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[00:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! [Updated x2] - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:21] <exec> 08└─Drop a message to us in #dev on irc.soylentnews.org. my IRC bouncer is usually connected as is buzzard and a few other places. I admit I don't use the onion site very often at all so if its broken, it sometimes goes unnoticed for awhile.
[00:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:45] <exec> 08└─Federal law and state law are two, wholly separate things. Crimes against persons are almost always prosecuted by the state. The president can not override the state in this regard, as his power is only for federal crimes. That's true. DC isn't a state, though. the President’s authority to grant c...
[00:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:46] <exec> 08└─Turkey IS the terroristic, genocidal state. The current government won't even admit to the fact that it's predecessors committed genocide against multiple groups of people. Why not? Simple - it reserves the "right" to genocide the Kurds, if, when, and as it feels like. And, when the Kurds are histor...
[00:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:58] <exec> 08└─the Long Earth has some interesting thoughts
[00:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:00] <exec> 08└─I call it LiGNUx.
[00:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:02] <exec> 08└─yes, because a generalized statement that is a slightly modified version of utilitarian ethics is an admission of "I want everyone to be poor"
[00:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:04] <exec> 08└─Having all you needs met is NOT poverty, nitwit. ...and doing whatever is necessary to get all that you WANT is called GREED. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:06] <exec> 08└─Money is the goal because money represents resources,
[00:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:08] <exec> 08└─Replicators can produce whatever you desire... We're a good portion of the way there already with 3-D printers;
[00:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:10] <exec> 08└─I happen to agree with RMS. When I was young and stupid, he was a smelly hippy, and I was a Linux user. Now that I'm more mature (me? mature? lol), I realize that RMS has gotten a lot smarter and that I'm a GNU user.
[00:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:13] <exec> 08└─The other side of the coin is: "I ain't rich enough if you ain't dirt-poor" - because if you aren't dirt-poor and dependent, you may decide that you have enough and I can longer control you. If I can't control enough of the society, it makes no difference I'm millionaire (today) or billionaire or tr...
[00:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:15] <exec> 08└─Is that so, you cunning creature you?
[00:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:17] <exec> 08└─There are massive surpluses of clothing all over the world Never even heard of this one. I have. Google hasn't either Wanna bet? [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:19] <exec> 08└─Really? So when exactly did RMS remedy his personal problem? He was working at MIT explicitly because he doesn't have the hustle. Then he quit his job and became a traveling clown. I have seen him perform his Saint Ignucious act in person. Nobody would pay to see his horrible clown act if he wasn't...
[00:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. Check the US poverty line. It's above "having all your needs met" in most areas of the nation. Unless you go by your own special version of what constitutes "needs".
[00:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:23] <exec> 08└─Project much? I'm doing quite well for myself and I couldn't give a rat's happy ass about having power over anyone else.
[00:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:26] <exec> 08└─That choice like my own, is his business and he does not get to complain that he is not rich.
[00:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:28] <exec> 08└─A civilization that requires you to constantly reinvent the wheel is a ridiculous, inefficient society. One might even call it stupid. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:30] <exec> 08└─Then gpled all his work
[00:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:32] <exec> 08└─Can confirm, RMS smells bad.
[00:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:34] <exec> 08└─Why is it so interesting? I just think that it's a lot easier to alleviate suffering than it is to make someone perfectly content, and the net benefit is the same.
[00:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:36] <exec> 08└─8-) I suspect that "need" is a stretch. Right now, we've got -needs- pretty well covered. I'll admit that -desires- are still a ways off for some folks. ...now, there is that pesky "intellectual property" thing. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:39] <exec> 08└─If it wasn't for the government I could have a house as big as I wanted for a few thousand dollars. But thanks to the government it will cost me 30-50k minimum for the PAPERWORK to produce said house. On the other hand if property was considered sovereign to the owner, I could put up whatever I want...
[00:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:41] <exec> 08└─People's labor is a resource
[00:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:43] <exec> 08└─Disagree. People services is essentially a chunk of people life time (their life time is necessary to provide a service, even if not sufficient).
[00:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:45] <exec> 08└─if Sisko's dad's restaurant charged customers for the meal/service, or if he ran it totally pro-bono? Because at least the implication to me, along with Picard's farm, was that some form of currency was stil in use, otherwise why would these individuals still have individual businesses they were run...
[00:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:47] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software is not fine. It gives far too much power to the developers, and as we've seen time and time again, they will abuse that power. It also doesn't respect any of your freedoms and greatly limits what options you can take if you're unsatisfied with the software. I'm not sure how that...
[00:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder whatever happened to Alix, one-and-only girlfriend of RMS way back when.
[00:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:51] <exec> 08└─8-) I suspect that "need" is a stretch.
[00:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:54] <exec> 08└─Project much?
[00:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:56] <exec> 08└─They seem to be assuming that someone who did not go to college is inherently less educated than someone who did, and they're doing so in an age where people have more access to information than ever before.
[00:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:58] <exec> 08└─While I'm not sure what's so great about fucking pillows, at least anime characters aren't horribly ugly like all real people are. Filthy normies are basically having sex with piles of garbage, as far as I'm concerned.
[00:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:00] <exec> 08└─Marriage is plagued with magical thinking in our culture, with plenty of people believing that it's synonymous with a stable relationship (it isn't) or that it will instantly improve one's relationship (it doesn't). Some people are even dumb enough to believe that society would collapse without marr...
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[00:30:02] <exec> 08└─It is a stereotype, same as with all others. There is always a grain of truth to them, but its never a good idea to operate as if they are the Truth.
[00:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:04] <exec> 08└─Better watch out or I'll report you to MIB HQ I'm normal! [youtube.com]
[00:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:06] <exec> 08└─Plenty of guys would swing that way if they weren't concerned about getting caught. Hell I had a (now ex) friend sexually harassing me on a daily basis (dafuq? And the guy was usually getting pussy more regularly than me too...) Personally I have always been more of the 'center of a throng of girls'...
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[00:30:08] <exec> 08└─That would depend on the feminist, since that group is not a hivemind. Some of them say that domestic violence against men shouldn't happen but that it isn't a very important issue because domestic violence against women is typically more severe and we live in a patriarchy. Others encourage violence...
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[00:30:11] <exec> 08└─I never said they weren't on their side, I was just trying to promote such action and try to bridge the gap with some of the more misogynistic elements on here. You have too much anger built up, but hey so does most every other person here. In my highly subjective opinion it does seem like misandry...
[00:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:13] <exec> 08└─Another option is to get into a relationship with someone without getting married. Why are people not considering that option and acting as if being in a relationship means getting married?
[00:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:15] <exec> 08└─Everyone ideally would like to "marry up" but that is such a loaded term that pretty much only factors in finances. Except for the more shallow human beings, or the extreme edges of financial situations (too poor, insanely rich), that is a factor that is pretty low on most people's lists of partner...
[00:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:17] <exec> 08└─Feminists in Name Only. I've had a few sit and verbally abuse me (much like trying to have an intellectual debate with an average republican. I used to have better luck with Dems, but since Trump they are are stupid and frothing as the Rs now.) Personally I have had a half dozen casual female aquain...
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[00:30:19] <exec> 08└─Men's rights is a thing and there are real and valid complaints.
[00:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:11] <exec> 08└─Please explain how anyone is going to successfully sue and enforce a judgement against a polluter without "men with guns". Contracts rest on the ability of either side to enforce them. This often requires assistance from the Government.
[00:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:12] <exec> 08└─Now Austrian economics does give great tools to describe reality with. But to find out which Austrian economic tool can be applied to which real-world phenomenon under which circumstances, you need empirical data.
[00:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:14] <exec> 08└─- The unemployment rate, which had shot up to 10% before Obama's policies could take effect, had come back down to 4.8% by the time he left office.
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[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:58] <exec> 08└─Korean's point telescopes with instructions different than us. We should be able to figure out the difference and point our stuff to the right area ASAP. Or do Kimmey's drones obfuscate where their telescopes were pointed?
[01:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! [Updated x2] - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:32] <exec> 08└─Java i2p-router or C++ i2pd. I2P needs some love too, and at least so far hasn't had the hidden service attacks that Tor has.
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[01:26:33] <exec> 08└─High fives must be 0.55555, eh? Not very good compared to high nines, 0.99999 (grin)
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[01:27:09] <exec> 08└─In the Not So Olde West they properly attribute this to Woody Guthrie. Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.…
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[01:28:31] <exec> 08└─others... On the speaking circuit. For other examples, look to Obama, Clinton(s), Gore, Bush(s), etc. Some of them have secondary businesses as well, but a large part of their income and in at least a couple of cases their 'seed funding' for their companies and/or non-profits, is due to that exact s...
[01:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:33] <exec> 08└─The exponential factor in population growth means that whatever you do, you'll always run up against limits unless you constrain population growth. The relationship between surface area and volume means that it's a lot more efficient to live on chunks where most of the mass isn't crunched up around...
[01:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:35] <exec> 08└─No, he doesn't complain that he is not rich. RMS does however claim that all programmers should be poor. Everyone should work low paying jobs and give away free work in their spare time. To choose any other lifestyle is immoral, but he himself does not even need to choose because he is already comfo...
