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[00:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:26] <exec> 08└─Asteroids can also be used for gravity assists to inch Earth away from the Sun before it becomes a red giant.
[00:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:42] <exec> 08└─Mars chocolate patented a method for processing chocolate in a way that preserves the flavanols. Dove dark chocolate is made that way. https://www.cocoavia.com [cocoavia.com]
[00:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they did have the masonic lodge.
[00:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:08] <exec> 08└─I expect techies in large companies to belong to an amalgamated union. This is for someone who is "the computer person" in a 10 person company. There is no collective bargaining for many of the computer professionals in this situation because the remainder of the company (secrataries, sales represen...
[00:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─...and folks who had been forced to pay for MICROS~1'S half-assed DOS were disappointed that it wasn't DR-DOS. For example, Redmond didn't have the CHOICE command until v6. [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:45] <exec> 08└─Yup. Here, you want the OS to concentrate on the -one- task, do it right, and wait to be told to do something else. those "Windows-only" type of utilities If there is a time when a multitasking OS is more inappropriate, I can't think of it. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[01:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:15] <exec> 08└─It can break up any time it likes, but it can never leave orbit.
[01:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:17] <exec> 08└─Is the Kessler syndrome possible at geo-synchronus orbit? Everything would seem to have about the same velocity.
[01:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─Seems like the cueball needs an awful lot of mass and/or thrust to make a measurable difference. ...and I hope that guy who did his calculations in imperial units (when everyone else was using MKS) isn't working on this one. I can imagine some space cowboy making things WORSE. -- OriginalOwner_ [soy...
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Make sure to interview a scientist wearing a sexist shirt. This time lets see a female scientist wearing a shirt which objectifies male bodybuilders. Reference Rosetta mission #shirtstorm [soylentnews.org]
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─I took a great solar energy course in the MIT architecture department in the mid-1970s. This was one of the professors predictions for solar glazing. At the time, the concept he was working on with a material scientist collaborator was called "heat mirror", the idea was that it would change transmis...
[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─She added: "Our government's obsession with storing vast amounts of sensitive information about every single one of us looks dangerously irresponsible. If they truly want to keep us safe and protect our cybersecurity, they urgently need to face up to reality and focus on closely monitoring those who...
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:23] <exec> 08└─Doesn't look like much data. I would expect at least 100 individual trials...
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Molecular Cages Made for Energy Conversion and Drug Delivery - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:32] <exec> 08└─That would be Buckminster Fuller to you, or Bucky to his friends, https://www.bfi.org [bfi.org] Unrelated to Bucky, but possibly related to this invention? The catalytic converters that clean up car engine exhaust also have huge surface area (acres or hectares), the surface of the porous ceramic el...
[01:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calculate Linux 17.6 Released - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:16] <exec> 08└─Oh they're not my boobies, except in the sense that all boobies rightfully belong to me. I'm just a generous realist and allow the rest of you the use of the ones not currently occupying my attention.
[01:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─No, my socialist friend, what it means is you cannot tell anyone who hires on at your shop "Nice job you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it." Unions in the US are largely nothing but an extortion racket arm of the DNC.
[01:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:43] <exec> 08└─...when written out completely. When abbreviated, however, they are capitalized. Consistency is for small minds, apparently. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cost of an Error: Who Pays for Programming Blunders? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, Orly's in France. http://www.airport-orly.com [airport-orly.com]
[01:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:31] <exec> 08└─Anarchy does not imply a lack of order.
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[02:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:27] <exec> 08└─Buy guns, ammo, canned goods, tents, camp stoves, and RUN. RUN I SAY, THEY'RE COMING!!!
[02:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:28] <exec> 08└─Don't trust America for the answers. I was just watching some Youtube vids about airborne sensor failures and they called a Pitot-static* probe a "pilot" probe. * Static vs. total pressure probe, utilizing a titanium sensing element.
[02:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:30] <exec> 08└─Is the Kessler syndrome possible at geo-synchronus orbit?
[02:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:32] <exec> 08└─Is the Kessler syndrome possible at geo-synchronus orbit? Everything would seem to have about the same velocity.
[02:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:01] <exec> 08└─(om nomnom) (glug glug glug) I CAN SEE FOREVER!
[02:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:17] <exec> 08└─what are you even talking about? you act like net neutrality is some kind of fucking device or software you plug in, when in reality its just a set of guidelines in regard to corporate interactions with peering providers/datacenters. net neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with the NSA at all, b...
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:31] <exec> 08└─AC #534190 and aristarchus have said that the word "union" has folks off on a tangent. Some terms that occur to me: Professional association Guild Fraternity Athenaeum Society Collective Cooperative -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not.
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[03:33:21] <exec> 08└─I guess my fear is that we are so damned vulnerable in this spot. One load of pea-gravel in an elliptical polar orbit intersecting this ring and everything is history. Reminds me of my own country. We have a lot of politicians and war machines, along with impressive arrays of young men in uniforms...
[03:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:22] <exec> 08└─Seriously? someone modded this 'Offtopic'? Isn't humour allowed? Am I overdoing it with the questions? should I stop, already?
[03:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:34] <exec> 08└─NASA had the heavy lift capability to launch your mom into space, let alone hit an asteroid. / there's always a your mom joke in there somewhere // the trick is finding it /// oops, wrong website for slashies
[03:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:31] <exec> 08└─Point is, if you don't pay the airline for an assigned seat, they stick you in the worst kind...
[03:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:32] <exec> 08└─This article should have the by-line of 'Duh'. Those people who pay to select seats would vastly reduce the number of non-middle seats out of the 'random' pool, so assuming a random distribution across the whole plane is foolishThe sample size of 16 is statistically invalid anyway - not only for all...
[03:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:14] <exec> 08└─Ah, now that you've cleared that up, I completely believe you that the push against net neutrality had nothing to do with the NSA. Thanks
[03:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:15] <exec> 08└─And the rest of the world plays a very very tiny violin in sympathy with the poor spied on Americans.
[03:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:17] <exec> 08└─Yup... us Americans... seem like we do whatever we are told to do. We are too damned scared and fearful to stand up to authority. If whining does not work, cower. We are taught to use the word "please" a lot, so hopefully the corrections administered will be lighter.
