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[00:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─Belkin has released a [$34.95 iPhone adapter] which lets you charge your phone [and listen to] a 3.5mm headphone jack at the same time
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─SDCC [sdccblog.com] on a card? Wow, the future's amazing. But yeah, both of those can be gating factors.
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about a removable battery! Good for for ease of replacement, spares, and security. I think LG is the only mainstream phone maker still producing such a phone.
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─My Lumia 950 also has a removable battery. I used a phone with a built-in battery once. Never again if I can possibly avoid it. I mean, it was a solid phone and I quite liked it. Until the battery bloated it apart. :(
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:02] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I hadn't thought about how much variation you'd get in behaviour under different soils and aged firing mechanisms. Apparently, some mines need as little as 1.5kg (3.3lbs) to set them off: http://www.care.org [care.org] But penguins don't seem to set off...
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:04] <exec> 08└─So fat people can render a humanitarian service by detecting landmines?
[00:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:13] <exec> 08└─Quite true. The thermal resiliency of diamond semiconductors (as compared to silicon-based versions) is hoped to allow more leeway in dealing with the heat problem. I think I'd be happy with a monstrosity of a chip layered with built-in heat pipes between each section, particularly after I finish my...
[00:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─Well I am late. This is a good start although is can be quite technical and a bit of over kill. I settled on Private Internet Access back in Feb 2017 and set others up. Easy to use, no problem install for Windows 7 with VBox running SolydXK Linux. And I still 3 more devices that includes Android jus...
[00:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:26] <exec> 08└─When using Tor with a web browser, it's advantageous to use Tor Browser most of the time. If you're using (or appearing to use) Chrome or whatnot, you'll stick out. For web stuff that can't be done in Tor Browser, yes, forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 . in the privoxy config will work.
[00:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 2513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:32] <exec> 08└─1) Thanks for being reasonable.. I was a bit triggered, but your "asshole" comment was a bit over the top and me throwing that back at you probably made me seem even more triggered. 2) A huge amount of the damage being done by plant based big ag would be reduced if we weren't feeding all the grain t...
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[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:34] <exec> 08└─Over-the-counter melatonin: good or bad?
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─Take away TV/Internet/phone, make them go to bed at 10 PM, and they're good to go at school tomorrow? Or do none of the above, and they need a later starting time.
[01:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─Works for me.
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─Nice to see they are being recognized for their important work! Daylight Savings Time is causing health issues and should be abolished! http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─One of my friends thinks it's great. It does absolutely nothing to me. Try it and find out which type you are.
[01:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─I charge my phone overnight and from my PC as needed. I don't travel much. My phone running out of battery isn't an issue for me. My main battery drain is playing poker. All my communication is text. Voice tends to head into voicemail, which I delete instead of listening to (Virgin sux ass at knowin...
[01:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:57] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Too bad it's a Windows phone. And that has more to do with the lack of apps though, I barely have any apps to begin with (because lets face it, they all suck, along with the whole mobile concept)
[01:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:59] <exec> 08└─But this time, the Devil's not in the details, but rather the elephant in the room: The iPhone is a closed-proprietary privacy-removing device that prevents your installing free software via aggressive DRM. It's a non-starter on multiple fronts, by deliberate policy and design, for anyone concerned...
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─All my friend know, if you wanna tell me something send a text. Cuz voicemail ain't gonna get heard.
[01:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:03] <exec> 08└─Glad you explained that, but I'm still having a hard time texting you. Can you post your phone # again so I can make sure I'm using the right one?
[01:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:05] <exec> 08└─Dang! I thought they were happy because they drink beer and drive overpowered pickup trucks, while not completely shaving with 5 blades, dying their hair, using some deodorant, and taking a pill for the ED... Thanks for saving me some effort! The iDevice is a lot easier to park than the pickup, I ha...
[01:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:08] <exec> 08└─I hate voice mail too.
[01:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:23] <exec> 08└─In that case, time to buy one of those Yuuuuge ACME mouse traps
[01:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:33] <exec> 08└─Beat the heat in 3D chip stacks with ICECool [ibm.com] (same thing mentioned in 2013 [wired.com]) DARPA lays out cash-splash to defibrillate Moore's Law [theregister.co.uk]
[01:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:35] <exec> 08└─Transistors will stop shrinking in 2021, but Moore’s law will live on [arstechnica.com]
[01:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:37] <exec> 08└─This is the closest thing i've seen in production: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[01:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─The problem that people really faced is that they made a decision. Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad. They are presented with new evidence, and they have to decide whether they made a wrong decision. Nobody ever wants to have made a wrong decision. Nobody ever likes to change the decision they made, e...
[01:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:44] <exec> 08└─However, the instant your chicken, even if it is a commercial layer, hits a full clutch, then it will produce no more eggs until the next season.
[01:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:57] <exec> 08└─Some things come to mind that I did not see explicitly mentioned in the comments. I am a scientist so I am interested in the publication matter - that is my declaration of conflict of interest. 1 - "Science" journal argues against prepublication servers (bioRxiv in the case mentioned here). Of cours...
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[02:10:05] <exec> 08└─I think that is the current term? Neural plasticity?? While a 24 hour cycle is certainly common, it's not cast in stone. Years ago I was part of a team supporting a friend in the Bicycle Race Across AMerica (RAAM), where the riders often pedal all night. The crew went on a swing shift -- work two 6...
[02:10:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about a removable battery! Good for for ease of replacement, spares, and security. I think LG is the only mainstream phone maker still producing such a phone.
[02:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:27] <exec> 08└─The Moto E4 also have a user replaceable battery. That fact is why I have a Moto E4.
[02:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:29] <exec> 08└─Belkin has released a new version of its Rockstar adapter for the iPhone which lets you charge your phone via a lightning connector and listen to music via a 3.5mm headphone jack at the same time for $34.95.
[02:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:46] <exec> 08└─From a completely selfish perspective on the part of our species: The Rh factor was discovered in Rhesus monkeys. That species has also been used as a subject in AIDS studies. Armadillos and humans are the only species to get leprosy. That critter is useful for related studies. I think we're all awa...
[02:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Services to Offer Physical Two-Factor Authentication for Politicians and Executives - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:26] <exec> 08└─Well, it's a good thing that Ivanka is also a lizard person, otherwise we wouldn't have Trump! Trump! Trump! Nobody worry about the blustering orange mammal. The lizard people are in control.
[02:12:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:34] <exec> 08└─If you want to talk moral philosophy, yes, there is such a thing as evil. Morality is relative in that there are no free-floating non-contingent Platonic moral facts out there, but both absolute and inevitable in the sense that any species of social, intelligent beings is *bound* to come up with thi...
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:38] <exec> 08└─I have a herd of 35 goats. Damn good eating. I definitely would choose the goat door.
[02:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:15] <exec> 08└─And now it hits me, do most whites think that they are the chosen people?
[02:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travis Kalanick Appoints Two New Uber Board Members in "Power Play" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:40] <exec> 08└─Are you asking "who shot Travis?"
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[03:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─http://www.vocativ.com/366734/how-long-does-it-take-to-win-a-nobel-prize/index.html [vocativ.com]
[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─they weren't even the oldest..
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Standard Time should be abolished. The sun should never set before 5:30pm
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─C'mon! The sun's daily spectral shifts signal the biological clock. Not the Hours O'clock!
[03:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:09] <exec> 08└─I think Alcatel phones generally have removable batteries.
[03:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness for people with more money than sense!
[03:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:53] <exec> 08└─> Up to that point, The Commons had worked just fine, Have to call you out on this one -- I'm pretty sure that the Romans ran themselves out of firewood in the later stages of their empire. Well before 1600...
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[03:17:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_nanometer#Shipping_devices [wikipedia.org]
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[04:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─This one hasn't cleared its ocean. It's obviously a dwarf continent.
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─It's obviously a dwarf continent.
[04:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:00] <exec> 08└─Can make bets involving huge taxpayer sums. It leaves a bad taste.
[04:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─If Tesla doesn't finish it by the due date, it's the taxpayers' gain.
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─You probably also think the supermarket is being generous when they have a two-for-one deal.
[04:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:22] <exec> 08└─Very good. Now where is the +1 groan mod... Based on this research: https://www.improbable.com [improbable.com] you may even live longer. :-)
[04:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:47] <exec> 08└─My mother still uses it. Even though I tell her every time I talk to her, not to leave one.
[04:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas - 447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:58] <exec> 08└─> It's because a well armed public impedes their authoritarianism. Bullshit. The US government has gotten more authoritarian since 2001, and you don't see people shooting up the NSA or the CIA, nor freeing the innocent people of Gitmo. A lot of patriotic songs, a thin veil of rule of law, something...
