies moving to The South, which doesn't have a history of union activity. (Southerners identify "union" with the army that swept through their area in 1865 and destroyed everything it could...
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:41] <exec> 08└─The binary world inside your head is boring. It seems to indicate a limited intellect. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─from the article: Boaty was carried by the ship RRS James Clark Ross [...] In the future, Boaty will be sent out on the RRS Sir David Attenborough [...]
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:30] <exec> 08└─Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden on 27 November 1701. His family originated from Ovanåker in the province of Hälsingland. Their family estate was at Doma, [...] The name Celsius is a latinization of the estate's name (Latin celsus "mound"). [...] Anders Celsius studied at Uppsala Univers...
[18:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:16] <exec> 08└─Interesting thing, I just encountered a Google failure with the NEXRAD data format - try to Google your way to a definition of how the NEXRAD data is stored and see where you get - ask a librarian at NOAA and the answer comes back in 12, 24, 48 hours at 3 increasing levels of precision and helpfulne...
[18:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─Just as neutron bombs leave the cities standing, I would think one of AI's first self-assigned tasks would be to develop a cleansing agent that doesn't involve EMPs.
[18:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─I can't remember a single survey about computer capabilities that has been correct. Even approximately. Sometimes they think things will be super easy that turn out to be incredibly hard, and sometimes the opposite. People, even experts in the field, have a horrible time estimating how difficult it...
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[19:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:20] <exec> 08└─Passengers have more chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot than being allocated middle seats at random on a Ryanair flight
[19:33:21] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds good. Who wants to sit on a middle seat anyway?
[19:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:23] <exec> 08└─Guess it's better to stay in Europe then.. Come to think of it. There's a whole world outside US ;-) But those Russky airlines with drunk pilots are something special. British Airways also have their incidents, but they are very few compared to Russky.
[19:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:26] <exec> 08└─Still, the first quoted sentence is wrong. Your changes are very very good of being allocated the middle seat in their version of "random". The sentence implies that your chances are nil, does it not?
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─Is it though? If some people are buying reserved seats in the window or aisle, then the odds that the remainder get middle seats go way up. The article did not factor this into their math.
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─I would think that the people who did reserve a seat most likely chose a window or isle seat, leaving only middle seats to "randomly" be assigned to the non-reserve people.
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[19:33:38] <exec> 08└─didnt they used to call these 'buckeyballs' faster Buckmeister Fuller or whatever that chap's name was?
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─Or the fat people would have figured out to put down the cake after awhile.
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─every time 8.8.8.8 seems to end up in some 3rd world country's brick house in the woods, this shaping is why.
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─The culprint is likely the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) or something similar. Maybe it's time to tighten who gets to send what BGP control messages. This under the assumption that all actors have some persons that are agents under cover. Otoh, most traffic is encrypted anyway.
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─If that keeps up, that would make it nice for newbies. With a rolling release, having to do a whole lot of catching up since the current Live Media offering could put off some potential converts. A fresh start that's as easy as (easier than?) a totally-renew-periodically distro should get some added...
[19:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─mysterious fires ...whose cause you can't identify with any certainty. metal spikes in the logs ...whose source you haven't identified with any certainty. Your "evidence" wouldn't hold up in a court of law. This is commonly called "slander". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─Good points. One you left out is that switches and mechanical relays wear out more quickly at higher voltages because arcing becomes more of a problem. Open a closed switch at 48 volts and there will be arcing. Not so much at 12 volts.
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Duh! "AI" means "Agile Incrementalism" right?
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[20:33:35] <exec> 08└─And if the statistical truth about people is that they pay for window seats etc. Then you want non-paying seat customers assigned to seats where they will not occupy anything that you can sell. But once the non-desirable seats are full. Then even window seats etc will be filled with non-paying seat...
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[20:33:37] <exec> 08└─By looking at the amount of window, aisle and middle seating available on each flight, at the time of check-in,...
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[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─By looking at the amount of window, aisle and middle seating available on each flight, at the time of check-in, Dr Rogers, calculated the chances [...]
[20:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps RyanAir should state "customers that don't pay for a seat allocation will be allocated to seats others historically didn't wanted to pay for. And will then be allocated from least wanted location to the most wanted, in that order."
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[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─Two molecules enter. One molecule leaves!
[20:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's all that cancer causing diet pop they drink that kills the brain cells before they can get smarter. It's become known that acesulphame potassium causes cancer, so they start calling it by it's brand name, 'Aspartame'. Then, It's become known that 'Aspartame' causes cancer, so they revert b...
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[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─Get bent!
[20:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:05] <exec> 08└─Unions in general were portrayed very badly in the mainstream media during that period. That was one of the reasons that I was so reluctant to join one at first.
[20:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:07] <exec> 08└─Southerners identify "union" with the army that swept through their area in 1865 and destroyed everything it could find.
