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[00:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:19] <exec> 08└─$DIETY$ is not smiling upon these people. It made me stop to wonder.
[00:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:20] <exec> 08└─That's Dam' breaking news
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:28] <exec> 08└─The spontaneous horrific fiery crashes of Tesla have teamed up with the decimal point-misplacing precision of AMD to bring you the ultimate In-Q-Tel-funded killmobiles! For national security!
[00:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:30] <exec> 08└─the decimal point-misplacing precision of AMD
[00:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:51] <exec> 08└─It doesn't go completely away. But it goes far enough away that you aren't walking around in your own shit every day.
[00:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:52] <exec> 08└─With such a significant technical lead, how did they fall behind?
[00:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:54] <exec> 08└─Agreed - the number zero is a revolutionary mathematical concept, one which actually saw significant resistance to its adoption (how can *nothing* be a value?), but without which modern mathematics would not be possible. In comparison there's nothing special about a placeholder - it's just a typogra...
[00:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:56] <exec> 08└─This [wikipedia.org] leads me to believe it was base 60. The composition of the written numerals appears to be an extension of a base 10 writing system, but the article clarifies that the arithmetic system itself was base 60. 60 and 12 are very good bases. As much as it pains me to say so, better th...
[00:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:59] <exec> 08└─Babylonians used base 60, at least in part because it was easily divisible in so many ways: 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20... It still survives today in our measurement of time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
[00:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:31] <exec> 08└─only to later find out that these "females" were born as males, lived until into adulthood as males, still have a penis/scrotum/testes, and only feel that they're "females".
[00:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:33] <exec> 08└─She'll have to sit on the edge of the boat,
[00:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:35] <exec> 08└─if she sits to pee
[00:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:40] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, it's Dennis again! "Come see the violence inherent in the system! Did you see him oppressing me? This is what I'm always on about!" "No one expects the violent imposition, in fact, those that do, um, those that do, cannot install extensions, and, um . . .I'll come in again. "
[00:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:57] <exec> 08└─Nah. I'd say it's mostly just inflation. It took quite some time for a $5 wrench to become a $10-15 wrench. Also, tools are always way more expensive than the amount of steel in them would suggest, given that they're a necessary component to make significant amounts of money for the purchaser.
[00:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:26] <exec> 08└─that don't get along well with others. And the people too, for that matter.
[00:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:50] <exec> 08└─The very first word of the comment and he didn't catch it. Pitiful. ...and the Preview page is mandatory for ACs. ...then there's you can't through down . ...and the root AC did the Fist thing.[1] Again, the very first word of the comment. Again, pitiful. [1] I've done that several times, but I mana...
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[00:44:56] <exec> 08└─Calling customers "delusional" who you want to convert,
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[01:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:23] <exec> 08└─This is a U.S. Territory, is it not? Where is the U.S. Government response to the suffering of these people? Instead, they fight to take Health Care aware from people, and jam Voodoo Economics 2.0 through Congress.
[01:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:24] <exec> 08└─She's pushing humans that much closer to a near extinction event, based on some of the most ignorant comments I read in the last Puerto Rico thread. 70,000 people. This will be a cataclysm indeed.
[01:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:26] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. The US is already working to restore power and to help people in not one, but TWO disaster areas. Maybe the US response in PR is a little slow, maybe it isn't. But, there IS a response. The Mayor of NYC was quoted this morning on the radio, promising all the aid that he can muster. http://ww...
[01:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:29] <exec> 08└─There is no functioning infrastructure remaining. They have to get a port, airport, something up and going. Even then it is a lot easier to roll a convoy of ulility trucks from Mississippi to Texas than to PR. Same goes for fleets of rigs from Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, etc. You can't just load up...
[01:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:31] <exec> 08└─They brought the hurricane on through God's punishment...punishment for their pinche Reggaeton ruido. God gives a chance for the damned to condone for their sins. Unfortunately for them, God has limited patience.
[01:40:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:10] <exec> 08└─As long as she can meet the same requirements, who cares if she sits to pee? To qualify, she, along with all the others, are incredibly tough.
[01:40:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:26] <exec> 08└─In combat, many aspects of toughness have nothing to do with physical strength and much to do with mental resilience. So-called "modern" combat, conducted in the middle of civilian populations, calls for even more of the mental skills and stability under pressure that most women outperform most men....
[01:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 3099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:38] <exec> 08└─They say she is finally the long sought unicorn, the woman who can pass the same exacting physical standards that probably one in ten generic 18yo males can pass. But we are discussing SJWs and, once again class, what is Law #1 of SJWs? SJWs Always Lie. Vox Day has been a dick lately but you still n...
[01:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:40] <exec> 08└─In all the time that ~30 women have failed the course, how many men have failed? The media hovers over every female, but they've taken no notice of the men who try and fail. I'm almost curious enough to research that question - but on the other hand, I don't really care how many men OR women have fa...
[01:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:46] <exec> 08└─I think you're using your web browser wrong... The part I stare at and click on is the only part that's explicitly not browser interface :)
[01:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:14] <exec> 08└─What, you mean like someone said to him "You chicken?" and then a cohort of the questioner played a short audio sample of a bawking chicken, implying that he, the alpha-male football player were roosting on a handegg? And then he blew up and went all Mad Dog on the poor suckers?
[01:42:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:58] <exec> 08└─Since you mention MS, I will note that there are two kinds of MS. Try not to get them confused. 1. an affliction suffered by millions of people which can make even the simplest tasks become difficult. 2. a medical condition.
[01:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distrustful U.S. Allies Force Spy Agency to Back Down in Encryption Fight - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:07] <exec> 08└─not sure if it was big or little indians...
[01:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:00] <exec> 08└─AC parent here, thanks! Always nice to have the numbers on your side...
[01:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:40] <exec> 08└─You may be underselling the social aspects of AA meetings. We mentioned before how rats with cool rat toys and rat friends tend to ignore the water bottle spiked with drugs. Portugal Cut Drug Addiction Rates in Half by Rejecting Criminalization [soylentnews.org] ...then there's The Placebo Effect wh...
[01:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:42] <exec> 08└─How To Successfully Treat Alcoholism With Medical Cannabis [herb.co] cannabis-friendly states have a new tool patients in addiction treatment have successfully managed withdrawal symptoms for alcoholism and other substances using cannabis. A 2009 study published in the Harm Reduction Journal showed...
[01:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:44] <exec> 08└─Amen. (Too much on the mark??) What galls me is the judges who say that e.g. an atheist drunk driver has to go to AA. A real separation of church and state violation there. ...and nobody yet has mentioned the pill that makes you feel like shit when you drink booze after taking it. A judge could requ...