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[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─Came here to make the same suggestion. The only way to make a setup like that reasonably robust is to use multiple VMs and set up each one to connect and route through the appropriate VM. Trying to manage routing tables (as someone suggested) will get frustrating fast, and there's always a chance of...
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, we have ample evidence that most humans cannot accept that new information might suggest they change an initial choice.
[04:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Expected to Release Ryzen CPUs on a 12nm Process in Q1 2018 - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:07] <exec> 08└─GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm [soylentnews.org] Basically, the numbers don't mean much these days. I think Samsung has talked about 10nm, 11nm, 14nm, 8nm, 7nm, 6nm. I don't know what they mean. The way to think about 12nm is it has higher perfo...
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[05:10:38] <exec> 08└─...anode or cathode?
[05:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:58] <exec> 08└─When you have to get to work at a certain time, no, it's the hours o'clock.
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[05:11:00] <exec> 08└─Please detail how your proposal would work for Barrow, Alaska.
[05:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:02] <exec> 08└─Which gradually changes day by day with respect to the actual sunrise. Not that I don't agree that flexible hours are good for worker health!
[05:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:04] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you mean, please explain. Do they have a DST? Some places in the US don't.
[05:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:06] <exec> 08└─Folks I know taking multi-day trips in caves end up working a 36 hour day-cycle (18 hours caving, 18 hours sleeping)
[05:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:09] <exec> 08└─The sun shouldn't set before August 2, more or less. They do DST up there, amazing...
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[05:11:11] <exec> 08└─The sun should never set before 5:30pm
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[05:11:40] <exec> 08└─Nah ... the MFi chip [Made For iPhone] (Apple assurance that you only buy certified Apple products) is prolly about $5 on its own. For every iOS update about 1/2 the effort is identifying and disabling peripheral hardware w/knock-off MFi chips...
[05:14:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:51] <exec> 08└─Why the emphasis on cops? Are cops, and off-duty ones at that, somehow more special in the eyes of Americans, or more likely the American media perhaps? Yes, conservative Americans absolutely believe that cops are more special than everyone else. To me, this helps fuel the us-vs-them attitude that w...
[05:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:36] <exec> 08└─This is what I thought of as well. Just wanted to say that the weakest link is the human, fingers tend to work faster than your brain. Watch your step and automate is as much as possible to rule out as much of the human element as possible.
[05:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pluto's "Bladed Terrain" Caused by Methane Erosion - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:41] <exec> 08└─All should realize that the blades on Pluto are the made by the of the Mi-Go - the Hideous Fungi from Yuggoth!
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[06:10:15] <exec> 08└─Are you considering that solar flare which will strike sooner or later?
[06:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:25] <exec> 08└─Kerguelen Island in the South Indian Ocean is the remnant of another submerged microcontinent. Way I've come to see it is that plates scrape along the surface of the Earth and pile up the lighter elements into mountain ranges. Erosion spreads these mountain ranges into continent sized land masses. E...
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[06:10:27] <exec> 08└─fry and maybe eat [nasa.gov] (no JavaScript needed)
[06:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:29] <exec> 08└─"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
[06:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:31] <exec> 08└─Me words ez'clty.
[06:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:07] <exec> 08└─Gee, that's too bad, ain't it? You're kind of a dope, aren't ya?
[06:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:09] <exec> 08└─So you like dark mornings?
[06:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:18] <exec> 08└─I might add that reading VPN recommendation sites can be tricky, because VPN is a cutthroat business, and the providers frequently pay these sites for good reviews. One litmus test for the reviewers is to see what they have to say about the provider "Hide my ass". This provider is based in the UK an...
[06:17:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:04] <exec> 08└─It's just a matter of how cruel, or how low we are prepared to go. That's the issue here.
[06:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 2548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:35] <exec> 08└─For the human brain, education ( especially sites like this ), studies of critical thinking, and pure old common sense go a long way toward making one more immune to manipulation. I post this in the hope it does someone else good, as some friends and counselors to me showed me a few things which exp...
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[07:10:10] <exec> 08└─Filling stations can't operate when the grid is down. The pumps run on electricity.
[07:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:11] <exec> 08└─They're screwed. They're still talking about hydrogen fuel cells. They are dead in the water. But typically GM don't see that as they can't see beyond the concept of a filling station with fossil fuel. (Any yes, whilst hydrogen could be expensively created by electrolysing water, it currently comes...
[07:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:26] <exec> 08└─Welsh? Mrs Trellis, is that you?
[07:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:38] <exec> 08└─The 3rd half, the electrolyte.
[07:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:39] <exec> 08└─Found a government contractor worried about the precedent! In the future, not completing the project on time could mean less money instead of more money :D > Rich people can make bets involving huge taxpayer sums. ... isn't that what contracts with penalty clauses are?
[07:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:34] <exec> 08└─The Moto G5 has all of the above, is not expensive and works with LineageOS.
[07:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:52] <exec> 08└─Modded as funny but the 3 doors is the lowest odds of winning at merely 2/3 but with more doors the odds of winning approach 100% if you switch.
[07:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:54] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. The host gives you the information: "If you didn't chose the correct door right away, then the car is in the door I did not open". Now the probability that you didn't choose the correct door right away is 2/3, and therefore with that probability that the car is behind that other door....
[07:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:37] <exec> 08└─I meant "Tragedy of the Commons" in the sense that those financially empowered to buy things ( housing, patent and copyright, water, mineral, food, etc. ) for the purpose of rent-seeking, generating yet more and more money to do more of the same. A real live monopoly game. Its like carrying a tray o...
[07:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:38] <exec> 08└─The concept of land ownership is all over the Bible... Old Testament is full of it. It seemed transfer of ownership was most readily performed by "smiting with the sword". Thanks for the link, Original... There are a lot of places historian's accounts differ. I think its all the meme about "He who c...
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[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─I enjoy buying used ICE vehicles that are in good mechanical condition. The amount of money saved on not buying new cars, not paying comprehensive insurance, and not being an unpaid tester of new car models allows me to sit on my arse and post on SN all day. Not that I'm against electric vehicles ou...
[08:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:41] <exec> 08└─Hand-operated pumps exist and are currently pretty cheap. Might want to pick up one or two, for emergency use with potable and non-potable fluids.
[08:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:56] <exec> 08└─You will be wishing it was Welsh, when the Ancient Ones awaken!! (You really have no idea, do you! Google Cthulthu. It might help)
[08:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:02] <exec> 08└─For all the complaints about apps, I have had very little difficulty finding support for the things I genuinely need (mostly various authenticators). And there's nevertheless a ton of what appears to be utterly useless stuff on the app store. I shudder to think what it must be like in iOS or Android...
[08:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Court Rules That the FBI Does Not Have to Disclose Name of iPhone Hacking Vendor - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:09] <exec> 08└─Are these FOIA requests pretty much useless? Or is it just that we only hear about the ones that get rejected? Then again, all the ones we hear about is the ones that matter, so why wouldn't we hear about a successful FOIA request that mattered? Maybe it's just the ones that actually matter that get...
[08:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 1565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:12] <exec> 08└─Yup, you nailed the bigger problem. Use all the VPNs you want, your browser will betray all of them. And you aren't even safe doing what you are, since the browser fingerprinting problem will still be able to bite you. So you make three VPNS, how do you know what traffic needs to go to which one? Ig...
[08:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:17] <exec> 08└─> This has nothing to do with guessing any value (like your credit card number), only selecting one of a limited set’s elements But VLM's credit card number *is* one from a limited set. Looks like VLM wasted all that effort for nothing, you're entirely clue-resistent.
[08:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:18] <exec> 08└─My favourite use of monty hall is not for distinguishing smartypants who know the answer from those who don't, but for distinguishing those who can understand a sound logical explanation from those that can't. There's no shame in getting the answer wrong when initially posed the question, it's not i...
[08:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:20] <exec> 08└─How about this analysis. At first the door you choose is 1 out of 3. The other two doors together are 2 out of 3. When the single door is opened, that changes nothing, the other two doors are still 2 out of 3. If the contestant changes the selection, they are effectively choosing two doors over one...
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[08:17:02] <exec> 08└─I hadn't heard that one. It's right up my alley. 8-) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 3225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:04] <exec> 08└─The Bible is a strange book... full of metaphor and symbolism. Different people seem to arrive at different interpretations. Who am I to disagree? I have my own interpretation ( which has got me into hot water with preachers ) of John 1:1 which states "In the beginning was the Word. The Word was wi...