[20:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:09] <exec> 08└─Co-operatives are a good idea. I'm a member of "the Co-op" and do a fair bit of shopping there I've bought two laptops from them (AMD CPUs, great prices) and a washing machine. I don't understand what this obsession with "us and them" capitalism is, with shareholders revered above all else (worke...
[20:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, we've all seen out-of-control union leadership go a little nuts
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─Wrong. You need to read your deep union history. Especially pre-WWII there was a substantial marxist undercurrent, and it's hardly surprising when you remember that in those days it was kind of cool to be a socialist.
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:16] <exec> 08└─The history of unions in the US and the UK looks markedly different from the little I've read about them, with the former being more aggressive and "closed", for want of a better word. With hindsight, Scargill went too far but when their opposition was a right-to-hard-right Conservative Party who we...
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:26] <exec> 08└─Your thinking is flawed. You are thinking of Ted Kazinsky and his manifesto shack in the middle of Montana. While that is the usual image of the phrase "off grid", here we're talking about simply disconnecting from the electric power grid. That doesn't mean living in a failed state. If it did, all o...
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[20:39:36] <exec> 08└─No prob!
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[21:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:13] <exec> 08└─to keep people who will not assimilate but instead replace them and turn their country into Britbongstan. No amount of surveillance will stop two cultures forced to live in one area from violently clashing with each other until only one remains. At the rate things are going, the United Kingdom will...
[21:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:15] <exec> 08└─Adding to the insult Got fiber? 423 US$/year please.. courtesy British government [soylentnews.org]. Not only will you pay an extra tax for the fiber you bought and buried at your own expense that will enhance British business. You will be tax-punished for it too. In addition to the eavesdropping.
[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─I do appreciate how much concern you folks have shown in the areas of women's rights and LGBT rights. You've made some real progress in those areas. I hope we can progress to a society where any woman can use the pill or get an abortion, and I hope we progress to a society where nobody bats an eye a...
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─The state surveillance is about population control just like Snowden said. Terrorists and the rest is just a convenient excuse. And if there are too few terrorists, they make them. Seems more and more like a war against the citizens to impose a future feudal society.
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:38] <exec> 08└─But the sentence I quoted says the exact opposite: That they virtually never stick you in the worst kind. If it is intended to be a joke, it's a very strange joke indeed.
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─including some unoccupied windows seats
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─That's why im glad i live in Canada, though we're so close to the U.S. that all their bad things seem to waft over to us. We just got rid of our own Bush/Trump (Harper) and now we got the new, geeky, lying Trudeau, son of 'Put Canada deep-deep into debt' Trudeau. Sigh. I guess Canada has shit of it'...
[21:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the stimulant properties of theobromine.
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─Beautiful! I love the poorly educated!
[21:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:11] <exec> 08└─Dianne "Fifth-columnist" Feinstein will be going bye bye from state politics soon, as even her own party members view her as a neocon. I can only hope that, Californians being retarded as they are, another hoary Barbara Boxer-like Jew won't be voted into office in Feinstein's place.
[21:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 2410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─Well, cafebabe said the "U" word, so any rational discussion, as usual, is going to be lacking. But in brief. A profession is a "calling", a self-identification. Of course, just hanging out a shingle is not enough A professional is possessed of specialized knowledge and/or expertise, that is not eas...
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─I agree. I've recently read two books of Alexei Sayle's biography which give quite an insight into British politics in the second half of the 20th Century. I was a young child when the miners' strike and Hillsborough happened, and I am shocked at the arrogance and brutality of the Establishment even...
[21:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:17] <exec> 08└─Lucid as ever. I conclude that professionalism is of a bygone era. Modern management actively seeks to crush it. I think I almost achieved it once. Funnily enough, that's when the Company was most pleased with the quantity and quality of my output. Bah!
[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:19] <exec> 08└─I conclude that professionalism is of a bygone era. Modern management actively seeks to crush it.
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:21] <exec> 08└─Worthless, mostly. Strained and alienating rhetoric, combined with militant sloganeering ensures that no sensible person would join. Most people interested in joining a union want to do so for one primary reason: bad management. The same reason, not coincidentally, that people quit their jobs (the o...
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:46] <exec> 08└─Firstly, SI units are not capitalised[1]. Secondly, the unit is the unit, the person is the person, one is an English word, the other is a French name, the exact rendering of the French name is now irrelevant to the spelling of the English word. Thirdly, Ampere the person never had an acute accent a...
[21:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─Yes! I'm STILL waiting :( Watch Lars and the Real Girl, with Ryan Gosling. Weird, weird movie, but probably going on in Japan right now.
[21:39:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in Nevada Ahead of Independence Day - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─It took me a while to put this together because there was a lot of contradictory and fragmented info. Most of the articles don't talk about the booze distributors or the fact that medical dispensaries can only sell the cannabis they have on hand TODAY as recreational. You can have your legal weed, b...
