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[00:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Papers - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:20] <exec> 08└─I read about nano ram years ago and from the description it appeared to be superior to flash and would be able to replace DRAM for the cpu: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They must have problems making nano tubes for it cost effectively.
[00:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Papers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:22] <exec> 08└─Today's word: Flighty, meaning fickle and irresponsible. Geez, I really wonder how long it will take the news and my family to bring me a reason to use it...
[00:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─Now, Bitcoin Legacy and Bitcoin2x will have identical transaction formats, so a transaction will be valid on both chains. That is going to cause a royal fuck up.
[00:25:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 11 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:46] <exec> 08└─No comment.
[00:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:54] <exec> 08└─One Old Admiral, followed by one Głenmorangie 18yo, repeat until unable to stand. https://www.ratebeer.com [ratebeer.com] (Don't like Bourbon)
[00:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:56] <exec> 08└─I used to hate the taste of whiskey. It burned too much and I would get a little sick from it. I then saw the wonderful 3-part documentary 'Scotch! The Story of Whiskey'. One of the little tidbits mentioned is that it's okay to put a little water or ice in your whiskey. That you should typically wat...
[00:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:58] <exec> 08└─It is only ok to dilute cheap whisky... I drink cask strength scotch and Bourbons and don't dilute. I would love to taste a Canadian whiskey at cast strength..
[00:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:51] <exec> 08└─That someone once celebrated a person enough to put up statues to them is extremely historically relevant. That someone created the art itself is extremely culturally relevant. If you cannot see this, do please go join ISIS and bust up someone else's history instead of ours.
[00:27:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 933 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:05] <exec> 08└─This vandalism is very troubling. I see it going on and I'm very worried by it. They vandalized the statues of President Saddam Hussein, who was elected several times with over 99% of the vote. A big, big mandate from the voters. He was so popular, nobody ran against him. Because nobody had a chance...
[00:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:49] <exec> 08└─And of course, back then, like now, the affluent had the time to become the politicians because, well, ofc, the working man had to work for a living. So the people writing these statements were the wealthy plantation owners that loved slavery because it was hugely profitable. As with most wars, the...
[00:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:50] <exec> 08└─All of the Confederate Army were traitors against the United States of America. They were traitors to their country, and deserve no statues. Take the Confederate statues we have and cover them in feces with a sign above them that says "LOSERS"! None of these creeps should be celebrated any more than...
[00:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:52] <exec> 08└─This vandalism is very troubling. I see it going on and I'm very worried by it. They vandalized the statues of President Saddam Hussein, who was elected several times with over 99% of the vote. A big, big mandate from the voters. He was so popular, nobody ran against him. Because nobody had a chance...
[00:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:54] <exec> 08└─There are many people who will suddenly pretend to not understand what an analogy is simply because their opponent in an argument uses one.
[00:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:57] <exec> 08└─They were traitors, they won, and it was a wonderful, wonderful thing. Which the alt-left wants us to erase. They want us to forget that a traitor can win hugely and do great things for a country. 🇺🇸
[00:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:07] <exec> 08└─It came from technology helping humans be more efficient along with simple business practices like the assembly line or specialized jobs that allow humans to become more efficient at a narrower set of responsibilities. Regardless, there is nothing in your rationale that makes it OK to screw over the...
[00:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:08] <exec> 08└─Where are you? Please enlighten us as to why the rich getting disproportionately richer benefits us all, stops all wars, feeds the starving and cures AIDS and cancer. We're all ears.
[00:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:10] <exec> 08└─Small minded fool, I really am shocked at how one dimensional your thought processes are. Its been 50 years of it and the effects are very clear. Billions for a few individuals means a massive percentage of society can barely get by. While modern economies are much more complex, the pie metaphor wor...
[00:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:12] <exec> 08└─http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm [primitivism.com] "Hunter-gatherers consume less energy per capita per year than any other group of human beings. Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants...
[00:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:14] <exec> 08└─Empires always need a percentage of well off citizens, gives everyone hope, makes it easier to divide society. There are only so many high paying jobs, bootstrapping is a myth. But I wouldn't expect your narrow minded viewpoint to understand.
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[00:31:09] <exec> 08└─ME:A featured a number of minority stereotypes who often were very vocal about being part of whichever minority. Personally, I don't really care, the percentage representation might even be accurate for all I know. It often did feel forced and tokenised though, and tended to break immersion. You're...
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[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MPAA Wins Lawsuit Against Xunlei - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:14] <exec> 08└─They just rared up on their hind legs, and started watching movies for FREE!! RAMPANT PIRACY!! MPAA should just to the world a public service. Everyone of them should pull their lower lips up over their heads, and swallow.
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MPAA Wins Lawsuit Against Xunlei - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─$234,400 in total against Xunlei for several years of copyright violations! That'll surely bankrupt them...
[01:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:01] <exec> 08└─For my taste, adulterating a good single malt with water, even water from Spey Glenlivet or the like, is just a crime.
[01:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:03] <exec> 08└─I prefer to dilute my whisky about 20 minutes after I'm done with the bottle.
[01:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:19] <exec> 08└─Do you mean more of this type of article, or are you looking for better defenses for your grave?
[01:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:01] <exec> 08└─How is a massive tomb not a monument to a person?
[01:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:16] <exec> 08└─Oh, man... You're not gonna go all anecdotal on me, are ya?
[01:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:18] <exec> 08└─Unlike gender and race, poverty is the true "social construct." And this truth is the source of all the Left projections. As a side note, I don't know to what extent being hungry is actually a proper state of being. I'd assume in natural conditions Humans should be hungry at least half the time. It...
[01:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:20] <exec> 08└─Capitalism operates on the principle of maximizing profits by means of buying low and selling high; whether they are buying raw materials or labor, capitalists will seek to pay the least amount possible.
[01:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:22] <exec> 08└─Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied.
[01:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:24] <exec> 08└─Wealth is power. Wealth is political voice. Huge wealth is easily translated into political power. As you point out there are many different political stripes that are wealthy. But in balance there are more selfish people then people who want what is best for the major majority. If they have a polit...
[01:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:21] <exec> 08└─It was 'ok'. Think I picked it up for a buck. It is mostly a game of satire of the game industry. Amusing for about 1-2 hours.
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─If you go into a store and the cashier charges you the wrong price, the store can't arrest you just because their employee screwed up.
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[02:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:20] <exec> 08└─The snooze feature was available on Nokia phones in 2003 and probably before. When I've shown this option to people with smartphones the response was generally "Wow! That would be really useful during meetings!" Indeed, the ability to silence a phone for a fixed period is quite useful. A friend who...
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MPAA Wins Lawsuit Against Xunlei - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─soccer moms should've just incorporated and they could've had their damages reduced by hundreds of thousands of dollars. :)
[02:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Papers - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─Nantero, Crossbar, and the other companies involved [theregister.co.uk] have long failed to deliver. The rise of 3D NAND has also lessened the urgency of the search for a viable post-NAND technology. Intel/Micron 3D XPoint is the only big one out and it is underwhelming in some ways. HP memristor st...
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[02:25:41] <exec> 08└─What I love are the WOTD calendars. A bunch of people get the same one at work and they all go around using that word. I'm starting to wonder if they are really that full of themselves to not notice exchanges such as, "Hmm, I find that idea to be dubious." "Yes, I suppose it is [one sentence diction...
[02:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Papers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─You should start using archaic offensive words [mentalfloss.com] in workplace conversatiom.
[02:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:58] <exec> 08└─It will take some time before you can split your coins safely and reliably. Even once you are able to, I think it's going to be a pain in the ass. In any case, this will cause people to lose money. Bitcoin is supposed to be safe. It looks like it's going to happen though, so buckle up :)
[02:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry: i thought i was over at www.nakedunicornsdoingomgponiesfrombehind.com My mistake for posting here. :)
[02:26:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 462 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─The thing is, statues don't record history. Destroying them has no more effect on the historical record than keeping them around. The entire point of their existence is to *commemorate* a person or event - i.e. to celebrate and/or express respect for them. By keeping them on public display you cont...
