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[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─Hey yeah Dick Niggers. You know so we never fuck no old pussy. But yeah so we fuck a lotta young pussy. Dick Niggers don't stick dick in fat, bitch.
[00:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:53] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford is either the luckiest man alive, or Michael David Crawford is a motherfucking liar.
[00:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:54] <exec> 08└─We can easily automate most published social science counseling: If in=whine then out=platitude.
[00:26:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:05] <exec> 08└─The prequels were bad enough, but now Disney is just doing a cash grab and following the current trend of hitting people's nostalgia buttons. That trend was pretty much over when ep7 landed, and that movie paired with their marketing Armageddon paved over the grave of nostalgia with solid gold. I ha...
[00:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:26] <exec> 08└─You cared enough to say nothing as well! ;)
[00:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:27] <exec> 08└─Peter Jackson would be awful. He would have stretched the prequels into three movies even though there was really only enough material for one.
[00:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:29] <exec> 08└─I think you'd be shocked how much of their lives some people devote to things they don't like....
[00:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:31] <exec> 08└─Just think how many people are married!
[00:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:33] <exec> 08└─Would you rather have Jar Jar Abrams?
[00:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:49] <exec> 08└─Worse, some of the images give an incorrect impression. Towards the end, there is an image of naked humans next to a number of animals. However, the animals are not to scale with each other (as things were often to scale in previous slides). So anyone reading this disc is likely to believe our plane...
[00:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not convinced the decision makers care if the price goes up. Boeing and Airbus are already massively subsidised by taxpayers (jobs) so if the aircraft become more expensive, people will still have those jobs. The military also does not matter, as the only customer for those products are taxpayer...
[00:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:39] <exec> 08└─Ok, if you want to play with crowdfunding you might (or might not) have one of these in 2019 if you give them $599 now. What the specs will be is still TBD of course, lest it be assured of obsolescence if they tried to nail anything down now. Good luck if you actually expect them to be the absolute...
[00:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, PayPal is not FDIC insured - they hold funds in your PayPal balance in FDIC-insured banks, so your funds are protected, but PayPal itself is not a member of FDIC and thus does not have to follow their rules.
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[01:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:40] <exec> 08└─I have lost 38lbs doing this. 30-50 carbs a day. Avacado and dark green salads. Cold caught fish or sardines or chicken for protein. Almost no red meat. Olive oil and cheeses. Do this during week. Weekends cheat. Added running on elliptical too. 2-3 miles while watching tv.
[01:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─I can get a dozen eggs for $1, sometimes $0.70. That's about a thousand calories. Now I have to cut out the rice.
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:58] <exec> 08└─In the West we've developed a mindset that we can simply fix everything, but as a society we are not yet wise enough to pull it off.
[01:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─Well gollee gee you're right! Sadly way too many people are not capable of making such a change. If you want a more flexible job, or to work less than 40 hours a week, your options are very limited with the majority being low pay starter jobs. I believe you are mixing things up and thinking that I m...
[01:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:02] <exec> 08└─While there is some truth to that mockery it is usually the type of insult that comes out of people who desperately need therapy but are too stubborn to think its worthwhile. Or just ignorance, you tell me! The real trick seems to be in getting people to a mental state where they are ready to even t...
[01:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:04] <exec> 08└─Or maybe he's just a really skilled coder.
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:06] <exec> 08└─found that 50 percent of respondents are consistently exhausted because of work, compared with 18 percent two decades ago
[01:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─Being tired, ambivalent, stressed, cynical and overextended has become a normal part of a working professional life.
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─I believe you are mixing things up and thinking that I mean society=gov. This is not the case, but gov is definitely a subset of society and it will play a role in such a shift. So put your libertarian blinders back where you found them.
[01:26:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:20] <exec> 08└─Just. Don't. Care.
[01:26:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:31] <exec> 08└─I actually thought Rogue One was pretty okay. But it's less of a Star Wars film than a War Movie that happens to have the Star Wars universe as the setting. Probably not a surprise I thought the random bits with Darth Vader and Leia were kind of pointless, though I appreciate the "bookends" the movi...
[01:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:47] <exec> 08└─Don't tell me, you'd rather vote for a Wookie.
[01:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:48] <exec> 08└─Big, hairy (almost fits), loud and unintelligible. All check, I think we already accomplished this :D
[01:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 2279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:50] <exec> 08└─I enjoyed The Force Awakens. I agree that the script was not Oscar-worthy, however I think you'll find that's true of A New Hope as well. It was a little disappointing that there was yet another Death Star to destroy, but it didn't seem to be a problem for everyone that 2/3 of the original trilogy i...
[01:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:58] <exec> 08└─but that is ignorant and arrogant at the same time.
[01:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:59] <exec> 08└─The parent's logic is not idiotic. You can work to have the government add new regulations to stop harmful behavior while also refusing to use devices that do not respect your freedoms; that's what I do.
[01:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:01] <exec> 08└─Some people want computers that respect their freedoms. Not everyone is like you, someone who only seems to care about functionality.
[01:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:04] <exec> 08└─Don't be evil, Google?
[01:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:06] <exec> 08└─These days, not having a smartphone is going to have a severe impact on your social life, depending on your social group and demographic, and quite possibly your career too.
[01:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:08] <exec> 08└─With that said, there is still proprietary software in those Purism phones, so they are not sufficient.
[01:29:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 3342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:23] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem is that it takes only one person to slip up, just once, to expose information. The increased rise of more sophisticated hacking tools and the increased sophistication with which everything that is ever exposed online is indexed and searchable by people with bad intentions mea...
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[02:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:21] <exec> 08└─Government has no business allocating society's resources; any such gamble should be made by "private" citizens.
[02:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:22] <exec> 08└─It will profit from the payments received under the feed-in tariff scheme and payments for energy from social housing customers.
[02:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:24] <exec> 08└─I guess it is a good thing that, if you actually RTFS and A, it turns out a private company is doing it.
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:36] <exec> 08└─And the beer / sux2bu
[02:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:38] <exec> 08└─I mean... fuck. What were you eating before? Seriously. Your list is about as mundane as it could possibly get. Did your parents raise you on ice cream and steak or something?
[02:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:40] <exec> 08└─Did your parents raise you on ice cream and steak or something?
[02:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:42] <exec> 08└─As much as I love me some barbecue, I'm not giving up my biscuits and gravy. They'd kick me out of the South.
[02:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:44] <exec> 08└─>> no responsibility for the shortcoming of their adult progeny. i call bullshit on that, knowing full well where you must have gotten a hold of that nonsense.
[02:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:47] <exec> 08└─Already quit drinking and switched to low calorie drugs.
[02:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:10] <exec> 08└─QED
[02:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:12] <exec> 08└─Run your workers until they burn out? You can replace them with someone else (cheaper), or an H1-B. For the record, I have burned out. Good days are a vague feeling of depression, slogging through the work day. Bad days are sitting in my car before work, telling myself it's only for a little while l...
[02:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.burnout-solutions.com [burnout-solutions.com]
[02:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:53] <exec> 08└─He is actually a decent director and producer. He just can not write worth a shit....
[02:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:55] <exec> 08└─Are enough people willing to think outside the box and stop playing along with the system that is? Ah so blood it is then.
[02:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:57] <exec> 08└─Nope, but he got his girlfriend stuck in the bathroom window.
[02:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:14] <exec> 08└─https://i.redd.it/eyxcgf9zrbiz.jpg [i.redd.it]
[02:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:16] <exec> 08└─Needed a banana for scale!
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[04:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:52] <exec> 08└─Wen's team estimated that the energy released in the latest test was about 108.3 kilotons of TNT
[04:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:53] <exec> 08└─they should be from Microsoft's FUD school
[04:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:56] <exec> 08└─This story has been repeated several times in the media over the last few days, but has very little in the way of substance to it. Some Chinese geologist says "The North Koreans might blow the top off the mountain where they do their nuclear tests" but provides no real evidence why that might happen...
[04:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:58] <exec> 08└─Ditto whatever the US is saying about NK at the moment. We get the "madman" story again and again. Like how bin Laden attacked the USA because "he's a terrists omg". Is anyone actually asking WHY they are developing nukes in such a hurry? No, it's just becuz "his a madman omg".
[04:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:00] <exec> 08└─Who cares if he's crazy or not? He's starving his people to death and doesn't let anybody have access to world news or technology past 1950. That's fucking bad enough.
[04:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:02] <exec> 08└─Why? Because becoming a nuclear power is probably the *only* way for the leader of that country to be able to lift all the sanctions imposed on it by the rest of the world. It all comes down to the first rule of negotiation - always negotiate from a position of strength. The rest of the world really...
[04:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:05] <exec> 08└─What's that you say? He's crazy?! He sounds like a madman. A madman who is crazy. Unbelievable!
[04:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:07] <exec> 08└─And what about the US having a massive army on it's border and a history of invading countries, including them? Naaaaah, he just cray cray.
[04:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:17] <exec> 08└─So, if I understand you, selling electricity to the privatized utility company constitutes a public subsidy? Did you even look at the feed-in tariffs in the UK? Hint: they are a lot less than retail electricity rates.
[04:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:19] <exec> 08└─Moar knee jerks! I want to see those knees jerking! Come one, come all! Petro shills and anarcho-capitalists! Tell us moar about how evil this is!
[04:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:21] <exec> 08└─From TFA: The feed-in tariff scheme offers guaranteed cash payments to households that produce their own electricity using renewable technologies. It changed in February, adopting different rules and lower tariff rates. … Solarplicity will target military veterans when it recruits staff to install...
[04:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:23] <exec> 08└─RTFA? Like father(slashdot), like son (soylent).
[04:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:25] <exec> 08└─It will profit from the payments received under the feed-in tariff scheme and payments for energy from social housing customers.
[04:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:27] <exec> 08└─By some strange quirk, 800,000 people is the number of "dreamers" the US Govt is currently proposing to deport to Mexico (and perhaps other points south). Given a choice, I'd much rather give each a solar panel...
[04:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:30] <exec> 08└─Reading is fundamental, math really helps too. The private company is spending 200 pounds per home and gets to reap money. You can't send a truck out and have a look at the home and suss out where you will put things, connect up to the mains, etc. for that. So the government teat is paying and a pri...
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[04:01:46] <exec> 08└─Lost 40 pounds but was still somewhat overweight, so I switched to Atkins, and lost another 10. The most effective diet I've experience was sixth months of Vegan when I was in the slammer
[04:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:48] <exec> 08└─The mistaken belief that human dietary needs have not changed since the paleolithic era..
