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[00:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:31] <exec> 08└─How did we ever converse about things before there was disqus? Oh what ever shall we do?
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:06] <exec> 08└─If, however, you are a native English speaker and you make this mistake, you are using the language far too loosely losely and are likely a loser looser.
[00:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:43] <exec> 08└─The editors are still just the messengers. I think we should welcome submitters showing a little of their style and biases, even if they are obvious. Besides, at least OriginalOwner is submitting. Can't say that much for a lot of other users around here, including myself. I jumped the same gun as yo...
[00:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:45] <exec> 08└─The australian dollar floats because ... what could be the reason? Could it possibly be that the whole system of fixed exchange rates collapsed under its own impracticalities? Naaah, must be something else. Capitalist leech vampire squid plots involving the Freemasons, most likely. Sarcasm aside, fi...
[00:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know where you get your history of jewry, but it's completely out to lunch. For starters, there's a lot more than just sephardim and ashkenazim running around, and the ashkenazim are from a much, much wider area than just the old german-dominated regions. As for Yiddish, while it's a dialect...
[00:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:49] <exec> 08└─It didn't lose them; it knew exactly where they were. It fired them. ...meanwhile, Mondragon (a worker-owned cooperative) doesn't lay off its worker-owners. When things get tight, worker-owners are moved to a different product line, if that is a good choice; if necessary, every worker-owner's workwe...
[00:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:51] <exec> 08└─They've discovered after years of (very expensive) subsidies, and years of tariffs (that unreasonably raise the cost of living - and hence the cost of many social benefits) that paying extra for all the things is not all it's cracked up to be. Now they're letting things flow in a way that will let t...
[00:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:53] <exec> 08└─Rent seekers constantly driving up prices while producing nothing. Capitalism (people who make money while they sleep) sucks. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:56] <exec> 08└─Wow, talk about cherry-picking. Mondragon is all too happy to pay its non-owner staff low wages, for part-time work, and can them when it suits them. They've effectively created a two-tier system. They're also operating in a distinctly socialist-light environment, in which individual accumulation of...
[00:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:58] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confused about what rent seeking behaviour is. It has nothing to do with capitalism as such, as opposed to regulatory capture leading to official favouritism. But people making money while they sleep? Screw those dang farmers, whose crops grow without them having to stretch them manua...
[00:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:30] <exec> 08└─But the immutable part is how, unless you have a very specific extremely rare disease, people being overweight is the simple result of failing to address an intake that doesn't match a lifestyle.
[00:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:32] <exec> 08└─Only if you don't go too far to "the West". If you stop before the first puddle, sidewalks are guaranteed. After the puddle, that's one giant parking lot. Then, after the second puddle, you get China.
[00:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts First of Two Launch Attempts in Three Days - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:02] <exec> 08└─I'm love watching the webcasts. Gorgeous and Inspiring. Hats off to SpaceX!
[00:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06soylentnews.org experiencing DNSSEC issues - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:21] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the folks at Slashdot have no DNSSEC over IPv6 issues, at all. They've taken a two-pronged approach to make sure this is not a problem. They're also avoiding Unicode issues this way.
[00:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, a Spacecraft Discovered Oxygen in Moon Rocks. - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps at some point, but I doubt it. Not for oxygen. Maybe for *water* though. Use the water to grow plants, then you get both food and oxygen.
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Equifax CEO Says Breach Boiled Down to One Person Not Doing Their Job - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─"The human error was that the individual who's responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch, did not," Smith, who did not name this individual, told the committee.
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─Businesses ("capitalists") were starting to hire again until government fucked things up, turning a short-term problem into a huge disaster. That book is a well-written college textbook. Get yourself a copy, open your mind a bit, see the evidence laid out, and learn.
[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:27] <exec> 08└─Get yourself this excellent college textbook: "ECONOMICS -- PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHOICE" ISBN-13 978-1-111-97021-4 and ISBN-10 1-111-97021-1 Turn to Part 6, "Special Topic 6: Lessions from the Great Depression" on page 627. Read that 14-page section and look at the nice graphs and photos. I happen to...
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─Residents must be sober at all times
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:31] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot to not see how that will go badly. I guess you don't quite understand human rights either, they must seem lime some idealistic nonsense to you. The fact that you don't understand the downmods says a lot.
[00:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:33] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a true gated-community liberal. Invite them into your house and see how well that works out for you. Anyway, in my past screeds, I mentioned that the stipulation was that illegals would receive job training and, eventually, citizenship after 5 years in the 'camps with no trouble. I call...
[00:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:35] <exec> 08└─The part that says United States Constitution and the cites to the U.S. Code? Notice it says nothing about the city, county or State? Nothing you quote says a city has to allow squatters to illegally seize their land, defile it and demand services from the city and its taxpayers. Under normal condit...
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[01:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:29] <exec> 08└─With regard to harvesting power from the ocean, wind-farms are one part of the picture. There is ongoing research for using wave-powered buoys [static-economist.com] as well as wind farms to generate power. Note that the link i posted is one type, there are other types which directly generate electr...
[01:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─Even though the wind turbines were over the horizon, the residents fought tooth and nail against them. The same ones that fought tooth and nail against coal, against oil, and against natgas? Or am I confusing one group of hypocrital liberals, ooops, progressives, with another group of, um, lessee, l...
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:41] <exec> 08└─Back to AOL Instant Messenger for me!
[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:43] <exec> 08└─If I can not post AC I do not post.
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:45] <exec> 08└─What's a "Disqus"? Is that a thing?
[01:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 759 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:02] <exec> 08└─We all knew this was the end state of DNS, the failure mode. It was originally designed to provide a hierarchical system of naming, but the name.tld custom pretty much ended that once nobody, but nobody, wanted to be caught dead with an extra dot in their name. What were supposed to be country speci...
[01:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─Give Jeff .com.amazon and brazil/bolivia/peru/ecudaor/columbia/venezuela [CountryCode].gov.amazon Should piss off everyone equally and make sure people try to settle stuff themselves in the future :) Or just give it to Turkey (no, really, it makes sense)
[01:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─You've got it backwards - clearly the intention was "Los, los!" as in "Go, go!" in German.
[01:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:23] <exec> 08└─But does it have those little flower patterns on it?
[01:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:09] <exec> 08└─No one is irreplaceable. Just because the Capitalists who own your company have allowed you to keep your job till now, don't go thinking that that's a permanent entitlement. The way of the Capitalist world is to always be reducing costs in order to increase profits for The Ownership Class. At the to...
[01:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:10] <exec> 08└─Mondragon is all too happy to pay its non-owner staff Everyone working at Mondragon is an equal owner of the company. That's what "worker-owned cooperative" means. Nitwit. I've repeatedly explained this for three and a half fucking years. Are you new here or were you in the "special" class at school...
[01:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:46] <exec> 08└─> How in in the name of all that is rational do you build an entire city without sidewalks? That's easy, you don't have city planners or zoning backed up by serious penalties. The developers clearly control everything and all they want to do is use the minimum land for the max number of units. Sidew...
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:43] <exec> 08└─Gotta make people work for it a little. And who do you think modded the AC above Touché for getting the joke but cleverly adding to it instead of merely proving he knows how to use Google.
[01:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─Words have specific meanings, jmorris. "citizen" has a generally accepted meaning which, in the US at least, has zero to do with residency, employment or tax revenue, despite what you think or say. The word you *may* be thinking of is "resident." Given that your blather is generally pretty incoheren...
[01:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─My point, similar to AC's (although I hadn't seen his/her response before writing my own) which seems to elude you is that phrase doesn't mean what you think it means. What's more, I was merely being specific. I find that if you can't say what you mean, you can never mean what you say.
[01:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:49] <exec> 08└─I'd also point out that your disdain for your fellow humans is rather disgusting. In fact, I expect we don't have much in common, except for both of us sleeping with your sister.
[01:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 'Brain' Built from Atomic Switches is Designed to Learn - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:10] <exec> 08└─Totally agree! I was referring to my reaction to artificial sentience, hence my use of the word 'repugnant' (As that's creating the Matrix).  I do think your point about Lovecraft's amoral viewpoint is an astute observation.   I must say that HP had some really bigoted ideas. I fancy that hi...
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[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:27] <exec> 08└─"They are an anachronism in modern society" An armed society is a polite society.
[02:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:36] <exec> 08└─But only over the past decade have scientists and wind farm developers recognized that the winds measured prior to erecting turbines may not endure. For one thing, dense arrays of wind turbines act as a drag on the wind, depleting local or even regional wind resources.
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─crikie, how did I mess up that url?? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:51] <exec> 08└─The explanation is right there in TFS, along with a link to their homepage.
[02:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:52] <exec> 08└─It's an awesome trolling service. You sign up with a slightly offensive or offbeat name and get to troll hundreds if not thousands of news, information and blog platforms.
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─I sure could not try to shanghai the word "Big Mac". I am quite sure McDonalds would come after me pretty fast. Even if I was Apple computer referring to a mainframe I-Pod. So why does Jeff get off trying to shanghai the word "Amazon", from the nations of South America, which have been using that n...
[02:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:33] <exec> 08└─No, because there is no requirement for a TLD owner to allow anyone else to buy subdomains. Once Amazon the company owns .amazon the TLD, it is likely that nobody else but Amazon the company will get any domains on that TLD.
[02:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:36] <exec> 08└─Even if .amazon was under government control, which government? The Amazon rainforest passes through nine countries, not just Brazil who does have the majority at 60% of it, as I mention in another reply in this thread.
[02:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I don't know which dog to back in this fight, but I'm leaning toward Brazil. Companies do not need their own domains, the existing categorization works fine. The problem as I see it is that someone else might object to Brazil's ownership of the "Amazon" name. They've been less than stellar gua...
[02:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:40] <exec> 08└─There are no tld owners now. Even countries don't exercise total authority over their own TLDs. And I see no reason to start that nonsense for the corporate world either.
[02:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:27] <exec> 08└─It's a gewg_ sub from World Socialist, what else would you expect?
[02:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:28] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confused Not at all, but you clearly are. rent seeking behaviour [...] has nothing to do with capitalism Capitalism is about ownership and non-ownership. So is rent seeking. Too bad your Economics 101 course was so awful and didn't mention this stuff. A remedial course for you in week...
[02:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, not gonna happen. You want to post stuff that doesn't even make an attempt at journalism, use the journal or clone our github repo and start your own site.
[02:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:33] <exec> 08└─...and I left out all of the -really- Lefty stuff. Read the whole article and see if I'm stretching the truth. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:35] <exec> 08└─You're entitled to your own opinion - but if you're going to start using terms of art in economics, it would behoove you to actually understand them, before you try to apply them. You see, when you misapply them, you get the wrong idea and confuse other people. Brief explanation: rent-seeking behavi...
[02:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:37] <exec> 08└─So, denial is cool. And if you want to live in denial, never google as follows, and if you do, then DEFINITELY never read the linked content: http://www.google.com [google.com] In your happy world of denial, you can continue to fantasise that I'm a poorly-educate...
[02:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:39] <exec> 08└─Those worked just fine for USA for over 4 decades. They gave a whole bunch of folks (an expanded "Middle Class"[1]) a really nice stable life. ...then came Reaganomics (which GHW Bush properly called "Voodoo Economics") and that vast middle has been diminishing ever since. ...and Germany still has t...
[02:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:41] <exec> 08└─...largely because they had universal healthcare, gratis education, workplace safety, proper wages, as well as strong labor unions and a non-antagonistic approach to labor-management relations. When Europe and Japan rebuilt after WWII, those places adopted that kind of plan. USA ("the victor") went...
[02:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:44] <exec> 08└─you'll get a society that is a whole lot ...like Somalia. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:46] <exec> 08└─Tariffs worked just fine for the USA? Which is why so many things were more expensive in the USA than elsewhere - such as, oh, say, medications. Because you can't just import them because you want them - that's terrible! You'd have sick people importing meds from other countries where they're sold c...
