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[13:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:10] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/openbsd/src/ [github.com]
[13:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:18] <exec> 08└─inb4 github, github is for hipsters.
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:20] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC is useless. Its a turf war between the corrupt CA root cert monopoly and another group trying to become a corrupt centralized monopoly using different tech. Ironically there's little difference WRT "do no evil" between Verisign the CA and Verisign the DNS registrar, so often it doesn't matter...
[13:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:22] <exec> 08└─Poisoning your DNS will flag warnings. They won't be able to MITM your SSL if your DNS is set up correctly. In fact, NOBODY but you - certainly NOT your CA - knows your private key. Which gets pinned in browsers. That's why it's called a private key. DNNSEC secures the DNS but will face practical co...
[13:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:31] <exec> 08└─... the suspense is killing me. That said I'm fine with the increased time period between articles depending on the list of submissions, or approved/edited submissions. I like silly stories as much as next person but I don't see a need for the pending list being filled to the brim with them just for...
[13:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:33] <exec> 08└─The longer gaps between stories during busy holidays seems like a good idea. Best wishes to janrinok and his family. I'm still amazed this site exists and functions as well as it does. It's quite an achievement by a small, dedicated group of knowledgeable people. I'll continue to advocate that we ch...
[13:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:36] <exec> 08└─I'll continue to advocate that we choose a couple of times each year when we run a BIG OBNOXIOUS BANNER on each page for a few days (a la Wikipedia, public TV or public radio) reminding all visitors that this site runs solely on user subscriptions and runs no ads.
[13:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:38] <exec> 08└─I am happy with the spacing out of stories. If you try to keep to a specific quota (every 90 minutes) then you will find that any old crap gets posted. Quality over quantity is always a good motto.
[13:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:40] <exec> 08└─The longer gaps between stories during busy holidays seems like a good idea.
[13:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:42] <exec> 08└─The day this is done is the day I'll consider no longer contributing
[13:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 2264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:54] <exec> 08└─I googled some camelcamelcamel graph images (its a service that tracks amazon.com prices) and at the high end its normal for a graphics card to drop 50% smoothly in the first year and then flatten out until discontinuation. In comparison for low end graphics cards they tend to only drop maybe 25% in...
[13:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:56] <exec> 08└─Tethered VR is bad. Unless you want to sit in front of your gaming PC for hours, untethered VR lets you lay down, walk around, and possibly get some exercise, although that might require blowing more money for an Omni treadmill for gaming. Resolution, refresh rate, latency, processing/graphics power...
[13:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 1829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:58] <exec> 08└─Here's some explanations for why Best Buy has survived: https://www.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com] http://www.startribune.com [startribune.com] https://www.cnet.com
[13:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:00] <exec> 08└─Frm TFA (emphasis mine): For the next six weeks, the Oculus Rift headset and its matching controllers will cost just $399.
[13:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:02] <exec> 08└─Cardboard is like windows 3.1, everything I already need to do is optimized for the older technology (msdos then, plain android now) and the stuff they're trying to interest me in, either isn't interesting, or its a hard sell to push both something new AND a new UI technology simultaneously. So my c...
[13:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:04] <exec> 08└─That's even worse news for Oculus.
[13:20:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 2090 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:39] <exec> 08└─The problem, I think, is the idea that has seized the US in the past 30-40 years. Wasn't it Bill Gates who declared that everyone deserved a world-class college education? The simple fact that he could say such a thing shows that he is surrounded only by highly intelligent people, and is entirely un...
[13:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:17] <exec> 08└─Or has the American rejection of higher learning gone even this far, to affect jmorris?
[13:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:18] <exec> 08└─should be to preserve the collective learnin' of mankind by passing it on to the next generation. For example, if we stop training doctors, historians, scientists, or engineers for a couple of generations, where would we be? Instead, the effective priority of a college is to preserve the college. Fo...
[13:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:21] <exec> 08└─Cost != price. If cost of labor is increasing, you probably have to look elsewhere for the reason than employers, who supposedly don't have much to do with the cost of labor these days. The traditional supply and demand model is about the price of a good exchanged between supplier and consumer, not...
[13:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 2428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:23] <exec> 08└─There are three other USA issues. The first is demographic change. People who stopped observing in 1965 think the USA is still a 90% white country with white country IQs and performance levels. A lot of angst over USA education system can be explained by human biological differences and demographic...
[13:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:25] <exec> 08└─The cost of labor isn't the problem; corporate greed is.
[13:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:27] <exec> 08└─There is a natural dichotomy here: what you want and what reality is. Someone out there really is going through with ideological indoctrination as an education solution. Maybe we ought to consider why that real world activity doesn't help society's opinion of college.
[13:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:29] <exec> 08└─The Nazis did that in the 1930's and look what it got them.
[13:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:31] <exec> 08└─If you see education in the context of "market" (any market), you are already on the wrong track.
[13:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:34] <exec> 08└─Its more about holiness signalling than intelligence. Rational thought never enters the picture. Calling a group low intelligence is just an insult, its not the point. If calling them the N-word were an acceptable insult, they'd call em that.
[13:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:36] <exec> 08└─There's no point to arguing with aristarchus. He never supports a thing he says. Argument from authority fallacy ("I know whereof I speak") is the best you'll get from him.
[13:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:38] <exec> 08└─Breaking your view of the world won't help you see better.
[13:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:40] <exec> 08└─Except that corporate greed has been around a long time through good times and bad. In particular, why is it more effective now than in the 1950s? What has changed?
[13:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:42] <exec> 08└─There is a natural dichotomy here: what you want and what reality is.
[13:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Hacked - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:53] <exec> 08└─If the machines take cash, it means I would not have been affected anyway even if I had worked in a place with such a machine and used it. I just would have used cash.
[13:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Most Intense Star Wars V. Star Trek Argument Ever Ends in Arrest - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─Vis is nice, multiple cursors, structural regex, lua, and 500kb compiled.
[13:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Mining Craze Leads to GPU Shortages - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:46] <exec> 08└─ASIC miner manufacturers sell the hardware for less than they would make mining themselves to mitigate risk. Guaranteed profit now as opposed to potentially 5%-20% more in 2 years. It allows them to make more chips now than they could if they were mining, resulting in more profits for themselves. Mo...