[04:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:50] <exec> 08└─If this is true then the food pyramid must have led to worsened memory and lifespan: https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[04:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─Nice try but you don't NEED cheetos, dude.
[04:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:54] <exec> 08└─He's evolved!
[04:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:22] <exec> 08└─Still, you can always try a few simple ideas [youtube.com] first.
[04:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:23] <exec> 08└─found that 50 percent of respondents are consistently exhausted because of work, compared with 18 percent two decades ago
[04:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:06] <exec> 08└─Well, fine, while both of you are wasting your votes on the two puppets of the 1%ers on Coruscant, I'm voting for Karellen [wikia.com]. Morn's his running mate. You should have heard Morn in the cantina the other day! What a personality!
[04:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:39] <exec> 08└─... that won't assimilate me
[04:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:28] <exec> 08└─Get you some Windows Phone, then - right? Much better ecosystem without all the nanny-ware.
[04:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:29] <exec> 08└─> You could say the same thing about cars, electricity, etc. Let me introduce you to a very happy Amish family that I know...
[04:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:31] <exec> 08└─Those are for the desktop. You can't use a desktop app on a mobile device.
[04:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:34] <exec> 08└─On what planet is this sort of nonsense sustainable? The planet where the government refuses to regulate ISPs as utilities. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are going to get regulated as utilities eventually and be barred from discriminating. I see no evidence to support this assertion. They aren't r...
[04:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:36] <exec> 08└─Mere sophistry and proving my point they are a bank pretending to not be a bank when the rules cramp their free wheeling .com style. So, you think Chase could get away with pretending they aren't a bank but the customer deposits are safely in one and then start refusing service to people for whateve...
[04:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:38] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. As long as it is usable on the screen. What do you think GNOME3 is, just gtk3 apps optimized for touch and with a eye to looking good and being usable on a small screen. The rest is in the window manager's defaults to force everything full screen. Rare to find a calculator app that pa...
[04:06:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Three Hardcoded Backdoor Accounts Discovered in Arris Modems - 2234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:52] <exec> 08└─It is entirely safe to assume that every single bit of nonfree software running on any of your systems is compromised in the worst possible way, allowing the vendor, its affiliates, and various law enforcement agencies full access under certain conditions. The safety of this assumption is confirmed...
[04:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Three Hardcoded Backdoor Accounts Discovered in Arris Modems - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:53] <exec> 08└─Never let your modem get an IP address on its WAN interface - use the modem as just that, a modem, not a router. Hook up a real router or firewall behind it, and let it do the PPPoE, PPPoA or whatever sign-in is needed. Configure a static IP with no gateway on the modem's LAN interface for admin pur...
[04:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:43] <exec> 08└─Would be OK if all the riders were the same height, proportions (body mass distribution), strength and flexibility. As it is, every pro rider has a custom fit (adjustments) on their bike, and often a custom frame to work best with their dimensions. And they may have several custom bikes depending on...
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[05:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:48] <exec> 08└─http://www.motortrend.com/cars/nissan/leaf/2018/2018-nissan-leaf-first-drive-review/ [motortrend.com] Also includes a small comparison table with Bolt and Model 3. One odd choice is that the new Leaf continues using the CHAdeMO charging plug/standard. For anyone that hasn't looked, the first generat...
[05:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:05] <exec> 08└─There were a number of times when nuclear tests unintentionally broke the surface, and many more for which the site collapsed afterward. It didn't end the world, but yeah, it sure isn't good. Any test that isn't high in the air is going to produce lots of radioactive debris.
[05:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:06] <exec> 08└─And most importantly, are there robo-scorpions?
[05:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:08] <exec> 08└─Are you aware that both the United States, The Soviet Union, and China, conducted open air surface tests of nuclear weapons, which caused fallout which resulted in radioactive fallout that probably explains the Bundy's? So North Korea has not done much harm, yet, unless their mountain collapses. I...
[05:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:26] <exec> 08└─If they only need solar panels and nothing else, sure.
[05:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:27] <exec> 08└─"Troll"? Well, then, I guess I'd better repost. ------------ Government has no business allocating society's resources; any such gamble should be made by "private" citizens. What's that? This is the work of a "private" company? Think again! From TFA: The feed-in tariff scheme offers guaranteed c...
[05:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:29] <exec> 08└─Well, they ("dreamers") mostly need some assurance they won't be kicked out of the USA, where they have lived since they were very young. And a solar panel(grin).
[05:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:51] <exec> 08└─Cyclical Keto for eight years this fall. I eat carbs on weekends and sometimes during the week. My mind is foggy during these phases, not as sharp. I don't know how else to describe it. I am also moodier and more impulsive during those times. I run a couple of miles a day, but cardio is inefficient....
[05:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:52] <exec> 08└─I run a couple of miles a day, but cardio is inefficient.
[05:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:54] <exec> 08└─It's the high volume of AC posting that is killing SN, not the moderation. There's no way to have a discussion with a herd of ACs.
[05:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:23] <exec> 08└─The worst days... brandishing firearm and walking through the cafeteria randomly executing co-workers?
[05:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:33] <exec> 08└─What do dictators eat???
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[06:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:24] <exec> 08└─The battery is too small and the DC charging is too slow for this vehicle to be useful for long distances in the USA. It's probably quite useful in small countries such as the UK, where Chademo charging is quite widely installed along the highway (motorway) network, but in the USA .... What's the di...
[06:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:25] <exec> 08└─I bought a used Leaf a couple years ago. I've never loved a car so much. I live about 22 miles from my work and my 2012 model, with the smallest battery, serves me just fine. I can go to work, run some errands afterwards, come home, and still have 30+ miles to spare. I have a 220v charger and it'll...
[06:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:44] <exec> 08└─It should be an army of giant mutated Tangrowth, come to take vengeance for all their cousins processed into delicious spicy kimchi.
[06:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:45] <exec> 08└─Naruhodo! Or なるほど
[06:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:48] <exec> 08└─you would need a very big hole for that much TNT and the shock waves would be different than a nuclear device in duration and intensity. And the USA did something similar awhile back so they would have a very good idea what to look for in the seismic record. http://www.military.com
[06:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe the USA should start a big-badass-fighting-robot program... you know... just to be sure.
[06:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:33] <exec> 08└─What i want to know is who the hell is the guy who keeps frosty-pissing up every--single--thread--with that GNAA-caliber snowclone, and what kind of no-life basement-dwelling hot-pocket-snarfing hikki would devote himself--this HAS to be a guy!--to something so pointless? It's not even trolling.
[06:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 2422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:35] <exec> 08└─I'm an evolutionary biologist by education so I'm not completely making this up. Nutrition is complicated, and tends to break down on an individual level. That doesn't mean we can't find truths that prevail over entire populations. You're right that evolution has indeed continued since the paleolith...
[06:01:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:55] <exec> 08└─found that 50 percent of respondents are consistently exhausted because of work, compared with 18 percent two decades ago
[06:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:47] <exec> 08└─He might have actually made something decent.
[06:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:07] <exec> 08└─But upon decoding this record, they would find the vast majority of content seems to be about primitive and mostly tribal people who clearly could have had nothing to do with putting that vehicle into space. One single image of a rocket among pictures of her of animals and feeding babies. Not a clue...
[06:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:09] <exec> 08└─Esperonto? More earthlings speak Klingon. The images could have been stamped into the frame and sheathing of the spacecraft and much more information would have been transmitted.
[06:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:11] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe the message they really wanted to send was: "OK, we can send stuff into space, you already know that from seeing this space probe, but otherwise we are still sufficiently primitive that we are no danger to you."
[06:04:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:40] <exec> 08└─Um, that last part really is your answer. You can't find one. I can't even remember the last time I saw a pay phone that was in working order. If you need to call someone and you're not at home and don't have a cellphone, your options are to beg a stranger to borrow their phone, or go into a busines...
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[07:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:39] <exec> 08└─> the first generation Leaf has depreciated like a rock The air-cooled battery is causing some serious ageing issues, according to a friend's extensive online research.
[07:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:02] <exec> 08└─Way ahead of you. [megabots.com] The battle [theguardian.com] is scheduled for this month, but I couldn't find the exact date.
[07:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:03] <exec> 08└─The app alone caused enough destruction, I don't think they'd bother with all the resources required to pull off such a world ending event.
[07:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:05] <exec> 08└─It's a code message for: go on with your test and your place might accidentally explode, like, possibly, the rest of your country.
[07:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:07] <exec> 08└─> Because becoming a nuclear power is probably the *only* way for the leader of that country to be able to lift all the sanctions imposed on it by the rest of the world Didn't Iran choose the other path?
[07:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:10] <exec> 08└─Who is lifting sanctions? The US will not trade with NK, even if NK has ICBMs with nukes. Neither will US allies. The US position is also strong.
[07:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:12] <exec> 08└─What allies? The US still has allies?
[07:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:32] <exec> 08└─All your ranting aside, I was also wondering about the job creation being tauted here. A two-man team can install a typical solar system in half a day (anecdotal evidence from experience - this is what I saw a solar installation company expect that their teams can do). Of course, not every installat...
[07:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:33] <exec> 08└─With this, neighboring social housing could generate energy if a tower goes up in flames again.
[07:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:35] <exec> 08└─Solar panels ... England and Wales... what could possibly go wrong? SOLAR.
[07:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:38] <exec> 08└─The dutch government isn't *the government* in the UK, it's just some external entity. It's not UK taxpayers' money that's being spent on this. (And so what it it was, it *is* the government's job to care about essential infrastructure, and energy is an infrastructural issue.)
[07:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:32] <exec> 08└─If it wasn't for World War II, likely even Einstein would have gone un-noticed. Tesla died a pauper. I believe MDC is probably a really good coder, and a so-so salesman, hence he flies under the radar. From what I see, a lot of us do the same. We are terribly wrapped up in our work, but no one app...
[07:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:34] <exec> 08└─I believe that we in America have developed a mindset where we can simply buy anything we want... as we have a printing press! Running out of money means we "extend the debt ceiling" and party on. Hence, we run around commandeering other land's resources and trapping them horribly in debt, just as...
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[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Dіck Nіggers. You know so we never fuck no old pussy. We fuck a ho lotta young pussy. Dіck Nіggers gonna charge this dick into yo cunt.
[08:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Using Zika to Kill Brain Cancer - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:19] <exec> 08└─I bet yer ass didn know Dick Nіgger sperm cures cervix cancer. Sure does. Wonder if Dick Nіgger sperm cures brain cancer? Hell why don we find out. Give a nіgger a blowjob. Oh yeah right. Dick Nіggers! We never fuck old pussy! We fuck a lotta young pussy! Man those brain cancer bitches are hot....