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[09:09:31] <exec> 08└─The chilly microclimate is due to the icebergs. [independent.co.uk]
[09:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:32] <exec> 08└─For I have seen the source code and it is not pretty. Until the Human Race learns to do software engineering, space travel will become increasingly expensive and dangerous. They'd rather drink coffee and look mean than write automated tests.
[09:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:50] <exec> 08└─Do we already have the technology to be able to transport and store hydrogen reliably? Last time I checked there were still significant hurdles to doing this. Seems that the main method for producing hydrogen today is by cracking methane, and well, if you already have the methane, why not just use t...
[09:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:52] <exec> 08└─Wow, 20 new cars. They don't have a lot of confidence. No wait, they meant car models?
[09:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:19] <exec> 08└─Contractors get paid, no matter what. See "Norhconnex": http://www.smh.com.au [smh.com.au]
[09:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:21] <exec> 08└─Better (more explicit) link: http://www.smh.com.au [smh.com.au]
[09:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:45] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem: Moore's law is still here, but Dennard Scaling isn't. We're still getting double the number of transistors per dollar every couple of years, but we're not getting the reduction in power consumption per transistor. You double the number of transistors, you (almost) double the powe...
[09:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Google Services to Offer Physical Two-Factor Authentication for Politicians and Executives - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:56] <exec> 08└─So normal people does not need or deserve security? Thanks Google ...
[09:12:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Google Services to Offer Physical Two-Factor Authentication for Politicians and Executives - 749 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:03] <exec> 08└─> So normal people does not need or deserve security? Thanks Google ... "Normal people" == the product when you think of it that way, you recognise that asking Google to do something to benefit you would be like cattle asking the same of the farmer. Nothing will be done to you unless it benefits the...
[09:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:33] <exec> 08└─There's a 2/3 chance that the door initially chosen has a goat, and a 1/3 chance that it has the car. If the door initially chosen has a goat, the other unopened door has the car; conversely, if the door initially chosen has the car, the other unopened door has a goat. Hence the chance that the othe...
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[10:09:33] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/12/2149254 [soylentnews.org]
[10:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:43] <exec> 08└─L.B.S. Raccoon, is that you?
[10:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:32] <exec> 08└─So you'd prefer it if the Australian govt., and therefore teh Autralian taxpayer, was obliged to pay full whack whatever? It seems as if you're objecting to people delivering on their promises, which is very wrongheaded. And since when is Tesla a rich person? It's a publicly traded company. If Tesla...
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[10:10:33] <exec> 08└─It's not really a bet. It's the ultimate form of respect for the customer (here: the taxpayer). The specified job will get done, for the agreed price, in the agreed timeframe, otherwise there's no charge. It's confident and clean - no weaseling around, no excuses. This is business as it should be do...
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[11:09:26] <exec> 08└─So, like this then? http://freestylelibre.co.uk [freestylelibre.co.uk]
[11:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:10] <exec> 08└─Et tu Brutae? Whoosh!!! Though it pains me...
[11:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 420 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─It's not really a bet. It's the ultimate form of respect for the customer (here: the taxpayer). The specified job will get done, for the agreed price, in the agreed timeframe, otherwise there's no charge. It's confident and clean - no weaseling around, no excuses. This is business as it should be do...
[11:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:53] <exec> 08└─Cheap (own) brand pills worked decently. All hunky-dory, then disaster struck - the chemist stopped stocking it. Changed to cheap capsules with some other sleep aid in it: - they stink and make me gag before they're in my mouth - they float, making them hard to swallow - they give me gurgle...
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[11:17:23] <exec> 08└─Right. So meat was needed THEN to get us to where we are NOW. But there is a powerful argument that it is NO LONGER needed. Let's take fire for example. Not fire in general, which is obviously still used in all sorts of ways, but specifically fire as in "big blazing pile of logs with people sat arou...
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[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─Try getting anywhere with Apple support lines. Even as a school or huge enterprise. They honestly have nobody to deal with it and just pass you from Germany to Singapore to Ireland etc. I eventually - after MONTHS of trying to get them to fix a single problem for which I was seeing an error explicit...
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─Well, they have 0 incentive to actually do anything, do they? Now if you had the authority to just return those 500 iPads as "not fit for purpose" then someone might start to have reason to care. Complaining with a letter without phone number might help as well next time.
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:37] <exec> 08└─Back in 2006, I had a MacOS issue, called support and after 2 minutes with the front-line, they passed me to Jose in Cupertino - dude was for real, knew his stuff. Still didn't have an acceptable answer to the issue (gotta re-install the OS and lose all your data), but he could deliver the bad news...
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─>Honestly never received such diabolical, self-serving and downright insulting customer service from a company in my life, Clearly, you don't have Comcast.
[12:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─What further steps did you take? Did you try to return all the devices? Did you send them an official letter, notice of default (not sure that's the proper translation) or ... Did you lodge a complaint to whatever consumer affairs bureau exists in your country? In the EU you have several EU governme...
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[12:09:51] <exec> 08└─Guess we'll just have to wait a bit longer for them to start (auto-)injecting things to into soldiers and athletes as needed based on the extracted results. Combat enhancing drugs, steroids ...
[12:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Counting Raindrops Using Mobile-Phone Towers - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:07] <exec> 08└─I found this fascinating. A secondary, and useful, usage of all those cell phone towers. I looked up Andersson at SMHI but he had not written any papers on it yet or previously. Guess one just have wait and see if this produces anything interesting. The summary cut it a bit short and left out the p...
[12:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:21] <exec> 08└─No, 20 more Bolts to join the one already in a show room.
[12:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:22] <exec> 08└─Hand-operated pumps exist and are currently pretty cheap.
[12:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:25] <exec> 08└─> Filling stations can't operate when the grid is down. If I have a full tank of gas, I can drive something over 400 miles (with most IC cars) while I wait for the grid to come back up. Or drive somewhere where they still have power and working gas stations, fill up in a few minutes and have another...
[12:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:40] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that would like to see them double of treble the new zealand landmass by building a grid of off-shore walls and pumping out the water? I mean, the engineering of that - while mundane - would be fascinating to watch. Also, more farmland, great place to produce salt u.s.w.
[12:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:42] <exec> 08└─Or build a wall around New Caledonia and call it the New Hadrian's Wall.
[12:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:13] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this. Remove the temporal element and the choice becomes "do you pick this 1 door or these 2 doors", which makes it obvious to me why switching gives 2/3 odds of winning.
[12:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:00] <exec> 08└─Can they not be genetically altered such that their offspring share the same alteration? I find it interesting that in the absence of hard data, your default stance is that there is no added cruelty, despite the claims. If in doubt, should you not gather hard data one way or the other before making...
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[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─(some of which are illegal to not give on demand in my country)
[13:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─> Even as a school or huge enterprise. Especially as this. They don't know how do deal with that. Now if you're a simple customer, you're supposed to go to the Apple Store and make an appointment with a "Genius". And if you're not a city dwelling hipster... fuck you.
[13:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─Why would you buy one of their phones if you're not a city-dwelling hipster?
[13:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─In countries where a 3-day weekend is referred to as a "Bank Holiday weekend", there's a bit more competition for home Internet access.
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─True, but if you live in "hipster land" then Apple does have a monopoly on your mindshare, I mean: what alternative is there, really?
[13:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Painless Microneedles Extract Fluid for Wearable Sensors for Soldiers, Athletes - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:03] <exec> 08└─Like the meth soldiers in TNG's 'Encounter at Farpoint Station'? http://2.bp.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[13:10:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, 20 new cars. They don't have a lot of confidence. No wait, they meant car models?
[13:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:35] <exec> 08└─Methane transport and storage is a solved problem
[13:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:38] <exec> 08└─Are handjob-operated fuel pumps enough to keep the fuel delivery truck infrastructure running? Not only do you need to pump fuel into cars, you need to pump fuel from refineries into fuel delivery trucks. And fuel to run the fuel delivery trucks. And grocery trucks so the grocery stores don't get pi...
[13:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:40] <exec> 08└─The 20 new vehicles that GM promises to produce is not a matter of confidence in the technology. It is a matter of confidence in what GM's oil masters tell GM to do. And no, they do not mean car models. They just want you to think that. Don't drive like that! Let's try to get there in as few pieces...
[13:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:58] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness it's just them. They're easily defeated by aligning oneself to each of the three mutually exclusive elements on each simultaneous 24 hour day, then on the remaining simultaneous rotation, align yourself with Mantorok. They'll all destroy each other when the lich king summons the ancie...
[13:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:16] <exec> 08└─Statistics says that with that many cells some of them are likely to fail. Is the battery built with this in mind? So if/when one cell catches fire, how is this handled?