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[22:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─Users 0
[22:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:26] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia Windows uses you. Everywhere else too.
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─W.I.N.D.O.W.S.: We Install No Damned Other Working System.
[22:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:39] <exec> 08└─Eh I'd rather see mentally ill people get treatment rather than play along with their delusions. Transsexuals are usually dead by 40. Homosexuals live about 20 years less than heterosexuals. Birth control pills aren't really good for women. It denies them their true purpose which is to have and rais...
[22:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:40] <exec> 08└─It's about balance of power. The UK gov isn't nearly as powerful these days as the US gov, but the people are proportionally weaker in large part due to having been disarmed. Their gov has nothing to fear from the people, so no reason to appease them.
[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─it sort of sounds like you are complaining about the flavor of cake you are eagerly consuming, when told to eat cake.
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─It is the same sort of way hotel rooms get allocated. Buy the cheapest one or get one through a discount service (Expedia, Priceline, etc.), you get a room facing the street, wall, whatever is less desirable in that location. Pay more, you get the oceanfront, higher floors, whatever constitutes good...
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─Windows seats? Do they offer Linux seats, too?
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─The sentence implies your chances are virtually nil if the seat allocation is random and if the pool of seats from which the selection is made contains all of the available seats on the flight, which apparently isn't the case. There's nothing wrong with the sentence. Incidentally, it looks as if the...
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03technoid_ [6593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─Ever wonder if traffic shaping done by the government is part of why Net Neutrality was repealed? If Net Neutrality in place it might make it easier to detect when the government has shaped the traffic to allow for analyzing or manipulating the traffic. We can't have that, think of the children.
[22:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:58] <exec> 08└─I was with you, TMB, until you wanted me to look at your boobies. No thanks, I'm fine.
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─First start with existing unions and identify what options are available. The Communications Workers of America have unionized some of the IT people in Seattle (iirc), but not in other cities, like San Francisco. Why not? What about more militant unions who are not in IT but are looking to expand? I...
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:48] <exec> 08└─I was brought up watching M*A*S*H. Corporal Clinger was always trying to get out under a Section 8. He had the right idea. When I went to secondary school we had a debating society which I joined (and became the Useful Idiot) run by the solitary Classical Studies teacher. We dipped our young toes in...
[22:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:51] <exec> 08└─Your first three paragraphs were spot on and had you stopped there your post would probably be modified +5 insightful or such by now. After that you wandered off into some sort of confused rant that seems to reveal some deep personal issues or something. Hopefully you feel better having gotten that...
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:53] <exec> 08└─The catch is they are almost with certainty predestined to become a sour deal.
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:55] <exec> 08└─Here, unless you are in a "right to work" state, pretty much every unionized shop is a closed shop with only one union present; you either join it or you don't work there. Unions routinely contribute to political parties, (Excuse me, political party. It's always the Democrats.) and are synonymous wi...
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[23:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:15] <exec> 08└─Now this is a very practical application of NASA's expertise and all space startups that launch their own craft should have their fingers in this pie. Yeah, colonizing Mars, or even the moon, is a cute idea because we all grew up watching those shows on TV, but when times are tough and budgets are t...
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[23:33:26] <exec> 08└─" Sunlight is a mixture of electromagnetic radiation made up of near-UV rays, visible light, and infrared energy, or heat," said Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo... "
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:04] <exec> 08└─But the sentence I quoted ...
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[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─reason I chose not to relocate up there. If any of the northern colonies were to defect and reinstate privacy, limited copyright enforcement, no internet spying, etc, I'd move up and become a colonist up in the far north. Too bad the populations there aren't big enough to either defend themselves, o...
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─No... It's an if:then statement. IF the seating is random, THEN several groups of 4 people all getting middle seats would be extremely rare. The fact that their volunteers were all given middle seats therefore indicates that seating is not random.
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─I imagine at least some of the TSA agents booting people's laptops for examination react pretty much precisely that way to Linux: "Hey, that don't look like Winders! You some kinda hacker or somethin?" "No, no, it's Linux, just another operating system, like Mac OS X." "I ain't heard of no Linux 'fo...
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[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─(Apologies to Soylentils from the deep South or wherever the hell that accent comes from. I was tempted to use a surfer stereotype instead, but making someone sound 'stupidly menacing' rather than 'stoned out of his gourd' when he's talking like Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a...
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─Rather than paying hundreds of dollars per year for talks and conferences
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─How about a union that you just use an app to join, and an app to vote, and just hire yourself out as the lowest bidder? You know, a disruptive, Millennial, hipster kind of updated version of a union, where we can all play Pokemon Go!
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:23] <exec> 08└─Because it is a gimmick, done for PR purposes more than any other reason.
[23:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─I think the word you're looking for is "ice", Boaty.
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