[02:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:20] <exec> 08└─Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana [wikiquote.org] The ignorant among us are crying for the rest of us to stay as stupid as they are. Believe it or not, but Robert E Lee [wikipedia.org] was a national hero. He did a lot more for this country then just...
[02:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:42] <exec> 08└─>What goes on in a billionaire's life by in large has zero bearing on your own. Poop of all the farm animals. The disproportionately wealthy buy and hold large swaths of coastal real-estate, restricting my access to the beaches and oceans. Billionaire individuals and corporations are the primary cus...
[02:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:43] <exec> 08└─We don't get the crumbs, we bake the bread, we even get a slice of every loaf for our labor. The other 19 slices of course go to others more deserving of remuneration due to their position of ownership, risk of their capital, etc. etc.
[02:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:45] <exec> 08└─Seems like moral values should be given a price - and weighed in economic calculus accordingly.
[02:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:47] <exec> 08└─It matched your original statement, blame yourself.
[02:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:49] <exec> 08└─Common wisdom for wealth in my family in the early 1900s (eastern Tennessee farming country) was: get some land, then get some folk to work your land for you. That frees up your time to do what you want, including finding other ways to make money. The deal back then was: if you had about 100 product...
[02:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I liked that one too. (Give me 2 days between Munroe's efforts and stuff slips my mind.) There's a solar eclipse about every 18 months, but, given the amount of ocean on Earth and numerous desolate areas, a bunch of those events go largely unobserved by significant numbers of folks. -- Origina...
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[03:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:35] <exec> 08└─Server not found Firefox can't find the server at www.nakedunicornsdoingomgponiesfrombehind.com. Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. I...
[03:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:19] <exec> 08└─Yep, better them darkies were still slaves than that the federal government step in to enforce the ideals of the country. Let me guess, we all lost again when Ike sent federal troops to Little Rock.
[03:29:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:06] <exec> 08└─Neither does it harm you.
[03:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:45] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the link and the very accurate description, the guy has some very wild bees in his bonnet but some of his points are well researched.
[03:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:46] <exec> 08└─Neither does it harm you. What goes on in a billionaire's life by in large has zero bearing on your own.
[03:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:48] <exec> 08└─Show me the society where people with such base motives help their societies better than they do in a capitalist society.
[03:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:36] <exec> 08└─I'm curious if everyone does this, or if there are alternative solutions to this sound suppression. The system looks to be integrated into the Mobile Launcher Platform. Perhaps it is only required on certain sizes of launches.
[03:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:14] <exec> 08└─As noted with FTDI serial chips [soylentnews.org], what happens if honestly purchased parts are fakes? The retailer and customer are conned even if both make an effort to obtain premium components.
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[04:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:23] <exec> 08└─Is there a proposed mechanism by which the powder is thought to cause cancer elsewhere in the body, or is the legal argument based on post hoc ergo propter hoc?
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─If you bothered to read, you would know that this is talking about snoozing notifications so that they go away then come back later, not silencing a phone for a fixed period of time. Android had already had that feature ages ago.
[04:26:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 3160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:03] <exec> 08└─No, this is a different split. The split you heard about was the Bitcoin Cash split that occurred on Aug 1. If you held bitcoin prior to that date, you will have equal amounts of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Legacy Bitcoin (BTC). The article is talking about another, upcoming split. The story behind the s...
[04:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:30] <exec> 08└─You had me at "Why whisky tastes better..." Seriously though, I turned some of my Father's friends onto this research, last week, and they were grateful to have some scientific references to bring to their Sunday evening Scotch tasting events. They sit around sampling Scotch and Whisky, rate it by v...
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[04:26:49] <exec> 08└─for above thy shrouded form lies a torpedo, ready to make minced meat of anyone who attempts to convey you to the pickling vat
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[04:28:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, even more right than you want to admit. [youtube.com]
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[04:28:51] <exec> 08└─That's raycis.
[04:29:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1822 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:31] <exec> 08└─Economic inequality was rampant before the introduction of central banking. For example, ancient Rome had no central banking, and the majority of the population were enslaved, about 95% of the rest were dirt-poor plebians, and a few hundred families controlled almost all of the money and government....
[04:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:04] <exec> 08└─.. not in on itself Of course not, but most folks, at least competent enough to put on a clean shirt and come to SN, don't usually look at it purely from a single degree of separation...
[04:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:06] <exec> 08└─Golden monsoon economics?
[04:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:08] <exec> 08└─So perhaps you would like to live of the same income that agrarian peasants had (adjusted for inflation)?
[04:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:41] <exec> 08└─I can see a good business model here... parents who want their kids to stop playing can sign up to Elon's Pwnage-as-a-Service to keep pwning their kids online to the point where it just isn't fun anymore. The business case would that be that the cost of the service per time unit plus resource costs...
[04:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:37] <exec> 08└─I wish it were a joke... I threw my pants in the wash and 30 minutes later I couldn't find my phone. Low and behold, it was eventually found in the wash, still in my pants.
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[05:25:26] <exec> 08└─This sounds like an article for our resident expert, Ethanol_fueled.
[05:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:35] <exec> 08└─Oreo removes the install from other sources setting. They have some kind of new system for this. I wish to know if F-Droid is still working after this chance?
[05:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:55] <exec> 08└─If it's more of this kind of stuff I can recommend going over to the 99% invisible site and working through the podcast backlog... They're short (usually in the 15-30 minute range) and cover pretty much "anything that's designed". I keep thinking about putting together some submissions based on the...
[05:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:40] <exec> 08└─That's very, very true. I never heard anything about racism until 2015. When I ran very successfully for President. All of a sudden it's racist this, racism that. Daily conversations, and some vicious attacks, about something that I was never aware of until then. Something that was very rare until t...
[05:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:41] <exec> 08└─not 140 years ago Major George W. Littlefield, a banker, Confederate Army officer, rancher, and member of the University of Texas Board of Regents, was the primary contributor and visionary for the Main Mall statues. ... His original concept for the statues, outlined in his will on July 1, 1918, inv...
[05:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:43] <exec> 08└─Remove the pyramids? That's asinine. So you want us to build the Trump monument so Huge that's its as difficult for philistines to remove on a whim as the pyramids? P.S. When your government spends millions to remove statues, then I don't want to hear them bitching when they're flooded for lack of m...
[05:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:18] <exec> 08└─And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling." And he answered and said: To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be...
[05:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:19] <exec> 08└─Most European countries, because they do not practice crony capitalism (as in Russia) or savage capitalism (as in the US)
[05:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:55] <exec> 08└─Big companies like Lowes do this as standard business practice. You sign up for an account and agree to their terms of service, then six months later an email drops into your spam folder saying "We've updated the terms; continuing to use the service constitutes agreement to these terms." They don't...
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[06:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:17] <exec> 08└─The interesting things are missing from the summery: They have removed the 32MB eSRAM cache found in the older Xbox One models, and have nearly 5x more bandwidth to main memory. This basically removes the special feature I bet no one used and makes it much more like a regular old desktop computer. I...
[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:27] <exec> 08└─American Cancer Society: Details about talc and cancer [cancer.org]. "It has been suggested that talcum powder might cause cancer in the ovaries if the powder particles (applied to the genital area or on sanitary napkins, diaphragms, or condoms) were to travel through the vagina, uterus, and fallopi...
[06:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:29] <exec> 08└─From the NYT article: But scientists have hypothesized that talc might lead to cancer because the crystals can move up the genitourinary tract into the peritoneal cavity, where the ovaries are, and may set off inflammation, which is believed to play an important role in the development of ovarian ca...
[06:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 2940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:40] <exec> 08└─This is from the perspective of an Android outsider: I find Android fragmentation to be supremely annoying. I've had iPhones for several years and for a long time was not very impressed by Android. But I liked what I saw in Android 6.x and especially Android 7.x. I wanted to find an inexpensive smal...
[06:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:42] <exec> 08└─Oreo removes the install from other sources setting...
[06:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:24] <exec> 08└─With debt looming, Congress didn't want any further stimulus via spending, though. Thus, the Great Recession whacked the working class pretty hard, but rich got richer. "Helicopter money" (directly printing money) was one option being that inflation was way under par, but FR didn't feel comfortable...