[13:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goal of US's First Opioid Court: Keep People Alive - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:42] <exec> 08└─You are also refusing to acknowledge that addictions are also choices: many people beat addictions on their own just by choosing to avoid what they are 'addicted' to, but you have to want to beat it. Yes, as I said in another post, for some people the addiction came honestly (Woods with cancer) and...
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[14:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:15] <exec> 08└─I was reading the linked article and thinking this might be interesting to try, until I came to this paragraph: > Once you've chosen the keyboard layout, the installer prompts you for the system's host name. This is only the host part, the domain part comes later. I'm sure your site or organization...
[14:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:16] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD is a favorite of mine. A very simple and clean Unix with a group of smart people behind it. I have it running on an older IBM Thinkpad T40 and I have had no problems with it. Install, add firefox, goto youtube.com and play a video with sound. Also runs on really old hardware without much fus...
[14:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:18] <exec> 08└─You pick something.
[14:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:29] <exec> 08└─Well and spammers. He could just sinkhole the whole TLD. I don't think I'd mind.
[14:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:43] <exec> 08└─I rather agree with the ACs sentiment. This does not seem to be a need - as a community, we collectively seem to be pretty decent at responding to the occasional "shit, we're running low on money post".
[14:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:45] <exec> 08└─You got subscription monies out of me somehow so I'm guessing my brain is okay with what you're doing with articles. I assume my brain assumes what you want to do with articles will be in the spirit of not being fucking stupid. So by all means do waht you do. Unless you try to be like the news outle...
[14:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:47] <exec> 08└─Whatever that is. Glad to hear things are OK behind the screen as well. Loving SN.
[14:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:03] <exec> 08└─Minecraft has native 3D support. I have played it on an Occulus Rift. The interface is a bit lacking though - the game was clearly not designed with it in mind. It's not got a great implementation. However, be aware I don't think 3D is super compelling in any case. I've never needed 3D to feel immer...
[14:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:10] <exec> 08└─So, the mice have better health care plans than any of us? Why are they taking better care of the mice, than us? Is this one of those questions, whose answer is 42?
[14:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:12] <exec> 08└─At a really steep price too... One wonders just how generous and rigorous academia must be to run dozens of trials and only produce a couple of papers in 3 years... *cough*selective publishing*cough*...
[14:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:31] <exec> 08└─Please, be responsible. Neuter your democrat(s). And, do it before they go into heat!!
[14:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:32] <exec> 08└─They have a plan now. It's called "globalism". Every man and woman on the planet is competing against about half of the rest of the men and women on the planet. And, few of us have ever met any of the competition, so we don't even know how we can compete. Pretty much all of us have become useful idi...
[14:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:35] <exec> 08└─Kinda, sorta, maybe - but I can't agree very strongly. Colleges really should aim their curriculums toward productive goals. Naming and quoting every poet who ever lived is a very niche thing, and almost no one will ever want to pay you for doing it. So, while Snow White was studying all that poetry...
[14:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:37] <exec> 08└─And let's not forget CEOs getting paid tens of millions of dollars (or even more) by adding very little value (besides buying other companies to wreck).
[14:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:39] <exec> 08└─"If calling them the N-word were an acceptable insult, they'd call em that." New Yorkers? FFS, man, if you mean to call someone a New Yorker, just come out and say it. Stop beating around the bush. And, yes, those damned New Yorkers have been getting uppity, ever since 9/11/01. I agree, it's time to...
[14:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Found They Could Hack Entire Wind Farms - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:38] <exec> 08└─You, and the camera guy, are forgetting the cost of installation, maintenance and monitoring - ongoing operations that don't exist right now. Those start in the six figures and quickly move into seven after you operate for any time or over any large number of installation points. Sure, it's a small...
[14:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Found They Could Hack Entire Wind Farms - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:39] <exec> 08└─It's a minicomputer because the journalist doesn't have a competent tech-editor.
[14:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Found They Could Hack Entire Wind Farms - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:41] <exec> 08└─Don't give me that shit. How much does it cost to repair a broken-into turbine where someone's hacked into it and turned the brakes off so it spins out of control and destroys itself spectacularly? I'm guessing a bit more than a decent padlock, a door mag sensor/PIR, 2-wire cable, or piggy-backed ov...
[14:27:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Goal of US's First Opioid Court: Keep People Alive - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:06] <exec> 08└─It feels so sick and twisted to try that hard to keep someone alive and rehabilitate them, only to give them a criminal record afterwards and destroy their lives. Like, what a wonderful future these addicts have ahead of them once they get out of rehab... If I was sent there, they'd better be able t...
[14:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goal of US's First Opioid Court: Keep People Alive - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:43] <exec> 08└─You win. Every opioid addict "chooses" to die on a bathroom floor with a needle in their arm. You're doing an excellent job solving the opioid epidemic crisis. All we have to do is let ten million Americans die of drug overdoses. Feck 'em, right? They're just losers who chose to become addicts. Oh,...
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[15:19:20] <exec> 08└─"many do not realize how well it works on laptops with supported hardware." Probably because "supported hardware" isn't marked as such in the showrooms of major North American electronics chains. Or because other free *n?x distributions with Xfce with broader "supported hardware" are easy to find, s...
[15:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─It does what you configure it to do, and only that, with no backtalk or second-guessing
[15:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:24] <exec> 08└─I had a girlfriend like that once . . . key word, "had".
[15:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:26] <exec> 08└─So, just like Linux without Systemd...
[15:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 2151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:28] <exec> 08└─For user-friendliness then, why not "Do you want to set a computer name?" Kinda solves the problem for everyone, rather than again presuming that the user is a computer expert. This is part of the reason that Linux falls down for a lot of users (P.S. I deploy both Windows and Linux, server and clien...
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─Took until the bottom of the third page of Google results to dig up this, for some reason. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.[1]
[15:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:56] <exec> 08└─How about announce that anytime fundraising falls more than X% behind the rate needed to keep the lights on for more than a month that the dreaded "beg banner" will put in an appearance. Carrot and stick.
[15:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─Living in Europe, I often feel that I'm either too early or too late for a discussion. When I'm too early, it will take hours before the Americans respond. When I'm too late, everybody has moved on to newer stories. Assuming that most visitors are living in America, the type of scheduling doesn't re...
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:15] <exec> 08└─Do you also hate HTC and/or Valve? They're probably the #2 player after facebook-is-watching-you-watch-porn brand.
