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[00:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:05] <exec> 08└─Okay! We were all waiting for this moment! Everyone be on the lookout for free juicers out on the curb, so we can salvage them for parts :D
[00:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:07] <exec> 08└─Since they're unexpectedly claiming they will refund (isn't that a dirty word?) the presses, not too many should end up on the curb.
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:09] <exec> 08└─" In order to fulfill our mission, we announced last month that we would shift our resources to focus on lowering the price of the Press and Produce Packs. We began identifying ways that we could source, manufacture and distribute at a lower cost to consumers. During this process, it became clear th...
[00:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:11] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight, they plop a bunch of vegetable crap in to a packet at a factory, mail it to people, then they are supposed to crush this stuff with their fancy "juicer" that isn't really a juicer, just a crusher, so they can get a bit of juice out of that crap? Why not just juice the st...
[00:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:21] <exec> 08└─6. failed to invent PVC
[00:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:23] <exec> 08└─Speaking of lead, you sound like you ate a bowl of lead paint chips every day for breakfast.
[00:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─7. Along with the mercenaries came the mixing of their dark-skinned barbaric genome. Many top doctors and behavioral scientists have frequently mistook a diagnosis of lead-poisoning for just being Black.
[00:27:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:01] <exec> 08└─Damn. Now I have to figure out how to hide the bodies.
[00:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:07] <exec> 08└─Comcast is simply trying to engage in the time-honored strategy used by all telecoms: 1. Take nice large federal subsidies that are supposed to go to building out capacity in rural areas. 2. Don't build out the capacity as promised and just keep the money. 3. Bribe the enforcement agencies as needed...
[00:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Phone Numbers and E-Mail Addresses Exposed in Active Instagram Hack - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:37] <exec> 08└─Two-factor authentication?
[00:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:58] <exec> 08└─Aldi sold horse meat. We can't shop at grocery stores. Wells Fargo opened fake accounts. We can't use banks anymore. Chipotle gave people E-coli. No more burritos. And the list goes on.
[00:30:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06Disabling Intel ME 11 Via Undocumented Mode - 2013 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:32] <exec> 08└─Why are you going to reward them for providing you a benefit because of a mistake? This *will* get sealed up with an update--either via Windows 10 automandatory-for-security purposes, via some bios update that claims to do something else, or just on new hardware that simply won't have this option --...
[00:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disabling Intel ME 11 Via Undocumented Mode - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:57] <exec> 08└─Good thing i buy clones, from china. They dont give a damn who buys their stuff.
[00:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wells Fargo Employees Improperly Opened Up to 3.5 Million Accounts - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:53] <exec> 08└─That may not be as much work as it could be if the (real) accounts are tied to a SSN. Though that does raise the question about the fake accounts, if they needed to be tied to a SSN, then what was used?
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[00:32:20] <exec> 08└─I have to go a few revisions back to find a version that will load with the current version of Pale Moon. Too bad Privacy Badger does not work with Pale Moon, or I would use that instead.
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[01:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:15] <exec> 08└─I hope this is #FakeNews. If it isn't, it will break Ivanka's heart. More than anything, she loves making cold-pressed juice at home. Huge fan of the Juicero! 🇺🇸
[01:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:16] <exec> 08└─But do you have to actually send it back to get the refund?
[01:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you could raise him 5 percentage points with commentary like this on twitter/dealing with the press :)
[01:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:21] <exec> 08└─They arguably have all the info they need, since you had to keep buying the stupid one-time bags from them. But asking people to take action is a great way to reduce the number of refunds paid.
[01:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:23] <exec> 08└─They were in Davenport, on the coast near Santa Cruz . The only crop there is Brussels sprouts
[01:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─That's true, especially if you have to pay return shipping on a heavy juicer. But I was doubting that the company's backers would be interested in paying return shipping on refunded juicers.
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:27] <exec> 08└─Oops, forgot to mention that that also goes back to my original point. If you have to send it back for a refund and it is annoying to do so (as you imply they might be counting on) then they are likely to appear in the trash in that case too :)
[01:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:29] <exec> 08└─Given the price, one would hope a few unreturned ones will have a meeting with bandsaws, table saws, chainsaws, baseball bats... I'll keep an eye on Youtube.
[01:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:32] <exec> 08└─The "mindless consumertards" aren't quite as dumb as people think. The big thing to understand about them is that they're cheap. So sell them some ultra-cheap chintzy crap and they'll buy it, even if it means tossing it out soon. Or sell them some overpriced thing that actually works pretty well, bu...
[01:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There Are Some Crazy Medical Codes Out There - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:04] <exec> 08└─Last Weekend: Ethanol-fueled gets drunk and walks around his apartment after shitposting on SoylentNews. " Amino found that 25,500 people experienced a W2203, which is code for 'walked into furniture.' "
[01:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are Some Crazy Medical Codes Out There - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:06] <exec> 08└─Or some such in the Dsm 4
[01:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:20] <exec> 08└─Now you can answer a layman's question: I've driven only a few diesel vehicles such as cargo vans and box trucks(F-450 or E-350 panel van). Does all diesel acceleration feel sluggish and spongy compared to gasoline engines in similar vehicle classes? I know people who swear by diesels such as Ram 25...
[01:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Observations Suggest TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets Could Have Water - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:35] <exec> 08└─Nothing weasely at all. There is just a vast shocking chasm between what is presented ("artist's impression") and the actual reality of the data or observation. See this Youtube video: "Why Astronomers Love Python and You Should Too" (32 min) https://youtu.be [youtu.be] ... about 4 minut...