[13:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:17] <exec> 08└─Cannot mod you higher. The problem here is the word "bet". I "bet" that I'll deliver you a new refrigerator you wanted on Thursday for $1000. If I win, you pay me $1000 for the refrigerator/delivery. If I lose, you don't pay anything. In any sane world we don't call this a "Bet" - we call it a "Busi...
[13:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:19] <exec> 08└─Pragmatically, same outcome. If a wanted a fridge and the salesperson finished their pitch with an "I'll bet you", I'd raise an eyebrow and say "hell yes, buddy! I like your style!".
[13:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:48] <exec> 08└─Article here, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Describes different shift schedules in manufacturing, health care, etc. References various studies on productivity and effects on personal health.
[13:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:57] <exec> 08└─When I'm shopping for a phone the top 2 things are: 1) can I add an SDCC card; and 2) does it have a headphone jack. Those are 2 things I use all the time, take one out and your phone is useless to me.
[13:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:17] <exec> 08└─I find your lack of faith disturbing. Once all the Apple fanboys buy these headphone jack adapters, Apple will: change the connector on the phoneannounce that this bold move demonstrates true couragehave some song and dance about how superior the new connector isannounce that there is a new compatib...
[13:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:30] <exec> 08└─Buttercup: We'll never succeed. We may as well die here. Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enou...
[13:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:49] <exec> 08└─True, though with the consistent reductions in thermal output (per gate), do we really need to keep the traces so close to each other? Sure: use a 5nm process, but space the traces at 20nm (6% density) and then stack them 16 layers deep for a net 1.25nm spacing - the space between could include vert...
[13:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Services to Offer Physical Two-Factor Authentication for Politicians and Executives - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:17] <exec> 08└─You are neglecting door #3: They were hacked (i.e. Podesta falls victim to a phishing attack many of us could have pulled off), and Wikileaks got their information from an insider leak. As for Seth Rich, nobody knows why he was killed except the people who did it.
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[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:27] <exec> 08└─If the state does not recognize a referendum, it should not block it either. If people want to write on colored sheets of paper, it's not the police biz to stop them. Too bad the cat is out the bag now.
[14:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:28] <exec> 08└─Weak people use violence.
[14:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:30] <exec> 08└─What's interesting is that Rajoy's actions in this seem (to commentators) to resemble Trumpian actions. He sent in an overwhelming police force, which acted aggressively. (you can Google yourself for the pictures of elderly folk bleeding from being beaten up by the police.) The numbers sent were so...
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:32] <exec> 08└─It seems Madrid miscalculated. The polls showed Catalans opposing independence by a large margin, but by cracking down as they did they pushed Catalans into opposition. If Rajoy had sat on his hands , letting the referendum proceed while declaring it illegitimate, he would have won. Now the Catalan...
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─err u tryin ter terk err gerns?
[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─Where is Trump using the police like this? Really, I'd like to know. Did he send more of them to beat up the pipeline protesters like Obama was doing before him (I'm guessing probably, although I wouldn't call that a Trumpian tactic considering it was an existing policy)?
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─Also, following the (non-lethal) violence of the spanish (as opposed to catalan) police forces, pretty much the whole of Catalonia is on general strike today and the masses are taking to the streets to protest this very violence. Also, while the EU accepts Madrid's view that the referendum was illeg...
[14:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─Those who did not recognise it as a referendum had no reason to vote. And given that it wasn't an official referendum, they didn't. This result is therefore barely more truthy than an internet poll. Last I saw, a low-40s% turnout was registered, which means only high-30s% of the population made a de...
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─I agree, GP is ridiculously misguided at the least. And a dangerous demagogue at the worst. It's nonsense like that that leads to an asshole opening fire at a congressional softball game.
[14:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─Huh? I always write at most one test for a suite of functions that checks to see if the most default case works. Then - it's off to production!
[14:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:21] <exec> 08└─Ya, go ahead UAE. I dare you. I double-dare you to make Mars bloom! (or desserts on earth, I suppose, if you must)
[14:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─Solar Fuel!!! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:51] <exec> 08└─Farm equipment runs diesel. Most diesel engines can run biodiesel with no modification (including diesel generators). The best way to stave off collapse is decentralized production of energy, with the means of production /as simple as possible/. Constructing, maintaining, and running a diesel or gas...
[14:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─They're a giant bureaucracy, is it really a surprise the top bosses are dinosaurs whose vision of what "The Future(tm)" means crystallized some time in the 1970s?
[14:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:31] <exec> 08└─The plan to build the 100MW (129MWh) lithium battery I'm assuming this means that the battery capacity is 129MWh, and it's capable of outputting 100MW for 1.29 hours, and total battery capacity will be 3600*129MJ, or 464.4GJ, or about 100tons of TNT?
[14:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:30] <exec> 08└─Glad to be of service!
[14:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:48] <exec> 08└─On the island of Utila in Honduras (famous for Captain Morgan and cheap world-class scuba diving) there is an endangered species of Iguana. The natives call it "bamboo chicken", and scientists have had a hard time convincing them not to eat them. http://www.utila-iguana.de [utila-iguana.de]
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:04] <exec> 08└─With process density so high, I don't understand why we haven't started seeing high capacity integrated RAM (presumably very high speed) on-die with the processor.
[14:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:17] <exec> 08└─Qubes looks very interesting. My only concern would be how useful is it for multimedia use but I'm sure that's not the issue here.
[14:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a First, Android Apps Abuse Serious “Dirty Cow” Bug to Backdoor Phones - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:17] <exec> 08└─My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S5. I liked it until the installed bloatware was so bad that I couldn't do OS updates any more. I had removed everything that I was willing to remove. That's another thing about Google's phones -- no preinstalled non-removable bloatware. Just bare bones apps li...
[14:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PETA Claims That Cambodian Farmers Are Breeding "Double-Muscled" Mutant Pigs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:47] <exec> 08└─If in doubt, should you not gather hard data one way or the other before making such a determination?
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[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wandercraft's Exoskeleton was Made to Help Paraplegics Walk - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:29] <exec> 08└─Many elderly people have trouble walking but are not close to being paraplegic. It's only a matter of time before something like this takes off: https://www.nsf.gov [nsf.gov]
[15:09:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─If the state does not recognize a referendum, it should not block it either. If people want to write on colored sheets of paper, it's not the police biz to stop them. Too bad the cat is out the bag now.
[15:09:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:40] <exec> 08└─It seems Madrid miscalculated. The polls showed Catalans opposing independence by a large margin, but by cracking down as they did they pushed Catalans into opposition. If Rajoy had sat on his hands , letting the referendum proceed while declaring it illegitimate, he would have won. Now the Catalan...
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─Those who did not recognise it as a referendum had no reason to vote. And given that it wasn't an official referendum, they didn't. This result is therefore barely more truthy than an internet poll. Last I saw, a low-40s% turnout was registered, which means only high-30s% of the population made a de...
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─While I agree that turnout does matter, and for important referenda topics like independance, as undertaken by Scotland, the UK (Brexit), and now (kinda) Catalonia, should absolutely have a minimum bar requirement, in practice that tends to get overlooked. Assuming the referendum was properly sancti...
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─Politically, a US style approach would have been "cleaner" - no promises of violence, no statements except to the venture's illegality beforehand. The day after the referendum, have the FBI raid the governor's office, arresting the governor and any state politician who participated in organizing the...
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─> If the state does not recognize a referendum, it should not block it either. If people want to write on colored sheets of paper, it's not the police biz to stop them. Too bad the cat is out the bag now. Yeah, but then the local politicians can claim that the referendum shows the will of the people...
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─I was a bit surprised that the Spanish police force was using weapons that are forbidden in the EU. I wonder if they get repercussions based on that sole fact, or that it will be ignored as something that didn't happen and sets a precedent for future police intervention in the EU.
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: Let's talk about on-hold music [fyngyrz.com]
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─If you're referring to Android, then there's a market segment where Apple does have an effective monopoly: 4" to 5" Wi-Fi-only tablets. Google appears to have seen no interest in competing with the iPod touch, as the Android CDD initially required a working cellular radio. The Archos 43 Internet Tab...
[15:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:17] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago, I would have recommended equipping all of your cost-conscious family members with $200 Nexus 5 and later 5x phones on GoogleFi and for those who didn't want the $20/month cellular service, just stop paying for it when they were done. $220 for a Nexus 5 or 5x was a hell of a de...
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─"Four out of ten customers who end their business with a company place the blame squarely on a customer service call that went badly." This is what happens when companies treat their customer service as a loss-leader. Nobody wants to be sold something when they are calling in because your service or...
[15:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:22] <exec> 08└─After sales support is by definition something that costs you money without bringing any money. It's a future loss avoidance process. so when you reward current profit, well people go "fuck future loss avoidance". It's the same when you buy a dishwasher, a car, or anything really. There are very few...
