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[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─I mean, 'snow could fall on my ass" would have the same meaning, albeit not the same scientific content.
[00:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:26] <exec> 08└─Players have sued the association alleging they were defrauded by Tipton's scheme.
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─What happened to not paying out lottery prizes to anyone remotely related to the lottery operation?
[00:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:30] <exec> 08└─How did another huge USN ship collide with a vessel less than two months later, despite a clear, fresh example as warning that they should be paying attention? Incompetence...
[00:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:59] <exec> 08└─The invisible hand of the free market proves this is the best we can hope for.
[00:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:00] <exec> 08└─Dump Verizon. Dump all the big telcos. Don't sign another worthless contract. You can get an unlocked phone anywhere. Buy your phone, and then do the monthly plan things. Deprive Verizon of all that lovely money you're giving them. Go to Wal-Mart or wherever, and buy a $40 card to activate your phon...
[00:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:02] <exec> 08└─People, you do not have to stand for this. There are so many options out there that you may have never heard of. I'm on Tracfone which is a fairly shitty company if you want any customer service, but I don't care because I pay 6 dollars a fucking month. It's not unlimited, but that more than covers...
[00:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:10] <exec> 08└─Call it Chrome Gold.
[00:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:33] <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...
[00:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:01] <exec> 08└─> It's even more laughable when you realize that AT&T includes Bell Labs. I assumed that the OP was alluding to Bell Labs when writing "AT&T did fundamental and essential research." Do you interpret that differently? Bell Labs is now part of Nokia. http://www.nokia.com
[00:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 2535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:02] <exec> 08└─"Star Wars: The Death Star Cantina | WDR" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Though if you look around, you can see infrastructure projects along the lines you suggest -- like Matrix.org, Mattermost, and more... One can hope they continue to gain traction... Ultimately we like...
[00:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:20] <exec> 08└─Deploy a competent military. If you can't do that, what the heck are you good for? (Disclaimer: I am a USAian.)
[00:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 1866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:41] <exec> 08└─Can a chemist explain the 0 (3 being bad)rating on reactivity when you have that description on nooaa.gov : Reactivity Alerts none Air & Water Reactions Flammable. Water soluble. Dissolution generates some heat. Fire Hazard Special Hazards of Combustion Products: Irritating vapor g...
[00:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:25] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible that there was some sort of accident, followed by a strange moment of panic and an attempted coverup because he figured nobody would believe it was an accident for some reason. That explanation sounds completely crazy. But then some sort of premeditated plan to sink your own *...
[00:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:55] <exec> 08└─According to the summary the study concerns a chemical, guaiacol, contained only in peat smoked whisky. Many if not the majority of whiskies have no peat.
[00:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:57] <exec> 08└─I like tequila. Always looking for a new tequila story so people will stop talking about my LAST tequila story. As far as dark, I'm a rum guy.
[00:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:59] <exec> 08└─Yep -- I should have mentioned it's more common to see a spoon or a straw. The eye dropper stuck out to me the one time I saw it as the most exacting tool I've seen for this. Anyhow, I guess I was rather surprised at the strong reactions here about "purity." I have to think it has something to do wi...
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[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:14] <exec> 08└─Just by coincidence (probably), I saw this watch on my Google+ feed as well. Seems the watch is popular with a certain crowd.
[01:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─With the advent of mobile phones watches are a thing of the past (except as a status symbol)!
[01:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─Nestle has secured exclusive rights to supply icewater in Hell.
[01:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:27] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing Snow (1601) may be falling in someone's bedroom, but it's not on Mars...at least not yet!
[01:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:40] <exec> 08└─when I don't trust an rng i sum/xor/concatenate/whatever it to another rng. It helps.
[01:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:41] <exec> 08└─Philadelphia experiment. The ships were cloaked.
[01:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:44] <exec> 08└─The Nevada Gaming Commission is paid for by all the various casinos and stakeholders. It is in their best interest to have their competitors not cheat, hence the regulations to prevent anyone from cheating. In the case of the MUSL, it has gobbled up all its competition. It has a virtual monopoly on...
[01:25:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:54] <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.
[01:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:16] <exec> 08└─If all the providers are owned by the same umbrella corporation it doesn't matter.
[01:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:17] <exec> 08└─Or what it contains.
[01:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─Chrome, it's shiny, but it'll kill you when you ingest it...
[01:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:43] <exec> 08└─Cause the diamond market is crazy so usage and provenance affect the price as much if not more that supply and demand
[01:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:44] <exec> 08└─Since diamonds are a solid this would be snow, not rain. Possibly hail.
[01:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:22] <exec> 08└─You say: Which is that all monopolies aren't necessarily bad.
[01:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:23] <exec> 08└─It's not just the anti-government types that have yet to realize the danger these giant companies pose, since I routinely see more liberal people suddenly advocating that we unleash the True Power of the Free Market (TM) when it comes to corporate censorship. You can see examples of this in just abo...
[01:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:06] <exec> 08└─Trouble is, you only find out which suppliers are doing it after you bought the damn thing.
[01:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:49] <exec> 08└─Your mileage obviously varied. In the 1970's cruiser Navy (CGN-9, CG-11 for me) you'd get Captain's mast after 1 warning about being out of the uniform of the day. Even if the UoD was dress skivvies, it included dogtags and your DD-2N somewhere on your person. Hell, we had to wear 'em in civvies on...
[01:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:11] <exec> 08└─Unless you wanted to make acetic acid in the first place... then it's terribly efficient as compared to, say, fermenting apple juice.
[01:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:12] <exec> 08└─And, what's the energy cost of mining, refining and delivering the cadmium? Presumably it must be periodically recycled from within the goo of dead bacteria.
[01:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:49] <exec> 08└─They're saying it's because J&J failed to inform them it does. J&J maintains use of talc as directed on the label doesn't cause cancer, but she apparently fucks herself with the container to queef puffs of talc at bachelor parties.
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[02:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:22] <exec> 08└─Even with an advanced holographic interface to make up for the crap screen size, you would still have to hold up your arm and wrist in an awkward way to use a smartwatch as a smartphone replacement. Although it might not be bad if you are sitting down or leaning on a surface. Voice is pretty easy th...
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[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─Guess I'm a chump then, so be it. Don't have a cell phone, borrow one once or twice a year when it's actually needed. Some days I still wear a Casio basic calculator watch, but not for the calculator--it's really easy to set the alarm when there are enough buttons. The batteries seem to last about s...
[02:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─I agree, the story is fine. The device is kind of interesting. I also wear a watch, so I must be a chump too.
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─All you submitters and editors are in cahoots to sell us things. Keep it classy! Where's that toilet paper salesman whose name is a brand of toilet paper? I want to wipe my ass with that guy.
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't use it myself, I prefer pocket watches because I'm a working class guy. My wrists do dangerous things that cause watches to fear being crushed as I wrench a bolt, scratched as I squeeze past engine parts, or being slathered in grime as I touch nearly any part of a well oiled machine. Fort...
[02:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:32] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with occasional postings of cool little projects like this. I won't buy one, but I still think it's neat.
[02:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:36] <exec> 08└─Ein Volk, ein Reich, drei Fernsehapparaten!
[02:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:37] <exec> 08└─The wording may not be the best but it does parse properly: All monopolies are not bad.
[02:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:40] <exec> 08└─That's just because liberals have heard about the magical Free Market for so long they have started believing in it. And much like conservatives have believed for decades, liberals believe the Free Market will magically solve their problems because something something invisible hand.
[02:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:17] <exec> 08└─Two points: 1) I haven't looked too closely into this particular product, but I'm fairly sure that it's quite apparent before you buy it that it's internet-connected, uses a phone app to control, etc. 2) You can usually return things for a short time after buying them. That's certainly the case with...