[15:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:25] <exec> 08└─Over $10 a mg, that does seem steep. I guess I don't know the dosing, though. When you coughed, what was your meaning? I feel like there are a ton of problems in science right now, especially science publishing, but I didn't understand the reference. I know my experience is anecdotal and unscientifi...
[15:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:49] <exec> 08└─While you are of course correct in that the GP has been conned just as much as those he despises, am I not at all convinced that it is by a different group of conpeople. The whole us vs them narrative is much too useful to the 1%* on both of the alleged sides. * I also don't think '1%' is an accurat...
[15:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─Shirley there are some things that even jmorris does not need explained to him?
[15:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:52] <exec> 08└─Well they would produce low skilled workers if a) we didn't pay them not to work, b) employers weren't so afraid of being burned out that they won't locate anywhere near them, c) the management types were not afraid of being murdered if they entered the ghettos and finally d) they were so utterly un...
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─It does solve the problem, just not as quickly as you or I would like. The taxpayers burdened with paying for judgements against dirty cops, will elect different officials that will fix things. Also, there is nothing that stops courts from issuing judgements against police departments or police offi...
[15:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:24] <exec> 08└─Throw out a few cases where a crime can't be proven because the police destroyed evidence potentially proving the accused was innocent, and convict a few police officers who stand accused of killing someone for being black because intentionally destroying the evidence is itself evidence.
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─It wasn't alexa to call 911, it was PRISM, triggered by the sheriff word. Say thank you to the telescreen.
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─Option A, call the cops, result: 0$ Option B, let the meatbag kill other meatbag, result: one thick plastic bag, 4$ up to one funeral, 10.000$. What would Alexa choose?
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[16:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Petya Master Decryption Key Released - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:24] <exec> 08└─I keep my data backed up. Ransomware? No problem, wipe and reinstall (and curse).
[16:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:40] <exec> 08└─BSD / Linux setup? Everything under the sun, rarely a default or hint, partitioning menus and even things like "do you want to enable GPM in the console" on first setup...
[16:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:52] <exec> 08└─Wait, it's not assigned to the Jupiter moon? [wikipedia.org] ;-)
[16:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:53] <exec> 08└─Indeed
[16:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:13] <exec> 08└─What is that feeling? It's confusing, I don't know how to word it ... This is what somewhat agreeing with jmorris feels like? I do have to point out that the quarterly goals list may be problematic, if people take yearly subscriptions and most did around the same times (Initial burst, other reminder...
[16:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:14] <exec> 08└─Awww... I daresay you won't be missed,
[16:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:16] <exec> 08└─Yes! It could be automated: every time 500 comments are posted, Recode drops a new story. Simple matter of programming.
[16:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:19] <exec> 08└─I'll echo that. I'd not noticed any variation in story spacing. (Having said that, I rarely visit more than three times in a day, so others might be more sensitive/impatient.)
[16:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:21] <exec> 08└─Mayeb it's — &mdash
[16:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:23] <exec> 08└─So make them a standard size. People with ad blockers won't be bothered because the ad blocker will filter the ads out. People without ad blockers won't be bothered because their brain filters the ads out.
[16:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:41] <exec> 08└─It died the day FaceBook bought them out. FaceBook = In your face ads (Figuratively) Oculus = screen on your face. FaceBook + Oculus = In your face ads (Literally)
[16:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 2297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:42] <exec> 08└─Ever more companies today are succeeding in spite of themselves. They succeed primarily thanks to inertia and market positioning. Video game consoles are great example here. They also have strong analogs to why VR has begun to putter out. Nintendo had to fight tooth and nail to succeed with the NES...
[16:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:44] <exec> 08└─I had some limited experience with the Rift (Devkit 2 on loan) and it was amazing, a total game-changer for Elite Dangerous. There's a difference between games that support VR and VR games. The VR games are too nascent to support the equipment, however good games that support VR (like Elite) might s...
[16:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:47] <exec> 08└─> Basically, fire the MBAs (...) 'screw the customers as much as possible. when things go wrong, blame things outside our control.' Not just MBAs. Haven't you paid attention to politics much over the last few years ?
[16:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─I looked up "ISRIB dosing". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Prion-infected mice were treated daily with 0.25 mg/kg of ISRIB or vehicle alone from 7 w.p.i., when synapse loss is established as previously performed with GSK2606414.
[16:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─Runaway: > Why are they taking better care of the mice, than us? TFS: > "used mechanical pistons to hit anesthetized mice in precise parts of their surgically exposed brains" Did you not get funded for pistons, so your doctor uses a baseball bat instead? What are you demanding, Abu Graib privileges?...
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Spiders can Pump Blood with Their Guts - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Meet the only animal known to pump blood with its guts
[16:21:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:24] <exec> 08└─Additional complications is rigged work market.
[16:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─College, sadly, tries to undermine one's ability to think for oneself. You're expected to blindly accept liberal dogma.
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─Bad argument dude, take a look at a Prog protest rally and notice the Pali flags everywhere. They DO want the Jews gassed, they certainly want Israel destroyed at any rate. And yes a very disproportionate number of the Prog leadership are Jews so don't bother bringing it up; the self hating Jew ster...
[16:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:31] <exec> 08└─Why are white people, and only white people, forbidden a homeland and a home country?
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─Naming and quoting every poet who ever lived is a very niche thing, and almost no one will ever want to pay you for doing it.
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─True, but post-high-school education of SOME kind is probably necessary to become anything beyond a Walmart greeter. AKA, "trade school".
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─The above is standard racist claptrap. I live and work among a wide variety of ethnic groups, and individual personality differences make a far bigger difference than any racial difference. yet the bottom kids doing trades are still economically kicking the college kids butts.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─Both act as is if their dogma is sacrosanct.
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─am I not at all convinced that it is by a different group of conpeople.
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─We don't pay them not to work. The pittance that we pay out in terms of welfare and other social assistance are tiny compared with the actual needs. Those people who are on public assistance long term are mostly people that are sick or unable to gain employment for one reason or another. This whole...
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─College costs are increasing because the government spends less money subsidizing them and the colleges are run by people that assume everybody is getting financial aid. There's things like those massive sports ball stadiums with their massive TV screens and various unecessarily expensive buildings...