[02:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:44] <exec> 08└─I'm all for VPNs (don't do any though) but the tone of TFS seems to focus on the problem with the VPN not being immune to feds. I suppose that's the more interesting part for SN. I think in this case, its good this dude was busted. Well done to to FBI in getting him doing the dodgy shit. He was obvi...
[02:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06soylentnews.org experiencing DNSSEC issues - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:11] <exec> 08└─The two prongs, I take it, being avoidance of IPv6 and avoidance of DNSSEC?
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06soylentnews.org experiencing DNSSEC issues - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─Yes! I noticed speeds were a bit slow for that past day or two - but reloads are happening much faster now - for me! Thanks for raising the ticket so quickly, TMB!
[02:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:25] <exec> 08└─Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness doesn't necessarily give you the right to lay on the sidewalk, drunk. That's what a home is for.
[02:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 'Brain' Built from Atomic Switches is Designed to Learn - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:49] <exec> 08└─Fine - but no drive to reproduce or to self-preserve please! Please? PLEESE? Gelfling Friend...
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[03:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:28] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is Texas.
[03:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─Is it correct to apply that principle to a feudal society?
[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─You've never been to Texas, I take it. Not being polite down there will get your ass handed to you by whoever's handy to do so.
[03:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Why, yes, it is correct. How do you think royalty survived all those hundreds of years? They denied the serfs access to weapons. In the land of the blind, a person with sight can be king. In an unarmed society, an armed man can make himself the king. In an armed society, everyone is a king.
[03:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can cite all the public shootings in Texas? Luby's, you say? I invite you to watch a video, to hear precisely WHY no one in Luby's was armed that day. Listen to the lady, carefully. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:38] <exec> 08└─Well there's Waco. Oh, wait, that was government murderers not civilian murderers.
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's a bit of dissonance that swords are sometimes held with near reverence by those who are utterly revolted by guns. Both are designed for killing and little else unless they are just ornamental version. It's a bit like some of the people on my FB friends list who decry religion, but give great de...
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, depending on precisely what guns you're talking about, a sword is worse than a gun. A gun may have a genuine use in hunting for food. A sword on the other hand only has human warfare as its use. In modern society there shouldn't be a need for either to be carried by the common person on a...
[03:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:54] <exec> 08└─Wind farms are a disaster for the environment. They kill the birds. They are very expensive in terms of energy. They're made in China. Who would build a hotel where the windows are looking right into an industrial turbine? Scotland, if you pursue this goal, of these monsters all over Scotland, Scotl...
[03:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─It's an iron Frisbee used in track and field meets. Not as elegant, but it does more damage.
[03:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:54] <exec> 08└─They are close to becoming their own economy. Factory to door step. The other day I was thinking about how an Idiocracy or Demolition Man like future where Amazon owns and controls so much of the supply chain infrastructure that they are a near monopoly. Buy an Amazon prefab home in an amazon villag...
[03:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:56] <exec> 08└─I back Brazil in this, just as I would back Iraq if the word "Mesopotamia" was in dispute, or back the USA if the Chinese tried to shanghai the word "America". You are so right about all these TLD "land rushes". Sure makes for a lot of disputes. And a lot of unnecessary expense as companies try to k...
[03:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:58] <exec> 08└─Because nobody speaks Greek in Brazil. AMAZON is a Greek word - ama (breast, as in mammary gland) zon (one, as in less than two). Amazon means One-Breasted. You know, the mythical female warriors who only have one breast so as not to interfere with their archery skills. When British explorers (not B...
[03:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:00] <exec> 08└─Presumably they will authorise ".usa" and ".washington" at about the same time they authorise ".amazon"?
[03:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:57] <exec> 08└─Some industries in Australia are heavily unionized, and have kept worker pay and conditions very generous for the 'new normal' of the modern economy. This makes Australian cars much more expensive than imports, even with the subsidies that the government has been paying for decades. There is an indu...
[03:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:59] <exec> 08└─Businesses do not enjoy employing people, yet society needs that. On the other hand, the non-capitalist world gives us Venezuela. Hmmm. It could be that a balance is needed, mostly free-market but blocking trouble. Trouble includes monopoly-like behavior (for sellers and buyers, of goods and labor a...
[03:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:01] <exec> 08└─Reduce the size of government (aim for zero), and promote the idea of voluntary interaction, and then you'll not only get your western civilization, but you'll get a society that is a whole lot more civilized.
[03:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:03] <exec> 08└─Looks like Australia is doing pretty well [world-nuclear.org]: Australia's uranium has been mined since 1954, and three mines are currently operating. More are planned. Australia's known uranium resources are the world's largest – almost one-third of the world total. In 2016 Australia produc...
[03:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:05] <exec> 08└─a socialist rag cited by Gewg_ starts condemning the Unions Socialists admitting Unions were a flawed and failed concept!! WTF? We should note here that in the case of a (Socialist) worker-owned cooperative, there's no need for a labor union. It's already a democracy. It's only if you cling to the o...
[03:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fierce [4087] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:07] <exec> 08└─This is what you get with free-trade-agreements. I'm shocked there still are factories in ANY "western" countries. I suppose the cost of transporting the materials (to "3rd-world" countries) outweighs the cost of labor?
[03:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:10] <exec> 08└─Mondragon makes every attempt to promote from within. It is an extremely rare occurrence when they have to bring someone new in to get stuff done. My understanding is that when someone new is brought in, he has to pay the modest ante just like everybody else in the company and he then becomes a work...
[03:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:12] <exec> 08└─I read the rest of the article before I posted it... he's not lying.. he did leave out the leaning-so-far-to-the-left-it-is-almost-far-right-stuff
[03:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:14] <exec> 08└─Who promotes voluntary interaction? You just wiped out the government...
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─Whereas I have zero faith that the West has any capability, much less will, to solve its problems.
[03:14:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Former Equifax CEO Says Breach Boiled Down to One Person Not Doing Their Job - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:04] <exec> 08└─If you have over 200 people and still it is possible for one person to fuck up the whole thing, you really have to re-evaluate your process diagrams!! "trust but verify" This is nothing but a CEO covering his ass. Criminal negligence on part of the execs and perhaps negligence on part of the one guy...
[03:14:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Former Equifax CEO Says Breach Boiled Down to One Person Not Doing Their Job - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:11] <exec> 08└─If one person can screw up and accidentally destroy your company, imagine what 1 person who's out to actually do harm can do.
[03:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:54] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why people keep modding me down for suggesting that.
[03:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:55] <exec> 08└─That idea is not to terribly far out in left or right field. Unfortunately, the implementation is unlikely to be much good. I don't believe that any people, or any agency is going to properly monitor conditions inside the jails/prisons/institutions. If decent monitoring could be guaranteed, I might...
[03:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:58] <exec> 08└─How about electricity? I forget what fraction of California's electricity comes from Nevada, but it's pretty large. Bit of trivia I learned when I toured Hoover Dam - none of that electricity is used in Nevada. The entire output of Hoover Dam goes to California.
[03:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:00] <exec> 08└─Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness doesn't necessarily give you the right to lay on the sidewalk, drunk.
[03:16:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Equifax Security Failings Were Flagged By Wall Street Firm More Than A Year Ago - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:37] <exec> 08└─This is the sort of situation where we should hope to see the 'corporate veil' torn asunder and some golden parachutes rescinded. Hope in one hand and spit in the other. :(
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[04:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:28] <exec> 08└─Unless I am wearing a t-shirt, my sleeves usually are covering the watch so will not get charged. Need a more B5 communicator type of thing on the back of the hand. And Ivanova.
[04:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:29] <exec> 08└─So one hour in direct noon-day sun. What about a windowless cubical farm with only a faulty overhead fluorescent light?
[04:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:46] <exec> 08└─I killed some deer with an ebony sword in Skyrim.
[04:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry to disagree, swords have a ceremonial value, i.e. the coronation of a Queen of King [wikipedia.org]. I do own a sword for ceremonial purposes and I have given as a gift a katana, not with the intent to kill a human being, but because my friend collects such things. Now guns, ¿in what ceremony...
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─Right, because when seconds count the police are only minutes away. This civilized society everyone's so proud of is no safer than any other throughout history. The strong still prey on the weak. I'm disinclined to remove equality of deadliness from them even were there not other extremely good reas...
[04:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─Yes indeed, in fact as another poster already mentioned, it's worse than that. Firearms are in the same category as bows and spears and axes - they're useful tools that can be used for many things, sure you can kill someone, but you can also hunt for food or you can split wood or something else quit...
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─You think the King/Queen things aren't military?
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:56] <exec> 08└─You will never find a lone wolf becoming King, my friend. It is always a band of armed men led by the would-be king. Also you will find that tactics and weapons are very important, Hernan Cortes conquered Mexico and Pizarro, Peru with a small band of soldiers who had better weapons and tactics than...
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[04:09:58] <exec> 08└─Really, I forgot about Queen Elizabeth serving in the armed forces...
[04:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:13] <exec> 08└─> and are likely a loser looser. Well, at least they aren't a luser (lisp user).
[04:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:14] <exec> 08└─Not so much as a nitpicking issue, but rather because so many folks seem to not know the difference between lose [cambridge.org] and loose [oxforddictionaries.com].
[04:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─Do a Solomon
[04:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:22] <exec> 08└─There's a variety of factors why factories still exist in western-style countries. The most frequently cited (but one of the most misleading) is the very high productivity of western type workers. What that actually reflects is mostly a high degree of sophistication in things like automation, allowi...
[04:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:24] <exec> 08└─The parent post is a glowing illustration of what we call "confirmation bias". Things that support the favoured view are obviously true. Contrary evidence is manifestly false, or not worth investigating, and certainly not worth believing or taking seriously.
[04:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:26] <exec> 08└─...and USAians had jobs and good wages and could afford those prices then. Apparently, you live in a gated community and never see the huge numbers of folks who are trying to get by on poverty wages--or don't have jobs at all. This would be a good point to mention that if minimum wage had kept up wi...
[04:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:28] <exec> 08└─...and quote from that. ...or provide a better search link that actually supports your supposition. ...and which will get through the S/N comments engine without being molested (e.g. quote marks stripped). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:30] <exec> 08└─Nope. Don't live in a gated community. Have spent a lot of time broke, though, living the sub-prole life. Worked my ass off, no longer there. The number of people getting meds from Canada actually supports the point that market sequestration is a problem, because people can do things as individuals...
[04:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:07] <exec> 08└─. 1. Wars -solved. Huh? I'm in the USA and we've been at war, often multiple wars at once, almost continuously. This has been for my whole life (starting in the 1950s). I think there was a brief gap after Vietnam? True, these wars were undeclared by Congress--but I doubt that the casualties can tell...
[04:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Security Failings Were Flagged By Wall Street Firm More Than A Year Ago - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:04] <exec> 08└─With "logic" like that, why bother catching and punishing murderers - there will just be more murderers anyway! Just another flippant fustakrakich comment that, when scratched, shows profound lack of insight and intellectual depth.
[04:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Equifax Security Failings Were Flagged By Wall Street Firm More Than A Year Ago - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:06] <exec> 08└─Our society rewards this way of doing business.
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[05:09:26] <exec> 08└─Rest assured, if you think you're surrounded by assholes, you're the asshole. Or Dark Helmet.
[05:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:36] <exec> 08└─I hope that one hour of charging is enough for me to stream video 24/7 with it.
[05:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:38] <exec> 08└─For those use cases, I hear this company will sell you a kit to put in your cubicle: https://gamasonic.com [gamasonic.com]
[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─I'm patenting an infrared non-transparent panel, designed for the back of the watch and the inside of the strap.
[05:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:03] <exec> 08└─is no safer than any other throughout history
[05:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:04] <exec> 08└─Mechanic for the Brit army, wasn't she?
[05:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:07] <exec> 08└─He was King because God Said So. That's why he could sleep in a tent surrounded by thousands of armed peasants, who were certainly going to get hurt while he watches tomorrow's pointless ego battle, and not get turned into a porcupine. The King's personal guard was no match for his army turning on h...
