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[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soundcloud is Not Dead Yet - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─It's not problem that it's not dead yet - we just wait a bit longer. All the while we backup it all ;-) In the meantime all employees can show off how cool job they have, while they still have it :P Has it been SJW, diversity, irrelevant projects, MBA doomed yet? ;)
[00:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─IIUC, the one you're referring to is the version one of the EMDrive. And when I read yesterday that appeared to be the only one actually ever built. Versions 2 and 3 require some sort of superconductor, so that probably means liquid helium. Patent applied for doesn't mean that an actual model has ev...
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[00:25:33] <exec> 08└─It's not clear that he hasn't shown a marginally working device. But it's not clear that he has. Some examined the device and said it appeared to produce a small thrust. The amount was small enough that it would need to be tested in a satellite to be sure. I don't think any certainty is reasonable a...
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[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─emdrive.com/3GEMDrive.pdf is the version one?
[00:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:06] <exec> 08└─I guess the U.S. has become socialist then since suicide rates [soylentnews.org] among white people have increased steadily since about 2004. (see graph Suicide Rates by Ethnicity on linked article.)
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─They're accusing CVS, so I tend to believe them. When they took over the local store from Longs I investigated a few of their house brand offerings (compared to the Longs brand). They kept about the same size bottle, but with a changed shape. They shaved a hair off the price, but decreased the numbe...
[00:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:10] <exec> 08└─Birth rate is 1.69. Dying. Thanks for playing, loser. :)
[00:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:12] <exec> 08└─Back in the 90's I consulted, and often found myself on my wife's insurance plan. Plan administrators made my life a living hell. One day I needed my meds, red tape ensued, and I decided fuck it and asked how much the meds would cost (2 pills). They were cheaper than the co-pay. Ever since I've alwa...
[00:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:14] <exec> 08└─"Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her." – Themistocles
[00:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:16] <exec> 08└─This is how they fund their budget for six-foot receipts.
[00:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:58] <exec> 08└─Being retired and quite able to afford living anywhere, and too damn lazy to do the research myself, is there anywhere on the planet that has better-than-USA upload/download speeds and ratios (via cable, fiber, or DSL) without the surveillance and censorship of the US, UK, EU, Oz, NZ, Russia, and Ch...
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[00:27:00] <exec> 08└─Rather it reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 "newspeak" where the definition of words are hollowed out to inable citizens to speak their mind.
[00:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:19] <exec> 08└─Actually yes. It jams a giant block of aluminum into the blade stopping it. (and destroying it)
[00:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:26] <exec> 08└─So which open source (Unix) browser is the best now in your opinion? What would be the best starting point for a new browsing project that aims to beat the others? should it use C? C++? JS? Objective-C/Swift/C#? what rendering engine or make a new one? One approach would be to simply strip a lot of...
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[00:30:27] <exec> 08└─What do you think about the Switzerland Federal Constitution with the options for voting directly on specific issues? The failure mode of current system seems to be partly rooted in lack of education of power issues and subversive media.
[00:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:30] <exec> 08└─Emacs. :D Also, it'd be cool to get more people onto Pale Moon development. It's effectively a fork of Firefox without the ui and extension shenanigans, but I think it's got very few people behind it at the moment. It would also be nice if people would quit trying to turn web browsers into operating...
[00:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:32] <exec> 08└─Web pages with some runnable code are good for when say you want to have a page where you can input some parameters and have the formula output without consulting the server of the page. Faster response and less load. Same goes for say vector browsing of mapping applications etc. Or realtime display...
[00:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:24] <exec> 08└─A bigger problem is that the "opioid epidemic" isn't drug dealers selling heroin to junkies, it's pharma companies selling heroin equivalents to your mom, your neighbour, your brother. It's legal, state sanctioned sales of heroin equivalents to the public at large. Treatment is one thing, but a bigg...
[00:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:26] <exec> 08└─Reducing all human interactions to the level of buying a burrito does not a healthy society make.
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cancels "Town Hall" Due to Leaks - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─Enough until there is no discrimination! For the USA, it is making up for a few hundred years of genocide and slavery and racism. It is like Aristotle said about straightening a stick, you have to over-bend it the other way for it to come back true.
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[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soundcloud is Not Dead Yet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─All the while we backup it all ;-)
[01:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:44] <exec> 08└─Um... I was pretty sure I read that there was a verifiable effect. What analysis did you read that put that effect within error?
[01:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:46] <exec> 08└─Haha! Ok, was this on Rush Limbaugh or something or did Sean Hannity have a segment covering the EM drive? Did Trump tweet something about it? I don't want to look like the AC that just keeps posting the same shit over and over again, but.. um... I was pretty sure I read that there was a verifiable...
[01:25:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─dedicating itself to the secret scheme that kept customers in the dark about the true price
[01:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:24] <exec> 08└─the problem is not the government, it is us, who have let the government be controlled by big money.
[01:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─Many Americans object to socialized medicine becaue they mistakenly think the prices they pay for medical goods and services are the actual cost.
[01:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investors Poured Millions Into a Storage Network that Doesn't Exist Yet - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:06] <exec> 08└─Filecoin might be a white paper, and it is an interesting one, but the same company is behind ipfs which is very real. From what i gather the coin is a way to incentivize storage of ipfs blocks so the blockchain sees no data. In fact an ethereum token is being considered. Proof of storage is the dif...
[01:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:29] <exec> 08└─The Muslim Brotherhood or The Mighty Boosh [youtube.com]
[01:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:30] <exec> 08└─A saw that won't cut off your finger? Watch the inventor demonstrate by using his own finger: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com] Save a hotdog today! Made by a company i have no affiliation with.
[01:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:41] <exec> 08└─Sure, well there's no law saying the script language has to be javascript—in fact, there's a parameter just for specifying the type—it's just that most browsers only support js. You don't even need to have the server return html. Imagine clicking a gmail shortcut and getting a qml file that repr...
[01:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:37] <exec> 08└─Yea, that's been happening here as well. The problem is that some people do have chronic pain and need opiates to function and they're getting cut off from their legal morphine etc, which forces them to suffer more or go to the street for their drug. It's a real problem balancing the fact that some...
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[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─Is the aluminum nanomaterial a catalyst for the reaction which by standard chemistry should be endothermic? How much energy input to make the material per energy output when reacting the aluminum nanomaterial does it take?
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─Let's go atomic. one kilogram of aluminum powder can produce 220 kilowatts of energy in just three minutes
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─kWh I suspect, but bad reporting is bad
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[02:25:32] <exec> 08└─KiloWattSeconds, so on par with one of my post-burrito farts.
[02:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soundcloud is Not Dead Yet - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:42] <exec> 08└─Stockholm has that bad reputation? ;-) Q: How does Stockholm people drill a hole in the wall on the cheap? A: Yelling to the night street, "pale virgin on the other side" :P
[02:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:03] <exec> 08└─What I don't get is why not anyone just launch a test module into space and falsify the whole deal.
[02:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:04] <exec> 08└─Great, then we can start to get some hard data instead of this shouting match. Any hints on when they will launch?
[02:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:06] <exec> 08└─There is an unverifiable claim that China is testing it in space: https://www.rfglobalnet.com [rfglobalnet.com] Or even on the X-37B (but USAF officials say it is a Hall effect thruster instead). https://www.aerosociety.com
[02:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:08] <exec> 08└─What is this Hall effect thruster? Anyway I smell military secrecy with all the fuzzy reporting. Which should mean that it's a working invention with great implications. And that there will be serious attempts at making it appear as a phony and non-working device.. Ie who benefits..
[02:26:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 1520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:25] <exec> 08└─I don't hear ANY of the multiple parties in the "healthcare" (actually health insurance) debate proposing to fix what is really wrong: * You cannot know the real price of a thing * You cannot know what it is going to cost you until after you buy it * The fake prices thrown around are totally absurd...
[02:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:32] <exec> 08└─Wired internet. Racist since the 1960s or so.. ;-)
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[02:27:33] <exec> 08└─South America?
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[03:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:20] <exec> 08└─"If you are not the sole holder of the private key, then you do not own the BTC." The same applies here. You don't own the device if you're not the sole person who can control it.
[03:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:21] <exec> 08└─If you need 5 9's of up-time then be prepared to pay for it. That doesn't excuse faulty updates but if you don't have an SLA then you haven't much recourse. A sub $500 lock with a guaranteed non-failure rate is most unlikely. Especially when you connect such things to the net. Foolish. Both in execu...