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Considering your functional illiteracy, it's an honest mistake. Now, if you could pull your head out of your ass you might be taken seriously. You're easily the least intelligent person on the board. Which is astonishing with such future Nobel laureates as Khallow and Buzzy being there. You might ev...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─Or, perhaps the conservatives can just stop being such whiny bitches and suck it up. The last thing we need is for a bunch of inbred hicks to possess nuclear weapons that they don't understand and I doubt they'd let us keep all of them.
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─How is this even possible? Their votes count more than ours, for a start.
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Hacked - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─We have these at work. They do not accept cash. There are separate terminals you can put cash into and it puts it onto a card to use in the machines. You have to register the card with a whole bunch of personal information first though or it won't work. You're better off just using a credit card.
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Hacked - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:07] <exec> 08└─We have these at work. They do not accept cash. There are separate terminals you can put cash into and it puts it onto a card to use in the machines. You have to register the card with a whole bunch of personal information first though or it won't work. You're better off just using a credit card. no...
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─The taxpayers burdened with paying for judgements against dirty cops, will elect different officials that will fix things.
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─"Intentionally destroying evidence" may (and should) be a crime you can charge them with, but you cannot use the lack of evidence as proof of guilt in another matter (the killing).
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry for replying to my own post but I forgot to add that tampering with evidence, mentioned in the same wiki article, is also a crime. Judges also hate that sort of thing.
[16:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─Cameras can run out of battery life at unfortunate moments. Flash memory can become corrupted. Sometimes you think you're recording when you're not. Maybe a lens cap is left on. Or due to a glitch or malfunction, video may be recorded without audio. So when police tamper with citizen cameras, it may...
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibly Most Intense Star Wars V. Star Trek Argument Ever Ends in Arrest - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:05] <exec> 08└─> space 1999 is stupid please don't mind my other personality, it is the deranged one: > somehow makes weekly close flybys of inhabited planets, some with humans prove we originate entirely from this planet and you will have a point. Even if we were, we do look like ill-adapted hybrids compared to m...
[16:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Most Intense Star Wars V. Star Trek Argument Ever Ends in Arrest - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─Could be worse--they could have to read it. Or Mission Earth--all ten volumes.
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Most Intense Star Wars V. Star Trek Argument Ever Ends in Arrest - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─nor does Kahn...
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[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─If DARPA is in on it then expect "obedient" super soldiers of the future in the making.
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:15] <exec> 08└─Just yesterday I saw a story about somebody trying to reduce a cat scanner sized technology to a wearable [nbcnews.com] set of glasses sized device promising to bring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and communication to the comatose. Look, we all know damn well this is not the goal here. I'...
[17:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:17] <exec> 08└─We need super-obedient cops to be effective in the war on drugs. Every nigger who is caught driving while black will be thrown face down on the ground and shot in the back of the head. It's the only way to stop zombie niggers who are so high on drugs that they dare to drive out on our streets in bro...
[17:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Petya Master Decryption Key Released - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:26] <exec> 08└─I need the blue key to open the door, but I'm low on shotgun shells and the cacodemons are a pain to reach with only the chainsaw.
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─A regular user has little to no chance of installing Windows correctly,
[17:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─>OpenBSD only begrudgingly acknowledges the existence of graphical user interfaces, (via ports). You're thinking FreeBSD, which doesn't have X in the base install. OpenBSD has Xenocara (their Xorg patchset), a window manager (cwm, their own), and xdm enabled by default if you don't tell it no in the...
[17:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Supported hardware doesn't always include things you will LIKELY find in 10 year old laptops. It will probably include every important feature. While there's no weight savings in dropping Cat5 ports, you'd be unlikely to choose one of those newer machines as your Intel BSD platform anyway....
[17:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:48] <exec> 08└─I had a girlfriend once. Turned out, she was a bitch.
[17:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:51] <exec> 08└─Actually there might be some advantages to deter "idiots" from joining a project. It will at least catch some SJW in the bud. Though things like "do you want to enable GPM in the console" might be quite non-obvious.
[17:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:53] <exec> 08└─Distribute the Intel firmware files can be done with a makefile that have updated links to where they are to be downloaded. And as a backup some bay of ships with black flags..
[17:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:55] <exec> 08└─It's hard for me to judge the difficult of an installation, because I've installed both a zillion times. The main things that strike me, though, is the software installation. I'm not working in any sort of enterprise environment, but typically for some microbusiness with a couple of computers. So, w...
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:57] <exec> 08└─Get the thrill back with ReactOS 0.4.5 alpha.
[17:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:35] <exec> 08└─On that note, how often does a story here hit 500 comments? Could it be the case that with a (very) high number of stories posted, each story gets relatively few comments, and thus not much of a conversation? It's occurred to me recently that several stories are failing to get double figures of comm...
[17:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:36] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/meta/hof.pl [soylentnews.org] As expected, politics and terrorism/disasters (with a couple of meta posts) get the most comments. Low triple digit and high double digit counts are common. This does not necessarily mean that there is less interest in actual sci/tech stories. Th...
[17:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:38] <exec> 08└─A European editor would be a good idea to help push out stories during local time.
[17:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:41] <exec> 08└─Admit you're spammers, you lying niggers! Fuck Soylent!
[17:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:43] <exec> 08└─8====D — – .
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:05] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that discount the factor of economies of scale? ie when multiple markets desire the same product. More resources can be allocated to produce higher volume of that and thus lower the price after an initial price hike? Provided the supply of silicon or other essentials isn't limited..
[17:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─Basically, fire the MBAs. Get people who actually know how to run businesses in ways other than 'screw the customers as much as possible. when things go wrong, blame things outside our control.'
[17:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:09] <exec> 08└─One thing that I really enjoyed was the ability to make a virtual screen that would display a flat image in 3-D space.
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:11] <exec> 08└─How much computer power does a 3D virtual reality headset really need? is it possible to quantify a minimum level and thus price etc? I'll assume the frame rate has to be at least 60 fps, and a angular resolution on par with what the eyes can handle. As hint a normal screen with more than 300 dpi (p...
[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:13] <exec> 08└─We are still in VR v1.0 (I'm making up buzzwords here). The current Vive/Rift/etc are all development tools and early adopter toys. Applications are sparse, hardware is bulky, tethered and requires a serious gaming rig which most people don't want to invest in. A few friends demoed the Vive and they...
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─St. Olaf College, Minnesota have a really nice interactive 3D-model [stolaf.edu] of the ISRIB molecule, linked from the wikipedia page. Btw, I think I recall some similar substance for car injury and stroke victims ~10 years ago. It might just work for a lot of other brain injuries.