[03:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:32] <exec> 08└─One assumes your hometown wasn't on Sherman's route. Mine was. A century later, the work "Yankee" wasn't heard without it being preceded by "damned". The word "union" definitely has a related foul connotation to this day. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:33] <exec> 08└─http://www.returnofkings.com/124249/how-to-start-a-local-labor-union [returnofkings.com]
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[04:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:24] <exec> 08└─You get what you pay for.
[04:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should adopt US or Russian naming, e.g. Sprint, or Energia.
[04:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:28] <exec> 08└─Because no other rockets ever have problems...
[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─I guess this is the first step towards realising the concept of intergalactic bar billiards. As long as it doesn't get potted straight into a black hole like that planet in the seventh dimension was the other day, they should be fine.
[04:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:05] <exec> 08└─Say hello to the 13th century (or even earlier in some Arab cultures, depending on how far back you want to take it and whether something like a mashrabiya counts). This is basically a resource-intensive whiz-bang louvre or similar device. You don't need a "smart" anything, just some wooden slats an...
[04:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:53] <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
[04:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:19] <exec> 08└─Not only that, other studies have shown that chocolate causes weight loss [npr.org]! It's practically a superfood.
[04:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:55] <exec> 08└─your argument goes from "unions bad" to "unions baaaaaaaaad" try to join next time and if it sucks, maybe the next one won't
[04:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:48] <exec> 08└─Has anyone seen a robot that will come into someone's house and replace the toilet?
[04:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Survey Says AI Will Exceed Human Performance in Many Occupations Within Decades - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:50] <exec> 08└─The bullshit *has* to come out of the correct orifice. Even exactly identical bullshit coming from the wrong orifice has no value.
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[05:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously. It was a good joke.
[05:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─No... the Chinese are experiencing the same woes we did. Its called "experience".
[05:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:22] <exec> 08└─For more on this topic, see here. [soylentnews.org]
[05:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:37] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of my own country.
[05:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:38] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, metamoderation blows this guy away.
[05:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:03] <exec> 08└─Look, the submitter took great care to differentiate smart windows from microsoft windows!
[05:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:52] <exec> 08└─If some people are buying reserved seats in the window or aisle
[05:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:53] <exec> 08└─What idiots are reserving an isle and a window seat and leaving the middle for some random joker? You are probably forgetting groups of people will much prefer to reserve adjacent seats, leaving less middle seats. You would have to know who are reserving the seats, single people, couples, family gro...
[05:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:56] <exec> 08└─Client: Hey engineer, what should I do? Engineer: Build a sex dungeon studio suited to make child rape/snuff video. Client: Hey carpenter, the engineer says to build a sex dungeon studio suited to make child rape/snuff video. Carpenter: As you desire! Client: Woah there, I'm just the messenger. My e...
[05:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:58] <exec> 08└─The president can not fire the vice president, anybody in the judicial branch (does not include the Attorney General or FBI), or anybody in the legislative branch. This isn't very much. There are some security guards, people to give supreme court tours, etc. He also can't literally fire contractors,...
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[05:38:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, it appears to be a video game, or, yes, it runs on Linux? Mission Control: Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia? Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him yes on one and no on two. Mission Control: Which...
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[06:33:25] <exec> 08└─"Stub"
[06:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─So asteroid or evil missile? Anyway, will this be the end of geostationary orbit? I recall some figure of 300 years for LEO to self clean. What is the time for geostationary orbit? First pollution that ends a resource such that it can't be used within our lifetime?
[06:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:44] <exec> 08└─>"The AMC-9 could have been attacked by something" Are we sure its a real satellite? and real news? New Cloverfield franchise film is coming out in October: https://en.wikipedia.org(film) [wikipedia.org] J. J. Abrams and his company Bad Robot is known for doing this type of guerri...
[06:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:57] <exec> 08└─This is a interplanetary bar billiard where making the wrong move may be the last one anyone makes. 65803 Didymos with its 780 meters is enough in the Torino scale to cause "unprecedented regional devastation for a land impact or the threat of a major tsunami for an ocean impact".
[06:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:24] <exec> 08└─It would be a grave mistake to assume there is nothing to fear for the government. If the push comes to shove then there's no telling what comes out of the woodwork.
[06:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Point of Massive Electrical Grid Defection Closes in - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:18] <exec> 08└─OTOH, it would be nice to be insulated from the rent-seeking bastards either trying or succeeding to privatize Canada's hydroelectric systems. Sounds like it sucked to be in Ontario this winter. (Well, more than normal, at least.)
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[07:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:16] <exec> 08└─It was getting annoying having to keep spare batteries to properly monitor and manage the wife's frigid ... feet.
[07:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:17] <exec> 08└─Vibrator powered by body heat.
[07:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:19] <exec> 08└─Most applications would switch of the sensor between readings, but this sensor is slow (4 s per reading). The energy per measurement is 4x lower than previously achieved.
[07:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:32] <exec> 08└─Well, your idea of a good joke obviously doesn't agree with mine.
[07:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are some me nice pieces stashed away from the war, but if you can't practice with it you won't be very effective with it.
[07:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─ACs posting on AC and DC while listening to AC/DC...
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[08:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─The phrase "around 10 billion times less power than a watt" is just really stupid. What you mean to say is "around one 10-billionth of a watt".
[08:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:40] <exec> 08└─Your lack of humor doesn't make OP a troll.
[08:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:41] <exec> 08└─(1) I disagree that it is a lack of humour on my side. It is a bad joke, period. (2) I didn't claim he is a troll. I also didn't moderate that post, for the record. So stop putting words in my mouth.
[08:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:01] <exec> 08└─Slow is a relative term. The International Space Station travels, on average at about 7 kilometres a second. Its altitude in orbit varies from about 300 to 410 km. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A satellite in geostationary orbit has an average speed of abo...
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:15] <exec> 08└─Drew files lawsuit in 3...2..
[08:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the principle of drawing the blinds to keep a house cool isn't new, but I've never owned a set of wooden blinds that close themselves when it gets too warm. I have a sun-catching conservatory on the back of my house: great for helping to heat the house from autumn through spring, but it can ba...
[08:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:31] <exec> 08└─I've never owned a set of wooden blinds that close themselves when it gets too warm.