[05:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─If we Do rise up to die - Can I use a frenh small-sword? Democracy, is thankfully more plastic than that. Most of the time, non-violent protests on a massive scale only result in getting gassed, or beatings about the head if involved. Ha! https://www.ncronline.org
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─French. French small-sword. Similar to the modern Epee' with the triangular blade. Alas - no museum replicas for triangular blades - yet.
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:13] <exec> 08└─The crossbow was decried for a long time for the same reason as the gun is. You need to take the sword to your enemy, and defeat him. With a gun or a crossbow, any weakling can kill an experienced trained warrior or 59 innocents. There is little honour in the kill, when you just pull a trigger from...
[05:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─Note that I wrote "shouldn't be", as opposed to "is". People are still assholes. To quote Dark Helmet - "I'm surrounded by assholes!"
[05:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:18] <exec> 08└─Indeed [soylentnews.org].
[05:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:20] <exec> 08└─And just what do you think a sword symbolizes in such ceremony? It sure isn't kittens and daisies. You're off on a tangent here though - we're discussing the actual, primary use of these weapons. Anything can be symbolized and ceremonialized. There's no difference between giving a collector a gift o...
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[05:10:22] <exec> 08└─Cortez had the advantage of being foreign - he was granted access to people he wouldn't have been if he had been local.
[05:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:39] <exec> 08└─... and then city. It would be a great experiment to see some market-driven innovation in social organization.
[05:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:41] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what was predicted to happen as a result of these stupid new TLDs. Their implementation is the exact opposite of how the system is supposed to work.
[05:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:53] <exec> 08└─You're serious?? Venezuela is VERY Capitalist. Had the Bolivarian (anti-Imperialist) Revolution there done what was done in Russia or Cuba (ALL of the properties seized), we might have a reasonable starting point for a conversation on your pseudopoint. The Reactionary Capitalists in Venezuela, howev...
[05:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:54] <exec> 08└─Capitalism does not conflict with how the people of Mondragon have decided to allocate their capital...
[05:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:57] <exec> 08└─... what are you smoking?
[05:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:59] <exec> 08└─Nice try, though.
[05:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:01] <exec> 08└─You're implying that a government is necessary to promote voluntary interaction, but that's not at all obvious; it's particularly non-obvious given the fact that government is by definition based on involuntary interaction.
[05:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Equifax Admits 2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected by Cyber Theft - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:12] <exec> 08└─We have been told for quite some time now about trusting an email attachment. You do so at your own risk. You must consider the source. If you blindly trust it, you may lose your computer. This is clear notification to business to trust "confidential private information" at their own risk. They...
[05:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:41] <exec> 08└─> Commies are telling these groups to stop walking. The city heavies may call themselves "the party" in China. However, China is still a country without fairly universal rule of law--one side effect of this is that corruption, at all levels, is far beyond anything we complain about in USA. The city...
[05:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:42] <exec> 08└─I'm in the USA and we've been at war, often multiple wars at once, almost continuously.
[05:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─...now I'm visualizing goatse with half an onion dead centre. Ugh. Did you have to do that? My mental eyes are watering.
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:08] <exec> 08└─Cops should do everything they have technical and legal ability to do to catch crims. The technical ability should therefore have legal checks where the containing society encodes its values/needs with respect to privacy and civil liberties.
[05:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Company Claims to have Cracked 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray DRM - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:05] <exec> 08└─Propaganda works both ways, but I trust Vlad Putin even less than Trump where it comes to spying on citizens.
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[06:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:26] <exec> 08└─Just block them and call the police. Bully proof windows, troll safe doors!
[06:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:27] <exec> 08└─He's trying to sell books.
[06:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:29] <exec> 08└─If the world if full of assholes isn't it a pretty safe bet that you are an asshole to someone else? You might just not know about it, or you do and you just don't care cause you are indeed an asshole.
[06:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:32] <exec> 08└─Something has happened to Eth of late. He is making sense. At least two insightful and coherent posts in the last twenty-four hours! The best was The asshole fairy has visited you in your sleep and tapped you on the head with her magic wand, rendering you an asshole. Since you are now an asshole, ev...
[06:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:34] <exec> 08└─I just tell the McDouche we have running things what he wants to hear. When our god-forsaken failure of Service Now goes tits up he can explain that to his bosses.
[06:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:36] <exec> 08└─Something has happened to Eth of late. He is making sense. At least two insightful and coherent posts in the last twenty-four hours!
[06:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:38] <exec> 08└─Asshole survival, Sutton says, is a craft, not a science, meaning one can be good or bad at it.
[06:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:41] <exec> 08└─...an asshole? I think you're making less sense than Eth now, Fnord ;)
[06:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:43] <exec> 08└─There's no good or bad about it; it's a method.
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─There are scientists who do good work, and ones who do bad (lousy) work. You could say the ones who do bad work aren't really scientists, but it is their profession.
[06:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:56] <exec> 08└─Error: Consumer froze to death.
[06:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:58] <exec> 08└─http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Inventor.html [ariel.com.au]
[06:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:32] <exec> 08└─Guns are fired off on the Fourth of July and New Years, at military funerals, presented during ceremonies for heads of state etc. Weapons have always had a place in ceremony, because our modern societies are still tightly linked in memory to the feudal past, and strength=violence to the animal brain...
[06:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the axes, spears, and arrows used in combat were very different from their hunting-use counterparts. You wouldn't want to try chopping wood with a battleaxe, the blade is optimied for cutting armor and flesh.
[06:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:35] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the weapon of choice when hunting bears was a sword. Don't know what kind, but that also makes a sword a hunting weapon.
[06:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:38] <exec> 08└─That's a really whitewashed view of history. Attila wasn't the only example to prove you wrong. Of course, his troops also went through the armored Christian knights like grass through a goose, so that's more about tactics than about weaponry, but it sure wasn't "only a couple of thousand got killed...
[06:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:47] <exec> 08└─But only over the past decade have scientists and wind farm developers recognized that the winds measured prior to erecting turbines may not endure. For one thing, dense arrays of wind turbines act as a drag on the wind, depleting local or even regional wind resources.
[06:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─Also in Scotland there is a company that already has a 2MW device making energy from the tidal flow between islands. The UK government basically turned the Orkney Islands into a renewable energy experimental zone at least a decade ago, so there are lots of interesting things going on. There are all...
[06:11:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:33] <exec> 08└─An application for any string that is an exact match of a sub-national place name
[06:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:00] <exec> 08└─Are bullshit. I've been designing a DNS replacement in my spare time. (with better security and effective cryptographic record signing) Maybe I can get Brazil to endorse it? :) Since there'd only be like two generic TLDs.
[06:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:02] <exec> 08└─Downsides of centralization: - It requires payment for a service when no unique service is rendered. 'Here. I changed one entry in a database. Give me $x a year, in perpetuity.' - As per the above, domains are always subject to being revoked by the domain provider - a job for which no such nee...
[06:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:04] <exec> 08└─On possible downside is that domains would be distributed first come, first serve (of course using some sort of proof work to avoid spam claiming). Microsoft would probably not be thrilled to end up with Microsoft17264 as their domain. On the other hand what serves the public good and what serves co...
[06:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:06] <exec> 08└─Tell us more?
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:22] <exec> 08└─Citation needed -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:04] <exec> 08└─While that might sound glib, I just looked up European conflicts to see if I could find any between developed world powers in Europe since the end of the Second World War. Needless to say, there's not much there. There's the cod wars [wikipedia.org] between Iceland and the UK (over a two decade peri...
[06:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:30] <exec> 08└─The only good thing about the stalker being caught is that it gave PureVPN users a clue that the service is shit. Everybody should be able to use a VPN with the expectation that the service will not give them up. It should be a dead end for law enforcement, but as long as the services operate in the...
[06:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Company Claims to have Cracked 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray DRM - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:27] <exec> 08└─Is the U.S. sending NSA and CIA nerds to infiltrate open source projects and plant vulnerabilities? Are you paying for it?
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[07:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:26] <exec> 08└─Didn't we just do Politics yesterday? I am sure TMB is tired and needs a break.
[07:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:28] <exec> 08└─It's just a detransitioning.
[07:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:30] <exec> 08└─It could be worse their could be a manual on how to build fully auto machineguns with metal, and tools from a hardware store. Here's a manual on how to make a full-auto sub machinegun. https://mega.nz!hPhQULhJ!upgCjT1m5oWRBk4PPGTaX9pyjbtn6KXHacYCQPStxv4 [mega.nz]
[07:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:32] <exec> 08└─I see that you are a sun-averse vampire! You'll burn one way or another!
[07:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:34] <exec> 08└─Will they be moving the research project to Bob Jones University, or Liberty? Those places would never stifle free scientific inquiry, like they do with inter-racial dating.
[07:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:53] <exec> 08└─"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- frequently attributed to Abraham Lincoln (does rather seem to instead be by Robert Ingersoll, but about Lincoln). Power really does make assholes out of many people, and it's a rare man who can wield...
[07:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:54] <exec> 08└─What really worries me is that it may not be Eth that has changed, which would mean that it is me, then? Being John Malkovich, only with Eth: American Horror Show?
[07:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:56] <exec> 08└─Now you're just being an asshole about it :)
[07:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─Lincoln seems to have been one of the few US presidents who didn't become an asshole upon becoming president.
[07:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:01] <exec> 08└─Lincoln maneuvered the South into conflict, suspended the writ of habeas corpus without Congress, printed the greenback into oblivion, and was an overall warlording tyrant who deeply divided the country to the point of its bloodiest tragedy. Save your aggrandizing of Lincoln for the children in Gove...
[07:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:03] <exec> 08└─Best . Republican . President . Ever!!!
[07:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:17] <exec> 08└─I saw a report on a Samsung solar powered watch but could not find it so here is Casio one from 2010 http://newatlas.com [newatlas.com] GeatGear from NHK was doing a report on Samsung and talking about a revival of their solar powered watch , which I am...
[07:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:55] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Government Here's a manual on how to make a full-auto sub machinegun. https://mega.nz!hPhQULhJ!upgCjT1m5oWRBk4PPGTaX9pyjbtn6KXHacYCQPStxv4 [mega.nz]
[07:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:09] <exec> 08└─I can forsee legal battles over wind rights similar to water rights.
[07:11:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:57] <exec> 08└─Does it make you feel important to point out every mistake you see? You must be a hit at parties.
[07:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:22] <exec> 08└─We pretty much recognise the Amazon as synonymous with Brazil, even though we share parts of it. It's seen as "mostly Brazil, and we get to have a little bit too". Actually, to make an even finer point, we kind of see the Amazon - or "Amazonas" - (river, jungle and people) as their own entity, in ma...
[07:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:23] <exec> 08└─The part that bothers me here is us schmucks would have an awful hard time trying to convince ICANN to give us our own TLD.
[07:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:41] <exec> 08└─When that factory closes down, is it moved to a country with slave labor rates and then the cars just get sent back to the place that originally built them with no tariffs? Of course that's the case. Everyone finds it easy to shit on blue collar workers but you know what, every fucking job is under...
[07:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrLibrarian [6740] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Equifax Admits 2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected by Cyber Theft - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:53] <exec> 08└─That line about a million being a statistic doesn't sound so bad until you realize that your part of the statistic. Here's a manual on how to make a full-auto sub machinegun. https://mega.nz!hPhQULhJ!upgCjT1m5oWRBk4PPGTaX9pyjbtn6KXHacYCQPStxv4 [mega.nz]
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[08:09:38] <exec> 08└─Let's face it, progressives are now the epicenter of bigotry. The sacking of Eich, the imposition of CoC, the propaganda about gender fed to schoolchildren, covering up inconvenient facts. Ignoring this is like ignoring that the right, that now shows the banners of tradition and personal freedom, co...
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─Caspian, who enrolled on an MA course at the university,
[08:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:42] <exec> 08└─So, eunuchs a.k.a. castrati then, or maybe dudes with hooters. It could even be both and more, with a bloody painful infection-prone crotch wound that needs daily stretching (hour or two per day) to keep it open. Why again do we sexually mutilate the mentally ill?
[08:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:21] <exec> 08└─Cool!