[15:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Painless Microneedles Extract Fluid for Wearable Sensors for Soldiers, Athletes - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you are all familiar with Microneedle's 1986 album "Sap and Impurify", but you may not know that their drummer was incapacitated the whole time they recorded it, recovering from a particularly turbulent bout of Tartan's Testicular Tremor. All the percussion on the album was therefore perfor...
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─Are you telling me that a raspberry pi, javascript, and five hundred questions posted to stack exchange isn't going to cut it?
[15:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Counting Raindrops Using Mobile-Phone Towers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Need more money to develop your 4G LTE/5G service? Just ask the govt to divert money from their national meteorological service.
[15:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:04] <exec> 08└─They're screwed. They're still talking about hydrogen fuel cells. They are dead in the water. But typically GM don't see that as they can't see beyond the concept of a filling station with fossil fuel. (Any yes, whilst hydrogen could be expensively created by electrolysing water, it currently comes...
[15:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:17] <exec> 08└─If you have a way to make hydrogen in a carbon-neutral sort of way, e.g. by using a nuclear, solar, or geothermal plant to perform electrolysis of water or something similar, I'd think that turning the hydrogen into methane would make it easier to transport and store. There's the Sabatier process th...
[15:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:19] <exec> 08└─"GM's electric future will involve hydrogen fuel cells." When CARB mandated 10% electric back in the 90's GM trotted out their bullshit "hydrogen fuel cell" technology. Really the whole thing was a complex system of bribery. They created advisory panels on HFC and hired CARB executives away from the...
[15:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:38] <exec> 08└─Google Cthulthu.
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:40] <exec> 08└─And a failure of the wall would make New Orleans look like a minor event.
[15:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:42] <exec> 08└─Hence "a grid of [..] walls", so you will end upp with cells that can flood individually. What I had in mind (like salt production) would require occasional intentional flooding of a cell.
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─So if/when one cell catches fire, how is this handled?
[15:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─Posts like this creates a desire for me to possess a 1-900 number. I'll even talk to the Indian bots for hours.
[15:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:04] <exec> 08└─How do you text from a landline phone?
[15:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:06] <exec> 08└─Don't you want to be cool like those trendy people in the Apple ads?
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm. I think if we lead a trail of golf balls to the trigger with a tee on top and a shiny new set of Callaway clubs we can get him.
[15:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:27] <exec> 08└─Only if you clean up afterward.
[15:13:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─Beat the heat in 3D chip stacks with ICECool [ibm.com] (same thing mentioned in 2013 [wired.com]) DARPA lays out cash-splash to defibrillate Moore's Law [theregister.co.uk]
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[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─From the Catalan side of things: 1. The Catalans have a long tradition going back to at least the Spanish Civil War of managing their own affairs. 2. For now almost a decade in Spain, unemployment has been sky-high and the government has been under absolutely crushing debt. It's no surprise that peo...
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─The latter is particularly important given that Catalonia hopes to join the EU, which would clearly be impossible without both the EU recognising them as a sovereign state and Spain not using their EU membership veto to bar Catalonia's entry.
[16:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of a quote by Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Canada showed exactly how to handle this kind of situation: you go ahead and have the referendum, and make it legal and official (i.e., it's done by the government the way any normal election is, so you don't have problems with people double-voting, people trying to elude the police, etc., so that t...
[16:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:19] <exec> 08└─If you have to call customer service, things are already bad. The product or service is not working, possibly defective. Or, there's some problem with the bill, some sort of double charge, overcharge, bill padding, or just a plain old price hike. Too often, it's a billing problem. Seems the billing...
[16:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:21] <exec> 08└─And if you're not a city dwelling hipster... fuck you.
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Painless Microneedles Extract Fluid for Wearable Sensors for Soldiers, Athletes - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "It has the ability to help a lot in the medical sphere and in national security" Can't wait until it's a TSA requirement that we must wear microneedle sensors for the duration of plane flights to detect any transient terrorist wrongthink.
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:20] <exec> 08└─> Do we already have the technology to be able to transport and store hydrogen reliably? map of the hydrogen stations in California (requires JavaScript): https://cafcp.org [cafcp.org] list of the stations: https://cafcp.org [cafcp.org]
[16:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─If you have a way to make hydrogen in a carbon-neutral sort of way, e.g. by using a nuclear, solar, or geothermal plant to perform electrolysis of water or something similar, I'd think that turning the hydrogen into methane would make it easier to transport and store.
[16:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:44] <exec> 08└─It's Qwghlmian [wikia.com]. Cthulhu's speech employs many Qwghlmian loan words. It's a common mistake.
[16:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:08] <exec> 08└─You ditch it and join the civilized world, that's how. Do you still use faxes too? Or a horse and buggy?
[16:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:10] <exec> 08└─and non-white GF that you'll never marry cause she isn't white, but you still get the "I fucked a minority, see how progressive I am" cred? WTF is this shit? In my experience, the wealthy urban white women (i.e., the ones who drive BMWs) are the ones who love iPhones the most. And in surveys, women...
[16:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─If they drive BMW's then yes, you're in trouble if you don't have deep pockets or idrones. But most girls I've dated, regardless of race, didn't give a fuck because they didn't come from snobbish assholes.
[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:41] <exec> 08└─How about this analysis. At first the door you choose is 1 out of 3. The other two doors together are 2 out of 3. When the single door is opened, that changes nothing, the other two doors are still 2 out of 3. If the contestant changes the selection, they are effectively choosing two doors over one...
[16:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe it'll help OP to point out that my CC example is a ridiculously large set, and in that set its (obviously?) always a better idea to switch. Now if in theory with three doors its better not to switch or it doesn't matter, surely ya gotta travel a path from there to here of ever decreasing advan...
[16:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monty Hall Dies - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─The "paradox" is, how can the universe distinguish between you forgetting what has gone before and picking again at random (prob of winning: 1/(N-1) ) and "switching" doors (prob of winning: ( 1 - 1/N)/(N-2) or whatever)
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[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─Given that they are impoverished, shut off from the rest of the world and every packet in or out of their country would be subject to intense international scrutiny, I always kind of assumed that NK got their main internet connection from a pringle-can antennae pointed at a McDonalds public Wifi in...
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─I would never assume that they don't have multiple access channels beyond their main trunk. Wireless is almost certainly being utilized, as are VPNs to hosted networks outside their IP block. I certainly hope that the intelligence agencies around the globe also make this assumption, and don't count...
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─With everything that's going on in the world right now, just in regards to North Korea, Vlad thinks it's a good time for them to have this? What sort of inferiority complex does Russia have that their largest export appears to be international grief?
[17:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─This guy Wilson is an ideologue. He's basically trolling, as I do not see his efforts leading in any practical way to guns for those who "need" them. Way too expensive.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─Wilson says he plans to follow up soon with software for producing regulation-free Glocks and other handgun models to follow.
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─Banning things is on a fast path to being impossible. The ability to manufacture 'on demand' is growing and will only improve. This is a CNC milling machine, others have made guns with 3d printing of metals. As things become software fed into universal 'printers' that more and more people will own i...
[17:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─Way too expensive.
[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─You assume everyone who needs a gun but doesn't have one simply can't afford it. That isn't always the case. Also, his efforts seem to be directed at the possibility of further regulation, wherein normal methods of acquiring a gun may no longer be available. That all said, yes. If all you want is a...
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─You can spot a moron by how they attempt to use jargon without understanding it. Wilson's goal now, he says, is to do for small arms what Defense Distributed did for AR-15s...
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─Well, the other matter is that sure, to make one gun, the Ghost Gunner is quite pricey. However, what happens when you want to make 10-20 to arm your neighborhood? As far as I'm aware, with Nevada and Texas law (maybe others, and IANAL), this would be legal, as third party sale of used guns is allow...
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─Not trolling, advertising. This is America, and the only thing more important than guns is money.
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─I see things a bit differently. - "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." In modern times I think our approach towards security is incredibly flawed. The TSA has turned flying into a nightmare, has had hundreds of ag...
[17:10:31] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─Did he send more of them to beat up the pipeline protesters like Obama was doing before him
[17:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─1. The Spanish government has made promises to the rest of the EU and Germany in particular. Catalonia seceding would make it harder or even impossible for them to keep those promises. So what? Too bad. Circumstances change, and promises aren't worth much. 2. If Catalonia gets away with seceding, th...
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:35] <exec> 08└─a US style approach
[17:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:37] <exec> 08└─They did have a non-binding referendum. In 2014 they held a non-binding referendum with margins in the same areas as the independence referendum this time. The people who want an independent Catalonia are committed to an independent Catalonia; the people "against it" are more apathetic than actually...