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[02:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:20] <exec> 08└─I want to be the first kid on my block to get some of this stuff!! NOT!! There are probably enough cows left in the world, that I can continue eating beef for the rest of my life. There are lots of deer, pigs, sheep, and goats. I'll probably never eat any vat-grown meat, thank you very much. But, it...
[02:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:21] <exec> 08└─You would eat it if it was handed to you.
[02:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:24] <exec> 08└─Probably not. You're assuming a lot with that statement. Who handed it to me? When and where? How hungry am I? Is there a real restaurant nearby? And, what you don't know about me is, I can go a long time without eating. I know from experience that a person doesn't drop dead if he misses a meal. And...
[02:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:26] <exec> 08└─These idiots think they can produce something that is indistinguishable from beef in a lab AND sell it cheaper? To get beef you mostly just put some cows in a field and let them act like cows for a bit, keep a vet on standby in case one gets sick and at the end put them in a feedlot and bulk up a bi...
[02:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:28] <exec> 08└─The free market will surely produce results.
[02:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:42] <exec> 08└─And the only reason we aren't hearing about widespread looting yet is the collapsed communication infrastructure combined with there being so little left to steal.
[02:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:44] <exec> 08└─Personally, I condone a lot of sins - all of my own, in fact. Some I can't condone, though. As for atonement, ehhh, that's to hard for some of us. What is your BAC tonight, Eth? You know you can't spell for shit when it's over 3.2.
[02:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:46] <exec> 08└─That second link is especially informative, Urza. Thank you!
[02:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:56] <exec> 08└─And it doesn't even run on alcohol? Or any other freedom fuel for that matter? For shame!
[02:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:22] <exec> 08└─Sooooo... me being a Canadian I shouldn't send in my money when my subscription ends? And have you, an American, sent in yours? SoylentGreen is Americans!!! (Or is it SoylentOrange now that "What happened?" happened?) ;)
[02:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:23] <exec> 08└─The decimal system sucks. 10 is a lousy base because it divides poorly. Base 12 would have been better, although doesn't match fingers.
[02:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:25] <exec> 08└─Am I a bad person if I heard this whole post in Raj's voice (Big Bang Theory)?
[02:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:27] <exec> 08└─#1 is per #2 is poo #0 is squatting over a hole waiting to do #1 or #2
[02:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:30] <exec> 08└─Son, I got news for you. Your history is bogus. There's entire ancient temples in India with columns made in lathes & molten stone working technology. [youtube.com] Have a look a the sea floor sometime. [vimeo.com] What set India back was the same cataclysm that set back the entire world: A massive...
[02:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:08] <exec> 08└─I assume you're talking about Damore? If so, you need to do your research. He's not conservative, and he didn't say that women are biologically incapable of command - in fact, kind of the opposite. Did you even read the memo? It's not that long. You really should.
[02:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:09] <exec> 08└─I kneel to pee. I kneel, and ask my mistress's permission.
[02:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:11] <exec> 08└─Or maybe she's not named because she prefers actually doing her job instead of becoming a poster child for feminism worldwide and being paraded around? I'm sure Sam Biddle is on the case, fearless journalism etc.
[02:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:19] <exec> 08└─So I'll wind up with a copy of something at about an 8.1 on the scale but only for playing video games?
[02:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:20] <exec> 08└─I"m getting some good snowflake photography over here.
[02:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:22] <exec> 08└─I think we shouldn't go to overboard yet. Consider this a strike one and continue watching to see what develops. Everybody has the occasional fuckup.
[02:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, you need to change the way you 'addict': you need to do a 180. Don't stay home, DON'T go near a bar or liquor store. Go to a games store and play Catan or whatever. Stay active so your mind is occupied. You need to choose to not be the old person. The one thing I know about AA that I don't agre...
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[03:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:42] <exec> 08└─Who the hell are you!? Why do you have that kind of power!?
[03:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:43] <exec> 08└─If it's not beef, don't disguise it as beef. Just accept the fact that some people simply don't like soyblob sandwiches, and that those that do won't touch this because "omg genetically modified".
[03:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:45] <exec> 08└─How are they still in business?
[03:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:48] <exec> 08└─Who handed it to me?
[03:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:50] <exec> 08└─Why do you have that kind of power!?
[03:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:52] <exec> 08└─Just accept the fact that some people simply don't like soyblob sandwiches Hmm, it might taste better if you mix in some lentils. Maybe make crackers out of the mix. Hey, actual product! Soylent Crackers [buysoylentgreen.com] Looks like this was a product in 2014. Aw man, I missed my chance to buy t...
[03:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:54] <exec> 08└─That stuff is poison! Stay away!
[03:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:57] <exec> 08└─If you enjoy joke reviews on Amazon, the ones for Soylent Green are IMHO pretty good so have a look. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[03:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:59] <exec> 08└─You weren't using your manhood anyway.
[03:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:16] <exec> 08└─As Irma approached, USA.gov -could- have made every Amtrak train and every cruise ship and every military transport available to Florida residents to evacuate them. ...but it didn't. People in Florida who are wealthy and could pay the price to get out did that. ...but, again, in the USA, people who...
[03:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:18] <exec> 08└─What is your BAC tonight, Eth? You know you can't spell for shit when it's over 3.2.
[03:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:20] <exec> 08└─USA.gov has 19 aircraft carrier battle groups. It would be trivial to provision 4 or 5 of those with supplies, fill them with specialists, load every available helicopter onto them, and sail them to Puerto Rico. ...but brown people don't matter. ...and people who have no representation in Congress d...
[03:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:22] <exec> 08└─Isn't empire great?
[03:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:24] <exec> 08└─What the Hell are you babbling about? The body count in FL was lower than a typical weekend in Chicago. People were inconvenienced but not harmed. The people who needed to evacuate, those in vulnerable spots, weak structures, etc. found shelter. Only a few even needed a rescue. Houston was a differe...
[03:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:27] <exec> 08└─And had they begun that plan when the storm was predicted to hit they likely would still be steaming to a port to load up. Navies aren't fast, there are hard limits to how fast one can push a ship through water. An American carrier, with almost unlimited capacity for propulsion, can go somewhat (exa...
[03:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:06] <exec> 08└─The point of abbreviations is to make something as short as possible while retaining recognizability. The "s" doesn't fit into that. Can someone identify the "genius" who started with the "s" thing? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:08] <exec> 08└─"Arabic numerals?" Arabs adopted the Indian numerals, with some visual modification, and passed onto the West. In truth, it's Indian numerals with Arab contribution, not to take anything away from the Arabs' role in the event.