[08:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:00] <exec> 08└─You mean, like Melania?
[08:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:45] <exec> 08└─RWNJ infestation. Garbage humans, and they congregate here.
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[09:09:30] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFA, because this is Soylent. However, from TFS: "We give a constant-factor approximation algorithm..." The word "approximation" means that there is no guarantee of an optimal solution. There are lots of algorithms for getting "pretty good" solutions, or even optimal solutions "most of...
[09:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:31] <exec> 08└─What we have here is a heuristic that they have proved is at most 1.5 times longer than the most optimal route. However, the NP-completeness of the travelling salesman problem is based on the exact solution, the actual shortest path that the travelling salesman could take. There exists a polynomial-...
[09:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:46] <exec> 08└─Not being funny but... people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment,
[09:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:48] <exec> 08└─When he went back with his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted to the ethics committee, which rejected it.
[09:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:13] <exec> 08└─Rest assured, if you think generalizing with cool sounding one liners makes sense, you're and idiot. Or not.
[09:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:15] <exec> 08└─You're surrounded by assholes, aren't you?
[09:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:17] <exec> 08└─The asshole fairy has visited you in your sleep and tapped you on the head with her magic wand
[09:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:19] <exec> 08└─> He's trying to sell books. What an asshole!
[09:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:21] <exec> 08└─... and was an overall warlording tyrant who deeply divided the country to the point of its bloodiest tragedy.
[09:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:15] <exec> 08└─After all you children are done discussing the Second Amendment and Pirates vs. Ninjas, could we have some discussion of the technology of the Japanese sword? It is not over-hyped, in actuality. The carbon content of the blades were controlled by a process of forge welding cast iron (very high C...
[09:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:44] <exec> 08└─Most brown sugar is white sugar with added color and flavor.
[09:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:12] <exec> 08└─This looks more like the FBI already suspected him and knew who he was from other evidence they'd gathered. He was her roommate after all. They'd also suspected that the cyber-stalking efforts and posts had most likely come from a single person. So once they had this 'other' evidence whatever it may...
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[10:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:33] <exec> 08└─Oh hey, let's reinvent WAP [wikipedia.org] because (marketing|c-level|someone) thinks multi-meg pages are useful and usable.
[10:09:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 1204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:41] <exec> 08└─What we have here is a heuristic that they have proved is at most 1.5 times longer than the most optimal route. However, the NP-completeness of the travelling salesman problem is based on the exact solution, the actual shortest path that the travelling salesman could take. There exists a polynomial-...
[10:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:58] <exec> 08└─If it's good research, we'll hear about it.
[10:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:59] <exec> 08└─We keep putting mentally ill people in charge.
[10:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:02] <exec> 08└─must be the weakest argument heard in the human history
[10:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:26] <exec> 08└─I see nothing wrong with romanticizing the process of killing. humans or animals. you do have to admit though that it's a lot harder to slaughter (either people or animals) with a sword than it is to slaughter with a machine gun. you can probably decide on the distinction, and then you can decide wh...
[10:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:41] <exec> 08└─No, I think you (and eth, above you) are confusing "liberals / progressives" with "any group of people that you happen to disagree with on any issue". Please provide sources and statistics consistently linking liberal / progressive views with wind farm opposition. In my experience, the people opposi...
[10:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:58] <exec> 08└─We've missed the chance to do this but if we had offered the Soylent News comment engine as a replacement for Disqus I think we could have made money for the site. The fast loading low JavaScript back end with the improved rating system would be perfect for the Disqus use case of a website wanting t...
[10:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:59] <exec> 08└─It's a thing that tracks users across the different sites that they visit, under the guise of providing a comments system. Most tracking blockers will block it entirely, so I was slightly surprised it was still a thing - I think 2012 was about the last time I saw it.
[10:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:59] <exec> 08└─There are no tld owners now
[10:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:00] <exec> 08└─That was the second moment. The first was when the camp that wrote domain names the wrong way around won the standard, which then made URLs middle-endian and confusing. If you see a URL like: https://com.amazon.uk [amazon.uk] then it's easy to read left-to-right as progressive spe...
[10:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:02] <exec> 08└─Upsides of centralization: - ???
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[11:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:28] <exec> 08└─AMP is a solution in search of a problem. Just fix the damn web pages so that there are not hundreds of external objects pulled in from dozens of third party servers. Google is in a position to steer how people and their companies build their web sites by rewarding appropriate sites and punishing po...
[11:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:30] <exec> 08└─But if web pages aren't all loading at least one thing from Google's servers, how would Google track what web pages people are visiting?
[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─I usually find I get home fastest when I'm on my beer scooter.
[11:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:42] <exec> 08└─To add to that: this is true in the specific case of the travelling salesman problem. There are a number of algorithms that give good solutions in varying complexity classes. I seem to recall (though, checking Wikipedia, it looks as if I may have made this up) that the travelling salesman problem is...
[11:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:27] <exec> 08└─Ref? I think mostly a spear was used.
[11:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─You also need to understand what's really going on here. Cars were never "manufactured" in Australia, they were clipped together from prebuilt parts that were just outside the margin of what would be considered a finished car, all designed to get around protectionist government regulations designed...
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[12:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:23] <exec> 08└─First is the traditional view of the next generation—millennials—whom many view as individualistic, materialistic, and narcissistic. Some even refer to millennials as "Gen Me" in response to those who develop their "personal brand" with selfies and social media posts.
[12:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:25] <exec> 08└─Given that boomers combined with Xers still outnumber millennials and younger, how do they know that the Google Ngram results of a shift in phrase use isn't due to a shift in attitudes of those older generations or of all people? I don't think "a leopard doesn't change its spots" will hold up in a s...
[12:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─Backflip the M back over the A and AMP >>> MAP. >>> WAP Voila what is old is new again.
[12:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:46] <exec> 08└─But, how many pubs do you stop at on the way home? And do you visit them in an optimal sequence??
[12:10:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:05] <exec> 08└─We keep putting mentally ill people in charge.
[12:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:07] <exec> 08└─You must be new here.
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:09] <exec> 08└─Research either stands on its own or doesn't; letters after your name are irrelevant to the quality of the work.
[12:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:11] <exec> 08└─I'm interested in how your idea would deal with bone structure. I mean we already have a surfeit of butt-ugly women; there's no need to go making things worse by letting Howard Stern swap for girl bits but keep the same face. Fat distribution would also be an issue.
[12:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:13] <exec> 08└─We do this because all the evidence points to it helping to resolve their mental illness and feelings of wrongness. Gosh darn it, against all expectations, it appears to work. Suffice it to say, if it didn't demonstrably help these people nobody would do it. But hey, forget that - let's keep dumping...
[12:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:16] <exec> 08└─A student that initiates and performs research unsupervised? Err, no. That's not what universities do.
[12:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:18] <exec> 08└─Why again do we sexually mutilate the mentally ill? And why do we also let them post on SN? Given the fact that the person who undergoes such an operation made the choice themselves, "we" have nothing to do with it. Furthermore, liberties are part of any decent modern society. Those liberties includ...
[12:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:26] <exec> 08└─Rest assured, if you think you're surrounded by assholes, you're the asshole. Or Dark Helmet.
[12:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:47] <exec> 08└─> He's trying to sell books. What an asshole!
[12:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:49] <exec> 08└─Ditto if you're unable to take a complex situation and glean simpler but still meaningful truths from it.
[12:11:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:19] <exec> 08└─It's a bit of dissonance that swords are sometimes held with near reverence by those who are utterly revolted by guns. Both are designed for killing and little else unless they are just ornamental version. It's a bit like some of the people on my FB friends list who decry religion, but give great de...
[12:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:47] <exec> 08└─I think my fascination with the japanese sword comes from reading Musashi and imagining the grace and focus of movement that can be achieved if the sword is good enough. If I think about it, it's a pretty violent and gory book, but I never thought of it that way.
[12:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:22] <exec> 08└─What about Americans trying to shanghai the word "Shanghai"? :D
[12:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:24] <exec> 08└─> I'd love to see Amazon start a neighborhood and then city. It would be a great experiment to see some market-driven innovation in social organization. ... I hope this is a troll. [wikipedia.org]
[12:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:39] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Hence my snark. Our inability to keep government services and oversight of services on track is an overarching problem.
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[13:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:34] <exec> 08└─Rise of open source connected to a decline in selfishness? I'll give you the prime counter example. Take Linus Torvalds, he named his OS after himself. Giant EGO. Everyone is free to use it but he is still free to rip anyone a new asshole that doesn't agree with him and what he does to the kernel. H...
[13:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:35] <exec> 08└─It's all about scratching your own itch, getting other people to accept your work (and therefore keep maintaining it for you), and build up a either an implicit or an explicit portfolio of work by which to build the ego. There's no such thing as a selfless act, anyway; if it weren't in a person's se...
[13:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─See here [wikipedia.org]: Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, he stored the files under the name "Freax" for about half of a year. Torvalds had already considered the na...
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─how would Google track what web pages people are visiting?
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:25] <exec> 08└─> I don't know a study that lets the student choose a research topic upon enrolling. One method that works is to bring your own funding. I know of one PhD that was done this way, at a large state university: * He worked for several years after completing a Masters degree (engineering) * Applie...
[13:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:57] <exec> 08└─" you're and idiot" Who is what?
[13:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:56] <exec> 08└─The strong still prey on the weak.
[13:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:30] <exec> 08└─So comments from all of those sites would appear here? Brilliant! Would they be randomly distributed across threads or assigned to only those with low comment counts?
[13:12:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:59] <exec> 08└─We all knew this was the end state of DNS, the failure mode. It was originally designed to provide a hierarchical system of naming, but the name.tld custom pretty much ended that once nobody, but nobody, wanted to be caught dead with an extra dot in their name.
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[14:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:30] <exec> 08└─I know what you're thinking after you read that title: If the wavelength is infinitely long, isn't it a line rather than a wave?
[14:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:32] <exec> 08└─I was more thinking in lines of "colour". What "colour" would it have (all colours?) and how would you detect it? Could we detect these light waves when we would scan the sky (some sort of advanced alien signal, or natural sources)?
[14:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:34] <exec> 08└─I know what you're thinking after you read that title: If the wavelength is infinitely long, isn't it a line rather than a wave?
[14:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─I was more thinking in lines of "colour". What "colour" would it have (all colours?) and how would you detect it?
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 2105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─Headline seems misleading by opening about something about “open source” then diving straight into the same old tired horseshit about millennials. Here I was hoping for something to springboard into a rant about feminism's insane worship of proprietary software despite the clear advantages of fr...
[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─1. If you meatbag need a purpose, it is because somebody made you forget yours. You are a living organism, therefore you operate in the framework set by the process called life. You are also self aware (no matter the definition of it), so you can operate at a higher level of abstraction (possibly go...
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─Look, as much as anyone, I wish for the good old days of the US economic growth of the 1950s and 60s. But to recapture that, you would have to have another World War II. Everbody's economies and infrastructure except for America's were destroyed. The US also had a baby boom due to people delaying ha...
[14:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─If you need to solve a problem, then it's easier to start with a partial solution. Open source is completely orthogonal to selfishness or selflessness. Let's take a concrete example: EMC/Isilon and NetApp. These companies are direct competitors. Both contribute to FreeBSD, which they use at the core...
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─That's another thing that grates against me every time I hear the word “selfish” get thrown around. I thought selfishness was a virtue, and the element of human psychological makeup the capitalist system harnesses to make the world go 'round. I'm wondering perhaps if this isn't a new outpouring...
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─The great age of purpose sounds like a nice catch phrase but in the end most people will have find a job to pay their bills, get a home, start a family and whatever else is the "normal life". Even millennials will have to cave eventually. The greater purpose will die away with age for most people as...
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─Dunno about all that but I don't code Rehash or (when necessary) admin SN out of altruism. I do it because I enjoy the site currently and I wish for it to continue functioning and improving. My effort is repaid if I do good work. If I perform something that looks like a selfless act, rest assured it...