[06:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:25] <exec> 08└─Basically, I see it as much harder to achieve that position of "having somebody work your land" - what took 100 productive acres back in 1900 seems more like about $2.5M invested in the market today. At least in my family, it was a lot easier to accumulate 100 acres back then than it is to accumulat...
[06:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:28] <exec> 08└─There are only so many high paying jobs, bootstrapping is a myth.
[06:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:30] <exec> 08└─The spoils aren't shared, they are hoarded.
[06:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:06] <exec> 08└─What if the clearly written company policy said "If a customer walks in the door wearing a tinfoil hat, their purchases are free"?
[06:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:07] <exec> 08└─Software bugs no longer exist. We are about to trust our lives to self driving cars.
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[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─They have found the body of Kim Wall. Peter has been cutting off head, arms and legs and these parts are still not found. They did a DNA test on the torso and the result came some while ago confirming it is Kim Wall. When he is saying he "buried her in the sea", it is maybe something his advocate ha...
[07:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:19] <exec> 08└─Is america great again yet? Where are the wall jobs? Where are the coal jobs? Where are the tech jobs? I rode a bus today. What did I see? A billboard ad saying GET SKILLS in RETAIL JOBS FOR YOU. Why? Self checkout machines have replaced retail clerks. The only guy who still has a job is the bus dri...
[07:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─That will be awkward to explain..
[07:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─If they already had vaginal odour and moisture issues then perhaps something else was already wrong with them which could have contributed to the cancer.
[07:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:51] <exec> 08└─As someone who manages 100's of iPads, you also don't want to be forced onto the latest version or everything you do on the device obsoleted either. We've had that three times now, where devices purchased are effectively obsolete because of a forced OS change / stagnation, which means you can't upda...
[07:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:58] <exec> 08└─It's not treason as long as a person is following what he considers to be the legitimate government. The Confederates (at least the common man) did believe they had a right to secede from the Union and establish their own government.
[07:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:59] <exec> 08└─Actually it was established in the middle ages that as long as you believed you were following the legitimate monarch (government), it wasn't treason. That's why you had things like Henry Tudor back dating his crowning so he could attain the followers of Richard the 3rd with treason.
[07:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:40] <exec> 08└─Actually for every loaf of labour, the govenment takes a part, directly in income taxes. Indirectly they take some more because the taxes that employers pay mean that employees are competing with government for the rest of the loaf. And the government has the IRS and men with guns. Eventually when y...
[07:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:10] <exec> 08└─So it never worked again?
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[08:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:31] <exec> 08└─One more update: Even though Peter willfully sank his submarine (earlier confirmed), they have been finding blood inside of it matching Kim Wall.
[08:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:32] <exec> 08└─Peter will have an easy time explaining his sperm inside the torso. It was consensual. No witnesses!
[08:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:34] <exec> 08└─A woman's blood proves nothing; everyone knows women can bleed for a week without dying. She's probably hiding at her sister's house and getting a good laugh at the man whom she framed for murder. All men belong in prison. Especially a man named Peter belongs in rapist prison since his name literall...
[08:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:36] <exec> 08└─You've got to admit, though: The part about leaving her own torso in the sea makes this an unusually elaborate frameup, no?
[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:55] <exec> 08└─But the jury awards the win anyway, because the American tort system is so broken
[08:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, she was a woman.
[08:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:09] <exec> 08└─NVidia Shield [nvidia.com] - gaming mostly, but it's upgradable across 2-3 Android firmware versions at least. It is the tablet of choice for game studios for this reason. Can be bought at around $300-$400 on Amazon, if I'm not mistaken.
[08:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:46] <exec> 08└─I thought you only need 50% hashing power in order to control BTC? In that case the decentralization should be less than 58. Assuming the 58 companies all have the same hashing power, 35 of them already have more than 50% of the hashing power. Any asymmetry (and it is quite likely that their hashing...
[08:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:13] <exec> 08└─Palms face better with a bit of water. Much more satisfying smack.
[08:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:14] <exec> 08└─Protip, perfectly round ice ball has least surface area and best when icing a sipping whiskey.
[08:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:38] <exec> 08└─There's also a theorem that there exists no lossless compression algorithm that decreases the size of arbitrary data thrown on it. Even worse, if it is able to make even one data set shorter, it has to make another one longer. Therefore obviously lossless compression is useless. But somehow, lossles...
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[09:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:27] <exec> 08└─We need Saga and Henrik on the job, pronto!
[09:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:35] <exec> 08└─This is beautiful, in the same way that the final monster scene of Cronenberg's /The Fly/ is: > "just a hair more than 6Tflops." Each of the 40 compute units can perform 128 floating point operations second. Multiplied by the 1,172MHz core clock, that's a total of 6,000,640 Flops. OK, that's probabl...
[09:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:47] <exec> 08└─But the jury awards the win anyway, because the American tort system is so broken
[09:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:49] <exec> 08└─No, he isn't that stupid
[09:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:52] <exec> 08└─Seems another case where the attempt to cover up the issue, rather than the issue itself, brought about the verdict.
[09:27:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:02] <exec> 08└─For my taste, adulterating a good single malt with water, even water from Spey Glenlivet or the like, is just a crime.
[09:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:56] <exec> 08└─I simply meant that someone else having more money than you does not change your standard of living one iota in and of itself.
[09:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:57] <exec> 08└─You think his neighbours will give him sake if he takes a shower? Wasn't the beer already too much for him, don't you care about his liver?
[09:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:59] <exec> 08└─In a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, even half of current humanity wouldn't get enough to eat, because the amount of land, and the amount of food that land produces if not artificially improved, are naturally limited. But then, it wasn't a problem back then because enough people would die from illnesses...
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[10:25:39] <exec> 08└─Interesting bit from the BBC website: Copenhagen police are re-examining old cases, as is standard in such investigations, Mr Jensen said, including the death of a 22-year-old Japanese woman, whose torso was found in Copenhagen harbour in 1986. That case has never been solved.
[10:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:16] <exec> 08└─I don't find the fragmentation annoying. I accept that as the cost of having phones that are different. Google removing features is more annoying. e.g. https://issuetracker.google.com [google.com] It used to be that an app could turn on/off mobile data. This functionality was removed...
[10:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MPAA Wins Lawsuit Against Xunlei - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:26] <exec> 08└─How does a company operate a torrent client? What are they really trying to say?
[10:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:22] <exec> 08└─I drink my whisky neat and it sure seems to have plenty of flavour without any dilution other than the saliva already in my mouth. Perhaps you need to add water if you suffer from Dry Mouth (Xerostomia). But most of you already are adding water to whisky when you put it in your mouth. As for the bur...
[10:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:15] <exec> 08└─In addition, I'll note, once again, that the scarcer party in the employment relation is the employer. There are plenty of would-be employees out there, but not so many employers. Sorry, but that makes the employer more valuable than the employee and why I favor policies that help employers over pol...
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[10:31:16] <exec> 08└─I think everyone (including Baumol) is getting a myopic view of what is going on: it is a reversed "broken window fallacy". Simply, productivity increase makes whole society better of, but in that enhancement, large groups, especially the ones which became more productive, are left behind - in riche...
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[11:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:16] <exec> 08└─From TFS: They have an efficiency of around 80%, which is four times the level of commercial solar panels, and more than six times the level of chlorophyll. No formal engineering analysis yet, but factors not mentioned in TFA seem to relegate this experiment to a fun proof of concept with little pra...
[11:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:17] <exec> 08└─They have an efficiency of around 80%, which is four times the level of commercial solar panels,
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:19] <exec> 08└─I am just shocked to hear that solar panels produce vinegar at all, so I'd have thought these bugs would be millions-to-billions of times more efficient at that.
[11:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:48] <exec> 08└─"No wonder so many Americans are scared of metric - it looks like powers of 10 are still too hard." Tell me, how many Europeans have walked on the moon?
[11:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─I'd bet the particles get phagocytosed by immune cells and distributed around the body. Talc/clay is probably not easily catabolized. Also, anything, and I do mean anything that leads to a need for additional cell division will lead to increased cancer risk.[1] This is at the level of common sense (...