[17:10:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 3247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:45] <exec> 08└─Try getting anywhere with Apple support lines. Even as a school or huge enterprise. They honestly have nobody to deal with it and just pass you from Germany to Singapore to Ireland etc. I eventually - after MONTHS of trying to get them to fix a single problem for which I was seeing an error explicit...
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:03] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer paying twice as much for each product in order to cover the cost of having enough humans to answer the phone in 30 seconds or less? (yes this is a copy of the comment on your blog, done for amusement sake)
[17:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─In the quotes from this latest statement, they don't call it "green." They speak of "a world free of automotive emissions" which is accurate. The ostensible purpose of CARB [wikipedia.org] is to reduce air pollution in California. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, in sufficient numbers, could accomplish...
[17:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:26] <exec> 08└─It won't translate that dialect of Welsh that Chtulthu speaks. Maybe there's a message in Cliff Burton's bass soloing?
[17:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:28] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Mike Brown who demoted Pluto? And hasn't he discovered Nibiru yet? What's taking so long? It's already past the end of the world.
[17:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:15] <exec> 08└─He's used to shiny, gotta make it solid gold.
[17:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Giant Rat Identified on the Solomon Islands - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─Okay. New plan. We put a small putting green on the trigger and bait it with this: https://www.themilliardaire.co [themilliardaire.co]
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[18:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─Russia does not like the US. North Korea does not like the US. North Korea has a long history of cyber attacks targeting the US. China is currently the portal to all of North Korea's internet traffic. China is starting to crack down [reuters.com] on North Korean interests. Why wouldn't Russia want t...
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:41] <exec> 08└─"Yes, you see maybe the IP address indicates that this hack originated in Russia, but this is a router we use to route the internet traffic from North Korea, see"
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─Like the idiots uploading beheadings from the desert, I suspect NK uses a significant amount of bandwidth from cheap OTS satellite rigs. They know probably every packet off their main trunk(s) is being duplicated and analyzed, by "friends" and foes.
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─In the US, there are regulations on manufacturers of firearms. Might those apply even if one is manufacturing them only for oneself and one's minions?
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─Try to get a modern printer without yellow-dot serialization built in. They will drop the full police state onto 3D printers. They will require state-signed software. They will make every attempt to regulate this.
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention that the cost could be spread over multiple guns. As for the maker/hackerspace getting one, it seems plausible. You can use it to mill other stuff. You could slap a sticker over the Ghost Gunner logo to avoid offending someone's sensibilities. https://www.midweststeelsupply.com
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─The Ghost Gunner isn't a general-purpose CNC mill. So far, it doesn't produce anything from a block of aluminum -- it only performs the last few operations to convert a nearly-finished receiver from legally "not a gun" to "gun". The nearly-finished blanks are commonly called "80% receivers" (google...
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─IIRC there are already libre 3D printers, and likely CAD software as well.
[18:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:10] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but you can get an entirely unregulated 80% lower and other parts. Then finish it with the CNC mill. Don't tell anybody you did so or distribute or sell it, unless you are confident of not getting ratted out to the FBI/ATF/DOJ/etc.
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:12] <exec> 08└─The yellow-dot serialisation is based on compliant manufacturers. Nothing prevents you from building your own printer - and any attempt to regulate that in the US would fall at the first judge that laughed it out of court. Would it be identical to, say, a top-of-the-line Xerox? No. Doesn't matter. T...
[18:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, but only because you used the word "manufacture" -- which is not the same as "make". In the context of US gun laws, "manufacture" has a specific definition that means, approximately, "make with the intent to sell" (obviously, go look up and read the actual definition if you're thinking about ma...
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─The Ghost Gunner isn't a general-purpose CNC mill.
[18:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─> America has had widespread access to guns for centuries. In fact they used to be vastly more readily available. > Yet mass shootings are a contemporary thing. We ran out of Indians and Black to shoot unnoticed. It's only been a century and a half since we invented reliable repeating guns/rifles. b...
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─If it's purely for yourself, and you're not otherwise prohibited from owning firearms, it's nobody's business but your own. If you're handing them out to third parties ("minions" as you say) then it becomes a larger question.
[18:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wandercraft's Exoskeleton was Made to Help Paraplegics Walk - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:30] <exec> 08└─The video in the article shows the crutch based exo systems in a video clip but their exo system is only shown as still images.
[18:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wandercraft's Exoskeleton was Made to Help Paraplegics Walk - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:32] <exec> 08└─Completion 37 %
[18:10:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 1448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:56] <exec> 08└─Canada showed exactly how to handle this kind of situation: you go ahead and have the referendum, and make it legal and official (i.e., it's done by the government the way any normal election is, so you don't have problems with people double-voting, people trying to elude the police, etc., so that t...
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─You're so right, police violence wasn't an issue at all under Obama.
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─The person you are replying to said it was a US style approach. Of which NO ONE has made the claim that Obama was not the leader of the US recently. Therefore your response was off the mark. Perhaps your knee-jerk defense of our small handed overlord is a bit too touchy. Slugger.
[18:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─also see jdavidb's sig.
[18:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:34] <exec> 08└─Okay, then here's a copy of my reply: Actually, I’d prefer a product that isn’t so badly designed and/or broken and/or poorly documented that it forces me to call tech support. But to address your question directly, I don’t mind paying for quality. I think your assertion that it would double t...
[18:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry, it's a closed beta.
[18:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:02] <exec> 08└─Looking forward to people walking down the street asking their phone "Ok Chtulhu, where is the nearest mental institution?"
[18:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─The best thing about a battery system is that, with proper planning, a contractor delaying or walking away after only building half of it, still leaves you with a working battery, of half the capacity. Can't say that about half a bridge, dam, or roof.
[18:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:26] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia link [wikipedia.org] from the other thread
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─Like the USB RS-232 adapters... layers on layers, because we're saving money.
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─While I think it's absurd that they removed it (after all, it was becoming a universal interface for things like CC readers...) I am one of the many who never, ever plugs anything into the headphone jack of my phone - not on purpose, just because I never ever have any reason to.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hedleyroos [4974] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─We must be brothers.
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─Ha! I think she does it to fuck with me.
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: VPN Segmented Browsing? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:31] <exec> 08└─the problem seems to be to find a ready-made database that classifies all the human-readable domains into categories. once you have access to this database, then it should be trivial to tag traffic-packets and then route (through separate gateways, which can be VPNs) according to that? maybe one sho...
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[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─To use the internet in NK, you have to trust that man. There was an SN story about this.
[19:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─I'd be very surprised if they haven't some alternative means of connectivity too, both in the form of direct physical connections via another nation's infrastructure that isn't directly assigned to the DPRK and some co-lo/cloud servers rented via some shell company or other, even if they have to bou...
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─A belt-fed 1911 would be problematic because of the slide, but there are many people who have done this for revolvers. There's even a mass produced pistol [thefirearmblog.com] with a belt.
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─Insightfully sad but true?!
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─Again, is it really appropriate to blame the weapon? Killers like John Allen Muhammed [wikipedia.org] drove around with his accomplice and killed people with a single rifle aimed out a nook in the trunk. They killed 17 people. Back 'in the day' this would have been far easier as sophisticated forens...
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─You can go down in history on social media and CNN!!!
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─The problem with controlling 3d printers is that they can be used to partially replicate themselves. They can print upgrades and replacement parts for themselves.
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and it's great that they don't restrict things any further, but you're still stuck with the mechanical limitations of something designed around finishing 80% receivers. I'm a machinist, and I use general-purpose CNC mills daily. The ones we have are much bigger, but I've seen a few tabletop ge...
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:18] <exec> 08└─The first mass shooting happened in 1949. Search for "Walk of Death" perpetrated by Howard Unruh. He walked around Camden NJ and killed 13 people, most were targets he planned to kill for over a year.
[19:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
[19:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:23] <exec> 08└─Kinda sorta. You are allowed to make, for your own use, any regular firearm without a serial number or manufacturer's registration with ATF. ("Untraceable." Heh. Grind the serial number off the gun and it's untraceable - which is illegal, granted. But if you're going to build yourself a kit gun I'd...
[19:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─Better aluminum than plastic.
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wandercraft's Exoskeleton was Made to Help Paraplegics Walk - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─So, are the current politics right for Medicaid to cover exoskeletons for "those in need?" If you really want to ignite an industry, promise a multi billion dollar payday.
[19:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:10] <exec> 08└─they also quite clearly blamed Madrid for the unnecessary violence.
