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[00:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:20] <exec> 08└─Let me have some of that Martian fatworm soup
[00:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:22] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that there is no such thing as god/gods and no such thing as an afterlife. One has to be pretty stupid to actually believe that shit. How about a Suicide Booth instead?
[00:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:24] <exec> 08└─Can't believe they're missing out on the obvious "thanks for our daily bread" toaster market. Muslims already have muezzins calling Adhan by pressing the tape-recorder so that's a guaranteed market right there... All we have to do is make them water-proof and baptize them for the Christians. If Cath...
[00:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:26] <exec> 08└─Some people may have missed the point of the religious requirement to honor their dead
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─My implication was that you either believe, and therefore you do the religious things for your dead and deity, or you don't (and therefore you don't). The part where a robot or MP3 player sings for you doesn't fit in the duality.
[00:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:30] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm... I see... All we have to do is make them water-proof and baptize them for the Christians.
[00:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:33] <exec> 08└─Fits quite well in teh second category, the subcase in which you don;t give a shit about the dead or the deity, but care about what the opinions of the others around you (and, as a person ever puzzled by the Japanese social norms, I wouldn't bet that using a robot isn't considered respectful enough...
[00:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─Sucralose seems fine to me. Plenty to choose though: http://www.sugar-and-sweetener-guide.com [sugar-and-sweetener-guide.com] Btw, curious fact about sweeteners and safety: Concerns always seem to turn-up around when the patents expire.
[00:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:20] <exec> 08└─Doesn't need to. Rather than a super-duper gaming computer, it's literally just an off-loader. Upload the data to each card in turn. Uploaded the code. Let the cards run on their own cores/RAM until they come up with a solution. Return the solution. You'll probably find that this thing would suck fo...
[00:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:22] <exec> 08└─Bannock, or Virginia City, Montana. Digital ghosttowns, after the cryptocurrency rush of the late 'oughts and early 'teens is over. Tumbleweeds blowing down the south bridge, PCIe busses covered in sand or infested with kangaroo rats, occasional groups of tourists passing through, saying, "How could...
[00:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:24] <exec> 08└─You think you need a machine to make coffee? I'm sure it can be done without it, but I'm pretty sure I've never actually seen anyone do this. They always use a machine. I've even had visiting relatives go out and buy a small coffeemaker because I didn't have one and they wanted coffee in the morning...
[00:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:36] <exec> 08└─It's unclear. The original space telescope live link in Ethan Siegel's article (which no longer shows the same image, it seems to change every day), formerly showed the picture of NGC 4993 which he appears to have saved (see the synopsis at ScienceBlogs [scienceblogs.com] for another link). Apparent...
[00:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:37] <exec> 08└─I don't think it was really "deleted", wording at the links I've found notwithstanding. I think the spacetelescopelive.org site only shows what Hubble is currently looking at, and after the telescope points elsewhere the previous image is no longer available at the site. It isn't supposed to be an a...
[00:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:39] <exec> 08└─It seems these scientists have not innovated for several months. I think it's time to end their funding - good bye. I like scientists who get a Nobel prize every month.
[00:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:42] <exec> 08└─(a) a requirement for the trigger to be activated was both a GW discovery AND a positive EM counterpart identification by the Dark Energy Camera
[00:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:16] <exec> 08└─Gorge, fly off in search of blood, in a half hour or so, the bug is experiencing metabolic failures.
[00:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an old school propane gas light would work?
[00:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:19] <exec> 08└─Nothing unusual there. Police have been setting out "pussy traps" for years to trap johns.
[00:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, all out of wood.
[00:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snow Could Fall on Mars - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:48] <exec> 08└─You're right. That's two small pipes. Here's one big pipe: | . Suck it.
[00:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─Zero is some level of popularity.
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[01:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Dimming Could be Explained by a Saturn-Like Exoplanet - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─Does this exoplanet have a hexagonal cloud pattern at it's north pole? Is this exoplanet another Anunnaki home world? Enquiring conspiracy theorists want to know.
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:34] <exec> 08└─Hell is indeed other robots ... Crocodylus pontifex approves of this message.
[01:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:46] <exec> 08└─Better? Where do you think all of those Asus motherboards are going?
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─Just pour hot water on to coffee grounds in a filter which drips into a cup or pitcher. The coffee machine just drips real slow for you.
[01:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:28] <exec> 08└─OpenVSwitch, anyone?
[01:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─Everyone here knows that a beowolf cluster of fully loaded, 19PCI slot machines will enable them to crack the Gibson!
[01:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIGO May Have Detected Merging Neutron Stars for the First Time - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:45] <exec> 08└─The Dark Energy Camera is just what they call the specially-built camera that The Dark Energy Survey [wikipedia.org] project uses to do its work. It's a special camera attached to the Victor M. Blanco telescope optimised to observe very distant supernovae and other phenomena useful in inferring the...
[01:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:23] <exec> 08└─Or worse, breed mosquitoes that aren't susceptible to the pesticides. Can't we stop making the same mistake over and over? Using this concoction as a lure is fine, but don't lace it with pesticides, just put it behind an electrified screen (bug zapper). Its hard to develop a resistance to 2000 volts...
[01:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─You won't get us, we've read the studies[1] on zapping living things in the presence of crazy chemicals, radioactivity, or genetic stuff ([1]Lee and Kirby, 1950 and later) Great, just what we need, Super-Moquito ...
[01:27:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 926 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:52] <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...
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[02:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:33] <exec> 08└─There is a chance these robots are for the soon-to-be deceased, like funeral planning, so youtry for the funeral you want. If they don't trust the family to do it "properly", or they have no family left, then this robot may just be the best way to get the rite you want. Until someone hacks it before...
[02:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:47] <exec> 08└─Where do you think all of those Asus motherboards are going?
[02:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:29] <exec> 08└─What do you do with this after cryptocurrency mining is dead?
[02:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:31] <exec> 08└─...then there's Ginger Baker who notes that no matter how simple it is, Yanks (USAians) can screw it up. T. U. S. A. Lyrics [metrolyrics.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:33] <exec> 08└─tweak it a little and you have human flesh, it's what they want and what they get. it's in most foods now with Illuminati designs. they cannot maintain their human appearance without ingesting human flesh. if you're in the right frame of mind, or should I say WRONG state of mind, these hybrid beings...
[02:27:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:48] <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...
[02:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravity, 'Mechanical Loading' Are Key to Cartilage Development - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:29] <exec> 08└─no one cares about cartridge
[02:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:41] <exec> 08└─That wooden word watch is cool as all hell. Both clever and beautiful to look at. Will be interesting to see what else comes out of that fellow's brain. Alas, on the rare occasions when I wear a watch, it's one that I got for the cost of a stamp, from a coupon in a box of corn flakes. (Yes, really....
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[03:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:24] <exec> 08└─I don't know why the IEEE is bothering, quantum computing is driven by marketing, not technology. So it'll end up being described with whatever term(s) the marketing department comes up with to sell it, not what the IEEE says. That's why we have Broadband and not G.992.1, WiFi and not 802.11ac, 5G a...
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─But... but... In A Gadda Da Vida is very respectful. And, in spite of the opinions of the time [youtube.com] (only 50 years since then), so it's Astronomy Domine or "Several species... grooving with a pict". If you wanted something outrageously disrespectful, why not mention... what's his name... th...
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:53] <exec> 08└─Bryan Adams?
[03:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:07] <exec> 08└─That was my immediate response as well. Or for implementing an even better Great Firewall, filtering all potential criticism of the government from weibo, and acting as a centralised collection site for all the Chinese-made Internet-enabled devices that phone home.
[03:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─The thing I don't get (and the article doesn't really talk about) is how does one actually physically use all those slots? I assume that populating all those "slots" involve special mining GPU's in a non-standard form factor*. I suppose the slots closest to the rear are in the correct place for the...
[03:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:55] <exec> 08└─That's what I used to do. Nice and strong: too strong. Seems to have pissed off my stomach. Now I can only drink it in small quantities.
[03:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:57] <exec> 08└─BSOD at 10 X the speed of light.
[03:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:51] <exec> 08└─Lots of species go extinct every year and the world gets along just fine. We killed off the short faced bear and the sabre tooth tiger so our villages would be safe. We killed off the passenger pigeon (it was a trade-off so we could have agriculture and avoid famines). We killed off smallpox and pol...
[03:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:38] <exec> 08└─One of the problems with Chromium is that there are no official builds, so what is and is not in it all depends on who did the build. I'd trust the builds in the official repositories for Debian or Ubuntu to not include anything they didn't have the source for, but some of the other builds? Who know...
[03:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03xhedit [6669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:40] <exec> 08└─Ungoogled chromium fixes that issue.
[03:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:42] <exec> 08└─It's OK, Mozilla has been ignoring its users for years, so gathering data that they can ignore as well won't make any difference.