[11:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:05] <exec> 08└─And you can quote the NYT with a straight face? Remarkable self-control. May as well corroborate it with the Daily mail.
[11:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:25] <exec> 08└─Many years ago an old teuchter, now sadly deceased, of my acquaintance when asked whether he'd like water in his whisky replied, "I think the man who made it knew just how much water to put in it."
[11:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:02] <exec> 08└─If someone invented a superhuman football-player robot, would people stop caring about football? Of course not. Why should they?
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[12:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:15] <exec> 08└─The poor missing chaps weren't abducted by aliens. They either find the remains, or list them "missing presumed". Either way, it's a tragedy that is not mitigated by ghoulish reporting.
[12:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they were trapped in a flooded compartment, or maybe crushed by the collision. I guess we can hope it was at least quick for them, but somehow I doubt it. You'd think in this day and age there would be some way of precisely locating crew members (alive or dead) aboard ship more quickly....
[12:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:18] <exec> 08└─RFID tags or tracking via security cameras or something
[12:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:29] <exec> 08└─TFA: These newly boosted bacteria produce acetic acid, essentially vinegar, from CO2, water and light... "We have collaborators who have a number of strands of E. coli that are genetically engineered to take acetic acid as their food source and they can upgrade it into butanol and a polymer called p...
[12:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:37] <exec> 08└─Can't wait to play it on Ubuntu
[12:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:02] <exec> 08└─How many Europeans crashed their climate observer into the surface of Mars?
[12:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:10] <exec> 08└─It will take some time before you can split your coins safely and reliably. Even once you are able to, I think it's going to be a pain in the ass.
[12:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:40] <exec> 08└─The better establishments I've drunk in have provided a small glass of water and either a teaspoon or a drinking straw, so that you can dilute to your own exact tastes. Personally I prefer the straw, as it seems more precise - you get out of the straw exactly what you put in the straw. I consider my...
[12:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:41] <exec> 08└─That's strange, as distillers themselves explicitly say that the whisky will improve by adding a small amount of water. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com
[12:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, listened to a few already. Good stuff!
[12:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:38] <exec> 08└─Take a page out of gewg_'s book then and start your own socialist "buy a politician" fund. The politicians don't care where the money that lines their pockets comes from.
[12:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:39] <exec> 08└─No, I see no problem in that statement. If it's worth enough to you to keep something from happening, pool your money with like-minded people and keep it from happening. Billionaires aren't any more capable of going all-in on every single issue than you are. Not if they want to stay rich.
[12:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:41] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's pretty clueless. The automobile industry was not the bicycle or wagon industry repurposed to make cars. It came from nothing. The modern computer and high tech industries came from almost as little.
[12:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:43] <exec> 08└─And how do you figure they were screwed? Did they pay for the automation that assisted their productivity or are they the same warm bodies they've always been?
[12:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:46] <exec> 08└─I create wealth, thank you very much. Do the same and you can be other than poor as well.
[12:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:48] <exec> 08└─True but this is far, far from the case. The 1% are, by definition, 1%.
[12:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:50] <exec> 08└─You haven't presented a reasoned argument against it, so I've no reason to. See how that works?
[12:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:52] <exec> 08└─Except for being utterly wrong, you would be correct. Tell me, how much have prices gone up on your daily staples since the 90s? How about luxury items? Have televisions gone up or down in price for a monster flat panel? Housing? Cars? Yeah... sling your bullshit elsewhere.
[12:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:54] <exec> 08└─I fail to see any of that as a problem. Someone having a pile of money big enough to paper the walls of their mansion has no effect on me. Money and wealth are not remotely finite. Political power? It's still one man, one vote (or one corpse, one vote if you're a Democrat). You really want change, s...
[12:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:56] <exec> 08└─Billionaires and their kin own your Congresscritters, just try to get something done "for the constituency" against the rich benefactors and find out how much.
[12:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:59] <exec> 08└─You think the Koch brothers created the Tea Party? You poor, kool-aid-drinking fool. You probably even think the election was bought last time around as well. Pro-tip: if it had been, Hillary would have won.
[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─The damned Google Assistant, which I had disabled months ago, pops up today "Can I tell you a joke?"
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[13:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:18] <exec> 08└─Sonos will brick its speakers if you don't accept the new privacy policy [zdnet.com]. After you already paid for it. (I thought I saw this already on SN but couldn't find it quickly). This is a worrying trend. It does not seem okay to sell hardware without any clear restrictions and then later impos...
[13:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:20] <exec> 08└─This is the price you pay for having equipment that is dead simple to operate. Don't want to spend an entire summer learning how to fly a multicopter? Just use your phone. Grumble grumble grumble - none of my DJI gear can even possibly do this, it has no way to receive communication from DJI. None o...
[13:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:22] <exec> 08└─Manufactures don't want you to own anything because they're sick of making stuff when they can rent stuff. That way they don't have to compete as much in the engineering department, a very expensive department. They can also try to reduce customer support by remotely pushing fixes before customers c...
[13:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:24] <exec> 08└─What is the real story here? Is there some bug which they want to make sure customers do not encounter? Did they add phone home anti-features and want to force people to report that data? Something else more sneaky?
[13:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:26] <exec> 08└─... because of an electrical issue. This is essentially an involuntary recall performed through software update.
[13:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:37] <exec> 08└─That's the best possible outcome. Let's hope Swift is wrong and there won't be any survivors. Then we'll have to suffer through an interminable series of stories about their injuries, their recuperation or declining health, reunions with the families, recollections of the ordeal, etc. ad nauseum.
[13:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:39] <exec> 08└─You'd prefer they die so you won't be bothered by the stories of their survival? You lose the internet today.
[13:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:41] <exec> 08└─It will be alternative RFID.
[13:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─Chief of US Naval Operations John Richardson on Monday said he could not rule out some kind of outside interference or a cyber attack being behind the latest collision.
[13:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:46] <exec> 08└─I remember a while back learning that the Royal Navy is running ships on Windows NT. I wonder if the US Navy uses a similar system..?
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:48] <exec> 08└─Put an RFID locator in every room, and network them up with cables. Where multiple locators can see a single spot, you can use them for triangulation to more precisely locate the tag. It might sound pointlessly expensive but this is a warship we are talking about. They probably pay half a million do...
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:50] <exec> 08└─The navy has a wide range of things to focus on, but they seem to have lost focus on the basics. Hopefully the review will look at how they operate in congested areas. With multiple collisions, there are likely many near misses. There is probably something about what they are doing that contributed...
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:00] <exec> 08└─How many watts per square meter?
[13:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:09] <exec> 08└─I find the remaking, or "Definitive Edition", somewhat odd. It seems to be a thing now. I don't really know who started it but instead of making new games they just remaster, remake or fix old games. Blizzard has been doing it for quite a few of their games (Starcraft). There will never be an end to...
[13:26:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:24] <exec> 08└─Interesting bit from the BBC website: Copenhagen police are re-examining old cases, as is standard in such investigations, Mr Jensen said, including the death of a 22-year-old Japanese woman, whose torso was found in Copenhagen harbour in 1986. That case has never been solved.
[13:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:25] <exec> 08└─America is dying, trumpstains.
[13:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:27] <exec> 08└─Buried her at sea is nicer then dumping her in the sea which is a lot nicer then I mutilated her corpse and then tossed it into the sea. While it is probably a nicety it could also just be a matter of practicality, he might have had to dismember the body to make it easier to transport out of the sub...
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─Already mentioned in https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I wonder how long the Intel Iris Pro eDRAM [wikipedia.org] will stick around.
[13:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:39] <exec> 08└─Metres didn't help le ESA: https://spaceflightnow.com [spaceflightnow.com] LOL
[13:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:58] <exec> 08└─This is where a legal system must be cold-blooded: what is a human life worth?
[13:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:59] <exec> 08└─>> This is where a legal system must be cold-blooded: what is a human life worth? > Nothing. Pray tell, what country (or region) do you live in where life is worthless? Somewhere in darkest Africa, or perhaps Mom's basement?