[03:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:24] <exec> 08└─A high-quality <device> need be designed only once; it can be replicated thereafter at scale. The problem is that there is no such thing as a high-quality <device>; every <device> sucks, because it is designed by people, and people suck—even if the design were great, people would gouge consumers t...
[03:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:26] <exec> 08└─Let this be a lesson on trusting your physical security to the cloud.
[03:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─Or something else?
[03:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Doom 3 BFG Gets a Vulkan Renderer - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─Nothing. Ever. It's all a matter of abstraction. It's just that game programmers aren't interested in cross-platform compatibility; rather, they're interested in MONEY! Their software isn't beautiful; it's functional for making money.
[03:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:10] <exec> 08└─I think democracy *could* work. But not in its current form, that is evident around the world by now. The key to making democracy work is education. Real education - critical thinking on top of a broad knowledgebase, rooted in practical experience and observation. Only when people can see our career...
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[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─This whole "pay for it" thing is BS. Just look at "enterprise software": it costs an absolute fortune, yet it's all complete and utter crap. Paying a lot for something doesn't mean you're going to get a better-designed product, just (maybe, if the contract says so) that you'll be able to get a hold...
[04:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:23] <exec> 08└─In other words Lockstate and the buyer owns it.. The question then becomes if it's more secure to let Lockstate do the automatic update thing and risk their incompetence. Or to block them from doing anything by ripping out the phone-home connection. But instead risking a lock that can be thwarted by...
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you are saying. I just found it unreasonable that people who bought a sub $500 lock that was connected to the internet would think it wouldn't fail :)
[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:28] <exec> 08└─If it were the case that Lockstate AND the buyer (the intersection) owns it, then they'd both have to agree on how it's controlled. What you are describing is Lockstate OR the buyer (the union) owns it. This distinction is not splitting hairs; the lack of appreciation for this distinction is the roo...
[04:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:30] <exec> 08└─The assumption is wrong. The lock already worked fine but the manufacturer did not check their update properly before committing it. So they should just refrain from even attempting to push them out. I recall a TLD that fucked up a whole country domain for hours.. "doh". So even services that should...
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[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─AND - because both can tell the unit to contradict the order from the other "user". So the user should verify code and lock the manufacturer out of the product.
[04:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─Now, we're back to what the Bitcoiners say. (XOR).
[04:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:36] <exec> 08└─It's not the money that is the failure point here. It's the internet connected + lack of due diligence. If you didn't check the code, then it shall be assumed to be faulty for something critical as this. As for code quality it seems the open source model beats the commercial development model. Excep...
[04:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:38] <exec> 08└─Guys, kinda missing the story here. $469 for a frickin' lock? Home Dept lists forty electronic door locks for under a hundred bucks. Another hundred and one in the 100-150 band. Does adding a Wifi chip and chaining you to a (now proven to be) dangerous cloud service justify that extra expense? It do...
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[04:25:50] <exec> 08└─The air is full of electricity. Positive and negative potential fluctuates over any given area, just like temperature, barometric pressure, humidity,etc. We just have to learn to harvest it.
[04:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:52] <exec> 08└─I spent six years in engineering school to explain with the following: "No."
[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─220 kW during 3 minutes = 220e3 * 3*60 [watt*seconds] = 39.6 MJ (on the order of the combustion of 1 cubic meter of natural gas) So: 39.6 MJ/kg Using 9 kg with 100% power conversion efficiency it will be sufficient to replace the battery in a 100 kWh (=539 km) Tesla Model S. If a sterling engine wit...
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[04:25:56] <exec> 08└─You'll probable refer to vacuum fluctuations? The problem is that in many cases it ends up with something akin to Maxwell's daemon.
[04:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:58] <exec> 08└─You're not supposed to eat the aluminum foil too, dammit.
[04:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:00] <exec> 08└─So, is the aluminum captured/recyclable after this reaction - if so, 9kg of "fuel" isn't bad for 210 miles of travel - of course, there's a lot of water required, too...
[04:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:39] <exec> 08└─Come on. This is Physics 101. We see if the claimed effect conserves energy, momentum, etc. If it doesn't then there's something wrong.
[04:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:19] <exec> 08└─Please trust me on this: J-Mo is as serious as an Ebola outbreak. No one can act that well and that consistently.
[04:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2012 TC4 Will Pass Close to Earth on October 12th - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:34] <exec> 08└─Did you account for the distance to Earth? the closer a object gets. The more data for an accurate trajectory and less chance of disruptions.
[04:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:07] <exec> 08└─A bigger problem is the data caps on internet, especially in rural areas. My grandparents live in an area where $60/mo for 10GB/mo satellite is a "good" deal, and not even mobile internet is a viable alternative. That basically makes the internet unusable, because they can go through most of that in...
[04:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:09] <exec> 08└─One way to make that life more bearable is to route the http traffic through a proxy on the internet that strips out all the html code junk before it's sent home. Many pages are now 1000 kByte.. for something that in a distant time took 10 kByte tops. Ontop of that a local heavily caching proxy can...
[04:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon's Magnetic Field Lasted 1 Billion Years Longer Than Previously Thought - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:36] <exec> 08└─Careful, we might end up arguing the IAU definition of "planet" if we're not careful! :)
[04:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Doom 3 BFG Gets a Vulkan Renderer - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:46] <exec> 08└─Don't be a tard, K? Game studios, unless they are Id software or something, are not all that great at programming. They license an engine and shovel content into it until it is deemed shippable, then a point release or two to fix the worst day zero bugs, a few expansion packs and then onto the next...
[04:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:36] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? On the SawStop, it destroys the blade, not the saw. A blade is maybe $100 for a good one; not pocket change for most people, but a lot cheaper than the saw. If you have a spare on hand, it takes a few minutes to swap out.
[04:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:45] <exec> 08└─Jumping Buddha, i was wondering if it was gonna be you or Uzzard who suggested emulating Rodrigo Dugoddamnterte first. Just...get the fuck out of the US, will you? You love Duterte Harry so much, ship your ass over to the Philippines and stay there.
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[05:25:16] <exec> 08└─Too bad there's no process by which complex phenomena (such as living organisms) can evolve to exist successfully in the environment at hand. I guess everything is doomed. In other news, billions of years ago: Most of life on Earth is struggling to deal with this widespread pollutant known as oxygen...
[05:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:53] <exec> 08└─Actually the driver contains pee so.. ;-) No one has written anything here on whether the aluminum nanomaterial is a catalytic or a reactant. On a more serious note maybe the water + nitrates in which the later tend to be exothermic could be used to power something using a catalytic reaction? Ie pee...
[05:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:08] <exec> 08└─Selection bias. The guy who increases the company's bottom line gets promoted. The guy who cares about society and ethics remains mid level until he quits to try to go do something meaningful with his life. I think capitalism is still the best we have, but it has a major problem in that income and '...
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[05:27:09] <exec> 08└─It has to be said, you can go to developing nations that otherwise have pretty good healthcare yet have no real regulations on pretty much anything. And the costs, even relative to local incomes, are a tiny minuscule fraction of what you pay in the US. I don't know if there's a causal relationship t...
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[05:27:59] <exec> 08└─I tried stuff like that for a bit when I stayed there, but it didn't matter what I did, because no matter how efficient I was, I couldn't do anything about their usage. They're the types where, if you even touch one of their keyboards, you'll get blamed for "breaking" something weeks later when they...
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon Becomes the Fifth State to Raise the Tobacco Age Limit to 21 - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:40] <exec> 08└─One of my co-workers at my third job (yes, I have three...) said she was able to quit smoking when her doctor got her on Bupropion (Wellbutrin) Ye Pfft! of All Knowledge describes it as an "atypical antidepressant" and more germanely as a norepinephrine/dopamine reuptake inhibitor and an antagonist...
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[06:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:24] <exec> 08└─Not everything is doomed. Life of Earth will survive everything we throw at it. Keep messing up the world. Life will do fine without us.
[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:26] <exec> 08└─I can post without tor, but I also get the invalid form key crap periodically. Oh well, I'm sure they'll work on it. I mean, I'm sure they monitor errors for things that need fixing. I mean, it's obvious that one should, otherwise why bother with errors?
[06:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:28] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key usually happens when you have taken to long between clicking "Reply" and clicking "Submit". I can suspect that a TOR exit node may change IP between requests such that the form key becomes invalid. One possible mitigation is to prepare the text first and then quickly click Reply, pa...