[03:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:21] <exec> 08└─"I wonder what the reasons are for such a massive increase in administrative personnel." Junk fills the space allotted.
[03:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universities are Broke. So Let's Cut Admin Overhead and Get Back to Teaching - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:23] <exec> 08└─Each teacher has their own administrator??!
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[04:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─Is this a fucking joke? Looks like one of those terrible April fool's day stories on another green site.
[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:27] <exec> 08└─because it would be too much work, now, to embrace a new, consistent taxonomy. Especially the medical profession and its terms for various parts of the human anatomy.
[04:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:30] <exec> 08└─The other quantum technology is profoundly affected by the same illness for quite a long time already [xkcd.com].
[04:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─Even with all the talk about quantum computing it is still extremely confusing about what it actually IS. It seems as if it is really not possible to fully understand it: that is, one simultaneously understands and does not understand quantum computing, until one NEEDS to understand it, at which tim...
[04:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:01] <exec> 08└─I thought it was just a stereotype that Japanese get carried away with robots, but this just reinforces it.
[04:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:02] <exec> 08└─No, silly. The Bieber one.
[04:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:05] <exec> 08└─My implication was that you either believe, and therefore you do the religious things for your dead and deity, or you don't (and therefore you don't).
[04:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that the application of technology invalidates the honoring of the dead of the ritual? Best to ditch electric lights then. The coffin better be hand made from naturally grown trees. Hire some people to carry the coffin since transporting it via vehicles is verboten. Gotta weave the fu...
[04:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:04] <exec> 08└─Lots of species go extinct every year and the world gets along just fine.
[04:28:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:39] <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.
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[05:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─And Microsoft loses money selling X-Boxes. So fucking what?
[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:21] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of value in keeping your promises and making your customers happy.
[05:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:23] <exec> 08└─so they make $25million on most launches, and lose $14million on this one. SoaceX makes lots of money Commentator: "but they didn't make money on every single thing" Sane people: "so?" Intenet, people who don't like Elon, random shareholders: "Panic! Panic! Aargh!"
[05:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:09] <exec> 08└─No, that's not what I'm saying, and I had already clarified my statement.
[05:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Exascale Supercomputer Could be Used for Maritime Research - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you, that's very valuable information! My Generals told me North Korea's nuclear weapons are puny. Knowing that, I talked very tough to President Kim Jong-un. And won without firing a single shot. Why didn't they tell me that China's nuclear weapons are FAKE? Why didn't I guess it? The Chinese...
[05:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:13] <exec> 08└─So, assume another ~ 2 kilowatts worth of air conditioning sitting right next to it.
[05:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:00] <exec> 08└─You must be the only other person other than Kathleen who's ever seen Rob Malda's micropenis.
[05:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:01] <exec> 08└─It let me close tabs to the right. It didn't let me close tabs to the left. BADLY SLANTED! I went back to the orb. 🇺🇸
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[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:26] <exec> 08└─They don't know shit either way. Space X is a private company, it's just guesswork and really it only hypes the company by saying how much they might make on most launches which are 'scaling exponentially' ... Outside of this article, the author is very positive on Space X. I think the Musk empire/p...
[06:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:13] <exec> 08└─http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=44,13066,0,0,1,0 [buddhistchannel.tv] In an effort to make his Buddhist temple more accessible to the wider public and draw younger generations to religion, a former DJ turned Buddhist priest has been holding “techno memorial services” at his temple in...
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[06:32:33] <exec> 08└─No, he lacks the maturity of a mean teenage girl.......
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[07:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:14] <exec> 08└─I read that headline as "Evacuations ... as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfill". I had visions of people fleeing a torrential downpour of tons of garbage. I think I need to drink more coffee.
[07:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:16] <exec> 08└─There's an unclosed small (or similar) tag somewhere in the summary of this article! It's making EVERYTHING below smaller. (comments and even other articles!) Somebody could file a bug about open tags in summaries, this isn't the first time we see this kind of a snafu.
[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─Evacuate the loyal Trump voters, leave behind everyone else to die who voted for the other guy. Who was the other candidate anyhow? Sheet, I dun even member! Long live Trump!
[07:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, looks like it's the "small" tag on the "Original Submission #1" link. You can see the second link is then made doubly small. I just assumed I'd left my browser zoomed out - see I can't function without enough coffee!
[07:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:22] <exec> 08└─Is it worse when there's a story about Alaska?
[07:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:24] <exec> 08└─What gets me is that the unclosed tag bug is present even on the homepage, where the "original submission" links are hidden behind a "read more" :)
[07:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:47] <exec> 08└─another related one [xkcd.com]
[07:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3 [smbc-comics.com]
[07:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─It's an Electric Monk. As described in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
[07:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:25] <exec> 08└─Interestingly also buddhist. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Religion is for robots.
[07:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:27] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that there is no such thing as god/gods and no such thing as an afterlife.
[07:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:29] <exec> 08└─> No, that scenario not very likely. But it is also not impossible. The claim "there is no god/afterlife" has no more evidence than the claim "there is a god/afterlife". And the acknowledgement of that is the difference between an agnostic and an atheist :)
[07:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:29] <exec> 08└─1) Some may also evolve to not drink lethal doses of the pesticide. 2) There are zillions of blood sucking mosquitoes, it's likely there are enough mosquitoes that are not that attracted to this blend. So if this gets widespread use, eventually most mosquitoes will be immune to this concoction wheth...
[07:29:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:00] <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.
[07:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Reveals its "Spacesuit" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:02] <exec> 08└─* "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" * Insert coin * "You're holding it wrong"
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[08:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:14] <exec> 08└─The Ubuntu-Core required to integrate Snappy software management system uses 612MB, and snapd, the endpoint software management service needed to interact with Snappy, uses 15MB. The IoT device would need 627MB-plus memory for the IoT app called a snap.
[08:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:27] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it someone called "Her Emails"?
[08:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:29] <exec> 08└─Did someone just update the CSS for the comments? The comments are tiny in comparison to the article, where they used to be the same size. Undo plz?
[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:55] <exec> 08└─- eiπ Thank you for that link!
[08:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:34] <exec> 08└─It's cultural. In the west you have Terminator and Matrix, in Japan you have Atom Boy and Gundam. Reinforced by drastic population decline and resistance to immigration, so robots and automation in general are increasingly critical technologies.
[08:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:35] <exec> 08└─Or a scientist... Many of them are still religious... even in some philosophical reasoning "god" has a role. Many people think religion and science are complete opposites and exclude each other, but they are not and could even complement.
[08:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:37] <exec> 08└─What are the chances that other inseccts/animals would also get attracted by the sweet smell? And yeah, what about the animals that feed on mosquitos?
[08:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:30] <exec> 08└─Problem is, if you ask, you get an answer. Such as "I like the old way of doing this, and I'd rather use Chrome than the new way". Where as with statistics, you can just see that people still use the old way, and so it becomes "the new way of doing this must be more prominent, and the old way must b...
[08:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:31] <exec> 08└─Fun thing with statistics is that it can be interpreted. Developers: "We created this cool new way of doing the same thing, but people are still using the old way, so the new way must be made more prominent and the old way must be hidden in about:config or removed". Users: The new way is terrible an...
[08:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:33] <exec> 08└─You missed the post a couple of weeks ago about Mozilla using Google Analytics to track users, with no way to disable or block it. Even tracking blockers were prevented from blocking it. The official response: "Just block it at the DNS level". So, don't recommend Firefox to anyone who isn't capable...
[08:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:08] <exec> 08└─Lots of people still rely on watches - don't write them off yet. Aircrew, nurses, divers, military folk, scientists (look at pictures of people working on the LHD for example), people working in remote places, astronauts, people working in secure areas with classified information. The list goes on b...
[08:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoyVertisement: Wooden Word Watch - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:09] <exec> 08└─But the editors turn down a lot, a lot of my submissions.
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[09:25:13] <exec> 08└─From the article: Snaps can communicate with one another, automatically or with manually set privileges, to prevent exploits using a consumer and provider architecture. Most interfaces are designed for strong application isolation and user control such that auto-connected interfaces are considered s...
[09:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:29] <exec> 08└─The problem was in one of the original sources - I hope that I have managed to fix it--Janrinok
[09:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:30] <exec> 08└─> Wasn't it someone called "Her Emails"? I thought it was "Crooked Emails Lock'erup"?
[09:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:32] <exec> 08└─Looks fine again now, thanks!
[09:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:43] <exec> 08└─Cost of first voyage of an vehicle or vessel is equal to the price of it plus recurrent expenses. On second voyage it is only half of price plus recurrent expenses, ... etc. If you are not using calculating with constant amortization rate (because at first you are not sure how far will initial inves...
[09:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:01] <exec> 08└─Very relevant ... Thanks.