[13:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:01] <exec> 08└─And if there's a very small increase R in risk by using product X, then the award should be R*$1000000. And yes, that's not how bayes' theorem works, but you get my drift - if the chances are low that the cancer was caused by the talc, then the responibility of the talc manufacturer should be approp...
[13:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:03] <exec> 08└─There are enough supposed males on the internet who get sand (effectively just giant-sized clay particles) in their vaginas, that I think the gender argument might be less relevant.
[13:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:18] <exec> 08└─Personally, every time they change the UI, I get more pissed off. There's no need to change the way it works, just add features to it.
[13:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:57] <exec> 08└─Let me know whne they start producing Geek Cards too.
[13:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:30] <exec> 08└─ISO Old Admiral, as I generally like the style (according to the reviews of those who I trust the most to describe such things - then again, I disagree with many of the <a href="https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lord-nelson-old-admiral/10437/2/1/">top raters of it</a> on many things. Travlr often over-r...
[13:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:38] <exec> 08└─bootstrapping is a myth
[13:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:39] <exec> 08└─They are. Morality is an individual trait though. No two people's is going to be identical outside a cult.
[13:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:41] <exec> 08└─No, I see no problem in that statement. If it's worth enough to you to keep something from happening, pool your money with like-minded people and keep it from happening. Billionaires aren't any more capable of going all-in on every single issue than you are. Not if they want to stay rich.
[13:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:43] <exec> 08└─It wasn't the *same* industry, but it certainly replaced most of it.
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[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─Sonos will brick its speakers if you don't accept the new privacy policy [zdnet.com]. After you already paid for it. (I thought I saw this already on SN but couldn't find it quickly). This is a worrying trend. It does not seem okay to sell hardware without any clear restrictions and then later impos...
[14:25:22] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─No, it's not "too bad". Don't like it? Don't buy it. This is the second time in two days I think we've seen a story here about some device requiring a mandatory software update. This should be a good lesson about why not to buy cloud-connected shit.
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─I'm just wondering if you see the situation with the speaker and the aircraft as being equivalent because one change is for spying on you and one is to stop something from falling out of the sky.
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─No, it's not "too bad". Don't like it? Don't buy it.
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─This solution would add a huge amount of weight to the ship, because of all the extra cabling. Remember, each of these sensors will now require some kind of giant steel box in the room, fed by the power lines in the room, plus gigantic steel-covered armored cables to communicate the data to some oth...
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─alt-rfid. Helps locate far right stupid people.
[14:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:47] <exec> 08└─Today, there should also be traffic position logs for many encounters in congested waters. Ais, augmented with the navy's electronic records should provide these details. The Navy doesn't use AIS. They might receive it, but they generally keep its transmitter turned off. It's a big reason they keep...
[14:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:49] <exec> 08└─the Navy has everything overbuilt to the point of absurdity.
[14:25:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─TFA: These newly boosted bacteria produce acetic acid, essentially vinegar, from CO2, water and light... "We have collaborators who have a number of strands of E. coli that are genetically engineered to take acetic acid as their food source and they can upgrade it into butanol and a polymer called p...
[14:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─Interesting stuff. Personally I think chemical energy to be released as combustion is the best way we know how to store energy in a convenient, easy to transport form. I don't see anything wrong with burning hydrocarbons. They're great molecules. There's nothing inherently un-green about combustion...
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─say, harvest sunlight with solar panels, wind power (wind is still powered by the sun), and store energy in hydrocarbons
[14:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:07] <exec> 08└─Doubling the energy density of batteries is not impossible (cue always 5 years away joke). At some point range anxiety disappears. Electric cars can get their electricity from any source including solar. They have better acceleration and make less noise (enabling them to mow down blind people). They...
[14:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─They actually already updated AOE3. I hope they fix the netcode in "definitive" edition because currently it is entirely useless.
[14:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:19] <exec> 08└─I was very willing to pay for the re-release of AOEII. It was a core part of my childhood, both the game and troubleshooting networking issues during a LAN party. It only became worse on modern computers. The Steam integration and modernization took effort on the developers beyond the scope of the o...
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:21] <exec> 08└─If you do plan to play the new game on release day, you will need to upgrade your PC to Windows 10
[14:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:23] <exec> 08└─As a wise man once said: "Shut up and take my money!"
[14:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:40] <exec> 08└─"Buried at sea" usually takes place after a memorial service. The memorial service generally takes place after doctors and clergy have examined the body, next of kin notified - and probably some other details that I'm forgetting. I have actually buried some service members at sea. I think those guys...
[14:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:53] <exec> 08└─If what way is the unit being used being blamed for that bug?
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─Metres didn't help
[14:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─Which is impossible on the face of it, because the mucous flows in the opposite direction.
[14:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:33] <exec> 08└─I've tried searching for exactly that on the US Amazon store. Unfortunately their search algorithm is so loose it mostly just ends up showing me 7" tablets that aren't running Android 7.0. A lot of weird little proprietary things and things that say "KitKat" in the title. It's been quite frustrating...
[14:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:35] <exec> 08└─True! When you buy it, the Nvidia Shield K1 comes with Android 5. Then it upgrades twice to reach Android 7. It's a no brainer in terms of value and performance. (PS: Not a gamer)
[14:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:10] <exec> 08└─Listening to Dan and Dave: talk about a failure for Rebook, win for Nike, and how much humans can endure. And how an ad campaign can destroy itself: hype athletes by sticking cameras in their face 24/7, while being completely oblivious to the fact that they can't train properly while this happens.
[14:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:00] <exec> 08└─Same here. Sorry, I learned the wrong life lessons. I didn't learn that getting ahead is due to pure luck and that we collectively just random walked our way into modern society.
[14:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:02] <exec> 08└─We don't get the crumbs, we bake the bread, we even get a slice of every loaf for our labor. The other 19 slices of course go to others more deserving of remuneration due to their position of ownership, risk of their capital, etc. etc.
[14:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:04] <exec> 08└─Did they pay for the automation that assisted their productivity or are they the same warm bodies they've always been?
[14:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:06] <exec> 08└─The automobile industry was not the bicycle or wagon industry repurposed to make cars. It came from nothing. The modern computer and high tech industries came from almost as little. :-) *golf clap* [wikimedia.org]. One minor correction, it was the airplane industry that arose from the bicycle compan...
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[15:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Antennas Convert Electromagnetic Waves to Acoustic Vibrations - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─Is the government has had spying devices capable of transmitting and recieving acoustic signals in the mhz to ghz range for years requiring 100k times less transmit/receive power than our current anti-spy devices have been looking for. Yeah, I think people should be concerned. Especially if it is sm...
[15:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:35] <exec> 08└─Yup. There's plenty of FOSS offers in the market: https://dronegarageblog.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] And not just toys. With 20kg payload and over an hour air-time, the AWuAV 3015E is getting ready for a crowd-funding campaign right about now...
[15:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─The equivalence I see is that both companies have promised in the news that folks who have bought their devices will not be able to use them unless they accept the updates the company is planning to roll out. I.e.: both companies seem to think it's okay for them to decide that the hardware you bough...
[15:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:57] <exec> 08└─No. Having far more cables that you need, for non-critical systems and over-armoring them doesn't keep ships from sinking. That's basic naval engineering and comes down entirely to the hull. Adding extra weight to a ship doesn't help keep it from sinking, quite the opposite in fact. Navy ships aren'...
[15:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─Well - how convenient would it be for you to wear something like a tag, of whatever? On duty, off duty, in the bunk, at chow, all day, every day. "Well, Jake, normally we'd welcome you to join our poker game, but you're not dressed! You emergencey location device is missing!! You go away now, and ge...
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─Please, go find your own horrible way to die.
[15:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:03] <exec> 08└─I fired Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, they call it reliving from duty. From commanding my 7th Fleet. And I've ordered a total and complete shutdown of collisions. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses. 🇺🇸
[15:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:05] <exec> 08└─Um...we called them "dog tags".
[15:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:20] <exec> 08└─A better question would be "How many watts per cubic meter?", keeping into account that bacteria develops in volume.
[15:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:33] <exec> 08└─What feature from Windows 10 is not present in 7 that the game requires?
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─Good. I want to live in a country where it's cheaper to be honest and open than to hid information. All our resident free marketeers should agree since a key component of a functioning free market is that consumers are enabled to make informed purchasing decisions.