[03:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:10] <exec> 08└─Democracy, Freedom and Knowledge are not simply achieved
[03:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:12] <exec> 08└─From an historical perspective, it is definitely interesting learning where concepts originated. However, cultures come and go and ascribing a breakthrough like the concept of zero, or the fundamentals of algebra to one particular culture or nation seems like a petty waste. It's like rooting for you...
[03:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:53] <exec> 08└─This must be one tough lady to get this far and hold her own with the guys. I know a retired woman California Highway Patrol officer who is tough as nails, both physically and psychologically. If she were 25 years younger I could see her trying something like this. And to the people who have noted t...
[03:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:06] <exec> 08└─But nobody wants to touch developing another fork of Firefox. Many of the complaints center around the horrible morass of C++ libraries and their arbitrary interdependence on other modules. Personally however, I think what is needed is a fork of 3.6.28 (last old interface), a fork of one of the more...
[03:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:08] <exec> 08└─Mozilla needed to trim the fat, especially executive fat first before getting any new influx of cash. I don't remember how much they had at the time, but they had already managed millions in, as I remember it, individual donations before GOOG decided to start funding them (this was around the time A...
[03:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:10] <exec> 08└─It started with the GNU project's obfuscation efforts in gcc/glibc makign it hard to develop on in order to avoid 'legal loophole' plugins/products based off them, then the FSF pushing for the GPLv3 to work around the sleazy actions of companies, combined with their handling of litigation and licens...
[03:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:38] <exec> 08└─the military. Plenty of the same shit goes on, and plenty of head bashing, face slamming, and god only knows what kind of chemicals that the military puts in them. That said, some people, due to their upbringing or simply who they are, only fit in if given an outlet like football or the military whe...
[03:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:53] <exec> 08└─It's k and ki or K and Ki(B?) It's Kilo versus Kibi, the former have been implied as base 2 since computer began almost, with the latter being a marketing ploy by hard disk manufacturers in order to keep using MB/GB etc while actually giving you 1000/1024's the space you would have previously had un...
[03:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:54] <exec> 08└─That is sure what it sounds like to me. What is old is new again. Oh wait, I'm still running interlaced hardware in my house. Hell, I bet the courthouse where you'd overturn this patent still has a TV in the basement or somewhere you could use for an example :)
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:03] <exec> 08└─Sure, harvest the trees, but let's be a bit smarter than replanting them as monoculture row crops. Somehow it seems all "scientific and smart" to optimize financial yields by producing the most board-feet-per-acre-year of land, but that's incredibly short sighted and risky, as compared to restoratio...
[03:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:12] <exec> 08└─Because it's not clear that the recovery was actually due to AA. I care about what is actually true.
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:13] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen you post here, I suspect you have never experienced the pain and struggle of addiction. Count your lucky stars. Quite frankly, until you've actually been there... you have NO IDEA what you are talking about. It's like a virgin trying to guess what an orgasm feels like. You've got...
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[04:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:30] <exec> 08└─Irma was moving at 14 knots. USA.gov's ships can't beat that? ...and a ship can launch helicopters when it's still over 100 miles away. It all depends on your priorities. Clearly, people who aren't rich don't count to USA.gov. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:32] <exec> 08└─Just how many carrier battle groups do you think the US Navy keeps stationed in the Caribbean? The Spanish Main has not been a hot spot in a very long time. Blackbeard ain't coming back. Several are currently in the Korea area, several more in the Middle East. A couple will be in port at any particu...
[04:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:42] <exec> 08└─This story was refuted in the comments on slashdot when it was posted yesterday. This was fake news yesterday and is fake news today. Go check the comments if in doubt. Wish beauhd or msmash or whoever keeps cross posting these fucking articles would get banned.
[04:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:18] <exec> 08└─comes from brown hands?
[04:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:01] <exec> 08└─Seems like the only thing that will save America is nuking all the idiots without fallout shelters ready :) Of course some of our brave soldiers will have to clean out a few shelters with idiots in them, like all the major capitols and capitals :)
[04:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:16] <exec> 08└─Winter has come!
[04:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:46] <exec> 08└─More like his brain was damaged until the impulse control and sense of proportion that makes most of us not do that sort of thing was disabled. He may honestly not even know why he killed someone, not unlike when you ask a small child why he hit someone when he knows it's wrong. I doubt very much th...
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[05:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:45] <exec> 08└─I wish the best for these guys. This looks like the ticket for industrial embedded processors. Once someone like me designs in something like this, I expect it to last at least 50 years. Not much different than me designing a bolt into the framework. It should perform its intended function, for all...
[05:40:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:21] <exec> 08└─And the only reason we aren't hearing about widespread looting yet is the collapsed communication infrastructure combined with there being so little left to steal.
[05:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:01] <exec> 08└─M203 doesn't work that way. It's breach loaded from the side. If you tried to shit down the barrel then you'd have to point your rifle at your dick. Safety on the m203 is bad enough already.
[05:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, from the local cisgender lesbian--fuck you sideways, J-Mo. I bet if we went through your browser history there'd be loads of transsexual pornography in it. You care waaaaaay too much about this stuff to be entirely secure in your sexuality and gender identity, if you ask me. Are trans people d...
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[06:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:18] <exec> 08└─The point isn't to beat nature at her own game: With this process, Impossible Foods claims it produces a fake burger that uses a 20th of the land required for feeding and raising livestock and uses a quarter of the water, while producing an eighth of the greenhouse gases (based on a metric called a...
[06:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:20] <exec> 08└─Until it encounters our Religious Freedom(tm) to dominate the Earth and the animals.
[06:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:22] <exec> 08└─All that is stupid though. Pasture land is generally land that is not suited to high intensity agriculture anyway, water is not nearly the problem the chicken little types believe (although water distribution is) and unless the cows are eating fossil fuels their net carbon impact is zero. So those a...
[06:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:48] <exec> 08└─So are we allowed to call Puerto Rico "destroyed" yet or is that still off the table?
[06:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:50] <exec> 08└─As I understand, they aren't even able to help Florida much as most of the effort is going to helping Texas.
[06:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:52] <exec> 08└─Sounds like science is well on it's way to another correct prediction. [weather.com] Hmm....I wonder if we could apply these principles to predict other changes to the climate.
[06:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:54] <exec> 08└─So, to be clear, "Defense" Department is complete hogwash. USA.gov militarism is all about aggression on the other side of the planet. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:57] <exec> 08└─Not until every house is flattened and every person lies on the ground and says out loud that they are worthless scum that don't deserve to be in the USA.