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[02:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know anything about the blog or it's claims about Nakamoto. But there is no doubt that the NSA has the capacity, knowledge and ability to create a "fingerprint" of someones writing and then try and match to other pieces or written text in an attempt to try and see if they are written by the...
[02:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03McGruber [3038] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:19] <exec> 08└─I've long assumed that bitcoin was developed by the NSA. Bitcoin always seemed to me to be too good to be true.... so I asked myself who employees people that are smart enough to come up with the blockchain AND able to keep their work secret, for decades? The only entity I know of that has people li...
[02:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:21] <exec> 08└─Then the blogger would have received a visit from the spooks to find who is leaking. The effort to find him would definitely take less than a month and result in a positive match.
[02:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:23] <exec> 08└─Well, the best the NSA can do is identify the location where they left it.
[02:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:45] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about what to do with one since it became obvious they'd fail. I haven't figured out a serious realistic use yet. They aren't good for juicing, I have a conventional juicer thats very easy and fast to use and clean. Juice being crazy carb numbers, means I only drink as a treat not...
[02:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:47] <exec> 08└─My guess is soon theres going to be some dumb gadget articles in Make magazine using arduinos and squeezing toothpaste in the bathroom.
[02:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:02] <exec> 08└─Funny, but Wikipedia seems to think that you [wikipedia.org], Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, were the problem, leading up to the fall of the Republic and the reign of Augustus. And I tend to agree, from what I can remember of those times. Who else marched on Rome?
[02:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:03] <exec> 08└─The "mercenaries" were Germans, you idiotic fueled-by-ethanol ignoramous! And they served in order to qualify for Roman Citizenship. But the mistake was not so much the troops, because, you know, grunts are kind of the same throughout history and geography, but the Romans deciding to let soldiers sw...
[02:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03CCTalbert [6692] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 2249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:42] <exec> 08└─You're kind of missing the context/meaning of this. Typically, Diesel engines don't really throttle the air entering the engine- the power output is regulated by how much fuel is injected. The "gas pedal" is in no way connected to something "throttling" the airflow. Gas engines require this (even if...
[02:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apollo Mission Two Word Parser - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:21] <exec> 08└─no. 2.4 GHz is not ionizing. But cataracts or skin burns, sure.
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[03:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:52] <exec> 08└─But can they attach a finger print like that to a group? If several people edited the document, it must be much more difficult.
[03:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─Dorian Nakamoto [techcrunch.com], right? Or was it Craig Wright [theguardian.com]? And now it's an "inside source" at NSA spilling their beans to Medium, no less? To be honest, I didn't even bother reading the article. They're trying real hard to drive up traffic these days.
[03:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:55] <exec> 08└─Seems likely, anonymity was never possible with bitcoin and now we've found out that even the services that supposedly anonymize transactions do not work. Sounds like a great ploy to uncover people that need anonymity and vastly underestimate the level of tracking that gov agencies are now capable o...
[03:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:19] <exec> 08└─A $500 device that can only squish very special packets of plain old fruit at $7/pack, what could possibly go wrong! We see the overplayed stereotype of the investor/businessman so lost in his own little world where the cost of things doesn't matter that he can no longer do anything practical all th...
[03:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:20] <exec> 08└─Fuck, do you idiots spend every waking moment of your life comparing everything to race all the time? No wonder you're such insufferable assholes.
[03:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:22] <exec> 08└─> squeezing toothpaste in the bathroom. Maybe the press can be made to close quickly -- this would allow toothpaste to be launched/squirted out of the tube at high speed! Think potato cannon, but with goo...
[03:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:25] <exec> 08└─They might have had success just selling the bags advertised as something you can squeeze yourself with your hands.
[03:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:27] <exec> 08└─I approve the post title.
[03:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:29] <exec> 08└─It would have had a better chance that way, but they would have needed to come down in price a bit to expand outside of the valley.
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─Don't forget inflation. The silver content of their coins dropped steadily over the life of the empire until their money was basically fiat currency.
[03:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are Some Crazy Medical Codes Out There - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─Big Endian or Little Endian?
[03:28:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:43] <exec> 08└─...its tough to force a cable company to serve a location they're not interested in serving.
[03:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:44] <exec> 08└─Responsibility also comes with rights. As corporeal beings, we are subject to the pain of physical deprivation or even the pain of administered violence if the powers-that-be deem it necessary. Do we have the ability to enforce responsibility on ephemeral entities, created on documents, which exist...
[03:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:28] <exec> 08└─Diesels suffer from poor low-end power because compression eats up a bigger portion of the inertia from the flywheel, which of course develops more the faster it turns. Did you know the Luftwaffe actually used diesel engines on some aircraft? Notably, The Ju-86P1 high-altitude recon plane used super...
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[04:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:59] <exec> 08└─I'm quite sure that the NSA has the resources - all of the resources - to locate any particular individual that they want to go after. But this blogger is just talking shit. Why would the NSA limit itself to the analysis of writing styles, when they have a much broader spectrum of tools to use? Sure...
[04:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:30] <exec> 08└─You ask me. I'm not the one living in Silicon Valley.
[04:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:48] <exec> 08└─Marius culled all of one party when he marched on Rome, Sulla culled the other half when he marched on Rome soon after. This left the Senate devoid of real strong men. At this point Pompey, Crassus, and Julius sort of ruled things until Julius was deposed. The empire fell to civil war between Pompey...
[04:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are Some Crazy Medical Codes Out There - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:12] <exec> 08└─What are the codes for "moose bite" and "turned into a newt with spontaneous recovery"?