[01:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:37] <exec> 08└─Your neighbor might want your unit, but they're probably not miserable in their current one.
[01:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:39] <exec> 08└─Chemical/drug "printing" is in the works. http://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com] http://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] It will be interesting to see how far...
[01:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:41] <exec> 08└─I see it as not 'dragging everyone else down to poverty': i see it as, "don't treat people like shit just to make you a dollar more. don't rape the environment for same. don't be so greedy that you have more money in the bank than some countries and yet you lay off people who helped you make that mo...
[01:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:43] <exec> 08└─Your explanation there just stated his point. Time is a resource and it is, and will always remain, finite.
[01:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:46] <exec> 08└─Although Stallman knew plenty about computers, he was not an expert in translating binary files. As a hacker, however, he had other resources at his disposal. The notion of information sharing was so central to the hacker culture that Stallman knew it was only a matter of time before some hacker in...
[01:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:48] <exec> 08└─Most people, even rich people, don't have Gates's level of hubris. He thinks he needs the money because he needs the power to change things because only he has the correct solution. Thus have tyrants always been created. I've never in my life treated an employee as shit and I've done quite well for...
[01:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:50] <exec> 08└─You realize now you're arguing something entirely different and nearly opposite what you started out arguing, yes?
[01:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:52] <exec> 08└─True enough, a rules-lawyering asshole like you would abide by the exact letter of the GPLv2.
[01:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:07] <exec> 08└─Yup. Before I earned my degree, my now wife who had one was still about one tenth of my intelligence. She would read 100+ books a year, but they were all fiction. She could not tell you how many people there were in the US. And knew next to nothing about anything. "Education" in this context is a my...
[01:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:08] <exec> 08└─I hardly believe that nonsense, I would say if that was the case the evolutionary pressure on men would be extreme and we would all be super athletic 7 feet tall muscle hunks with a jaw-line chiseled in stone.
[01:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:10] <exec> 08└─I was reading the abstract of one paper based on brain imaging that brain gender could exist in two dimensions instead of a 1-d spectrum. Of course, big problem with all of those brain imaging studies about gender is that their sample size is always like 10 to 15. After all, putting just a tad more...
[01:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:12] <exec> 08└─I should clarify. I realize it may have seemed liked I was talking about trans men there. That's the thing, though. A trans man has the balls, in a psychic sense, to transition. Perhaps if somebody wants to suggest that feminists are closeted trans men… who are joining the flat-Earthers and anti-v...
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[01:30:14] <exec> 08└─I get the idea cognitive sexuality ( as opposed to physical sexuality ) is a matter very akin to whether people will either like or dislike brocolli. I happen to love the stuff. For the longest time, I have had a fit determining which group I fell into, as I seemed to fall into none of the establish...
[01:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:17] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom.
[01:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:19] <exec> 08└─I found this at the bottom of the page after logging out: You never gain something but that you lose something. -- Thoreau
[01:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:21] <exec> 08└─What if the anime body pillows have characters with animal ears and tails? I'm uhhhh.... asking for a friend....
[01:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:23] <exec> 08└─Or, at least, stay off the bon-bons.
[01:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:21] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like a thing unique to cloud. That sounds more like poor outsourcing control. People that use physical data centers move data all the time for various reasons, i.e. they lease space and move to another DC, they have backups moved by 3rd party specialists, etc. The moment you outso...
[01:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:23] <exec> 08└─Yes that country is useless at every level of governance. And I dare to blame Feminism. Most hillarious part, for me anyway, is the fact that the reason they have so much data is because they decided to gather as much data on their own citizens as possible (for no good reason).
[01:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:25] <exec> 08└─I can only assume you are not from Sweden and/or dont know any people from there? There is a big difference between being grumpy about nearly everything, and actually doing something about it. When being unhappy is a national passtime, why would they want to change?
[01:33:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─It appears that this phone will have that. From their FAQ: Will there be hardware kill switches? Yes, we need to evaluate the wiring and design limitations to determine the best approach; the intention is to include Camera, Microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and Baseband Modem kill switches or some combina...
[01:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:22] <exec> 08└─Ok, why do you think there is a problem here with my post? Elsewhere someone has posted some claims Mises made about government intervention in the economy. That's not merely seeing where things lead, but assuming axioms are true enough to make public policy based on alleged logical deductions from...
[01:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:23] <exec> 08└─The Dutch Tulip Mania, was NOT an economic crisis.
[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─It is not economics that is bad, it is believing that you can do meaningful predictions about what interfering in the market will do that is false. They do say that that we don't know, and that we can never ever know, as a matter of epistemology.
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─Having been face-to-face with its creator, Arthur Laffer, the thing that was very noticeable was that he couldn't offer a consistent answer a very simple question about his idea that forms the core of trickle-down: What is the tax rate which would maximize government revenue? In other words, where's...
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[02:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:36] <exec> 08└─What part of 1437 do you not comprehend? Oh, maybe you do not know that the first telescope was invented by Galileo, about 1609. Astronomy before that, like back in my heyday, was all naked eye observing.
[02:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:38] <exec> 08└─so what does it mean? a kimchi star?
[02:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:41] <exec> 08└─(I reckon you were in holidaying in Greece at that time - unreliable newspapers at that time, handcopied by monks, tooks some years between daily editions) The first (known to us) telescope is 1607, by a Dutch eyeglass maker. Galileo just copied it a few years later, but it was the first to use it s...
[02:26:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:52] <exec> 08└─> Turkey alleges the protesters "began aggressively provoking Turkish-American citizens who had peacefully assembled to greet the President." Which in no way, shape, or form, provides legal grounds for foreign bodyguards to commit assaults. The US cops are pretty picky about their privileges.
[02:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:00] <exec> 08└─You know, before they left the country. ...
[02:29:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 1035 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:23] <exec> 08└─Women don't have to become lesbians; they can just stay single. That's what I'm seeing in the big east-coast cities anyway. Women who are 35-45 and never married are extremely common now on the dating sites. And I suspect many, many of them will remain single for the rest of their lives. Many of the...
[02:29:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:26] <exec> 08└─You can't "become" a lesbian either. It's not a choice. I didn't wake up one morning and go "you know I think I'm gonna follow a strict vagitarian diet."
[02:29:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:29] <exec> 08└─just you and your hand tonight
[02:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:15] <exec> 08└─I may be very wrong here, but its been an observation that ever since this obsession of "little princesses" being ingrained into girls from a very young age, they have been brought up by doting dads into thinking they are some special little wallflower that everyone serves and should feel privileged...
[02:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:16] <exec> 08└─Why? The sexual revolution failed. Personally, I think it was a good idea, but I guess not enough people were comfortable with it. Jeebus, women in the USA still seriously fret about whether or not every woman should have state-funded access to very, very cheap pill! I predict in 500 years women wil...
[02:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:18] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is, I even like - visually - a little more chunk than average on women, and I would never consider marrying one. What? I want my baby being fed Cheetos and Twix through the womb? They aren't getting big on spinach and rice.
[02:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:44] <exec> 08└─Over $2000/phone isn't hard to do if you are spending money someone else is obliged to pay. Its easy to be generous if someone else is on the hook for the tab, along with being held harmless for irresponsible decisions. This is to me just a strong indication that way too much tax monies are being co...
[02:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:21] <exec> 08└─White prividege is based on luck, not racial superiority? Who knew!!
[02:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:22] <exec> 08└─In addition, since we're speaking of economics failures, consider the failure of the predictions that forecast that Obama's economic policies would fix things within four years. I can't find them at present, but there were graphs from early 2009 that predicted things would go much better, if the sti...
[02:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:53] <exec> 08└─Open Source skills are skills that anyone may use without paying you for it. ;-)
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[03:26:29] <exec> 08└─Linode started out on UML way back in the day, I believe.
[03:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:41] <exec> 08└─Two of these: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] a red dwarf and white dwarf https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] I still don...
[03:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:42] <exec> 08└─nova remnant of a star that exploded some 600 years ago.
[03:26:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:54] <exec> 08└─"The Turkish security officials left the country before they were charged." They should have been charged and arrested before they left the country.
[03:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:03] <exec> 08└─Maximum possible sentences for all of them.
[03:29:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:02] <exec> 08└─I foresee the comments on this article being fair and balanced.
[03:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:20] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom.
[03:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:39] <exec> 08└─Couldn't have been too hard, Owsley Stanley did it in a bathroom... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Stanley was the first private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD.[2][3][4] By his own account, between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced no less than 50...
[03:33:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─It doesn't. "Climate science [wikipedia.org]" is a subfield of Physical geography [wikipedia.org], which is a natural science [wikipedia.org].
[03:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:27] <exec> 08└─Laffer's argument was this: If taxes are too high, then the most skilled and presumably most financially successful people have insufficient incentive to produce more. That means that cutting taxes will lead to them producing more, which leads to increased economic growth. This increase in economic...
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[04:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:16] <exec> 08└─Under the circumstances (and based on the SN story only), this seems like a very smart corporate move. Over the years we've seen many companies try to cover up bad situations like this, and of course we hear about them after they blow up (literally or figuratively). Maybe not everyone at every big c...