[09:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:45] <exec> 08└─Oh, wow. Glad to see you are still around. I thought John Podesta and his friends got ahold of you.
[09:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:46] <exec> 08└─2.5kW is the power of a small fan heater. Those GPUs are going to need to to extract the heat at the rate that it's generated and keep the temperatures low inside. I doubt that air cooling will do it.
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[10:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:12] <exec> 08└─I like how science can abandon people.
[10:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:14] <exec> 08└─Just wait a month and the whole govt will shutdown while we watch Trump spit out his dummy about the wall. The art of the deal folks - get everyone on the hook and threaten to bring them down with you. We can call it a chapter 11 restructuring. Big win.
[10:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:16] <exec> 08└─I was interested in what kind of science was involved here, it looks like economics: http://sapiens.revues.org [revues.org] Actually, I havent read many economics papers. That one looked like it contained no data at all, only model outputs. Is that usual? Then I tried to go here but one of the...
[10:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:26] <exec> 08└─"Snappy, a software deployment and management system designed by Canonical for the Ubuntu operating system, could be a shortcut to building trusted IoT applications." Really? Tell me more. "The first rule of building a secure and feature-rich ecosystem is software management — push and pull softwa...
[10:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:28] <exec> 08└─Why the heck should my fridge need 627+Mb of RAM in order to not destroy the internet? Surely we're suffering from code bloat here...
[10:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:30] <exec> 08└─This piece of news just tries to sell you the snappy thing. When you do embedded dev, you put everything at the same low level place as resources as scarce. So we would end up with everything in a single compromised snappy packages, thus defeating its use. Furthermore, a snappy package and its KVM v...
[10:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:59] <exec> 08└─When Amazon or Walmart are selling at a loss to gain market dominance, it's considered extremely effective and quite a bit underhanded and unfair :/
[10:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:00] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, things don't go according to plan. Plan was, they'd hang this one up in the sky using a launch vehicle that was since decommissioned. Had they launched on time, on the right vehicle, it would have required literally 1/10th the Merlin engines (though an additional, if simpler, Kestrel woul...
[10:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:19] <exec> 08└─Hah, I loved that comic, one of the best SMBCs :) -- "It's not the size that matters. It's the rotation through complex vector space." -- "Wait. You guys put complex numbers in your ontologies?" "We do. And we enjoy it." "Ewww."
[10:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:00] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting that the robot is tasked to do things at ceremonies where it is not traditional to "pass the plate". I guarantee you that should the robot infringe on ceremonies where plate-passing is done, there are gonna be riots staged by the men of the cloth, who just lost their plate. Unp...
[10:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:07] <exec> 08└─I'm a little surprised that you wrote that entire paragraph without once mentioning a kettle. In the UK, the electric kettle is a standard piece of kitchen equipment, even in a household that doesn't drink tea. (Instant coffee of various qualities still has a following in the home market, possibly b...
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[10:29:07] <exec> 08└─Most insecticides are harmless or do very little damage to mammals (bats and humans included). And no one said that the "solution" will be deployed world-wide. I have bats living under my roof. They made my yard almost mosquito-less. The landlord was skeptical for them until I explained what they f...
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[11:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─It's a curious new kind of science called "virtue signalling" featuring "intersectional youranazism".
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing submissions of this quality are why aristarchus has been complaining about his subs not getting published. Pro-tip: Godwin in the comments not the submission.
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:27] <exec> 08└─comparing literal Nazi's to literal Nazi's is not Godwinning
[11:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:39] <exec> 08└─If this is a 'shortcut' to 'trusted iot applications' I am wondering what they where originally thinking of... This is not internet of thing, more likely they misspelled 'IdiOT'.
[11:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:40] <exec> 08└─To whoever wrote that title, FUCK YOU.
[11:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:59] <exec> 08└─Mine, or the other? 🇺🇸
[11:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─Page bugs, css issues, small fonts. Not that I don't expect such discussion on a supposed tech-bent site, but, about that hurricane...
[11:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:02] <exec> 08└─Don't know - I simply used a quick method that would counter either. :)
[11:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 3080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:15] <exec> 08└─I have to believe there is a God, but my concept of Him seems so different from what I am told. I cite John 1:1. "In the beginning was the word. The word was with God. The word was God." God. Before Time. After Time. Did the laws governing space, time, energy, and matter exist before the creati...
[11:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:16] <exec> 08└─Posting from it right now. :)
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[12:25:13] <exec> 08└─who employ a pattern of criminal activity and a campaign of misinformation for purposes of increasing donations and advancing their political or business agendas
[12:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:27] <exec> 08└─Not too long ago, Obama and Hilary were considered Nazis by.... well, by esseintially the same people who dressed up in Nazi outfits and paraded through Charlottesville. So are we to assume Unite the Right are a bunch of Obama supporters? Left wing politics is very confusing.
[12:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:29] <exec> 08└─Obama appointee dislikes Trump! News at 11:00! Anyway, I've never understood the criticism of Trump's remarks about Charlottesville. There were idiots in pseudo-Nazi uniforms parading around on one side. On the other side, there were progressives looking for a fight, who started the violence. And on...
[12:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:31] <exec> 08└─> new kind of science BEEP, sorry, Stephen Wolfram already took that phrase: https://www.wolframscience.com [wolframscience.com]
[12:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:33] <exec> 08└─Just like WW2 when some Nazi's did some stuff and some other people did some stuff and even more people did stuff. We're all to blame, really.
[12:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:36] <exec> 08└─Summary is wrong then. Economists are not scientists. Their "theories" are not falsifiable through evidence. Economics wraps itself in some math and its own jargon dialect, making it sound scientific. It's just modern-day chicken sacrifices though. Ask an economist to use their "scientific" tools to...
[12:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:38] <exec> 08└─Everyone is to blame: those who protested against Nazis, and those innocent Nazis who killed the protesters. I remember a time, it must have been like a year ago, when most people considered Nazis to be kind of bad. How the times change! Oh, while we're here, remind me what we should do about the Mu...
[12:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:11] <exec> 08└─I'm impressed that realDonaldTrump actually knows about this and even more that he has some clue about evacuating. Just wondering, Mr Trump, did you get round to appointing a head of FEMA yet? There's a guy you might really like for that position - rich old white guy, excellent with horses. Only 1 m...
[12:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:33] <exec> 08└─Depends on the temperature and flow. Pump the air at -50C and it shouldn't be a problem.
[12:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:35] <exec> 08└─Is the kettle not a common appliance in (say) the USA?
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[13:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─The country plans to have the first such power plants hooked up to the grid inside 15 years.
[13:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:34] <exec> 08└─I think we're making a serious PR mistake calling these "Thorium Reactors" even though the term is accurate. "Reactor" evokes "Nuclear Reactor". For many people, "nuclear reactor" is a deeply loaded term. Likewise "Thorium" (and other words that end in "-ium") sounds dangerously like "plutonium" and...
[13:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:43] <exec> 08└─You mean... there's a chance, even if a remote one, to create a precedent?
[13:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:45] <exec> 08└─Greenpeace says truth. What I say is they both have different opinions. I'm pretty sure you can't win when its an opinion. Its to bad both sides can't be locked into a cage match with two rusty butter knifes. Two douches enter and one douche leaves.
[13:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─I say call Saint Elon to play Solomon. He'll suggest using a Boring Machine to put the pipeline completely under the Indian land and the big river...where it should have been in the first place.
[13:26:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:00] <exec> 08└─Obama appointee dislikes Trump! News at 11:00! Anyway, I've never understood the criticism of Trump's remarks about Charlottesville. There were idiots in pseudo-Nazi uniforms parading around on one side. On the other side, there were progressives looking for a fight, who started the violence. And on...
[13:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:06] <exec> 08└─The President needs to send Jared and Ivanka out to meet these torch-wielding "very fine people" who are only protesting a couple of statues after all. Jared could personally lead them through the streets in honor of our heritage. Jared! Jared! Jared! I can hear them chanting.
[13:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:08] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I've never understood the criticism of Trump's remarks about Charlottesville.
[13:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─comparing literal Nazi's to literal Nazi's is not Godwinning
[13:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:12] <exec> 08└─Even American scientists have ethics, and will not serve violent racist regimes, like Nazi Germany. So there is that.
[13:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:14] <exec> 08└─It could have been worse. [soylentnews.org]
[13:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:28] <exec> 08└─To whoever wrote that title, FUCK YOU.
[13:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:50] <exec> 08└─testing an open bold taggy in comment begins here and never ends
[13:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:51] <exec> 08└─at least didn't affect comments in other threads, what about this one?
[13:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:53] <exec> 08└─OK, I give up... are you suggesting Cheney (with the black mark of shooting his pal)? Or is this a Robert E. Lee back reference?