[06:25:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:46] <exec> 08└─Guys, kinda missing the story here. $469 for a frickin' lock? Home Dept lists forty electronic door locks for under a hundred bucks. Another hundred and one in the 100-150 band. Does adding a Wifi chip and chaining you to a (now proven to be) dangerous cloud service justify that extra expense? It do...
[06:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:47] <exec> 08└─Mechanical locks are being made relatively cheaply with an uptime of decades and no need for power or internet access. It's the IT people who suck. Other engineering disciplines take reliability more seriously.
[06:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:07] <exec> 08└─Cold Fusion lives! Them Mormons were right! Hallelujah and pass the wives!
[06:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─You wasted your money.. Build a thousand foot ball of dense steel wool, isolate it from the ground and measure the voltage. Don't stand too close!
[06:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:10] <exec> 08└─This is not an "energy source", just an exothermic chemical reaction. Might as well use thermite.
[06:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─Not even close... I'm referring to electrical potential. The air is full of it. We can harvest it with no moving parts using a full wave rectifier and a giant ball of steel wool.
[06:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:14] <exec> 08└─The article is written really poorly - clearly, the author doesn't know much about chemistry. However, two comments in the article lead to understanding: This does not require an external energy source, and "does not require a catalyst". Aluminum really wants to oxidize. Expose aluminum to air, and...
[06:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:17] <exec> 08└─I'm referring to electrical potential. The air is full of it.
[06:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:51] <exec> 08└─Conservation of momentum is a much more straight forward objection. Energy conversation gets very slippery, but momentum is pretty simple. In any case the EM drive seems to directly violate this. This isn't a new discovery. Like you're mentioning here if it does work as it seems to work, one of the...
[06:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:53] <exec> 08└─They hooked it up to the world's most sensitive test equipment and claimed to have generated just barely enough thrust to register on it. About a hundred millionth of a newton, out of 100 watts. If that's accurate then it's probably the single weakest and most inefficient thruster known to man, and...
[06:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:36] <exec> 08└─Take this exact case for an example. I'm certain there is probably some law on the books that made what CVS is doing illegal. Perhaps it's the Orwell fair pricing and consumer confidence act of 1984. But one of two things will happen here, with our hypothetical regulation. Either CVS would end payin...
[06:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:52] <exec> 08└─I think there's a good chance it damages the bearings and spindle axle. I've seen those kinds of forces destroy machines before.
[06:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:53] <exec> 08└─Metal shops don't use horizontal mills anymore huh? That would be news to the machine tool industry. I would say most high volume machining is done on horizontals. As far as table saws go, you might as well claim that hammers are going out of fashion. Why put a process on a $200k+ machine when you c...
[06:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 1979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:06] <exec> 08└─Universal franchise democracy (i.e. everyone votes) could only work at Lake Wobegone, where all the kids are above average. The problem really is that bad. Almost by definition most people in society are going to be "Have Nots" while only a few will be "Haves" so unless you can think out the long te...
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[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─Smells freeze dried.. At the cultural level which you can expect of Amazon. Almost like Mr Smith.. me more me me me.. ah me! ;-) Freeze dried goes like this: (0) Quick freeze the food to avoid ice crystal damage (1) Depressurize to good vacuum (2) Cool a condensation surface to -50 ⁰C ...
[07:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:19] <exec> 08└─There are so many MRE suppliers out there already that I'd have a hard time trusting Amazon not to ship me some garbage collected from a Chinese river and marked Bok Choy Supreme. http://www.wisefoodstorage.com [wisefoodstorage.com] http://www.preparewise.com
[07:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─They'd cook the stuff, package it, then expose it to a radiation source. packaging [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:31] <exec> 08└─Here's an possibility to save energy and pollinators. Install movement detectors that control a string of lights along a street such that when there's no one around the light is shut of. Whenever someone is detected the light stays on for 30 minutes to let people have time to get their business done...
[07:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:33] <exec> 08└─We've had artificial light at night since before man discovered fire.
[07:25:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:53] <exec> 08└─Mechanical locks are being made relatively cheaply with an uptime of decades and no need for power or internet access. It's the IT people who suck. Other engineering disciplines take reliability more seriously.
[07:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:18] <exec> 08└─Think static wick in reverse, concentrating a dispersed electrical charge. Whether there is lightning or not, there are always varying levels of potential in the air. If you could see it, it would look just the planetary auroras.
[07:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:20] <exec> 08└─You don't have to get a net energy gain, this is all about storage. All the examples in the article talk about extending time in the field and autonomous vehicles. You can spend all day with solar panels attached to electrodes, grab the resulting aluminum, toss it in your tank and then add water whe...
[07:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:22] <exec> 08└─That just leaves one question.. how much it costs to make or buy.. Kind of essential for stuff that is one time use ;)
[07:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nsa [206] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:58] <exec> 08└─I've been following this news story for years. Sounds like it has been replicated, paired exhaust photons might explain the effect without rewriting established views of the universe. Indeed the power levels and applications such as flying cars sound sketchy. But satellite adjustment thrusters and l...
[07:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:42] <exec> 08└─People didn't need to go to Walmart for that, thankfully — Target was also doing it up until CVS took over their pharmacies, except IIRC they charged $4 flat.
[07:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:43] <exec> 08└─That used to be the case, but the US government pressured Canada to help it crack down aggressively on the industry, so a lot of medications simply stopped being available and the remaining ones started costing a lot more money.
[07:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:46] <exec> 08└─Will Japanese, European, Australian or New Zealand pharmacies work? Or is it possible to setup a physical mailbox inside Canada and order to that. And then re-mail it?
[07:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:48] <exec> 08└─* You cannot know what it is going to cost you until after you buy it
[07:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:38] <exec> 08└─When you find yourself helping such people - don't. It's just a waste of your mental strength. Especially when it's for free. Fun thing with ICMP ;-) Another trick if sites like Facebook is open for "free" is to open a scratch page. Encode packets as Base64 or better, post them. Have another compute...
[07:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:20] <exec> 08└─Aye, there be a reason why the call democracy the worst form of government, except for all the others. I really wish I had a solution, but short of everyone being a lot smarter, more engaged and less self-serving, the most efficient and able-to-progress-humanity form of governance does seem to be th...
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[08:25:28] <exec> 08└─Those links are all basic emergency rations that have little/no variety, which I suspect people would only eat if necessary to survive — very different from the replacement for the wide variety of fake-takeout microwave meals that Amazon appears to be aiming for.
[08:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:30] <exec> 08└─MREs are awesome. But unless you move your ass like soldiers in field training, you'll be loaded down coz it's "no-shit" preparation.
[08:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:43] <exec> 08└─One can hope that this will pan out to requiring residential light to be turned off while street lights and billboard have to emit near zero toward the sky. The new LED street lights I've seen so far do a very good job of keeping the light on the pavement instead of the sky. I live outside the city...
[08:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:44] <exec> 08└─Make the detector sensitive and re-triggerable. That way a shorter on interval is good enough and no need to remember anything. With LED lights, the on/off stress is near nothing.
[08:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder about how so many people think they need nightlights everywhere. I mean, sure when I was 4 years old, but eventually I turned 5 and discovered that the dark isn't all that scary.
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[09:25:24] <exec> 08└─Been following news regarding Iceland for some time now, and it amazes me about things that tourists do there. Here a short selection: http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is [icelandmonitor.mbl.is] http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is
[09:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:36] <exec> 08└─Back in high school, the army sent new recruits to tell us all about how great basic training was, to convince us to sign up. Two things I remember the army guys bragged about: exhaustion and constipation. The recruits said they had been shown video of themselves celebrating after they finished thei...
[09:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soundcloud is Not Dead Yet - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:48] <exec> 08└─We are talking about a company that had under 500 people working for it BEFORE the layoffs started, spread out in several cities. They are supposedly taking in a hundred million and can't keep the lights on. With the reduced headcount that is over 300K per, they have some serious expenses if they ar...
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[10:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:22] <exec> 08└─"Tourists bringing all that money in can fuck right off but send us all the violent, economically draining refugees that refuse to adapt to our culture that you can find."
[10:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:23] <exec> 08└─http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/07/23/oh_is_iceland_an_island/
[10:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:25] <exec> 08└─"Only thing worse than dragons: Americans." Gerard Butler's charater in "Reign of Fire". And it is true. Refugees usually are thankful, but tourists are obnoxious and feel entitled. And more stupid than refugees, since they have money, which makes people stupid, at least judging from Americans.
[10:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:52] <exec> 08└─I jack off in the darkness.