[06:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:59] <exec> 08└─Since when is "The Cajun Navy" part of USA.mil? The response from USA.gov to any disaster during the Trump administration has been abysmal. ...or during any Repug administration in recent memory. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:01] <exec> 08└─> If we had a couple of spare carriers they would be deployed already. How much good are they sailing the Gulf, the Med, or the China Sea, when there are Americans in danger at home? Is it ten or eleven Navy carriers? How many Marine and helicopter ones? The French have their biggest active ship (th...
[06:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:03] <exec> 08└─You should think of it more like a pretty rough washing machine cycle, with widespread damage. I mean, more widespread for some, because like every good cycle, we remembered to separate the whites from the colors. And soon they'll be left out to dry.
[06:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:06] <exec> 08└─We don't station carriers near the U.S. because you don't need a carrier anywhere near U.S. waters for any mission. We have land bases. When there is working infrastructure to support it we can fly craploads of cargo directly from the mainland to PR, it will just be a lot more expensive than trucks....
[06:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, for watching Big Bang Theory
[06:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:54] <exec> 08└─No, someone pissed Gandhi off and he went all thermonuclear (thanks for that too, Sid!).
[06:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:56] <exec> 08└─Zero is not null, guys. Elementary set theory... I don't think the Indians gave us that tho ;) {} {0} {0,{0}} etc.
[06:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:58] <exec> 08└─And then we invented fractions and all that nonsense about base 12 went away. Base fucking 12.... my GOD!
[06:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:44] <exec> 08└─LOL, I got to try a SheWee once. Really not getting what's so great about standing to take a whiz though.
[06:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:46] <exec> 08└─Evidently the AC above has never met any female Marines. The North Vietnamese army was about 50% female and they kicked the shit out of our 100% male marines. Also, GP was being sarcastic.
[06:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:48] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the Democrats ruing everything every 8 years and our patriotic Republicans have to step in, adult-up, and fix everything! (yes, this is also sarcasm)
[06:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:50] <exec> 08└─They don't call it "the head" for nothing!
[06:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:52] <exec> 08└─Yea, visual defects are defects, we can correct them now but in days past they were a major handicap to survival. Not on the level of being so fudged up you can't figure out how to reproduce, but defective. Yes I wear bifocals. Difference is I'm not trying to define my entire existence around that (...
[06:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:54] <exec> 08└─Turtle's head?
[06:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:56] <exec> 08└─Come on just say it man... it's the End of All Things Great And True, America SHIT YEAH USA USA USA Religious Freedom FTW!! BAN TEH GAYZZZZ
[06:44:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:28] <exec> 08└─If the NFL lied about the dangers then they deserve to be punished. Characterizing the prosecution as "ambulance chasing lawyers" is argumentum ad-hominem.
[06:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:35] <exec> 08└─AC parent here,
[06:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:37] <exec> 08└─I think writing the whole article was automated. Its probably one of those troll articles written by a fuzzing program, by someone trying to see who will post a serious reply to a bogus article.
[06:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:24] <exec> 08└─(also known as Antabuse)
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[07:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:18] <exec> 08└─And this device will prevent you from havinf fake or couterfeited hangovers.
[07:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:20] <exec> 08└─Pruno isn't a spirit. Spirits are distilled. [wikipedia.org]
[07:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:51] <exec> 08└─Pasture land is generally land that is not suited to high intensity agriculture anyway Modern beef production doesn't use pastures. It's all feedyard these days. [beefusa.org]
[07:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:20] <exec> 08└─The Firefox folks have spent a year tearing the core out of their browser (Gecko) and replacing it with Chrome's core (Webkit).
[07:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:21] <exec> 08└─IIRC this is not the first time that Firefox has changed their extension system, breaking compatibility with existing extensions. Let's hope it is the last.
[07:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:23] <exec> 08└─I still remember Firefox 1.0, when anything besides ie was a godsend. I remember firefox 2 and 3, and the most powerful and customizable set of extensions I've ever seen. I raise a glass to those memories. Even now, when firefox is too far gone to use, I still mainly use derivatives such as seamonke...
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[08:39:20] <exec> 08└─I've encountered more than one case where the whisky tasted strange and it wouldn't burn. Poured a bit on tissue paper and couldn't light it up with a lighter. Ambient temperatures were high enough to expect some flames (> 26C). I've tried the same thing with the real stuff and it burned with a blue...
[08:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:22] <exec> 08└─Bah, I make my own.
[08:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:54] <exec> 08└─1) Company says "Our soy hemo is safe! It's similar to other stuff we eat" 2) FDA says "Uh that doesn't count, plus there are 40 other proteins". 3) Company then feeds rats ONLY soy hemo and not the 40 other proteins, and declares it's OK. 4) Company then puts product on market. 5) Other groups are...
[08:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:30] <exec> 08└─Trust me, I'm not sending an armada. Getting ready to destroy #NoKo & #OCare! 🇺🇸
[08:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:19] <exec> 08└─Kudos for using a sane citation style on this one. You can do it again!
[08:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:11] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. In any capacity. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military wo...
[08:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:59] <exec> 08└─See, we don’t go by these new and very much softer NFL rules. Concussion? Oh, got a little ding on the head, no, no you can't play for the rest of the season. Our people are tough! 🇺🇸
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[09:39:17] <exec> 08└─...not a Hexie. Hence it's faster.
[09:40:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1978 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:12] <exec> 08└─There is no functioning infrastructure remaining. They have to get a port, airport, something up and going. Even then it is a lot easier to roll a convoy of ulility trucks from Mississippi to Texas than to PR. Same goes for fleets of rigs from Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, etc. You can't just load up...
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[09:40:35] <exec> 08└─Cue hyocritical hand-wringing and media outrage in 3, 2, 1... So another third-rate shithole is having a horrible natural disaster. Boo fucking hoo. Civilized areas like Florida and Texas react and respond effectively. Barbarian crapworlds like PR do not. For perspective, consider Bangladesh. Each a...
[09:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:37] <exec> 08└─Horror, I omitted a P in hypocritical! Grammar nazis can P off.
[09:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:48] <exec> 08└─Wish beauhd or msmash or whoever keeps cross posting these fucking articles would get banned. Hi, I submitted the story about a half day before it went up at Slashdot. I don't know when the Slashdot story was submitted, but it could have been submitted after I submitted mine if they grab stories out...
[09:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:29] <exec> 08└─You can have fractions in any base. Nothing is particularly special about base 10 other than convention.
[09:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:23] <exec> 08└─Little know fact: jmorris has no offspring. Infact, jmorris has no spring. And, jmorris never had a Rumspringa, so by default, jmorris is a virgin. Can we sacrifice him now? Burning man is just over, but the WickerMan is just getting started. jmorris is profoundly defective, mostly mentally, but als...