[04:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:49] <exec> 08└─As others have said, I'll believe that a corporation is a person when they execute one. Until then, it's just an entity that absorbs blame for most things. Until we have the means and will to execute them when they start murdering people, I refuse to acknowledge their personhood.
[04:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:51] <exec> 08└─So what rights should corporations have, if any, then?
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[04:29:35] <exec> 08└─I dunno if "sluggish and spongy" refers to turbo lag? Or just big, slow-shifting automatic transmissions? If so, yeah, turbos have lag, and "big" trucks and vans (other than the real big trucks, with synchronous manual transmissions) do tend to have those transmissions regardless of engine; you won'...
[04:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:36] <exec> 08└─There's a reason (or several) why they've used Diesel-Electric in locomotives for decades...
[04:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:38] <exec> 08└─Messerschmidt 252 or GTFO.
[04:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:41] <exec> 08└─In Arizona they might barely make sense, with an ROI somewhere in the 5 year range. Solar panels just can't collect that much power in a vehicle format, the vehicle doesn't intersect enough solar radiation to make it attractive - this scales all the way from dragonfly drones up to semi trucks. Now,...
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[04:29:43] <exec> 08└─I gave up banks and fast food over a decade ago.... Never did shop at Aldi - don't like grocery stores much in general, but there's not a good alternative. Banks lost out to credit unions in my book early on. Fast food lost its appeal around age 25 or so.
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[04:29:45] <exec> 08└─I'll add that gasoline engine operation requires a precise mix of fuel to air to sustain combustion ( stoichiometric ratio ). This was first done by carburetion, but later fuel injectors were more precise and had the ability to adjust on-the-fly, closed loop to compensate for variations so precise...
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[04:34:12] <exec> 08└─I don't know what the fuck "pure webextension" is supposed to mean, but what I do know is that this update happened automatically and the extension disabled itself because it's not compatible with my FF. Yes, that's right. It automatically upgraded to a version that doesn't even target the version o...
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[05:26:16] <exec> 08└─I know it isn't hitting the earth any time soon, but here's a little what if. According to Wikipedia, it has a rotation period around the sun of 859 days. The length of its orbit would be 4(1.7684 AU)E(0.4230) = 4(2.6455×108 km)1.498 = 1.585×109 km, so its orbital velocity would be 21.36 km/s. Ear...
[05:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah gud jerb foggits.
[05:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:03] <exec> 08└─I'll take, "What is a penis? For $200, Alex".
[05:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ [youtube.com] Just started -- hilarious -- too bad he couldn't get the chainsaw started for the unboxing. "Download? Like FUUUHCK!! If watching Mike Judge moving picture shows has taught me anything, on t'other end of that is a bunch mealy mouth non-tie we...
[05:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:25] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, asshole, you've just taken the side of the aggressor. The KKK, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and their ilk started the violence. Suggesting that hitting a nazi is "violence for ideological reasons" shows that you're a fucking shill. Or just stupid.
[05:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:14] <exec> 08└─Especially between 0 and 5MPH, when other means of torque transmission involve tremendous losses in efficiency in the "torque converter", which ends up as heat, necessitating things like "transmission coolers". I know my diesel van generates copious amounts of transmission heat when being run in st...
[05:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:16] <exec> 08└─Some places deliberately de-synchonise traffic lights. They claim it slows traffic and makes things safer. In my opinion they are idiots.
[05:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disabling Intel ME 11 Via Undocumented Mode - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:15] <exec> 08└─I am not afraid of "them" in the sense that "they are out to get me"... Rather I feel the internet has some rather nasty characters in it, like a bad area of town, and when I make myself visible, I stand out like a target. Asking me to get onto the internet with too much ID showing to me is like ask...
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[06:27:30] <exec> 08└─The "mercenaries" were Germans
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[07:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─It's ok guys, we'll only censor stuff that we don't agree with like those damn nazi's, it's not like the internet should be a place of free and open discussion on principal or anything.. right?
[07:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:06] <exec> 08└─> those damn nazi's First they came for the Grammar Nazi's, and I said, "It should be Grammar Nazis", so they took me away.
[07:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:09] <exec> 08└─free and open discussion on principal
[07:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:30] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 agree with: blogger full of crap, and want to + this: all 1 have to do is post NOT LIKE usual when talkin' pseudonymous, and then all this stylometry magick aint worth a trump aid. all nsa good 4 is breakin' into girlz phones to watch them shower. that...
[07:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:32] <exec> 08└─Also note that if you want to cryptanalyze break cryptographic hashes, the Bitcoin blockchain is a perfect source of data: It contains lots of blocks explicitly engineered to have hashes with a large overlap (many zeroes on the end), which is just perfect for analysis. If hash breaking was the main...
[07:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:17] <exec> 08└─NOx is good for agriculture, but very bad for people breathing it. Cars produce it a lot in densely populated areas and less in farmlands. So, generally, it is bad. And no, you cannot use pee instead of urea solution. You cannot pee that much urea. As for fertilizer part, I found it actually cheaper...
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[08:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:44] <exec> 08└─Who tells you that the article wasn't placed by some three-letter agency, to scare people away from Bitcoin? ("Oh my god, the Chinese/Russians are behind it? I guess I better stay away!")
[08:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:18] <exec> 08└─There's a teardown on YT from back in May... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] as he points out, the hardware in this thing is massively, comically, over-engineered: "If you're gonna fail, fail hard, and with style", https://www.youtube.com [youtu...