[15:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03koick [5420] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:29] <exec> 08└─Hence the punitive damage, which is large, because J&J are large and it needs to be a big number to act as a deterrent.
[15:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:31] <exec> 08└─You mean, you find a $400 million award somehow reasonable? If so, we live on different planets and speak impossibly different languages. There is just no way that amount makes sense. Even the $70 million before punitive damages makes no sense. Awards like that are more like lottery winnings than an...
[15:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 2144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:18] <exec> 08└─Of course it has changed the way you can make money! (Although perhaps not you, specifically.) A few years ago, I took a favourite pair of sandals to the local bootmaker and asked him to put a new pair of soles on them. Upon my return I admired his work and said "how much?" "Ninety dollars.", said t...
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[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:15] <exec> 08└─Considering Google alongside AT&T is a laughable and ridiculous idea. AT&T did fundamental and essential research. Google is a gaggle of self-congratulatory SJW hipsters who "write code". Also, has the author considered that certain governing systems prefer centralized indexing, control, and "curati...
[16:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─both help to setup the big data-collection dragnet people like to call internet these days
[16:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─If a single provider arises from voluntary interaction, then it's not a monopoly in the usual sense; it's still just one service provider out of many potential, competing providers—the underlying system (capitalism) is still fundamentally decentralized. That is, a single-provider that arises from...
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Antennas Convert Electromagnetic Waves to Acoustic Vibrations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:28] <exec> 08└─The Thing: https://en.wikipedia.org(listening_device) [wikipedia.org]
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─When I'm looking for a small speaker to play music, I don't go reading audio magazines or tech sites. I would only know about this by pure random luck, and when you Look at their website: http://www.sonos.com [sonos.com] -- there isn't really anything about it. Perso...
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Unfettered power to do good is unfettered power to do evil.
[16:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─While that is absolutely possible, cargo ships and oil tankers don't turn on a dime. The crew of the destroyers should have been able to see the situation unfolding before it got out of hand.
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─I would bet that Navy ships are built similarly to USAF aircraft. In which case everything you said was wrong. Standard data and power buses. Holistic system engineering and design.
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Not more of that biofuel idiocy. Biofuels suck in both performance and cost. Proven time and again, no citation needed. The answer is vehicles that don't burn anything.
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─Since Madsen was only 15 years old back then I would not put high odds on him being responsible for that one.
[16:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:05] <exec> 08└─No, more like a wannabe Hans Reiser...
[16:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 2340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─Never forget that the real rulers, the owners, believe that they will ride out N-day and the year from hell in luxury bunkers or "vaults." In this era, I believe those things are referred to as "nuclear war" and "nuclear winter." After living through them, however, it becomes necessary to set them a...
[16:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:46] <exec> 08└─It's a ridiculous amount of money for an individual, but for a company with a yearly revenue of (Google tells me) around 72 billion dollars then a half billion spread around the victims is actually not a significant enough sum to be a deterrent, and I'd rather see ridiculously high payouts to each v...
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─Don't try to blunt our outrage at the legal system with your long and boring screed on reason and facts. It's far to much trouble to read the links, and much more fun just to be angry! /s -- cheers, ben
[16:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─Can I turn stuff OFF, as in really OFF. Not hibernate, not 'not-enabled' not anything else but actually OFF (I don't even have any illusions I won't be able to uninstall stuff) I can haz control over my device again, plox?
[16:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03metarox [788] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:07] <exec> 08└─I worked on Android for a device manufacturer and I have to say that I wasn't impressed either. The problem with Android is that OEMs, like device manufacturers, are 3rd in line after Google and the SOC manufacturer (hardware drivers). So after Android X comes out, it takes months for it to be porte...
[16:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:41] <exec> 08└─I tend to bury my Norwegians without coffin, because they're pretty tall already and digging discreetly in a forest of oaks is hard enough..
[16:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:43] <exec> 08└─Unicorns are typically "naked", but I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the same address with "busty" existed. No, I'm not trying at work.
[16:30:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:39] <exec> 08└─I don't remember reading anything about tea in the Declaration of Independence. It's been a while since I read it in full, however.
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[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─will band together to pull it off. Like the marxist theory says: The people need to wrest back control of the means of production and distribution (whether that is physical or virtual.) Unlike the communist revolution and the general failure of the ideology it represented, the requirements for this...
[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─If a single provider arises from voluntary interaction, then it's not a monopoly in the usual sense
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─Considering Google alongside AT&T is a laughable and ridiculous idea.
[17:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:27] <exec> 08└─Just because I'm the first person to be the supplier of a new kind of widget doesn't make me a monopoly.
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Antennas Convert Electromagnetic Waves to Acoustic Vibrations - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─Very interesting! Russian technology is fantastic. That guy Theremin was very, very talented, he invented the musical instrument too. The theremin. The music for The Thing from Another World was played on one. The movie came out the same year they found the bug. In 1951. Maybe the bug is named for t...
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─> I have yet to hear about any refunds offered to owners who do not wish to update. That ought to be legally required. Many people won't have heard about this. The toy will refuse to fly. A lawsuit will happen. Lawyers will make lots of money. Companies will react with more EULAs. Europeans will str...
[17:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:23] <exec> 08└─Nope. You've obviously never worked at an old-world defense contractor, nor set foot on a US Navy ship.
[17:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:25] <exec> 08└─Here's the comment I referred to above: https://it.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] and a recent comment by the same officer: https://it.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[17:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:42] <exec> 08└─Storage batteries have a lower energy density than many fuels, and take a long time to charge. Proven time and again, no citation needed. Fuel cells don't burn anything.
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Details Xbox One X ("Project Scorpio") Engine SoC - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─> Tell me, how many Europeans have walked on the moon? If 12 inches makes a foot, do 12 astronauts make a smug, or do imperial units decay after 45 years?
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─The key evidence is cancerous ovarian tissue samples with talc particles embedded in them. The mechanism that's posited is thought to be similar to asbestos fibers and mesothelioma. However, unlike asbestos/mesothelioma, the link in correlation studies is weak. Regular use of talc doesn't seem to pr...
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:01] <exec> 08└─"[O]ur resident free marketers," and those everywhere else, are no such thing. They're sociopaths who want to be above consequences. 10 seconds of logical thought would show what's unworkable about their "free market" paradise, but that's apparently 10 seconds too much.
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─The $70 million is for loss of income and costs of treatment and things like that. The fact that an insurer paid the cost of treatment typically doesn't reduce the award. I'm not sure but a health insurer may have subrogation rights to claim that portion of the award. All told the compensatory part...
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[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─The foundational stuff is always easy; indeed, it tends to come about by accident.
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─Just because I'm the first person to be the supplier of a new kind of widget doesn't make me a monopoly.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─"Our culture" was much better served by having no more than 3 TV channels, which all our people could watch simultaneously, and discuss at school or over the water cooler the next day.
[18:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─You do realize that Alphabet, IBM and Microsoft invest Billions in pie-in-the-sky tech with questionable returns? Facebook is looking at high-altitude wireless internet coverage, Amazon at new distribution and warehousing efficiency concepts... Sure, that's to eventually improve the bottom line, but...
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─You are perceiving an implication that doesn't exist. Try again.
[18:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─That was the best way for the powers-that-be to control "our" culture.
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─A "new kind of widget" implies a high barrier (compared to market size) to enter the market in either development time or intellectual property. The rest should be fairly self-evident from the cited definition.
[18:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─I hope that over the coming years we get devoted journalist types willing to do proper investigation and build reputations. Right now we have a revolving door of professional talking heads and charlatans the spout nonsense and are taken seriously. We need our respected journalists back, where reputa...
[18:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─They are big, but as far as relevance is concerned any small homepage is more relevant to what makes the internet the internet (because these big sites don't actually offer anything on their own). If anything the biggest problem with google's search dominance is that their algorithm is biased and ma...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:45] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what you mean with "in the usual sense". Perhaps he means in an "anti-trust" or "legal" sense. From the Sherman Anti-Trust Act [justice.gov] The Sherman Act also makes it a crime to monopolize any part of interstate commerce. An unlawful monopoly exists when one firm controls the mark...