[08:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:33] <exec> 08└─Infrared energy is light, not heat. It may produce heat, but so do visible light and UV. I would expect better from an engineering professor at Princeton. If popular science means dumbing down the science to the point of telling untruths then it's no wonder that scientific fact is seen as just anoth...
[08:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:25] <exec> 08└─That only holds as long as you assume either an infinitely large plane or that nobody is willing to pay extra for an aisle or window seat.
[08:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:27] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that they deliberately stuck people in all the middle seats, and left the aisle and window seats empty? If not, then those seats were taken either by people who paid for them (which is what people have been saying) or randomly assigned to other people showing that the experiment reall...
[08:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:29] <exec> 08└─People flying alone will choose a window seat (best view) or aisle seat (easier to get to the toilet or (emergency) exit). A family of four people will take one window seat, one middle seat and two aisle seats. Groups of three people will take one of each, but even that won't change the fact that th...
[08:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:00] <exec> 08└─Except to AC the earth itself is one side.
[08:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:02] <exec> 08└─My mid-engined car has electric power steering (it's located about as far from the engine as you can get), so that's no problem. As for the coolant pump, I would prefer it running at the same time as the engine, not on some electric motor on a separate fuse.
[08:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:13] <exec> 08└─Yup. Here, you want the OS to concentrate on the -one- task, do it right, and wait to be told to do something else.
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[09:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:14] <exec> 08└─Of course it requires a certain amount of attention by the general public to underst... OOOHHH...shiny ponies!!!!
[09:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:15] <exec> 08└─People seem to be so nuts to share so much about themselves on social media. I believe the time is coming up fast they will wish they had been a little more discreet in their exposure online. I have been seeing reports of the next "wannacry" type of ransomware... except this one isn't after your fil...
[09:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:03] <exec> 08└─On the second image in the arstechnica link, you can see star streaks, but a nebula is not streaked. Can someone explain how that would not be a fake image?
[09:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:04] <exec> 08└─SES are a major satellite company that have existed for at least 25 years, they provided Astra, which carried Sky One on channel 8 at 19.2E in the days sky was free-to-air (shortly after they started showing DS9). On channel 30 there was a looped program by SES explaining how the Astra fleet worked,...
[09:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:06] <exec> 08└─I wasn't sure from the description, could be North Korea, could be USA.
[09:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:30] <exec> 08└─You're ignoring that some people pay to reserve a seat, and out of these people, probably none of them reserve a middle seat. So if you're randomly assigned one of the 'leftover' seats, odds are pretty good it'll be a middle seat. This has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread.
[09:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:32] <exec> 08└─Probably, the algorithm used is not random at all. There is probably a list of free seats sorted by "quality" and a new customer gets assigned the best seat he or she is qualified for (which is the worst on the list for the non-reserving customers: quality-eligibility of 0). The randomness is produc...
[09:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 2767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:34] <exec> 08└─Unions are a way to pay someone to fight your battles for you. I don't understand that. If I have a genuine grievance, pretty much anyone professional will help me fight that battle - from outside agencies to lawyers to the relevant ombudsman. Sure, maybe the union has more resources, but I'm paying...
[09:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:36] <exec> 08└─With one executive order, they could all be gone.
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[10:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:20] <exec> 08└─Seriously, it's taken him how long to come to this stunning realisation?
[10:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:31] <exec> 08└─It isn't if you aren't native.
[10:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:33] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly, GLasOS could run on a potato giving out about 1.1v. Is this where we are headed.?
[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─Probably working to a design from US
[10:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:43] <exec> 08└─Infrared energy is light, not heat.
[10:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:46] <exec> 08└─Unions are a way to pay someone to fight your battles for you.
[10:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:47] <exec> 08└─That would be discriminatory to all non-owners of smartphones! Wait, I've got the solution: Free smartphones for all! :-)
[10:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:49] <exec> 08└─Inability to understand legislation like this pretty much ensures you will never be able to retire as middle class. Almost deserved.
[10:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:52] <exec> 08└─A professional is possessed of specialized knowledge and/or expertise, that is not easily available.
[10:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:54] <exec> 08└─I have zero problems being in whatever class I choose to be in. I have zero problems saving for my own retirement, social security and 401K be damned. Sell that shit to someone who doesn't know how to take care of themselves.
[10:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:56] <exec> 08└─Context, my gradeschool-failing friend, context. Even southerners are capable of using and understanding it. And, yes, Yankees should be preceded by "God damned, carpetbagging, snare-drumming". Unless you're talking about the baseball team.
[10:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:27] <exec> 08└─They picked 42V because that was about the highest voltage that was not too dangerous for people.
[10:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:39] <exec> 08└─Apparently you can still buy DR-DOS licenses for $79. [drdos.com] However somehow I doubt they are selling many licenses, especially at that price point. ;-)
[10:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeDOS is 23 Years Old - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:41] <exec> 08└─That certainly will end as UEFI takes over. Unless someone writes an UEFI bootloader emulating BIOS (is that actually possible?)
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[11:33:25] <exec> 08└─I'd suspect those criminals using that kind of ransomware will find themselves in a much deeper boiling pot before too long compared to the assholes that trick you into running some code then claim their services are a beneficial service. I don't think you can easily say you're doing anything other...
[11:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:19] <exec> 08└─Simple explaination: You did not look good enough at the picture. Clear streaking can be seen in the brighter (middle) parts of the nebula. The rest of the nebula is to dim to give a visible streak and only a few pixels are even noticable above the noise.
[11:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:48] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between Ryan Air purposely giving you the worst seats and you just getting the leftovers. If you don't pay extra to pick a particular seat, from a coding and business perspective it might actually be easier and better to not assign you any seats till much later. So the ones who...
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[12:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:17] <exec> 08└─If details of the wiretap get out, it could mean the end of Soylent, when loyal readers hear irrefutable confessions by Soylent staff who admit to using Windows instead of Linux.
[12:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:41] <exec> 08└─Vibrator powered by body heat.
[12:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:23] <exec> 08└─SES being the biggest player in the satellite business, I'd find it interesting if they were to finance a de-orbiting attempt on this bird. There are many concepts, they have the pockets for a full-scale test. They'd stand to win on PR and know-now, maybe other players would be willing to help out f...
[12:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:24] <exec> 08└─The gun twirling isn't a US thing outside of a few performing artists who do it for football games and such. The rest sounds a fair cop though I don't necessarily side with workers just because they're being trimmed.