[02:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:19] <exec> 08└─Our only real hope for a better future is to embrace it, and regulate it with a new "first sale doctrine" regulation that puts specific consumer friendly obligations on manufacturers that provide internet enabled devices. I can see Europe doing it... I have little hope for the USA. We do have a work...
[02:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:21] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with parent here. The motivations behind DJI and Sonos respectively are completely different. One is ensuring safety and compliance with regulatory requirements (due to the fact that there are so many jerks who deliberately fly their drones in dangerous places like airports), while t...
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[03:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:20] <exec> 08└─Less overhead. It is a simple enough concept, I wonder what the reasons are for such a massive increase in administrative personnel.
[03:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:21] <exec> 08└─At the university I went to one building I was in the roof leaked and the heat/cooling did not work (except in the office). Which was fun in the midwest. The football team however had 2 practice fields plus the main field and 4 state of the art gyms they could use. The admins there were solidly in t...
[03:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─The recent diaries page's google juice had grown beyond some manner of threshold. Eventually raph implemented user ratings, and set the default threshold to 3 - so the recent log would hide the spammers from google it. The spammers were allowed to roam freely, but that became strangely ineffective f...
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[03:25:38] <exec> 08└─Only two are brothers and none of them are named Statler
[03:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:40] <exec> 08└─I'm the king of classy self-promotion. But the editors turn down a lot, a lot of my submissions. The stories about myself. They loved a story about the Japs. And one about the Chinese. So I was thinking, it's because they're Dems. Because the Dems run a lot of these sites. Secretly, they run them. B...
[03:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:42] <exec> 08└─Popeil Pocket Fisherman and Ginsu Knives! But wait, there are no comments! At least this was honest unblockable spam, and I guess everyone has used all their spam mods on a certain somebody, and even more, the editors have taken over with their own ideas of what is newsworthy, and this is what we g...
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[03:25:44] <exec> 08└─Someone claimed on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] that The motivating idea for Advogato was to try out in practice Levien's ideas about attack-resistant trust metrics, having users certify each other in a kind of peer review process and use this information to avoid the abuses that plague open community...
[03:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:09] <exec> 08└─Na... they just suddenly reappeared right in front of a container ship and an oil tanker.
[03:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:11] <exec> 08└─That was supposed to go in reply to: mhajicek's comment above' I think I found a bug.
[03:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:45] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, I can't really notice much between 480 and 1080 on my phone (G5). Sorry, but this outrage is along the lines of screaming about the black bars regarding letterboxing, or "thick" bezels these days on tablets, PC monitors, laptops, etc. beyond First World Problem whines.
[03:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, VZWL's cell coverage does not suck, at least between Portland OR and Lusk, WY. And that includes coverage on such widely traveled routes as US-18 (I-25 to Lusk) that's a recent addition, more connections between Mountain Home and Idaho Falls ID along US-20 than I expected, etc. But, hey. I...
[03:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:25] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the difference between burying someone at sea and dumping a body overboard?
[03:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417m in Latest Talc Cancer Case - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:19] <exec> 08└─Since almost every female baby for at least the last four generations has been regularly exposed to talcum powder, and since talc is evidently present in all their ovaries -- if talc causes ovarian cancer, shouldn't such a cancer also be ubiquitous? Since it's not, how can the occasional incidence b...
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[04:25:18] <exec> 08└─First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collect...
[04:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:20] <exec> 08└─Once again, a long view of the history of Universities is in order. For example, Oxford, one of the great medieval universities: Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, wh...
[04:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─Is it time to send out a B-ark? ;)
[04:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:24] <exec> 08└─... set their own salary, paid by student fees. The legislature has nothing to do with it. By rights, the regents should be unpaid.
[04:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─There are places where we can't bring smartphones. Such as the Middle East, Israel, and Europe. But a wristwatch can be a problem. For the reasons you said. But also when shaking hands. You shake hands with a wristwatch on, you could cut your face. Or the other person's. Especially if it's loose. I...
[04:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─Falling is not the same as failing. As regards Snow.
[04:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:55] <exec> 08└─Why are there so many comments on this article? Could it be that the editors have lost their touch, that the pulse of the universe now lies elsewhere, and the alt-right has to change the subject to the weather on Mars? Seriously?
[04:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:57] <exec> 08└─There were four comments before you piped up. The one last week about the Daily Stormer [soylentnews.org] received hundreds of comments. Only two stories here have ever [soylentnews.org] gotten more. Parkinson's law of triviality is the main determinant IMO.
[04:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:59] <exec> 08└─There were four comments before you piped up.
[04:26:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 863 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:10] <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...
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[04:26:54] <exec> 08└─Modded Disagree in error.
[04:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:04] <exec> 08└─Can I still use Chromebooks, or does it violate the TOS? What about climate change denial?
[04:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:06] <exec> 08└─And why is Google advertising for Mein Kampf [google.com], if they are so concerned about hate speech?
[04:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:24] <exec> 08└─"So, when blood diamonds aren't expensive enough, you can have diamonds mined from the icy giants in the outer solar system." s/expensive/inexpensive The admitted blood diamonds are the cheap ones, people pay extra to avoid them. But even the cheap ones are way overpriced. http://www.huffingtonpost....
[04:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:07] <exec> 08└─Whisky Tango Foxtrot!! What the hell does this have to with "Who owns the internet"? Does it belong to the Big Telcos? Or does it belong to the Big Service Providers? Does it belong to the Big Government? Does it belong to the Big Retailers? Maybe, just maybe, it actually belongs to the people who u...
[04:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:53] <exec> 08└─Wrong. They transform chemical energy directly to electrical energy.
[04:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:39] <exec> 08└─He probably wanted sex, she didn't, and things ended badly. There was no earlier plan to sink the sub.
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[05:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─Free shipping is cool. Free shipping over a certain value sucks flaming meteorites! I wanted to get a fidget spinner, the website says free shipping on orders over $5.99. Gee, guess how much it was.. $5.99. You'll see this all over Amazon. They turned the free shipping offer into this scam that actu...
[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mattTheOne [1788] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:21] <exec> 08└─Shame you didn't get grandfathered into the plan where the membership can be shared with several ppl. I'm sharing a friend's and havent paid for Amazon membership in 5+ years. They need to fix Google Express, it doesn't accept Frys promo codes so its almost useless for Frys sale items.
[05:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not gonna place an order until Walmart ain't gonna deliver it using a drone from a blimp nearby [soylentnews.org].
[05:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:35] <exec> 08└─Take a second look. http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu [universityofcalifornia.edu]
[05:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:37] <exec> 08└─As long as we send it at night so they don't know they're headed for the Sun...
[05:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the reasons are for such a massive increase in administrative personnel.
[05:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:41] <exec> 08└─Is it large enough to hold everybody? If so, how come my manager is not on board?
[05:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mattTheOne [1788] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:43] <exec> 08└─Its not clear if its due to reduction in gov funding, but I've noticed in the last 10 yrs the tuition at my alma mater has doubled! Salaries haven't doubled, and student/teacher ratios are constant so I'm not sure where this money is going. When I worked as a teacher assistant I observed how cheaply...
[05:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:57] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with occasional postings of cool little projects like this. I won't buy one, but I still think it's neat.
[05:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:04] <exec> 08└─For whatever it is worth, I don’t use a watch but I would probably buy one of those only for the geek factor. I don’t mind adverts such as this, provided that the product is geeky enough to make consider parting with some cash.
[05:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:13] <exec> 08└─So they can't block certain ports?