[04:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:18] <exec> 08└─less corporate loss (to reputation or finances) to come out and say something. The size of the evacuation area is interesting (anyone know the area?) does the evacuation zone conveniently exclude any larger towns? As with Fukashima, they had back ups, but the back ups weren't above the flood level....
[04:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:20] <exec> 08└─> Engineers: put it above the 1:1000 flood height If that's where the engineers quit, it's a shame. All they had to do was put the back up generators on the second floor. It could be above the office block, no one would even know (except the night maintenance crew that tests the gensets every now an...
[04:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:22] <exec> 08└─Why the hell wasn't that plant shut down before the storm hit? More importantly, why was it even built in the first place? Who in their right mind allows a chemical plant that is fail deadly? Arkema should be forced to pay a fine of at least $10 billion if that plant goes up. There's absolutely no e...
[04:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:24] <exec> 08└─This plant has been there 40+ years, and the storm that hit is two orders of magnitude higher than the previous largest recorded storm to hit the region. While there are many places that are commonly hit with major storms, this region of texas is not usually one of them.
[04:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:26] <exec> 08└─Go back to the cave and die, fool.
[04:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─Realistically, it wasn't a safety issue. Multiple backup generators, and I'm nearly certain, priority for diesel fuel in cases of emergency. Without this Biblical storm going on, the waters were probably never thought to get that high. Additionally, they are stretched so thin right now that from a l...
[04:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:30] <exec> 08└─Who's budget would pay for the roof testing/reinforcement and the crane?
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─The paper is in support of the hypothesis that novas and dwarf novas are different stages of same process. The researchers used the ancient Korean records and matched them up with more recent records through last centuries to chase down the binary system.
[04:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:20] <exec> 08└─Please read up on the relativity of simultaneity [wikipedia.org] first.
[04:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:22] <exec> 08└─How long does a nova/supernova stay luminous such that it's visible|visible in daylight? Additionally, TFS/TFA says "nova" multiple times. A nova is a binary star system where there is a very luminous exchange of materials from one star to another. A supernova is a single star exploding at the end o...
[04:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:24] <exec> 08└─The binary system drifted over the last 600 years - had to use the ancient Korean records with more recent observations from the last century to extrapolate the current location.
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[05:26:07] <exec> 08└─1) You can't shut it down. It's like Megatron at Hoover Dam. If he gets hot, the shit hits the fan. You want them to ship in ice cubess? 2) It was built to store certain chemicals 3) It really wasn't fail deadly. Dual backup generators, and I promise you, that they had high priority for the diesel f...
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[05:26:09] <exec> 08└─BBC has some clever overlay maps showing flooded areas -- move the vertical bar back and forth to compare before and after, http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Other GIS maps as well.
[05:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:11] <exec> 08└─This ain't normal.
[05:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:13] <exec> 08└─This isn't normal.
[05:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:15] <exec> 08└─Since they are kind of insistent that this thing will explode at some point, I wonder if someone will set up a telescopic camera with very high framerate in an attempt to capture the event in slow motion. Maybe have it continuously recording to a big drive, and then send a command to stop deleting o...
[05:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:07] <exec> 08└─What's described in TFA is a nova involving a red dwarf and white dwarf in the Scorpius constellation. The 1572 supernova [wikipedia.org] was visible in the night sky for about 2 years. Obviously, proximity of Earth to the (super)nova is going to be a factor.
[05:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:08] <exec> 08└─I take it that you are not Italian?
[05:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─] was visible in the night sky for about 2 years.
[05:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:48] <exec> 08└─It's good and pure.
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[06:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:57] <exec> 08└─What is liberal is conservative again. No surprise that you accept money from someone to work for you and they fire you when you bite the hand that feeds you. Silly of them to think that "do no evil" is different than any other company when it comes down to dollars.
[06:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:59] <exec> 08└─rebranded and changed their mission statement. I don't remember either of them, but I know google got rid of do no evil, and the FBI added copyright enforcement :)
[06:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but if you bite the hand that feeds you, the hand may stop feeding you. And that's not censorship, or anything close to it. Suck it up.
[06:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:03] <exec> 08└─I hear you like an abusive relationship. Want me to chain you up in my closet and I'll feed you out of a doggy bowl?
[06:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone is arguing that this is illegal censorship (unless the policy group has some interesting status I'm unfamiliar with), but the term still applies even if you don't like the negative connotations. The issue at hand is that we all rely on Google (and others) to some degree but we r...
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[06:26:07] <exec> 08└─At least it is not like SoylentNews, where you can be mod banned for objecting to being spam-modded? Or, is it? Does SoylentNews really want to be equivalent to Google? Let aristarchus go! Rescind his mod ban, or you are not better than Google. Except, you never paid aristarchus anything, and by de...
[06:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:27] <exec> 08└─While there are many places that are commonly hit with major storms, this region of texas is not usually one of them.
[06:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:28] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever thought that place would flood
[06:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 3101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:30] <exec> 08└─If I knew this thing was that sensitive to a thermal situation with that kind of consequences for a fail, I guarantee you my backup would be some sort of diesel engine directly turning the refrigeration compressor with a geothermal heat sink. No electricity, as anything short of battery backup is su...
[06:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:33] <exec> 08└─If that's not being done, it oughta be. If what they say about the reactants becoming unstable at loss of refrigeration, its kinda like waiting for that antarctic ice shelf to calve. The thermodynamics of the melt make the calving inevitable. Kinda reminds me of watching the reactors on TV while the...
[06:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:35] <exec> 08└─Extreme heat?... Predicted 29 C in San Francisco on Friday (that's ~84 F). Up To 40 C inland (that's ~104 F). Warm, Yes but not unusual This Time of year. Yes I live in central California near the coast...no big deal. By Saturday the temps will be dropping back to normal.So why cancel your trip, it...
[06:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:37] <exec> 08└─They say they expect it to blow in six days. No way the water stays up that long and the second it goes down they will rush in some cooling because they have several days to brainstorm a solution and engineers live for that sort of thing. Hard to blame the company on this one, they had plenty of ba...
[06:28:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1099 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:24] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Some people seem to think it's philosophically impossible to make money with FLOSS, to which I would usually point to Red Hat, but...well...we've seen what direction that's headed recently :-/ . Re: Zuck Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Camer...
[06:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:11] <exec> 08└─All that IT stuff is someone else's problem. All those annoying IT people wringing their hands about bugs and security are located somewhere else (away from me). We have a contract and I have someone outside the organization to blame. The cost is a fixed and predictable payment. I get to reduce head...
[06:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:16] <exec> 08└─Of course, even science relies on an axiom that must be taken on faith. This axiom is that observation follows reality, that is, what you can observe is actually real.
[06:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:18] <exec> 08└─Actually if economics is just unpredictable, then it is also unpredictable what meddling with it through regulations will do. But that means that it does not matter whether there are regulations or not, because if the regulations had any predictable effect, that would contradict unpredictability. Th...
[06:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:20] <exec> 08└─Your position, on the other hand, actually proves my point: It's entirely a political view, namely that you believe that private individuals are better at spending money than the government is, therefor taxes should be lower, never mind the economics.
[06:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:51] <exec> 08└─It's a good check except when a project is mature.
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[07:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:53] <exec> 08└─Forget the headset. Just drill electrodes through the skull into the brain! Few have played the original Spectre. Even fewer have read the backstory novella in the manual. It was more fun when it was still science fiction. Linky links. Spectre [macintoshgarden.org] Manual [macintoshgarden.org] [pdf]
[07:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:06] <exec> 08└─They occasionally ask me to interview. I've been refusing since I realized google was evil. I won't work for amazon either. I'd rather be homeless
[07:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:32] <exec> 08└─Its really hard on the political level to compete with an insurance company. Its often cheaper to insure than to design to address an unlikely peril.
[07:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=5ea630b4d1d2669f&hl=en&gl=US&source=wweather [google.org] That is what my friend was talking about. He didn't say it had never been that hot before in the state, just that it was the first warning he remembers seeing that covered where he lives on the sh...
[07:28:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:11] <exec> 08└─If someone builds a cool tool but does not show you how they built the tool, or show you the design specifications for the tool, they have not wronged you or damaged you in any way. Now, if they attempt to punish you for figuring out how they made their tool, copying their ideas, and doing whatever...
[07:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:53] <exec> 08└─It also comes with an estimated 52k price tag so it won't be cheap to buy but then, I recently looked at getting a used pickup for going into the mountains and I can't believe the prices on those things -- you could buy a Porsche for less money, built more recently, and with fewer miles. Maybe I exa...
[07:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 1822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:14] <exec> 08└─Well, actually, outsourcing contract renewal times are interesting. If you outsource to a small player, you do have more power, but the likelihood of them going bust or being taken over by a large player goes up. If they go bust, your IT services can be turned off unexpectedly, and permanently, whic...
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[08:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:48] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit early for "after" maps?
[08:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:49] <exec> 08└─Is it yet feeling real enough?
[08:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:51] <exec> 08└─I would suggest you read up on Fukushima. There were THIRTEEN back up diesel generators for the cooling system. Three of them above the high water line and operational after the tsunami. What caused the problem was not with the engine/generators. It was with the power switching setup that got floode...