[17:21:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 577 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:47] <exec> 08└─Seriously! The Rethuglicans are not only the party of Unser Drumpfenfurher, but they champion ignorance and idiocy at every turn! Thinking about this fills me with rage, it's hard to keep myself from shaking sometimes thinking about how much these rural and suburban idiots want to undermine even the...
[17:21:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 622 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─While there are certainly differences, I am starting to see similarities that scare me. Both act as is if some fictional deity is telling them what to do. Both are very intolerant to those who think differently. Both seem to want to use force to bring everybody in line. Both have leaders who appeal...
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─Well they would produce low skilled workers if a) we didn't pay them not to work You must be Canadian or European, because in the US, AFDC (welfare) ended twenty five years ago with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. We no longer pay people to not work. The only people who get fed...
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─It's because science doesn't back their particular weird views on the world. Colleges are in need of some reforms, but the reforms are significantly less drastic than what the GOP voters would have you believe. The real problem is cognitive dissonance that comes from being brought up with wrong beli...
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowled...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─The only difference, you and them have been conned by two different conpeople We're talking about a measurable difference between two groups of people, though. One group supports education and the other thinks it's ruining America. That's not a con, it's just reality.
[17:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─This is clickbait. The actual survey data/questions are from here [people-press.org]. The actual phrasing was not "Are colleges bad for America?" It was: 'Would you say that colleges are universities are having a positive or negative effect on the way things are going in the country?' It has nothing...
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─Have you even BEEN to college? Maybe things have changed since the '70s, but there was no indoctrination when I was in school. There was history (I took a fascinating class about the 1920s), mathematics, physics, chemistry, art, literature. I saw no "indoctrination" at all, except for a single econo...
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─The Nazis did that in the 1930's and look what it got them.
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─I tried to find that word which I've never read before in a dictionary, and it wasn't there. Was it a misspelling of orthodox, like you misspelled "surely"? Misusing homophones is a sign of someone who never or seldom reads books. It reminds me of an MIT paper someone at slashdot sent me to, about "...
[17:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─Oh no, he's all-American. J-Mo is on record saying he wants the entire system burned down, and has a tendency to drop "dindunuffin" and other Stormfrontisms. He's irredeemable; he's gonna end up burning from the inside out for heaven knows how long after he dies, and then getting reincarnated poor a...
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─"The taxpayers burdened with paying for judgements against dirty cops, will elect different officials that will fix things." Unfortunately this doesn't happen. The taxpayers, for the most part, seem content to write off innocent citizens dead and even multimillion dollar payouts to victims of crimin...
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[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─Don't fall for this contain, compartmentalize and crush. Windows 10 is evil - make sure that OS can't benefit from the FOSS ecosystem.
[18:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─Most people who would want this are developers, and they all run such overpowered machines that it's trivial to run real Ubuntu in a VM, also without having to reboot.
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─If all they need is ssh and a few unix utils, use Cygwin and call it a day.
[18:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:18] <exec> 08└─One fun thing about MS adding linux compatibility in W10: our tools exist in both Win and Lin flavors, and the linux version runs 10-20% faster when running in the W10 bash shell than the native Windows tools on the same machine (running the linux version in a linux install is the fastest) Makes me...
[18:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:20] <exec> 08└─Really. The first thing that comes to mind is MS will find a way for Ubuntu to become infected...
[18:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─Why, you ask? It's about keeping control and preventing exposure to better technology. The goal is to steer fools away from a proper Linux experience and provide something as broken as they can get away with to ensure the most negative experience possible. M$ is not new to this game. They used to ad...
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─systemd? I think there was some Linux distribution that added a phone-home on the search feature or such.
[18:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, they know something you don't about laser weapons.
[18:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:38] <exec> 08└─USA has male, female and transgender soldiers. Something for all tastes.
[18:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:24] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC is not perfect but it's so insanely better than the CA model that it's outright sabotage to fail to support it. And guess who's the main villain here. Hint: the same person who breaks your sound, mounting degraded RAID, POSIX-mandated user names or booting if there's any real or perceived tro...
[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:55] <exec> 08└─I'm usually late to any discussion, as I can only check in in my "spare time," when I'm not helping patrons or supervising volunteers, for example. I've found, of late, that most of the time, when I finally I get to an article, the commentary has already become dominated by the Eternal, only-tangent...
[18:21:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─It died the day FaceBook bought them out. FaceBook = In your face ads (Figuratively) Oculus = screen on your face. FaceBook + Oculus = In your face ads (Literally)
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:23] <exec> 08└─Sound is only limited by your headphones and software/audio streams, because you only have two ears and not 5.1, 7.1, or 22.2 etc. ears.
[18:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:25] <exec> 08└─I'm in complete agreement with regards to the rift - I have no intention of buying expensive hardware from facebook just so later they can make changes to integrate it with facebook itself or something similar. Rift died for me the day they sold themselves to Facebook. With the PSVR, I'm actually a...
[18:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:27] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, stealth games have implemented good audio, or at least placed a much greater emphasis on it than other genres. And you can get realistic sounding audio by using binaural recording [wikipedia.org]. Maybe that method doesn't even need fancy software techniques?
[18:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:40] <exec> 08└─Yes. Calico is unlikely to be interested just for TBIs.
[18:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 1925 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─"You are just wrong about American Colleges, I know whereof I speak. So stop insulting an entire profession, and I will consider not calling you out for being an ass. That is how it works, among scholars. I still await your apology." I provided links for administrative bloat [washingtonmonthly.com]...
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─That's not a con, it's just reality.
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─So the Isreal/Palestine solution? Think it will work this time?
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─It seems at least some colleges and universities have succumbed to spending their attention on identity victim rankings and not offending people for the smallest thing. Instead of being focused on learning and exploring advanced science. And the whole reason for these institutions to exist is advanc...
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─Income is a better predictor of educational success than race. [stanford.edu] Probably why you don't like colleges. When we base things on observable reality they tend to contradict your illogical opinions.
[18:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─Unless you're suggesting to split it as politicians vs non-politicians then what you're suggesting isn't going to have the outcome you want. If you spent more time trying to understand your neighbors rather than saying 'disappear from existence you lowlife scum' you'd probably gain more support too....