[05:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EQ [1716] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of Some Missing Sailors Found in Sealed Compartments Aboard the USS John S. McCain - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:47] <exec> 08└─Not worried about competency these days, more worried about being trans friendly, etc. Not trolling: valuable training time has gone toward a lot of the social justice policies enacted and their repercussions, and making sure everyone knows how to properly behave in response to these personnel chang...
[05:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cyborg Bacteria" More Efficient at Harvesting Sunlight than Plants - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:12] <exec> 08└─You're looking at the yellow section of the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) 704 fire diamond [wikipedia.org], aren't you? One thing that indicates is reactivity with water, presumably because water is commonly used to suppress fires. The reactivity profile you linked mentions water just...
[05:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:32] <exec> 08└─We moved to 64-bit sometime around 2004-2008, so it's been over a decade. Considering that in 1994, 16 bit was standard, I'd really not be so sure that 64 bit is going to stay the norm for THAT much longer. It probably has at least a few years, as it isn't a linear process, and meanwhile the drive f...
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[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:26] <exec> 08└─Whenever I use Google Express, they assume it's ok to substitute shit for the stuff I actually ordered, unless I spend more time clicking through their slow-as-mud website. Can you not keep track of what's in stock? Thanks for prioritizing the retailer's convenience over the customer's.
[06:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:28] <exec> 08└─Amazon allows third party sellers on the platform which are the source of most of the weird stuff you see like: $3.78 + $15.50 shipping. Theoretically this is a good thing since there are a wider variety of items for sale, but it can mean more junk to sort through.
[06:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:30] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen of Fry's on SlickDeals, most of the good deals are "free store pickup" aka in-store only. Which means only a small portion of the country can get them: As of August 2014, Fry's Electronics operated 34 brick-and-mortar stores in nine U.S. states: California (17 stores); Texas (8);...
[06:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:32] <exec> 08└─I once lived in Owl's Head, Maine, near Rockland. There was a Walmart in Rockland, as well as a competing big-box store that had great selection but often my ex and I were the only shoppers in the store. That big-box store was one of a chain of 250 or so, mostly in the Northeast. It went bankrupt wh...
[06:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:34] <exec> 08└─I set foot in a Walmart once. Still can't get the smell out. Shop Union, shop America! Make American Not Walmart Again!
[06:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:52] <exec> 08└─A very old joke, but ... Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instr...
[06:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:53] <exec> 08└─Caltech was ten grand a year when I attended in the early eighties. A Pell Grant covered 3k of that each year. I had two student loans for a total of 15k that I paid off twenty years ago. The federal government clued into that student loan interest doesn't get the gripes that taxes do, so These Unit...
[06:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:55] <exec> 08└─It's going into the paychecks of the "administrators".
[06:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:58] <exec> 08└─Above all else, I love to teach. If I had a choice of making lots of money or imparting lots of knowledge, I think I'd be as happy to impart knowledge as to make money. I'd be lying if I said I don't think about my legacy. The values I hold true and the buildings I've put up are intended to carry be...
[06:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:19] <exec> 08└─Looks like a copy-cat to me: This words-only clock came out in the German-speaking world a few years ago. [qlocktwo.com] Certainly copyright infringement, if the Qlocktwo people want to pursue it.
[06:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:51] <exec> 08└─Digitized white noise fed through a scrambler?
[06:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:30] <exec> 08└─Not if they do it depending on the IP.
[06:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Age of Empires IV - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:50] <exec> 08└─The changes are more incremental now. The final transistor nodes are in sight. If we can't get below the 1-3 nm nodes, stacking will be required to increase performance. Then we can talk about femtocomputing. The current 64-bit CPUs aren't even using the full 64-bit address space for RAM. I guess it...
[06:31:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Submarine Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Burying Journalist at Sea - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:03] <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?
[06:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Rolled Out - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you for taking the time to point out something specific. I hadn't heard of this LineageOS before. Hopefully I can follow all the install instructions. I actually looked at the ZenPad but was turned off by the fact that it's not stock Android UI. Plus the base OS is just Android 6.0. I guess th...
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[07:25:16] <exec> 08└─This type of situation is automatically generated by NHST... We've been warned since the 1960s that this was happening...
[07:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:31] <exec> 08└─Crooked Hillary sat on the Walmart board of directors. With John Tate. Who said unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites. And Hillary said nothing as he battled the unions MERCILESSLY! 🇺🇸
[07:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:32] <exec> 08└─DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (their crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (Wikipedia). They also have more traditional links in the search results, which they source from Yahoo!, Yandex...
[07:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:55] <exec> 08└─(in bad taste, I know... I mean, replying to myself) The "(reality of life)" point has a "scientific basis": Peter principle [wikipedia.org] (promotion to the level of minimal incompetence) and Dilbert principle [wikipedia.org] (managers can advance beyond the level of minimal incompetence through p...
[07:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:56] <exec> 08└─It's going into the paychecks of the "administrators".
[07:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:58] <exec> 08└─The traditional way where people keep in mind the schools of thought, such as economics, leaves one scratching their head as to why they would not apply it to themselves? At the moment there is a Californian bubble of thought which doesnt seem to burst where established schools of thought is ignored...
[07:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:00] <exec> 08└─Ah, good old Oxford. There's a picture in the Clarendon Lab, taken sometime in the early-mid 70s, of all the staff and researchers in the Clarendon. In that picture, there are two 'admin' staff. When I was there, you couldn't throw a stick down any of the corridors without hitting one, Heads of Depa...
[07:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:03] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why costs are spiralling
[07:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─When I was in a big US university, the dept head's vision was to get into the top 10 of highest NIH funding. His strategy to enact this bold vision was to boldly tell us his bold vision every meeting and remind us we need to boldly apply for more NIH funding. To the point where most of the faculty s...
[07:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:07] <exec> 08└─But I'm really bad at teaching, and I hate young people, and I refuse to publish! And don't even think about trying to make me work! That does it. I'm going on sabbatical until you pea brained morons get it into your thick skulls that you need to pay a basic income instead of employing useless peopl...
[07:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:09] <exec> 08└─They don't have room fro everyone; turns out, your manager isn't *completely* useless (not even *always* incompetent). Sorry.
[07:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:32] <exec> 08└─I find mechanical watches to be more geeky. Personally, I use Vostok watches. I use a Vostok Komandirskie for normal work and a Vostok Amphibia for diving. Vostok is a Soviet era watch brand, still doing the same watches. They are cheap and built like tanks. Somebody recently tested an Amphibia to d...
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[07:26:33] <exec> 08└─Looks the creator of this watch does semi-custom builds to support different languages and a limited amount of personalization, so if you don't like the idea of a watch maybe talk to him about making a bespoke desk or wall version for your home/office. It would be the same core electronics and code,...
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[07:26:35] <exec> 08└─+1 on the postings, since presumably the editors are testing the water here. If it's cool, likely to be of interest to Soylentils, doesn't come across as too spammy, and maybe is tagged appropriately into it's own topic so it can be filtered, then bring them on.
[07:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:37] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with a stream of tagged SoyVertisements, so long as they are tagged as such by the independent editor, and I can set an option to have them filtered out of the default display of the stream of postings. Occasionally, I would even like to have 'one-click' access to a stream that presented on...
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[07:32:28] <exec> 08└─They aren't even "free marketers". Those who want to selectively hide and bury information while spreading disinformation deserve a worse label. As in, propagandists and liars. Lying is not honest marketing. It's sad that these days, marketing is very nearly synonymous with smoke and mirrors decepti...
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[08:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:17] <exec> 08└─Not just HDL, the typical Western diet has too much of everything. Fine-tuning one component is retarded. Skipping dessert isn't healthy when you're eating 2 mains with buttered bread and sweet potato fries, waffles and maple syrup to the side. Yeah I think it was the HDL, bro.