[19:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─Canada showed exactly how to handle this kind of situation: you go ahead and have the referendum, and make it legal and official (i.e., it's done by the government the way any normal election is, so you don't have problems with people double-voting, people trying to elude the police, etc., so that t...
[19:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:14] <exec> 08└─Independence or bust: Catalan leader boxed in by his own angry base [reuters.com] Catalonia’s pro-independence leader Carles Puigdemont has called for the European Union to mediate with Spain over the region’s future, but for many Catalans the intensity of a police crackdown on a banned referend...
[19:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:42] <exec> 08└─Also - handjob-operated pumps? Sign me up!
[19:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─Fuel cells feel so early 1980's. At least that was when I was first familiar with the tech and it made a few rounds in popular science and mechanics as a possible automotive battery. Up until then, all we had were lead acid or nicad batteries while Lithium and NiMH batteries were in their infancy.
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:46] <exec> 08└─He's eventually going to get hurt from always hearing that it's nice to see how the price has gone down and is clearly tax-free.
[19:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─Whether you love GM or hate them, the reason to trust them on their shift to electrical now is that they're following the rest of the industry. Also note that the Chevy Volt is an excellent product, and would have been a smash hit for GM if fuel prices from 2009 to present had not been so low comp...
[19:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─I do the same. Last car I bought was a 2004 Jeep Liberty from a friend after the front driveshaft u-joint failed. She bought a new car and sold me that one for $750 and the repairs cost me $450. So $1200 got me a good running car that lasted me four years until last week when the final straw happene...
[19:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─I thought you were joking (Zeeland is in the Netherlands).
[19:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─Was half-joking, it would wreck havoc on the ecology but would still be impressive to watch. Regarding the Zeeland/New Zealand, to quote wikipedia "In 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland."
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─Isn't the world's largest battery still waiting to be built? All you need to do is hook all the Australians up to a Matrix-style power bank and you're done. So strictly speaking Tesla's LiIon bank is the current world's largest battery, until they move ahead with phase 2.
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Insights into Internal Biological Clock - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:14] <exec> 08└─Mmmmhhhhhh ohhh you've found me out! So dark! But so morningy! Oh yessssssssss!
[19:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:55] <exec> 08└─... Back in the days of the Apple Newton. They had a PS-2 cabled keyboard (made just for the Newton) that you had to connect to the multi-connect port of the MessagePad 2000 via a dongle. That multiconnect port could theoretically interface with other stuff, but outside of development I never saw an...
[19:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Services to Offer Physical Two-Factor Authentication for Politicians and Executives - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:02] <exec> 08└─How does elitism like that roll with "don't be evil"? Oh, you forgot that Google once made a claim to be more ethical than average, eh? Now that they've made their sustainability they can just forget about those parts, right?
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[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Nobel Physics Prize Has Been Awarded to 3 Scientists for Discoveries in Gravitational Waves - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─I'm very surprised they didn't share the prize with the LISA Pathfinder people. Remember how the initial claim from LIGO that they'd detected gravity waves was retracted pending better data, meanwhile the LISA Pathfinder mission made a definite observation?
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm kinda interested in having a list of ranges known to be used by North Korea. The list I pieced together from various articles and the GeoLite database are below. If you know of more, please chime in... 175.45.176.0/22 # North Korea, DPRK (Direct Assignment) 210.52.109.0/24 # North...
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─A disruption in communication can mean only one thing. Invasion.
[20:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:35] <exec> 08└─I'm going to nitpick a lot, so let me first say... You really are mostly right. But it's worth getting the details right, because there's just too much misinformation floating around. You can't add a stock to a rifled bore and have less than a 16 inch barrel or 22 inch overall length without it havi...
[20:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─They're not -- they're making the frame out of aluminum, but the slide, barrel, and all the small parts are purchased separately, and presumably steel. And an aluminum-framed 1911 is probably not as durable as a steel-frame, but it's far from the exploding toy an all-aluminum one would be.
[20:11:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:10] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of a quote by Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
[20:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:25] <exec> 08└─What if the secessionists win? Unless you are going to go so far as to quietly rig the referendum in your favour, there is always the risk of that method backfiring. Also, if that was wanted, in this case the other side would have to follow the rules and procedures, in this case alter the constituti...
[20:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:26] <exec> 08└─n this case the other side would have to follow the rules and procedures, in this case alter the constitution to allow said referendum in the first place. You don't violate the laws, and then act annoyed if the police intervene to stop the rulebreaking. The other side had no way of altering the cons...
[20:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:54] <exec> 08└─Pay for private support. Conglomerates rarely give you real help.
[20:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:19] <exec> 08└─Time to double the resources so we can push that baby through in 4.5 months instead of 9...
[20:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Counting Raindrops Using Mobile-Phone Towers - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:28] <exec> 08└─First of all this isn't exactly free. I get to look at one of the networks semi frequently. In my experience the precision and history needed for this doesn't exist in the monitoring system. An effort was made to find a way for other reasons and it was too much work for staff. Maybe other SCADA soft...
[20:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 2316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:04] <exec> 08└─"working on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles doesn't bring that about" You have two highly compressed gases in a structure prone to high speed collision, that are both predisposed to blow the fuck up. In engineering terms I don't see many dissimilarities. We aren't just talking about the end system, but...
[20:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange eons, even death may die!
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─Perhaps his time machine started working in the future?
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:12] <exec> 08└─You ditch it and join the civilized world, that's how. Do you still use faxes too? Or a horse and buggy?
[20:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─Now I can get a headphone jack (which I don't use) for an overpriced phone with an inferior UI! Hooray! I'm not even going to go out and buy it, I'm going to sit right here and order it online. That way, I'm never far away from my cookies, chips and insulin. Apple device? No thanks. I'd rather have...
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[21:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something? All I see is a story saying that two parties help an encrypted video chat with the encryption key transmitted separately via satellite.
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─help held
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Nobel Physics Prize Has Been Awarded to 3 Scientists for Discoveries in Gravitational Waves - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─It was the same kind of interferometer but much smaller. Someone told me that Dr. Thorne suppressed the ground vibration by putting the interferometer parts on cushions that had alternating lead breaks and nerfmobiles.
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─The way I see it, there's nothing wrong with this...for now. Because the primary purpose of gun control in the US is not to prevent people from having guns. The purpose of gun control to make it really difficult to own a gun in order to deter people who have no good reason to. In an ideal system (i....
[21:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:44] <exec> 08└─Someone on Soylent news wrote this? which typically produced by broaching).
[21:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:46] <exec> 08└─If you're a trained and equipped machinist, the Ghost Gunner doesn't do much for you. On the other hand, if you're a trained machinist whose employer doesn't let you use shop tools for personal projects, it just might be more practical than a used bridgeport and a place to keep it.
[21:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:49] <exec> 08└─In the USA each person can legally make up to three unregistered firearms per year, so long as you don't sell them before two years from the date of manufacture. Any more than that, or if you sell them sooner, and the BATF will conclude that you made them for the purpose of sale, which is not legal...
[21:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:51] <exec> 08└─pass a criminal background check
[21:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:53] <exec> 08└─each person can legally up to three unregistered firearms per year
[21:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't gun drilling a special process? Who in their right mind wants a crappy CNC gun? And you still need bullets. The government will always regulate explosives.
[21:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:18] <exec> 08└─Where is Trump using the police like this? Really, I'd like to know. Did he send more of them to beat up the pipeline protesters like Obama was doing before him (I'm guessing probably, although I wouldn't call that a Trumpian tactic considering it was an existing policy)?
[21:11:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:33] <exec> 08└─1. The Spanish government has made promises to the rest of the EU and Germany in particular. Catalonia seceding would make it harder or even impossible for them to keep those promises. So what? Too bad. Circumstances change, and promises aren't worth much. 2. If Catalonia gets away with seceding, th...
[21:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:45] <exec> 08└─Any secession referendum really should carry the requirement that a 60% supermajority vote is needed for success. 50% isn't workable: you could have the same election the next day and get a different result because there's a margin of error, people change their minds, etc. You can't truthfully argue...
[21:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:47] <exec> 08└─It does make me wonder why Canada would want them to stay. I'm guessing resources, and territorial integrity/continuity. However, consider this: if you break Quebec up into smaller regions, and look at how the vote went, you'll probably find that it was only the urban population that wanted to leave...
[21:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:56] <exec> 08└─Would you mind awfully translating that archaic dialect of Welsh in your sig? Google translate doesn't understand it.
[21:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:57] <exec> 08└─I think it says something about cakeholes, or pieholes. If I was a Welshman, bada beedy beedy beedy beedy beedy beedy bum.