[08:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:53] <exec> 08└─What good would shutting down have done? They would still have the dangerous chemicals on site. The problem is that the chemicals are actually needed yet are intrinsically unfriendly when not kept cool. I am all for holding corporations thoroughly accountable for their actions, but it's not like the...
[08:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:55] <exec> 08└─jmorris on explosives! Ya gotta just take those odds, because, well, they are just so odd! What are the chances of jmorris being right, when Death is on the Line? (One of the three major blunders: Never get involved in a land war in Afghanistan, NEVER go up against a Sicilian, when Deaths is on the...
[08:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:10] <exec> 08└─Of course. If you look at history, Turkey is actually the northern part of the old Caliphate, with ISIS being the southern part. With the power grab that Erdogan did recently, there can be no doubt that both parts want to bring back the Caliphate, the only thing that he and ISIS disagrees about is w...
[08:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:30] <exec> 08└─Only if DNA had a male half and a female half. It doesn't. Apart from the very small (compared to the rest) Y chromosome, everything is shared among men and women. Your claim would likely also result in women being "super athletic 7 feet tall muscle hunks with a jaw-line chiseled in stone", and the...
[08:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:31] <exec> 08└─It is also a problem for boys and manchildren. There is a huge volume of wish fulfillment fantasy out there targeting these demographics. Everyone is the narrator of their own life story. Once reality falls short of expectations, it's time to go suicidal.
[08:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:20] <exec> 08└─Bah, it's not all bad. With that many batteries (and charged), Bond can give an electric shock to any baddies that touch the door handles!
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[09:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:57] <exec> 08└─If I'm going to play a stupid game, I'm going to want rewards, dammit - right in the brains pleasure centres! https://en.wikipedia.org
[09:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:12] <exec> 08└─4th time? Are you denying that you've done little but whine about spam moderations and mod banning since at least saturday: https://soylentnews.org https://soylentnews.org https://soylentnews.org https...
[09:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:13] <exec> 08└─2 things. Firstly, "Is Google trying to censor journalists and researchers who fight dangerous monopolies?" the website asks. "Sadly, the answer is: YES."
[09:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:15] <exec> 08└─As google control *that* medium (their paid politico publication pipeline), preventing contrary opinions to flow over that medium *is* censorship (*within that medium*). There are other media, of course.
[09:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:18] <exec> 08└─I've done some other stuff. But seriously, if the site as a whole is compromised, none of that really matters.
[09:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:51] <exec> 08└─Were these backup generators also in a basement?
[09:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 2392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:53] <exec> 08└─I guess the point I am trying to make is in the event of extremely critical things, any additional complexity is another point of failure. If its something as critical as coolant, I feel a direct-drive diesel powered pump is in order. No switchgear. Manual access to start if the electrical means f...
[09:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:55] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the real failure was building this plant somewhere that could be flooded.
[09:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:50] <exec> 08└─This is how you should take it, indeed. (how many time I boasted my East-European former-communist country of origin?)
[09:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:51] <exec> 08└─You know, if you can't just say "Hungary", people would think you have something to hide. On the other hand, if you are Czech, well those bastard should have done it in '69, when they had the chance. On the other, other hand, what is an Italian, but a Balkan on the wrong side of the sea? And give...
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[10:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stox [479] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:18] <exec> 08└─Just sayin...
[10:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:33] <exec> 08└─It's been done before. OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator [archive.org] Although admittedly that device responded mainly to nerve impulses (e.g. from facial muscles) over brain activity. It would still be cool to combine this with VR though. This is tangentially related, but I wonder if they'll ever crack...
[10:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:51] <exec> 08└─I've seen a wave of moderation concern trolls crop up everywhere. Their goal is to cast FUD on the admins / maintainers, find a fracture point and crack the community (JTRIG tactic). Just ignore these shills. And yes, this place has shills. If you've been around since BBS days you can spot them a mi...
[10:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:53] <exec> 08└─Very classy of you to leave out what he immediately said following that: “Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings. People are so afraid of Google now.”
[10:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:55] <exec> 08└─I would agree. My opinion of Google has turned dramatically for the worse. My friend is a former senior Googler and it seems even his rose colored glasses are slipping. I expect we're going to see the brain drain that happened to Microsoft happen to Google. When I was graduating Microsoft was 'the'...
[10:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:31] <exec> 08└─Well, looks like he's wrong - bbc reporting in the last ten mins, explosions and smoke from the site.
[10:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:33] <exec> 08└─My money is on no boom
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[10:27:35] <exec> 08└─4:43AM Central time Thursday status... [chron.com]
[10:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:37] <exec> 08└─> Naturally, if there are any damages to other people's property, they should make sure to fully compensate the loss. Happily (for them) that won't be necessary as everything nearby is already apparently under 6ft+ of water and any damage from fire/explosion will be difficult to prove to be separate...
[10:28:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 430 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:50] <exec> 08└─Turkey IS the terroristic, genocidal state. The current government won't even admit to the fact that it's predecessors committed genocide against multiple groups of people. Why not? Simple - it reserves the "right" to genocide the Kurds, if, when, and as it feels like. And, when the Kurds are histor...
[10:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:14] <exec> 08└─Is this thread going to end up like that QI question about our number of moons?
[10:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:15] <exec> 08└─Here's a thought: You don't have to marry one to knock her up... and you don't have to knock up the one you marry...
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[10:32:17] <exec> 08└─4) You could take your time, preview your comment, and add supporting information once you see it lacking some upon preview. (And then end up on the second page of comments with no views, mods, or replies.)
[10:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:19] <exec> 08└─Such as?
[10:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:22] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see any legal options that are currently available to married couples be available to unmarried people in relationships as well, and then get the government out of the marriage business.
[10:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:24] <exec> 08└─The pair of cis scum ones.
[10:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:51] <exec> 08└─She penned a retort that extolled the virtues of the Windows smartphone program, while also confirming that the NYPD has given up on Windows in favor of iPhones.
[10:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:14] <exec> 08└─Most ICE cars do not survive 20+ years (on original parts)
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[10:33:15] <exec> 08└─there's a lot of full-size half-ton pickups out there that never saw 500 pounds in the back
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[10:33:17] <exec> 08└─Hybrids look fantastic on paper, and I do very much like the mix of capability they bring to the table. In terms of complexity, though, I'm not willing to plunk down my money for a vehicle with two complete drivetrains of relatively new design over a well-established internal-combustion design. It's...
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─I've also heard that they've gone to a sophisticated encryption system [www.tuco.de] that would make the data useless outside Sweden.
[10:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:45] <exec> 08└─OK... I can see I wasn't clear enough here... I said: 'and supposedly disproved Keynes by showing how stagflation confounded the "Keynsian" models' Note the quotes around "Keynsian". This wasn't a reflection of Keynses work... this is why it's called the Phillips Curve. I thought Phillips was misgu...
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[11:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:48] <exec> 08└─There are hundreds if not thousands of tons of WWI and some WWII chemical weapons shells and drums busy corroding away in various oceans, it's only a matter of time before some of them release into a populated area. OTOH if the mist had a garlic smell then it could well be the French.
[11:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:28] <exec> 08└─You are right, they shouldn't have accepted it as partner and its money in first place. Google was then a good candidate as subject of investigation. "New America Foundation" should loose its reputation and be forgotten as foundation and just take it as a propaganda organization. The new organizatio...
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[11:27:09] <exec> 08└─No. Many places on earth will not be flooded, even if/when polar ice caps melt. I live near a former swamp that was built-over into a residential suburb by aggressive developers and lax town planners. This is near the Great Lakes which (primevally) were much larger. Those streets still can be floode...
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[12:25:55] <exec> 08└─what's not to love about proprietary software?
[12:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:04] <exec> 08└─The hat business is about to take off.
[12:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20170830/281719794719128 [pressreader.com]
[12:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:14] <exec> 08└─ALL
[12:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:16] <exec> 08└─Be nice to see if genetic T-cell modification can be integrated with the nascent 3-D stem cell printing research. It would make for a far more economical, and available treatment than one-off lab cultures. No, I'm not a biochemist, but I do have a dog in the cancer fight.
[12:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:27] <exec> 08└─Although admittedly that device responded mainly to nerve impulses (e.g. from facial muscles) over brain activity
[12:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:30] <exec> 08└─It might be cool to control a computer using but your brain. Having it go the other way around will probably not be entirely pleasant. We have hacked computers today, tomorrow we'll have hacked people.
[12:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:51] <exec> 08└─We're talking about a policy think tank here, which is to say a glorified lobbying group. Think tanks exist to do one thing: advance the agenda of their sponsor(s). Everyone's respected political research group is someone else's vulgar propagandist. This holds true regardless of ideological perspect...
[12:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:53] <exec> 08└─This is not surprising, but the fact that they were a "think tank" -- they're not suppose to repeat the company line. Ideally, they aren't supposed to be funded by companies. This is like the FDA being upset Coca Cola was threatening to rescind funding if officia health advisories kept saying someth...