[08:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:18] <exec> 08└─What part of that is "excessive"?
[08:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the "scientific consensus" was wrong!
[08:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:22] <exec> 08└─Even earlier than that: "We are quite in danger of sending highly trained and highly intelligent young men out into the world with tables of erroneous numbers under their arms, and with a dense fog in the place where their brains ought to be. In this century, of course, they will be working on guide...
[08:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:25] <exec> 08└─What part of that is "excessive"?
[08:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:27] <exec> 08└─"Scientific consensus" in this case, is bought and handsomely paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:29] <exec> 08└─It's always wrong, just a little bit less wrong today than yesterday. And that's the point and what makes it better than any alternatives.
[08:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:45] <exec> 08└─As someone outside the US, Amazon became useless when they added all the third-party junk, because most don't ship internationally. Haven't bought anything from Amazon in years as a result.
[08:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:47] <exec> 08└─Internationally? Oh, I _wish_ they shipped internationally! They do not even ship to Alaska or Hawaii, like these states were foreign countries, or something. And don't get me started on shipping to Guam, which is about to be nuked. Do you think North Korea is going to charge for delivery?
[08:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:17] <exec> 08└─turns out, your manager isn't *completely* useless (not even *always* incompetent). Sorry.
[08:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:19] <exec> 08└─"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others " attributed to Ashleigh Brilliant Some people also make great soup .. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[08:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:46] <exec> 08└─My watch is definitely no status symbol. The one I use for work cost like $22 shipped. A watch is plenty useful and I bet you would be addicted to having one on your wrist if you wore it for a month or two. A watch allows you to very quickly check the time without having to dig up something from the...
[08:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:48] <exec> 08└─Where's that toilet paper salesman whose name is a brand of toilet paper?
[08:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:50] <exec> 08└─Are you saying he copied the source code? Where exactly is the infringement? You can't copyright a style or looks. (But sadly you can patent it... ask crApple)
[08:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:52] <exec> 08└─And another echo: The story is interesting. I also am a watch-wearing chump. And worse still, it's an analog watch!
[08:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:13] <exec> 08└─Because you want to order it. (what a boring book btw)
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[09:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:22] <exec> 08└─It's an emergency suit, right? So that means that it is minimally articulated, as opposed to general purpose suits designed to do work in a vacuum environment? And it has less or no thermal protection because it is for use inside a craft? Maybe I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the diff...
[09:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:37] <exec> 08└─From the Fing Journal Article > with both extreme high and low concentrations [of HDL] being associated with high all-cause mortality risk. Further > the multifactorially adjusted hazard ratios for all-cause mortality were 1.36 (95% CI: 1.09–1.70) for men with HDL cholesterol of 2.5–2.99 mmol/...
[09:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:39] <exec> 08└─And there is a chance the excessive *anything* will be bad for you. The difficulty is finding out what is 'excessive' (experimenting *can* be fun, but is often fatal, but then, so is life (so far))
[09:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:41] <exec> 08└─I am not an MD, but this is an attempt to reconstruct what could be happening in bloodsteam: LDL is some sort of packaging for transporting oils/fats through bloodstream in a tidy manner. If you have too much of that, it may be because there is a construction going on (cell membranes need fats) or y...
[09:26:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 1205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:16] <exec> 08└─A very old joke, but ... Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instr...
[09:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:30] <exec> 08└─Less overhead. It is a simple enough concept, I wonder what the reasons are for such a massive increase in administrative personnel.
[09:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:32] <exec> 08└─My supervisor is often bemoaning the online timesheets he has to complete for my funding body. Luckily, I have to fill them out on paper instead. (Technically it's an excel spreadsheet printed out, so it can have an ink signature on it.)
[09:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:16] <exec> 08└─There's the door. ---> ||
[09:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:37] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the Rothschilds make money by printing it, or better yet by changing a number in a spreadsheet. No one has yet taken up pitchforks against this thievery of the highest order. What the inside attack on lottery software did was take a negligible amount (only once or twice) of what the Roths...
[09:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create High Pressure "Diamond Rain" Using Lasers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:46] <exec> 08└─You'll probably only find Klingons on Uranus.
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[10:25:25] <exec> 08└─Just because something is obvious to me does not mean it is obvious to other people. In my experience, this is highly prevalent amongst "engineering types". We need the story-tellers as much we need the engineers. Put bluntly, it's the general excitement that makes it easier to pay for the engineers...
[10:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:27] <exec> 08└─This [airspacemag.com] article gives the details on the goals, specifications, and purposes for these sort of suits. Boeings blue butt or NASA's pumpkin suits for instance is intended for the same purpose. Like you mention it is not an EVA (space walk) suit, but a suit worn during ascent/descent int...
[10:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:29] <exec> 08└─It is actually easy to balance aesthetics and function: Function always trumps aesthetics, or you're doing it wrong. Note that I'm not saying that making it aesthetic without compromising on function isn't a hard task in itself, but that's not balancing aesthetics and function, that's optimizing aes...
[10:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─You're right, it wouldn't be copyright, it would be a design patent that protects the appearance. Look, it's a cool idea, and ideas can be copied. But the guy has left the design nearly identical to the Qlocktwo watch [design-milk.com]. His only substantial change is the material: where the Qlocktwo...
[10:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:09] <exec> 08└─I'm another chump.
[10:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:11] <exec> 08└─Seems the watch is popular with a certain crowd
[10:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:13] <exec> 08└─if you don't like the idea of a watch maybe talk to him about making a bespoke desk or wall version
[10:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:39] <exec> 08└─If we pay to use it, and if we can be baned from it, then it doesn't belong to us.
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[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:27] <exec> 08└─Maths and science works like once I have derived/grokked a concept it is obvious. But grokking is a hard process that can take hours/days. Funny huh.
[11:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:45] <exec> 08└─And there is a chance the excessive *anything* will be bad for you.
[11:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:46] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you get the 30% from. If a confidence interval does not cover a reference value (1 in this case), there is at most a 5% chance that the data we see was produced under the reference value (very roughly). For the CI (1.44-2.95) the p-value is probably on the order of 10E-3. Also, the p-...
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[11:25:48] <exec> 08└─Μηδὲν ἄγαν
[11:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:40] <exec> 08└─Its always about they money. Back when people paid for university, universities were geared towards providing the best experiment for their customers, the students. Which for the most part meant more and better teachers. Now that the government pays for the vast majority of the tuition, it is the bu...
[11:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:42] <exec> 08└─Huh? TFA (which, of course, you read) is about the British university system. We've gone from a system where the students were funded almost entirely from government grants to one in which most of the student funding comes from student loans.
[11:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrial [5162] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:17] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The story is fine, no objections to similar stories in the future.
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[12:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:51] <exec> 08└─Stop injecting avocado.
[12:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:52] <exec> 08└─In this case, it would have been better to ignore the consensus than accept it. Clearly, following the consensus was not the best alternative. Are you crazy?
[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:54] <exec> 08└─The NULL hypothesis still contradicts "more HDL is better".
[12:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─You are right, I screwed up my statistics.
[12:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:59] <exec> 08└─If a confidence interval does not cover a reference value (1 in this case), there is at most a 5% chance that the data we see was produced under the reference value (very roughly).
[12:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:01] <exec> 08└─It's always wrong, just a little bit less wrong today than yesterday.
[12:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:55] <exec> 08└─No one has cut public funding to universities. In fact the government has more than doubled the amount it spends on university per student over the last few years, even after adjusting for inflation. The only thing that happened, is what happened everywhere. The government decided it was a good idea...