[08:28:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:22] <exec> 08└─This. Contracts are contracts. Was it Oracle's fault that the State of Oregon signed a contract for a multi-million dollar software project without milestones? No. Just like in this case it is not Vermont's fault that Comcast did not read the fine print, although I suspect more than likely they figu...
[08:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:31] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you're doing, but DEF isn't disposed of, it goes out the exhaust as water, CO2, and N2. It's also not hazardous. VW's problem was they wanted to avoid adding a urea system to their cars and so gain a bit of an advantage over non--cheating manufacturers. You actually answered your own q...
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[09:26:08] <exec> 08└─rotation period around the sun
[09:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:26] <exec> 08└─I've long assumed that bitcoin was developed by the NSA.
[09:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:27] <exec> 08└─the NSA actually HAS computer time to devote to a search like this.
[09:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:29] <exec> 08└─Agreed, thus my final sentence. It's all about priorities. If some math whiz should find a way to become a greater (percieved) threat to our government and our way of life than some terrorists, then the government would devote the necessary resources to finding him. Keeping a low profile has value.
[09:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:32] <exec> 08└─I build the blockchain...
[09:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:16] <exec> 08└─It likely makes a lot of sense for the local leg of deliveries from air, rail, and shipping terminals. That is likely why they called at an "urban hauler".
[09:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:17] <exec> 08└─On a related note, I remember a time, maybe the late 80's, when quasi-official doctrine was that over the road trucking would end soon. The vision was, freight would be moved by rail and by ship, and the only trucking would be local/regional deliveries. Alas, the United States can't run a rail syste...
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[09:32:16] <exec> 08└─> to mitigate unspecified security risks. Or to enable others. But hey, don't look at a gift horse in the mouth, right?
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[10:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:58] <exec> 08└─take thousands of years to solve and net a $1M prize.
[10:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:59] <exec> 08└─Firstly, humans have only solved small problems, computers have solved larger ones. The article makes it sound as if humans are superior, they aren't. Secondly, the link to crypto is bogus. Solving NP complete problems in P doesn't make factoring or discrete logs easy, just P. And P can grow frighte...
[10:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, no one loves a mindless logic puzzle like the Brits. Last one I fell for was "pull my finger!"
[10:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:12] <exec> 08└─They want to discuss the original amount of the loan, but not the interest. (but I thought the whole point was to discuss topics of interest!)
[10:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:22] <exec> 08└─Not a real planet. A real planet would have cleared its orbit.
[10:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:24] <exec> 08└─The summary itself already has a link to the Wikipedia article.
[10:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:19] <exec> 08└─+1 fucking spot on.
[10:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Numbers and E-Mail Addresses Exposed in Active Instagram Hack - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:58] <exec> 08└─But what if my phone number happens to be prime? Where do I get the second factor from?
[10:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disabling Intel ME 11 Via Undocumented Mode - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:33] <exec> 08└─my Phenom II x6 box
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[11:25:58] <exec> 08└─Your favorite puzzle is "How do I get that little boy out of his pants, without his mother seeing?"
[11:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─The answer is behind you, you prepubescent runaway. Just turn around, and you will find it. [But seriously, sorry about the sexual abuse you experienced. But it does not help to project it like this. Get some professional, and legal, help. Soylentils will back you up! ]
[11:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:02] <exec> 08└─Solving NP complete problems in P doesn't make factoring or discrete logs easy, just P. And P can grow frighteningly quickly.
[11:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. Problems in P are considered "easy", but that is only in regards to their computational complexity. Even if a problem is in P, its complexity might still be on the level of, say, n^10000, which is harder to solve than 2^n for small n. As an example, let's say that we have two problems on...
[11:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:06] <exec> 08└─The Greek doth protest to much!
[11:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:39] <exec> 08└─Teutons? Just as much as a fabrication as "Germans". Shall we include the Franks, the Goths, both Vis and Ostro, the Vandals, the Burgundians, Marcomanni, Alamanni, and the Gepids?? In about 222 BCE, the first use of the Latin term "Germani" appears in the Fasti Capitolini inscription de Galleis I...
[11:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks... my old van does not use DEF, but I know the newer diesels require it, and WalMart has shelf-fulls of it. I guess (NH2)2CO + NOx -> N2 + CO2 + H2O one way or the other... Maybe some sort of catalyst involved? I know the exhaust can get pretty hot if I am towing. This is something I have...
[11:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engine Maker Cummins Shows Off All-Electric Truck, High-Efficiency Diesels - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:39] <exec> 08└─The most efficient system I have seen so far is the speed limit radar signage my city has installed on several of our main drags... if you exceed the speed limit, the thing begins brightly flashing an LED sign saying "Slow Down!" along with what it measures your speed to be. Once in a while a cop i...
[11:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apollo Mission Two Word Parser - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:15] <exec> 08└─Do you mean 35:13? 5:13 is just rhetorical guff. I mean, the whole thing's rhetorical guff, but still. If you mean the Hubble comparison, that's just a load of old bollocks as well. "100 times more complicated" is meaningless journalised gibberish. Far, far more time and money was spent on Apollo th...
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[12:26:05] <exec> 08└─As long as he doesn't gift you (especially horses) you may trust him. Or not... (grin)
[12:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:47] <exec> 08└─The original Skype was too independent and too inconvenient. Too P2P for the US Gov's liking. With the old-style Skype if you send a message and the recipient wasn't online, the message would be stored on YOUR machine and only sent the next time both of you are online. So the US Gov convinced Micros...