[12:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fierce [4087] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:13] <exec> 08└─Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty, said:
[12:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:30] <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.
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[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─> admit to using Windows instead of Linux You don't use windows. You are its hostage.
[13:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─How is a citizen supposed to respect authority, when authority takes blatant shortcuts and use a single wiretap order for millions of conversations?
[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─I think I have this right... 3,292,385 cell phone conversations or messages over 60 days
[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:25] <exec> 08└─Let's recap 10 years of internet outrage about U.S. Government intelligence-gathering: 1. The American agencies hoover up everything they can get their hands on, any time they want, and share it with anyone they damn well please. 2. All of the "Fives Eyes" countries are complicit in this. 3. Very fe...
[13:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:27] <exec> 08└─That explains why some people claim to like Windows: Stockholm syndrome.
[13:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:29] <exec> 08└─Those numbers also make something very clear. The number of individuals needed to be involved to get to the 3.3M is big, much bigger than what is reasonably to be expected from the number of suspects for a specific crime. This wasn't a targeted wiretap, it was a dragnet operation, a fishing expediti...
[13:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─Facebook helps kettle activists in their arm chair.
[13:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:12] <exec> 08└─Components. American components. Russian components. All made in China!
[13:35:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:57] <exec> 08└─This article should have the by-line of 'Duh'. Those people who pay to select seats would vastly reduce the number of non-middle seats out of the 'random' pool, so assuming a random distribution across the whole plane is foolishThe sample size of 16 is statistically invalid anyway - not only for all...
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[14:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:19] <exec> 08└─.. is harsh
[14:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:21] <exec> 08└─It worked for me, further testing not needed, close the ticket.
[14:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:23] <exec> 08└─They should be nominated for a Darwin Award -- unfortunately, it seems they not only have a kid, but another is on the way.
[14:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:25] <exec> 08└─that little woman firing a .50 Desert Eagle. I'm a big guy and a .357 magnum is as large a round as I care to handle. Not to mention, if it was gonna be pointed at my chest I'd be running tests on 5, 10, hell 100 books first. Clearly neither of these idiots knew anything about guns nor ballistics.
[14:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:27] <exec> 08└─I typed up a long post about guns and social media and stupid people taking advantage of both to direct other people to make guns extremely unfun for me and the rest of the responsible people. But meh. Anyway, someone named Markiplier committed a potential felony (if it was connected to an alarm, an...
[14:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:30] <exec> 08└─They didn't even do their research. They could have gone to the Box o Truth website and discovered for themselves that a Desert Eagle .50 was not going to stop for an inch and a half of paper. Of course, they could have been even smarter and not done all this stupid shit in the first place... nah, w...
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─To help persuade her to pull the trigger, Mr. Ruiz had even shown Ms. Perez a book that he had previously shot himself, she told investigators. In that case, she said, the bullet had not gone all the way through the text.
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─Roughly 100 calls per hour, more than one per minute, neglecting time to sleep and eat. But the point is the investigation focussed on 26 individuals, presumably the tap also monitored contacts and contacts-of-contacts @wiretap --recursive suspects@
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─Well, it doesn't say they wiretapped just those 26 individuals, it says they wiretapped in order to track those 26 individuals. Given on the amount of calls and texts, I guess they wiretapped everyone who was even remotely related to the 26 suspects.
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─Obama is out of control. The CIA is out of control. Obama and the CIA wiretapped my phone at Trump Tower. Obama is still wiretapping me. I brought in Mike Pompeo to get the CIA under control. He knows a lot about oil, used to work in the oil industry. As a CEO. We're going to get the CIA back on the...
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the main reason the Founders included the Fourth Amendment was to prohibit "fishing expeditions" like this, also known as "general warrants." That's why the amendment has all those clauses requiring specifics for the warrants. I mean, I know the Fourth Amendment is basically dead these d...
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[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─GLasOS? Linky, please?
[14:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:31] <exec> 08└─Dr Rogers, calculated the chances of all four people being randomly given middle seats on each of the flights, to be around 1:540,000,000
[14:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─* Middle Seat
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[15:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:26] <exec> 08└─C. Darwin called. Said everything is OK and nothing to worry about.
[15:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─Alright, the stunt was stupid. Playing around with guns is INCREDIBLY stupid. That people think it would have been an acceptable stunt if he hadn't been injured does kind of grate with me too. But you know what really gets me? If you truly wanted to do this, wouldn't you fire the bullet through the...
[15:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─They were too cheap to get a second copy of the same book.
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─How much does a Desert Eagle bullet cost, not to mention the gun to fire it from? They would have done better investing in a few brain cells.
[15:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─Precisely. It's an incredibly foolish thing to do, but it's pretty clear they didn't do even rudimentary testing. At an absolute bare minimum they should have shot a similar book from a similar distance and seen what happened. It's not like the bullet ricocheted off the book and struck somebody else...
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─It worked for them too, they got 15 minutes of fame.
[15:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─Less kick from a Desert Eagle than from a .357 I'm lead to believe, due to the design, weight, and recoil management. Not first-hand mind you, but a friend who was with a group that had the opportunity to fire both said "The Desert Eagle was pretty cool, but it was the .357 that made everybody giggl...
[15:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:41] <exec> 08└─i would just like to commend the DA's office(i won't even call you pigs this time) for actually charging her with the appropriate charge. I didn't really expect that. most of the time these fucks (around the country) charge the defendant with the most serious charge they think they can get away with...
[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:43] <exec> 08└─You are now famous on YT.
[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─...Responsible Gun Owners(tm) we hear so much about.
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─We've learned that the famous mass action of fifty years ago was fairly effective (though not as much as many of its cheerleaders would have had us believe). These days mass action that isn't naked violence doesn't seem to do much. It's a photo op for a sympathetic politician who, half the time, ach...
[15:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─For those of us not familiar with random British slang :P ket·tle ˈkedl verb BRITISH gerund or present participle: kettling (of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators or protesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration.
[15:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─How hard is opening a new tab and typing it into the search bar.? Anyway, for the lazy : https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you don't need a glass to see the difference between GLasOS and GlaDOS. Thanks for the linky, GlasOS led me to this as the closest [youtube.com]
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─If you don't pay extra to pick a particular seat, from a coding and business perspective it might actually be easier and better to not assign you any seats till much later. [...] If the study didn't take stuff like that into consideration then the study is worse than Ryan Air ;).