[12:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:56] <exec> 08└─Now that the government pays for the vast majority of the tuition, it is the bureaucrats and accountants who are the most important.
[12:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:59] <exec> 08└─Except that government spending per student has been raising steadily for decades. The government did not decide that it did not want to cover 100%, the universities decided that students would be willing to pay extra on top. And that this would cause the government to give them even more money in a...
[12:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:35] <exec> 08└─If you're going for an upgrade but still want that retro look then an 80x25 array of Nixie tubes in a wooden case as a monitor would be rather cool. The Nixie watch has been done though (albeit not out of wood) - Steve Wozniak has one.
[12:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:36] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I wear a watch (one that definitely doesn't work as status symbol), and I have a phone. I could read the time off the phone, but I don't usually: Looking at my watch typically needs only a slight movement of my arm (sometimes not even that). Looking at my phone involves getting the phone...
[12:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─They were paying attention. To each other's ghaytrans asses.
[12:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Chrome Enterprise Subscription Service - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:02] <exec> 08└─Don't be so sure of yourself. Many liberals share a true-believerhood that makes them intellectually near-sighted. Read the EFF essay [eff.org].
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[12:30:07] <exec> 08└─UTF-8 was designed for Plan9. Good contribution, isn't it?. By the way, Plan9 was also the first OS using unicode
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[13:25:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pta-gf6JaHQ [youtube.com]
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─Once people admit that this is the greatest threat to science (not bible thumpers, the pope, or any of the usual boogeymen), we may be able to fix it. From what I see we are still far away from hitting bottom though.
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[13:26:02] <exec> 08└─become immortal
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[13:27:00] <exec> 08└─There are important limitations to what you assert. When UK tuition fees were re-introduced in 1998 (after being abolished in 1962), they were a "top-up" to existing funding from central government, and fixed at £1,000 per year (plus increments for inflation). In 2004 universities were allowed to c...
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[13:27:02] <exec> 08└─I am not sure how this is not what I was saying. The government paid for tuition, so the universities fired teachers and hired lobbyists, bureaucrats, and accountants to cater to their one customer, the government. And as history shows us that paid off, and they have gotten pay raise after pay raise...
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[13:27:40] <exec> 08└─When I came across this item, I was intrigued and I wanted to share it with people who might appreciate it. Then again, with a kickstarter running, it'd be an obvious soyvertisement... I figured I'd leave it (firstly) to the editors to decide whether or not stories on such gadgetry make sense here....
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[13:27:42] <exec> 08└─Chump++ here. I recently got an analog watch myself. It looks great, and not having to whip out the phone just to see the time is very nice too. I'll have to see whether I'll be wearing it a lot in 6 months, but for now, having a watch makes me giddily happy :)
[13:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:13] <exec> 08└─That is not what you mean to say. What you mean to say is this: "Not all monopolies are bad." How is it that you cannot perceive the difference?
[13:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:14] <exec> 08└─The internet belongs to whoever owns the cables and routers.
[13:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:16] <exec> 08└─Because he is using the English language, which is not always logical. You are trying to map logic to the rules of the language, which fails here. "All X are not Y" would logically parse as ∀x∈X:¬Y(x), but according to the common usage of the English language it actually means ¬∀x∈X:Y(x)....
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[13:30:18] <exec> 08└─Ein Volk, ein Reich, drei Fernsehapparaten!
[13:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Ground Drones If They Don't Apply a Software Update - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:00] <exec> 08└─If I trusted the companies to be completely forthwith about their motivations, then you'd be correct. Without diving into the update itself, I have to trust their word that this is the equivalent of a recall. Which would be much easier to swallow if this wasn't an update from a company who had previ...
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[13:32:09] <exec> 08└─The answer is vehicles that don't burn anything.
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[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─By Apple(TM)
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[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─Reading is hard!
[14:26:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:48] <exec> 08└─Caltech was ten grand a year when I attended in the early eighties. A Pell Grant covered 3k of that each year. I had two student loans for a total of 15k that I paid off twenty years ago. The federal government clued into that student loan interest doesn't get the gripes that taxes do, so These Unit...
[14:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:11] <exec> 08└─Why would a progressive, forward-looking place like a university want software with open source? Open source software is inherently misogynist. All men keep the knowledge of how to use it a secret from womyn-born-womyn, because all men are intimidated by powerful, capable womyn. Open source software...
[14:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:12] <exec> 08└─No one has cut public funding to universities. In fact the government has more than doubled the amount it spends on university per student over the last few years, even after adjusting for inflation.
[14:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:14] <exec> 08└─It's the same issue in government, corporations, education, health care. It's everywhere. Administration. Endless ineffectual planning. Talking about and not doing the core task. Maybe it's one of the places we are hiding the gains in efficiency instead of paying it back to the people creating the v...
[14:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:16] <exec> 08└─I RTFA (really!) and nowhere did I see any mention of corruption and nepotism as one of the explanations for this expansion. Mostly, it was blamed on mandates and bureaucratic creep and expansion. Powerful politicians' relatives with all this training in leadership need suitable jobs, and what bette...
[14:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:19] <exec> 08└─Where are you today? Perhaps you could explain to us how a pure free market approach to university is best for society? I'd like to understand how the Market will weed out commie liberalism, tolerance and altruism to form the ultimate efficient patriot farms.
[14:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:21] <exec> 08└─At my college, 10 years ago, we had just over 50% teaching staff. That's now down to 40%. Looked at another way: the ratio of admin to teachers used to be 1:1; it is now 1.5:1. That's a dramatic increase. Needless to say, we are under continuous budget pressure. Equally needless to say, the budget p...
[14:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:01] <exec> 08└─I like the idea of tagged SoyVertisements, especially if I can filter them out. I would much rather use soylent during a wait for a clean build to ogle cool toys than going to LifeHacker or Gizmodo. Definitely not an everyday thing, but I'd look through them once in a while.
[14:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:03] <exec> 08└─That was featured here http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk [omgubuntu.co.uk]
[14:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:05] <exec> 08└─It's based on a wall-clock. I remember it doing the rounds a few years back. The novelty here is the miniturisation. (And the analogue mode.)
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[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out not Opt-In - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─The second link in the summary should be to the Google Groups annoucement: https://groups.google.com!topic/mozilla.governance/ [google.com]
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out not Opt-In - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:20] <exec> 08└─Here is a better idea, why don't you mozilla idiots actually go out in to the real world and see with your own eyes how users use it, and actually ASK people face to face how they think the browser could be better? There are still enough users you will get some volunteers. Ah, right, then they would...
[15:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out not Opt-In - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─Not defending them here, but people lie.
[15:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out not Opt-In - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:24] <exec> 08└─I thought the Firefox "Health Report" was enabled by default anyway, or is that something specific to my distro?
[15:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Interactive Robogami' Lets you Design and 3-D-print Origami-Inspired Robots From 2-D Designs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:32] <exec> 08└─So they 3d printed some plastic cardstock instead.
[15:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:27] <exec> 08└─I wish they'd stop making this stuff up. The amount of cholesterol a person eats has very little to do with how much you get in your blood stream and the amount you have in your bloodstream is a poor predictor of anything meaningful. Cholesterol itself isn't usually an issue unless it's hanging out...
[15:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─Well if people think that *eventually* research should lead to repeatable procedures and predictions about the future, it would be a big improvement over today. Right now people think if p [less than] 0.05 there is 95% chance the explanation is correct. Get rid of all that and instead go with " 9/10...
[15:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:30] <exec> 08└─Does that work for pigs?
[15:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:49] <exec> 08└─I think the retailers are Google's customers. so it's putting their customers' convenience first.