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[12:27:24] <exec> 08└─A $500 device that can only squish very special packets of plain old fruit at $7/pack, what could possibly go wrong!
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[13:26:00] <exec> 08└─In 1000 years inflation will make 1M dollar barely enough to buy a chewing gum, (the world population entirely made of bots means little demand for chewing gum, that's why).
[13:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:02] <exec> 08└─Potentially of interest: How the Scotsmen framed the discussion: http://www.jair.org [jair.org]
[13:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─It's alright if the horse is wearing a Trojan, right?
[13:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:06] <exec> 08└─the n queen problem for n=1000 is boring. More interesting is solving it for n=2 (gluing the second queen on the opposite side of the board is my fave solution to this one)
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[13:26:16] <exec> 08└─> Either proposal affects sites like SN quite heavily. If links are made illegal, wouldn't it be easy to write something that added some spaces to links so that they were not directly clickable? Anyone here would be able to copy/reassemble the links with a tiny extra bit of work. Seems like this cou...
[13:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:18] <exec> 08└─the Internet routes around damage like censorship. Yeah, until an anchor conveniently falls on your cable [gcaptain.com]. And there's also that critical single point of failure called the "ISP". That's what we need to route around.
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[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─Don't you just love it when they put up such a dog and pony show for you?
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─Zeno: the Original Troll [wikipedia.org]
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[14:26:21] <exec> 08└─> those damn nazi's First they came for the Grammar Nazi's, and I said, "It should be Grammar Nazis", so they took me away.
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:27] <exec> 08└─it's not like the internet should be a place of free and open discussion on principal or anything.. right? Right, all this silly idealism needs to go away. The internet is strictly a marketing platform, where only licensed merchants and financial institutions have the authority to upload anything at...
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:59] <exec> 08└─Which is more likely, (a) out of the hundreds of thousands of almost matching profiles, the person sought is among the very to, or (b) the NSA produces a timely misdirection that points away from themselves.
[14:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:36] <exec> 08└─Don't twist his words. AvEs verdict was massively overbuilt, so underengineered. (Throwing the most expensive parts at the problem instead of using clever design to do the same or better with less)
[14:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:38] <exec> 08└─especially since a "will grind beans and only requires a change of water once a day" automatic coffemaker starts at below $200
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[14:29:57] <exec> 08└─NOx are not particularly bad for people to breathe -- the real problem is that they react with other pollutants to form ozone. See photochemical smog. [wikipedia.org] But you're absolutely right about the distribution problem. Since smog is mainly a problem in urban areas, I like to envision a world...
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[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:55] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games when GOOG comes to you and says "Do you want some money" because who doesn't want money, right? But now you are beholden to them and actors with large pockets give you so much money that you become dependent on them, like mozilla did. It's when they have you in their pocket li...
[15:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─That's the story with the Foundation. Here no money was exchanging hands but google was simply abusing its monopoly position. "Nice web site you seem to have, shame if something was to happen to it..."
[15:25:58] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─"Here no money was exchanging hands" Not directly, maybe, but money was changing hands. Forbe's income was/is at least partially dependent on Google search results. Google threatened to cut that income. Blackmail is blackmail, even if cash funds aren't transferred directly between the perpetrator an...
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─Hill violated a NDA between Google and Forbes. "The implication was that it might have consequences for Forbes" Yep - you violate a NDA and you will not be invited back for other NDA-type presentations. Pretty common throughout business.
[15:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:10] <exec> 08└─People don't change, the stakes just get higher: Two of the world's most powerful countries behaving like little children with this tit-for-tat nonsense, not addressing any real issue.
[15:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:30] <exec> 08└─How many problems in P have such large exponents? And, that aren't simply an NP-hard problem that's been converted to P by the cheap trick of simply declaring n to be some constant value, you know, as in 8-queens rather than n-queens?
[15:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:32] <exec> 08└─Potentially of interest: How the Scotsmen framed the discussion:
[15:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:34] <exec> 08└─my favourite solution: declaring a republic and executing all these bloody royal parasites infesting the board.
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe Satoshi varied his style but forgot to stop PGP-signing all his writings.
[15:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─They seem more concerned with spying on the domestic populace than tracking terrorists. How else do you explain that they can't catch a single terrorist even when they're already known, reported, and plotting in cleartext...
[15:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah - I get what he's saying on that, but I think there's a language usage thing going on there. I'm used to using "overengineered" in the same sense as wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (and the dictionary) which has "more robust or complicated than is necessary for its application" or "unnecessarily comp...
[15:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:24] <exec> 08└─You agreed to terms of a contract, now you must follow through. If this crap is allowed to be litigated away, then the terms of every citizen's contract with you should also be void since you are exempt from contracts.. Vermont: don't give them an inch. In fact, make a new law that penalizes compani...
[15:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:25] <exec> 08└─Not if con-cast is the only provider in town.
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[16:27:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's all fun and games, until some cowgirl kicks your ass. http://horseloversgifts.com [horseloversgifts.com] Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass! Tommy Lee quotes
[16:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─And no one is ever unfairly pressured into agreeing to an NDA. Employers never abuse their power to strongarm candidates into accepting unconscionable and even illegal restrictions on their rights and freedoms. Sign, or starve.
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:08] <exec> 08└─Hill violated a NDA between Google and Forbes.
[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─I was going to post that Hill clearly doesn't understand how NDAs work, but in this case, I am not so sure it's that simple. Almost every NDA requires the disclosing party to identify material that is confidential. So, someone should have told her that the content of the meeting was confidential. No...