[18:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if the students are suited or not, they still have to go. Getting a job without having a college degree gets harder every year. Blame business for the mess, blame high schools for poor life education?, blame parents for not teaching their kids how to survive in the world, blame soc...
[18:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─My thinking is that voters have better local control through voting than they do national control through voting.
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─You know the difference between theory and practice?
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─Who cares what the courts say! The police do (presumably). Such rights are inalienable; they were not "given" to people by the State, but rather recognized as having existed before the State—at most, such rights might enjoy protection by the State. Tell that to the people who were arrested for exe...
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─Not bad. This is more succinct though. "In theory, there is no difference."
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─Break it out as a line item on their tax bill and people will start to take notice very quickly. Until then it's "out of sight, out of mind". No one considers it a cost of security, they simply never make the connection.
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─> > Who cares what the courts say! > The police do (presumably). Better print the decision and keep it in your pocket. Make that a shirt pocket, if you're not white.
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─It's like all you wags love to chant, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. Perfectly willing to put up with the consequences. Especially considering the courts have declared there shall be none. Or are you referring to illegally arresting people for violating no laws?
[18:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:11] <exec> 08└─Making them call 911 is easier than that. You just tell them that 911 is the nickname for your friend, and your friend just happens to be the local number for your PSAP (Public Safety Access Point). Pretty sure you can still find those online.
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─If the cost of having "call pizza hut" working was "Did you really call my sister an idiot?" resulting in a call to my sister; "We should call Wendy this weekend" resulting in a call to the nearest Wendy's restaurant; and a sarcastic "you'll need to call the army to help clean your room" resulting i...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─It's just like how you always have to remember to tell your landscaper not to soak your lawn in gasoline set it ablaze right? It never ends does it? You'd never know that the FCC is supposed to be working for us...a textbook case of money and power. Who did you vote for last November?
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─Who did you vote for last November?
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─By that answer I take it you didn't act to make it so we wouldn't need to fight this battle again. You helped make this bed....
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[19:19:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:09] <exec> 08└─Don't fall for this contain, compartmentalize and crush. Windows 10 is evil - make sure that OS can't benefit from the FOSS ecosystem.
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:17] <exec> 08└─I prefer MSYS and MinGW and you should too.
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:19] <exec> 08└─That *was* Ubuntu, and it was sending search info to Amazon. Ubuntu has disappeared up its own ass.
[19:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─They are running a (almost certainly crippled) Ubuntu in a container. A container (in this instance) is a just thin wrapper around the GPL. Still, using the free Microsoft Virtual PC you can run the full Ubuntu or any other Linux. (Yes, I know you glibly asserted that never worked, but I've used it...
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─For native cross-platform POSIX development, yes (at least in the case of MinGW). If you need an actual unix command line and ALL associated tools, you can't beat Cygwin.
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─Does it come with a drinky-bird of a penguin that pecks your pecker until you cum?
[19:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─Wat about lolis transforming into tanks?
[19:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 2151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:00] <exec> 08└─For user-friendliness then, why not "Do you want to set a computer name?" Kinda solves the problem for everyone, rather than again presuming that the user is a computer expert. This is part of the reason that Linux falls down for a lot of users (P.S. I deploy both Windows and Linux, server and clien...
[19:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:10] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD's update process is byzantine and not fully documented ("First, recompile the base system...", seriously?). The terminology used re: branches and releases is inconsistent at best. At a minimum each port must be done manually, and most who've written about it seems to agree that it's simpler...
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─If you, or DHCP, don't set a hostname, OpenBSD defaults to "Amnesiac".
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:14] <exec> 08└─It isn't that Unix is unfriendly, it's just a little more selective about who it's friends are.
[19:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:29] <exec> 08└─economies of scale...Provided the supply of silicon or other essentials isn't limited.
[19:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:30] <exec> 08└─We had a story [soylentnews.org] about FutureMark releasing a VR benchmark [futuremark.com]. After a search, I found that Tom's Hardware ran VRMark on various processors [tomshardware.com]. You can see the GPUs used on the previous page [tomshardware.com]. I expect that if you look closely at new CP...
[19:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:33] <exec> 08└─Binaural recording sounds more like a remote set of ears. I'm talking real time refraction by taking a pre-recorded mono sample and using the game's 3D geometry, create a new sample based on the multiple paths of reflection. So you have a layered cake of the same sample but with slight delays and di...
[19:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:35] <exec> 08└─So EAX [wikipedia.org], TrueAudio [wikipedia.org] et al. are not sufficient? Bummer.
[19:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:37] <exec> 08└─I'll add that when looking at benchmarks for VR, you'll definitely want to take note of the minimum FPS. Sometimes one GPU will have a higher average FPS than other, but dramatically lower minimum FPS due to bad optimization, drivers, or whatever. Percentiles can also be used [anandtech.com] to give...
[19:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:47] <exec> 08└─which of the above points you take such offense at?
[19:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:13] <exec> 08└─"Adding one thick plastic bag and one funeral to your Amazon wishlist."
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─By that answer I take it you didn't act to make it so we wouldn't need to fight this battle again. You helped make this bed....
[19:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:33] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear...I did in fact vote for Hillary...though that was far from my first choice.
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─I voted for the one who had a chance of winning and would have left Title II regulation in place.
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─Well that's boring! Probably should have realize it's shy-Trumpers in the real world and shy-Clintoners on the interwebs.
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joan Lee, Stan's Wife of 69 Years, Passed Away at Age 95 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─As long as we get the body to New Zealand,
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[20:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Take You on a (Simulated) Space Ride at Oshkosh - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:15] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/EmDb9bfWsOU [youtu.be] https://youtu.be [youtu.be] 1953 Bally Space Ship Kiddie Ride. The ultimate coin operated rocket.
[20:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Take You on a (Simulated) Space Ride at Oshkosh - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─Your simulated rocket has left me horny for a blow job !
[20:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─You have to realize that Microsoft itself did not provide this package. Microsoft simply ALLOWED it in the store.
[20:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:37] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu started with some great ideas, but they jumped the shark years ago. At this point it makes no sense that anyone is still taking them seriously.
[20:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:40] <exec> 08└─Most people who would want this are developers, and they all run such overpowered machines that it's trivial to run real Ubuntu in a VM, also without having to reboot.