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Express Ditches Annual Fee, Adds Walmart and Voice App Ordering - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─Stop making me miss Fry's.
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:38] <exec> 08└─It's not so much that there is no incentive, but that there's often incentive in the wrong direction (I don't really know if things work the same in the US, but I guess so). Basically, if you spend less money than you got granted (because this year you happened to need less), then next year you'll g...
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:40] <exec> 08└─Umm, efficiency! Bad examples of Somalian socialized education failing. Bold faced lies to try and make a point. Venezuela and Cuba, hellholes of socialism. Chiiinaa. Link to study that shows lots of budget increases and worse outcomes. *complete denial over basic premise of admin increases from mor...
[15:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─Are you referring the the UK situation between 1962-1998? Yes, the Government paid for all tuition in that period. Since then, they've been contributing a progressively smaller proportion of tuition costs. I grant you that numbers attending university have increased over the decades, (See Tony Blair...
[15:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:25] <exec> 08└─He has different order for the words (maybe even different words (e.g. after vs. past)), and now has analogue mode, that might be enough to get him off the hook. Influences are fine in copyright law. (And design patents are completely fucked up and deserve to die.)
[15:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:26] <exec> 08└─My last wrist watch was a self-winding 1960s Rodania from .ch with a wonderfully elegant design which I forgot to remove when having a game of badminton after a barbie, and which suffered irreparably from my stupidity. I promised I would buy no other watch until I could find something equivalent, an...
[15:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:29] <exec> 08└─Is Donald Trump Actually Just a Really Mean Teenage Girl? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insider Attack on Lottery Software - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:04] <exec> 08└─That has been taken advantage of in the past, also. Nearly every lottery organization or company has had at least one incident.
[15:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:44] <exec> 08└─People, you do not have to stand for this. There are so many options out there that you may have never heard of. I'm on Tracfone which is a fairly shitty company if you want any customer service, but I don't care because I pay 6 dollars a fucking month. It's not unlimited, but that more than covers...
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[16:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. Give me a statement that you're not selling the data, product produced with the data or otherwise profiting with the data. If improvements to Firefox are the only reason to collect the data, that'll be easy to do. But like 'Free VPN' providers that are doing things like tracking which new 'net...
[16:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:25] <exec> 08└─why don't you mozilla idiots actually go out in to the real world and see with your own eyes how users use it, and actually ASK people face to face
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:27] <exec> 08└─building your own icbm at home in your spare time is not that difficult, thanks to our new ICBM Anywhere program! a large crate is shipped to your home under the guise of a new electronics suite, etc. once you open the box, you can suck my penis
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─Sure, but I don't think too many people lie about what they'd like out of a browser. Sure, few people are going to say "I just surf porn" but that doesn't matter. They can say "I stream videos" etc. Easy to build a non-invasive poll that does not reveal a user's precise usage. I agree with OP, just...
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─So your penis is also contained in that box? Do you cut it off for this, or do you put yourself in that box?
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─First documented case of honesty on this site? weird
[16:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:36] <exec> 08└─If when the next update kicks in, they present a warning window with the option pre-clicked that I can then unclick, I don't have a problem with that. I've run into tons of applications that do just that. If they just do it and the only way for me to opt-out would be to search for the option, then t...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─So it was introduced in 2011, what has happened to firefox marketshare and general public opinion since? For an organization trying to be "data-driven", they don't seem to be listening to the data very much...
[16:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─They concluded that they did not introduce enough telemetry.
[16:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─There are only three certainties in life: 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. Mozilla doesn't give a shit what it's users want.
[16:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravity, 'Mechanical Loading' Are Key to Cartilage Development - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─Apparently, no one cares about cartridge...
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:17] <exec> 08└─Function over aesthetics? If you were floating in the ocean, hoping for rescue, would you rather be in stylish white, or ugly orange?
[16:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:18] <exec> 08└─It certainly looks cool, like something out of a comic or maybe a movie. But for sure, I'd rather have form over function in something designed for life support.
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:53] <exec> 08└─Does that work for pigs?
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah he'll NEVER be able to afford a house like that!
[16:27:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─Once again, a long view of the history of Universities is in order. For example, Oxford, one of the great medieval universities: Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, wh...
[16:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─You have steadily improved your vocabulary sir, which system helped you best? Hooked on Phonix? Or Presidential Speaking for Dummies?
[16:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the reasons are for such a massive increase in administrative personnel.
[16:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:54] <exec> 08└─I'll talk to him about making me a 80x25 monitor for my PC. At the moment I'm still on a 20x4 character amber-on-black circular 6" CRT.
[16:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:55] <exec> 08└─Most of the vintage Vostok watches are not automatic. All current Vostok Amphibias have the self-winding complication added. The much cheaper Komandirskie is still manually winded. If you go Vintage, don't go swimming unless you have changed the rubber gaskets (easy to do).
[16:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:12] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. The collective stock ownership of the lower 99% of the population amounts to less than 1% of the total stocks. Nobody cares in the slightest how those hangers-on feel. And even the combined 1% are minority stockholders. The only stockholders that anyone really cares about are the comparati...
[16:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:34] <exec> 08└─It's still a monopoly when said company takes steps to stifle competition. Google has already demonstratively hurt a variety of other companies by doing anti-competitive things. Intentionally devaluing competitors in their search listings. Bundling their google services such that Android manufacture...
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[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:16] <exec> 08└─Irresistibly sweet-smelling, lethal doses of insecticide? Coming up next, Colony Collapse Disorder 2.0!
[17:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─Where can I buy some? I want to murder all mosquitoes within 20 miles of my home.
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─I hate mosquitoes as much as anyone, but these little bastards aren't the only ones who like sugar/nectar. Bees home in on plants due to UV cues as much as anything else, so perhaps they won't be hugely affected. But just randomly spraying this stuff around is definitely going to hit other species,...
[17:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─Since mosquitoes, IIRC, are attracted to CO2 and heat in ways other bugs aren't, why not add an infrared emitter and a small CO2 pack to these things? That might stop bees and other sugar-loving critters from getting hurt, and pull MORE mosquitoes in.
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─Where is Thumbkin? Where is Thumbkin? Here I am! Here I am! How are you today, Sir? Very well, I thank you! Run away! Run away!
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─The simple answer to that problem is a plastic mesh which doesn't let the bees touch the product. How many decades of positive marketing before we learn that the magic chemicals which attract mosquitoes also cause lung cancer, glaucoma, and fingernail atrophy?
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─It's only the females that suck on mammal blood for reproduction, whereas the males feed on plant nectar and such. Wouldn't it mostly take out the males, possibly counterproductive outcome?
[17:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:30] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFA, but I think the idea is that you don't spray this stuff at all; you set traps. With that approach, you can do what another poster here suggested and design the trap so birds and bees simply can't get to the poison. Mosquitoes are much, much smaller than bees (or hummingbirds for t...
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─Bees home in on plants due to UV cues as much as anything else, so perhaps they won't be hugely affected. But just randomly spraying this stuff around is definitely going to hit other species, too. Not just insects, either - hummingbirds are all about sugar. At this stage, probably best to have caut...
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─Can we use this to help kill Webbrowsers-as-OS? Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox are only begrudgingly giving users what they want. Can we use their hubris and arrogance to collapse the entire concept of over-complicated content browsers masquerading and shit-tier operating systems "for the we...
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─Way back when I switched to Firefox 1, it was for one very simple feature: when you pressed the Stop button, everything stopped immediately. No waiting for requests to finish, no waiting for the UI to finish what it was doing, just a full stop, leave it exactly as it is and stop working. I was pisse...
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─that's delicious!