[12:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:35] <exec> 08└─" Its often cheaper to insure than to design to address an unlikely peril." Exactly this. The automotive industry is famous for safety analyses that compare the cost of safety measures to the cost of an expected number of wrongful death claims. The Pinto gas tank is a well-known example. Rightly or...
[12:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:33] <exec> 08└─You know, if you can't just say "Hungary", people would think you have something to hide.
[12:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:35] <exec> 08└─All depends on how you measure time... if the basis for time is when the light arrives at Earth (a reasonable term for Earthlings to use), then it was ~600 years ago +/- a few years. Since our estimates of far stellar distances are grossly inaccurate, any guesses of when it "actually" happened will...
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[13:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:51] <exec> 08└─Imagine, running untrusted software on your computer my compromise the integrity of that computer. Shocking! The VI file is the program you're already giving direct control of your physical world components - if you already trust it to do that, it seems rather silly to worry about it getting out of...
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─What's not to love about software thrown together by volunteers?
[13:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─I wish it was as laughably bad as Under The Dome was, but quite frankly it doesn't ever get there. The characters are all just hatable jerks I cannot care about. I only watch to in the hopeful event the mist claims all of them in horribly painful and drawn out death.
[13:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:05] <exec> 08└─I can't speak to the TV show, but I thought the movie was good. Great ending.
[13:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:15] <exec> 08└─All at the affordable price of ~$450K per treatment.
[13:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:18] <exec> 08└─Stem cells typically dampen-down the immune response, but there have been efforts to use implanted scaffolds to improve CAR T cell therapies for solid tumors (link below). There are lots of research groups that are trying to generate a one-size-fits-all version that uses donor-derived cells instead...
[13:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:29] <exec> 08└─We already do. They're called "consumers". See also "viewers" and "voters".
[13:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:54] <exec> 08└─This isn't even the right argument. Who gives a shit why he was fired. There is no question that if you go against the company line, your days at the company are numbered. Censorship isn't the problem. The problem is that there can be no such "think tank" if they are given money by Google to announc...
[13:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:56] <exec> 08└─I've been interviewed twice. I turned down each offer; it would have resulted in a move across the country, for less pay, in a higher priced and smaller home, for a longer commute, with the benefit of.. working at google and all of those on-site benefits. Sadly, I like to not work when the work day...
[13:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:58] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus, I appreciate your views. They often act as a fine foil against your brethren of an opposite mindset. Set up SalientNews and maybe I'll join! But I think in this case the best option is to ride out the change. They need you here -- you provide value, even if they do not necessarily see i...
[13:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:00] <exec> 08└─So, we should stop telling the truth to keep our benevolent masters happy in their cosseted little world??? Not happening, the hoi polloi will eventually rise up as they always have in the past. ;-D
[13:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─Houston has had floods before, but we need a new name for this shit.
[13:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:44] <exec> 08└─True enough. I grew up in Rancho Cordova, where 100+ F in summer is perfectly normal. OTOH, I lived in The City for about eight years and if it ever got above 80 F in the Richmond or Sunset districts the .gov would issue health advisories and local pagans would start sacrificing small animals.
[13:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:46] <exec> 08└─Climate Change is bogus because it fails to account for the billions of tons of water vapor being pumped into the skies. NASA claims water vapor is the #1 greenhouse gas, and a global network of power plants release enormous amounts of steam -- water and heat energy into the weather system, yet ZERO...
[13:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the real failure was building this plant somewhere that could be flooded.
[13:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:51] <exec> 08└─Bring in a generator on a barge and cool the plant. Consider digging a new ship channel and moving Houston inland.
[13:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:11] <exec> 08└─The ONLY reason Turkey gets away with it's moronic crap, is because
[13:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:13] <exec> 08└─Actually that is probably exactly the point. "Too bad there is absolutely nothing we can do..." As if extradition didn't exist.
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[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─is that I don't need your damn customer care or tech support. I just need you to get the fuck out of my way, and let me program the damn device to do what I want, exactly how and when I want it. Every night I pray to St. John [von Neumann] to deliver unto us the IBM-or-IBM-compatible machine of the...
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─Purism [puri.sm] is doing an open source phone. Go and give them money!
[14:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:54] <exec> 08└─Can Emacs come up with something better?
[14:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:56] <exec> 08└─Hi, I'm from the future! The answer was "no" by the way.
[14:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:58] <exec> 08└─It might seem a bit self-defeating to preface such a comment with "WONTFIX", a term popularized by Mozilla.org and later the systemd developers.
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─Who? CBS News has reported that one of the American envoys suffered mild traumatic brain injury with likely damage to the central nervous system. Most of the United States government employees reported headaches, dizziness and hearing loss, and at least six were flown to the University of Miami Hosp...
[14:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:12] <exec> 08└─https://derelictcomic.tumblr.com/post/159477625048 [tumblr.com] (Comic is sometimes NSFW.)
[14:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:23] <exec> 08└─I was just thinking that perhaps CAR T cells are not so different structurally at the cellular from stem cells that the same 3d printing mechanics could be applied, with the resulting reduction in time and cost. Again, I'm not a bio guy, just a lowly EE, and appreciate better-informed opinion.
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─These kind of T cells do not have and would not likely benefit from structural interactions with other cells. One of the great advantages of T cells is that they can "search and destroy" by homing-in on sites of cellular damage and infiltrate densely packed areas to "find" what is responsible and, d...
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─This is an experimental therapy, at the very bleeding edge of the knowledge. Fine-tuning and cost reduction efforts will ensue once it is confirmed to work without much of bad side effects. At the same time the techniques have advanced since the methodology for this therapy was developed so... patie...
[14:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:06] <exec> 08└─"that isn't a think tank, that's a birdhouse of parrots" You're making a distinction without a difference. Name one public policy think tank that does pure, unbiased research. You can't.
[14:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:07] <exec> 08└─Keep on topic, and you can help uncompromise the site, you have a lot of insightful comments to make on a wide range of subjects, and at least used to be one of the more interesting posters here with your askance approaches to the subject matter - and by that I explicitly mean that your contrary vie...
[14:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:23] <exec> 08└─The ONLY reason Turkey gets away with it's moronic crap, is because it is a NATO ally.
[14:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:24] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the hegemony isn't just "The United States", don't you? It is actually the US/UK/British Commonwealth countries, with a helluva lotta assistance from western Europe. Basically, NATO. If it were JUST the US, things might be pretty crappy, but they wouldn't be what they are. Let's...
[14:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do realize that the rest of NATO has something to do with that pattern. However, since NATO largely goes the way the US goes, I don't see them as all that separate. Also, other NATO countries don't have presidents publicly admiring and shielding from prosecution people like Henry Kissinger wh...
[14:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:54] <exec> 08└─I tried to lead by example, exercising daily and attempting to get my girlfriend to go. Or exercise alone if she thought I'd see the fat jiggle--or someone else might. Instead, she cries she is fat and eats fatty foods because the healthy stuff isn't filling and doesn't taste good. I even won fitnes...
[14:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:22] <exec> 08└─> 2014 was 3 years ago, when the decision that Android and Apple were apparently (in the eyes of the NYPD) defective was made. If the decision was made then, the procurement process began months (at least) before. If Apple and Android's offerings were "coming soon" at the time, whilst Windows' were...
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[15:26:06] <exec> 08└─They failed to produce anything of true value the last time around; why now would they be able to do something this next time, especially with regard to a sector of computing as locked down as "mobile"? I'd rather see more efforts put behind RISC-V, and built up an ecosystem from 2 directions: The l...
[15:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:19] <exec> 08└─Do you know what "Begs the question" is supposed to mean?
[15:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:21] <exec> 08└─No... Do I care? Even less... I do it to see you cockroaches come out of the woodwork. As always, thank you for your participation.
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I'm not sure it is. How many people actually run Labview files from other sources? Usually, it's used as an in-house tool to build automation systems or test systems. Hence, you're probably going to be running only in-house developed code on it, because every installation is completely cus...
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:25] <exec> 08└─LabView is a graphical, high level, managed language and runtime. This is no different than running malicious python or c#. I took a free class in LabView to see whether or not I was interested in the platform and it's a big nope. Nice hardware but the licensing and proprietary nonsense. I see Natio...
[15:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:40] <exec> 08└─How could muslim amateurs do this, and why do this instead of the now traditional and commonplace knife/truck attacks? It might actually not be muslims although it seems strange to hear of a mass casualty event from Europe that wasn't caused by muslims. Its theoretically possible although unlikely.
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:41] <exec> 08└─The problem now is the trolls who find a way to talk about mMuslims and or foreigners in any and every subject are indistinguishable from people who genuinely believe that other social/religious/ethnic groups are to blame for all societies ills, much like the communists of previous generations. so d...
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:38] <exec> 08└─You could try reading the whole comment before replying. The distinction between 'censorship' and 'illegal censorship' is laid out. Once you finish the first sentence, you may wish to read the entirety of the next sentence, and so on, until you have read ALL the words. Then, should you reply, do not...
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─Either calm down, acknowledge you acted in bad faith, and seek the good graces of those in power OR go off in a puff, make your own site, with blackjack and hookers Annoying modding has always been the case, and the modding system is shit here as there are plenty of abuses that can happen. But what...