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─As an employee of Forbes, she would have been covered by the NDA between Google and Forbes.
[16:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:14] <exec> 08└─https://imanetwork.org/hot-topics/081811-stick-google-plus-buttons-on-your-pages-or-your-search-traffic-suffers/ [imanetwork.org]
[16:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─In that case, Forbes should have fought in court to get the NDA repelled instead of blatantly ignoring the legally binding agreement they allegedly entered. You don't get a free pass on violating contracts by screaming "injustice" loud enough.
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's right, they are clearing out of the consulate ....
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─Yep, you got it man. The secret plan of the Russian government to use it's ambassadors to troll SoylentNews has been uncovered!
[16:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:07] <exec> 08└─Eh, that was Somalia, not exactly a big player, and it's being fixed--from your link: > Authorities were hoping to have internet restored sometime this week. > > The internet outage was estimated to cost the country $10 million per day in lost business, according to the government. Quite a bit diffe...
[16:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:19] <exec> 08└─A swing and a miss. Strike 1!
[16:28:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:35] <exec> 08└─Also note that if you want to cryptanalyze break cryptographic hashes, the Bitcoin blockchain is a perfect source of data: It contains lots of blocks explicitly engineered to have hashes with a large overlap (many zeroes on the end), which is just perfect for analysis. If hash breaking was the main...
[16:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:46] <exec> 08└─Frojack is pro Murrica, as long as he thinks they're going after the bad guys we can be proud of our massive surveillance network.
[16:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:28] <exec> 08└─You forgot the hacking part, Jizzero MK.II. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:29] <exec> 08└─Eh, I'm still partial to what my buddy, a civil engineer, uses. Too complex == "over-engineered" as in it is unnecessarily over the required specifications in some regard. Good design == "well-engineered" as in the product is engineered to hit the necessary specifications. Failing design == "under-e...
[16:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Released as a Pure WebExtension for Firefox - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:31] <exec> 08└─That little Pi-alike looks very interesting. I've been toying with the idea of building something similar for some time, but that looks like it might be cheaper than building my own unit.
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[17:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:40] <exec> 08└─Where's Tsoukalos when you need him?
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─"If true, does it reflect worse on Google or the clickbait and scriptwall outlet Forbes?" Both.
[17:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:01] <exec> 08└─This would be Forbes' problem though, not Hill's, wouldn't it? If my employer enters into an NDA with another company and I'm not informed of such an NDA, then no reasonable court would hold me to it (not that every court is reasonable.)
[17:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:03] <exec> 08└─"If this is what happened, it's a non-story." But, what if the NDA was covered by another NDA that prevented Forbes telling it's reporters that it had signed an NDA?
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, it would be Forbes' problem. It would also explain Forbes taking down the article and it would not be Google misusing their power, just a screwup by Forbes. It sounds like an example where Hanlon's razor should be applied.
[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─That explains why they burned so much documents yesterday that the fire department came by.
[17:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:17] <exec> 08└─I don't even know why I'm supposed to hate Russia so much I'd give my life in a nuclear conflagration. I do remember a sort of latent anxiety about the end of the world when I was kid and the cold war was frigid and it occurs to me that the people who put my life in danger are all those tools in WA...
[17:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─Missing us by 18 earth-moon distances. That sounds like a "ball" to me. Inside the lunar orbit might be the strike zone??
[17:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:35] <exec> 08└─I was into cryptoanarchy in a time before bitcoin, I remember that most of the concepts required to the development of the bockchain originated around the mixmailer anonymous Usenet posting gateway. The most important one being hashcash: I proof of work currency that was use to make the use of the m...
[17:28:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:48] <exec> 08└─I hope this is #FakeNews. If it isn't, it will break Ivanka's heart. More than anything, she loves making cold-pressed juice at home. Huge fan of the Juicero! 🇺🇸
[17:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juicero Squeezed to Death - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:18] <exec> 08└─(Sorry for being disjointed, been spending all days reading lists and can't break the mindset) There are models where the filter are cleaned daily rather than after every cup (usually they max out at about 6-12 cups before cleaning anyway). But I agree that is still more hassle than most people want...
[17:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:44] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. I'm saying Comcast has the option of not doing business in Vermont.
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[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─Given that google basically has monopoly status in the search engine industry, it seems like US and EU officials should be all over this like stink on shit. This is a clear example of a corporation financially and legally pressuring a company to acquiesce based on their market domination.
[18:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:47] <exec> 08└─We can only hope you are right.
[18:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:48] <exec> 08└─Trump had nothing to do with the decision. It was decided for him by the deep state. You do know what the deep state consists of, don't you?
[18:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:13] <exec> 08└─I had tried solving the n queens problem by invoking gender parity for the board but feminists do not show much enthusiasm when the male is the disadvantaged one. So I solved it by convincing as many queens as possible to transition to kings. Some of them even prefer transitioning to a bishop, sign...
[18:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─Computer Scientist Professor Ian Gent and his colleagues, at the University of St Andrews, believe any program capable of solving the famous "Queens Puzzle" efficiently, would be so powerful, it would be capable of solving tasks currently considered impossible, such as decrypting the toughest securi...
[18:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:30] <exec> 08└─The fact you are avoiding is that it is trivial to censor and cut off your access to the internet. The ISP is the weak link that must be dealt with if we are going to create a robust, indelible, accessible internet.
[18:27:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dbv [6022] 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:55] <exec> 08└─Dorian Nakamoto [techcrunch.com], right? Or was it Craig Wright [theguardian.com]? And now it's an "inside source" at NSA spilling their beans to Medium, no less? To be honest, I didn't even bother reading the article. They're trying real hard to drive up traffic these days.