[09:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:24] <exec> 08└─Damore explicitly referred to people being afraid to come out as gay conservative, so I suspect that he is a fucking Republican, if not a full on alt-wrong neo-liberal nazi white wale motherfucking douche bag of the highest order. Yes, I read the memo. The dick (double entendre intended) needed to b...
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[10:39:37] <exec> 08└─wean myself from 68000 based processors...to the folks who make Picoscopes
[10:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:04] <exec> 08└─There are no "ranches" in Arkansas, only hillbilly homesteads. But they grow no meat, so if someone handed this to Runaway, it would probably be at the local national drive through of a chain fast food franchise. He would never even know what he was eating, and that is not even going into what the "...
[10:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:05] <exec> 08└─I want to be the first kid on my block to get some of this stuff!! NOT!!
[10:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:44] <exec> 08└─It would be trivial to provision 4 or 5 of those with supplies, fill them with specialists, load every available helicopter onto them, and sail them to Puerto Rico.
[10:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:45] <exec> 08└─Irma was moving at 14 knots. USA.gov's ships can't beat that?
[10:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:33] <exec> 08└─Of the many things Soylentils are blissfully ignorant of, one is the nautical life. Some have tried to remedy this by quoting Herman Melville. But the basic terminology is still lacking. Head. On a ship, a head is more properly a capstan head. This is the ratcheting spindle that usually coils a rode...
[10:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:35] <exec> 08└─Or was it the East End? Which way does the wind blow in London? More importantly, link for the Kipling: http://www.bartleby.com [bartleby.com] I prefer Conrad or Melville to Kipling, but when it comes to the Heart of Darkness that Was British Imperialism, does it really matter what side...
[10:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, the only real benefit to peeing standing up, is the writing. You can write your name in the snow. Also works on sand. If you have the capacity, entire sonnets or mid-sized poetic works are possible. But really, a pen and paper are much more convenient, and longer lasting, than any penis an...
[10:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:39] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a sailor, from the safety of a ship.
[10:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:03] <exec> 08└─Im going through it right now, ass! If you don't go to buy booze, you got no booze to drink, RIGHT?! If you don't go to a bar, you got no booze to drink, RIGHT?! If you keep booze away from you you got no booze to drink, RIGHT?! Feck! It's not AA, it's not God, it's me. I choose to be free of the sh...
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[11:39:22] <exec> 08└─Please use km/h and not kph.
[11:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:33] <exec> 08└─Then you're doing it wrong.
[11:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, so this is a fake news story. Let's try to recover something from the exercise. If hypothetically one were to develop a CPU, GPU, or whatnot for supporting an self-driving application, what sort of stuff would be good to stick in there? Massive I/O bandwidth? Image processing support?
[11:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:42] <exec> 08└─Can someone identify the "genius" who started with the "s" thing?
[11:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:44] <exec> 08└─Three things. First, video references are crap. It's painful to quote from the material (you can't copy/paste speech or images) and it takes time to watch videos while reading is fast. You dropped almost two and a half hours of video. Sorry, I'm not watching it. If we all dumped video links, it'd q...
[11:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:46] <exec> 08└─Nuclear weaponry is the future [reddit.com]! How can you not see that?
[11:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe we need some sort of SOPA/PIPA-like 'Firefox blackout day' where web developers agree to include a snippet of code that detects Firefox and redirects to a central page that presents a unified message to Mozilla. The people who care about these issues are greatly outnumbered by non-technical us...
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[12:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:26] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with meters/second?
[12:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:45] <exec> 08└─lowRISC recently also announced the completion of a project to support tagged memory: http://www.lowrisc.org [lowrisc.org] The goal of this internship was to take the lowRISC hardware release, and demonstrate kernel support and software support for th...
[12:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Reportedly Teaming Up With AMD for Custom AI Chip - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:05] <exec> 08└─Here's what Nvidia is pitching, http://www.nvidia.com [nvidia.com] But this market is a fast moving target (like pedestrians??), with new sensors and new algorithms all the time.
[12:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:50] <exec> 08└─It's bullshit anyway, I tried to look at one video, it just shows what seem to be regular shapes on the sea floor from google earth... But there is no explanation about where the data comes from, and what those shapes are. In fact, this just shows what happens when you mix radar data (to have global...
[12:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:50] <exec> 08└─So in other words, "man" and "woman." We do have those perfectly serviceable words to describe people whose gender identity matches their genitals. Gender studies is an interesting field. Having a gender identity that does not map to "man" or "woman" must be lonely, painful, and difficult. But resor...
[12:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:51] <exec> 08└─And, jmorris never had a Rumspringa
[12:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:53] <exec> 08└─Now where have I seen this before...
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:56] <exec> 08└─Some pay extra for that.
[12:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:58] <exec> 08└─You can also more effectively pee on trees, walls, boulders, and such to mark your territory and keep the wolves away from your campsite. When bored, it's fun to play with. The wonders of the marvelous penis. Click to learn more...
[12:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:00] <exec> 08└─I have met several female Marines. It's not an uncommon female name in Russia and France. It would have been stranger to meet male Marines, much as it would be for us to encounter a man (non-drag queen) called Penelope.
[12:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:04] <exec> 08└─It's Kilo versus Kibi, the former have been implied as base 2 since computer began almost
[12:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:15] <exec> 08└─Whether you are optimizing for board-feet or ecosystem restoration, you are doing some good (just to widely varying degrees). I'm old enough to remember when those ubiquitous grocery bags were made of paper, and were rectangular; no plastic grocery bags extant. But the "save the trees" contingent he...
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[13:39:46] <exec> 08└─Despite its age and issues, x86 is still alive and strong. Intel and AMD have been able to apply many advances to the x86 architecture. Such as, since the Pentium, there's an additional layer of microcode, and the underlying processor of an x86 system actually is RISC. All the inefficient, crufty 19...
[13:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:15] <exec> 08└─Pasture land is generally land that is not suited to high intensity agriculture anyway
[13:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:17] <exec> 08└─unless the cows are eating fossil fuels their net carbon impact is zero
[13:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:19] <exec> 08└─It's nice to see attempts to actually explain what is going on, because glyphosate itself is most likely quite safe, so what's the problem? This is the government at their best. Anything that kills weeds we have to regulate, but if it just kills people then anything goes.
[13:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:01] <exec> 08└─The opposite of normal is abnormal. Abnormal does not necessarily imply malfunctioning, humans for instance are abnormal as far as Earthen organisms are concerned.