[10:27:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:28] <exec> 08└─Every time there is a story like this I wonder where are the usual Soylentils who spout the benefits of the free market and non-interference from the big ugly government? Where are the arguments like ‘fucking idiots they deserve to pay more ‘cos they did no research’? Or ‘Well, they had it c...
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[11:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:23] <exec> 08└─No problem, these people have a lot in common with the people that finds memos describing that in fact males and females have different features is evil and thus needs to be exorcised. Now we just need to await the senate hearings "have you ever been a member of the spherical earth society!? you're...
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─Your mom so flat, gay men are always trying to pick her up, cause she got no boobs and her hips are so narrow she looks like a dude.
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:27] <exec> 08└─There will always be people who are ignorant. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. A believe system is never (rarely) modified using reason, argument and proof. We'd all be burned at the stake if it were up to the ignorant, just like the many past centuries have shown. If the ignorant cannot be convince...
[11:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:29] <exec> 08└─Just make sure [the ignorant] never ever get into a position of power or we will all suffer.
[11:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:31] <exec> 08└─What you need is selective pressure. Otherwise you will accumulate these dumb thumping people. And they will get into power because their actions will have little consequence for themselves.
[11:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did realize that when I wrote it... There seems to be a diametrical contradiction. The ignorant have a strong hierarchical organizational tendency, whereas the open and free minds tend to be egalitarian. Group-think versus individual thought. It is actually quite interesting from a sociologic...
[11:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:44] <exec> 08└─First, you're assuming those two positions are held by the same people. I assure you, we have refugee-haters in Europe as well. Second, tourists can also be economically draining (damaging historical landmarks etc.), and refugees are likely to be a long-term positive influence on the economy. If cou...
[11:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:45] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they migrant guests will eventually experience that their welcome has expired in great numbers.
[11:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:34] <exec> 08└─Yup. Yesterday I just finished rebuilding the mortise and tenon lock on the front door of my 190 year old house. My neighbor, who knows I am in IT asked why i didn't get one of the new digital locks. The current lock is only 120 years old but can be repaired and best of all... It locks. Simple.
[11:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's storage, so how does it compare to batteries? The big advantage is energy density, probably ten times more than batteries. The disadvantages are that it uses water, produces waste that has to be recycled, and needs a whole new infrastructure to be developed. Using hydrogen is perhaps 60% e...
[11:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:04] <exec> 08└─water -- two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen
[11:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:44] <exec> 08└─Which means what, exactly?
[11:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:45] <exec> 08└─[Although] the second generation of the EmDrive can theoretically produce 3 tonnes of thrust for 1 kilowatt of power, it isn't able to move very far
[11:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:48] <exec> 08└─Physics 101 also covers Newtonian mechanics, which isn't a perfect explanation either.
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[12:25:18] <exec> 08└─Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
[12:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:19] <exec> 08└─It would probably for me. Firefox remains usable for me because of Vimperator. If I had to actually use the mouse to navigate it I'd quickly lose interest. Toggling back and forth between work and the browser while using the same key bindings has been a boon to my productivity for a decade.
[12:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:21] <exec> 08└─I've played with a lot of extensions, some cooler than others. Nowadays, all I really insist on is Noscript, uBlock, and a dark theme. Palemoon has that. I'm cool with abandoning Firefox. Firefox is still installed, but I haven't used it in - weeks, at least.
[12:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:34] <exec> 08└─We need to invite these Flat-earthers to set forth their case right here on SoylentNews, because Buzzard and shit. Would not impact our credibility at all, since we have none. And besides, it might just convince khallow that some ideas are just too stupid to believe. But I doubt it. If not, we can a...
[12:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:35] <exec> 08└─I always wonder how these people explain time zones. If the earth was flat, day and night would be at the same time everywhere. Do these people never travel to or chat with people from other longitudes, or do they believe everyone is part of a giant conspiracy?
[12:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:37] <exec> 08└─FYI it's "belief system", not "believe system"
[12:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:39] <exec> 08└─That would mean they would open for reason and objective evidence. For these people it means: if the evidence does not fit my system (hypothesis), then the evidence must be wrong, the system cannot be wrong.
[12:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:42] <exec> 08└─I always wonder how these people explain time zones.
[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:54] <exec> 08└─... Dubrovnik where Game-of-Thrones tours are driving the locals nuts.
[12:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─Obviously this person has never witnessed Australian tourists at play in Bali. Or British tourists in Turkey. Or Germans in Majorca. Or American frat boys in Cancun. Or Japanese businessmen in the Philippines. Or...
[12:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:58] <exec> 08└─Well that's too bad if Europeans don't want Americans to visit anymore. There are lovely places there. But that also means that Europeans wouldn't get to visit places in America anymore like the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Death Valley, the Redwoods, Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, etc. Sound...
[12:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:00] <exec> 08└─That's a common phenomenon, but it passes. New Orleans was besieged by goths after Anne Rice's vampire books. London had Harry Potter fans. Then one day it fades as any other fad does and the good times recede for all the local restaurants, hotels, and other businesses that live and die on the touri...
[12:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 3459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:02] <exec> 08└─(I'm french.) France is -by far- the country with the most foreign visitors each year (this does not include french people on vacations, etc.) The article is about Spain (3rd most visited), but the problems are similar in France, so I'll give my own perspective. In 2014, foreign visitors were 84,2 m...
[12:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:31] <exec> 08└─Could we eat the cake and have it too? I.e. have lights on at night that would not disturb night life.
[12:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:53] <exec> 08└─The funny price just adds insult to injury. People who buy smart things are dumb or at least technologically illiterate.
[12:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:24] <exec> 08└─But this is army chemistry!
[12:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soundcloud is Not Dead Yet - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:35] <exec> 08└─"You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud" We don't.
[12:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:08] <exec> 08└─The EM drive would break energy conservation even in the presence of relativity. Which is why I didn't bother with it.
[12:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:10] <exec> 08└─This is the reason that the engine is so controversial. It should not work. In every test we have been able to throw at it (including NASA contracting out 3 independent wings to develop/test their own drives) indicates that it is working. This is likely now the reason that it's seemingly being kept...
[12:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─They hooked it up to the world's most sensitive test equipment and claimed to have generated just barely enough thrust to register on it. About a hundred millionth of a newton, out of 100 watts.
[12:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:14] <exec> 08└─Even a really crappy EmDrive can be useful. It could outcompete ion drives by using solar power and no propellant to counteract orbital decay. Scaling it up could allow it to be used anywhere in the inner solar system, and adding nuclear could allow it to go to the outer solar system. The technology...
[12:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=Hall+effect+thruster [google.com]
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:37] <exec> 08└─And I recommend you Dr. Adolf's Mein Kampf. It's the favorite of RWNJs everywhere.
[12:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:38] <exec> 08└─Not having a name tag confuses authoritarians, they don't know whether you're a friend or a foe. To them the author is the message. http://theauthoritarians.org [theauthoritarians.org]
[12:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Information Trust Initiative Announced - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:40] <exec> 08└─You say We do not need software "mommies and dadies" categorizing, filtering, and endorsing ideas for us. Adults are fully equipped to do this for themselves: critical thinking skills, understanding of statistics, math, and science.
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[13:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:27] <exec> 08└─If Firefox 57 breaks compatibility with your existing extensions, will this finally be enough for you to discard Firefox and find an alternative browser to use?
[13:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─I use just 4-5 exensions regularly. For all of those, new versions already exist or are in development. For one of those, I will lose some functionality that I value (but, chrome-based browser also do not have that functionality), but there is a 3rd party applicaition to solve this. I expect the vas...
[13:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:31] <exec> 08└─Switched to Palemoon awhile ago from firefox, its firefox without all the options removed. Same reason I love Vivaldi as a chrome replacement, Chrome, no options, no privacy. Firefox/Chrome -> fixing problems you don't have.
[13:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:33] <exec> 08└─Similar here. Firefox still gets the core job done and has some of the best extensions for security, privacy, and the removal of unwanted/distracting content, and I really don't use or need any extensions or plugins beyond that. Unless those extensions - or alternatives - are ported to WebExtensions...
[13:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm considering using another branch of Firefox at least. If need be, I'll stay with the version 56... My problem is that I use A LOT of addons & I've already many extensions problems, right now. I mostly use the DEV edition (version 56), and it's already starting to create issues. ALL my addon...
[13:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:37] <exec> 08└─Right there with you. I still have FF installed but only because it's got a lot of saved passwords and I wanted to start with a clean profile in PaleMoon aside from transferring my bookmarks. That's literally the only thing I use it for anymore.