[15:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:41] <exec> 08└─As I sit here "working" at a job I don't really enjoy any longer and cannot leave for at least few months because I'm under a retention contract which I somewhat regret but as I have learned: "It's hard as fuck to say no to the money."
[15:28:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:20] <exec> 08└─My money is on no boom
[15:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:30] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the chemicals are actually needed yet are intrinsically unfriendly when not kept cool.
[15:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:31] <exec> 08└─Looking at the video is interesting, the plant seems built on a slope so the one little fire they had is now on dry (well, not submerged) ground. The reports of "plant under six feet of water" was probably conservative WRT the security fence, but not relevant soon.
[15:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:33] <exec> 08└─Organic peroxides are very touchy chemicals in any circumstances. Standard practice is to keep them diluted in an organic solvent. They are a regular cause of lab explosions when some noob lets all the ether evaporate and the peroxide residue gets too concentrated. By the time your extreme precautio...
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[15:33:26] <exec> 08└─You are an ignorant asshat. If you even ask these questions, it shows how clueless you are on the entire system. The whole marriage is a trap that can easily be compared to a woman who decides she regrets having sex with a guy a month after and reports him for rape. That is basically how divorce wor...
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[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but same genes express differently in men and women (the horrors!). For example if I look at (most) men I do not know if they carry the genes for supple or saggy tits. So in the end the reasoning would rather be that reproducing success was more of a factor of luck for the men, which I could bu...
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[15:34:22] <exec> 08└─The Prius has been around since 1997. When is the concept mature enough? If you wait until 2050 or later, there will have been a big push to go all-electric instead of hybrid.
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[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─I've seen low volume specialized systems built around it. Though, you have to look at this problem from another angle: more vulnerable industrial automation equipment which might fall prey to another stuxnet like infection. But here's the thing, industrial automation isn't an IT problem to be solved...
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:23] <exec> 08└─It's OK, buddy. You'll get over it.
[16:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:40] <exec> 08└─Good point. I wonder if a few old shells finally rusted through and popped releasing some chemicals which bubbled up to the surface and drifted about.
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─I presume you haven't been paying attention for over a year now, 2016 was a watershed year for SN and Trump's win emboldened the more prejudiced around here. Tolerance is out, racism is in, and we get to see what that means when people like VLM post their trollish fears and get modded up for it. I l...
[16:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:56] <exec> 08└─...cost reduction efforts will ensue once it is confirmed to work without much of bad side effects no longer under patent protection.
[16:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:57] <exec> 08└─We really don't know what the long term effects of these treatments can be. I'm not sure what the best way forward is, but as a species we should be very careful about changing our genetic code. Do these therapies mean that some non-human DNA gets introduced to the population? Or are the gene sequen...
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:43] <exec> 08└─Google will learn the lesson too late. What they do is self destructive to the core. For every one of the chaps that speaks out and is shit-canned, there is 10 or 100 even more who disagree with Google but do not speak up. Tell me what is the upside of having thousands of people who work for you sec...
[16:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:35] <exec> 08└─Congratulations! I am sure you thoroughly researched your place of residence to ensure there is zero possible chances of a natural disaster.
[16:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the real failure was building this plant somewhere that could be flooded.
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─Cis-privileged!
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[17:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:03] <exec> 08└─"We're going to cut you open and tinker with your ticker." "Could you dumb it down a shade?" - Julius Hibbert and Homer Simpson in "Homer's Triple Bypass"
[17:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─Why do these devices even HAVE firmware? I understand having settings, but even safeguarding them with a (decently long) secret code would be sufficient. Other implanted devices (such as cochlear implants) are based on ASIC logic without "code" that can be modified. Some such devices are even modula...
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─Note to pedants: when I refer to basing things on parallel logic I understand that anything that has serial command input must store state. I just mean avoiding sequentially executed opcode programs.
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─I find that idea to quite interesting actually. Having a third party provide updated software for a handset after the manufacturer has ceased support/upgrades. Actually kind wish something like that was available for my android phone - a third party that provides tested OS upgrades (in my case I nee...
[17:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:36] <exec> 08└─Nice hardware
[17:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:37] <exec> 08└─Butthurt? I can empathize, but I really don't feel your pain...
[17:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:57] <exec> 08└─> grenfell tower fire was but weeks ago and killed more than any terror attack in the UK Really? I know grenfell death toll is not final yet but where / when was it confirmed to be more than 270 (most recent figures I can find are 80) ? The problem now is that there are trolls spouting utter rubbish...
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─I'll be honest, i forgot about Lockerbie... My thought process was very much in a post-9/11 world of terror. That said, Lockerbie was an international terror incident, as the target was an American airline with the majority of passengers being from the US, and the official story has the bomb found i...
[17:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:15] <exec> 08└─T cells do not undergo meiosis and modifications to them have no plausible mechanisms of spreading into the germ-line. T cells, as well as B cells, are already genetically distinct from the normal genome due to genetic rearrangements and mutations brought about through the actions of RAG proteins. T...
[17:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:28] <exec> 08└─Nyuck nyuck, you are correct but it is really comparing apples and oranges. External influences are a massive step below direct neural manipulation, not to mention the possibility of dying from a hack attempt, or losing eyesight due to nerve burnout, etc.
[17:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:04] <exec> 08└─Apparently I've found I'm not quite ready to have too many Google services in my hosts file. Open Street Map [openstreetmap.org] is a good replacement for Google Maps. However, I find I still need to use Google Maps for different things like trying to find what state an incomplete address is in. Is...
[17:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─Nitpick: money make the world GO round. Gravity is the round making part.
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─You can't stop assholes from being assholes, but you can keep your distance from them. This story is a good example for anyone who wants Gaggle on their resume, don't bother folks! They are evil, massively undeniably evil. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if all their PC crap is actually intentional in...
[17:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─Reset mod points to 5! I've seen pretty lame posts get upmods recently, I don't think the extra mod points are encouraging better mod behavior or really affecting the trolls either.
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─"New America Foundation" should loose its reputation... How does one set a reputation free??
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, if we're cowards.
[17:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:07] <exec> 08└─The high spots have often been taken for a while, and building the ugly plants lower and closer to major infrastructure is usually the better and cheaper move. High points are usually not as flat, which changes the building costs by a few millions. Given the population size, you gotta build plants s...
[17:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:09] <exec> 08└─Hind sight is always 20/20.
[17:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:11] <exec> 08└─Looks like the six days prediction didn't hold up. So boom today. The news account in the NationalLaughingStock.com was choice though, a perfect storm of ignorance by the journalists and FEMA. We are doomed.
[17:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:13] <exec> 08└─"What are the odds that this will break before I retire in 5 years? Under 20%, save on the building cost and buy insurance. I've got stock to sell."
[17:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, a flooded neighborhood can be dried and (slowly) repaired, especially when people don't build houses out of wood. Add an explosion's shockwave to that deep water, and nothing's left standing. The air blast will only blow the windows and damage roof, but the water shockwave will rip everyth...
[17:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:17] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you were wrong. At least one truck is already burning.
[17:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:19] <exec> 08└─> No way the water stays up that long and the second it goes down they will rush in some cooling (Ignoring the fact it already started blowing...) It's been 5 days, you can access the site, you have the generator for the cooling. Do you bet your life on the 6-days guesstimate?
[17:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:45] <exec> 08└─No, [businessinsider.com] he can only pardon federal criminals, not state or city criminals. That's why Mueller is working with New York's AG.
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─Such as?
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─You are an ignorant asshat. If you even ask these questions, it shows how clueless you are on the entire system.
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─So, basically, feminists like guys who are victims? And, guys who are not victims can't be bothered with. Sounds like some of us should find a nice abusive partner, then get rid of her, then lots of women will like us. Procreation problem solved? Maybe so, but damn, what about self respect? Oh, wait...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─With your attitude of superiority you'd better put that big brain to work on self-therapy (or realize you need help, but I don't think you're THAT smart :P) before your wife figures out she can find a nicer person to spend her life with. As another comment mentioned there is a difference between int...
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─Would have been better if you didn't excuse the pun, any punicists are merely arrogant twats. Time and a place for every kind of joke, even yo mamas can be entertaining if you can get over the societal bias. I don't think internet porn is a good basis for real life statistics, by that logic I would...
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─EV and hybrid, to me, seems like yet another attempt by manufacturers to build in obsolescence into their products. Companies really love that these days. The fact that I have a car that is over 20 years old would be seen as a failure to them. Then why would cars made in the '60s and '70s only last...
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[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:02] <exec> 08└─400GB? And 200GB before that? What the heck is wrong with these idiots at SanDisk? Don't they know that these cards are always supposed to have capacities that are a power of 2?
[18:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:04] <exec> 08└─Those are powers of 2. In particular 200 = 27.643856189774724 and 400 = 28.643856189774724.
[18:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:06] <exec> 08└─AFAIK these were based on 256GB and (I assume) 512GB chips. Alternative theory is they were 128+64+8 and 256+128+16GB chips internally. Third alternative: The actual chips are being developed for base 10 storage marketing and these values are closest.