[13:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:55] <exec> 08└─I think I need to drink more coffee.
[13:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:58] <exec> 08└─Won;t help, after an age the damage is irreversible.
[13:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:12] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh because Xbox hopes to make that back by selling games that run on that Xbox. This launch was an abnormal loss of millions, some of which is attributable to the recent accidents. The reusable booster may help somewhat but they need to spend money to refurbish that too.
[13:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:14] <exec> 08└─How you deal with that, that speaks to character.
[13:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Dimming Could be Explained by a Saturn-Like Exoplanet - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:40] <exec> 08└─How does a planet close to the star (with a period of days) make the starlight decline (almost) steadily for 4 consecutive years?
[13:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:25] <exec> 08└─The thing I don't get (and the article doesn't really talk about) is how does one actually physically use all those slots?
[13:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:27] <exec> 08└─How many hashes per second can it process with hashcat software.
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[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─"molten salt power generator"
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─In Japan, they are Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Power Generators (Sūpā shiawasena kyōki no tanoshī jikan no hatsudenki) Makes you want one of your own doesn't it!? :)
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─omae wa mou shindeiru
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─That's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that it can't be weaponized, so if a country like Iran were to get hold of it, we wouldn't have any excuse for sabotaging their research because of claims that they are only interested in creating nuclear weapons while covering our ears and shou...
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem is that it can't be weaponized, so if a country like Iran were to get hold of it, we wouldn't have any excuse for sabotaging their research ...
[14:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─The last time we had a government shutdown, the cost was higher than the cost of building a wall. So if anybody shuts down the government to supposedly avoid the cost of building a wall, they are full of shit.
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, Eds are just throwing a bone to Aristarchus and Kurenai so they have something to rant about. This will, in turn, generate a retaliatory butthurt strike from EF and Runaway. My Jiffy-pop is almost ready.
[14:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:06] <exec> 08└─The left doxxed everybody there except for the guy holding the actual Nazi flag. The right noticed, then doxxed him, and it turns out that he was seen at liberal protest events. So the leader is just pretending to be Nazi in order to dox people, or he has some kind of split personality thing, or he...
[14:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:08] <exec> 08└─Straight up virtue signaling bullshit. All the violence in Charlottesville was result of AntiFa agitators and complicit city government that told the riot police to stand down. This allowed AntiFa to carry out their violence, block off streets, attack vehicles with drivers in them, making them fear...
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure about all this. Are we sure science is ok with being anthropomorphized?
[14:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:12] <exec> 08└─Grammar Nazi's must be a separatist faction of Grammar Nazis that are advocating for greengrocers rights. Thank goodness nobody's mentioned the Literal Grammar Nazi's. Oops!
[14:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:53] <exec> 08└─Heckuva good guess! But no, keep trying.
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─Another opportunity for Trump to make Dubya look good.
[14:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─Rootin Tootin Putin?
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:31] <exec> 08└─The cartoon sets a high bar. They actually do a pretty good job of describing the situation. Both here's what we think is happening in nature and here's our feeble attempt to model it in math. Hopefully, the IEEE will recognize the bar even if they don't clear it. The CC field is an infant. It...
[14:28:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:04] <exec> 08└─My implication was that you either believe, and therefore you do the religious things for your dead and deity, or you don't (and therefore you don't).
[14:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─By that illogic the universe COULD be run by a pair of magic alicorn sisters, or a flying plate of spaghetti, or the Great Green Arkleseizure that sneezed the universe in to existence. So why isn't everyone performing all possible magical rituals to appease all possibilities? What makes those possib...
[14:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:28] <exec> 08└─Minesweeper at ~60 fps.
[14:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:30] <exec> 08└─Or a killer robocaller.
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[15:25:22] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─"Reactor" evokes "Nuclear Reactor". For many people, "nuclear reactor" is a deeply loaded term. Likewise "Thorium" (and other words that end in "-ium") sounds dangerously like "plutonium" and "uranium".
[15:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─if china cannot keep growing on in-land demand only and continues to rely on "attracting" work from overseas, then soon there will no more blood to let and china will end up in a melt-down. my guess is, that if all exports from china are blocked today, that all this "break-neck" development and grow...
[15:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:26] <exec> 08└─> In Japan, they are Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Power Generators (Sūpā shiawasena kyōki no tanoshī jikan no hatsudenki) I'm quite sure that's just a euphemism for masturbation. (Really, 自家発電 (jika hatsuden, home power generation) *is* an actual euphemism for masturbation :D)
[15:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─The company alleges that the groups' actions interfered with its business
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:37] <exec> 08└─You're a fool, guess you enjoy corporate fascism.
[15:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:08] <exec> 08└─ESL, AC? "Nazi's" is a possessive, meaning "belonging to a Nazi". If English is your primary language, I suggest you read a few real books. The word you were looking for is "Nazis".
[15:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 2135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:09] <exec> 08└─"The tragic death of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal who was killed when a motorist plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters who had gathered to oppose a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., may, in its own way, help prefigure the rebuilding of a more genuinely transformative L...
[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─I've got a pop for you kid! Open wide!!
[15:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:13] <exec> 08└─When did we get a literal Nazi party in the U.S.? I must've missed that memo.
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:16] <exec> 08└─Nope, science hates being anthropomorphised, and wishes we would cut it out.
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─They used to call themselves "alt-right".
[15:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:20] <exec> 08└─People aren't talking about shutting down to avoid building the wall; Trump is talking about shutting down as a temper tantrum if we *won't* build the wall.
[15:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─How high are you right now?
[15:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:24] <exec> 08└─That's you only explanation for my post? Maybe you're the one who is high. Two anti-American groups have a confrontation, and some of them die. What's to be upset about? OH! I KNOW!! We should be upset that they didn't ALL KILL EACH OTHER!! Imagine, hundreds of Nazis, and thousands of communists and...
[15:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:26] <exec> 08└─But this time it was a poor mentally disturbed white guy. We can't lynch a WHITE person!! God these threads show how clearly the alt-right (and sympathizers / conspiratards) enjoys this site.
[15:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─Not to worry. When the faggoty left does it, it's alright.
[15:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:31] <exec> 08└─You're a disgusting and narrow minded fool. Sadly no amount of pointing this out will cause you to self-reflect and break through your conditioning. I guess all we can do is wait for old morons like you to die off.
[15:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:33] <exec> 08└─The lefties are re-defining "science". Bush said, "No stem cell research!" Lefties say "No STEM!" Future "scientists" will be researching how facts make people feel, and discarding facts that are down facts, and reinforcing facts that are up facts. No more need for drugs, just read (or listen) to so...
[15:26:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 1448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─"Snappy, a software deployment and management system designed by Canonical for the Ubuntu operating system, could be a shortcut to building trusted IoT applications." Really? Tell me more. "The first rule of building a secure and feature-rich ecosystem is software management — push and pull softwa...
[15:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:49] <exec> 08└─My fridge doesn't require *any* RAM in order not to destroy the internet,
[15:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─Requiring the user to confirm the updates is as good as not having updates for the 95% of the customers who will never apply them.
[15:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:54] <exec> 08└─Where were you folks for this article's headline? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Apparently, Science abandoned someone important.
[15:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─By that illogic
[15:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:58] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Some people have stove-top "tea kettles" like this one [walmart.com], and there are electric ones like this one [walmart.com], but honestly I've never seen anyone with an electric one that I can recall. I also don't really see the point of either of these; if you just want to boil wate...
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[16:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:20] <exec> 08└─There is a shortage of Americans willing to work for a dollar a day, or even ten dollars a day. In much of the country, there are plenty of people willing to work for a hundred dollars a day. Oh - does that sound like a lot of money? A hundred dollars a day? Does that scare anyone? Well - guy earns...
[16:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─I've been in the IT field for over 25 years, and like many of us I have worked with many different technologies. I've obtained many different certifications, and worked my way from Desktop Support to Project Management. I currently hold a PMP, Scrum Master, and ITIL certifications. However, after be...
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─It's the global wage gap. The end.
[16:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─Of course there isn't a shortage of skilled workers! I saw news stories crying over the supposed lack of skilled workers even in 2008-2010, when the Great Recession had pushed unemployment to 25%, and more than a few of the unemployed were tech workers. We also heard proof that the H1B program was b...
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:28] <exec> 08└─Willing to work at the wages that employers want to pay. I take myself as an example. My wife and I graduated from a top 10 university, both in computer science, both in the top of our respective classes with a healthy portfolio. Her best offer was $40k working for Boeing in Idaho with no vacation a...
[16:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─Sucks, don't it? If you and I had to be born evil white males, we should have been born a hundred years ago, when evil white males were worshipped around the world! Hey, I hope things work out for you. But, warning: if the company "helps" you to buy your own truck, you're setting yourself up for a f...