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Antennas Convert Electromagnetic Waves to Acoustic Vibrations - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─...a real buzz!
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─they're ignorant and lazy. they just buy whatever closed shit gets put on the shelves then whinge like little babies when they are treated like the victims they allowed themselves to be because it was more convenient. They also fund these scumbags who are trying to victimize them, while people makin...
[18:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:47] <exec> 08└─Add to that that it's useless. All Military have an "acceptable loss in peacetime" metric, and this kind of death is not epidemic (yet). Plus the fact that after the ship gets hit, watertight compartments get sealed to save the ship, and the potential loss of life in a flooding compartment is a know...
[18:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:49] <exec> 08└─It sounds like we are on the same line of reasoning. You seem to know of specific problems which simply should not be. I don't know for sure what the problems are, but it seems likely that there are some. What bugged me was that the CNO's statement seemed like navy business as usual....
[18:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting name, Aucoin. Au = gold.
[18:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:53] <exec> 08└─Crap, I inserted the wrong link. The first one should be: https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[18:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:24] <exec> 08└─Hollywood's been remaking the same stories for decades, every 3D first-person-shooter is a remake of Quake, and Total Annihilation had essentially all the features of future RTS (ok, supcom2 has the best unit pathing algorithms). Don't get me started on sports games...
[18:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Vulkan seems to work just as well in many circumstances. Perhaps there will be Vulkan support introduced later based on user demand. I expect that the DX12 requirement will be a requirement by MS, though, for quite some time. One way to get hold outs to move to Windows 10 is to deny them their abili...
[18:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:48] <exec> 08└─idk, the TV is suggesting that hh holmes starting killing people at an early age. TV!!!
[18:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:49] <exec> 08└─> It's been a long, long, LONG time since people were "buried at sea" within hours of assuming ambient temperature. True in general, though the US navy has been known to make an exception in case you are found 1200 km from the sea with a few 5.56 wounds.
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─this is like saying that the industrial waste in toothpaste causes brain damage and suing for that. oh wait, that's different. This is like saying that gargling with hydrogen peroxide causes mouth cancer and then suing the manufacturer of hydrogen peroxide because they mentioned that you could use i...
[18:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:56] <exec> 08└─LOL. All of the affordable stuff is still stuck on Android 4.x or 5.x and in most cases (as far as I understand) would not be easily upgradeable to even the next version above what it came with, much less anything beyond.
[18:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:11] <exec> 08└─I don't care how much water you add, that shit is nasty. I'll have tequila, warm and undiluted. Now THAT tastes good!
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[19:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─Something something Lucy in the sky...
[19:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─Considering Google alongside AT&T is a laughable and ridiculous idea.
[19:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:55] <exec> 08└─http://searchengineland.com/wikimedia-foundation-were-not-building-a-global-crawler-search-engine-242620 [searchengineland.com]
[19:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are additional legal requirements to make a monopoly unlawful. But the very fact that this additional adjective is added shows that there are monopolies that are not unlawful monopolies, as otherwise there would be no point in adding the explicit "unlawful". You don't speak of "unlawful m...
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 2628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─Bell Labs gave us breakthroughs in technology, physics and mathematics such as: cosmic microwave background radiation, Transistors, Lasers, C/C++/S, Unix, Plan 9/Inferno, Hall Effect, CCD image sensor and many, many others. This one is not like the others: Plan9 hasn't seen any use anywhere outside...
[19:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─It won't happen, it's impossible. What you saw before was possible because the barriers to entry to a national TV network were extremely high, so there were only 3 of them, and because there was no easily-accessible electronic communications medium, only big players like ABC/CBS/NBC had the ability...
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Antennas Convert Electromagnetic Waves to Acoustic Vibrations - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─So "EM waves are fluctuations in an electromagnetic field, and they travel at light speed", and, "Acoustic waves are the jiggling of matter, and they travel at the much slower speed of sound—in a solid, typically a few thousand meters per second. So, at any given frequency, an EM wave has a much l...
[19:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:34] <exec> 08└─This is essentially an involuntary recall performed through software update. There's a bit of precedence in the auto industry. [nytimes.com] If a manufacturer knows their product is hazardous it does seem they should be under some duty to protect the public. Whether this is going to far, or not, is...
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─However, this is the same company that earlier pushed a mandatory update that decides where you get to fly
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─Germanic/French origin: https://www.ancestry.com [ancestry.com] Would be interesting to see a BTC competitor pronounced OWWWcoin but I don't think the market wants another cryptocurrency.
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─"Would a navy bridge usually talk to other ships before steering into such a position?" Normally, yes. A properly-run Navy ship always "guards" maritime VHF voice frequencies, especially in traffic and entering/leaving harbor. Many times on the bridge of my cruiser we "hailed" nearby merchies on the...
[19:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:46] <exec> 08└─There will never be an end to the process -- in another decade or so new technology will demand new "Definitive Edition":s or updates
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─Go back to the ancient Greeks then, according to them there was only three types of stories - comedies, tragedies and satyr plays (or satire). Beyond that it's just the same stories being told over and over and over again with slightly different setup, names and actors.
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─I recon there is always NEED and/or "need"; as in Microsoft wants it and is there for checking for it and refuse to start if you don't have it even tho it actually isn't using it. But it plans to perhaps use it in the future when Win10 becomes larger the Win7 or some such reason. AMD are naturally f...
[19:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:13] <exec> 08└─Different times. Back in 1876 you might have been a man at age 15 but today you are still a child. It's not the killing part that is out of the question, it's more about the dismemberment. Beyond the mental fortitude it also takes some resources and a secluded location that most 15 year old boys jus...
[19:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:02] <exec> 08└─Good. I want to live in a country where it's cheaper to be honest and open than to hid information. In this case the system got it right, then. It would have been way cheaper to just add a warning.
[19:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:04] <exec> 08└─that has nothing to do with mining btc and asics.
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[20:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─... stays dry while others feel the pain ...
[20:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:57] <exec> 08└─I used to think that as well but became disillusioned after reading this [ieee.org] interview with Astro Teller. He's the head of "X" which is Alphabet/Google's innovation lab and the one which you're referencing whether or not you realize it. I'd recommend reading things in context but a telling qu...
[20:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:59] <exec> 08└─Plan9 >This one is not like the others: Plan9 hasn't seen any use anywhere outside a research lab https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "Additionally, in Plan 9 from User Space, several of Plan 9's applications and tools, including the sam and acme editors, have...
[20:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─... because of an electrical issue. This is essentially an involuntary recall performed through software update.
[20:26:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 505 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:25] <exec> 08└─Yup. There's plenty of FOSS offers in the market: https://dronegarageblog.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] And not just toys. With 20kg payload and over an hour air-time, the AWuAV 3015E is getting ready for a crowd-funding campaign right about now...
[20:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─That example is a bit different, since it just used the law. These drones are defective by design if they allow someone else to disable their functionality, since that shows the user is not truly in control.
[20:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:37] <exec> 08└─It seems under certain circumstances the battery reaches an unsafe situation and shuts off; or perhaps, the drone simply thinks it is unsafe. They seem to say not only does the drone's firmware requires an update, but also that the battery's firmware needs an update, and that it is an either/or situ...
[20:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:49] <exec> 08└─I bought a Microsoft mouse. On Windows it prevented the computer from going to sleep. On Linux it didn't scroll properly.
[20:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:22] <exec> 08└─Same search on the U.S. site yoelds a bunch of tablets with older versions of Android on them even with display by relevance. Very annoying.
[20:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:24] <exec> 08└─I like my Android 6.0 phone, but is is REALLY obsessed with mobile data. If I turn off WiFi, no biggie, the icon goes grey and that's done. Turn off mobile data and it asks when it should turn it back on (in increments of minutes). If I say never, it obeys but gives me an un-dismissable notice that...
[20:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Papers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:47] <exec> 08└─Stop that nonsense, you naughty unpatriotic pinko liberal commie, you!
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[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:25] <exec> 08└─You mean these new unlimited plans are chock full of limits...