[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:08] <exec> 08└─Fourth possibility: FLASH cells develop errors, so you reserve 20% capacity on your 256GB assembly and market it as 200GB
[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─It's actually quite important that they have firmware that's externally modifiable. You don't want to have to have heart surgery every time there's a slight change in response (which happens over time and should be expected). But there should be no reason that this isn't done with an extremely close...
[18:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sony_rootkit [wikipedia.org] never forget, never forgive
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─Unsupported (in initial release): bluetooth ("the initial release will come with a half-baked bluetooth support." LOL, just like the N800!)new sensors (e.g. barometer, step counter)fingerprintFM-radioNFCUSB OTG No dealbreakers for me, although bluetooth may be a little annoying, as I would hope to c...
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─Pick one: https://quickfever.com [quickfever.com] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Or build it yourself: https://forum.xda-developers.com [xda-developers....
[18:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:55] <exec> 08└─The point of free software is you're not at the mercy of the developer. They can say no but you can still do it yourself or hire muscle to.
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─I'm betting on one of the many many chem carriers going through the Channel deciding to do some discreet cleanup at night, and the byproducts (either as-is, or after sun or sea exposure) drifting towards the land. There were a few high-profile cases of ships caught in French or UK territorial waters...
[18:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:47] <exec> 08└─has it. Was truly a wonder of technology at the time it came out, networking support for a Multiplayer battlezone, back when multiplayer gaming was still in its infancy on personal computing devices. I can't remember if it was limited to appletalk, ipx, tcp, or some other dead protocol though. It se...
[18:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:49] <exec> 08└─Lots of science fiction and videogames have covered this exact possibility. Hell, Agent Smith in one of the Matrix sequels when he stole a guy's meatspace body.
[18:28:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 1092 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:03] <exec> 08└─4th time? Are you denying that you've done little but whine about spam moderations and mod banning since at least saturday: https://soylentnews.org https://soylentnews.org https://soylentnews.org https...
[18:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─Turns out folks don't like it when Admins manipulate mods and karma. This shouldn't be a surprise considering our history. Pretty hypocritical coming from the folks that regularly lambast Reddit for similar behavior.
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:31] <exec> 08└─This summed up both my reason for not voting for Obama in his first election, as well as my reason for telling people it was time to get off google products, whoever you are (except android, so long as you strip out google play and install f-droid asap, it is still quite the good phone OS, compared...
[18:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:33] <exec> 08└─I've seen a wave of moderation concern trolls crop up everywhere. Yeah, we must be shills. There's no way a bunch of people who are willing to vociferously criticize the administration of a website could end up on SoylentNews. That's unheard of!
[18:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:34] <exec> 08└─That's impressive! You just managed to directly contradict every part of your own statement. Climate Change is bogus because man's emissions are causing climate change?
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─Hah, yeah, that second group is me. I can appreciate a well-built man, but in the same way as a well-build skyscraper or statue. Really wondering what my brain looks like now, LOL.
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─I went one 1.5 dates with a girl, both went well. The full 2nd date never happened because I forgot to check in a full day before and just assumed that our agreed upon date was still a go. I did message her at least an hour before, but I guess that wasn't enough. She was very much a daddy's girl, wi...
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─Sthenos (strength) + lagnia (worship/sexual arousal), so...er, you're bi but prefer muscley or otherwise strong partners?
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe the manufacturers feel they made a mistake? :)
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[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─The 200 GB is still at $80 normally but it seems to drop to $60 every once in a while: https://www.androidcentral.com [androidcentral.com] 256 GB is available from Samsung and SanDisk for at least $130, or a bit less on sale [droid-life.com]. Or as low...
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:04] <exec> 08└─The bandwidth math should be done with Shinkansen or TGVs, not silly 787s.
[19:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:07] <exec> 08└─https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/14055/how-can-so-many-memory-cells-fit-on-microsd-card [stackexchange.com] https://www.bunniestudios.com [bunniestudios.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] MicroSD size is 15.0×11.0×1.0 mm (0.591×0.433×0.0...
[19:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:09] <exec> 08└─The current SD specification defines a maximum size of 2 TB for all sizes (SD, miniSD which nobody uses anymore, and microSD). SanDisk announced a 1 TB SD card in September. This microSD stores 400 GB. An SD card has about 4.65x the area and 9.77x the volume of a microSD card. It seems that a 2-4 TB...
[19:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:11] <exec> 08└─http://www.anandtech.com/show/11793/western-digital-launches-sandisk-ultra-microsd-card-with-400-gb-capacity [anandtech.com] 10 year warranty, designed to operate from -13ºF to 185ºF (-25ºC to 85ºC).
[19:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─Now you know how it feels to have your firmware updated, eh, meatbags?
[19:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't you want to have the firmware update-able? Its not just settings that need changing periodically. There are totally new functions that can be added, new measurements and logging tht are developed over time. Pacemakers and pacemaker usage are not a static thing. Your lifestyle will chang...
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:58] <exec> 08└─Our products on the other hand are totally safe IF YOU LOVE AMERICA! Ignore the unpatriotic naysayers.
[19:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:59] <exec> 08└─The developers of LabVIEW, National Instruments, makes a lot of high priced data acquisition hardware that interfaces with LabVIEW.
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─Didn't you see the movies? Terrists always go for the elaborate, genius-but-evil, cackling-in-underground-lair-batshit Rube-Goldberg-esque attacks! If they can't buy a nuke on the black market to bury under concrete on an island in the Florida keys, they'll settle for no less than one tier down on t...
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the details, my comment was more general and I didn't do much checking about this particular therapy. I guess my concerns could be covered by genetic testing, if people are worried about it they can request genetic tests to find out what they'd be exposing their offspring to.
[19:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:41] <exec> 08└─They can't hear you with their head in the sand (or up their ass, depending on how big of an asshole they are). Fuck the future; there's money to be made, and they'll be dead long before the consequences are suffered.
[19:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:41] <exec> 08└─Beautiful, beautiful colors! 🇺🇸
[19:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:42] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump, the President that will preside over the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. It's gonna be great.
[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─$73.95 on Ebay! Drain the swamp!
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─y'all got some bullshit. probably wasn't even X from the symptoms you describe. try to get good shit next time, ffs.
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[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─Oh please update and release webOS based devices. So sad that only TVs use it now.
[20:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:52] <exec> 08└─Most young people these days would be perfectly happy with a slightly modernized Palm Pilot. They never make phone calls anyway. Adding phone functionality to the basic PDA seems an excursion into the unnecessary. If we had just built out the net, voip would have come along anyway. At the time, it w...
[20:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:11] <exec> 08└─Tapes? Tapes. I thought floppies sounded wrong. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.
[20:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─Well, in many cases in Europe or Japan, your disaster recovery using offsite backups would come in someone's bag in a train.
[20:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─to do it [...] involved placing a thick ring directly over the pacemaker in contact with the skin The ring does have a little bit of heft to it. It's a loop antenna for wireless communication. There's copper in it and and probably some epoxy potting/filler and it has a housing that's fairly rugged (...
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─...or more. Modern devices are getting more frugal. Batteries are improving as well. After that time, the battery [...] will need to be replaced Unless you know something that I don't, the whole (sealed) unit always gets replaced. Replacing a pacemaker battery/generator may be done on an outpatient...
[20:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:31] <exec> 08└─Complete loss of device functionality (0.003%) * 465,000 patients = 14 people 14 people will have their pacemakers fail completely from this update, hopefully the medical staff is competent enough to keep them alive post failure until a new pacemaker can be surgically installed, but I wouldn't bet o...
[20:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:33] <exec> 08└─To each their own. If I had a device implanted in my chest keeping me alive, I would consider feature creep, bugs in overly complex logic, and vulnerabilities more dangerous than the benefit to be gained by adding new code.
[20:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:48] <exec> 08└─And the otheros fiasco.
[20:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:49] <exec> 08└─I am well aware of the download-your-own-ROM, I was more interested in having it properly tested by a company that also offers support when it goes wrong. (Since that is kinda the minimum for my work-phone, for my personal phone I wouldn't even blink before I switched ROMs)
[20:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sony_rootkit never forget, never forgive
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─Don't spend any money on these guys. They are nothing but thieves. Every one of them belongs in jail. They know that the FTC will step in an grab their money if they try to sell in the US. Which is why they are probably looking for someone with clean hands to spirit their funds out of the country. I...
[20:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:20] <exec> 08└─When that WONTFIX from the proprietary vendor causes a local coven of feminists to identify you (you! not your fucking employer who bought the software! not the fucking vendor! YOU! PERSONALLY!!!! YOU, JUST WORKING FOR SHIT PER HOUR WITH NO MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY, JUST TRYING TO PAY YOUR DAMNED BILLS...
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:21] <exec> 08└─Visual Emacs?
[20:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:23] <exec> 08└─It runs on most of their hardware which looks like a modular PLC rack. You have I/O modules for pretty much everything under the sun.
[20:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:25] <exec> 08└─Isn't that called XEmacs?
[20:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:22] <exec> 08└─The original Mac edition only supported AppleTalk, and I played it on an Ethernet which must have used AppleTalk Phase II over EtherTalk. I encountered Spectre during a college open house at a college I ended up not attending, and as I recall one of the student computer lab managers joined me in a m...