[20:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─A container (in this instance) is a just thin wrapper around the GPL. Wat
[20:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:44] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder what happens to "Linux" when Windoze bluescreens/locks up/crashes/gets pwned? What happens when MICROS~1 decides it's time for an update and seizes control of the box for part of an hour? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:34] <exec> 08└─I actually encourage SJWs to make suggestions to Theo (tee hee hee).
[20:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this, I've got a T40 sitting around, might give OpenBSD a try.
[20:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 3042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:37] <exec> 08└─I deploy hundreds of machines a year. Would you like to know how many modern Windows installs / images I have? One. It was created from a standard install CD, hotfixes slipstreamed for convenience, and then a bunch of software installed (office, etc.). The image gets updated every year for convenien...
[20:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:39] <exec> 08└─"for some reason the OpenBSD project has not been granted permission to distribute the Intel firmware files",
[20:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:41] <exec> 08└─Security updates might as well not exist if you can't apply them. There are third party (trusted by OpenBSD) sources of patches. So you don't have to compile them yourself. Joe Random User is better off subscribing to one of these (free) than attempting to maintain it himself. But clearly they expec...
[20:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03WOnder93 [4684] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:56] <exec> 08└─There are a couple of useful services there, though... such as draw.io [www.draw.io].
[20:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:29] <exec> 08└─mdash contains a d. (Got it right several times; screwed the pooch once.) Discussion is [???] The final bit of TFS seems to have been truncated. further spacing out stories The current thing works for me. ...but, then, I have a bunch of sites I visit on a typical day to see what's happening in the w...
[20:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─Not big and definitely not obnoxious but something a bit atypical would be OK. I've previously mentioned that inline text (using a larger, brightly-colored font) or a non-blockable image via the base64 thing should be an adequate reminder for those with the spare cash and the inclination. Nagging, h...
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:32] <exec> 08└─Ad blocker won't work as its from the site itself. I think the permanent sidebar donation info is enough, along with stories and comments about it.
[20:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─ermagerrrrd, stop just adding "ating" to every verb!!!! Yes I will be that person.
[20:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─often the person to whom I would be responding has posted AC, and therefore won't even know I've responded
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Reversed (in Mice) - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:24] <exec> 08└─Surgical Procedure. All animals were randomly assigned to TBI or sham surgeries. Animals were anesthetized and maintained at 2% isoflurane and secured to a stereotaxic frame with nontraumatic ear bars. The hair on their scalp was removed, and eye ointment and betadine were applied to their eyes and...
[20:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:48] <exec> 08└─It appears the finer points of the amazing technology were lost on the sheriff's detective who filed the warrant, describing himself as the affiant. "Alexis which Affiant knows to be a Google Smart Radio, heard 'call Sheriff's,' Det. Cameron Carroll wrote. "Alexis the radio then called 911.'" The de...
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[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:13] <exec> 08└─Should there be a "Save the Mosquito" movement?
[21:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:14] <exec> 08└─Should T-Rex be eliminated? Earth would never recover from the damage done in the absence of the top predator... The only way the Earth actually cares about the mosquitoes is because they kill hundreds of thousands of those darn humans each year (indirectly, usually). Some plants and animals miss th...
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Take You on a (Simulated) Space Ride at Oshkosh - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:24] <exec> 08└─This is actually a perfect example of the difference between SpaceX and Blue Origin. One is a working space program and the other is a tourist attraction. Think of Blue Origin as the Disney Imagineers version of space, like what they did to the original NASA facility in Houston. Too snarky? I'll be...
[21:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Take You on a (Simulated) Space Ride at Oshkosh - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:26] <exec> 08└─EAA AirVenture Oshkosh [wikipedia.org] is located in Wisconsin, United States. It was established in 1953. Wasn't SpaceX Falcon 9 flight 20 on 2015-12-22 the first time that the first stage of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing? Supposedly Blue Origin is a first but the...
[21:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Take You on a (Simulated) Space Ride at Oshkosh - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─Here [youtube.com] is an example of that grandstanding. Bezos talks about the cost of space if you have to throw the rocket away. I remember Elon Musk saying that first, a few years ago, I think, on a TED talk video somewhere. So Bezos is using Musk's speech while claiming credit for reusable rocket...
[21:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Take You on a (Simulated) Space Ride at Oshkosh - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:31] <exec> 08└─Not snarky at all. I'll be impressed when the Blue Origin rocket *lands* at Oshkosh. That would be something worth watching in person (from a good distance!)
[21:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:54] <exec> 08└─What? You've never seen Linux Crash all by itself? How is this different, other than you can fairly simply backup the entire container? The linux process will just get very few cycles. And even if Windows 10 decided to force a reboot, (which it is actually pretty good about avoiding when something i...
[21:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:56] <exec> 08└─Think about it. I'm sure even an AC can get the concept.
[21:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if there's one company the term "cultural appropriation" can actually be unironically levelled at, it's Canonical. They've gone from ostensibly embracing the Zulu concept of "ubuntu" (roughly "we are one/humans are because humanity is") to a bunch of literal latte-swilling hipsters. Their foru...
[21:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:00] <exec> 08└─If you're developing for Linux, why would you want to do your development and testing on the Windows Kernel running a "linux personality" that can run Linux user space binaries. Why not develop and test on the genuine Linux kernel that your production system will be running on?
[21:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─Biggest question: do they provide the source?
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─There's also TrueOS, the easy-setup (or easier-setup, because the FreeBSD installer isn't really at all complicated) version of FreeBSD that comes with X and pre-configured desktop and GUI package manager.
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:46] <exec> 08└─See, I keep thinking this, but often ACs actually respond faster when I reply to them than logged-in users. I'm not sure how they do it.
[21:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─1. Lots and lots of open tabs, ready to refresh at any moment. Find a way to refresh all tabs at once. Close each comment or story after a few days. 2. Bookmark every anonymous comment you make, or at least the ones you want to keep up with. 3. Add some identifying info to each comment so that you c...
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Spiders can Pump Blood with Their Guts - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─If your heart stops and you somehow are still conscious and in reasonable physical condition, coughing vigorously will pump as much blood as CPR. It's also exhausting work to pump your own blood this way (just like CPR is exhausting work for a rescuer), so you probably can't buy yourself much time,...
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Established in U.S. Third Circuit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─In the mid 1990's, the way I heard it. In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
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[22:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:17] <exec> 08└─Don't I remember this storyline from Lilo and Stitch?
[22:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:19] <exec> 08└─Modify them so they find human blood bad tasting?