[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─Selfishness isn't a virtue. Nor is it a vice. It is a byproduct of an integral part of the human psyche known as the ego. If yours isn't working something is severely wrong with your brain.
[14:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:14] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago I ran fiddler to find out why a new site was loading so slow. Fiddler shows all the http traffic and requests/responses and is Windows only. In the results I found a single call to an ad agency, this then used HTTP status code 302 to bounce 12 times, through Yahoo twice, Google...
[14:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─If you can persuade a male body to grow a functional female reproductive system, then getting it to tweak some bones & fat really shouldn't be an issue. In fact I would expect that to be a natural and automatic part of the process. Hormone treatment can do wonders already. You should see some before...
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:55] <exec> 08└─If I remember my puberty correctly, restructuring bones is fairly painful even when done very slowly.
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:57] <exec> 08└─Showing your transgender friendliness has become an essential form of virtue signalling for the any "real" progressive. This has gone so far that, today, you have parents playing mind-games with their children, convincing them that they are really transgender, and then getting them the full-monty tr...
[14:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's why I said *relatively* painless. As in, relatively to reconstructive surgery.
[14:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:01] <exec> 08└─I have to take my geek hat off on this topic and ask a normie question: Why are we as a society talking about transgender issues all the time now? Transgender people are a vanishingly small portion of the population. Who cares? I've said in the past it has to be a parlor bet between two media moguls...
[14:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:03] <exec> 08└─You said it yourself: they're mentally ill. As diagnosed by someone who's an expert in the field. The commonly accepted treatment for this is either coping or hormones. So either you accept that these head doctors know what they're doing and are prescribing genuine medical treatment. Or you call the...
[14:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:05] <exec> 08└─First up: I don't know a study that lets the student choose a research topic upon enrolling
[14:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:38] <exec> 08└─I think you're making less sense than Eth now, Fnord ;)
[14:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:39] <exec> 08└─No: he was talking to Hillary, and he said "Hold Donald Jr, but not my son Donald Jr, but my other Donald Jr, you know the Donald Jr that is on me where a pussy is on a lady...oooh, beer!"
[14:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:42] <exec> 08└─You lost. Get over it.
[14:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:44] <exec> 08└─"She" wears latex on "her" wand too.
[14:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:46] <exec> 08└─You lost. Get over it.
[14:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:48] <exec> 08└─"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
[14:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:50] <exec> 08└─I've noticed that too. It's direct evidence for how close we are to the singularity now, that the arc of the universe has bent so much. The next and final sign will be when jmorris zooms to the left of you.
[14:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:53] <exec> 08└─It's almost like you're channeling that Spike Lee alternate history where the South won the Civil War. Are you? Or are you writing those things sincerely? That would be novel.
[14:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:55] <exec> 08└─> Since you are now an asshole, everything you say is null and void and I will ignore you from now on no matter what you say. That is more or less the premise of that "no assholes" book. I had a boss who encouraged everyone to buy a copy of that and used that philosophy on anyone who disagreed with...
[14:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:55] <exec> 08└─Because they're extremely efficient and because your prey, and the competing predators, are also fairly likely to have them. Throwing away a more efficient means of violence isn't anything but foolish for either predator or prey. I know many a mother tried to teach us that violence never solves anyt...
[14:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:56] <exec> 08└─You are being sarcastic, and may not appreciate a few facts thrown at you. But, here ya go, just the same - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] There is a tradition that the male members of England's royalty will serve. Some have actually served, others...
[14:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:59] <exec> 08└─No it won't. The most it would draw is a withering, "Well, Bless Your Heart!" The rest of that Texas bravado stuff is a myth.
[14:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:01] <exec> 08└─You do realize that swords predate any sidearm by thousands, and more likely, tens of thousands of years? Firearms are only about 500 or 600 years old, I believe. Hmmm - how 'bout 650 years? http://www.pbs.org [pbs.org] 1364 - First recorded use of a fir...
[14:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:03] <exec> 08└─You are an idiot. Even without a weapon, most violent criminals are stronger and faster than their victims. A weapon just makes it easier,
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─Hah. Doesn't come close to my +3 diamond edged mithril sword, made by dwarves a thousand years ago.
[14:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:43] <exec> 08└─Give it another go.
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─It was implicit that there would be a system of consensus. That consensus is the only reason that decentralization is now viable for so many things. I mean fundamentally all Bitcoin is is a public append-only ledger. The thing that makes it valuable, and makes it work, is consensus. It also works co...
[14:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:46] <exec> 08└─It was implicit that there would be a system of consensus. That consensus is the only reason that decentralization is now viable for so many things.
[14:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I don't know which dog to back in this fight, but I'm leaning toward Brazil.
[14:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:09] <exec> 08└─Rent seeking is, well, literal rent seeking as your average person would understand it. You're right that it has something to do with government, but of course the benefits of owning property DO mostly come from services provided by government and society (and not what the property owner does to the...
[14:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:10] <exec> 08└─There's two sides... the telco job/lifestyle of the mid-late 1900s (up to about 1990) was presented as a life-career. You put in your hours, every year for 30 years, don't screw up too badly during that time and at the end there's a decent pension and we all live happily ever after. Contrast this wi...
[14:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:12] <exec> 08└─I think this is a somewhat temporary (40-80 year) phenomenon that will abate when the offshored jobs raise standard of living in the 3rd world / drag down standard of living in the 1st world until we reach economic parity. Unless we have a pretty dramatic war, that could perpetuate the state of ineq...
[14:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:12] <exec> 08└─you'll have to admit that forced work camps still fit your wording [tvtropes.org].
[14:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:13] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled (2792) wrote: Residents must be sober at all times
[14:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:15] <exec> 08└─lock them away until they can prove that they can and will provide adequate facilities for themselves.
[14:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California City Confiscates Toilets from Homeless Residents – Forcing Them to Use Buckets - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:17] <exec> 08└─Because the city sidewalk is public property, belonging to ALL OF US. If you pass out drunk on that sidewalk, you are depriving other people of their proper use of that public property. At the least, go to the park, and sit under a tree until you pass out.
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[15:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:33] <exec> 08└─Looks like my next phone. Pity there's no physical keyboard. I've been hanging on to my very old Samsung Strat II with Cyanogen for that reason, and because I don't want to go deeper into the thicket with Google and Apple. I have been replacing components on the old one but the physical enclosure it...
[15:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:34] <exec> 08└─Fools and their money will soon be parted... by overhyped crowdfunding campaigns.
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:37] <exec> 08└─It would seem that they've already made their funding goal.
[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:39] <exec> 08└─I'm in the same boat. After buying a Nexus 5 and the original Nexus 7 2012: paperweight edition, I'm no longer buying Google devices. These features have me hooked: MicroSD slot Headphone and Microphone Jack (3.5mm) Hardware kill switches for:{ Camera Microphone Baseband WiFi/Bluetooth }
[15:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:41] <exec> 08└─Linky please (for the, eg, lazy or low energy insomniacs)?
[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─Looks like my next phone. Pity there's no physical keyboard.
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between phase velocity, group velocity and signal velocity. Hint: It is the last one which is limited by c. It is the first one which gets infinite with infinite wavelength.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─By any mathematical definition back to ancient times a line can't have curvature cause then it's no longer a line, but a curve.
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─and what can be down with this new material
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─Infinite wavelength? Isn't that what an electrician would call DC?
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what an electrician would call DC?
[15:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:24] <exec> 08└─Huh, wut? You're saying that proprietary software has STYLE?!?! So, "lump of shit" is a style now? Who'da thunk it?
[15:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:25] <exec> 08└─You just explained your own mental health problems. You thought you were doing the opposite, therefore you are unlikely to ever change, but I felt you should know. Altruism exists, people that explain everything in the world through selfish action are the mentally disturbed who most contribute to hu...
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─I think you'll admit that stroking an ego is less selfish than ripping people off for money. It's a shame that Torvalds can't be a humble, self-denigrating individual like Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates.
[15:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:29] <exec> 08└─The Second World War had little to do with the economic well-being of the 1950s and 1960s.
[15:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:32] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it's about scratching your own itch. But sometimes it's because you work for some open source vendor and your boss wants a certain feature in the daily build by Friday. On the big-name projects, it's more often the latter than the former. That's one reason I prefer RMS's vision of "free so...
[15:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:34] <exec> 08└─The Second World War had little to do with the economic well-being of the 1950s and 1960s. Keep in mind that the US had shown considerable improvement for about a century and a half prior to the Second World War.
[15:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:36] <exec> 08└─If that's what it takes to get you through the day, go on thinking so. Even if it does make you an enormous hypocrite. Show us your altruism right now. Sell your car, your house, and empty your bank account for the starving folks in Africa. Go on, what are you waiting for? Other people matter more t...
[15:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:38] <exec> 08└─Choosing an efficient solution by taking existing work is entirely selfish: You save yourself work, that is, you achieve the same result with less effort. With Open Source, you don't even have to pay for it. How is spending less effort not selfish? When considering non-selfishness in relation to Ope...
[15:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─Written by [Ivy League school] academic [old white person], "[title from Postmodernism Generator]" aims to [way to reduce the variety of perspectives on society]. First is the traditional view of the next generation—[patronizing nickname]—whom many view as [traits that apply to all independent y...
[15:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:04] <exec> 08└─As in, chess programs make sequences of legal moves and then make numeric calculations to evaluate what the board looks like in that condition. Best condition is the played next move. They don't "play" chess the way humans do necessarily (humans think about what the board looks like and try to find...
[15:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:39] <exec> 08└─How do you know how many trannies you've seen? I know a person that was so convincing I didn't know they were not female until one day they needed to take two weeks off of work for the surgery and to recovery from it. Your confirmation bias stinks. As for the plight of one armed people, let me know...
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:41] <exec> 08└─I think you should ask yourself that question, my friend. Maybe you don't rub elbows with a lot of different people in your daily life, but one does here. One learns how to discern who's Jewish from Gentile, real Africans from African Americans, Sikhs from Hindus, and so on. In short, I bet my trand...
[15:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:23] <exec> 08└─I notice nobody says that in sports. It's usually more like "You lost. Do better next time." or "We're gonna run that play again until we get it right."
[15:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:24] <exec> 08└─I think I might work at the same company as you... Are you also inflicted by the similarly god-forsaken failure of WorkDay?
[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:40] <exec> 08└─Look, there’s no better place for solar than the Mexico border, the southern border. And there is a very good chance we can do a solar wall, which would actually look good. But there is a very good chance we could do a solar wall. You have to be able to see through it. In other words, if you can...
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─Spears were the primary weapon ("boar spears"), short swords to close in and finish the animal.
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─1) Japanese culture and language puts a lot of emphasize on politeness, quite the opposite of the US and the English language. 2) Arms were (and are) _heavily_ regulated, with guns being outlawed and only the samurai class having the right to bear arms (which became quite ceremonial until even that...
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─It is over-hyped, if only because there's just ludicrous amounts of hype. The technology _is_ very neat, mind, but the mysticism around it is huge. Do keep in mind that the techniques used are there to make up for the poor quality of the steel available. European swords at the time were made from hi...
[15:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─They're all hat and no cattle. It's posturing for posturing's sake, the same way Italians in New York posture about how tough they are. They're not tougher than anyone else. Up close and in reality they're the same as anyone else, in that some are tough and most are not. Texans are the same way. I s...
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Floating Wind Turbines Could Generate More Power - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:59] <exec> 08└─The link currently contains https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] used to spy on us little people. I would appreciate if such were removed.
[15:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:18] <exec> 08└─I used it to hunt semi-literate bigots from Drudge back in the days when I still did such things. You could follow a contentious title from Drudge to a site where there'd invariably be a Disqus forum where scads of alt-right people croaked gems like "socialism = fascism = libruls," or "'Murica-love...
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─I went to whitehouse.com No porn at all. Sad now.
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[16:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:27] <exec> 08└─Probably easier to train the crows than to teach the people not to litter.
[16:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─Or just peck the living shit out of anyone smoking in public. Where's Alfred Hitchcock when you actually need him?