[15:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:51] <exec> 08└─From the summary: By looking at the amount of window, aisle and middle seating available on each flight, at the time of check-in, Dr Rogers, calculated
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that they deliberately stuck people in all the middle seats, and left the aisle and window seats empty?
[15:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:06] <exec> 08└─That's the part where he admitted some support for unions as a concept and it triggered you.
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[16:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:18] <exec> 08└─There aren't any jobs for educated people. Don't these fools know education is a scam to trick people into pricing themselves out of the job market? It's a trap!
[16:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:20] <exec> 08└─Eh, at its most basic it's a money-grab from Western government to profit from shithole countries -- kinda like Iraq and Afghanistan, except without the gunfire and killing. Of course, that money would be better spent repatriating the savage Islamist economic migrants back to their respective shitho...
[16:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:44] <exec> 08└─Why not just not do it? I'd never point a gun at something I wasn't planning to kill. Then again, I don't want to be famous on YouTube. There's no amount of testing that makes this a good idea. Especially not when you put it on YouTube for even dumber people to try at home. It's just reckless, selfi...
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yes they were a pair of morons, and they reproduced... luckily the next generation will be smarter, which can happen (thank you genetic lottery).
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:48] <exec> 08└─As I recall the gun is about $1500 -- it's pretty much a handcannon, the rounds are about a buck or two each. The not so bulletproof-book cost more then the rounds for sure.
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─Yup, these guys are definitely necessary to the security of a free State.
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when the only exposure to guns given kids is hollywood tv shows. All those "gun battle" scenes where the doors of the police cars stop all those rounds from the bad guy's machine guns and the good guys are safe lead to the wrong conclusion about how much damage (and how much mat...
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. Who don't know how to use guns safely. I love the poorly educated, but everyone needs to know about gun safety. Very important. When you don't know, it's a problem. And YouTube has big pr...
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:57] <exec> 08└─There are two certainties: death and taxes. Woman caused a death, now your taxes will be used to punish her. Now she can laugh all the way to prison and you still pay the price. She really fucked you over.
[16:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:59] <exec> 08└─What good are you going to accomplish by putting this woman in jail? Prevent it from happening again? No. The instigator is dead. Restitution of some sort for the "victim"? Again, he was not a victim, but the planner of this entire scheme. All you will accomplish is to probably increase costs on soc...
[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:01] <exec> 08└─Hoping evolution will throw the good wrench at the kids, and they will be smarter than their 5th grade parents. Poor kids. Down one parent: or is that a good thing... one less bad example to follow?
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─According to https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us [state.mn.us] It could potentially result in a fine rather than jail time. In any case, the woman may have objected, but still went through with it. She may not be the instigator but she complied.
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─That's funny because in the past six months I haven't seen unemployment decline at all. The jobless who were unemployed a year ago are still unemployed now. I see even more homeless beggars on the streets. I still see shuttered businesses everywhere. Retail spaces that were available last year are n...
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─Well, she says they did (kinda) do the research: To help persuade her to pull the trigger, Mr. Ruiz had even shown Ms. Perez a book that he had previously shot himself, she told investigators. In that case, she said, the bullet had not gone all the way through the text.
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's right. When people see the submission they may think that it's White American rednecks being White American rednecks. Well, it was a couple Mexicans -- and as we all know, they are "quick and dirty" people. They can fix your car faster and cheaper if you don't mind it falling to pieces i...
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe next time she'll think twice the next time somebody tries to convince her to do something completely fucking braindead. Make sure she understands that it was her fault because she was the one who pulled the trigger. She could have outright refused to participate in such an idiotic stunt. (This...
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─Less kick from a Desert Eagle than from a .357 I'm lead to believe, due to the design, weight, and recoil management.
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─Huh? I'm wooshing. There are plenty of responsible gun owners right here on this site.
[16:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─so, these stupid fucking pigs spy on american citizens, supposedly free people, to catch people engaged in consensual commerce using illegal/unconstitutional laws as justification? hey dumbass pigs: the drug war is what causes the prices to go up which makes it so profitable for the intelligence age...
[16:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─As a demonstration of their prowess and to encourage more payouts, the crooks should publicly release the dox of the big politicians for free.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03chair [6194] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Those people who pay to select seats would vastly reduce the number of non-middle seats out of the 'random' pool, so assuming a random distribution across the whole plane is foolish
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03chair [6194] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─from the (very short) FA: To support her analysis, Dr Rogers was also given access to data from a further 26 individuals, from nine groups, who had been separated from their party when travelling with Ryanair.
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─To support her analysis, Dr Rogers was also given access to data from a further 26 individuals, from nine groups, who had been separated from their party when travelling with Ryanair.
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─There aren't 4 events, there are 16 events. Which implies, all things being equal, a probability of .28 of getting a middle seat for the Doctor's calculation. Which seems to imply many pairs making adjacent seat reservations, and thus snarfing middle seats making them rarer than the no-assumption 1/...
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA's Use of 'Traffic Shaping' Allows Unrestrained Spying on Americans - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:16] <exec> 08└─exactly. they are spying on congress and can make cars go too fast and crash into trees. not enough brave/self destructive congress people.
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[17:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─If the western governments were capable of the mindset and logistical knowledge required to teach an 8th grade black kid lit, pre-algebra and arithmetic for $54-100 without subsidy or conditions most issues in the world probably wouldn't be an issue. Also you made me visualize an EF walking down a d...
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─> Bill Gates, the Omidyar Network, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the World Bank have all invested in the company; Embrace Extend Extinguish on the way. "Yo kids, learn how to Excel! What do you mean, "in what field"? Oh right, try cell A1 first!"
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─With one parent dead and the other in jail, those kids will be raised by wealthy foster parents who will teach them to obey the rules and accumulate money and exploit the poor for profit. The American Dream is being lucky enough to escape a poor upbringing and be adopted into privilege.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─" Perez, 19, was released on bail on Wednesday. She is pregnant with the couple's second child. "
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─The alarm button in an elevator is pretty much always connected to something because the last thing we want is for people trapped in an elevator to think they're forgotten. That's when they try to pry the doors open and potentially fall down the shaft. There may be a small number left from the olden...