[13:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:03] <exec> 08└─It saves you a few seconds, but I'd say the most significant advantage is the much longer urethra, meaning a lot less urinary tract infections you have to deal with.
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[14:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, 350kph is far too silly a speed, 9.7*10^1 m/s is far more useful.
[14:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:41] <exec> 08└─These were first measured unopened, then opened and contaminated with different levels of methanol (1, 2 and 3 %) and the tops replaced.
[14:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:52] <exec> 08└─Seems the efficiency gains from dropping useless instructions isn't significant enough to provide a compelling advantage over the x86 architecture.
[14:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:25] <exec> 08└─Because livestock, and cows in particular, go through unfathomable amounts of food and water (up to 11,000 gallons a year per cow)
[14:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:26] <exec> 08└─I certainly wouldn't use the term "ranch", although I've seen the term used for little farms smaller than my 15 acres. But, yes, there is meat on the hoof all around me, some of which I buy feed for.
[14:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:28] <exec> 08└─It may be a little more complex than drink, urinate, evaporate, get rained on. A lot of plants are very happy to absorb that urine, with all of the nutrients found in it. Insects are often observed during a hot summer, collecting around a pool of urine, before it soaks into the ground. That moisture...
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[14:41:08] <exec> 08└─Well, Pal, as you have deduced, this is the USA. All those people had options, before the hurricane hit. They could move a few miles inland, to stay with friends or relatives. They could have moved a lot of miles inland, and stayed with a distant relative in Kentucky, or Kansas, or even Montreal. T...
[14:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:09] <exec> 08└─19 full fledged carrier battle groups? Citations? Please, citations. Maybe you've been reading some stupidity such as this http://thediplomat.com [thediplomat.com] CLUE: An amphibious assault ship is not a carrier. It will most likely operate...
[14:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:11] <exec> 08└─"or during any Repug administration in recent memory" Your memory isn't very good, is it? When Katrina hit, the dummocrat mayor and the dummocrat governor spent DAYS (literally) dithering over nonsense. It wasn't until the repug president put a call in, and ASKED the dummocrats if they needed any he...
[14:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:10] <exec> 08└─The term is "math" in Canada, too. Canadian English, especially these days, is nearly identical to American English.
[14:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 652 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:01] <exec> 08└─Yea, visual defects are defects, we can correct them now but in days past they were a major handicap to survival. Not on the level of being so fudged up you can't figure out how to reproduce, but defective. Yes I wear bifocals. Difference is I'm not trying to define my entire existence around that (...
[14:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:19] <exec> 08└─You, Sir, are ignorant. Remember Beruit City, 1978? I was there to welcome the grunts ashore. I'm a destroyer man, and we don't wait for jarheads to show us how to get ashore. Alright, I'll throttle the bravado down just a little bit. All of us destroyer men were scared shitless that we were facing...
[14:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─"jmorris is still a dick." I've seen your kind of petulance before. KKK members have it. No matter what goes wrong, it's the nigger's fault. Nazi members have it - no matter what goes wrong, it's the jew's fault. With you, it's one of a half dozen boogey-men that you chase around Soylent. So, what k...
[14:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:39] <exec> 08└─Your definition is that which the tyrant would give. Always moving the goalposts so "tyranny" is just slightly beyond the tyranny you're currently practicing.
[14:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:41] <exec> 08└─The GPL family of licenses are unnecessary because if you support truly free software then you just use the MIT license or the BSD license. If you aren't using one of those licenses, or some other equivalently free license, then you're writing proprietary software. As far as I'm concerned, GPLed sof...
[14:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:43] <exec> 08└─Firefox's market share is already down to 5%. Almost nobody will see these messages. Those that do will just continue to beg Mozilla to fix Firefox's slowness and memory usage, like they've been doing for the last decade. And Mozilla will probably just ignore them, let it's been doing for the last d...
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Recipe for Forest Restoration - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:41] <exec> 08└─Saving the trees or not, plastic grocery bags are lighter weight, lower volume (of material, per unit grocery carried), easier to handle (they actually have handles), and they rot in the landfills just the same.
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[15:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Ice Found in Craters on Mercury - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─Mercury should get some, while it's available.
[15:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:37] <exec> 08└─iso (static) = the perfect nick for ISO units!
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─I did. Are you nitpicking in an alternate universe?
[15:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:41] <exec> 08└─now, this winter, they can escape the pollution even faster!
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─These things will be awesome for detecting counterfeit wine. It's actually a really big thing these days.
[15:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:36] <exec> 08└─The specs had my interest piqued. But holy fuck, that thing is huge! Anyone remember that old meme when Xbox controllers entered the market? HUEG! Thar she blows! Etc... If they're using COTS hardware, I don't see them realistically improving on size, let's hope they can minimize the weight at least...
[15:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:15] <exec> 08└─One of the perks of being a registered user is that you can have the "Post Anonymously" checkbox ticked by default, and enjoy one-click AC posting -- never being forced to preview again. It's great for those of us with impecable speling!
[15:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:04] <exec> 08└─Can you turn that into a car analogy? I'm sure it would fail just as well as your broken bone analogy. Okay, answer me this: If you do not go to the liquor store, do not go to a bar, do not hang with people who drink, do not have liquor in your house, how will you be able to drink? You make a choice...
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[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─I think the term is "defrauded".
[16:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SolarCity Will Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Allegations that it Lied to the Government - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:25] <exec> 08└─I think the term is "Taxpayer paid bonus".
[16:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:47] <exec> 08└─Kelvins per hectare?
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:01] <exec> 08└─Fake news, fake presidents, fake booze, and fake hangovers! I'm not sure I'm ready for the fake century!
[16:40:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 571 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─I wish the best for these guys. This looks like the ticket for industrial embedded processors. Once someone like me designs in something like this, I expect it to last at least 50 years. Not much different than me designing a bolt into the framework. It should perform its intended function, for all...
[16:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:29] <exec> 08└─According to NOAA, "The outlook reflects our expectation of a weak or non-existent El Niño, near- or above-average sea-surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea and average or weaker-than-average vertical wind shear in that same region." Strong El Niños typically le...
[16:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:30] <exec> 08└─There is no consensus on whether climate change will have any influence on the occurrence, strength or duration of El Niño events, as research supports El Niño events becoming stronger, longer, shorter and weaker.[20][21]
[16:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:32] <exec> 08└─so why is President Bush and his FEMA appointee so badly reported on as well? It took a team to mess it up. It didn't matter the political bent in that case, because the response and results were incompetent. I'd only have blamed politics if it seemed that someone smart was getting blocked by someon...