[13:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:39] <exec> 08└─It turns out I only use four extensions. If alternatives for them exist, I will go to them. If not, I'll certainly look at other browsers. That being said, if other browsers don't have alternatives for those extensions I don't get much benefit from switching, do I? My extensions: Go Parent Folder Ad...
[13:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─For anyone wondering what is the status of their favorite extension, here's the list: https://docs.google.com [google.com]
[13:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 2210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─Firefox 57? How about 54? I'm biding my time with FF52ESR because those sonsofbitches decided that keeping ALSA support wasn't important, and that enough fools use fucking PulseAudio which as we all know is from the Lennart family of code, and I shall be having none of that on my boxen. How about, r...
[13:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much the chrome guys paid for this decision.
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:48] <exec> 08└─I use Firefox for two reasons: 1. you can turn off most of the "phone home" stuff, since it's all in support of user features instead of ad network features 2. pentadactyl ( http://5digits.org [5digits.org] ) - which is hard enough to find working builds of these days anyway #1 mea...
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:50] <exec> 08└─> past tense of "yes" Ha. Me too. I abandoned Firefox when I got a new computer. I had been using Firefox v3.6 for years on the old one after it was "unsupported". I didn't want to deal with Australis (the new UI introduced in Firefox v28 or v29) on the new one so I did move to Pale Moon too.
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see a troll post there. I don't guess it matters a lot to AC, but it's not a troll post. Firefox has forgotten it's mission. Any number of us can argue who, what, when, where, and why for days and days, and still not agree on a specific point in time. But, the fact is, Firefox has forgotten...
[13:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─This. I moved all my Firefox profiles over to Pale Moon, replaced a few addons, left some behind. I still have Firefox installed, but won't update it past version 56 and probably remove it soon. There's just no point in Firefox anymore.
[13:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:57] <exec> 08└─There was a sound server called ESD. It was so bad Alan Cox had to call it out, everyone hated it. It had 500-2000ms latency at the best of times. Eventually it gained renown as the worst idea anyone ever had for audio, and died. Just kidding! It was renamed to Pulse Audio and nearly every major ven...
[13:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─It hasn't been lean since it was called Phoenix. It got renamed and bloaty, then renamed again to Firefox.
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─At home, i have firefox running to connect to plex on my raspberrypi. Other than that, it's palemoon (Opera sometimes for quick searches when i don't want to wait for a bunch of tabs to open. I could switch to something else if i needed to.
[13:26:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:12] <exec> 08└─Just make sure [the ignorant] never ever get into a position of power or we will all suffer.
[13:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:21] <exec> 08└─I think this would be pretty easy to simulate on an underground moon base using two cranes and a very bright light source, you just woosh the crane along the path once per day, lit one illuminating and unlit one not illuminating. Some decades ago I read a semi-serious "popular science" level magazin...
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─I live in Paris. Way too many tourists are loud, smelly, block the way, etc. as if they were kings there when they should act like guests. The tourist hate doesn't come out of thin air. And the French tourists aren't any better, I'd get them up there with Americans as the worst (especially since the...
[13:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:51] <exec> 08└─That's a knife, right?
[13:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 1802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:53] <exec> 08└─The best, cheapest, lowest carbon footprint, healthiest, and tastiest way to get your food is to grow your own in a garden and cook it yourself. There are heirloom, organic seed banks out there you can start from, then let a couple plants go to seed and you're set up for next season. Heirloom variet...
[13:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:33] <exec> 08└─But, how do I demonstrate my coolness and e-peen with a lock that costs less than $400? The first time I bring a girl home, and she sees my sub-standard $300 electronic lock, she'll run away screaming! Why do you think I pay $800 for an iphone, when I could get something just as good for less than $...
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[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─The article is written really poorly - clearly, the author doesn't know much about chemistry. However, two comments in the article lead to understanding: This does not require an external energy source, and "does not require a catalyst". Aluminum really wants to oxidize. Expose aluminum to air, and...
[13:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:04] <exec> 08└─Of course it's a reagent. This invention is similar to sodium hydride hydrogen source (where you pour water on NaH to get hydrogen for fuel cell). Fraudnewsters called it as stuff to make water powered cars but requiring sodium hydride as "catalyst". Something tells me this "nanomaterial" is AlH3 an...
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[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─Google's security team has sent out warnings via email to Chrome extension developers after many of them have been the targets of phishing attacks
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─Never go anywhere an email directs you. If something appears to come from Google, you go to the known related Google site directly and get after whatever it is using the provided tools. Likewise Amazon, etc., etc., etc. The converse is also true: If you want people to visit your site, then just say...
[14:25:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:36] <exec> 08└─If Firefox 57 breaks compatibility with your existing extensions, will this finally be enough for you to discard Firefox and find an alternative browser to use?
[14:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I doubt they paid anything. This is just one small self-destructive bad decision in a long line of self-destructive bad decisions we've seen from the Firefox devs.
[14:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─I stopped using Firefox a few months ago for two reasons. First, because the thing was leaking memory like a sieve, gigabytes at a time, and Mozilla didn't fix it before deciding they were no longer going to support one of my higher end machines (a 2008 8-core[Dual 4-core Xeon]/Mac Pro running 10.6....
[14:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─Ah, I think you're slightly off the mark here. ESD was the Enlightenment Sound Daemon, and part of the Enlightenment desktop. Probably the neatest, coolest, flashiest-yet-still-highly-usable desktop of its time. Except the hardware to run it properly wasn't to be invented for another 5-10 years - ev...
[14:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─As an anecdote, even on my workstation (40 cores, 64gig RAM), Firefox runs itself into the ground every few weeks with only ~20 tabs opens. And yeah, as I've mentioned elsewhere, the plugin breakage is what will be the final straw for me I expect.
[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I switched to Chrome and then Vivaldi some time back. I don't even have Firefox installed. Not even the whole Brendan Eich thing, even if I'm supposed to support Mozilla's decision to fire him because of my demographic, could convinced me to keep Firefox with all the problem it has (slow and l...
[14:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─I stopped using firefox when they dropped support for cpus without SSE support.
[14:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:06] <exec> 08└─The one thing I miss from Firefox is a good extension to add Vim-like keybindings and : to get a command line such as vimperator or pentadactyl. I don't miss it enough to deal with everything broken about Firefox.
[14:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:08] <exec> 08└─I was finally convinced to remove PulseAudio from my “# Lennart” section in /etc/portage/package.mask after the roommate demoed modern PulseAudio to me. I'd heard that Lennart hasn't been involved in its maintenance for some time. Sure enough, it worked out of the box just fine—totally differe...
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I think we chased that AC off. At least I haven't seen her in a while.
[14:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:28] <exec> 08└─these people have a lot in common with the people that finds memos describing that in fact males and females have different features is evil and thus needs to be exorcised.
[14:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:30] <exec> 08└─FYI it's "belief system", not "believe system"
[14:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:32] <exec> 08└─You know, when I see batshit idiots being given the grace of "more controversial community", it's just another data point reinforcing the knowledge that what we read is often (extremely) bad reporting. The earth is not flat, and these people don't deserve any respect at all. Evolution is an observed...
[14:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:34] <exec> 08└─And somehow Russia, China etc are all in on the conspiracy as well :). Similar for the Apollo man on the moon stuff, the Russians were fooled into thinking it was the real thing or they were part of the conspiracy. FWIW I'm one of those who's suspicious of the official accounts of the 9/11 incident...
[14:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:53] <exec> 08└─Or turkish migrant workers in Germany. Or muslims in Sweden or Britain. Or syrian immigrants in Europe.
[14:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:54] <exec> 08└─Would love to visit all those great places... yet, I respect myself enough to not go through that security circus to enter the country.
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:56] <exec> 08└─Well, anybody who comes over here to see Hollywood probably won't be back...but in fact, tourism to the US is reporting a 16% drop since Trump took office.
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:58] <exec> 08└─+1 This!!!
[14:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:13] <exec> 08└─a technology first developed for the U.S. military to produce tasty prepared meals
[14:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:14] <exec> 08└─Because that's what the army is. A cult.
[14:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:27] <exec> 08└─That's interesting but kind of strange AC. If you're bored google for "Development of the flameless ration heater" generations of soldiers since 1990 have thought that its aluminum powder and a solid base powder that activate with water to generate heat which turns out to not even remotely be how th...
[14:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:02] <exec> 08└─Who let them? I didn't. Did you? Why??? Every time I vote they pay no attention to me whatsoever.