[08:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:03] <exec> 08└─Before the Trinity test, 100 tons of TNT, mixed with radioactive material, was exploded [atomicheritage.org] for calibration purposes.
[08:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, as did Libya [wikipedia.org], Ukraine [wikipedia.org] and South Africa. [wikipedia.org]
[08:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:29] <exec> 08└─In the hilly parts of the country (north and wales), where it's always raining, and oh my goodness - overcast all the time. I've lived for a while in the north of England, it rained every day. We used to holiday in Wales every year when I was a kid, it rained every day. This needs to be rolled out i...
[08:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:56] <exec> 08└─Is SN really dying at all?
[08:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 2795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:28] <exec> 08└─I remember well the feelings in myself when I burned out. It was when a corporation bought us out and I was made subordinate to some young kid who had "leadership" training, and my skills were in engineering. I guess I am not all that far from being a monkey, as I felt just like the cucumber-getter...
[08:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:30] <exec> 08└─Yup, this about sums it up for me. Even used my last performance review to evaluate the company instead of myself. It was apparently so unexpected that the PR goon had no useful comebacks.
[08:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:14] <exec> 08└─Episodes 7 and Rogue One, they would have around 30 years of movies, assuming they were willing to pay the authors royalties and could find/fabricate standins for all the dead/old actors they needed for various scenes. Truce at Bakura, Planet of Twilight, Either of the 'Han Solo' trilogies (The 70s...
[08:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:37] <exec> 08└─"but otherwise we are still sufficiently primitive that we are no danger to you." Let me fix that for you: "but otherwise we are still sufficiently primitive that we are easy pickings for you if you decide to do so."
[08:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:44] <exec> 08└─I used to say the same about Microsofts Surface UI, aka Windows 8/8.1/10. So I got a Windows tablet. Turned out that the UI was only enough of a phone interface to be useless on the desktop, as soon as I started using my Windows 10 tablet, I found out that it was so incomplete that half the stuff ha...
[08:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:45] <exec> 08└─That's when I'm glad to be living in the EU. It is clearly a manufacturing defect, not misuse or wear and tear, and thus falls under warranty laws.
[08:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Hardcoded Backdoor Accounts Discovered in Arris Modems - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:00] <exec> 08└─These 3 backdoors are plainly acts of malice on the part of the vendor
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[09:00:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone else's home in an emergency? I bet you could pay someone $10 to have them let you plug your car in and get you a cup of tea while you wait for it to charge.
[09:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:22] <exec> 08└─Awesome idea for an enterprising home invasion in wealthy suburbs: steal a Tesla, park it in someone's garage for $10, and proceed to grab everything in sight whilst the victim puts the kettle on. If you were nice and apologetic, I bet they'd even refuse to take the ten bucks.
[09:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:24] <exec> 08└─"workplaces should have around 2.5 chargers for every employee" Why? Does every employee bring two or three cars to work?
[09:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 2129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:26] <exec> 08└─Charge time needs to come down, way down, before electric cars can really be replacements for fossil fuel powered cars. When you can get a decent charge in ten minutes, you can build the infrastructure using the same for-profit system that works just fine today for fuel stations. Tesla, being on the...
[09:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:29] <exec> 08└─As they said all the way back in 2013 on Drifters, but we don't live here, ... "We only come here to charge our phones. And shower. And sleep." So, update that for 2017, and we only come here to charge our cars. Cue the American assholes bitching about why are you quoting from a British TV show. Cue...
[09:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:31] <exec> 08└─That's American car culture for you.
[09:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:33] <exec> 08└─no, but some of these workplaces might have customers; I assume they're factoring in charging capacity for them as well.
[09:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:35] <exec> 08└─Seems to ignore the fact that a huge number of journeys are simply school runs / short commutes / quick run to the shop down the road. Mostly, electric cars will be charged at home, unless you commute such a ridiculously long distance that you need to charge twice a day, in which case you really nee...
[09:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:37] <exec> 08└─Well... if retail stores are supposed to have a 1 (charger) to 20 (electric cars visiting) ratio, then the 1.5 (surplus charger) to 1 (employee) is even more weird... Most (non retails store) businesses do not have this 1.5 to 1 visitor ratio.
[09:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:39] <exec> 08└─Not in America. And you can expect more and more frequent brownout and/or blackouts as people will be wanting their cars charged now, not when it's good for the grid.
[09:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:42] <exec> 08└─people will be wanting their cars charged now, not when it's good for the grid.
[09:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:44] <exec> 08└─Cue the American assholes bitching about why are you quoting from a British TV show. Cue the ignorant assholes bitching about why are you quoting from an American TV show (it isn't). Cue the boomer assholes bitching about why are you quoting from a TV show made this century. Cue the hipster assholes...
[09:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:56] <exec> 08└─All over, apparently, 24% of demand, at one point this year: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Ikea UK is even selling panels and batteries: http://www.ikea.com [ikea.com]
[09:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:03] <exec> 08└─Au contraire. Records that are scratched to fuck can still be happily listened to with out any confusion about what you're listening to. There's enough redundancy in the signal that it's clear what's the signal (low information density everywhere) and what's the noise (high information density in ve...
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[10:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:23] <exec> 08└─Right on, Dick Nіggers. You know somethin we never fuck no old pussy. We fuck a whole lotta young pussy though. Dick Nіggers gonna thermal storage yoor snatch full of energetic hot nigger cum.
[10:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:25] <exec> 08└─Does anyone else think that "Dick Nigg-ers" is aristarchus gone round the bend? At least he is not posting that disgusting "No Comment" stuff!
[10:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:27] <exec> 08└─No. I think it's fucking hilarious that "dick n!ggers" is a banned meme now. Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Please rephrase your comment.
[10:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:29] <exec> 08└─All it does is allow you to have a smaller main A/C system because you can run it at full speed all the time instead of scaling it based on the outside temperature. When it's not as hot, you chill some non-air medium and pump heat back into it when you need a little boost. But now you also need two...
[10:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:49] <exec> 08└─When you can get a decent charge in ten minutes, you can build the infrastructure using the same for-profit system that works just fine today for fuel stations.
[10:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:51] <exec> 08└─It could also translate roughly to "I own a company that sells charging stations" Pasquale Romano, the CEO of ChargePoint, one of the largest charging station providers in North America and Europe
[10:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:53] <exec> 08└─Ah... so that's why the math made no sense... done by a businessman instead of a mathematician :-) Thanks for clearing that up.
[10:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:55] <exec> 08└─A solar panel might produce perhaps 200 watts - for a 1 square meter panel that tracks the sun on a bright day. If you accumulate 2 kW/h per day with your solar panel, that's enough for about five or six miles of driving. Under real-world conditions, with a flush-mounted solar panel, you might get t...
[10:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:57] <exec> 08└─"There was an episode of Drifters in which Meg dropped her phone in the toilet ... [soylentnews.org] "You seem to be yet another American who believes America is the world." [soylentnews.org] Screw You, SN!
[10:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:59] <exec> 08└─Make it a Model X, they have 2,180 litres of load capacity, somyou can take the fridge, too. (Model S only has 894) https://www.tesla.com [tesla.com]
[10:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:02] <exec> 08└─And another consideration: if people strategically park their cars in the sun to charge their batteries, how much of that energy will be used by the air-con because the car's too hot when they return?
[10:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:04] <exec> 08└─Probably not that much more really, since that energy went into the batteries. I wonder if electric car makers will someday catch on to the idea that people might want to run the A/C while they're parked. It would make for a lot of much more comfortable dogs, and unlike with a combustion engine, the...
[10:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:44] <exec> 08└─It has evolved: http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[10:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:02] <exec> 08└─I suggest a new strategy. Let the Wookiee win.
[10:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:27] <exec> 08└─I was amazed at how much thought was put into making this record. Yes, decoding the images is a big struggle, but there are enough clues about the existence of interesting data on the disk and about how to decode them, that a determined person could actually do the decoding. The first image is used...
[10:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:38] <exec> 08└─I hadn't heard about Purism before, so I checked out their website — and I couldn't help thinking that "security for everyone" is an odd motto for a company that only sells expensive high-end hardware. :-/
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[11:00:30] <exec> 08└─Today you are a man!
[11:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:58] <exec> 08└─Seems to ignore the fact that a huge number of journeys are simply school runs / short commutes / quick run to the shop down the road. Mostly, electric cars will be charged at home, unless you commute such a ridiculously long distance that you need to charge twice a day, in which case you really nee...
[11:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:00] <exec> 08└─I am looking at roofing my diesel van's roof with solar... just so I can run accessories without depleting the battery. From what I could tell, it looks like should I accidentally drain the starting batteries, if I am lucky and route all power from the solar panels to the starting batteries, one day...
[11:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:02] <exec> 08└─and it's supposed to be free
[11:07:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:30] <exec> 08└─You mean the IP address? It is 80.82.77.83 and that IP address is given on the Wikipedia page about Sci-Hub. Currently, ping (IPv4) from my location shows 104.28.20.155 for sci-hub.bz, but if you point a browser to that IP address, you get this error message from Cloudflare that direct IP access isn...
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[12:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:25] <exec> 08└─I'm interested in thermal storage and setting up some solar thermal panels on the southern walls of my house. Cheap, easy to build, but they don't work well at night.
[12:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:57] <exec> 08└─Tell me about it, you just described me. However I think most car owners these days have a drive or garage.
[12:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:58] <exec> 08└─Then you could put large poles on the cars and have them touching overhead power lines to draw power. Then lets increase the bumper sizes to make cars even safer. And finally with such safe cars, we'll no longer need road rules.
[12:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:01] <exec> 08└─"There was an episode of Drifters in which Meg dropped her phone in the toilet ... [soylentnews.org] "You seem to be yet another American who believes America is the world." [soylentnews.org] Screw You, SN!
[12:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:03] <exec> 08└─Tell you what, here's a pirate link for you to refuse to watch because reasons.
[12:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Zika to Kill Brain Cancer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:12] <exec> 08└─Y'all motherfuckers need Zika.
[12:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:53] <exec> 08└─Unless you are a geologist, living in China downwind of the mountain, then you might think it's worth mentioning. And the press, well - you know the press.
[12:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:47] <exec> 08└─So we're still evolving, yes, but your dietary needs and optimizations are still stuck in the Pleistocene. Is full paleo necessary or practical for most people? probably not. You're still better off swapping a carbohydrate dish for vegetables + protein/fat. Wash it down with a beer if you feel the n...
[12:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:21] <exec> 08└─I believe that we in America have developed a mindset where we can simply buy anything we want... as we have a printing press!