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─Even better, the box contains a scanning-tunneling electron microscopt so you can actually SEE his penis :D
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─As of this release, Firefox no longer supports 90% of extensions and now we're spying on you. Are you sure you want to update to Firefox n+1? Y/N
[17:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, Mozilla.org can't hear you. Please restate your problem in the form of an obscure monetizable metric that when viewed by marketing somehow proves that you need an additional video codec added.
[17:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:05] <exec> 08└─> nowadays these "UI experts" think the data is paramount and making decisions for those poor dumb users is for their own good I've been using Skype for a really long time to call my parents. Some asshole just decided that having a big green circle to tell them when I'm online, and a green phone and...
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─> would you rather be in stylish white, or ugly orange? Boeing has decided that camo-blue was the best color for ocean touchdowns. I guess they don't expect you to leave the ship...
[17:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:43] <exec> 08└─That article points out something else important too. The blue Boeing suite is 10 lbs lighter than the NASA pumpkin suite. That's a noteworthy accomplishment.
[17:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:31] <exec> 08└─When I worked as a teacher assistant I observed how cheaply students could be educated, so I don't understand why costs are spiralling when they should be reduced with the growth of digital libraries.
[17:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:32] <exec> 08└─The "more admin" does seem to increase money received from the state though...
[17:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:34] <exec> 08└─I did say that the wasteful institutions "flourish". Efficient ones will be starved of funding...
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[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─Feminists everywhere are outraged at your suggestion that the elimination of males could be anything but productive. But not reproductive.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─Nowhere, yet, as far as I can tell. some interesting things I found while looking: * Their trademark for the insecticide, "Vectrax", is also used [justia.com] in the industrial sector for selling lathes and mills. * $1,000,000 of their startup funding came from the U.S. Dept. of Defense in the form...
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[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─Female mosquitoes feed on plant nectar just as well as male ones. They just like the blood better.
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─Females feed on nectar too. Basically nectar is the "keep me alive" food, while the females *also* require blood to make them fertile. So this should take out mosquitoes of all genders. Out of curiosity though, even if this primarily took out the males, how would that be counterproductive? Males are...
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:36] <exec> 08└─Men Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Tang-Smelling Pussy
[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─It's not even that they like blood better. It's that they need blood every so often (1/month?) or they can't produce (fertile?) eggs. Mostly what they eat is sap, just like the male mosquitoes.
[18:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:40] <exec> 08└─Coming up next, Colony Collapse Disorder 2.0!
[18:25:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:59] <exec> 08└─They concluded that they did not introduce enough telemetry.
[18:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:08] <exec> 08└─"Your family's right there and their livelihood depends on whether you used 5 or 6 of my slots for shit tolerance. Do you feel lucky, punk?"
[18:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:10] <exec> 08└─You win the internet today.
[18:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─I see the opposite problem: people installing apps for stuff like weather and news that you can get without an app wasting space on the device.
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:14] <exec> 08└─Too late. People who know better are already leaving for things like Pale Moon. Blissfully ignorant lusers who blindly want "it just works" are happy with Safari and Chrome, and Edge/IE people are beyond redemption.
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─Brave
[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─This is a thread about privacy. If you care about (preserving) privacy and you use Google Chrome then you have a level of cognitive dissonance that is over 9000.
[18:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─Should find an alternative if only to not go through MS servers.
[18:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:23] <exec> 08└─I recently tried to use Kelly blue book, it was loading for over 30 seconds so I just left. Used to be simple and quick, I presume it was all the 3rd party api calls slowing shit down. Not sure what the solution would be, but "modern" web software is returning my computer the performance of the 90s.
[18:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:44] <exec> 08└─Who knew Oprah Winfrey liked jellyfish?
[18:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─It looks to me like someone isn't very good at statistics and the fact that not everyone is in the middle of the bell curve. For example, my grandmother outlived five doctors who all told her if she didn't get her cholesterol down she'd die. She didn't get the cholesterol down and finally did die, a...
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Levels of 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Excessive Mortality - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:38] <exec> 08└─...or burning fat (loosing weight). I usually cringe at that misspelling, but had to grin this time. Losing something is accidental, loosing something is on purpose ("Loose the hounds").
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[18:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:54] <exec> 08└─Not the real trump, didn't use the words sad or great.
[18:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:02] <exec> 08└─Does not mean the same to them as it does to the rest of us.
[18:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:03] <exec> 08└─And when they all do this, your next proposal?
[18:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, what people are calling liberals today are really regressive authoritarians. Corporate censorship falls in line with what they want to achieve - authority over what others can view, talk about, and ultimately the ideas they can think about. So, whenever corporate censorship is brought up a...
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[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─Update on where to buy: This falls under the product category of "Attractive Toxic Sugar Bait" (ATSB), research for which has been going on since the 60s. that works like this, intended for spraying on shrubs. [baitandkill.com] There's another product, simply called "ATSB", from ADAPCO; [myadapco.c...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─If it primarily took out the males it would be interesting to see how long until offspring are not attracted to the poison. Could drastically change the way the mosquitoes go about their daily lives to have the 3% population that doesn't like sweet things be 100% of the parents. https://www.ncbi.nlm...
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─This would be amazing if it could control the Asian Tiger mosquito. Those little bastards are all over NYC and you can't do anything outdoors without these fuckers swarming you. Last weekend I was working on my truck when I kid you not I found myself in a cloud of about 20 of them. At one point I sw...
[19:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:20] <exec> 08└─If when the next update kicks in, they present a warning window with the option pre-clicked that I can then unclick, I don't have a problem with that.
[19:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─"Anonynmized" data typically isn't [arstechnica.com].
[19:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:59] <exec> 08└─making students pay interest 3% above inflation on the loans.
[19:30:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:00] <exec> 08└─There were four comments before you piped up.
[19:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:02] <exec> 08└─That's no door! It's two pipes, and somebody already piped up. Are you piping down, AC?
[19:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, the thought of Dry Ice Snow is intriguing. Carbon Dioxide has a crystalline form?
[19:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:11] <exec> 08└─You do realize who owns most of the towers and cel backbone, right? No, you aren't 'leaving them', you just are not paying them directly.
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[20:25:24] <exec> 08└─Could be great for a terminal server. Fill that baby with multiport cards! [tldp.org]
[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:25] <exec> 08└─All indications are that CFL will need an updated 300-series chipset. B250 is for Sky/Kabylake only. ...man, a lake of coffee sounds really good about now.
[20:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─So with all of these GPUs, how fast can it run DOOM?
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─Can that gtx 1060 do 16 bit floats at a reasonable speed yet?
[20:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─What do you do with this after cryptocurrency mining is dead?
[20:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:34] <exec> 08└─From the looks of it, the CPU is not exactly the star player in this setup. Maybe it's more like the team coach.
[20:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─How many watts?
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:43] <exec> 08└─How was the binary located? Was it previously known?
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:45] <exec> 08└─Neutron stars are, in the astronomical sense, not too bright. But they are really heavy. So not likely previously known. But this is puzzling: A publicly available image of this merger was later deleted.
[20:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize this, but hummingbirds are exclusively a North American phenomenon. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─Because then you end up with something like this happening: http://www.threepanelsoul.com [threepanelsoul.com]
[20:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:51] <exec> 08└─I'd like to care about preserving my privacy, but I just don't have the time.
[20:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:53] <exec> 08└─They're kinda of irrelevant. I used to use Firefox all the damn time before javascript popped up everywhere and they lagged in performance. My firefox on Windows kept crashing twice a day for the last two years. Crashing at least isn't that bad anymore since it can restore to where it left off witho...
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[20:30:13] <exec> 08└─Anything constructive to add?