[21:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:26] <exec> 08└─Having started on a regional cell provider who got bought out by SBC, then jumping to Verizon as a 'less worse' option, and finally jumping to t-mobile, which is only slightly less of a steaming pile than VZ, but at least they aren't pulling this shit on a quarterly basis.
[21:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:29] <exec> 08└─T-Mobile is owned by ATT (aka SBC), so what was the point of all that switching around??
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:31] <exec> 08└─T-Mobile is owned by ATT (aka SBC), so what was the point of all that switching around??
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:33] <exec> 08└─And in a move sure to anger net neutrality advocates, the regular "Go Unlimited" plan throttles all smartphone video streaming to 480p / DVD-quality.
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─Everyone? No, I'm sure the shareholders will be happy.
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─$85.00 a month and you can't watch HD video? This is gonna fly like a fart in church. There are many reasons I don't have a cell phone, this is just one more.
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─And we are supposed to care about their happiness why? This kinda greed is why we can't have nice things in this country.
[21:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─Because the shareholders' happiness is more important than yours. If you disagree, you're free to not buy from that company.
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─You can, you just have to pay A LOT and OFTEN.
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality is about whether Verizon can charge Netflix extra to reach its customers Does Netflix really have that kind of cash? They seem to spend most of their money on content. I suspect this is more about making their own video streaming service more attractive (which would be unthrottled, no...
[21:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:00] <exec> 08└─"refers to hydrogen molecules connected to lighter elements, such as carbon, oxygen and/or nitrogen."
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe they meant "lighter-than-iron" elements [wikipedia.org].
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─It is confusing, but I think you are right that they meant, "connected to OTHER lighter elements."
[21:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:05] <exec> 08└─So, when blood diamonds aren't expensive enough, you can have diamonds mined from the icy giants in the outer solar system. mcgrew, I could see the premise of a novel here. The banking cartel offers a poor sap the protagonist forgiveness of his overwhelming outstanding debts in exchange for 20 years...
[21:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─Bell Labs best invention was 9gag [9gag.com].
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:39] <exec> 08└─So much easier to infiltrate and manipulate 90% of the internet when you only have to abuse 1, 2, or 3 corporations at a time.
[21:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. And I think we're both agreeing with what the AC was trying (poorly) to say. Which is that all monopolies aren't necessarily bad.
[21:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Antennas Convert Electromagnetic Waves to Acoustic Vibrations - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:52] <exec> 08└─This is essentially an electrostatic speaker in reverse??
[21:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:53] <exec> 08└─They should have had cameras all over the ship a long time ago but that would be a serious equalizer in a culture that is built around the exploitation of it's junior members. Literally nothing would get done if all the junior members were following the rules and senior members got busted for misbe...
[21:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:42] <exec> 08└─As quoted above One juror in the $55 million case, Jerome Kendrick, told a St. Louis newspaper that the company's internal memos "pretty much sealed my opinion." He said, "They tried to cover up and influence the boards that regulate cosmetics." He added, "They could have at least put a warning labe...
[21:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:44] <exec> 08└─Don't put powdered rocks into your vagina.
[21:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:46] <exec> 08└─Son, I love your spirit. I love that you're calling out the #FAKENEWS .@NYT. But we used to have an expression, which you may be too young to understand. We used to say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Back in the day before clocks became cyber. Before the digital clocks. What it means is...
[21:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:23] <exec> 08└─The smokiness of most Scotch whiskies is often too much for me. Now I'm going to try some Scotch with a splash of water and see if it improves. If I'm not back in 15 minutes then assume the answer is "Yes!".
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[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─My sister just changed her carrier to get the 12 Euro plan, because 18 Euros was wasting. Free call/text, free roaming to most civilized countries, and well over 20 GB of data. Since the hardware is the same, that gives you an idea of Verizon's margins.
[22:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:34] <exec> 08└─They tried to make a deal. They wanted to merge. But President Obama wouldn't allow it. He told them "no." Said "no" to one of the biggest donors to his inauguration. BIZARRE! Just like he said "no" to Keystone XL and Dakota Access. To the pipelines. Which I reversed. I told them I'd approve if they...
[22:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:37] <exec> 08└─That's socialism!!! We don't stand for that kind of thing here in America.
[22:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:39] <exec> 08└─My sister just changed her carrier to get the 12 Euro plan, because 18 Euros was wasting. Free call/text, free roaming to most civilized countries, and well over 20 GB of data. Since the hardware is the same, that gives you an idea of Verizon's margins.
[22:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality is not about charging customers more for better internet. It never was. Net Neutrality is about whether Verizon can charge Netflix extra to reach its customers.
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─Everyone? No, I'm sure the shareholders will be happy.
[22:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─It's limited to 45 or 100 days of roaming a year (haven't looked at the details), and anyone calling you would have to dial Europe. The first part can be helped by getting multiple lines and still saving cash, but the second is more problematic.
[22:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:47] <exec> 08└─For those that use little mobile data, you should switch to a MVNO. Verizon towers are the only things that can provide signal in my area, so I use Page Plus (I've also heard good things about Selectell). H2O wireless is a good AT&T MVNO if their towers are better in your region. There's a long list...
[22:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:50] <exec> 08└─You'd have a euro phone number too... That would be a challenge in the US.
[22:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:07] <exec> 08└─So they mean hydrogen + carbon = methane (CH4) or something similar, hydrogen + oxygen = water (H2O), hydrogen + nitrogen = ammonia (NH3).
[22:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:56] <exec> 08└─Neither have you, you fucking poser.
[22:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:14] <exec> 08└─Right. They create energy from nothing. Pure fucking magic!
[22:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:49] <exec> 08└─When I see things like this: "Then we see the amount of the award: $400 million to a single person. There ought to be some objective basis for an award. Feeling sorry for a charismatic defendant is not justice." I instantly know the speaker knows nothing of the court system, and only wants tort refo...
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[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─I work in Nevada with gaming software and the regulatory board regularly checks the software we run, especially the RNG generator. It is nearly impossible for us to run a rogue program within the RNG generator and every new deployment has to get regulatory approval, which typically entails checking...
[23:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to read the emotionally manipulative sob story all about Eddie's terrible childhood and how he used his genius coder skills to cheat his way out of homeless poverty just like Michael David Crawford.
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the giant washing-machine-like drums of identical balls from which you drew somewhat randomly? Too many balls for a good visual ? What happened to not paying out lottery prizes to anyone remotely related to the lottery operation?
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could get a part-time job - Wendy's is hiring, I Am Absolutely Serious. That would enable you to buy some new clothes. That might - _just_ might - enable you to enroll at your local Community College. I advise getting an Associate of Arts degree in Web Design. A friend of mine has such an...
[23:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:50] <exec> 08└─And we are supposed to care about their happiness why?
[23:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:51] <exec> 08└─I use a tablet plan with my phone. VOIP works quite nicely. I pay $15/month, and I'm in Canada, which I think still has the highest rate for mobile anywhere in the world. I'm sure they'll catch on eventually.
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:11] <exec> 08└─What are we waiting for????!!! Mining mission time! I wan't mine the crap out Uranus... for diamonds of course.
[23:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:13] <exec> 08└─lucy, if ur anus is tight enough to make diamonds, let's be friends.
[23:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─So, when blood diamonds aren't expensive enough, you can have diamonds mined from the icy giants in the outer solar system.
[23:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:03] <exec> 08└─How about the other vessels? Screw with the GPS instead. Unless the quality of sailors have really gone down there is something off with all these collisions happening lately.
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─Right - and we didn't always have them on, either. Some guys carried them in their pockets, others threw them under their mattresses, couple guys were always losing theirs. So, in a disaster, some of us might not have been found, even if those dogtags were electronically traceable.
[23:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:07] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. You wouldn't run new lines for new sensors. There is already an existing data network going to every room.
[23:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:26] <exec> 08└─The summary mentioned that they added Cadmium to the soup, but unless the bacteria transmuted some element the sulphur must come from somewhere ... In accordance to the tradition I did not read the article yet... At first glance it seems quite clever to go from light to acetic acid, anyone who manip...
[23:32:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:33] <exec> 08└─So then removing them is not a problem! Thanks for clearing that up.
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