[14:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:04] <exec> 08└─No, you go to the doctor and two months later you get a statement that says yeah, that's going to cost you $279 because [microscopic incomprehensible fine print]. You can't return your doctor visit.
[14:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:06] <exec> 08└─strong state powers and much weaker federal powers would be something that could greatly benefit the US
[14:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not generally an advocate for outright anarchy, but at least if one chooses to go that way, you don't need to convince 100 million other people to join you. You just do it. To whatever extent you think you can sustain.
[14:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:27] <exec> 08└─So a wet spot in wood, or a hot dog, will cost you $50.
[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Might Force Table-Saw Makers to Adopt Radically Safer Technology - 3420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─Although your post is nearly perfectly content free, I was motivated to skim a CPSC report of table saw injuries from 2007-2008 and there is a minor interpretive issue. The TLDR is I made fun of kickbacks because competent operators can't be hurt by kickbacks, which is in fact true and proven in the...
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[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─You're dealing with web developers here, they aren't as much engineers/programmers as they are marketing/accountant types that realized they chose the wrong career so they jumped ship on the web 2.0/moBILE gold rush.
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:20] <exec> 08└─The whole issue can be avoided if Google supported encryption in Gmail and sent only signed mails.
[15:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─For anyone wondering what is the status of their favorite extension
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─I stopped using it because they were a long way behind everyone else (Chrome, Safari, Edge) in terms of security features. The modern web is a hostile environment and it's irresponsible to use a browser that doesn't run as a compartmentalised application with the rendering parts deprivileged. The ch...
[15:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─That's nothing chrome only needs one page open to grind to a halt. It's still astonishing to me that the Fx developers have their heads do far up their assets that they can't bother to listen to the users. Most changes just make things worse and they don't care.
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:02] <exec> 08└─Sigh, not this again. He was fired because he couldn't effectively lead. The only reason anybody questions this is because he's a homophobe. Had he been donating to racist groups there would have been no question about it.
[15:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:04] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia doesn't say anything about the relationship, other than ESD being outmoded by it in gnome. It's hard to find links on that ancient POS though. The point is they do share lineage, ESD was a piece of shit in its day, everyone knew it, and it would be just about as bad today—seriously, you...
[15:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:06] <exec> 08└─In every sense of the word it is.
[15:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:09] <exec> 08└─I've been using luakit. Vimish controls, works well with tiling (the renderer used to crash when the window resized but is working very well now), very customizable and extensible using lua, just a joy to use. Before luakit, I used seamonkey (still do sometimes because I have so many bookmarks/login...
[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─Same. The only plugin I missis Decentraleyes. .
[15:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:13] <exec> 08└─Much as people hate on FF for breaking extension compatibility, I think their userbase will get past it. Looking at this interesting blog post on Firefox marketshare [andreasgal.com], two things stand out: - Google pushes Chrome heavily through its web searches, which the majority of people use. - M...
[15:26:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 877 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:34] <exec> 08└─You know, when I see batshit idiots being given the grace of "more controversial community", it's just another data point reinforcing the knowledge that what we read is often (extremely) bad reporting. The earth is not flat, and these people don't deserve any respect at all. Evolution is an observed...
[15:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:37] <exec> 08└─The earth is not flat, and these people don't deserve any respect at all.
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:00] <exec> 08└─http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/07/23/oh_is_iceland_an_island/ [icelandmonitor.mbl.is] [icelandmonitor.mbl.is] (More or less explains most of the above.)
[15:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:57] <exec> 08└─Mechanical locks are being made relatively cheaply with an uptime of decades and no need for power or internet access.
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[16:25:27] <exec> 08└─Does that really avoid the problem? Or just escalate the problem for the attackers? Some people seem to have a lot of time and money to invest in cracking things...
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:29] <exec> 08└─It should decrease the probability of email related phishing attack to that of randomly encountering a phishing website. For example, Google can create a different key for signing chrome-extension related emails. Then developers can look for that sign proactively. I am hundred percent sure this has...
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:15] <exec> 08└─It EOLed a few days ago but I haven't bothered updating yet. Will probably wait using ESR\Palemoon until the following are available: PassFF NoScript uBlock Origin NoSquint Plus Better Reader Open in Reader View
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─Well, just looking at the Mozilla leadership [mozilla.org] explains everything. In particular, look at the Chief Innovation Officer. You'd think that if any position should be held by someone technical, it would be this one, right? Well, let's see: Katharina Borchert Chief Innovation Officer Steerin...
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:18] <exec> 08└─When they killed Firebug I started looking at Chromium again. I finally found a user-friendly script blocker in ScriptSafe, and that was enough for me to switch. Plus Chromium is just faster. I still miss the FireFinder extension, though - typing in $$('[path]') at the console isn't quite the same.
[16:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thesis [524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─In the early days, I loved it. It was fresh, new, supported extensions, and it wasn't like other browsers. I liked it better than chrome, for the settings were easily tweakable, with nothing hidden. Chrome kept taking away options, and burying options making it difficult for users like me (not so te...
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:22] <exec> 08└─> Will You Stop Using Firefox Firefox will stop using me.
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:25] <exec> 08└─Linux deserves a lot of the blame. The Linux OSS implementation allowed multiple channels, but only with hardware that did sound mixing. This completely missed the point of a kernel: to provide abstractions for userspace. Only one application could open /dev/dsp and so you needed something in usersp...
[16:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:27] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin is availible in PaleMoon. Dunno about the rest, don't use them. Here's the official status list though: https://addons.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]
[16:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:51] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest issue would be that the sun would have to reset every day. Which would require it to move infinitely fast on the back side of the disk or for there to be more than one sun.
[16:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:16] <exec> 08└─Oh shit. A guy waves a wand at you for 3 seconds and somebody else looks at your ID. It's such a huge hassle. PS: Enjoy your weekly Muslim terror attacks.
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─refugees are likely to be a long-term positive influence on the economy
[16:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:16] <exec> 08└─From 2013-- https://lwn.net [lwn.net] > ... Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX, he said, on everything from desktops to spacecraft. ... No mention of formal verification, I wonder if this is a suitable workaround? > When the build fails, it should "fail loudly" with a "monitor that sta...
[16:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:50] <exec> 08└─Army chemistry by army physicists. Maybe they should start their own journal, which everyone else can ignore.
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[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─I hope Disney can spell anti-trust. It is about time this monopoly felt the wrath rather than the fawning support of government. HULK SMASH!
[17:25:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 741 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─I don't see a troll post there. I don't guess it matters a lot to AC, but it's not a troll post. Firefox has forgotten it's mission. Any number of us can argue who, what, when, where, and why for days and days, and still not agree on a specific point in time. But, the fact is, Firefox has forgotten...
[17:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:25] <exec> 08└─To be fair, changing their versioning system and copying Chrome UI elements are clearly more important than creating a good browser.
[17:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:26] <exec> 08└─Both uBlock Origin and NoScript work with Pale Moon. As do FlashBlock and Secret Agent. Dunno about the others you mention.
[17:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:28] <exec> 08└─It's just a crippled Seamonkey browser, with less features and just as fat. You may as well use Chrome with its built in flash player and pdf reader. What purpose did Firefox ever serve?
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─It only lists what they think are popular ones. The others you mention might, or might not, be supported. For noscript I am pretty sure it will be supported (there's a test version already).
[17:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:32] <exec> 08└─I agree that Firefox has been doing a lot of silly things over the last few years but: 1) that post has no arguments what so ever. 2) It voices an opinion using..lets call it not very sophisticated language. To me, it is just plain dumb. It maybe not a troll but it sure as hell is not very interesti...
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest issue would be that the sun would have to reset every day. Which would require it to move infinitely fast on the back side of the disk or for there to be more than one sun.
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─But pigeons are eaten in Britain and Egypt where it's not strange to do so at all.
[17:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:42] <exec> 08└─My grandmother (most Americans would call her "Mexican" but we're from Texas, never crossed the border), had a pigeon coop, and would often cook pigeon. Another good idea for easy meat: Guinea Pigs. You can find them in animal shelters, free from people who get tired of them, not too expensive from...
[17:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:46] <exec> 08└─You can't say photonic / ionic, those are two very different things. And yes, the em drive is photonic, that was the whole point. Also, it doesn't violate conservation of momentum, the momentum comes from pure energy (photons) transferred into mass momentum.
[17:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Doom 3 BFG Gets a Vulkan Renderer - 4892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:05] <exec> 08└─That may be true at home. But it doesn't really matter what you use at home. Most people still buy Office "because I need it" rather than them actually needing it. But they have an Android tablet, an iPad, an iMac, etc. as well as several games consoles, too, so it's not that ONLY Windows will do in...