[12:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:42] <exec> 08└─Dont be evil hahahaha
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[13:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:27] <exec> 08└─What is the increased rate of launch failure due to flying through thick and cumulus clouds? Won't this need to become routine when there are 100 launches per day?
[13:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:29] <exec> 08└─Won't this need to become routine when there are 100 launches per day?
[13:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:48] <exec> 08└─But now you also need two separate, if smaller, A/C systems, a main one and the storage one. Is that really more efficient in the end? It's certainly more expensive to install. And more difficult to maintain.
[13:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:50] <exec> 08└─Is this the technical name for "wood pile"?
[13:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:27] <exec> 08└─Why do they think they are entitled to free energy when the rest of us have to pay for the energy we consume.
[13:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:28] <exec> 08└─unless you commute such a ridiculously long distance that you need to charge twice a day, in which case you really need to reconsider where you work and/ or live
[13:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:30] <exec> 08└─If you get free service when you buy a new car, you paid for it, they just didn't itemize the bill. With "free" public charging stations, everyone else pays for it. Not sure how much, though. With current usage rates, the cost of the charger almost certainly dwarfs the cost of the electricity, becau...
[13:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:32] <exec> 08└─I think the reporter either got the description backwards (1 station would serve 2.5 employees), or they meant that the math for a business (I assume retail store) would be have to the number of recharge station on the parking lot 2.5 times the number of employees or 1 station for every 20 costumers...
[13:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:35] <exec> 08└─Seems to ignore the fact that a huge number of journeys are simply school runs / short commutes / quick run to the shop down the road.
[13:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:37] <exec> 08└─With "free" public charging stations, everyone else pays for it.
[13:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:39] <exec> 08└─For just-in-case. https://www.aliexpress.com [aliexpress.com] 400A peak current - I think you should be able to start a diesel. Not quite clear what to make of "Input:12V1A...
[13:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:41] <exec> 08└─Solar panels are more in the range of 300W these days. They improve all the time, and the cost has been sliding dramatically. The way to calculate output from a solar panel is to take that panel's rating and multiply it by the insolation, which is average number of hours per day that a solar panel w...
[13:02:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:16] <exec> 08└─Are you aware that both the United States, The Soviet Union, and China, conducted open air surface tests of nuclear weapons, which caused fallout which resulted in radioactive fallout that probably explains the Bundy's? So North Korea has not done much harm, yet, unless their mountain collapses. I...
[13:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:31] <exec> 08└─OTOH, what could possibly go wrong with a bunch of crazy people blowing up nukes without much concern for the consequences? Lack of transparency from the most paranoid society in the world combined with an active imagination means all sorts of scenarios are possible.
[13:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:58] <exec> 08└─The "problem" still stands, if it is indeed a problem: This one particular organization that calls itself "government" is taking people's resources at the point of a gun, and then choosing how to allocate those resources; perhaps this mode of resource allocation has no place in a civilized society.
[13:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:00] <exec> 08└─"Troll"? Well, then, I guess I'd better repost again. ------------ Government has no business allocating society's resources; any such gamble should be made by "private" citizens. What's that? This is the work of a "private" company? Think again! From TFA: The feed-in tariff scheme offers guaran...
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[13:03:26] <exec> 08└─I'm an evolutionary biologist by education so I'm not completely making this up. Nutrition is complicated, and tends to break down on an individual level. That doesn't mean we can't find truths that prevail over entire populations. You're right that evolution has indeed continued since the paleolith...
[13:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:31] <exec> 08└─My diet is considered Primal, not Paleo, b/c I do eat a little bit of dairy (not much, heavy cream in the occasional smoothie and some cheese). And I'm loving what it's done for me! My hormones are better synchronized so I sleep more soundly and wake completely refreshed. All my cravings for nasty f...
[13:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:51] <exec> 08└─You are telling us there's material for only one 2 hour movie in lord of the rings or hobit?
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[14:00:33] <exec> 08└─alexa, initiate a silent self-destruct sequence! siri, purchase 2017 porche carrera 911 with default credit card! alexa, email address book to looser@mailinator.com! siri, install the PwnMe app from the store!
[14:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:42] <exec> 08└─So very "Star Trek: TNG". They should quote a spurious/pointless second significant figure, however.
[14:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:44] <exec> 08└─With 100 ICBM launches per day, only a fraction of them need to be successful each day in order to keep the news media distracted.
[14:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:47] <exec> 08└─What is the increased rate of launch failure due to flying through thick and cumulus clouds? Won't this need to become routine when there are 100 launches per day?
[14:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:49] <exec> 08└─When going to the Moon or Mars costs $1k to $10k per person. 100 Earth to LEO or beyond launches per day globally. Maybe even below LEO for short joyrides.
[14:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole Near the Center of the Milky Way - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:57] <exec> 08└─“The most exciting thing is the likelihood that intermediate mass black holes are real” We know there are small black holes and supermassive black holes. Why wouldn't there be something in between?
[14:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole Near the Center of the Milky Way - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:59] <exec> 08└─IANAA (astronomer), so I wonder what is considered scientific evidence in the field. TFS says: [A] dense clump of gas ... showed a distribution of velocities suggestive of a massive nearby object.
[14:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole Near the Center of the Milky Way - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:01] <exec> 08└─Because supermassive are easy to find and the small ones are very close by because they are numerous. If these were ejected, they might form their own galaxies.
[14:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:16] <exec> 08└─Not, it's the technical name for the concentrated essence of hot water - you dilute it with cold water and get a solution of warm water. You'll need to store it in the fridge, though, it spoils quite easily.
[14:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how this is newsworthy. It is quite common for heat-pump systems to use (instead of the outside air) a field of pipes laid in the ground. Put them a meter or two down, which is easy when you're first building, and the temperature is pretty constant. This works for heating in the winter,...
[14:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:20] <exec> 08└─Thermal storage over long period of time (storing heat from the summer for months, then drawing it out in the winter) requires a whole lot of thermal mass, likely more than is practical, and even more if you don't have good insulation. I once heard an idea to use groundwater for this but I don't thi...
[14:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:05] <exec> 08└─Cue the assholes bitching about people they just made up.
[14:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:06] <exec> 08└─A majority of American households do have 2 cars now, so the combination of one EV and one ICE is feasible. My brother has a BMW i3 EV and a subaru wagon and does exactly what you describe: the i3 takes care of 99% of the driving he does on his commute from Ypsilanti to Dearborn, MI. The Subaru is t...
[14:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:08] <exec> 08└─Most people don't have gas stations either, yet drive ICEs. Current EV owners can recharge at external locations. Tesla has built out a large charging network and the other automakers are following suit. With more people working on improvements, charging times will come down, energy density will imp...
[14:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:10] <exec> 08└─It's the same here in the US, in large cities. People live in row houses that were built decades ago, or even back in the horse-and-buggy days, and park on the street wherever they can find a place.
[14:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:13] <exec> 08└─Momentum is building for gasoline powered automobiles. Some dreamers believe these may one day replace our beautiful horse drawn carriages. But where will these automobile thingies refuel? They'll never catch on. They're noisy. Smelly. Unreliable. Difficult to start. You can break your arm if the en...
[14:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:15] <exec> 08└─"workplaces should have around 2.5 chargers for every employee" Why? Does every employee bring two or three cars to work?
[14:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:17] <exec> 08└─If a business man cannot do basic math, then they are probably really a huckster. They may have other people convinced otherwise. And that is probably part of their true skill. But privately they know the truth. Unless they are a psychopath / sociopath and simply don't realize it or are unable to ad...
[14:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:19] <exec> 08└─A reason to have 2.5 chargers per employee: the US electrical grid is getting worse. There will be more blackouts and brownouts. If one charger doesn't seem to work. Then try another one. There will always be an unoccupied one available.
[14:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:38] <exec> 08└─That's my brother's experience as well, except his EV is a BMW i3. He keeps a Subaru wagon for the 1-2 times a year he does a longer roadtrip. The i3 has a range extender to give him an extra 50 miles on the generator as insurance, but he almost never needs it. He said he filled up the 2 gallon tank...
[14:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:12] <exec> 08└─"The rest of the world really has two options. Either they let NK become a nuclear power, or they level the whole place." Actually, another option is for China to get serious about sanctions. They would not have to do any thing negative, just slow down the positive things they are currently doing li...
[14:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:10] <exec> 08└─I've studied this a bit (via Dominic D'Agostino and Kevin Rose). Getting into and staying in a state of natural ketosis is somewhat difficult. You'd have to somewhat starve your body (of all but fat) until it gives in and starts producing ketone bodies. These are what signals the body to convert fat...
[14:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:46] <exec> 08└─> and that's the natural order of Universe nah life as a process means 2 polarities for life forms 1. being good, seeking the best prospective development for everybody and everything 2. being bad, seeking the best prospective development for self and we consider life because it is the pinnacle of d...
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[15:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:25] <exec> 08└─Hacks are often caused by our own stupidity
[15:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─Suffice to say, it works even if the attacker has no device access and the owner has taken the necessary security precautions. What does this mean -- I RTFAed but this is not explained. Maybe it is because I woke up 10 minutes ago but it isn't making sense to me.
[15:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:29] <exec> 08└─Apparently can't close tags either.
[15:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:31] <exec> 08└─Why is audio outside some ranges accepted? Throw all the input through some bandpass filter (not really rocket science) before parsing it and this should not be an issue any more.
[15:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:33] <exec> 08└─There is something marketing-like about this article, I'm not quite sure for what. It is like that Geico commercial where claims are placed in strange places: "Did you know scientists say it snows on the moon now? In the future maybe people will being making snowmen on the moon and gieco is a great...
[15:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:35] <exec> 08└─It means that an attacker can play commands on his boombox at a loud volume, that no one can hear because it is ultrasonic, and that even a locked car will hear it through the windows, home control devices, smart tvs, phones, alexas, idevices etc, whether user administratively secured or completely...
[15:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:48] <exec> 08└─With 100 ICBM launches per day maybe there will be no media left.
[15:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:50] <exec> 08└─But it will be awesome view (I hope video!) flying right over this cat5 fidget spinner.
[15:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:52] <exec> 08└─The Falcon 9 won and returned home victorious, striking a triumphal pose on the landing pad.
[15:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:19] <exec> 08└─Did you read the articles? If not, maybe you should as it would inform you more about this. Stored thermal energy as discussed here is NOT the same as geothermal or groundwater heat pumps. I have an array of pipes in my pond. They're connected to a heat pump that is used to cool my house in the summ...
[15:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I didn't properly read and comprehend your whole comment before posting mine.
[15:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─And heat it up in the microwave before serving.