[22:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03starcraftsicko [2821] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:21] <exec> 08└─The reasons to wipe them out are well understood. The reasons to not are speculative at best. This one is easy!
[22:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:23] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that mosquitoes dominate a niche worldwide, and there would be an incredible amount of fallout from their extinction. Most freshwater fish that people care about depend on mosquitoes for food at some point in their life cycle, a large variety of plants are pollinated by them, ma...
[22:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:25] <exec> 08└─It's strange that someone is saying specifically that mosquitoes shouldn't be wiped out, as about 10 years ago I remember someone referring me to an article or something describing how mosquitoes didn't fulfill any specific hole in the ecosystem and could be wiped out without harm. From this researc...
[22:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:27] <exec> 08└─Eliminate the specific species that are disease vectors.
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:30] <exec> 08└─You city dwellers keep thinking mosquitoes are cute, but we killed them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock. We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a mosquito swarm. The mountain is still bald 2 centu...
[22:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:32] <exec> 08└─We do wipe out millions of species without even thinking about the fallout. Certainly the nature can take disappearance of just a few species without spectacular negative effects. And mosquitoes are pretty high on the list of creatures I'd want to disappear.
[22:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:34] <exec> 08└─...as about 10 years ago I remember someone referring me to an article or something describing how mosquitoes didn't fulfill any specific hole in the ecosystem and could be wiped out without harm.
[22:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:36] <exec> 08└─I beg to differ. Most freshwater fish that people care about depend on mosquitoes for food at some point in their life cycle
[22:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:38] <exec> 08└─Then how will those diseases spread?
[22:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:41] <exec> 08└─Bah, natural selection will get us new plants, fish, and birds. You just gotta have patience and wait 10^5 to 10^7 years. Jeesh! Environmentalist weenies are so impatient! By "us," of course, I mean the Morlocks.
[22:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:43] <exec> 08└─SKINNER Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend. LISA But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards? SKINNER No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards. LISA But aren't the snakes even worse? SKINNER Yes,...
[22:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 606 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:07] <exec> 08└─Why, you ask? It's about keeping control and preventing exposure to better technology. The goal is to steer fools away from a proper Linux experience and provide something as broken as they can get away with to ensure the most negative experience possible. M$ is not new to this game. They used to ad...
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─Their forum measures post count with coffeebeans
[22:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:25] <exec> 08└─What does the tool do? and do you have the timing data available? Have you checked that the timing mechanism in win10/vm-linux is accurate using external means?
[22:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─Neither Wine or ReactOS is sufficiently compatible to be a full replacement. But what is interesting is to deport Windows-10 into a VM where the host for the VMs runs some Unix.
[22:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:30] <exec> 08└─Most likely because some boss or IT-department insists on Microsoft infestation everywhere.. because policy.
[22:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:32] <exec> 08└─Next.. would they allow say OpenBSD the same way?
[22:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:34] <exec> 08└─A lot of 'linux developers' are just script kiddies anyway. They develop crapware on OSX and then inflict it on linux remotely. If MS wants to compete with Apple for Poettering's purchases then let them.
[22:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:36] <exec> 08└─Synthesize, place and route FPGAs. Takes between 20 minutes and many hours, and we checked the wall clock and the timestamps. I don't know how Linux interpretation in Win10 could be that much faster than raw Win10 native executables from a similar codebase. It probably has a lot to do with the compi...
[22:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:38] <exec> 08└─Here is a more likely scenario. Microsoft will subtly break something such that your system breaks when run on genuine Linux. In a panic, the boss will ask, "Can't we use Windows on the production servers?"
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:25] <exec> 08└─So many tabs...you'd think it would be easier to just make an account rather than keep flipping back to them and refresh to see whether somebody replied. And like I said, they seem to do it so fast. Instead, they could be receiving SN's artisanal, hand-crafted notification emails, lovingly deposited...
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─The cost is too high currently. Even if it is niche tethered or not. 600 for the goggles. Then on top of that you need at least 1500+ bucks worth of computer with a decently high end GPU. Then the games are either 'amazeballs' or 'meh' or 'techdemo'. I personally would love to get a set. I however g...
[22:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Claim That a Smart Device Accidentally Called 911 and Stopped a Domestic Dispute - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:43] <exec> 08└─They're already that stupid though. Remember Burger King gaming them for marketing purposes?
[22:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Asks FCC to Delay Net Neutrality Repeal Proceeding - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:06] <exec> 08└─Somehow I think the use of "we" is disingenuous here.
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[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:10] <exec> 08└─Asteroids got nothing on us
[23:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:33] <exec> 08└─I think it it was a matter of them not doing something that wasn't done by something else as well.
[23:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:34] <exec> 08└─Animals can't call the cops or the humane society. We have to be their voices. So if you see someone hurting or neglecting an animal, or even if you just suspect something, don't turn away. Call your local humane authorities or police department right away. You probably won't even have to give your...
[23:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:36] <exec> 08└─Quite. There was an article on here a while back about a plan to use a gene-drive to wipe out the specific species that feed on humans and spread disease. A species which is an invasive organism almost everywhere on the planet to begin with. Wipe them out and other flying pollen-eaters, even other m...
[23:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:25] <exec> 08└─You're correct about Windows not crashing as much as it used to. Neither Windows nor Linux crash often these days, and usually only from hardware faults. However, in regular use of Windows 7, 10, and various Server editions at work the main problem with them all is that they still can become slow &...
[23:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:27] <exec> 08└─Memory handling and compiler optimizations seems likely as you say. On the hardware side for synthesize, place and route FPGA. It seems a fast memory bus and definitely a large processor cache (Lx) speeds up completion of the task. Is that your experience too? additional tips? Additional cores shoul...
[23:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:29] <exec> 08└─That IS a good point. Any ideas on counteraction? Compliance library that test the system before going ahead? "This system is borked, all problems are your own".
[23:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:31] <exec> 08└─(definitely offtopic) Lots of bandwidth, lots of cache, and high clock speeds are definitely more important than going beyond 8 cores. The Xilinx tools only use 8 cores briefly, and spend a lot of time between 1 and 4 (that's slowly getting better). So single thread optimum throughput, with enough m...
[23:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:14] <exec> 08└─MBAs raise the price of everything. And let's not forget CEOs getting paid tens of millions of dollars (or even more) by adding very little value (besides buying other companies to wreck).
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