[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─I was browsing linkedin and came across this posting: https://www.linkedin.com [linkedin.com] look at the seniority level: 'entry level' look at the experience asked for: 10+ years on this and that. now, either they already have an h1b lined up and are just posting this to cover...
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. It's the banking industry's artificial manipulation of currency. If it costs a day's work to feed and house a family in the Philippines, and it costs a day's work to feed and house a family in Bermuda - why should the currencies have vastly different values?
[16:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─We have skilled engineers and software developers switching careers because employers want only cheap sheep. We have "statisticians" reporting the number of unfilled jobs by counting ads from all sources and summing them. Most significantly, we have a business culture that believes all value is crea...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:39] <exec> 08└─What do you think, is there a shortage of skilled workers ??
[16:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─Wow. Saw youre post, clicked the link, read the listing. I flipped back here, to post a flippant remark. Then it really hit me. "Entry level". FFS, they're asking for a four year degree, PLUS eight year's expereince? And, it's "entry level"?? Maybe they're trying to recruit Methuselah. Oh, the flipp...
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─Technology enthusiasts and entrepreneurs are among the loudest voices declaiming this conventional wisdom ... Proponents of the idea tell an intuitively appealing story: information technology has hit American firms like a whirlwind, intensifying demand for technical skills and leaving unprepared Am...
[16:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:00] <exec> 08└─Thorium vapor, yeah let's smoke that for a while, said the Dutch researcher.
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:01] <exec> 08└─LOL, glad I'm not the only one who picked up on that one here! But on a more serious note: these things would be perfect with the modular reactor design Toshiba (IIRC?) was working on. Load with enough fuel for 50 years, make passive-safe, then bury them and forget them.
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─"The spin we really need is to get groups like Greenpeace on board with the idea of Thorium Reactors being a non-proliferating waste disposal plant, used to destroy Uranium byproducts and render them safe." This, by far, the best idea I have seen in years. Sell and build the plants to dispose of the...
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─Yep - sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and other organizations have made it clear for decades that the lawsuits they file are more about costing the companies money than actual justice. Turn-about is fair play. Though really, we do need to figure out some why to...
[16:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:00] <exec> 08└─""kill their families and bomb their villages"" Yep, you got that right. So, let's track down all of those leftists bastards who were protesting the protestors, and kill them, then bomb their villages. The only Nazi who killed anyone in Charlottesville can make a convincing argument that he acted in...
[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:01] <exec> 08└─Insightful - but I'm out of mod points.
[16:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus only likes young bones. All of the Soylent staff is much to old for the resident pedarast.
[16:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:05] <exec> 08└─Pro-tip: Godwin in the comments not the submission.
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─Me? Narrow minded? I looked at Charlottesville, and found NOTHING BUT BAD ACTORS on BOTH SIDES!! You? You poor chump. You're drinking the main stream media Kool-Aid by the gallon, and begging for more! Wake up, Stupid. You're being played, and you're a very useful idiot.
[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─Please continue staying off your meds, with any luck they'll put you in a fancy jacket and we'll never need to read your racism-lite again.
[16:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─Don't know what else to expect from someone like you, but it is sad nonetheless. Enjoy your propaganda and projection.
[16:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:14] <exec> 08└─The righties are redefining stupid. They call up Guiness and said "get ready boys we're about to set some new records!". Yes the title is dumb, welcome to modern clickbait, but sounds like you finally flew off the deep end.
[16:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:16] <exec> 08└─But the most interesting thing, is the encryption: However, his most biting message may have come in the form of a hidden acrostic: The first letter of each paragraph spelled out I-M-P-E-A-C-H.
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─And, you're almost certainly a hypocrite. You're opposed to "my" kind of racism, but you probably support Antifa. Dude - if you can't condemn reverse-racism, then you're just another racist yourself. You will also note, I've not spoken up for either the Nazis or the communist shit-stirrers. I'm not...
[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─And, you enjoy your delusions. I haven't taken a side in the Charlottesville incident. Apparently, you have.
[16:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─Unlike yourself, whose parents only waded into the shallow end of the gene pool.
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─I've got some Midol if you need it, Runaway. Why didn't you tell me it was Shark Week for you? :) Have a nap, some chocolate, and come back and post when you're in a better, less overly-emotional frame of mind.
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─Shitty grammar aside, you're also incorrect. Godwin's Law makes no claim about whether a particular Hitler comparison is apropos, only that the likelihood of such a comparison goes up with length of any internet discussion. Note that we could swap out "Hitler" with anything else and the rule would s...
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─No, he didn't. Ignoring media commentary, reread the law and then reread his statement. They don't contradict each other. They law is a rather bland statement about probabilities, it doesn't say that any particular comparison is or is not apt.
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─You're just jealous, 'Zumi. I'm the guy you wish that you could be.
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:33] <exec> 08└─I think his wife finally left him and he has no other outlet than website comment sections.
[16:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:51] <exec> 08└─See topic. This isn't only stupid, it's ugly, slow, and inefficient. I know aesthetics aren't a moral metric, but it's the dingleberry cherry on top of the crap sundae here. People, these things are embedded systems. They should be running only tiny distros like TinyCore or Void with a minimal, audi...
[16:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Dimming Could be Explained by a Saturn-Like Exoplanet - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:04] <exec> 08└─I'm more confused at a planet that is so wobbly that its ring plane can differ significantly over a matter of a few years. I mean, that's a *LOT* of angular momentum involved.
[16:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, Firefox has been bad for privacy by default for a long time (at least since version 3, when they introduced the address bar that sends what you type in it to a third party search provider). There is a long list of about:config options you need to adjust in order to disable Firefox from sending...
[16:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:54] <exec> 08└─Firefox is going to start acting more like it's competitors. Edge spies on you. Chrome spies on you. Chromium has binary blobs in it. Pale Moon lacks compatibility for important plugins. Opera and Vivaldi are closed source. What should we use if we want both privacy and functionality? The PTB, both...
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[17:25:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─There is a shortage of Americans willing to work for a dollar a day, or even ten dollars a day. In much of the country, there are plenty of people willing to work for a hundred dollars a day. Oh - does that sound like a lot of money? A hundred dollars a day? Does that scare anyone? Well - guy earns...
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─You are not getting outsourced or "rightsized" (may whoever came up with that one rot in hell...) for being straight, white, or male. It's all about money. The pissfucks running this scam, who are also almost all straight white men, only see one color: green. Stop blaming other racial groups and put...
[17:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:39] <exec> 08└─There's a serious shortage of highly-qualified tech workers, and it's exacerbated by all the Negative Nancies and other whiners and complainers who seem to think these jobs should be highly-paid. Tech workers should be happy to have a job doing work they love, so they should be happy to get paid $30...
[17:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:41] <exec> 08└─I agree with your analysis.
[17:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:43] <exec> 08└─> if you live in your car Oops, you missed there. Cars are expensive luxury items. Scrappy, independent tech workers live in tents.
[17:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:45] <exec> 08└─'..and I'm done fighting against the fact that as a middle-aged, straight, white, US citizen I feel like I'm shoved to the back of the line.'
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:47] <exec> 08└─> I also intend to pay shit wages, but I'll do so fully knowing that I'll never be attracting the next Elon Musk. Of course you don't want the next Musk, anyone with that much drive will soon be their own boss. Don't waste time training someone who is just going to leave you. I have been running my...
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─You can get a used car for as low as $500. This advice isn't helpful for all tech workers, as cars are a big inconvenience in some urban areas (like NYC), but there's tons of tech employers outside those places and a car is a necessity to work there. So tech workers should be happy buying old used c...
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─I wholeheartedly agree with you on the responsible parties. I'm just pointing out that for certain recognized minorities it's slightly less bad.
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the advice. I had my concerns about that kind of arrangement, but it's always nice to get additional input.
[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─We should start calling these "salt power stations" or "pizza parlors". Otherwise, IMHO, it will be a steep uphill battle getting public and legislative support for building these things, regardless of their many benefits.
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─Instead of bending the will of irrational idiots, it would be easier to bait them with whale hunting ships armed with machine guns to wipe out some of their prominent leaders.
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Let's just call them "Power Generator type 90/233", it is short, simple, informative, unchantable, and reloadable into 90/239 which they would have one heck of a time explaining why they are against. It would also allow for us to have 92/233, 92/235, 92/239, 94/233, and 94/239. Or we could just call...
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─That's steganography, not encryption.
[17:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:33] <exec> 08└─If I'm a racist, then I'm for the American race. Not blacks, not whites, not immigrants - I'm all about responsible, tax-paying, voting, American citizens who serve their country.
[17:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:35] <exec> 08└─""kill their families and bomb their villages"" Yep, you got that right. So, let's track down all of those leftists bastards who were protesting the protestors, and kill them, then bomb their villages. The only Nazi who killed anyone in Charlottesville can make a convincing argument that he acted in...