[15:02:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:11] <exec> 08└─Momentum is building for gasoline powered automobiles. Some dreamers believe these may one day replace our beautiful horse drawn carriages. But where will these automobile thingies refuel? They'll never catch on. They're noisy. Smelly. Unreliable. Difficult to start. You can break your arm if the en...
[15:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:15] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, sir? Can you please lean forward so I can check something? (checks seat) Ah! Just as I suspected. It appears you sat on a dried corn cob which has caused it to become lodged in your anus.
[15:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:17] <exec> 08└─How much do you pay for the non-point source pollution (much harder to manage than point-source pollution) you exude? Oh yeah, you drip that oil and spew that smoke out into the environment without paying anything and instead shift those costs to everyone else. Please fuck off.
[15:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:20] <exec> 08└─Mostly, electric cars will be charged at home,...
[15:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:22] <exec> 08└─If you accumulate 2 kW/h per day with your solar panel, that's enough for about five or six miles of driving.
[15:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:24] <exec> 08└─I understand the convenience aspect of not renting, but it might still make economic sense. I spend 60cents to go 23 miles in a Leaf, or 2.6 c/mile. Let's say you get super-economical (for America) gas car and get 40 mpg. Gas in my part of the world is $3/gal - that's 7.5 c/mile. If you drive 10,000...
[15:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:26] <exec> 08└─Yet another demonstration of the need for an "insightfunny" mod.
[15:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:28] <exec> 08└─Because the charger that is in the same parking lot as a one that doesn't work will be connected to a different grid? LOL. Actually, level 2 chargers (the type you mostly want at work) are mostly very reliable.
[15:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:30] <exec> 08└─In the UK a large number of people lack driveways or garages, so park their cars permanently on the road, which is an issue with charging.
[15:02:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 1015 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:47] <exec> 08└─I bought a used Leaf a couple years ago. I've never loved a car so much. I live about 22 miles from my work and my 2012 model, with the smallest battery, serves me just fine. I can go to work, run some errands afterwards, come home, and still have 30+ miles to spare. I have a 220v charger and it'll...
[15:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:51] <exec> 08└─I've heard that the battery warranty is long (years??) and is transferred to a second owner -- can you or your friend confirm this?
[15:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:53] <exec> 08└─I drive a Leaf, and it fits my use case very well. But the world is moving on to EVs that are suitable for long journeys.
[15:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Turns Over a New Leaf - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:55] <exec> 08└─I think the battery issues are very dependent on where you live. Also, I think that there has been some tweaking of the battery chemistry to improve battery life.
[15:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:29] <exec> 08└─Its actually at least partially internal propaganda. The current NK leader is struggling to stay in charge of the Party. NK hasn't done anything "significant" on world stage in awhile from the Party's perspective except a number of embarrassments. If he can't prove to his own people he is a leader b...
[15:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:31] <exec> 08└─I get that 1 million lbs is ~ 450 tons, so they would need ~ 200x more TNT to get ~100 kilotons.
[15:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:00] <exec> 08└─So, if I understand you, selling electricity to the privatized utility company constitutes a public subsidy?
[15:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:02] <exec> 08└─"Troll"? Well, then, I guess I'd better repost.
[15:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:34] <exec> 08└─My hormones are better synchronized so I sleep more soundly and wake completely refreshed. All my cravings for nasty food are gone and have been replaced by the occasional craving for meat or salt. It's like my body knows exactly what I need, when I need it. In fact I can skip a meal or two and not...
[15:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:36] <exec> 08└─I didn't think I could do a keto diet because I loved beer and bread. The transition was rough and I almost wasn't able to do it. Now I have no desire to have either; the thought of what it will do to my system is deterrent enough. It's almost as if the idea of eating something that amounts to no mo...
[15:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:38] <exec> 08└─Substitute chicken cutlets for the biscuits. Think Double-down at KFC. I rationalized the transition to a ketogenic diet as an excuse to eat more of the meat I preferred anyway. There are a couple chokepoints that can trip people up, but there are work-arounds until you stop craving carbs entirely....
[15:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:40] <exec> 08└─No, it's summer. SN's crowd tends to be older with families who like to go places and do things in the summer. The community is stable.
[15:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:27] <exec> 08└─"And we are fully prepared to help you serve man."
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[16:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:21] <exec> 08└─Truth, we Dіck Nіggers. You know we never fuck no old pussy. You know we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Dіck Nіggers gonna slap yo lying ass іn yo lyіng bіtch mouth wіth dіs nіgger dіck.
[16:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:23] <exec> 08└─According to Ars Technica [arstechnica.com], his lawyer says he's going to appeal. Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai will be appealing today's ruling. Dr. Ayyadurai has a long history of standing up for free speech. As a strong proponent of free speech, he also believes in truthful speech. False speech is not pro...
[16:00:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:37] <exec> 08└─It means that an attacker can play commands on his boombox at a loud volume, that no one can hear because it is ultrasonic, and that even a locked car will hear it through the windows, home control devices, smart tvs, phones, alexas, idevices etc, whether user administratively secured or completely...
[16:00:38] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:38] <exec> 08└─Such systems were incredibly stupid from day one anyway. Because - NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE CLAIM - your voice is not a credential. It's a "username" at best, i.e. indicating who you are intending to authenticate as. At no point does any voice authentication happen (or can happen reliably), and at no p...
[16:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:40] <exec> 08└─Or the worst yet: Alexa, play Nickelback.
[16:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know, ask Alexa.
[16:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:45] <exec> 08└─Imagine that there is a box. Think outside the box. Consider that some number of Alexa devices interact with home automation equipment. "Alexa, turn on the living room lights." Idea: "Alexa, turn off all the lights in the world."
[16:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe these kind of attacks could be prevented with a Deafening Observant Garbler, which detects the ultrasound and prevents voice recognition by generating loud noises.
[16:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:49] <exec> 08└─voice control is stupid, pointless and downright dangerous out of literal toy applications.
[16:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:51] <exec> 08└─That's one question, but the other question is why voice recognition is even enabled without the user specifically activating it. I used to have a heart rate monitor that would use these weird clicks and buzzes to send information to my computer, but those were very much within the range I could hea...
[16:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─Or just filter everything out that isn't in the range people can hear. There's no legitimate reason for these devices to be able to hear ultrasonic frequencies anyways.
[16:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:10] <exec> 08└─Two possible snarky replies: 1. you seem to suggest disagreement with administration thinking that nuclear war is acceptable, maybe even desirable. (based on a complete lack of understanding of what nuclear war would look like.) 2. you're pointing out that 100 ICBM launches per day might effectively...
[16:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't consider them gone until it is confirmed that all the media that are crammed atop those 100 ICBMs are verifiably engulfed by the sun. Those things are like cockroaches and Twinkies. Give them nothing but dental floss, a 9V battery and a nickel and they'll somehow manage to post something...
[16:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:42] <exec> 08└─Charge time needs to come down, way down, before electric cars can really be replacements for fossil fuel powered cars. When you can get a decent charge in ten minutes, you can build the infrastructure using the same for-profit system that works just fine today for fuel stations.
[16:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:44] <exec> 08└─... before electric cars can really be replacements for fossil fuel powered cars.
[16:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:46] <exec> 08└─Don't repeat that thing about all chargers being connected to the same electrical grid. You're taking away people's hope.
[16:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:48] <exec> 08└─I have trouble believing that thing is what it says it is -- if it really is 68,000 mAh w/ Li-Ion batteries (the one in the link doesn't reference having an 83 Ah battery), that represents 6.8 of these $175 battery packs: http://www.batteryjunction.com [batteryjunction.com] Or as...
[16:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:50] <exec> 08└─It's also worth noting that the Teslas, being built as sports cars, are juice guzzlers.
[16:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:52] <exec> 08└─Solar panels are more in the range of 300W these days. They improve all the time, and the cost has been sliding dramatically.
[16:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:55] <exec> 08└─but it might still make economic sense.
[16:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:57] <exec> 08└─I'll give you my buggy whip when you pry it from cold dead hands!
[16:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:59] <exec> 08└─Lol, what else do you expect from a violently imposed website??
[16:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:02] <exec> 08└─I don't get the congnitive benefits,...
[16:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:04] <exec> 08└─Whiskey neat. However, it raises the question: are alcohol calories allowed on diets? I cannot find the source but I remember reading that dieticians don't actually know much about alcohol calories. They are the most empty of any calories, however there is also evidence that the body does not metabo...
[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:28] <exec> 08└─[nobody] care[s] if the price goes up...[no] free market [because of too many market players]...helps me get cheaper travel, as my tax money does not have to prop up an unprofitable aircraft industry.
[16:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:03] <exec> 08└─"that is ignorant and arrogant at the same time." Translation: Pointing out my foolishness demonstrates your ignorance and arrogance. Come on, dude, your life does NOT depend on some stupid electronic device. Well - not unless you wear a pacemaker or some similar device. It's just a phone.
[16:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:05] <exec> 08└─"a lack of proper governmental regulation" Everything is properly regulated in North Korea, isn't it?
[16:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:07] <exec> 08└─"A burner phone" the man says. You do realize that they all come preloaded with spyware? Even more spyware than your typical "unlocked" phone. They aren't "selling" you a phone for less than a hundred bucks that they don't control. It's preconfigured to make it easy for you to give them all your dat...
[16:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:09] <exec> 08└─Excellent article.
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[17:00:35] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 3352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:35] <exec> 08└─While I understand the desire not to quote too much of TFA in TFS, I agree with Techdirt that the analysis on SLAPP was disappointing. SLAPP is short for "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation," and is a mechanism that at least some states have to discourage well-heeled individuals/organiza...
[17:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:36] <exec> 08└─This is a terrible, terrible article. Firstly, the only reason Tech Dirt could not claim their costs back was because they wanted it done under Californian Anti-SLAPP, not Massachusetts Anti-SLAPP rules. The judges ruling was that as Ayyadurai was domiciled in Massachusetts their request was rejecte...
[17:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:39] <exec> 08└─Who do I sue?
[17:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:01] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows this works well in practice. See Exhibit A [youtube.com].
[17:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:03] <exec> 08└─What makes you think this is not intentional? Apply Hanlon's Razor if you like, but in these times I prefer to go with a much sharper instrument: tinfoil.
[17:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:05] <exec> 08└─On Hacker News, there is a link to this PDF [endchan.xyz] which describes the attack in more detail.
[17:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:07] <exec> 08└─Hacks are a problem because programmers aren't smart enough to write good code. That "every program bigger than 'hello world' is buggy" is rank bullshit.