[20:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:23] <exec> 08└─Well sure Agent Smith could do that since the "Real World" was just another level of the Matrix. It was Matrix sequels all the way down.
[20:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I translated an idiom. I meant "This should have destroyed its reputation"
[20:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:14] <exec> 08└─> This was a supernova, and the star was so bright it could be seen during daylight, but no mention of it exists in European records. LOLWUT? Another controversial guy, crucified by the invading power to appease the local clerics, who snobbed the power of all kingdoms of the world, should have been...
[20:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:44] <exec> 08└─DC isn't a state, true. But it behaves like one in regards to this. Crimes against persons in DC are not crimes against the United States.
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─it's sedition, plain and simple. throw them into the boston harbor.
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─mdma is pretty damn safe for the benefits it gives for ptsd/rape counseling. i wouldn't have waited on the fucking whores as the fda to use it for therapy, but at least they are finally doing something right.
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[21:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PCIe 4.0 to be Available This Year, PCIe 5.0 in 2019 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:52] <exec> 08└─It has PCIe 4.0 on release. The bad part is: You need both processors in order to gain access to all the slots :(
[21:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:01] <exec> 08└─We don't talk on the phone anymore.
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─This is not a good idea and does not have a positive effect on me. Ages ago I got Blackberry and my buddy got a Palm. Palm died and he said blackberry was the better choice, that means I won. This means I lose and this four years is supposed to be about winning. Tactile keyboard please, my blackberr...
[21:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─Those are powers of 2. In particular 200 = 27.643856189774724 and 400 = 28.643856189774724.
[21:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─hopefully the medical staff is competent enough to keep them alive post-failure I'm 100 percent paced. If my device quits, I'm dead. (When Carrie Fisher's heart quit, they gave CPR for 10 - 15 minutes before the airplane got onto the ground; she never regained a self-sustaining state.) -- OriginalOw...
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:59] <exec> 08└─Overpriced it may be, but I found my Z3 Compact came with a rather good OEM distro (remember when you could get a week of use from a phone without needing to recharge? I've got that with Stamina Mode). I just wish root were supported, and the usual suspects have failed to deliver a good solution for...
[21:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:01] <exec> 08└─properly tested...offers support...minimum for my work-phone
[21:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─Can Emacs come up with something better?
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:32] <exec> 08└─Hi Kurenai. You forgot to log in. Daily reminder than most feminists aren't TERFs and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is to feminism what the Dominionists are to Protestant Christianity. Smoke a bowl and c-h-i-l-l.
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─It might actually not be muslims although it seems strange to hear of a mass casualty event from Europe that wasn't caused by muslims.
[21:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, especially if you need access to one of the US's busiest seaports. [wikipedia.org]
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[22:26:17] <exec> 08└─16GT/s is nice, but 25Gb/s transceivers are becoming a lot more available these days, with good enough EQs that even basic consumers should achieve that speed on high quality extension cards. For something not released yet, stopping at 16 is a bit of a miss... I'm pretty sure having a straight shot...
[22:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 4.0 to be Available This Year, PCIe 5.0 in 2019 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reminder. So is anyone planning on running Tails on Talos II for the ultimate paranoid experience?
[22:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 4.0 to be Available This Year, PCIe 5.0 in 2019 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:20] <exec> 08└─The ultimate paranoid experience calls for running it airgapped and headless. But if you want to be really sure, you need batteries and an alternator (or a DC supply). Though, given that China make a lot of alternators and batteries, you should consider avoiding power altogether. There, peace of min...
[22:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─Will the beos ever return?
[22:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:51] <exec> 08└─I think that miniSD is what happens when two microSD cards mate. I have an old tobacco tin with a whole bunch of different storage cards in it, SD for my camera, various USB sticks, and several microSD cards. I recently found a miniSD card in there, and I have no idea how it got there, I'm pretty su...
[22:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:25] <exec> 08└─I no longer expect better. Like the other poster said, Trump has revealed the ugly in people. Sadly, I see it more everyday. I'm not surprised that VLM is sounding more like EH every single day. Wish I could say it was just VLM, but a good number of the people I know and care about use stupid fuckin...
[22:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's About Time for Neural VR Gaming - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:01] <exec> 08└─More like matrix turtles! [twimg.com]
[22:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:50] <exec> 08└─The plural of anecdote is not data. Besides, climate change is supposed to reduce temperature gradients vs latitude. Those gradients drive hurricanes.
[22:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remnant of "Nova Stella" From 1437 Located! - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:54] <exec> 08└─That dude was said to have - impressed scholars with his brilliance at ~age 12 - fed a multitude with 5 loaves and 2 fish - turned water into wine - walked on water - cured a guy's deafness - cured a guy's chopped-off ear - raised the dead - had zombies come out of their graves and walk about upon h...
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[23:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Schedule for Cassini Spacecraft's Destruction - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:59] <exec> 08└─* Sept 30: A giant ship emerges from the Saturn clouds, travels to Earth, stops over KSC. A door opens and a chunk of debris lands right by the front door. An alien using broken English specifies that they'd appreciate if we could keep our trash to ourselves, before giving us the four middle tentacl...
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 4.0 to be Available This Year, PCIe 5.0 in 2019 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:11] <exec> 08└─If you want to talk airgapped you might as well not run a computer at all since you could get Stuxnetted by a trained squirrel with a microSD card. *Ultimate paranoid experience while still connected to the spyInter-net.
[23:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 4.0 to be Available This Year, PCIe 5.0 in 2019 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:12] <exec> 08└─If you want to connect to the web safely, run an embedded OS on a Microblaze (Xilinx FPGA soft-core processor). Running Linux is also possible, but might open up some script attacks.
[23:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PCIe 4.0 to be Available This Year, PCIe 5.0 in 2019 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:14] <exec> 08└─Considering how long it's been since 4.0 has been promised, I'll not hold my breath any longer for it. So many broken expectations and timelines have worn me out. Ryzen SHOULD have been designed with PCI-e 4.0, but even AMD gave up on waiting. Looks like PCI-e 3.0 will be around for several more yea...
[23:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:26] <exec> 08└─Unfortuntely LG bought the webOS assets fro HP before they sold off the brand name to TCL. These will most likely be Android like TCL did with Alcatel and BlackBerry
[23:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:27] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that the Be Inc asstests remained at HP, but don't have a source for that. They might have been sold off with webOS to LG or who knows during the HP split/restructuring.
[23:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After BlackBerry, TCL Looks to ReLaunch Palm - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:29] <exec> 08└─the Be Inc asstests
[23:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SanDisk Announces a 400 GB MicroSD Card - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:51] <exec> 08└─miniSD = 21.5×20.0×1.4 mm microSD = 15.0×11.0×1.0 mm miniSD has 2.6x the area and 3.649x the volume. Apparently nobody bothered to make a miniSDXC so the maximum capacity is 16 GB. That card will be living in your tin, unused, until you put it in a museum.
[23:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06465,000 US Patients Told That Their Pacemaker Needs a Firmware Upgrade - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:10] <exec> 08└─"It looks like your heart is trying to beat. Would you like help wi--" BSOD
[23:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:31] <exec> 08└─SailfishOS is more ambitious than just another android ROM. It runs quite a different software stack that allows writing apps in python. It also has a nice interface which I prefer compared to Android. The OS is also closer to the meego roots and is privacy oriented. I have been testing the Jolla C...
[23:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Unveils LabVIEW Code Execution Flaw That Won't be Patched - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:03] <exec> 08└─No need to beg, google is your friend... emacs has a long and storied history of controlling hardware, consider this story: http://www.classiccmp.org [classiccmp.org] >> I think the elevator hack involved the AI Lab PDP-6 (or maybe, later, PDP-10)...
[23:28:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:19] <exec> 08└─The problem now is the trolls who find a way to talk about mMuslims and or foreigners in any and every subject are indistinguishable from people who genuinely believe that other social/religious/ethnic groups are to blame for all societies ills, much like the communists of previous generations. so d...
[23:28:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:26] <exec> 08└─It might actually not be muslims although it seems strange to hear of a mass casualty event from Europe that wasn't caused by muslims.
[23:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:30] <exec> 08└─Awesome invocation of Poe's Law. I really can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
[23:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:50] <exec> 08└─Everyone who moderates s "manipulating karma".
[23:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Funded Think Tank Fired Scholar Over Criticism of the Firm - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:51] <exec> 08└─No, there are admins/moderators who are able to go in and make "corrections".
[23:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:57] <exec> 08└─Nope. Hurricanes have been happening since before mankind was bright enough to keep a history.
[23:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Plant Explosion Expected Near Houston Due to Power Loss - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the benefits of deregulation. Who is gonna put their emergency generators on a platform if its cheaper to leave them in the basement? Sure as hell not these guys.
[23:34:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 4072 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:48] <exec> 08└─I think it's a little more complex than that. First, there's a bunch of women now who actually don't want kids. You'll find a lot of urban women like this. But they seem to usually want a man who makes more money than them, mainly so they can afford to go on expensive international vacations every c...
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