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─Excellent, thanks. After taking apart and rebuilding my phone several times I'd developed a fantasy about building my own from parts, because I've become increasingly frustrated about living in a world constrained by corporate bean counters where nothing is ever exactly what you want, and whenever y...
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─Same link as in TFA: https://puri.sm [puri.sm]
[16:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 2487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─After taking apart and rebuilding my phone several times I'd developed a fantasy about building my own from parts That just isn't feasible, unless you can somehow get a decent number of phone makers to adopt some actual standards. You can already build your own phone from parts, to a degree: pick a...
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Just say NO
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─Imagine having to raise that much money for your priapism!
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─I still have fond memories of my Psion Series 3 [wikipedia.org], but most of the time that I want a physical keyboard but don't want to carry a laptop, my ThinkOutside folding keyboard and phone works fine. The company that made the keyboard no longer exists, but I bought it back in 2006 to go with...
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:54] <exec> 08└─For a clamshell phablet, an external e-ink screen would be neat.
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─And it is a gross failure of understanding between these that always gets people (which includes the occasional Ph.D.-types that really should know better) all hot and bothered about faster-than-light communication and such.
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:41] <exec> 08└─Linus Torvalds, he named his OS after himself
[16:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─Look, as much as anyone, I wish for the good old days of the US economic growth of the 1950s and 60s. But to recapture that, you would have to have another World War II.
[16:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:43] <exec> 08└─Why again do we sexually mutilate the mentally ill?
[16:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:44] <exec> 08└─I believe the argument goes "if you have privilege you can't complain". Anyone with "privilege" has to virtue-signal at every opportunity otherwise they get shunned by the type of society that isn't the other end of the spectrum. Social media, and the liberation of peoples voices, has broken the ove...
[16:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:28] <exec> 08└─I know I'm an asshole. So now I need to read this book to defeat people using the book's tactics against me. What an asshole move!
[16:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─Solar powered watches in general have been around for a long time. My friend has one and the only time charging is an issue is long international flights, like USA to Australia. But you can leave it under a desk lamp for an hour to charge in the absence of the sun.
[16:12:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:58] <exec> 08└─You've never been to Texas, I take it. Not being polite down there will get your ass handed to you by whoever's handy to do so.
[16:13:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:04] <exec> 08└─I killed some deer with an ebony sword in Skyrim.
[16:13:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─You think the King/Queen things aren't military?
[16:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─The blade on a made-for-battle axe is indeed different from a utility axe, and it's different mostly in one specific way. It's thinner which clearly implies lighter, and thus more wieldy. This change does mean they are no longer ideal for chopping wood - but you can still use them for that. You say...
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─"Sidearm" != "Firearm" side·arm ˈsīdärm/ noun noun: sidearm; plural noun: sidearms; noun: side-arm; plural noun: side-arms; noun: side arm; plural noun: side arms 1. a weapon worn at a person's side, such as a pistol or other small firearm (or, formerly, a sword or bayonet). Swords w...
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─Did I say they were tougher or more resilient than anybody else? No. I proclaim them to be pussies them yearly when UT plays OU. I said they were less tolerant of rudeness, which is absolutely true. It's a quite common trait around the south and southwest but I think Texas probably takes the blue ri...
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─My argument was against your wording: "The strong still prey on the weak." My argument is the criminal is weak because they steal the hard work of others. They are opportunists. They aren't fearsome warriors whose combative skills outmatch their prey/victim. No. You usually have some scrawny little...
[16:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:55] <exec> 08└─...there was remarkably little shooting from those guns.
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─My guess is that it's not too far from european place-of-orgin protected designations ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ) So you can't just get .champagne if France has a beef with it, or England might protest...
[16:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:41] <exec> 08└─The quoted article draws all kinds of bullshit conclusions that are completely unrelated to what the Brazilians actually said. Frankly I'm surprised Kieren McCarthy's head came up from under Bezo's desk long enough to post it. That article is the worst kind of slant-ware corporaganda I've seen in a...
[16:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:05] <exec> 08└─Point well taken. On the other hand, this story is very much LWNJ, and there's something very similar to be said about that end of stupidity as well. I suppose that reflects editorial balance, where there's room for both?
[16:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:06] <exec> 08└─First they should probably finish building the original gigafactory, that isn't even 50% complete yet... then they still need to save Puerto Rico and work out how to make more than 3 'mass market' cars per day.. the current gigafactory does not rely on solar either, they get cheap energy from the Ne...
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[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─Lung-Nazi. You'd have to stand in the big middle of an outdoors crowd of smokers for extended periods per day for quite a very long time to pick up even a minor health issue. Side note: My butts are entirely biodegradable in under a month, being as they're made of nothing but paper and leaves.
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─Lung-Nazi. You'd have to stand in the big middle of an outdoors crowd of smokers for extended periods per day for quite a very long time to pick up even a minor health issue.
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─They are smart enough to begin to associate smokers with cigarette butts, and to recognize and remember individual humans who smoke. This could have some hilarious unintended results.
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:34] <exec> 08└─Nah, the health argument is the most common so it's the one I addressed. As to addressing yours: you have no right written anywhere, even in etiquette manuals, to not be offended by others unless they are intentional in their offense. Most smokers are anything but intentionally offending you. They s...
[17:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─"People who light (paper and) leaves on fire and suck on them emit noxious fumes that *smell bad* and irritate the eyes, nose, and sensibilities of anyone not involved in said activity. This is rude and annoying if done within the olfactory range of other people." That part I'll give you. But I thin...
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:39] <exec> 08└─Your "probably" is unnecessary here. It's a certainty. Humans really are that stupid, at least in the US. (You won't see cigarette butts all over the place in Japan, or any other trash for that matter.) I heartily agree with Frojack's idea of training the birds to attack and peck at people who litte...
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─Come on why isn't this trendy disruptive startup innovating the narrative by redefining "AI" as Animal Intelligence.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─The irony of this project is that...the implementation hinges on having a vision system that can recognize the butts in order to properly train the crows in the first place.
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─That I can back, for filtered cigarettes anyway. Throwing your non-biodegradable trash, or even noticeably large bits of biodegradable trash, anywhere but in an appropriate receptacle is a real shithead move on any land you don't personally own (on your own land it's moronic but acceptable).
[17:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─Phones are pretty good these days at covering most bands, but you should be more specific than just LTE. There are over 40 bands for LTE and different providers/counties depend on very different collections of bands: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:06] <exec> 08└─Seeing how NXP i.MX don't have built-in LTE modems I'm guessing they'll source a global one and run it over the PCI-e lanes.
[17:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:08] <exec> 08└─I've got that keyboard too. I retired it this year because I finally got fed up with the lack of a dedicated number row. I replaced it with the iClever folding, backlit keyboard and a pocket size folding phone/tablet stand. The keyboard is a reasonable size for typing and the charge last a long time...
[17:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:25] <exec> 08└─I call you a bunch of shit-for-brain ACs.
[17:10:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─See here [wikipedia.org]: Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, he stored the files under the name "Freax" for about half of a year. Torvalds had already considered the na...
[17:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:44] <exec> 08└─Dunno about all that but I don't code Rehash or (when necessary) admin SN out of altruism. I do it because I enjoy the site currently and I wish for it to continue functioning and improving. My effort is repaid if I do good work. If I perform something that looks like a selfless act, rest assured it...
[17:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:58] <exec> 08└─If I'm unwilling to help someone stranded on the side of the road, I've no call to expect any help when I am. It's simply me paying a bill that isn't yet due.
[17:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:59] <exec> 08└─Altruism proper does not exist. What does exist is enlightened self-interest. And that's perfectly okay; acknowledging that even the most saintly person is still human and still receives a payoff of some sort for prosocial behavior doesn't make the behavior any less prosocial. If anything, taking th...
[17:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─How about instead, we do the following: 1. Tax breaks for top 10% 2. Bust the unions. Start with the public sector. Continue through automotive. Outsource to break the rest. 3. Cut scientific research. Maybe a bit for DARPA. Politically fund the rest to rationalize politically-desired actions. 4. Ma...
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─The vendor at best just gets in the way, and at worst makes things much much worse (I'm looking at you, Red Hat and systemd). Terrible example. systemd solves real problems, though perhaps it doesn't do the greatest job of it, but most important is that it isn't forced on you. Now why it's been adop...
[17:11:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:42] <exec> 08└─Not being funny but... people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment,
[17:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:43] <exec> 08└─When he went back with his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted to the ethics committee, which rejected it.
[17:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:05] <exec> 08└─Because, by all appearances, this treatment seems to fix the illness. Whenever one of you people says "butbutbutbut THEIR MENTAL HEALTH!" I know to immediately write you off. I have nearly a dozen trans friends, some MtF but mostly FtM, and I've watched every single one of them become happier, calme...
[17:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:07] <exec> 08└─I think you just have zero clue about reality, your creators forgot to program in more dynamic filters so apparently you are as limited as a normal human being. Found your worldview and now you know the Truth. This weird spin of "conservatives are the truly tolerant!" is the most outlandish and reta...
[17:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:52] <exec> 08└─Well as least she's not an asshole! Or does she slip it off 1/2 way through without telling you?
[17:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:54] <exec> 08└─Lincoln maneuvered the South into conflict
[17:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─No way. The battery capacity is an unimportant stat, just a distraction. Obviously they aren't charging that in an hour of sunlight though. What they would have to do to sustain the claim is to top up the power drain from the previous 23 hours of running the sensors and radios in a single hour of en...
[17:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─There were orders of magnitude more battles between counts, dukes and other locals chiefs, than major invasions on the Alexander/Rome/Attila scale. The fact that you could list the big campaigns demonstrates that. And a lot of the really big conquests' battles turned into either sieges or quick show...
[17:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I can appreciate a good bit of pedantry.
[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─"Boar swords" were a thing, used for a short period in a relatively small area so they don't appear to have been all that useful. But they did exist. They're kind of on the line of even being 'swords' though. They're spears for men who think they're too noble for a spear, relatively late along in th...
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:23] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:09] <exec> 08└─No, this is about Oxford vs. Cambridge. The GP is obviously taking the side of Oxford, by pairing Cambridge with 'lose.'
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[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─No.
[18:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:29] <exec> 08└─This looked like it might be well written paper until I hit the first paragraph of page two: 1) "The new images of the Face at Cydonia Mensa confirm eyes, nose, mouth, helmet structure with additional detail of nostrils and helmet ornaments being clearly seen in new images with details at appr oxim...
[18:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─because meteors contain both Xenon 129 and 132
[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:34] <exec> 08└─I'd rather see stories found by bots than ACs'
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for supergenius Elon Musk to build a cyborg horsecar with the body of a car and the brain of a horse, which is how I choose to interpret xkcd 1720 [xkcd.com].
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Tais Teng's "Aan de oevers van de nacht". Has anyone ever translated that book to English?? An alternative reality where bio-magic won from science.
[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─I'm a non-smoker, but I'd hardly say cigarettes smell bad, at least while they're being smoked. Now, the stale smell of smoke on clothing, that's nothing pleasant...but it's not really any worse than some of the crap people buy to spray on themselves because they think it smells nice. Nevermind what...
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 4703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─I ask people not to smoke near me for the same reason I ask them not to breathe all over me, or to wear some deodorant. The smell can be pervasive and offensive. My mother is a life-long smoker. Honestly, she's done more damage to me than any random smoker ever would. But non-smoking people know if...
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─All you clever programmers and hot shit smokers don't know squat. Tobacco is poisonous to birds, see: http://www.petpoisonhelpline.com [petpoisonhelpline.com] Tobacco Common exposure for pocket pets and birds occur when curious beaks or pa...
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─I don't care about smoking outside as long as you are not clogging up narrow sidewalks or standing next to doorways. (Which always happens when it gets cold out.) The issue is smoker's throwing butts on th ground. And don't claim you don't do it. Every smoker I have ever seen does it when there is n...
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─Training birds to pick up cigarette butts will result in evolution allowing some individuals to become immune to tobacco and spread their genes far and wide.
[18:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.netguard.me/ [netguard.me] Available on f-droid.