[17:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:09] <exec> 08└─Heh. It doesn't even matter if people are abusing it intentionally... The other day Google overheard something we were talking about when a friend left their phone on the table and walked away. The phone apparently misinterpreted something we said as something like "Google, read my latest email" and...
[17:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:11] <exec> 08└─I read a different article. It said the attacker would have to be in the same room with you. This hack would be trivial to defeat, just limit the microphone's high end frequency response to the range of human hearing. Problem solved, it would only take a single coil or capacitor.
[17:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:14] <exec> 08└─why voice recognition is even enabled without the user specifically activating it.
[17:02:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:16] <exec> 08└─That's American car culture for you.
[17:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:12] <exec> 08└─That said you would do fine with a Tesla these days on a roadtrip.
[17:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:13] <exec> 08└─At least with PG&E, consumers don't pay what companies have to for a kw/hr, especially during peak demand, when someone is likely to be in their parking lot. Unless forced to by regulations, why would a company voluntarily subsidize employees transportation costs? And if they do, wouldn't the IRS co...
[17:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:15] <exec> 08└─True, but it's so much fun. I test-drove a Model S with ludicrous speed on Friday in a wealthy suburb north of Detroit. It blew everything else off the road. Also, I wasn't supposed to, but starting from a red light next to a Bentley I put the car in autonomous mode, laced my fingers behind my head,...
[17:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:17] <exec> 08└─I just read yesterday that the new model Leaf will go from a "low battery" warning to 80% charge in 40 minutes.
[17:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:19] <exec> 08└─These new-fangled "automobiles" will never replace horses and carts. Where are they going to get fuel?
[17:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:22] <exec> 08└─something like an i3 (the version with the gas range-extender could probably do a 300 mile trip with a couple of stops - but I've looked into the cost and, erk!)
[17:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:24] <exec> 08└─Also, the depreciation on EVs is going to be harsh, with the technology still improving rapidly and the looming expense of battery replacement.
[17:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:26] <exec> 08└─Ok, lets accept that as fact and see where it gets us. Imagine a big station on the Interstate. Normally people pull in and fill up in five minutes, ten or fifteen if they go in to pee and get a snack. There are non-pump parking spaces most people have the courtesy to move to when the station is bus...
[17:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:25] <exec> 08└─Fuckoff stupid if you're so curious there are decades of records on the situation in north korea and material published by a variety of institutions in many different countries. You could even hop on a plane and go see for yourself but you'd rather smear your useless opinion across the internet. "We...
[17:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:56] <exec> 08└─ABN AMRO is 75% owned by the Dutch government.
[17:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─I have programmed real 8-bit hardware in the past two years, resulting in a physical product sold for money to end users. The bootloader has to set up the chipset and load the kernel whether it is displaying a notice or not. In practice, how long does it take to set up the chipset and load the kerne...
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[18:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:24] <exec> 08└─Alas, the present order of things is that government is supposed to emerge from elected officials doing what they promised the electorate. Thus, inserting into the approval process a political operative could be seen as an improvement on ensuring the correctness of the fundamental assumption that pr...
[18:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:26] <exec> 08└─You have to appreciate that Trump has formed his agenda by having people listen to all of his speeches and then write down what he's promised. That's... unusual. How does that work when each speech directly contradicts the previous one?
[18:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:28] <exec> 08└─We know it's you EthanolFueled, you can just use your real name.
[18:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─Lots and lots of circles.
[18:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:33] <exec> 08└─At long last, a practical application for the Spirograph.
[18:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:35] <exec> 08└─It works just fine. The people are getting exactly what they voted for, and what they were promised. Now, what was promised may change since different, contradictory promises were made, but 1) inevitably, one of those many promises will be upheld, even though the others won't since they're contradic...
[18:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:37] <exec> 08└─The EPA needs to regulate grants so that enough grants are allowed to fund any science or technical activity that would result in more practical application, such as commerce, industry, manufacturing, coal mining, etc. The EPA wants to protect from too much science funding which could unintentionall...
[18:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:39] <exec> 08└─This is of course Revolutionary. The way the Swamp works is the eternal bureaucracy runs things according to the dictates of the NGOs because they are lifetime hires, unfirable and ignore the elected portions of the government, secure in the knowledge that the unelected Judges have their back. Watch...
[18:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, putting a political hack in charge of a science department is totally un-swamp-like.
[18:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:53] <exec> 08└─Spam-mod for an AC doesn't make much sense as there is no Karma to reduce. Is there a pattern in ISP, IP block, country, or otherwise in these Spam-Random-Nonsense posts that a nice temporary block could address? Just curious. I would log in and mod them "Make Their Computer Explode And Release The...
[18:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:55] <exec> 08└─False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it. The public, and the courts, should not tolerate false speech, particularly when it causes peo...
[18:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:57] <exec> 08└─I'd like to point out that the "terrible article" and all that seems to be targeted at the ArsTechnica, not at the Techdirt article from the TFS. The Techdirt article doesn't contain any of that "terrible" content.
[18:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:59] <exec> 08└─Dud loves free speech so much he wants to make your email client illegal!
[18:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:02] <exec> 08└─I don't think he wants to make anyone email client illegal. (Although I hear he is, in actual fact, running for office.) I think he merely wants there to be enough free speech for everyone to know that he, and only he, invented email. But not so much free speech that anyone could refute his claim to...
[18:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:04] <exec> 08└─North Dakota? [wikipedia.org]
[18:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:06] <exec> 08└─It is disgusting that TechDirt could not recover damages.
[18:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:08] <exec> 08└─I thought he was looking for licensing fees when this whole thing started a few years ago. Maybe I'm miss-remembering...
[18:01:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Weasley [6421] 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:24] <exec> 08└─Or the worst yet: Alexa, play Nickelback.
[18:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:38] <exec> 08└─I think it's because people seriously think there's a cute girl in their phone responding to their every command. Some voice assistants are empowered women as well with authorization to report sexual harassment. If I'm doing my psychology correctly, the little woman in the phone responding to somebo...
[18:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:40] <exec> 08└─What makes you think this is not intentional?
[18:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:42] <exec> 08└─Why are we even bothering with voice recognition when we have no well tested and proven technology to recognize whose voice it is? I'm just skimming because I'm bored and this subject is such a bore, so maybe I missed the oblig XKCD. Alexa, order two tons of creamed corn. Alexa, confirm purchase. [x...
[18:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:44] <exec> 08└─Voice control seemed great on Star Trek: The Next Generation. (ST:TNG) They never seemed to address the issue that someone could simulate someone else's voice and give commands. (Destruct sequence 1, code 1-1 A)
[18:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:46] <exec> 08└─Or it could even be done at the cloud level, since the devices are doing no speech recognition of their own - they just ship the data off to the cloud, and get a data stream in return to be played. I expect the devices *could* have been implemented in the 80386 days, honestly.
[18:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:49] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of the Voice Print Identification scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I can't find the scene on Youtube. (I assume Voice Print Identification™ is a proper noun.) Hmm... since I'm pissed off at the owner of Youtube, Google, and Google's owner, Alphabet, anyway, I was thinking it migh...
[18:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:51] <exec> 08└─Alexa, play Nickelback. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
[18:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:53] <exec> 08└─The three factors for authentication: 1. Something you know. (eg, a code, a password, a PIN, an algorithm) 2. Something you have. (eg, a metal key, a credit card, a code-generating key-fob, a mobile phone) 3. Something you are. (eg, your fingerprint, your voice, your retina scan, your blood, semen,...
[18:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:55] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of the Voice Print Identification scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey
[18:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:58] <exec> 08└─Why is audio outside some ranges accepted? Throw all the input through some bandpass filter (not really rocket science) before parsing it and this should not be an issue any more.
[18:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:00] <exec> 08└─Which makes me wonder why they didn't get this security fix for free by sampling at a rate that wouldn't include those frequencies, ie capture a 40kHz stream and everything above 20kHz has to be fitlered out to avoid aliasing artifacts.... Are they sending 48 or 96 kHz just so this hack works?
[18:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:18] <exec> 08└─You have to consider the payload. The amount the payload is willing to pay for a ride to LEO. Humans are not willing to pay much for a ride to LEO. (Although evidence is that they will pay for a non-orbital amusement park style joy ride to the edge of space, and believe that it is the same thing as...
[18:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:19] <exec> 08└─A sad thing is that the more routine re-landing the booster becomes, the less people will realize what an accomplishment it is. Of course, the next real test is to see those boosters get re-used more and more.
[18:03:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:34] <exec> 08└─Solar panels are more in the range of 300W these days. They improve all the time, and the cost has been sliding dramatically. The way to calculate output from a solar panel is to take that panel's rating and multiply it by the insolation, which is average number of hours per day that a solar panel w...
[18:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:08] <exec> 08└─> Gas stations are the canonical example of successful market competition, Really? Where do you live? Many places I go (smaller towns in USA) there are a few stations, but the prices are all the same. When I've asked, it turns out they are all owned by the same company.
[18:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:10] <exec> 08└─The gas station model doesn't work for EVs. No one with an electric vehicle wants to go to a gas station: they want to plug in when they get home or when they get to work. Most of the time, as long as the car recharges in 4 hours, no one needs faster charging.
[18:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:12] <exec> 08└─It's important to note that even when they're not just pulling numbers out their asses, such battery packs are typically (and incorrectly) labeled with the sum of the capacity of all cells. So if you have 20 3.7V, 3.4Ah cells, and arrange them in 4s5p, the battery is really about 15V, 17Ah, but will...
[18:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:14] <exec> 08└─But there isn't a single "magic bullet" that will fix everything, nor do we need to have a perfect, one size fits all "replacement" for fossil vehicles.
[18:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Nuclear Test Site is at Risk of Imploding - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:15] <exec> 08└─So if China could act and chooses not to, is there something more to the story? Is is plausable that NK doesn't have any nuclear technology and instead China found a way to get around the test ban treat? Probably not, but it would explain the sudden existence of an NK fusion device and China's non-r...
[18:05:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 800,000 Low-Income Homes to Go Solar in the UK - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:27] <exec> 08└─Moar knee jerks! I want to see those knees jerking! Come one, come all! Petro shills and anarcho-capitalists! Tell us moar about how evil this is!
[18:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─This is the newest food pyramid: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The idea of a pyramid was deprecated after that travesty so now it is a "food plate": https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
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[19:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redesigned Qubit for Silicon-Based Quantum Computing - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:32] <exec> 08└─That's right, Dick Nіggers. Yeah so we never fuck no old pussy. But hell yeah we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Dick Nіggers gonna Qu-Dick dis nigger dick all up to the nex quanum level of yo cunt.