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[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:37] <exec> 08└─Unless many, many more of my oft-used extensions are updated, I'll be switching browsers when they break.
[18:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:39] <exec> 08└─I may stop using Firefox on my cheap Acer tablet I bought last Spring for a completely different reason. Crashes constantly, and most sites, including my own, have what looks like a six point or so typeface. It also refuses to render a serif font on my site on that tablet (no problem with the little...
[18:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:41] <exec> 08└─I mean I may have done but I'm stopping using firefox because they took money from Soros to combat "fake news". [businessinsider.com]
[18:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:44] <exec> 08└─Firefox is a shitty browser. The only reason I use it over chrome is the extensions and the slightly cleaner look with my theme. If the main reason I use firefox, the extensions, no longer works, I will look for a firefox fork. If I don't find one, I'll just use chrome.
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:11] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the selective pressure on intelligence is very slight, especially in today's society. Creating an artificial selection pressure is effectively eugenics, which is generally considered immoral and unethical. The only way out of this situation I see is genetic engineering. We are on the v...
[18:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:12] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, their spotlight sun rotates about the north pole, or the “center” of the world as they think of it. Imagine an azimuthal equidistant map projection, then take a spotlight and move it continuously over the equator in a giant circle. This gives timezones and local apparent sunr...
[18:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:14] <exec> 08└─Ok given that, wouldn't that result in a very long night-time while the Sun was underneath the Earth?
[18:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:40] <exec> 08└─refugees are likely to be a long-term positive influence on the economy
[18:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:45] <exec> 08└─Back when the 1996 Telecommunications Act required line-sharing, the actual competition meant I had easy and cheap access to symmetrical broadband (SDSL; equivalent to a T1 for a tiny fraction of the price, which was pretty dang good at the time). Of course, this went away as soon as the line-sharin...
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[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─Probably >99% of these scams rely on email being parsed as HTML (and generously, at that) so this is yet another case of broken-by-design coming back to bite the user in the arse.
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:44] <exec> 08└─Firefox was initially the 'lean and mean' version of the Seamonkey browser, stripped of bells and whistles aside from the wonderfully powerful extension system. For me, it served the purpose of a web browser, for many years. It's been sad to see it go, but it's pretty much gone. Without extensions (...
[19:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:45] <exec> 08└─4-5 exensions ... new versions already exist or are in development. For one... lose some functionality that I value... 3rd party applicaition to solve this.
[19:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─Cant see much in the way of official Mac builds, but it easily compiles from source and mostly just dropped in.
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─"FF has pretty good security, and Debian took it so much farther by issuing patches faster than FF could mainline them. (This is why FF was called "iceweasel" on Debian before they changed their trademark policy.)" That's actually based on a real story, but with the details changed, presumably as th...
[19:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:52] <exec> 08└─Options - content - hit the 'advanced' button under fonts...
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─wouldn't that result in a very long night-time while the Sun was underneath the Earth?
[19:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:23] <exec> 08└─> Creating an artificial selection pressure is effectively eugenics, which is generally considered immoral and unethical. When women reach the age of 18 (perhaps 21?) if they have not yet had a child, they are given the option to receive a free nonreversible sterilization treatment. Should they wish...
[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─And if it's not clear, the reason behind the requirement of never having a child is to ensure that you don't inadvertently create some twisted world where women intentionally seek to have children in their late teen years before then opting into sterilization.
[19:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:52] <exec> 08└─Oh shit. A guy waves a wand at you for 3 seconds and somebody else looks at your ID. It's such a huge hassle.
[19:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:27] <exec> 08└─"In our case, it does not need a catalyst," Giri said. "Also, it is very fast. For example, we have calculated that one kilogram of aluminum powder can produce 220 kilowatts of energy in just three minutes."
[19:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:28] <exec> 08└─um.. why is a government agency concerned about this? or was it done by a contractor that sees $$$$$$
[19:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, don't know or have a link. Until something definite turns up I'm not going to be real interested...though I sure would have been when I was younger. Dreaming with a possible reality can be great fun.
[19:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2012 TC4 Will Pass Close to Earth on October 12th - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:25] <exec> 08└─No. Those making the projections are supposed to account for that. And the stories never give error bars, so I can't even say for certain if their earlier projection was wrong. Still, it sure *looks* as if it was wrong. They were off by over 20,000 miles, which would mean that if that was within the...
[19:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon's Magnetic Field Lasted 1 Billion Years Longer Than Previously Thought - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:36] <exec> 08└─Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are generally smaller than previously thought. [skyandtelescope.com]
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[20:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:21] <exec> 08└─Theirs simply repeated the accusation. But, we all know that the DNC was not hacked. they're moderately confident... While the researchers didn't directly observe those attacks... But the Russians are guilty as fuck anyway, right? *sigh*
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Former Bitcoin Developer Shares Early Satoshi Nakamoto Emails - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─“The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.”
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Bitcoin Developer Shares Early Satoshi Nakamoto Emails - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─"Dead? No, madam, not dead the way you know it. He is with us always. Not dead the way you know it. He is with us always."
[20:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think BSD's approach made the difference. If BSD was as popular on the desktop as Linux it would attracted the same shitstains and end up with the same sound server problems. You've still gotta have PulseAudio if you want Skype, etc. It's hardly fair to blame Linux when half the time the sou...
[20:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I still don't know why people bothered. Maybe because download speeds made a difference back then. Netscape/Seamonkey has remained the most consistent for 20 years (or more). And now it's not much bigger than browsers with one quarter the features. Firefox and Thunderbird are completely unnece...
[20:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:00] <exec> 08└─Firefox has been removing controls from users for years now, whereas the mere existence of media.autoplay.allowscripted in Pale Moon (to go alongside Mozilla's media.autoplay.enabled which does NOT prevent a web page from "clicking its own play button") shows that there's a technically sane head beh...
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─That isn't borne out in the exchanges I've read between Mozilla and Debian, so I'm pretty sure you're making it up. The gist of those exchanges were: M: you can't use our trademark on builds we don't provide D: we need security patches tho M: upstream them plz D: we tried, yo' ass slo. ain't nobody...
[20:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─How do you know if something is Legacy or not? Wait, found it. Another example of "great" UX/UI: so empty pages, so many clicks. See https://www.ghacks.net [ghacks.net] which also says "The method is not super comfortable unfortunatel...
[20:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:07] <exec> 08└─Actually I believe that Mozilla was fine with Debian producing patched versions, and was perfectly willing to grant Debian a special dispensation to use the Mozilla trademarks for the patched versions. BUT it's against the Debian rules to accept a special dispensation that can't be passed along down...
[20:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:40] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the lyrics to a song that was popular when I was younger. What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away...
[20:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:43] <exec> 08└─In accordance with best practices, I did not read the article, but ... does the color of the artificial light matter? Sodium vapor lights are yellow, mercury vapor lights are blue ... are insects equally affected?
[20:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:10] <exec> 08└─And why would they not think so? Because it's cheap? It was one of the top tier models. Because reviews? see the xkcd about the reviews (tornado app). Or because you expect non-die hard techies to know as much as you do about tech? Stop blaming users and start looking into how to make software produ...
[20:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─Nice victim blaming... How about: we techies managed to hoodwink everyone who buys "smart" anything into trusting us. .. suckers!!
[20:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:38] <exec> 08└─You get to your destination by pulling it towards you. You won't get lost that way. Today's rockets, no mattered how they are fueled, are like pushing a rope. Action/reaction engines are overrated and high maintenance. Gravity and radiation are nature's way of moving things. Ride the waves. Surf's u...
[20:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:39] <exec> 08└─MRIs have been running LN2 superconductors for a long time now.
[20:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon's Magnetic Field Lasted 1 Billion Years Longer Than Previously Thought - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:52] <exec> 08└─There is the possibility of a Mars-sized object at the edge of the Kuiper belt [arizona.edu]: According to the calculations, an object with the mass of Mars orbiting roughly 60 AU from the sun on an orbit tilted by about eight degrees (to the average plane of the known planets) has sufficient gravit...
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[21:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:22] <exec> 08└─Like a 3-year-old's booger-encrusted security blanket, conspiracy nutters and tabloid media simply can't part with the worn-out "teh Rushins dood it!!!" narrative. For pity's sake, every damned security agency on the planet, and their NGO proxies, engage in creepy, shady shit. All of them. Most of i...