[16:42:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:09] <exec> 08└─Babylonians used base 60, at least in part because it was easily divisible in so many ways: 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20... It still survives today in our measurement of time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:32] <exec> 08└─i think the problem is that hiding behind handles and anonymity regarding scientific pursuits none of us can reasonably claim to have any claims to (being anonymous and all that) means the only way we can convince others is to a: not use some bizzare ancient histories of mystery complete with sp...
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, being SO friendly and warm and fuzzy... sort of spells out what a nuclear family is, right? Besides, if you turn your neighbors into fallout, you can't really have any disputes with them if they have moved on to irradiate some unoccupied territory.
[16:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:51] <exec> 08└─K is Kelvin (temperature) k is kilo (1000) Ki is kibi (1024) Use the appropriate prefix for the job. The literal meaning of "kilo" is "one thousand". If you mean 1000 use k, and if you mean 1024 use Ki. Simple.
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[17:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like incompetence, they didn't know how this public key "magic" was/is supposed to work with a public key and a private key so they just included everything. I guess the other members of the PSIRT had a bit of a laugh and it will be a constant reminder for year and years, "Hey remember w...
[17:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SolarCity Will Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Allegations that it Lied to the Government - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:28] <exec> 08└─"Gravy Train"
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─It's going away if the water comes from an aquifer. Just like most of our hydrocarbons come from fossil fuels. But let's not get over-fixated on cows. Almond farming uses 10% of California's water: http://www.slate.com
[17:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─META: The function of the "[Continues...]" expansion link in the summary is undiscoverable (visually). The truncated summary on this article can apparently be expanded on the front page without needing to visit the article page, by clicking anywhere on the otherwise empty line containing the text "[...
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[17:41:37] <exec> 08└─> oh no deity who did not save dinosaurs, enabling us to dominate the earth, is at it again. If you fire up a couple neurons, you get that a universe where god always enforces justice is an empty one. If god doesn't enforce, any amount of tolerance is equally arbitrary. Free not to worship any inher...
[17:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:49] <exec> 08└─Actually, Damore's political background is pretty well known because of the shitstorm that surrounded him. You read SoylentNews, you may as well read the history of something you're commenting on.
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 1933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:26] <exec> 08└─Please accept my deepest apologies. Having been down this path, myself, I know full-well how incredibly challenging and difficult getting sober is. I commend you for your efforts and wish for you continued success. Maybe you are fortunate and had not advanced as far in the progression as I had. At o...
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[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─This also shows how public/private key cryptography is just too impractical for most people to use. Even those with some technical knowledge find it difficult to work with, and it's far too easy to make catastrophic mistakes with. It's far beyond what normal people can manage to handle. That's why i...
[18:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─> Even those with some technical knowledge Given the decline in quality from Adobe (their early stuff like Postscript language and programming manuals were great), you may be giving them too much credit??
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─Like I said before, incompetent people at Adobe. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] You can argue about PGP and associated tools being user-unfriendly or whatnot, but at the end of it, you have to acknowledge that this was a user not reading what was in front...
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─It is my understanding that private keys have passphrase protection. This makes me wonder if there are any public efforts, in addition to goodness knows how many private ones, to figure out the passphrase for the key. I would be interested to see if they at least took the advice of having a strong o...
[18:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SolarCity Will Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Allegations that it Lied to the Government - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─SolarCity, a company Tesla acquired in Nov. 2016
[18:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:58] <exec> 08└─Lu Dongfu, China Railway’s general manager, said the line had been built to the world’s highest standards and the Fuxing trains were designed to run at a maximum speed of 350kph. “Operating the Fuxing on this route at a speed of 350kph is without question in terms of safety, reliability and co...
[18:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:13] <exec> 08└─My suspicion is much like razor blades in halloween candy, it happened like once anecdotally leading to infinite retelling and urban legendry, and the remainder of "knock out pills in drinks" is kids learning the hard way
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─I expect that in 25-30 years the world population will start decreasing. It's already started in some countries.
[18:41:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 805 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. The US is already working to restore power and to help people in not one, but TWO disaster areas. Maybe the US response in PR is a little slow, maybe it isn't. But, there IS a response. The Mayor of NYC was quoted this morning on the radio, promising all the aid that he can muster. http://ww...
[18:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:50] <exec> 08└─This is a U.S. Territory, is it not? Where is the U.S. Government response to the suffering of these people?
[18:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:02] <exec> 08└─Are you seriously suggesting jmorris is not a dick? After all, he did post this: What does "cisgendered" mean?
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[19:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─We be web diggers, uh-huh. We don't dig no smelly green web, no sir. But we sure dig juicy red web. Eh, fuck it.
[19:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:22] <exec> 08└─It has happened, and the Apes are us.
[19:39:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─public/private key cryptography is just too impractical for most people to use.
[19:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:35] <exec> 08└─Private keys *can* have passphrase protection. However it is not a requirement and many times people avoid the extra step of adding a passphrase when generating a key.
[19:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:38] <exec> 08└─Given the decline in quality from Adobe...
[19:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:23] <exec> 08└─Simple and wrong. The informal definition of kilo meatbags instinctively used before a marketing droid decided to make their hd look bigger was "kilo is base^n where n is the lowest exponent that yields a result nearest to 10^3". Used for decades by scientists and gaming kids, without incidents. If...
[19:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Magic Pill to Cure Alcohol Dependence Yet - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:52] <exec> 08└─And please accept my apologies: It IS hard and DOES suck. Maybe i'm finding it easy(easier?) then some because of what i've had to give up in the past. Lactose intolerance has made me give up cheese/pizza/shakes/so fecking much, than finding i'm also gluten intolerant (had to give up porters and ipa...
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[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─What's wrong? Can't you spell .______.._________._______.._....... (..__..\.\__...__/(..____.\|.\..../\ |.(..\..)...).(...|.(....\/|..\.././ |.|...).|...|.|...|.|......|..(_/./. |.|...|.|...|.|...|.|......|..._.(.. |.|...).|...|.|...|.|......|..(.\.\. |.(__/..)___).(___|.(____/\|../..\.\ (______/.\_...
[20:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:23] <exec> 08└─Also olive oil, honey, maple syrup, other foodstuffs. Big bucks in that!
[20:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:35] <exec> 08└─Arm has itself positioned as a replacement for x86 in the mobile environment.
[20:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:13] <exec> 08└─Really DN, that's all the fight you can muster? Sad. Could at least have made a beef joke.
[20:41:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:22] <exec> 08└─That's Dam' breaking news
[20:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:02] <exec> 08└─And, just how many disasters have you counted, since Trump was sworn in? Just one long one. It started January 20th.