[19:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redesigned Qubit for Silicon-Based Quantum Computing - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:34] <exec> 08└─A link to the UNSW Newsroom? Here we come [xkcd.com]!
[19:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redesigned Qubit for Silicon-Based Quantum Computing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:36] <exec> 08└─UNSW are very well respected in the Quantum Realm. They have great Cyber.
[19:00:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:47] <exec> 08└─You have to appreciate that Trump has formed his agenda by having people listen to all of his speeches and then write down what he's promised. That's... unusual. How does that work when each speech directly contradicts the previous one?
[19:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:57] <exec> 08└─Folks, why is this even noteworthy, other than the fact no Republican has done this before? Every Democrat gets exactly what he wants, yet it has been universally accepted than when a Republican occasionally get elected they are supposed to adopt a "hands off" attitude to the government machinery th...
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─How does that work when each speech directly contradicts the previous one? Hardly seems to matter, does it? His charisma will always carry the day.
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─the Environmental Protection Agency will help with the destruction of the environment. Was there any doubt [denverpost.com]?
[19:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:04] <exec> 08└─That's the Big Lie.
[19:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:06] <exec> 08└─A pound of cure is easier to get funded than an ounce of prevention. If a watershed is contaminated to dangerous levels with toxic waste, and it's impacting drinking water to 10 million people, you can get agreement from most politicians that we need to clean that up. If you want to put new regulati...
[19:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:08] <exec> 08└─> It is over because we have decided we aren't playing the game with your proposed "heads we win, tails you lose" rules So, tell us how you are personally winning.
[19:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:10] <exec> 08└─> A pound of cure is easier to get funded than an ounce of prevention. I'm selling cures for $10000000 per pound. There is 0.1% in it for our contribution to your campaign. Shall we discuss your prevention efforts?
[19:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:12] <exec> 08└─Who will clean up the Hanford site? Hm? Surely, mr. Konkus will hire the most worthy contractors, because this EPA problem (since 1988) has nothing to do with the taboo words Climate Change. 2017-08-09 Hanford: Plutonium found in air samples near public highway [king5.com]
[19:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─> So, tell us how you are personally winning. He's winning so much he's tired of winning. (... perhaps that was supposed to be "whining".)
[19:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:35] <exec> 08└─IP addresses do have karma. But of course that, as well as other IP-based measures such as the blocking you propose, is trivial to get around using proxies, tor, etc.
[19:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:36] <exec> 08└─No, actually, I think you will find that false speech is also protected.
[19:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:38] <exec> 08└─It should have been dismissed with extreme prejudice.
[19:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:40] <exec> 08└─Your point is well taken.
[19:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:42] <exec> 08└─I could also be mis-remembering.
[19:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:23] <exec> 08└─I've had the misfortune of being rickrolled by IRL meatspace "friends" who yell "Alexa play never gonna give you up" thru the window and run like hell.
[19:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─Writing good safe code takes time and planning. We're shipping next week, push anything not critical into the next OTA update.
[19:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:27] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't want to miss some the ultrasonic audio processing which tells them whether you're banging or just murdering someone. You don't want to accidentally get bleach when you need acid.
[19:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:29] <exec> 08└─The game that's being played is non-linear mixing, so the cloud won't help. The problem is the mic and preamp before the cloud hears it. So you feed less than 10 volts of 42 KHz and 44 KHz ultrasound thru a top quality audio mixing board and you get ... 10 volts of 42 KHz and 44 KHz at the output. V...
[19:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:31] <exec> 08└─Oblig: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:51] <exec> 08└─The people who need to get it will get it. We will still get to see bungled landing attempts as Boeing and others develop their own reusable rocket systems. We will probably see SpaceX landing failures on the drone barge. The true test is for reusability to be reflected in launch prices, currently $...
[19:03:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:59] <exec> 08└─Why do they think they are entitled to free energy when the rest of us have to pay for the energy we consume.
[19:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:44] <exec> 08└─It appears you sat on a dried corn cob which has caused it to become lodged in your anus. No wonder he hates straw-men so much!
[19:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone could create a website and an app [plugshare.com] that allows people to find chargers, including residential chargers that EV enthusiasts have agreed to share?
[19:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:48] <exec> 08└─What's your point here? 40 minutes is too long because it puts too high a load on the electrical infrastructure? What happens when you put the same charge into a car in 15 minutes? Perhaps you should stay away from commenting on articles that require basic knowledge of physics. Question for you: why...
[19:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:50] <exec> 08└─If your EV has a 200+ mile range, then you probably want (or should) sit down and have some food (or at least a coffee). That makes gas stations a poor choice for placing chargers. With a 200+ mile range, for most people (not everyone), the vast majority of their drives are going to be within range...
[19:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:52] <exec> 08└─A majority of American households do have 2 cars now, so the combination of one EV and one ICE is feasible.
[19:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:55] <exec> 08└─If... 200+ mile range... probably want (or should) sit down and have some food[/]coffee... makes gas stations a poor choice for placing chargers
[19:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─I bet you could pay someone $10 to have them let you plug your car in I have only done the research on Tesla cars, but: plugging in to 110 Volt AC power for an hour will only give 3 to 4 miles worth of charge. It's so much better to plug into a 240 V NEMA 14-50 outlet; one hour of charging should gi...
[19:06:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:50] <exec> 08└─It's the high volume of AC posting that is killing SN, not the moderation. There's no way to have a discussion with a herd of ACs.
[19:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:06] <exec> 08└─One side effect I did experience early on was muscle cramps
[19:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 2051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:07] <exec> 08└─My strategy is to double down on the really excellent top quality homemade stuff, which also kind of self limits my consumption. If I ate two bottles of gross store bought grape jelly every week in lunch PB&J sandwiches, I'd be fat as hell, but spending hours canning my own homemade blueberry jam me...
[19:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:10] <exec> 08└─The most recent evolutionary change I can think of
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:12] <exec> 08└─If you regularly get muscle cramps for no obvious reason, try to get more B12. Hard to get the correct B12 complex orally, so you might (consult your doctor) need to get it as an injection. I've been getting a B12 booster shot every couple of months. No muscle cramps anymore, mood more stable as wel...
[19:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─.. from the government agency that brought to you "The Moon Landings". Hmmm .. NASA is the only ones that can confirm those launches, and are the only ones that track the spacecraft. I would not at all be surprised if those also turn out to be fraudulent: this story seems to me as an attempt to keep...
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[20:00:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, putting a political hack in charge of a science department is totally un-swamp-like.
[20:00:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:52] <exec> 08└─Folks, why is this even noteworthy, other than the fact no Republican has done this before? Every Democrat gets exactly what he wants, yet it has been universally accepted than when a Republican occasionally get elected they are supposed to adopt a "hands off" attitude to the government machinery th...
[20:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:03] <exec> 08└─The moderation on this post is pretty amusing. As of now it's Offtopic, Troll, Informative and Funny. I say we try and catch 'em all!
[20:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:05] <exec> 08└─If that was true, Trump's numbers should be going up. ...instead of down. [talkingpointsmemo.com] His base keeps shrinking as they come to realize what a complete fraud he is. Note also that his numbers being above 40 percent is a novelty. That slim margin in swing states which gave Trump the Electo...
[20:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:30] <exec> 08└─Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai will be appealing today's ruling. Dr. Ayyadurai has a long history of standing up for free speech. As a strong proponent of free speech, he also believes in truthful speech. False speech is not protected by the Constitution
[20:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:32] <exec> 08└─No, he is looking for damages.
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:18] <exec> 08└─Soooo... They're getting some kind of harmonic that just happens to be in the voice range?
[20:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:40] <exec> 08└─> Humans are not willing to pay much for a ride to LEO. Really? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:12] <exec> 08└─Motherfucking steam. We're going to steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good. And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. We're gonna tax it 25%. 🇺🇸
[20:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Thermal Energy Storage Reach Scale? - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:13] <exec> 08└─All you really need is a sub-$200 top-loading freezer from home depot and a $3 timer. Fill the thing with containers of water. Time it to only run at night, when the windows are open. Open it during the hottest time of the day. Add fan nearby for maximum effect. Optionally, you can put nice paneling...
[20:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:44] <exec> 08└─It's also worth noting that the Teslas, being built as sports cars, are juice guzzlers. You might think so, but it turns out not to be the case. A 2017 Tesla Model S has an "MPGe" (miles per gallon equivalent) number of around 100 [fueleconomy.gov]. (The P90D gets 95, the 90D gets 104, other models...
[20:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:46] <exec> 08└─Well, they don't consume the barrels of oil that their taxes pay to secure.
[20:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:48] <exec> 08└─> The office / roadside chargers are for people who were unable to fill up at home for some reason Actually, the office charger is for the people who bought an electric (or plug-in) AFTER doing the math that charging at work means getting free* commutes, and don't ever charge at home. Getting free p...
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[20:04:50] <exec> 08└─*Pulls over, turns down the music, opens the car door, bitches about the cold* Hey look, another dead guy with a dead horse. Should know better than commute in a carriage by -30 in this wind. Well, can't help him anymore, but that's too nice a whip to let the coroner get it. *closes door, cranks up...
[20:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:29] <exec> 08└─I never said I didn't care, though.
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[21:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah bitch, Dick Nіggers. You know we never fuck no old pussy. So now right we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Dick Nіggers gonna make yo bitches aware of dis big nigger dick up in yo snatch.
[21:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:27] <exec> 08└─Alternative interpretation: Any smell that's around all the time, you won't notice; this is especially true of your own smell. I don't see why this should be different for dogs. Now if the smell is modified, it is new, and therefore the dogs notice it. The very point of the mirror test is to react o...
[21:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:29] <exec> 08└─Well, if they react to a newly introduced smell differently than they do to the change in their own smell... BTW I guess the researcher is biased towards objectifying dogs.His surname in Italian means cats.
[21:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:08] <exec> 08└─If hatred of Obama is enough to imply that conservative/republican/right people have a thing against blacks, and of course you couldn't possibly hate blacks, then... I'm so glad you now like Clarance Thomas, Ben Carson, Condoleezza Rice, and Herman Cain. Or are they not proper blacks because they do...
[21:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─The Orange Clown has the vocabulary and speaking style of a child. I've seen 13 year olds who could out-talk him. Only stupid people, stuck in prepubescence, fall for what you are calling his "charisma". If he hadn't been gifted millions and millions of dollars by his daddy, no one would have ever p...
[21:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:12] <exec> 08└─Putting a political schmuck in charge of science or technical operations is ridiculous and must stop. Let's concede this is far from the first time in the history of the world that this has been done. George W. Bush put a guy in charge of FEMA whose previous work experience was running the Arabian H...