[18:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:19] <exec> 08└─"So what rights should corporations have, if any, then?" The right to file Chapter 11, and "Get off my lawn!".
[18:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phone Numbers and E-Mail Addresses Exposed in Active Instagram Hack - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:40] <exec> 08└─Multiply it by 1.
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[19:26:14] <exec> 08└─the story has nothing to do with forbes' website crapulence. takyon is just showing petty bias because forbes is pro free market capitalism (or whatever it means to them). pretty lame and transparent, takyon.
[19:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:16] <exec> 08└─lel
[19:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:26] <exec> 08└─Yep, you got it man. The secret plan of the Russian government to use it's ambassadors to troll SoylentNews has been uncovered!
[19:26:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:28] <exec> 08└─I don't even know why I'm supposed to hate Russia so much I'd give my life in a nuclear conflagration. I do remember a sort of latent anxiety about the end of the world when I was kid and the cold war was frigid and it occurs to me that the people who put my life in danger are all those tools in WA...
[19:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:32] <exec> 08└─I'm sick of the condescending fucks in Washington, DC. This is just an extension of the economic trade war the US has going with Russia under the guise of this stupid "election hacking" BS. A trade war with Russia is the opposite of what "we" should be doing. Having strong allies next to china might...
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:58] <exec> 08└─The easy to troll troll, too. *Slap* Zeno turns around facing his disciples: "alright, who slapped me?" The disciples: "zeus did. No mortal hand can reach your enlightened buttocks because it would need to reach the halfway point first and to do that...."
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:26] <exec> 08└─https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news199.html [nasa.gov] > Radar images of asteroid 3122 Florence obtained at the 70-meter antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex between August 29 and September 1 have revealed that the asteroid has two small moons, and also confirmed that mai...
[19:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:55] <exec> 08└─Further, send that recipient a link (to a web server you control), and watch how many times that link gets visited. This is also a worth while test on any other platform you are considering using.
[19:28:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:45] <exec> 08└─Sounds like lead pipes in Rome are just a proxy for lavish overspending, which, when combined with the corruption of a long entrenched system, would seem to naturally result in what we saw towards the end of Rome. So perhaps rather than lead causing downfall, it was the other way around. I mean, if...
[19:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are Some Crazy Medical Codes Out There - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:22] <exec> 08└─One wonders if there are separate codes for "wounded by hand grenade" and "wounded by holy hand grenade". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Observations Suggest TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets Could Have Water - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:19] <exec> 08└─This title is not using weasel wording: "Hubble Spots Possible Evidence of Water on Earth-Sized TRAPPIST-1 Planets" http://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com] It correctly conveys uncertainty with...
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[20:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Without CRISPR -- Private Equity Raises $127 Million - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─Editing vectors were designed to insert a promoterless GFP reporter cassette into the human PPP1R12C gene located in the safe harbor site, AAVS1, such that expression would be driven by the chromosomal PPP1R12C promoter. AAVHSC editing vector genomes included homology arms that flanked the promoterl...
[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Without CRISPR -- Private Equity Raises $127 Million - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:06] <exec> 08└─Ummm, can we have a car analogy please?
[20:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:39] <exec> 08└─Some contracts should not even be enforceable, such as NDAs. I have no problem with people violating them.
[20:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a pile of 20-year-old tourist visa applications and leftover Sochi Olympics posters might prove crucial to Mueller's fishing expedition.
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─As long as people have enemies we can sell more weapons. As long as people keep getting sick we can sell more medicine. As long as people are divided we can sell more newspapers. As long as people are desperate for something we can sell hope in the form of an election. And on the cycles go...
[20:26:58] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:58] <exec> 08└─Yep, people who are paid to do their fucking job.
[20:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:01] <exec> 08└─JEWS.
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:03] <exec> 08└─You just admitted that the US president is only a puppet. And you also did not name anyone. This makes you a part of the deep state, an actor sent to infiltrate groups and misguide them. To tell people it is not the jews. And you attack anyone who says it is the jews. If it wasn't the jews then you'...
[20:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plumbing Discovery Reveals the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:35] <exec> 08└─They were called Gauls back then (ie the Gallic Wars).
[20:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phone Numbers and E-Mail Addresses Exposed in Active Instagram Hack - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:05] <exec> 08└─The attackers then modified the captured request to substitute the username sent to the Web proxy with the username of targeted celebrities. The Instagram server would then send a JSON-formatted response that included the target's personal information.
[20:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Observations Suggest TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets Could Have Water - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:02] <exec> 08└─So your argument is that "Hubble" exists because a tracking webpage exists? How about Tate's satellite webcam [tate.org.uk]? Does this look legit to you?
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apollo Mission Two Word Parser - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─No, it's not dangerous because it's not dangerous
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[21:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Without CRISPR -- Private Equity Raises $127 Million - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:57] <exec> 08└─"What's surprising is this company raised so much money on something thought to be untrue in the scientific community,"
[21:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:06] <exec> 08└─If the aliens are smart enough to travel through space then they should have a prime directive.
[21:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:08] <exec> 08└─What's your prime directive, EF?
[21:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:10] <exec> 08└─Kill all the men and take all the women.
[21:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:12] <exec> 08└─Probably doing a line of coke off a stripper's back. He just strikes me as that type of a fun guy.
[21:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:14] <exec> 08└─I like how this is modded 'Interesting'. 'Fascinating, Captain', maybe. But Interesting? :) I'd go for "Kill all the men and take all the good looking nerdy girls between 18 and 25."