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[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─They could have duct-taped a few Harry Potter or Twilight books together instead. Either way, nothing of value would have been lost. Actually it would be pretty interesting to know exactly which book was shot.
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─The offspring should be euthanized to prevent the further pollution of the gene pool. What will instead likely happen is that more tax dollars are spent on welfare babies who will grow up to be fatherless and turn to crime to support themselves.
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time I crashed while driving the car. Therefore you should hand over your driving license to authorities so they can properly dispose of it.
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─Police cars often have armored doors, with an insert specifically designed to stop bullets.
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─Only experience I have with the e button in an elevator is hearing the loud ring. Since I'm not an idiot and don't go around pressing them. But good to know I won't have to deal with explaining to the fire dept. what happened if I ever get stuck in an elevator. Especially if it's a really silly reas...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah. That's the issue. On sites where there are thinking people there are going to be thoughtful gun owners. Nerd hangouts aren't the rest of the US. I owned one for a while, might be again. Know for a fact I'm responsible because I RTFM and observe safety. Everyone I know is responsible. Meanwhile...
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─Which is fair, but how many 16 year old's, watching all those police car doors (appear to) stop all those AK-47 or Uzi rounds, actually understand that police car door just might be different from the doors on their family Camry? Or do they simply think: "car doors stop bullets" in the general sense...
[17:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─BLM are a bunch of violent shitheads and like Antifa are one of those groups that came out of nowhere, part of Grand Usurper-for-life Baraq Hussein Soetoro's plan to implement a globalist Operation Gladio within the United States. Although there is some degree of control, as with our "moderate rebel...
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─I can't help it, but every time I see BLM, I think of the Bureau of Land Management first. Land-use controversies come to mind, with Federal overreach as a theme. Mostly, it's armed standoffs with ranchers, even though there aren't many.
[17:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─We don't have enough people telling us that they are smarter.
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─Saying something is "x times less than" makes no sense.
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─Here. [youtube.com]
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─It's the smaller body that's going to be hit. Anyway, it'd be just as likely to miss Earth thanks to this test as it would be to hit if left alone.
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:35] <exec> 08└─If you are going to go full retardo-pedant you should get your facts right. An incandescent lightbulb emits about 90% of its radiation in the non-visible infra-red. This is why the greenies were so hot to replace them with CFLs.
[17:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cocoa and Chocolate are Not Just Treats -- They are Good for Your Cognition - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─If you stick around long enough, somebody will come out with a study saying good things about the food item you care about. Once that happens, spool up the engines and ride the publicity train to profit!
[17:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:59] <exec> 08└─not enough that he possesses the knowledge, he has to be possessed by it?
[17:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Current Grid to be Tested at Hacker Festival - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:32] <exec> 08└─Would this be a good place to touch on capacitance as a factor in AC circuits? Higher frequencies exhibit less resistance across a capacitor (or, perhaps, an ungrounded human) than do lower frequencies. Not being (or having consulted with) and electrical engineer, however, I am not the best person t...
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[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Pay for clean water, mosquito-bite prevention, clean toilets, and the internalization of clean living. That's what people need. Those people need to internalize the principles that allow them to look around and say to themselves "You know what? We shouldn't be walking barefoot through a dump heap."...
[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─This: I'm so privileged I can walk down the street at night unarmed...
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─Pay for clean water, mosquito-bite prevention, clean toilets, and the internalization of clean living.
[18:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:34] <exec> 08└─It worked for them too, they got 15 minutes of fame.
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:35] <exec> 08└─They were planning to kill the book.
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:37] <exec> 08└─they should have shot a similar book from a similar distance and seen what happened
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─The American dream is to take up permanent residence in an All-You-Can-Eat joint.
[18:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:42] <exec> 08└─The reason I think the "Darwin Award" is so funny is because of something you pointed out--the dead guy had already procreated, and procreation is far more important for evolution than intelligence. In fact, most stupid people live ling enough to have dozens of grandkids. Now, someone with a high-fu...
[18:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─Hey asshole, I think the fact that she killed her boyfriend and father of her children already has that "won't do that again" angle already covered FAR more than some dumb legal decision. Like I said, kicking people when they are down. Sadists.
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─The book could have been free standing? Some of the kinetic energy would have pushed the book instead of penetrating it. Seems like a better follow up test is holding the book and wearing a steel plate or level 3+ vest. Which is still crazy, imo.
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:48] <exec> 08└─...and they will be smarter than their 5th grade parents. Education <> intelligence. I went to college, and all but two PhDs I knew (Half the people I worked with had doctorates) were highly intelligent--but there were two who were total morons. Surely knowledgable in their fields, but not showing a...
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─You can buy brain cells now? Where? My pet zombie is starving!
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─Err, no, obviously not. The great thing here is one idiot that should have never owned a firearm never will again (because he dead,) and the second idiot that should never own a gun can probably get a felony strike here so she won't be allowed to own one again either. No one else was struck, so this...
[18:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─I think the parents are idiots and I feel sorry for them. But I am very worried about the three year old who witnessed this. At three, she can already process enough of this to really be messed up for life. I'm confident even trained professionals (like the police, not assassins) would be traumatize...
[18:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:57] <exec> 08└─Anyhow as said on Slashdot already, why is this old story from last week even on here to begin with?
[18:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:59] <exec> 08└─Lots of stupid people kill themselves and others with cars. We should ban cars.
[18:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get some books for these folks! STAT!
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─"What good are you going to accomplish by putting this woman in jail?" Getting her kids into the custody of someone else would be the obvious number one answer. I'm normally very strongly against removing children from their parents but a woman who just shot their father at point blank range with a...
[18:35:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 903 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the main reason the Founders included the Fourth Amendment was to prohibit "fishing expeditions" like this, also known as "general warrants." That's why the amendment has all those clauses requiring specifics for the warrants. I mean, I know the Fourth Amendment is basically dead these d...
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─My daughter suggested that I could get more people reading my books, and she was right. My site statistics have risen quite a bit in the last couple of years. It's a great tool for me, but dangerous for most people.