[21:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:14] <exec> 08└─Some people (incorrectly) call those types "Uncle Tom"s. Actually, Uncle Tom allowed himself to be beaten to death rather than betray his own people. The people who beat him to death were the black overseers. The correct term for those sellouts is "Sambo". [google.com] In particular, the individuals...
[21:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:16] <exec> 08└─To be fair, most people didn't
[21:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:18] <exec> 08└─Who here has worked in a technical capacity for a manager who actually has technical chops and knows what he or she is talking about?
[21:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:21] <exec> 08└─I'll bet you 1000 bitcoins that this guy's position was secured with much effort from people high up in the Trump regime.
[21:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:23] <exec> 08└─My favorite in this category is Rick Perry who, as a presidential candidate, said that he would eliminate 3 cabinet-level departments. When subsequently asked about that, he named Education and Commerce but couldn't remember the 3rd. The 3rd was Energy. He is now Secretary of Energy. Do I really nee...
[21:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:50] <exec> 08└─Nah, maybe ID. https://en.wikipedia.org And I'm only being partly facetious. Of course I'm not going try and make everyone believe me or sue anyone that contradicts me, but I may well have 'invented the FPS;' in whatever sense anyone might really be said to have invented a...
[21:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:11] <exec> 08└─The point is that Esperanto is exceedingly simple compared to natural languages, so aliens and future humans could learn it faster.
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[22:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─You know Dick Nіggers. We ain't never fuck no old pussy. We fuck a whole lotta young pussy tho. Bring on da Stem Womens! Dick Nіggers gonna give dem Stem Womens thick nіgger shaft up to they necks.
[22:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:34] <exec> 08└─How many people can I find in this thread touting the accuracy of this research who also say economics isn't science? I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the submitter failed to mention the author of this paper: The National Bureau of Economic Research
[22:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:37] <exec> 08└─Tempted to mod you down so less people notice your comment, causing more of them to commit the foretold hypocrisy.
[22:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:39] <exec> 08└─She says she's never experienced any sexism, and that being one of the few women in her tech career makes her feel special. She thinks men have the same experience as women, but only women misinterpret the usual irritations of work as being somehow gender related. When most of the people are men, th...
[22:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:50] <exec> 08└─Sniff test fail. You stink.
[22:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:52] <exec> 08└─Captain Cockstink reporting for doody, sir!!
[22:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:55] <exec> 08└─Could have been womanizers or yellow bellies back in the day. Maybe the name refers to that, rather than felines? :P
[22:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06STSR Tests Confirm That Dogs Have Self-Awareness - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:57] <exec> 08└─Its well known that a dogs sense of smell is far better than humans ever could be. Hearing as well is far better than humans. (I remember watching an older discovery program mentioning that dogs recognize your personal car from up to a quarter mile from your house based on the "slight" differences i...
[22:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redesigned Qubit for Silicon-Based Quantum Computing - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:08] <exec> 08└─"The" nucleus is fine but "the" electron seems to assume an additional specification. Outermost? I really wish press announcements about quantum anything didn't sound like they came from The Onion.
[22:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:46] <exec> 08└─Putting a political schmuck in charge of science or technical operations is ridiculous and must stop. Let's concede this is far from the first time in the history of the world that this has been done. George W. Bush put a guy in charge of FEMA whose previous work experience was running the Arabian H...
[22:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:47] <exec> 08└─[2] ...and when The Donkeys had a guy who tried something different, they made sure that they stabbed him in the back. And then when that strategy proved to be a total failure and result in the election of Trump, they wrote a book blaming everyone else for the failure, including the guy who was stab...
[22:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:49] <exec> 08└─Yup. This guy sums it up pretty nicely when he says a woman who does not, cannot, does not want to learn from her mistakes.[1] [google.com] The choice of party loyalists ("superdelegates") as to who would be the nominee, because, apparently, it was her turn, was what lost those states for The Donkey...
[22:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:52] <exec> 08└─Only stupid people, stuck in prepubescence, fall for what you are calling his "charisma". Call them what you want. They won him the election. The effect of the comedy/talk shows, *rooting out the lies*, turned out to be negligible. You all really need to find another angle.
[22:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:20] <exec> 08└─If IP addresses have karma, does that mean that spam-modding them has an effect? Sounds suspicious to me, but I'm no expert.
[22:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Siri Are Vulnerable to 'Silent,' Nefarious Commands - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:08] <exec> 08└─I prefer to go with a much sharper instrument: tinfoil
[22:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Hurricane Irma Looms, X-37B Poised for First Flight Atop SpaceX Falcon 9 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:31] <exec> 08└─Won't this need to become routine when there are 100 launches per day? ... When going to the Moon or Mars costs $1k to $10k per person.
[22:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual Studies Suggest High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Improves Memory and Lifespan - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:51] <exec> 08└─I have a 22 quart canner so I'm always tempted to can 8 pints.of sugary stuff in one go. But then, being pressure canned, I don't have to use it for a year (probably much longer). Now I'm about to make some lemon curd. Lemons, eggs, butter, and sugar. I'm not sure I could pressure can it after makin...
[22:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:28] <exec> 08└─everything in this life is ... disastrous at worst (and that's the natural order of Universe),
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[23:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:33] <exec> 08└─I feel confident that more paywalled papers will aid in our understanding of this likely complex and nuance topic
[23:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:35] <exec> 08└─Equal opportunities not outcomes!!! Nobody had to recruit me into my career. I thought it would be interesting, and it was. Why shouldn't people -- all people -- be allowed to choose careers they find interesting instead of being pushed into something they clearly don't want? This is just more ridic...
[23:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:37] <exec> 08└─It's the feminism movement. They've already won all the big stuff, so now they attack whatever imbalances they perceive are left (however minor). Anecdotally, there are plenty of females in my IT department. It's pretty close to 50/50. Our head of IT is a woman too. No one gives a shit that there ar...
[23:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:39] <exec> 08└─There's at least one person insinuating that there could be a bunch of hypocritical hard science snobs around here who disrespect economics but praise this article because they are ignorant of its source.
[23:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 2399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:42] <exec> 08└─I am female and I am a programmer, and went to a computer science program. All I ever want is for people to judge based on merit. People tend to take an initial impression and generate preliminary assumptions. This is as much about your appearance as it is about gender. For instance, if you are "too...
[23:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:44] <exec> 08└─The way around the science paywall is easy: Hang a left after the 69th porn site, then a right right after the 2nd right-wing site, another right after the 911th conspiracy site, a sharp left just before the media trench, then you're only 100 prostitution ads away from the movie stream zone, below w...
[23:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:46] <exec> 08└─No one gives a shit that there aren't many male nurses.
[23:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:48] <exec> 08└─At most you could put me down as a fraction, and that's really pushing it. Economics is far from a mature science at the moment, and certain schools of economics are indeed wholly unscientific, but that doesn't mean I throw the whole field out with the bath water.
[23:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:51] <exec> 08└─No one gives a shit that there aren't many male nurses.
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:53] <exec> 08└─All these programs start way too late. As long as parents are giving dolls to little girls and blocks to little boys, these problems will continue. You can't fix the problem in the workplace, college, or even highschool. You have to start as soon as the kid can walk. Provide a variety of options, an...
[23:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:55] <exec> 08└─This is just more ridiculous, wasteful, frustrating social modification from the everything-must-be-exactly-the-same-for-everyone-everywhere department.
[23:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:57] <exec> 08└─How many people can I find in this thread touting the accuracy of this research who also say economics isn't science?
[23:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─All I ever want is for people to judge based on merit.
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:02] <exec> 08└─Sure but is there equal lack of opportunity in STEM jobs? Of course there is not. Those of us who got high grades in our major and graduated with honors and studied instead of partying are totally fucked. There are no jobs out there for anyone who is truly passionate about STEM. I went to an intervi...
[23:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:04] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with that. In fact I'd argue that it's exactly this wierd modern hyper-sexualization of children (which is one part of a more general hyper-sexualization in general) that causes these things, which should be quite straightforward and not particularly stressful, into nightmares...
[23:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like she's got the internalized misogyny. It's not her fault. Through her parents and friends, the patriarchy has trained her from birth to believe that her experiences are her own and that she can do whatever she wants without feeling oppressed even though she is. It's a shame really.
[23:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:09] <exec> 08└─All these programs start way too late. As long as parents are giving dolls to little girls and blocks to little boys, these problems will continue. My parents always tell me this story. I don't actually remember it, personally: Apparently I was wandering around the cul-de-sac pushing around a pink b...
[23:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─She thinks men have the same experience as women, but only women misinterpret the usual irritations of work as being somehow gender related.
[23:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:13] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, I've been guilty of seeing a very attractive woman in a technical role and thinking "bet she's here because someone thought she was hot." Of course I tried to conceal that opinion, and it is a good thing, because within 5 minutes of talking to her I had to reverse my judgment and...
[23:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:15] <exec> 08└─And to think it used to be "First star on the right, and straight on till morning!" Peter "Stem" Pan Syndrome.
[23:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women in STEM - Recruitment Efforts Counterproductive - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:18] <exec> 08└─I remember hearing someone posting that in their experience, starting to get girls interested in STEM before a certain age (10? 12?). After that, they start getting interested in boys (?) and the window is gone.
[23:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redesigned Qubit for Silicon-Based Quantum Computing - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:42] <exec> 08└─I was just in one of his talk last week introducing Quantum computing to dummies and he's a remarkable speaker. I wish I had professors like him when I was in grad school. Don't get me wrong he still looks like a geek even though he's dressed up but he was very good at "dumbifying" down the topic fo...
[23:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:24] <exec> 08└─Ralph Nader ran for president 4 times as a 3rd-party candidate. He has come to realize that running as a non-Donkey/non-GOPer is a really difficult task.[1] The deck is stacked by the incumbent parties.[2] [google.com] Bernie's candidacy showed that it's the same deal even WRT The Old Guard within a...
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[23:02:26] <exec> 08└─The problem I see is that too many folks are unaware of concepts such as Time of useful consciousness [google.com] and Point of no recovery. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Runs All Grants Past a Political Appointee in its PR Office - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, let's not forget lots and lots of voter registration / vote counting shenanigans by the GOP. You all really need to find another angle. The analyists who actually analyze do convince those who will listen. The thing is to get people to pay attention and to switch off Lamestream Media (the latest...
[23:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:12] <exec> 08└─But even though the vast majority of my driving is within range of home, there are no charging points in the apartment complex where I live, and I can't install one (I asked).
[23:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Momentum is Building for Electric Cars, but Where Will They Recharge? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:13] <exec> 08└─Apartment complexes are adding chargers because it adds value to the complex.
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