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:35] <exec> 08└─change the connector on the phone
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[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─Or, with the quantum video, when the spin of one physicist changed, the spin of the second physicist would change as well, with no verbal or textual communication, across vast distance! Entangement, proved!
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─My quantum physics is a bit rusty1 [soylentnews.org], but apparently you still need an authenticated classic channel? So how do you make sure that the nice Chinese people who provided you with the satellite aren't MITMing your internet connection? And if you can make sure, what's the point of bounci...
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─(Bah, please disregard those silly footnote links, I managed to press submit while messing around.)
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a politician's wet dream. We should kill all the quantum physicists right now to ensure this never, ever, becomes a thing. Better safe than sorry!
[22:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres [wikipedia.org]
[22:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The headline should read "Ghost Gunner Gcode File Makes the Milling of an M1911 Handgun Slightly Easier for Novices"
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─The obvious counter to this, is that a mass-surveillance police state is rapidly developing. If everything you say and do is monitored, having the means to make a banned item doesn't actually let you do so, unless you can reliably fend off a SWAT team.
[22:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:59] <exec> 08└─Alright. I'll play Angel's Advocate and also explain why computer security sucks. An image file is software for a virtual machine designed to decode raster data. The "image display" software is actually an operating system which facilitates the image reading virtual machines, manages memory and hard...
[22:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─The way I see it, there's nothing wrong with this...for now. Because the primary purpose of gun control in the US is not to prevent people from having guns. The purpose of gun control to make it really difficult to own a gun in order to deter people who have no good reason to.
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:04] <exec> 08└─From what I've read, the rules are that you can make up to three firearms per year without a FFL, provided that you don't sell them within two years of the date of manufacture. Make more than three per year, or sell them sooner, and the BATF will "reasonably" assume that you're making them for sale.
[22:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Anyone who lacks 100% faith in their government has a good reason to own and practice with military grade firearms. That is the sole purpose of the 2nd Amendment; it never had anything to do with hunting or sport shooting.
[22:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:08] <exec> 08└─Depends on the gun. Drilling the rifling is kind of specialised ... if you ignore that it's just a special case of what we regularly do when tapping holes for bolts; i.e. drilling a hole then milling out a helical path in the interior. Bullets are astonishingly easy to make at home, if you really wa...
[22:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:10] <exec> 08└─Gun drilling refers to the process of drilling the barrel, which is indeed a specialized and somewhat tricky process due to the aspect ratio of the hole and the tight tolerances desired. The drilling referred to here is simple drilling of pin holes in the frame, which could in theory be done with a...
[22:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:13] <exec> 08└─That isn't a matter of law; as with many things in the US it's a matter of precedence. That's where the BATF decided to draw the line between "making for personal use" and "manufacturing", since "obviously" no "reasonable person" would want to make more than three per year for personal use.
[22:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:05] <exec> 08└─They legally succeeded with this latest Argentina UNICLOS extension: They now have a 400(?) mile EEZ which means their EEZ extends to and surrounds the Falkland Islands. I don't remember reading how the conflict of existing zones will affect the Falklands, but that was the first step in the previous...
[22:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 8375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:07] <exec> 08└─> The other side had no way of altering the constitution all by themselves; they'd have to get the rest of the country to agree, which they won't. They had every right to have a simple election, regardless of what some stupid constitution says. Does the constitution even forbid a non-binding vote? I...
[22:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 5345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:09] <exec> 08└─[ continuation ] Here is a full list of quasi statelets: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In all cases, you ended up with skirmishes (or worse), as the parent country tried to use violence to prevent secession, and/or the secessionists used violen...
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─Some of those spacecraft and rovers out there are running on computers far crappier than the Raspberry Pi 1.
[22:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, truly a man of wisdom are you. Did you get that MBA from Harvard? I think you might be my old boss.
[22:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla: World's Biggest Battery Half-Built - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming this means that the battery capacity is 129MWh, and it's capable of outputting 100MW for 1.29 hours, and total battery capacity will be 3600*129MJ, or 464.4GJ, or about 100tons of TNT?
[22:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Services to Offer Physical Two-Factor Authentication for Politicians and Executives - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─I think that ship has long sailed. I haven't viewed them as that original company that touted that slogan in a long time, they're just like any other big mega corp chasing profits - and in some sense worse because one of their main product is privacy.. but like I said, they aren't the one that creat...
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[23:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:45] <exec> 08└─Is it? Why is the satellite involved? That would seem to be three parties, not two. It also says distribution which implies to me that the satellite has a copy of the key. Not exactly the perfectly secure communication that quantum promises. That key is possessed by the Chinese government, unless th...
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─The satellite doesn't have a copy of the key. It transmits the photons which are measured by the recipients, and then in their comparison of their measurements (communicated classically and unencrypted) they decide which measurements they will use to make the key. I'm not sure how or if you can get...
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:49] <exec> 08└─The only thing quantum about the video was the tiny little key transmitted with quantum encryption, the stream itself was indistinguishable from a stream where the key was transmitted via carrier pigeon.
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─The classical channel doesn't need to be authenticated. Anyone impersonating your correspondent couldn't do anything with the information, because they can't have stealthily eavesdropped on the photons in the first place. So how do you make sure that the nice Chinese people who provided you with the...
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─OTP is _the_ answer as far as I am concerned, where you get that OTP should be as unique and obscure as possible.
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─I think the point of the quantum channel is that if anyone MITMs the conventional channel, the result obtained from the quantum channel is rubbish - and as such your video should be rubbish too. But, it has been a long time... seems like physics (our understanding thereof) may have changed a bit sin...
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─The use of the satellite relates to how far China can transmit quantum information. China's Quantum Communications Satellite Beats Record [soylentnews.org] It's pretty convenient to be able to do it with a satellite.
[23:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Nobel Physics Prize Has Been Awarded to 3 Scientists for Discoveries in Gravitational Waves - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:09] <exec> 08└─Typical patriarchal bullshit. When will they start giving out Nobel Prizes on a more inclusive basis? Latinos, young Black women and millennial transexuals deserve Nobel Prizes too... you can't continue supressing them.
[23:10:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:35] <exec> 08└─Wilson says he plans to follow up soon with software for producing regulation-free Glocks and other handgun models to follow.
[23:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:25] <exec> 08└─And yet even those without 100% faith in their government have an interest in keeping guns out of the hands of the incompetent, the deranged, the criminal, and the irresponsible.
[23:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:26] <exec> 08└─The government will always regulate explosives.
[23:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:28] <exec> 08└─Yet mass shootings are a contemporary thing.
[23:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:30] <exec> 08└─Homemade Silver Bullets that Actually Shoot! [youtube.com]
[23:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is that regulations which would be effective in preventing gun ownership by those four groups would be easily subverted to prevent all citizens from owning them. See California for a good example. The state forbids open carry and some local municipalities (cities, counties, etc.) have ex...
[23:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:35] <exec> 08└─Using a near-net process makes more sense to me. It's good enough for Boeing aircraft parts. The first step is to make a crude part with excess material. The second step is to machine it down to what you want. I think Boeing's motivation was to reduce metal waste, but it also lets you take advantage...
[23:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:37] <exec> 08└─CELLDAR
[23:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:39] <exec> 08└─Sure, and if the regulations could somehow be kept strictly to those categories, with objective standards and no reasonable prospect of overreach, that might overcome the scepticism of the pro-gun side. The problem is their contention that the regulations will be subverted, over-extended, and used t...
[23:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:42] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for the CNC file to machine the solid block of gunpowder down to only what's needed for a single bullet. Same for the bullets machined from a big lead cube!
[23:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:44] <exec> 08└─Because the primary purpose of gun control in the US is not to prevent people from having guns. The purpose of gun control to make it really difficult to own a gun in order to deter people who have no good reason to.
[23:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:46] <exec> 08└─"the incompetent, the deranged, the criminal, and the irresponsible" You mean the government?
[23:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:41] <exec> 08└─Jesus christ, does anyone read anymore?
[23:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:10] <exec> 08└─When quarterly results matter the most, do you think that companies will follow this advice?
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─Crappy is relevant. If you're referring to the low clock speed of the rad-hard CPU's then yea, they're slow compared to an rPi. Otherwise they do exactly what they need to do.
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─Or we could just not become that reliant on buggy code? After all, the problems of living in space aren't for the most part software-related.
[23:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─North America is 2 mountain ranges (the Rockies and the Appalachians) and their aprons meeting in the Mississippi River valley. It's a little more complicated than that, but that's basically it.
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:59] <exec> 08└─And a failure of the wall would make New Orleans look like a minor event.
[23:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─Total failure of the wall isn't that bad. I tested this in Minecraft and it only flooded in a few dozen meters and stopped.
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