[20:42:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 1192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:29] <exec> 08└─We tend to think that once a level is achieved there is no going back, but history shows that societies do slide back. We went from knowing the Earth is round and Eratosthenes [wikipedia.org] measuring its circumference to believing it is flat. The Arabs went from a great height in Mathematics and o...
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[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─Well we know which strains will become dominant then, don't we. The "challenging due to viral genetic diversity" is not likely to go away. A short term suppression of most strains seems the best they can hope for. The story leaves unsaid how many strains remain in that 1% against which this trifecta...
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─Great news! More unprotected sex with hookers and junkies! On a more serious note tho I do wonder what, if this turns out to work as predicted and it's just not attacking but also eradicating, this will do to the mind of people. Will HIV just become a slightly embarrassing STD like the rest of them...
[21:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─humans have large brains, that take a long time to grow and mature, because it isn't possible to *fit* through a human female pelvis fully grown. Neanderthals had larger brains. Unless they'd found neanderthal remains of females with huge pelvises, how did they think the big brains developed?
[21:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:34] <exec> 08└─Africans develop faster than Europeans, who develop faster than Asians. Africans have no Neanderthal blood (okay, some Ethopians do due to migrations south as glaciation reached its maximum levels). Europeans and Asians have Neanderthal and Denisovan blood. The DNA is compared to a Neanderthal/Denis...
[21:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─Cuz then instead of the lovely *** you get the actual chars visible! What a stupid thing to do but has happened to me more than once.
[21:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:51] <exec> 08└─I'd say most times people don't put passwords on their private keys. It makes automated use of these signatures complex or impossible. Unattended things will fail or halt when you are not around to deal with it. You can use/add/change your passphrase any time you want, and it can be different on eac...
[21:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:53] <exec> 08└─This was clearly intentional. Adobe was outsourcing the revocation of its private key to the public.
[21:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Ice Found in Craters on Mercury - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:11] <exec> 08└─The lack of an atmosphere is what makes Mercury a good place for a colony. Intense solar flux passing through zero-to-negligible atmosphere until it hits solar panels. The planet's surface is both hot and cold depending on where you go and the time of day (see colony link). Frozen water exists on or...
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:21] <exec> 08└─September 19, 2017 Cuba Recovered and Open for Business [counterpunch.org] USA Today reported on Sept. 17 that the US government was providing humanitarian aid to numerous Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Irma. Cuba, located just 90 miles off the coast of Florida--was not among them. When H...
[21:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─When Katrina hit, Dubya sat on his thumb instead of being proactive. The president is often called "The Chief Executive". Your memory isn't very good My memory is just fine. I remember Dubya saying "Heck of a job, Brownie" to a guy who had ZERO experience in disaster relief. That would be the guy wh...
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[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:17] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, those viral strains that have adapted to evade the existing trispecific antibodies could also be targeted by their own monoclonal antibodies, perhaps given as a supplement to the HIV vaccine, conventional HAART, PREP to prevent infection, and that ignores the most important effect...
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─Were Neanderthals more intelligent than homo sapiens, but they died out because of slow growth and short lifespans limiting their potential?
[22:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─Or maybe we just developed a better immune system? Given human similarity with Neanderthals, we could have infected them with diseases they couldn't handle.
[22:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 1987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:49] <exec> 08└─It seems nobody checks before going ahead, not even a single, less so double check. Say you run "blah > foo.txt". Some people upload foo.txt, others first do "less foo.txt" and check it really looks like it should, and even download back to confirm it works. Maybe something failed and you would send...
[22:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:24] <exec> 08└─Why are you implying that "foreign" design had anything to do with the accident? From your own wikipedia link, it seems a signal failure was the cause. And "China's own design"? Really? You mean after copying the design for the first generation, they now learned enough to produce their own (lets not...
[22:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─I'm having a hard time with their net efficiency claims. If you think corn is bad, in terms of sustainability, you must think that sugar is an environmental cataclysm of positively biblical proportions. Sugarcane is a notoriously thirsty crop grown under terribly environmentally exploitative conditi...
[22:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─Y'mean the part about "promote the general welfare"? the purpose of government I would define that as "doing the most good for the greatest number of its people". Your definition seems to be different. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─No, it's not wrong. K (kelvin) and k (kilo) have long been standardised as SI units. Ki (kibi) by the IEC (ISO). The only problem here is that computing people (k) which has been long establised to mean 1000, and then used it to mean something completely different (1024) which was "convenient" but i...
[22:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Steps in the Security Process is Critical to Defeat Today’s Relentless and Complex Attack - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─On this topic, I've previous noted that spellcheckers are available gratis. I guess I'm doing that again here. Even when my spellchecker stumbles, Google usually provides good answers. In the 21st Century, I can't see any reason why a computer user should ever produce a misspelled word. a registered...
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[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─How long before an "underground Uber" for London emerges, with less corporate accountability than even Uber had?
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:28] <exec> 08└─Knock back HIV into 1% of the infected population, that 1% will spread back to previous epidemic levels in a few years.
[23:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─There are a few unlucky victims, but mostly HIV targets awful people. It hits junkies. It hits people homewreakers, prostitutes, people who accept pick-up culture, and others who don't create solid marriages. Good riddance. Such people don't build a solid society in which the next generation can be...
[23:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:32] <exec> 08└─Now that's the realDonaldTrump I know and love.
[23:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:46] <exec> 08└─More intelligent on what scale? If the Neanderthals developed the test, odds are that they would score more highly on it than other species. How intelligent are homo sapiens on the dolphin scale?
[23:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:47] <exec> 08└─You're being dishonest with that comparison. Use that tiny homo sapien brain of yours to figure out why your comment was stupid.
[23:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:41] <exec> 08└─Those trains were a previous generation based on foreign designs.
[23:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:11] <exec> 08└─The atom processors are faster, but generally draw more power. When it comes to anything beyond tablets/phones, x86 does better on everything, and includes a fairly open-source friendly GPU unlike ARM.
[23:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:12] <exec> 08└─To pick a nit, the 8008 was 8-bit. The 8086 was 16 bit. The 8088 has a 16-bit internal architecture identical to the 8086 but it talked to the world via 8-bit busses. The Motorola 68008 was another necked-down uP and might have given us an industry-dominant flat memory model but that company was slo...
[23:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:52] <exec> 08└─When I visited England a few years ago, one of the things all the fast-food places had was veggieburgers. No attempt was made to make them be anything like meat. They were made of vegetables, they tasted like vegetables, and they were delicious. Can't get anything like it here in Montreal. -- hendri...
[23:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─Puerto Rico isn't Cuba.
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:46] <exec> 08└─That obvious whoosing sound is the sound of an entire missed point whoosing over your head. Again.
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