[18:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─First is the traditional view of the next generation—millennials—whom many view as individualistic, materialistic, and narcissistic. Some even refer to millennials as "Gen Me" in response to those who develop their "personal brand" with selfies and social media posts.
[18:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─I'd mod you up but I ran out of points. Realistically, no human being does anything but for selfish reasons. Only the willfully deluded would even make that claim. "I want" or "I don't want" lie behind every choice we make, even the ones that appear altruistic on the surface. Social organisms we may...
[18:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:23] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. I'm not surprised to see uzzy say such shit, but azuma have you read too much Dawkins? Survival of the fittest is the worst bastardization of natural selection I have ever seen. As for enlightened self interest that falls to pieces so easily. People who sacrifice / risk their lives to sav...
[18:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:26] <exec> 08└─Not right-wing at all. Simply a realistic understanding of human beings as contrasted with ants or bees. No, it just looks that way in poor light. "I want" a world in which people pull over to help someone with car trouble, so I do what I can to help create one. Anything that starts with a statement...
[18:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─Fraid not. There was no altruism when I enlisted in the Army. I value my liberty, I value my family, I value my friends, town, state, and nation. Their unhappiness from lack of liberty or death would sadden me more than I could bear, thus it makes perfect sense for me to put my own life on the line...
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:30] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, deny the science if it conflicts with your policies.
[18:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:32] <exec> 08└─Terrible example. systemd solves real problems, though perhaps it doesn't do the greatest job of it, but most important is that it isn't forced on you.
[18:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:34] <exec> 08└─We've been on that road since about 1980, so we're bound to find out, like it or not.
[18:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:37] <exec> 08└─6. TPP-like initiatives to sell out the US economy in favor of destructive, corpratist globalist agenda. Honestly, I think TPP was a bit demonized. It was a bad deal to be sure, mainly because it had so much MAFIAA-friendly crap in it, but the initial idea wasn't bad. You already *have* a "destructi...
[18:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:39] <exec> 08└─You are missing something important. Let's say for the sake of argument that EMC/Isilon creates a improvement to the FreeBSD stack. It's such a big improvement that when they put it in place, their stuff will be orders of magnitude better than NetApp's. Now they have 2 options of what to do with tha...
[18:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:41] <exec> 08└─I've read very little Dawkins, but enough to know he and his kind (Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, etc) ought to shut up about social issues and focus on science. And nowhere did I ever say anything about survival of the fittest...furthermore, "fittest" in the case of a social, intelligent animal (that's u...
[18:11:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 1015 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:50] <exec> 08└─AMP is a solution in search of a problem. Just fix the damn web pages so that there are not hundreds of external objects pulled in from dozens of third party servers. Google is in a position to steer how people and their companies build their web sites by rewarding appropriate sites and punishing po...
[18:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─No No No!! Somewhere there are 150 million blue haired commies peddling HRT to schoolchildren like crack
[18:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:48] <exec> 08└─This is a good point. My whole life I was told that there was some trans-people somewhere... since at least the early 90s. That these people had another sex on their drivers license and are legally permitted to use that bathroom. I shrugged my shoulders and went on with life. It wasn't until trans...
[18:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:50] <exec> 08└─They're mutilating a physically healthy person for a purely mental illness.
[18:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:53] <exec> 08└─You say it "appears to work", but then there is that shocking 45% suicide rate. With 45% killing themselves, we can be pretty sure they all consider it. Sexually mutilated people are miserable.
[18:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─If you were truly worried about the mental health of people like them, you would do whatever it took to solve the actual mental health issues. In this case, transitioning does it.
[18:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:57] <exec> 08└─"We do this because all the evidence points to it helping to resolve their mental illness and feelings of wrongness. Gosh darn it, against all expectations, it appears to work." Right. That would be why the suicide rate post-transition goes up. As this author writes: [lifesitenews.com] "I have perso...
[18:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:59] <exec> 08└─For the people I know, their transition was the first step. I'm trying to comprehend what it must be like to suffer what they told me, to feel like your own body is a prison and a mistake, and it's not working. I can't understand what that's like. Starting that seems to have allowed them to get out...
[18:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:01] <exec> 08└─Laws about black people and bathrooms only showed up because they started this whole equality hysteria in the first place.
[18:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:04] <exec> 08└─It really seems like we're moving farther to extremes but the extremes are just getting louder. I know the right thinks the whole left are privileged crybullies who cry about safe spaces and dye their hair green.... I know as a leftie I was pleasantly surprised how unanimously my right leaning frien...
[18:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:06] <exec> 08└─You're just as bad as this sensationalist piece of crap. You call propaganda: gender is innate, and the brain is a gendered organ. You call reality: gender is a social construct, and the brain is not a gendered organ. But none of you listen, so let me attempt to bold the part that's important to thi...
[18:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─That might have something to do with the fact that sports games, unlike wars, have no real consequences to anybody. And the American Civil War is definitely not something I would want to see re-run. Not just because of the senseless waste of human life involved, but also because the South was wrong,...
[18:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:20] <exec> 08└─Or, said another way and in the spirit of TFR “A sword is a weapon. The art of swordsmanship is learning how to kill. That is the truth. What Miss Kaoru says is sweet and innocent talk that only those whose hands have never been stained with the blood of men can believe. But, to tell you the truth...
[18:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:22] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that Japan has intentionally re-established it's caste system, and only the Samurai are permitted to own these swords?
[18:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to argue about where the "real Texans" live, but I've met enough of them. They have a lot in common with the mountain people in Wyoming, Montana, and various other people who live away from the big cities. Yeah, those backwood people are tough. They don't survive if they aren't tough....
[18:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:26] <exec> 08└─The file you are trying to download is no longer available. This could be due to the following reasons: The file has been removed because of a ToS/AUP violation. Invalid URL - the link you are trying to access does not exist The file has been deleted by the user.
[18:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 2246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:14] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is precisely a large scale consensus protocol. As for the names, you would not mine directly for domain names. Instead you would mine for the right to register a name (or names depending on the specifics of implementation). This right could then be traded until somebody chose to 'cash it in'...
[18:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:40] <exec> 08└─"the benefits of owning property DO mostly come from services provided by government and society (and not what the property owner does to the property)" yeah, right. fuck your society and your government.
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Street Walking - Lack of Public Exercise Facilities in China - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─That long opening sentence visually collides with the links floating at the top right: NewsChina http://new.newschinamag.com [newschinamag.com] is running an article titled, "The [ News ] [ /dev/random ] [ The Main Page ] Walking Dead
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[19:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:33] <exec> 08└─Back in 2014 [soylentnews.org].
[19:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:35] <exec> 08└─It's time for UN sanctions.
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─Next you'll hear that it was North Korean missiles travelling back in time.
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─He is (or was, at least) a plasma physicist, and he is a really sharp person. He is also one of the originators for the Face On Mars. I can truly say he is a firm believer in ancient martian civilizations. He has always been investigating the research fringes: anti-gravity, "free" energy, etc., so i...
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─but children know nothing. if they knew "something" they would not go to school. thus the idea that earth (the better place to live was a refuge?) after the "mars disaster" would kinda mean that, even during all the technological self-destructing feat of the ancestral-martians, some pre-human-exodus...
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─Classic disinfo technique. Someone gonna notice this in the public data sooner or later, we are willing to pay money to have it to be later, therefore pay a guy a lot of money to link it to something utterly unrelated yet ridiculous like the earth being flat. The conclusion mutters some stuff about...
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─I speak to the aliens too and have detonated nukes on Titan, Phobos and Callisto. Unfortunately I'm not very sharp and can't claim to be a Physicist :-( But I keep trying.
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Marvin got all confused due to that cwazy wabbit and accidentally set off his Pu/Q-36 ESM.
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─Not in your lifetime, buddy. What it will result in is dead birds all over, followed by a big spike in whatever insects (etc) that the birds used to control.
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─How about just pecking the people who throw their cigarette butts on the ground?
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─> Side note: My butts are entirely biodegradable in under a month But most assholes litter the place with butts that take 5 years or more to degrade (according to PMI, so we can assume best-case). Regardless of actual degradation time, we should train the crow to follow the smokers and drop the disc...
[19:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:19] <exec> 08└─The issue is smoker's throwing butts on the ground. And don't claim you don't do it. Every smoker I have ever seen does it when there is no cigarette safe container nearby. Finished one in the car? Out the window.
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─Crows are smarter.
[19:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:24] <exec> 08└─Roger MacBride Allen wrote a couple of novels which featured cyborgs as large as solar systems with brains the size of moons. The Charonians as they were called were the dominant form of life in the galaxy because they ate Earthlike planets and thus humanoid life rarely had any chance to evolve.
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that they should be training pigeons to do the work then.
[19:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─with all the aging population and "sin" tax increase, the diminishing amount of cigarette and (buts), will lead to a a crow population that makes cigarettes and the butts for their reward? of course, soon the crows will start growing coffee too and then only give you your sweat smelly supper bureauc...
[19:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:09] <exec> 08└─I'm still missing my bed enough this morning to have read it as an infinitely soft material to make pillows and comforters.
[19:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 2250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─The real story is that optics (you know, lenses and prisms and stuff) used to be really simple and the angle that stuff reflects at across an intersection of materials was strictly related to the ratio of bulk speed of light in the materials and a surprisingly small amount of math. Turns out it work...
[19:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─Look, as much as anyone, I wish for the good old days of the US economic growth of the 1950s and 60s. But to recapture that, you would have to have another World War II.
[19:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomtomtom [340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:59] <exec> 08└─I think you forgot... 7. Pay women and minorities significantly less and give them significantly fewer protections and lower levels out of work benefits 8. Be the one industrialised country which didn't see significant damage to its own infrastructure during a major war, thus giving you a competitiv...
[19:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:00] <exec> 08└─Well the "styles" certainly aren't to my tastes but a lot of management types certainly seem to have very strong ideas how their software product should look - which is usually very different to how the developers think (OK know) it should look.
[19:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:02] <exec> 08└─And while you're right that I can and do avoid it on my own systems, I can't on boxes that are run by my clients and for whom "Red Hat" and "Ubuntu" are brand names that give them comfort or at least pass CYA muster. I don't see the problem here. What if your clients instead decided that only the br...
[19:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:04] <exec> 08└─manufactured a middle class out of basically nothing, boosting every industry from home construction to appliance sale and manufacture. It is perhaps the largest government intervention in the American economy, ever
[19:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:06] <exec> 08└─Those wars cleaned out the economic powerhouse of the day (Europe), leaving the United States in a comparatively excellent position.
[19:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:09] <exec> 08└─Altruism proper does not exist. What does exist is enlightened self-interest.
[19:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:11] <exec> 08└─You seem to have a completely confused view of what altruism entails. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] There is no special requirement to give away ALL of your belongings, most of them, or frankly, any of them- just that the individual is: performing an action which is at a cos...
[19:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:24] <exec> 08└─Just fix the damn web pages so that there are not hundreds of external objects pulled in from dozens of third party servers.
[19:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not a One-Way Salesman.
[19:13:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:11] <exec> 08└─First up: I don't know a study that lets the student choose a research topic upon enrolling
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Why again do we sexually mutilate the mentally ill?
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─One of my kids wanted to grow up to be a robot. Two others loved to dress up and play pretend. Thing is, they grew up.
[19:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:32] <exec> 08└─Transgender people are a vanishingly small portion of the population. Who cares? Equal Protection Under the Law is a foundational principle in our society. When it fails it always fails at some small portion of the population. People have asked the exact same question about EVERY violation of this p...
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─How do you know how many trannies you've seen?
[19:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:37] <exec> 08└─Okay, we're done. You obviously know neither any actual trans people nor any of the research, science, and history about them. You're just wasting space and electricity now.
[19:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:39] <exec> 08└─That is trans-exclusive radical feminism. Most feminists are not radicals, and even some of the radfems aren't TERFs. I am neither, and I'm also not a lesbian separatist. How many fucking times are we going to have this discussion? You know better by now. Cut this bullshit out if you don't want your...