[17:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:37] <exec> 08└─LOLwat. Every day I wake up and read the news and see the stupid shit men are doing to one another and everyone else and I thank God/Goddess I don't have a Y chromosome. If I were ever going to be a guy I'd want it to be someone who made advances in medicine or clean power or agriculture, not some b...
[17:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:39] <exec> 08└─Alex Jones called, he says "Stay off my turf you insignificant piece of shit."
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─Right, cause your editorializing is soooo objective :P
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─The commies were paid by Soros and affiliates to incite violence
[17:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:46] <exec> 08└─Q E and the motherfucking D
[17:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:48] <exec> 08└─"Many sides", Runaway, "Many sides"! Your thinking (or what passes for the same) is too two-sided.
[17:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:50] <exec> 08└─Actually we are all to blame for the rise of the Nazis. The Nazis came out of the interwar period in Germany where they were getting raked over the coals by the Treaty of Versailles. The French and English are taking every penny they can from Germany, the people in Germany are starving and unable to...
[17:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:52] <exec> 08└─What a childish cheap shot from a man over what, 40, 50 years old? Those your momma jokes are pretty much over with after grade school.
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─You're damned right Soros and company paid people to disrupt the Nazi rally. Fake news? Uh-huh - read ALL of the news. The dead chick was a commie, and she was there to stir up shit. The shit got stirred, and she went under. I don't know why that particular turd thought she would float to the top.
[17:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─I've never made a post there. Not once in my life. I HAVE posted a few times on Stormfront, but they banned me. And, what's your problem with Yggdrasil? Some well-documented facts bother you? Nearly half of America is involved in a freaking witch hunt, trying to punish today's white males for all th...
[17:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─You seriously consider Trump to be the adult in the room? You just disqualified yourself from sane adult conversation.
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:01] <exec> 08└─AC, you have posted some atrocious crap against white males in the past. Don't tell me what you like or don't like. Maybe if you signed your posts, I'd be able to keep track of your opinions?
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─Self assured, confident, ain't skeered o nothin - and a perfect asshole. Admit it, you want to be like me.
[17:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─So, uhhh, some guys post some shit on a forum, and because you happen to like and/or agree with those guys, they become authoritative. Got it.
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─Two sided? I thought that I had made it pretty clear. The Nazis have their side. The commies have their side. And, I'm not buying what either of them are selling. I'm American, not Nazi, not commie. If every skinhead white supremacists were to die tonight, and take a commie/progressive with him, the...
[17:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─Did you send YOUR daughter to a Nazi rally to incite a riot? If not, why not?
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─I began the "Race Bias" series in 1995 in response to a post on the alt.politics.nationalism.white newsgroup to the effect that there was no discrimination in employment, university admissions, or otherwise, against European-Americans. I was stunned that the regular posters to the group had no insta...
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─Haha such a great "internet tough guy", someone should post this thread somewhere. It is high quality meme stuff!
[17:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:16] <exec> 08└─That is so much hogwash, and you know it. I posted someone's post, and provided a link to the original post. It's not my work. I do enjoy shocking the pantywaists around here, but I can't claim credit for Yggdrasil's writings. Hell, in other discussions on this site, I've explained that I didn't hav...
[17:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:18] <exec> 08└─Seriously that's your comeback? You could just ask TMB, he likes to troll through the database comparing the "anonymous" IPs.
[17:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:20] <exec> 08└─You get crazier by the minute. You claim you love personal responsibility but won't address your borderline psychotic jubilation over the death of a non-violent protester. I don't care how much you despise her politics, you should ONLY be condemning the murderer instead of playing some apologetic sh...
[17:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:22] <exec> 08└─So, uhhh, some guys post some shit on a forum, and because you happen to like and/or agree with those guys, they become authoritative. Got it.
[17:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:25] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I've never understood the criticism of Trump's remarks about Charlottesville.
[17:28:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:49] <exec> 08└─I read that headline as "Evacuations ... as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfill". I had visions of people fleeing a torrential downpour of tons of garbage. I think I need to drink more coffee.
[17:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:12] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile....Trump Has No One in Charge of FEMA or the NOAA, Just in Time for Hurricane Season [esquire.com] I'm sure this is gonna go...just...swimmingly.
[17:29:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:42] <exec> 08└─Even with all the talk about quantum computing it is still extremely confusing about what it actually IS. It seems as if it is really not possible to fully understand it: that is, one simultaneously understands and does not understand quantum computing, until one NEEDS to understand it, at which tim...
[17:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:50] <exec> 08└─Medical terminology has made progress in standardization of medical terms. For instance, even though everyone is different, they (doctors, I suppose?) have managed to agree on the definition of the foot [wikipedia.org] since 1959.
[17:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:38] <exec> 08└─I've read about a tradition in the high Himalayas wherein the dead are scattered for the vultures. I understand that Buddhism is prevalent there, as well. I don't know that the two are related, but if so, and this funeral tradition is the one described in the article (which I haven't read, of course...
[17:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:39] <exec> 08└─If the universe were run by magic alicorn sisters, they would be prominent celebrities. They are not, in fact, prominent celebrities, so we can rule that one out.
[17:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:41] <exec> 08└─So a lot of prominent singers make most of their money on live performances, whether a tour of stadiums or even corporate-sponsored events. Many once-prominent acts perform at secondary venues and state fairs, cashing in on their fading fame. Some may even do weddings. Do funerals ever have live mus...
[17:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:56] <exec> 08└─good for renderfarming. physics... mini super computers... anything that runs on gpus.
[17:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:57] <exec> 08└─Or a video wall.
[17:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:59] <exec> 08└─Who needs a kettle when your coffee maker can dispense hot water on demand, in 4 or 6 ounce increments? (It only has a moderate residual coffee flavor.)
[17:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mosquitoes Fatally Attracted to Deadly, Sweet-Smelling Potion - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:59] <exec> 08└─Dead bugs compost. poisoned bugs are not good compost / nature food. It's GREEDY to make it poison-- the LURE is the solution here, the poison is a new problem. LURE them into a bug zapper but that makes you buy less product from them...
[17:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─I'm only hypothesizing here. Based on the way the guy talks, my hypothesis is that *if* there is indeed one to be seen, the STM is our best bet to detect it. For science! Also lulz, but mostly science.
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[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─Was this necessary? Editors?????
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─But he is from Finland!
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─Not only is he from Finland, but he is equipped with an asshole. The world needs more assholes!!
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, because he's still an asshole. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:36] <exec> 08└─but his prognosticating skills leave quite a bit to be desired..
[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─He is an embodiment of recursion.
[18:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zal42 [5435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:06] <exec> 08└─All of the companies I've worked for or with over the last decade or so have a rather difficult time finding qualified employees in the US. It's not for lack of trying -- it's because software engineers being trained are typically being trained in for particular subset of the industry. They know Jav...
[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:07] <exec> 08└─I heard it in the sixties. Yes, that was a long time ago. The next sixties are now closer than the last sixties: When hiring programmers, if you can't afford the top talent, you certainly can't afford the cheaper, inferior talent.
[18:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zal42 [5435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:09] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how many software engineers go into long-haul trucking to take a break from software engineering. I personally know 4.
[18:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─Because there's different people managing the currencies and they can't be used outside those countries without conversion. Currencies are arbitraged regularly. But ultimately, if there's nothing for sale in one of the currencies, people aren't going to want to buy that currency. Likewise if the cur...
[18:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:14] <exec> 08└─That right there is why businesses are in such bad shape. If you treat people like they're just going to leave, why would they stay? People don't generally like looking for work. It's miserable and degrading. But it's also the only way to get a decent raise anymore as companies are too shortsighted...
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─If they can't figure it out, they don't need the work done that badly. Why is it always the employees responsibility to train for possible job openings from employers too cheap to cover the costs? Of they need the work done, they have to either provide the training or better pay. If better pay doesn...
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─for certain recognized minorities it's slightly less bad
[18:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:41] <exec> 08└─Not to mince words...well, okay, only to mince words: Aluminium is the correct spelling if you're using British English. Here's why. [thoughtco.com]
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─You have an ignorance problem.
[18:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:44] <exec> 08└─At first glance I read that as Morton Salt Reactor
[18:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:47] <exec> 08└─From the FA: The team at NRG is testing several reactor designs [javascript required]
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and other organizations have made it clear for decades that the lawsuits they file are more about costing the companies money than actual justice.
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:02] <exec> 08└─'Even if we agree that "pipeline is bad, yo" and "save the trees/water/air" and all that, then in that case we would be coincidentally agreeing with a group of rogues, criminals, and eco-terrorists who engage in a pattern of criminal conspiracy that goes back for decades, who believe that "the ends...