[21:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:17] <exec> 08└─I welcome our new high energy radio overlords. As long as it's rock/alternative radio overlords. No Michael Jackson or what today passes as pop music.
[21:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:43] <exec> 08└─I thought the story was that the believed that Google was acting in terribly bad faith and abusing its monopolistic position. The NDA is just a weasely argument at this point. The NDA is indeed a non-story. The NDA question is not what anyone worried about Google's behavior nor Forbes behavior was...
[21:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:44] <exec> 08└─There was a time when Forbes would go to the wall pursuing a story. They would say things they knew, for certain, would incur a libel suit once they knew they had their facts straight. I will never forget Malcolm Forbes's editorial where he said "controversial" was a weasel word used by cowards and...
[21:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─it would not be Google misusing their power
[21:26:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driven [6295] 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:55] <exec> 08└─People don't change, the stakes just get higher: Two of the world's most powerful countries behaving like little children with this tit-for-tat nonsense, not addressing any real issue.
[21:26:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's right, they are clearing out of the consulate ....
[21:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─That is the correct answer. The followers of the movement, and indeed the whole nation, must be reminded again and again of the fact that, through the medium of his newspapers, the Jew is always spreading falsehood and that if he tells the truth on some occasions it is only for the purpose of maskin...
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─"any program capable of solving the famous "Queens Puzzle" efficiently, would be so powerful, it would be capable of solving tasks currently considered impossible, such as decrypting the toughest security on the internet" I'd think anyone so misguided to ruin the privacy of everyone for a mere $1 mi...
[21:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:07] <exec> 08└─It would be a ball, except they swung at the pitch.
[21:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Sues Vermont to Avoid Building 550 Miles of New Cable Lines - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:46] <exec> 08└─hmm, they aren't trying very hard because, besides random loons now and then, nothing ever happens. should i conclude that "blacks" are "trying to exterminate" white people b/c of their few loons that do the same thing? your paranoid delusion is just as dangerous as whatever caused these people to f...
[21:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disabling Intel ME 11 Via Undocumented Mode - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you say, from the context you've stated it. My context was for end users being unable to exploit this in the long term, because the process will change, and the power of control will end up back where it was supposed to be. I never suggested the people that wanted the feature...
[21:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disabling Intel ME 11 Via Undocumented Mode - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, updating the BIOS on a working system is a risk... But I've modded in new microcodes and option rom features, like backporting Xeon microcodes into my motherboard and allowing NVMe storage to work natively via the installation of updates Intel RST rom codes. I've ended up with a number of custom...
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[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Without CRISPR -- Private Equity Raises $127 Million - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:11] <exec> 08└─They claim to have made some cells glow under fluorescent light and say the only way this could happen is if the cells got "edited". I bet some percent of the cells would glow anyway.
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:25] <exec> 08└─Well, when this came out it prompted me to look up a great Star Trek: TNG episode "Who Watches the Watchers" [wikia.com] in which a Federation outpost studying a Bronze-age society of proto-Vulcans has its holographic cover blown and the crew of the enterprise has to go into full damage-control mode...
[22:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Fast Radio Bursts Detected From Distant Galaxy - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:27] <exec> 08└─Now that would be great if the moderation options were replaced with: Fascinating, Captain! No. But it is... interesting! Illogical, Captain! Curious. If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon. She canna take much more of this! He's dead Jim! Maybe next April 1st? Shame I couldn't think of one...
[22:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forbes Reporter Claims Google Squashed a Story in 2011 - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:57] <exec> 08└─My retired buddy (about 80 years old now) used to hang around in the Caribbean in between big power line installation jobs. One time he got a job crewing on Malcolm Forbes' private boat/yacht. He said that the boys (including Steve) were all terribly spoiled and awful kids.
[22:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:20] <exec> 08└─That smoke was coming through a chimney, and the only reason why the fire department came by is because some hysterical faggot nearby complained about the carbon footprint.
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Orders Closure of Russian Consulate - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─Ask the people of annexed Crimea how they feel about Russia. Vlad is trying to reassemble the USSR.
[22:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, O.K. - the conquered territory and all... I'm one to talk - we've got the "batwing eyebrows" and a fair amount of red hair in the family, but our ancestors left Scotland to Tennessee in the 1800s as a method to pay off some intractable debt.... Makes some sad sense that the Uni would be overru...
[22:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 1865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:51] <exec> 08└─What ticks me off about the usual presentation of "NP" problems is the old: "They're easy to check, but hard to find" meme. The next statement is usually something like: "N-Queens is an NP problem, here's the N-Queens problem, you have to place N Queens on a chessboard that is NxN in such a way that...
[22:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Simple' Chess Puzzle Holds Key to $1M Prize - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:53] <exec> 08└─(Serious)Why did you spend so much time commenting? Are you rich enough to pass on the prize? I'll assume you are. You sound smart enough to do this in maybe a weekend.
[22:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:22] <exec> 08└─> "they" (no antecedent) Who's on first? ...
[22:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 064.4 Kilometer Asteroid Safely Passes by Earth - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, he is. And What is on second, I Don't Know is on third, and Naturally is the pitcher.
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[23:27:12] <exec> 08└─You elected me because I'm a winner. Because I know how to get the best deal possible. So America can win, win win. But the Dems and the #FakeNews #MSM have started a witch hunt over me and Russia. The likes of which no politician has ever seen. Very divisive! So I signed the sanctions bill, in the...
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