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[21:25:34] <exec> 08└─2.2-2.5kW at full power. (GeForce GTX 1060 [geforce.co.uk] is speced at max 120W, have 19 of those, add a CPU and some RAM - somewhere there). Doubles up as a pottery kiln - granted, a small one, for hobbyists perhaps. Or as a water preheater in a thermal power plant. Just don't use it in Arizona's...
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:36] <exec> 08└─"What do you do with this after cryptocurrency mining is dead?" what a bunch of fud. if it's priced right, i'll be buying one/some. cuts down on unnecessary motherboards, cpus, cpu coolers, ram, SSDs, etc.
[21:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:38] <exec> 08└─man, a lake of coffee sounds really good about now. No, it doesn't. Coffee is a nasty drink. Civilized people drink tea.
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrency is unlikely going to die off, but the current implementations are quite shaky. Not anonymous and relatively easily controlled by whoever has the hashing power.
[21:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─I'll get that going in the microwave for you.
[21:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─Do both. Curecoin.
[21:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I get your point here, but that's another thing that's nice about tea: you don't need some stupid fancy machine to make a cup (or a stupid special-purpose machine that makes an entire pot instead of just a cup), a simple microwave oven works just fine. A microwave, mug, water, and a tea...
[21:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:49] <exec> 08└─I prefer tea, but i've gotten to the point that coffee (with the proper add-ins--stevia, a bit of skim milk, some cinnamon) has about the right level of kick to it. Caffeine addiction is an awful thing but it keeps me going through multiple jobs.
[21:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:51] <exec> 08└─Imagine a beowolf cluster of them!
[21:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:53] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/3XS7tQ8bM68?t=54 [youtu.be]
[21:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:55] <exec> 08└─Stevia? Yuk. That stuff tastes so nasty to me. It seems like every non-sugar sweetener is either an acquired taste, or certain people like them while other people think they taste nasty (much like how many people like the taste of cilantro, but some people with a certain gene sequence think it taste...
[21:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:57] <exec> 08└─So, assume another ~ 2 kilowatts worth of air conditioning sitting right next to it. The average home only uses like 1 kilowatt. (It spikes much higher, but on average the fridge isn't running while the dryer is going while you are watching TV, etc.)
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[21:26:07] <exec> 08└─Care to speculate why images are being deleted? Wouldnt archive.org have it?
[21:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:34] <exec> 08└─Cool. I can see the trap filled to the brim with mosquito corpses in, like, half an hour (Ok, let's be generous, 30 minutes). After which... how can new mosquitoes get to reach the bait?
[21:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:35] <exec> 08└─One should note that nobody knows how the ecology will function without mosquitoes. I can tell Batman won't be happy to die of starvation - but what's the next link to collapse? Or explode in the niche the mosquitoes used to take?
[21:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─We had a story which mentioned specifically that it was the males that were targeted WRT population control. FDA Approves Field Trial of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes [soylentnews.org] Male modified mosquitoes, which do not bite or spread disease, are released to mate with the pest females. Thei...
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:40] <exec> 08└─In addition, how do the bats etc. fair on a diet of poisoned mosquitos?
[21:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:42] <exec> 08└─I'm sure someone can come up with a clever solution to avoid the trap being clogged with dead mosquitoes. This isn't that hard.
[21:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:44] <exec> 08└─Surely the idea is that the poisoned mosquitoes die very quickly, probably even before they leave the trap. At least I hope it's that effective; if the mosquitoes are flying around for some time filled with poison, that would certainly wreak havoc on the bats.
[21:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:25] <exec> 08└─The United Corporations and Churches of America [was USA] Where you are the product. The real customer is the Stock Holder.
[21:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─yep. act like a slave, get treated like a slave.
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:29] <exec> 08└─fuck you!
[21:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─That is your right. You're dumb, but that is your right...
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─From what I'd read a while back google started including binary objects in the chromium source repo that are normally built in. I am not sure how it acts on non-x86/arm platforms, or if it even builds on them ATM, but those stories concerned me enough to stop using it as my tertiary browser (I didn'...
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Interactive Robogami' Lets you Design and 3-D-print Origami-Inspired Robots From 2-D Designs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:42] <exec> 08└─"On a 3D Printer!" is the new "On a computer!"
[21:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gravity, 'Mechanical Loading' Are Key to Cartilage Development - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:50] <exec> 08└─No comments. Just an observation. Don't Spam mod me, bro!!
[21:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─all those useless morons they graduated had to get jobs somewhere.
[21:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:11] <exec> 08└─What an excellent way of looking at it!! Explains pretty so many problems with humanity.
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[22:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect China will know much sooner than US why there's been 4 major incidents with US Navy so far this year and where the missing sailors may be locat... errr.. scrapped from the inside of the vessels hull.
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─See if Windows 10 is any faster.
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─The average home only uses like 1 kilowatt.
[22:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:47] <exec> 08└─> What do you do with this after cryptocurrency mining is dead? Get a bunch of SATA expansion cards. Find a case that holds more hard drives than an Antec Ninteen Hundred and make it look crowded. Make computer unstealable with dozens of hard drives and multiple power supplies simply weighing it dow...
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:49] <exec> 08└─According to SCE, I only average 300W, but then again my bill is half to a quarter of my neighbors', and we don't live in total-AC-land or total-frost-land, so we can have Euro-style energy usage. I previously ranted about it being too low, and they won't let me put solar panels.
[22:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─How is it gonna feed all them GPUs (and their onboard RAMs)?
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:53] <exec> 08└─Because we need to track all those green aliens.
[22:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:04] <exec> 08└─Neutron stars are, in the astronomical sense, not too bright stupid. But they are really heavy fatsos. So not likely previously known many would follow them on Twitter.
[22:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:37] <exec> 08└─Or the other people they might bite with the poison in them...
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[23:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Life Ending Industry? Sounds like an organization of professional killers.
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─Some people may have missed the point of the religious requirement to honor their dead and their gods as a loved one departs to the afterlife...
[23:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─Only place where both the Prostitutes and Monks are just as likely to be out to murder you as provide for your needs (whether physical or spiritual.)
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─The Assassin's guild would like to officially distance itself from any effort to advertise services, in violation of the code of discretion. Those responsible will be promptly invited to test some of the aforementioned products.
[23:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:31] <exec> 08└─Anchovie wan kenobi, you're my only hope
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─It has 21 slots!
[23:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:35] <exec> 08└─Nuke sims? what for? They have enough nukes and enough people to be untouchable, and they don't want to use them offensively. Heck, if 90% of them were just empty cylinders with no explosive capability, their dissuasion would still be at 100%, while requiring a tiny budget. Why would they sink money...
[23:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:07] <exec> 08└─Arizona would be the best place. The damn thing will only make money if it's solar powered, otherwise it all goes to the power company
[23:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:09] <exec> 08└─Or if you're roughing it... Yes, I always make sure to have a jar of stuffed olives for my martinis when I'm three miles from the front
[23:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:11] <exec> 08└─you don't need some stupid fancy machine to make a cup (or a stupid special-purpose machine that makes an entire pot instead of just a cup)
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:21] <exec> 08└─Must be the alt-left.
[23:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you could explain to us how a pure free market approach to university is best for society Yet it is 'public' universities that have spiraling costs. The free market ones fail out. In my city 2 just closed. Yet the 'public' one continues on with ever growing costs.
[23:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wireless Divides Unlimited Plan Into Three Worse Options - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:27] <exec> 08└─You pay less, the discount reseller takes a cut of less money, Verizon makes a lot less money. The same is true of all of the telcos. Get the twenty five to fifty dollar discounted monthly service. If we all did that, the big telcos would take notice.
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