[18:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHA wow you really got them! The joke is on you, though, buddie. Every time you open your mouth to defend a fossil fuel dinosaur such as ETP, their execs crouch, take a big dump in your mouth, and then highfive each other. Or perhaps, if you look at what they actually do to the environment b...
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:06] <exec> 08└─"...group of rogues, criminals, and eco-terrorists who engage in a pattern of criminal conspiracy that goes back for decades, who believe that "the ends justify the means." Even if they think nice things about the environment from time to time, that doesn't mean that the criminal and even violent th...
[18:27:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─Just like WW2 when some Nazi's did some stuff and some other people did some stuff and even more people did stuff. We're all to blame, really.
[18:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:33] <exec> 08└─It is interesting how you use the propaganda term from your age bracket's indoctrination. Commies! The reds! Where are you even getting the idea that she was a communist? I don't know why I bother asking, its obviously from talk radio / fox / some other propaganda sites that throw out keywords to ge...
[18:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─This, Runaway, is what we call the Dunning-Kruger effect. You're not even competent to know you're incompetent. Look around you at the world we live in and consider the trajectory of history: if you are not frightened, it means you are too stupid and/or too uninformed to realize that there are thing...
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─You don't need to be male to do those things. The only thing holding yourself back is you.
[18:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:39] <exec> 08└─Azumi Hazuki might actually be a twisted Dunning-Kruger anagram . . . . So, you, at least, know that you are incompetent. That's good enough for me!!
[18:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:41] <exec> 08└─1 person doesn't equal a full side. Had all the white supremacists charged the other group and tried to shoot or club them to death (remember lots of people had weapons) then your argument would have a point. But it was only one person who killed another. Tons of people on both sides were they simpl...
[18:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:43] <exec> 08└─She was a member of the "Industrial Workers of the World". Google it, if you like.
[18:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:45] <exec> 08└─Well, first, cutting iron with a knife is a good way to ruin said knife. Second, you would need some iron-y to cut with your knife. Has Runaway ever set himself up as an authority? Has anyone on Soylent ever cited Runaway as an authority? I don't think so. I'm still the asocial asshole who loves to...
[18:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:48] <exec> 08└─*crickets*
[18:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:50] <exec> 08└─So the guy who actually killed someone is not responsible for anything?
[18:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:52] <exec> 08└─Yep, you got that right. So, let's track down all of those leftists bastards who were protesting the protestors, and kill them, then bomb their villages. I'm going to bookmark this one for the next time you claim to support free-speech.
[18:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:54] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I've never understood the criticism of Trump's remarks about Charlottesville.
[18:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:56] <exec> 08└─No, it says right there: hidden acrostic
[18:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:58] <exec> 08└─Without assumptions, our models of the universe become useless navel-gazing. Assuming that a first-person journal entry is the work of the person posting it is totally reasonable. Include attribution at the top, or wrap it in a block quote, if you don't want journal entries to be attributed to you....
[18:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:00] <exec> 08└─To all who complain about Fine Articles like this being "clickbait", the more proper designation is "Runaway bait", and we have caught a live one! Tell us more about the Commies, grandpa?
[18:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:03] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Official Arbiter of Sane, Adult Conversations.
[18:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:21] <exec> 08└─Well then, I guess you better stop making bloated crap that doesn't work and planning to push updates to fix it, hadn't you?
[18:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:29] <exec> 08└─Please do the same thing for AI! PLLLLLZZZZ. I'm so tired of the higher ups tossing Machine Learning around when describing some sort of "Solutions" they want me to make. They have no idea wtf it is, and I'm not going to try to mansplain them cause I'll get fired.
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated] - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:35] <exec> 08└─So you use google chrome because moziolla uses google anal?
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[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─> But he is from Finland! http://www.studentsoftheworld.info [studentsoftheworld.info] I'm glad to be running Linux, rather than Mikkox.
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks for bringing Linux into the world.
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:23] <exec> 08└─Yip, one of them Euro-Commies. Pink and unpatriotic. Hail Trumppence!
[19:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─You are not getting outsourced or "rightsized" (may whoever came up with that one rot in hell...) for being straight, white, or male. It's all about money. The pissfucks running this scam, who are also almost all straight white men, only see one color: green. Stop blaming other racial groups and put...
[19:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 1131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─There's a serious shortage of highly-qualified tech workers, and it's exacerbated by all the Negative Nancies and other whiners and complainers who seem to think these jobs should be highly-paid. Tech workers should be happy to have a job doing work they love, so they should be happy to get paid $30...
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─Nixon's Southern Strategy (adopted by Reagan): When a black or brown guy is out of work, it's -his- fault. When -you- are out of work, it's a black or brown guy's fault. (It's never the fault of the Capitalist Ownership Class which actually decides who gets hired.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org...
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─Suma Corporation is the largest worker-owned cooperative in UK. They don't have poverty wages there. They democratically decided that every worker-owner there is paid a proper wage. [google.com] You might want to look into starting your own co-op, based on their model. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews...
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:02] <exec> 08└─The other factor is location. I see a lot of job ads from companies in out-of-the way places like Indianapolis, Erie PA, Wisconsin, etc. You can get locals to work in places like that, but it's hard to entice people to move from out-of-state for a job in places like that which requires significant s...
[19:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:04] <exec> 08└─Reactionaries/Neoliberals, with Ronnie Raygun as point man, skewed the tax structure. For decades, capital gains (e.g. stock options) have been taxed at a much lower rate than wages. The "$1/year" executives have an incentive to manipulate the stock price so that their own compensation packages impr...
[19:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:06] <exec> 08└─Used to sitting for long periods? check Don't have to deal with software bugs? check Paid a reasonable amount, relatively easy to get into? check Work outside yet inside? double check
[19:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:08] <exec> 08└─We had a story that was very much concerned with this topic: Be your own boss. Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:26:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:27] <exec> 08└─"The spin we really need is to get groups like Greenpeace on board with the idea of Thorium Reactors being a non-proliferating waste disposal plant, used to destroy Uranium byproducts and render them safe." This, by far, the best idea I have seen in years. Sell and build the plants to dispose of the...
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─Pizza gives me the energy to raep loli.
[19:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:37] <exec> 08└─For convenience, the security code to open the reactor is the same as my luggage.
[19:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's also avoid those other dangerous-sounding elements ending in "-ium", like Helium, Lithium, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminium [sic], Potassium, Calcium, Titanium, Chromium... I'm going to stop there
[19:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─Or even "Why do you hate Thor? That's being culturally insensitive."
[19:27:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:11] <exec> 08└─comparing literal Nazi's to literal Nazi's is not Godwinning
[19:27:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:50] <exec> 08└─But the most interesting thing, is the encryption: However, his most biting message may have come in the form of a hidden acrostic: The first letter of each paragraph spelled out I-M-P-E-A-C-H.
[19:28:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:09] <exec> 08└─Actually we are all to blame for the rise of the Nazis. The Nazis came out of the interwar period in Germany where they were getting raked over the coals by the Treaty of Versailles. The French and English are taking every penny they can from Germany, the people in Germany are starving and unable to...
[19:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:41] <exec> 08└─I couldn't even read your link. The site looks horrible and not somewhere I'd go for real info, but what really got me was it nearly froze my browser with whatever godawful javascript is going on in the background. Had to close it quick.
[19:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:42] <exec> 08└─...so you've been reduced to "I know you are but what am I?" Congratulations, Runaway, your daddy issues from childhood have finished regressing you to age 7. Run along if you don't want my belt across your ass too.
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:45] <exec> 08└─I had typed a full response before being called away to a critical task. In hindsight, I decided to reduce it to a minimum. You, sir, are an ass. And in celebrating the death of a murder victim, you are also a particularly sick piece of shit.
[19:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:47] <exec> 08└─You're welcome "there are many sides" ostrich.
[19:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.projectorreviews.com/using-high-power-projectors-in-entertainment-venues/ [projectorreviews.com]
[19:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Abandons Trump! - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:51] <exec> 08└─I decided to take the bait, and boy was I "shocked" at what I found! wikipdeia entry on IWW [wikipedia.org] So unions == communism??? Yup, mid 20th century propaganda confirmed! Runaway you might want to consider going back to school for retirement, if you actually care about truth and have the ball...
[19:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:57] <exec> 08└─Talking about savings against total cost .. what happened to their fairing reuse effort? Haven't heard about that in a while.
[19:30:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know why the IEEE is bothering, quantum computing is driven by marketing, not technology. So it'll end up being described with whatever term(s) the marketing department comes up with to sell it, not what the IEEE says. That's why we have Broadband and not G.992.1, WiFi and not 802.11ac, 5G a...
[19:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:09] <exec> 08└─well no, there are a few places in the world where corpses are carried up and left for birds, but it is important that the body be eaten and thus useful to life (the bird). so the cutter robots will need to also burn the bodies for fuel - to eat with fiery maw, if you will.