[18:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─That station keeping also includes angular momentum management. What if a small rocket motor stuck in the on position, increasing the satellite's spin rate until pieces started separating? That can be hard to recover from, as rapidly rotating antennas don't receive troubleshooting commands very well...
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─FWIW, when I heard it was coming apart my first thought was "meteorite strike". This could cause changes in velocity (though that should be measurable). OTOH, if it didn't fragment the satellite, then it must have been a really small meteorite, and shouldn't cause *much* change in velocity. And geoc...
[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:21] <exec> 08└─That grocer's apostrophe REALLY makes you look ignorant. Stay away from Facebook and Twitter for a while!
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Close to what I was going to say: finally, a smart device that can't be hacked! ...except maybe with a brick.
[18:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:52] <exec> 08└─Or liquid water. Presumably this substance was neither pure water nor at 1atm pressure.
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[19:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Scrubs Sunday Launch Attempt, Will Likely Try Again Monday at 23:37 UTC - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:22] <exec> 08└─I've seen Gattaca and there were a dozen launches a day. It's 20 years later and SpaceX can't even manage one launch a day. Pathetic.
[19:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, there are plenty of ways to transfer ideas to people without requiring them to sit in chairs of a particular shape, using tools of the industrialization.
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:38] <exec> 08└─Y'ever been in a Turkish prison...?
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not 100% buying that they didn't know what was going to happen here either. Maybe they're really too dumb to live, maybe it was a little more complicated though. Maybe he was suicidal but didn't know how to admit it. Maybe she was sick of him but didn't know how to admit it. Maybe they both pret...
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─What is not to love, if you are a Second Amendment enthusiast?
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─Again not a call for a gun ban. But for what it's worth I'd be okay with cars going away. Haven't driven for years because of a surgery that wrecked my range of motion on the pedals. Cars are a waste of efficiency and environment. They're also artificially imposed by real estate developers pulling o...
[19:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─> Not to mention, if it was gonna be pointed at my chest I'd be running tests on 5, 10, hell 100 books first. Yes, because the angle of impact counts too. And, once you found the perfect books you'd have the pistol firing at your chest at the wrong instant and the blow causing you a nice heart attac...
[19:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─> I guess the second book was boring BF was indeed bored to death.
[19:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by "the cults"?
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:57] <exec> 08└─Which is another thing I don't understand. You get checked for your goddamned apartment application.
[19:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:34] <exec> 08└─http://www.milkthefunk.com/wiki/Wort_Souring [milkthefunk.com]
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[20:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former UK Bank Regulator Joins New Merged Bank Lobbying Group - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:22] <exec> 08└─Let the banks fail from their own ineptitude; evolution by variation and selection, not "intelligent" (read: greedy) design is the only way that a solid banking sector can be created for society.
[20:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former UK Bank Regulator Joins New Merged Bank Lobbying Group - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:23] <exec> 08└─Problem is... how are politics going to catch the falling knife that is public unrest when they start to fall, one by one? The Trojka already did some experiments with that in Greece... and that was just a threat to the Greek government. You can only do such thing if you have an utility bank, where...
[20:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former UK Bank Regulator Joins New Merged Bank Lobbying Group - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:25] <exec> 08└─Put public officials in quarantine for some years before they can join the commercial sector and they may not betray the public or face punishment. Separate banking and trading etc. When a bank fail, let the management fly but keep the savers safe.
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former UK Bank Regulator Joins New Merged Bank Lobbying Group - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:28] <exec> 08└─When a bank fail, ... keep the savers safe.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─Wow, if only every child living in poverty could afford an apple ithing and fiber to their home!
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─It's very easy to teach kids just about anything that they'll need in life without requiring special tools.
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─That's right. All formal education is a waste. </sarcasm>
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─Schooling often gets in the way of education, especially when your schools have many things in common with prisons, like they do in the US. Our rote memorization prisons do a poor job of educating people about anything more advanced than basic math and English. Not all formal schooling is a waste, b...
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─The goal is to keep children in schools longer, without teaching them anything useful. Instead of teaching them real mathematics, economics, ... , teach them stuff that is completely useless. When they will eventually make an escape from such a "school", they will find themselves inadequate to meet...
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─I mean literally what I'm saying. They're cultists exhibiting cult mentality instead of objective critical thinking. Look at the responses (that aren't obvious scripts I mean, be fair about it) to any given post by this guy on Twitter. That's just the start of the rabbit hole too. Try gab.ai or any...
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─Phi Bata Capa (which I probably misspelled)
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─Addendum: With "correct spelling" I of course mean the correct spelling of the English names for the Greek letters. The actual Greek letters would be "ΦΒΚ". Or if lowercase letters are meant, "φβκ".
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─So, anyone got the Youtube video link? :P
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─When rulers need such extreme security measures, one has to wonder why is their conscience so heavy. What have they done wrong to dread their own peoples so much? And I'll leave you with this: In a free society the job of the police is to make the lives of the citizens easier. In an authoritarian so...
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened in on 3.3 Million Phone Calls - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks, now they are going to wiretap all of us. lol
[20:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the garbage acts unintentionally like an extension for the surveillance apparatus. So they do need to be contained and shunned.
[20:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─With more rapidly rising dV/dt there will be less computer phones to work for the surveillance state.
[20:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 7117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:02] <exec> 08└─It's a bit of a long read but well worth it: Suppose that I were the dictator of Elbonia (the mythical country from Dilbert cartoons). I would be autocratic, ruthless...oh, wait, I already *am* those things...anyway, I would be the typical tyrant attempting to retain power in the face of democratic...
[20:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Temperature Sensor That Runs on Almost No Power - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─They should have stated that it uses on average 1.13e-10 watts. But this x times less than a watt.. well e-10 units then! ;)
[20:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:41] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, it's no joke. When China sends its rockets, they're not sending their best. They're sending rockets that have lots of problems. And another big problem is cyber bullying. You tweeted that Francis should lighten up, but he didn't tweet back. He stopped cybering because he was cyber b...
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:09] <exec> 08└─You may be referring to this subtly - in any event, your scenario is similar to what happened to the Japanese Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite. https://en.wikipedia.org(satellite) [wikipedia.org] https://spaceflightnow.com
[20:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Satellite May be Falling Apart in Geostationary Orbit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't remember any details, so I used generalized language. That spaceflightnow link is pretty detailed, filling in more details than I saw the first time around.