[21:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:23] <exec> 08└─More importantly, everybody in the press looks past the fact that all of this was made possible by your friendly US Government. The same government that want's back doors into everything but apparently can't keep their own doors shut. Imagine the trouble we would all be in if they got their way, and...
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:25] <exec> 08└─And apparently the DNC had a pretty bad ass network. With a 21MB per second up rate. Or it was a usb 2.0 drive.
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, it's not a vertical monopoly until they also control the monitor screens you watch and speakers you listen to... it's all just content creation and distribution up to that point.
[21:26:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─I've played with a lot of extensions, some cooler than others. Nowadays, all I really insist on is Noscript, uBlock, and a dark theme. Palemoon has that. I'm cool with abandoning Firefox. Firefox is still installed, but I haven't used it in - weeks, at least.
[21:26:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DarkMorph [674] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 2210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─Firefox 57? How about 54? I'm biding my time with FF52ESR because those sonsofbitches decided that keeping ALSA support wasn't important, and that enough fools use fucking PulseAudio which as we all know is from the Lennart family of code, and I shall be having none of that on my boxen. How about, r...
[21:26:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1858 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:23] <exec> 08└─I stopped using Firefox a few months ago for two reasons. First, because the thing was leaking memory like a sieve, gigabytes at a time, and Mozilla didn't fix it before deciding they were no longer going to support one of my higher end machines (a 2008 8-core[Dual 4-core Xeon]/Mac Pro running 10.6....
[21:26:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 1237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─Well, just looking at the Mozilla leadership [mozilla.org] explains everything. In particular, look at the Chief Innovation Officer. You'd think that if any position should be held by someone technical, it would be this one, right? Well, let's see: Katharina Borchert Chief Innovation Officer Steerin...
[21:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:07] <exec> 08└─To be fair, she has nothing much to do with Firefox. She's apparently there to satisfy a quota for Mozilla. The guy in charge of Firefox: Mark Mayo [mozilla.org] knows nothing about browsers either: ‎Before joining Mozilla, Mark founded an e-commerce company that pioneered mobile flash sales for t...
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─Firefox still gets the core job done and has some of the best extensions for security, privacy, and the removal of unwanted/distracting content,
[21:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:10] <exec> 08└─Great minds do think alike. I ditched FF for PM (and DDG for Google search) months ago. Neither is 100% super-duper, but the best available at the moment.
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─"Well, just looking at the Mozilla leadership [mozilla.org] explains everything. In particular, look at the Chief Innovation Officer. You'd think that if any position should be held by someone technical, it would be this one, right?" This may surprise you but innovation does not necessarily require...
[21:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─Mostly noscript, ublock, flashblock (can live without this one i since noscript covers most of it), ghostery and zotero. See here [zotero.org] for how zotero plan to continue forward. On some machine I have tree-style tab installed, but feel i can live without it (have not checked its status).
[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:17] <exec> 08└─Next Question
[21:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:21] <exec> 08└─we techies managed to hoodwink everyone who buys "smart" anything into trusting us. .. suckers!!
[21:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:58] <exec> 08└─Don't stand too close, or you'll be crushed by a thousand-foot ball of steel wool collapsing under its own weight.
[21:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:59] <exec> 08└─Pay attention to historical society flyers to best harvest lightning. Usually results in 1.21 GW.
[21:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:02] <exec> 08└─It will have carbon fiber scaffolding inside in a kind of a geodesic fashion.
[21:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:54] <exec> 08└─I read an EM article long ago that claimed the ability to make landspeeder type devices - you can repel 3 tons of thrust, until you move, then the thrust drops off dramatically. So, it could hold a landspeeder hovering, but not really make it translate along the vertical axis, which raised an intere...
[21:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2012 TC4 Will Pass Close to Earth on October 12th - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:01] <exec> 08└─I think they calculate cones, then quote the close side of the cone within some confidence interval... thus the news tends to get better most of the time.
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[22:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:13] <exec> 08└─That guy is supposed to protect the earth from outsiders, AND protect outsiders from earth. And, he is silent while we send contaminating earth shit into another planet's atmosphere. Oh, wait, they haven't hired that guy yet, have they?
[22:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Cassini [wikipedia.org]
[22:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:26] <exec> 08└─The hotel hack was made possible by the good old NSA, who has plainly made the decision that attacking other peoples' networks is more important than securing our own networks. However, whatever happened at the DNC has never been proven to be a hack, much less a Russian hack. And if it was a hack, i...
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─Disney missed the boat with my kids. They so zealously kept their movies and tv off netflix that mentions of mickey mouse, donald duck, and goofy get shrugs at best. they dont bug me for merchandise, they don't bug us to take them to disneyland. they don't really bug us for any branded merch, in fac...
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─So, I think you have a problem with this person being both a woman and successful.
[22:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:17] <exec> 08└─Wow, are you ever out of the loop. There are multiple mentions of ESR in this (meta)thread. Do a text search. (That's Extended Support Release.) [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:19] <exec> 08└─No, the other browsers have no ability to support the same range of extensions as Firefox. For example, read about why Zotero stops providing its Firefox plugin and requires you to use its standalone application in the future (in connection with a much less able plugin to connect to the standalone a...
[22:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─[I still use SeaMonkey] because I have so many bookmarks/logins saved in it that I can't be bothered to transfer Your browser's bookmark manager doesn't have an Import tool? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─Tree Style Tab works on Pale Moon.
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Folks who want to keep up with browser stuff should, on a regular basis, check out what Martin is posting. Martin Brinkmann's coverage of Firefox add-on breakage/workarounds [google.com] tbs=qdr:m& restricts the search to the last 31 days. Remove that if you want to go back further. -- Origina...
[22:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin has been mentioned in the (meta)thread. Some folks find that that replaces both of those. After the brouhaha about Adblock Plus and advertising, that extension lost a lot of its luster. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─This is just one small self-destructive bad decision in a long line of self-destructive bad decisions we've seen from the Firefox devs.
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:32] <exec> 08└─I use the Keybinder extension [mozilla.org] to keep accidental presses of Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W from closing the whole browser. But it's legacy, and the WebExtensions replacement [mozilla.org] isn't compatible with Firefox for Linux.
[22:28:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 3459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:21] <exec> 08└─(I'm french.) France is -by far- the country with the most foreign visitors each year (this does not include french people on vacations, etc.) The article is about Spain (3rd most visited), but the problems are similar in France, so I'll give my own perspective. In 2014, foreign visitors were 84,2 m...
[22:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:33] <exec> 08└─I love Iceland, but not the "entitled" attitude of icelanders. Just because it gets a bit cold in Winter doesnt mean you can: say ripping off tourists is OK - we need the money more than they do ( and yes I heard someone say that) say that ripping off banking deposits from UK deposit holders is OK (...
[22:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:52] <exec> 08└─Heh heh, right on. i tell the kids if they don't take care of their guinea pigs, i will take care of their guinea pigs.
[22:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:54] <exec> 08└─Fed like a dog? I'd rather eat US Army "chow" than the fast food garbage that is slowly killing civilians. Worked to death? That's not the point those recruiters were trying to show you. The US Army being a cult? Maybe. But there are so many kinds of cults i think you'd have to be more specific. A c...
[22:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:55] <exec> 08└─That won't work so well with more of the web going HTTPS, for which proxies will just use the CONNECT verb and pass all the crap straight through.
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[23:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─He has bigger problems, Orangenites invaded the White House.
[23:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─Told you we should have gone with the lizard people instead! Always choose lizards over orangenites! Unless it's Dr. Zaius. Dr. Zaius 2020!
[23:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:27] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part of that sentence that starts with "No idea about Android"? I'm well aware that there are LTS releases of Firefox for the desktop (and given the major change in the offing there's a whole other debate about why they don't make v56 an LTS release), but Mozilla does not provide an...
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:29] <exec> 08└─There is nothing in that link that shows they took money from Soros.
[23:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:31] <exec> 08└─True for many extensions, not so much for others. In my specific case, WebExtension versions of my preferred tools are at least in the works, but both those and their Chrome equivalents lack at least some - and in one case quite a bit - of the functionality of the current Firefox versions using XUL...
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─- Major monetary incentive to avoid early pregnancy. - Completely voluntary
[23:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:03] <exec> 08└─How about the ones who've actually lived under socialised medicine elsewhere, and have come to understand by personal experience that it just sucks a different flavour of dick, and on reflection prefer the american flavour? Nah, can't be. Everyone who's lived under single payer is a totally rabid ad...
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