[19:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:11] <exec> 08└─The pdk link is great - wonderful site, thank you for that Tony or Fnord or whoever!
[19:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:13] <exec> 08└─Uh, reread tfa - this robot saves about 2000USD that otherwise would go to a human monk.
[19:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:15] <exec> 08└─Nor do I, nor did I anywhere claim I do.
[19:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Buddhist Funeral Robot - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:17] <exec> 08└─md nails it - gj
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gravity, 'Mechanical Loading' Are Key to Cartilage Development - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─Not many bio nerds I suppose.
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[20:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:38] <exec> 08└─And git!
[20:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:39] <exec> 08└─It seems they got rid of it, but I laughed. In this case it's not so much an opinion of the submitter, but more of a universally accepted and oft lamented fact. Linus can be a bit of an asshole. I've never been in the forums, spoken with the man, or dealt with him in any way, but I know that he is w...
[20:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:41] <exec> 08└─I took it as more of a humorous jab at the man, but maybe it didn't need to happen on his birthday either.
[20:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:22] <exec> 08└─A way to demonstrate that all capital is only a representation of the labor of The Working Class would be a general strike. This, however, was outlawed (by both Repugs and Dumbocrats) via The Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. There has been no serious effort by any politician of which I am aware to improve...
[20:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:23] <exec> 08└─I'm the AC above -- my little business is in great shape -- no debt, money in the bank and (touch wood) a great primary customer that has stuck with us for 15+ years now. Carried us right through the "great recession" with hardly any problems. I pay very well and get top talent, it's a win-win-win a...
[20:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:26] <exec> 08└─There does appear to be a shortage of skilled workers in the CNC machining industry. A lot of us left the field during the recession after being "downsized" like a commodity, and switched to less stressful and demanding careers, or retired a bit early. Most of those remaining are approaching retirem...
[20:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:28] <exec> 08└─And concrete pump operator (latter will take more years to get 'qualified', but is just as high paying of a job, generally lower risk, but a lot dirtier at the end of the day.) An ex-friend went through this quandry around 10-12 years ago. He went from tech (bubble burst right as he finished) to cul...
[20:27:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─The company alleges that the groups' actions interfered with its business
[20:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─dismantling the systems that cause massive environmental damage
[20:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:54] <exec> 08└─It did get upgraded to Cat 3 a while ago and now they're getting tornadoes too! I'm watching the Weather Underground radar map here. [wunderground.com] The storm is almost as big as Texas! What's also so concerning is that it's moving so slowly. They expect the storm to stay put for up to a week! Us...
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[21:25:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:54] <exec> 08└─We have skilled engineers and software developers switching careers because employers want only cheap sheep. We have "statisticians" reporting the number of unfilled jobs by counting ads from all sources and summing them. Most significantly, we have a business culture that believes all value is crea...
[21:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:25] <exec> 08└─Having a roof over your head and a bed to sleep in is "middle class lifestyle" now? That's sad.
[21:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:26] <exec> 08└─but it's not terrible helpful otherwise because of the large amount of training required to bring them up to speed.
[21:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:28] <exec> 08└─Having a roof over your head and a bed to sleep in is "middle class lifestyle" now? That's sad. See, there's that entitlement mentality I was talking about. You should be happy to be getting enough to pay off your loans in 20 years and to eat and afford a Y membership for showering. You'll also have...
[21:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:30] <exec> 08└─Unless and until a critical mass of people finally realize that the whole global economy, and by division all regional, national, and local economies, are hopelessly rigged top-to-bottom by the globalist-capitalist elite and their well-compensated lackeys, we're just studying a reflection in a mud p...
[21:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─Read this story: https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com]
[21:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:35] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Grishnakh is being satirical here. Poe's Law strikes again!
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─As others have said, employers pay people too little and therefore fail to attract truly competent people. In software development, you have scores of graduates who can't even write a simple FizzBuzz program, as if most colleges and universities have become little more than money-making degree mills...
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was kinda trolling for a reply like yours; thanks for supplying it :P I don't use British English, not having grown up with it; however, for the purpose of this discussion it was useful to go with the IUPAC spelling. I have to wonder whether the AC I replied to has a point, in that the typic...
[21:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:05] <exec> 08└─The page was illustrating how comments get smaller once a hurricane gets to you. CSS is Crushed, Soaked, Sunk, and the bugs will gather to feast on what's left behind. Totally on-topic!
[21:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:07] <exec> 08└─I think it was Hellary Cliton.
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[22:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple to Build Iowa Data Center, Get $207.8 Million in Incentives - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:26] <exec> 08└─Dear Iowa, (and any other state where residents are dumb enough to give their taxes away to corps like Apple, which usually manage to pay no tax for billions of dollars they make on global sales) For 200 million dollars, I personally and with almost nonexistent overhead can instantly create 200 jo...
[22:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple to Build Iowa Data Center, Get $207.8 Million in Incentives - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:27] <exec> 08└─Let's see if Apple repatriates $100+ billion at 10-20%. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com]
[22:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple to Build Iowa Data Center, Get $207.8 Million in Incentives - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=IA [eia.gov] Electricity Iowa's five largest power plants by capacity are all coal-fired, and coal is the primary fuel used for electricity generation in the state. Almost all of the coal consumed in Iowa is subbituminous coal (dirty brown coal) brought by...
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─You act like I insulted the guy or something. Linus is an asshole. Linus needs to be an asshole. Could you imagine the flaming piece of garbage Linux would be today if he were sweet and mild-mannered towards shitty coding? Odin bless his assholish little heart.
[22:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:42] <exec> 08└─That happened to a buddy of mine too. Thankfully I literally hit the lottery and was able to loan him the money to pay them off. I also helped a bunch of workers by finding out where the auction was and buying a bunch of trucks for super cheap. Interesting how only the businesses the people worked f...
[22:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:43] <exec> 08└─Captcha: Greed
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:34] <exec> 08└─Corporate stooge you're the one, you make astroturfing look like so much fun! The saddest part is I don't think you are a stooge. It would truly be a preferable scenario, but I think you may actually just enjoy sucking corporate cock. For free.
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:35] <exec> 08└─Racketeering, however, is a neat and novel way to cast it.
[22:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:43] <exec> 08└─...This isn't only stupid, it's ugly, slow, and inefficient... People, these things are embedded systems. They should be running only tiny distros like TinyCore or Void with a minimal, auditable set of packages from the manufacturer.
[22:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:45] <exec> 08└─"Not every frigging device has 700 MB of free space, especially the IoT/embbedded stuff. FYI an arduino UNO rev 3 has 32 KB of flash memory." The thing is there's this CADT attitude that fully understands that many embedded devices today work in those limitations and doesn't care. Because they presu...
[22:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:36] <exec> 08└─SpaceX makes lots of money
[22:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:38] <exec> 08└─... If you're not particularly fond of commercial space travel that is. Which I'm not. :)
[22:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:40] <exec> 08└─From the summary: "According to a launch cost analysis by investment firm Jefferies International, SpaceX usually makes a 40 percent profit from $62 million commercial Falcon 9 launches with new boosters. That puts $25 million in the bank and $37 million toward direct launch costs."
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[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─TLA confused me for about a half a second in the original summary.
[23:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Apple to Build Iowa Data Center, Get $207.8 Million in Incentives - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:29] <exec> 08└─Wow 200million to produce 50 permanent jobs. That works out to 4million a job. That means they could pay 50 people 60k a year for 65 years. Typical trump state.... will be good for slave labor and sex tourism for visiting blue staters in a few decades
[23:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple to Build Iowa Data Center, Get $207.8 Million in Incentives - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:31] <exec> 08└─Wind power, dumbass And, electricity there is cheap.
[23:25:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:41] <exec> 08└─I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
[23:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─I looked at the .01 release years ago. Recalled lots of curse words in comments. Fortunately, that didn't stop it from growing. In case you want a copy, it's at: ftp://nic.funet.fi [funet.fi]
[23:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy Birthday, Linux - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:53] <exec> 08└─Neither timely nor anything that people don't already know. Pure filler. At least it's not political.
[23:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Myth of the Skills Gap - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:48] <exec> 08└─When employers today bemoan the lack of skills, it's not tech skills they're talking about. TFA is nothing but beating on a strawman.
[23:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:40] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, you do realize that pollution was far worse in the 1950s than it is now in places like Europe or the US?
[23:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:24] <exec> 08└─I don't like Dubya. One of the few Texans I dislike. And he doesn't like me. Trust me, there's no love lost between us. But @georgepbush, who is Dubya's nephew, is a huge, huge supporter of mine. He's a terrific real estate guy, and I admire that enormously. And he's the Land Commissioner down in Te...
[23:30:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:32] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of value in keeping your promises and making your customers happy.
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