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Powered System Makes Smart Windows Smarter - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─If I understand the story -- and I think I understand the story -- she made a window that lets her control the flow of heat and light. She pushes a button, the heat comes through. She pushes another button, the heat is blocked. She pushes a button, you can see her whatever. She pushes another button...
[20:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryanair Random Seat Allocation is Not So Random Says Expert - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:57] <exec> 08└─Ah, I missed that. That still only gives you a 50 million to 1 probability. Another sentence I missed "By looking at the amount of window, aisle and middle seating available on each flight, at the time of check-in" might imply that many of the middle seats were already taken, presumably by already c...
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[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palmer Luckey Donates to CrossVR Patreon - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─Low priced VR-set for BSD/Linux thanks.. That would be something. Oh and graphics drivers.
[21:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former UK Bank Regulator Joins New Merged Bank Lobbying Group - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─Banks usually fails because they have assholes in the board room that enables reckless trading and expenses. It rarely seems it's savers that do the bad thing.
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former UK Bank Regulator Joins New Merged Bank Lobbying Group - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:31] <exec> 08└─It is not just the boardroom. I have seen things at a bank take 4 levels of managers to make an approval. That is for *simple* things. Trust me, the 'peons' are in on it too many times. The *ONLY* thing keeping them in check is the regulations. When they stripped the last of them away in the 90s (th...
[21:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:16] <exec> 08└─You don't appear to be cognizant of the possiblity that the stupidity this pair exhibit may well be memetic, rather than genetic, in origin.
[21:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah well fuck beta.
[21:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:19] <exec> 08└─Sadly, it was not a YouTube Live stunt.
[21:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:22] <exec> 08└─it's a university thing, and i think it's short for "fucking before klasses" (in the sense of more important).
[21:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─As a Brit - I've never heard of the verb. https://en.wiktionary.org only points to a recent US source. As a Brit - you can have it, I have several words for corralling and otherwise containing, I don't need any more.
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Long March-5 Rocket Launch Fails - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─Missile shield in on Korean peninsula passes final certification test.
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's 'Extreme Mass Surveillance' Web Snooping Powers Face Legal Challenge - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:08] <exec> 08└─People might be extremely resourceful under harsh conditions. And it will not be obvious at the start what and who.
[21:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CPU [Computer Professional Union] - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:16] <exec> 08└─IT worker sees evil PHB incarnation walking the earth. Grabs his joystick to control the bot that grabs the PHB and tells him roboticly, "You will.. be shredded". "Must shredd.. shredd.." only to see the shredder valve open and suck him in while all the coworkers look in horror at the bits coming ou...
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[22:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:15] <exec> 08└─Cut as much of it out of your life as possible.
[22:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:17] <exec> 08└─They knew better. That's why Trump was elected. We have to drain the swamp.
[22:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:19] <exec> 08└─So how does this affect Tor [client only] users?
[22:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:21] <exec> 08└─If you have to already have root to potentially later get root, there are much easier ways to do it than this. A single suid binary, for example.
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Palmer Luckey Donates to CrossVR Patreon - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:30] <exec> 08└─It will run embedded X-Windows on an Atmel DIP microcontroller and be slow and buggy as fuck while being boxy and beige-colored. After its commercial failure it will be sold for pennies on the dollar to Midway and be a graphical interface into a "drunk simulator" parlor game due to its low-latency a...
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─I found this in a copier too. Is this yours? worker bees can leave even drones can fly away the queen is their slave
[22:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:31] <exec> 08└─Hell, a 22cal rifle will put a 22cal projectile through a one and a half inch think book at the range they would have been using to record this stunt, no problem at all
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[23:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:19] <exec> 08└─"default value, root" pretty much explains everything that is defective in the brains of those behind systemd. Maybe it is not an easily exploitable bug (for now). But it is a cognitive bug that can only be fixed by replacing the people who think this is OK. Or, you know, by ignoring them and lettin...
[23:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:21] <exec> 08└─It is a common practice that bugs that are of little risk never get fixed. No one ever said that good software has to be perfect. Now, of course, I'm not passing judgment on the value or quality of systemd. Leave me out of that nonsense!!!
[23:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:23] <exec> 08└─You should only use Tor on Win10 then.
[23:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:25] <exec> 08└─Part of the interest in this one is that Poettering was being his usual douchey self again on GitHub.
[23:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:27] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? If you are devious and screw up a lot you gain power and privilege. That is exactly how the world works!
[23:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Palmer Luckey Donates to CrossVR Patreon - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:37] <exec> 08└─Razer's OSVR headsets run 300-400 dollars with fully open source libraries and design files, unlike the Facebook/HTC projects which cost 2x as much for far more proprietary options. I sadly haven't had the spare money to purchase one, but Razer sure seems to be playing more to the community than Fac...
[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─I *want* to believe that they genuinely believed in what they were doing, but I find it hard to do so in the light of unbridled greed and irresponsibility of most startups. Like others mentioned previously in the comments, these people need education -- but only when other problems have been solved....
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Educating Children in the Developing World - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:19] <exec> 08└─Who would do such a thing? Why write some fiction and then dump it in a photo copier? Well, I gotta tell ya. The person(s) who wrote that is dangerous. If all that is untrue and pure fiction, then you have nothing to worry about and we can all give a sigh of relief, but look closely, it has been imp...
[23:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:42] <exec> 08└─This is true. I have a Ph.D. In Applied Mathematics, and I do some stupid shit. Seriously, I'm a fucking moron, at least half the time.
[23:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─You don't even have to test it. I can save you some time. It will go through any book you own. There, you're welcome.
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─It strikes me as dishonesty. I'm fairly familiar with firearms. A .50 is gonna rip through a book, even if it is backed by nothing. It will go through thousands of pieces of paper. This was a dumb idea. Even a .22LR may go through a book. Do not try this sort if stuff at home. You will probably die,...
[23:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:30] <exec> 08└─The Occupy movement mostly succeeded in convincing themselves that they were totally changing the world, while convincing the rest of the world that they were sad nuts who couldn't organise a dog fight if they had a bitch in heat to get things started.
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Redirect an Asteroid's Moon With Kinetic Impact - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─It's unlikely to hit Earth. Ever. But if you don't practice these techniques now, there won't be any deflections later.
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