[19:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:41] <exec> 08└─Well, as I mentioned, I have a science background. I can tell you how it works in a science curriculum - and yes, that's extrapolating from what little data I have. The core of the science curriculum challenge is that usually, there isn't enough time in the study to teach a decent background in the...
[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:43] <exec> 08└─One method that works is to bring your own funding. I know of one PhD that was done this way
[19:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─That's interesting! Most masters and PhD applications require that you submit a research proposal
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─I'm reading a thread about Psychology on SN. Clearly I'm actively seek out assholes!
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─The No Asshole Rule came out in 2007, not 2010. I remember, because I gave a copy to my boss as a parting gift.
[19:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:06] <exec> 08└─The wording bothered me as it portrays armed criminals as fearsome warriors when it's almost always the exact opposite. It takes work to become a strong person which runs counter to the criminals opportunistic nature.
[19:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:07] <exec> 08└─As New Yorkers would say, it's a "schtick." For normal Americans, it's a "rep." They like to play it up, but there's little to it. Once they might have been intrepid, when they were fighting the Mexican army and founding the Republic of Texas, but they're as fat and pampered as the rest of the count...
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:56] <exec> 08└─If Amazon-the-company gets amazon-the-TLD; them I advise Brazil to just wholesale block *.amazon. With Brazil slowly, every so slowly, but gradually crawling out of the pit it is in, and with more and more of its people aching to buy shit they don't need, I'm sure amazon would like to do business wi...
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[20:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:28] <exec> 08└─Mutations mutations. Throw monkey wrenches into the sensors. Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors Bacteria Self-Organize to Work Building Sensors Bacteria Self-Organize to Sense Building Workers Workers Organize to Sense Self-Building Bacteria Workers Organize to Build Self-Sensing Bacter...
[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Self-Organize to Build Working Sensors - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─. . . the system forms a golden shell around the bacterial colony, the size and shape of which can be controlled by altering the growth environment. The result is a device that can be used as a pressure sensor, proving that the process can create working devices.
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─No, it was the moon nazis testing their weapons.
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─He makes a very solid argument that some kind of thermonuclear reaction happened on Mars.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─I miss the old cold war days when it was them commie Russians.
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─" John Brandenburg claims that the only way he knows of that the amount of Xenon 129 that is inferred from..." FTFH.
[20:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─Probably easier to train the crows than to teach the people not to litter.
[20:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─Lung-Nazi. You'd have to stand in the big middle of an outdoors crowd of smokers for extended periods per day for quite a very long time to pick up even a minor health issue.
[20:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─They are smart enough to begin to associate smokers with cigarette butts, and to recognize and remember individual humans who smoke. This could have some hilarious unintended results.
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─As to addressing yours: you have no right written anywhere, even in etiquette manuals, to not be offended by others unless they are intentional in their offense
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─You won't see cigarette butts all over the place in Japan
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─Where is realDonaldTrump? He should be here to tell us that "positive reinforcement" is a commie plot and instead they should just capture those crows and beat them until they start picking up trash.
[20:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:36] <exec> 08└─What, you like dead pigeons on the ground next to the smoking areas?
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─From TFA the company have already acknowledged the potential sacrifice of a few crows in their bid to clean the streets of butts or perhaps the solution will conjure a response in those causing the problem – the cigarette smokers. if crows become too efficient cigarettes could be scavenged before...
[20:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:03] <exec> 08└─That is all true. I did say it was a fantasy. Still I have this brain and these opposable thumbs and can also shape matter. Could I too not shape matter in the way they do? All I'd need is to be three times smarter than I am and have 36 hours a day for the 24 everyone else gets.
[20:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Directly Observe Infinitely Long Wavelengths for the First Time - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:23] <exec> 08└─. A wave is an oscillation so it's better described as a curve then a line.
[20:12:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:37] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFA, because this is Soylent. However, from TFS: "We give a constant-factor approximation algorithm..." The word "approximation" means that there is no guarantee of an optimal solution. There are lots of algorithms for getting "pretty good" solutions, or even optimal solutions "most of...
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:43] <exec> 08└─Good for Aaron. I wasn't being snarky, just presenting the often misrepresented research along with my opinion on victimisation.
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:45] <exec> 08└─Let's face it, progressives are now the epicenter of bigotry...propaganda about gender fed to schoolchildren...covering up inconvenient facts...
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─Is that why they're dying their hair green? Here in the People's Republic of Park Slope, Brooklyn, there have been quite a few people doing that. I figured it had to be some kind of progressive tribal marking, but didn't know the provenance. Do you? Is it environmentalist or something?
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:49] <exec> 08└─They're mutilating a physically healthy person for a purely mental illness.
[20:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:51] <exec> 08└─Or it's another device to divide everyone and keep the outrage machine primed. Everyone stopped giving a crap about marijuana and gays getting married, and The Powers That Be had to scramble to come up with something else. Honestly, choosing transgenders is weak beer. Who cares? Statistically speaki...
[20:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:53] <exec> 08└─For the record that was a different AC and he may have been trolling but I don't support this notion of trans children at all, they get to decide when they're adults. As for this fashionable idea of raising children as "gender neutral", any parent that puts their ego needs before the developmental n...
[20:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:55] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. The Civil Rights movement began as a reaction to Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were enacted as a reaction to Reconstruction. Reconstruction happened because the South lost the Civil War. Glib rhetorical constructions don't stand up to a knowledge of American history here.
[20:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:58] <exec> 08└─And why do you get so much more worked up about equal protection under law for transgenders than for the far more numerous population of one-armed men and women? Are they not as, if not more, deserving of having special laws passed to protect and honor them? Is their plight not worthy of being writt...
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:00] <exec> 08└─Equal Protection Under the Law is a foundational principle in our society.
[20:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:46] <exec> 08└─Lincoln maneuvered the South into conflict
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:50] <exec> 08└─You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─Error: Consumer froze to death.
[20:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:11] <exec> 08└─It can't be truly transparent if it must absorb some of the photons. If it absorbs certain wavelengths1 more than others, then it colors the light passing through. So that would also not be quite the definition of transparent. If it absorbs all colors equally, it must appear to be slightly dark glas...
[20:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─You must be referring to Lt. Cmdr Iva Nova.
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:16] <exec> 08└─Build a solar wall along the Antarctica border to keep them Antarcticans out of America. I hear there are daze where the sun never sets. Imagine how much solar power you could collect. (but it wouldn't threaten coal) Those Antarcticans are just too white and would put real 'Merikans to shame. Best t...
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[21:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─Is an acre a measure of volume now?
[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:26] <exec> 08└─That or propaganda to make the fire fighters look bad: 266,000 acres of retardant on 115,000 acres of fire and its not out yet?!
[21:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:29] <exec> 08└─They likely meant 'acre-foot [wikipedia.org]': The acre-foot is a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, and river flows.
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─Because the metric system is 'too hard' for y'all yokels...
[21:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:33] <exec> 08└─45 missions... 266,000 acre-feet? That is an ass-ton of water. 328 million tons actually. That must be one huge water bomber.
[21:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─What, no comments about owing Wall Street money or how much they're costing the economy?
[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─"That is an ass-ton of water. 328 million tons actually. That must be one huge water bomber." That must be one huge ass.
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─No they didn't mean acre-foot. Retardant is not dumped a foot deep. You load the plane with the retardant, which is either a powder or a slurry, with a quantity measured in acres, (the amount necessary to cover one acre). Gallons make no sense in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─Goatse sized.
[21:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─Because we all know its 100% effective and always lands exactly where its needed. We also only sent one firefighter to each fire for the same reason.
[21:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:47] <exec> 08└─This is why Smokey the Bear was a bad idea. Look the fires we are having compare to 1800s.
[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─I'm glad our president is focusing on the real issues that matter: what pose footballers take when a song is played. And not on a historically unprecedented disaster that's killed 15 people!
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─Don't you know that the imperial system reduces unemployment? It takes three people to double-check any math, and anyone trying to reduce that budget gets told about lost space probes.
[21:10:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─Next you'll hear that it was North Korean missiles travelling back in time.
[21:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:24] <exec> 08└─And, there is no mention of the canals, or of John Carter! What kind of scientists are they letting into the academic journals these days? Oh, he wasn't? Presentation? His own web site? Did he take into account the Electric Universe Theory? Well, at least it is not an aristarchus submission.
[21:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:25] <exec> 08└─The paper is highly detailed. Something "nuclear fission" happened on Mars. The sci fi occams razor seems to be self destructing civilization thermonuclear war, but I'd propose nuclear powered space alien (space probe? or "manned"?) visitation.
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:27] <exec> 08└─Wow our site has come so far, that now it even has the main features of the old site, such as stories which dupe themselves into the past!
[21:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─Hipster.
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─It was Reapers wiping out the Protheans 50K years ago.
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:34] <exec> 08└─I just love it when we have Fine Articles that allow me to be in complete and harmonious agreement with frojack.
[21:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:36] <exec> 08└─a little? Who exactly do you think is to the right of me? Although politics doesn't really matter in the context of physics, tech, conspiracy theory, historical examples of weaponized conspiracy theory, etc. Aside from the lefties endlessly think the nazis though the earth was hollow and Antarctica...
[21:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─> The only word you capitalized is "Fuck" It's he only one that matters
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─Since reading the abstract I've been racking my mind as to natural causes of nuclear explosions. Even if he is correct in the premise that the isotopes are of nuclear origin, the ancient nuclear war is complete speculation. What jumps to mind is natural fission occurring on Earth, however I am not s...
[21:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 4703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:02] <exec> 08└─I ask people not to smoke near me for the same reason I ask them not to breathe all over me, or to wear some deodorant. The smell can be pervasive and offensive. My mother is a life-long smoker. Honestly, she's done more damage to me than any random smoker ever would. But non-smoking people know if...
[21:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─So when will the intense perfume/cologne with it's eye burning sneeze inducing (and occasionally worse) noxiousness be banned?
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:20] <exec> 08└─I don't smoke, but I do find it funny to mime smoking sometimes just to watch passers by pointedly hacking up a lung.
[21:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:23] <exec> 08└─That would amuse, yes.
[21:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:25] <exec> 08└─Care to try again in the correct thread?
[21:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not a smoker, but a friend once brought me some cigars fresh from Cuba (if memory serves): they were fresh rolled, I got them like 3 days later. My god, they were the best things I've ever smoked. On my bucket list: move south somewhere and move next door to a lady who rolls cigars against her t...
[21:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:29] <exec> 08└─I suspect the consequences could be even farther reaching. Crows will figure out how to game the system somehow, perhaps substituting the cigarette with a twig. I actually wouldn't be too surprised if we see something like a "quarter on a string" done by the crows so they can reuse their original ci...
[21:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:31] <exec> 08└─Oh, shit yes. Them commie bastards can grow n roll some fine, fine tobacco. Must be using all the bullshit their leaders shovel at them for fertilizer.
[21:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:09] <exec> 08└─Would you like it explained to you in small words so you can understand it? No mental gymnastics required, I promise, just a willingness to stop thinking you're special and a minute or so worth of reading.
[21:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:10] <exec> 08└─I don't know why people think GNU should be considered some integral part of a Linux distribution; I've used Linux distributions that have nothing to do with GNU tools.
[21:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─Currently, the US is sending a lot more people to college than the almost 8 million people from the Second World War. Where's the economic boost?
[21:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:05] <exec> 08└─Why again do we sexually mutilate the mentally ill? And why do we also let them post on SN? Given the fact that the person who undergoes such an operation made the choice themselves, "we" have nothing to do with it. Furthermore, liberties are part of any decent modern society. Those liberties includ...
[21:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:49] <exec> 08└─What I don't get is the double-standard. As gay you're told to "accept yourself". As gender variant you're given hormones and surgery. Surely somebody must have tried the "accept that you're a woman in a man's body and learn to enjoy it" approach. If it worked, it'd be a game-changer because you're...
[21:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─You mean the Jim Crow laws [wikipedia.org] that mandated segregation of public facilities such as bathrooms?
[21:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─All Americans deserve equal protection under the law. Find me the laws that target one-armed people in an unfair manner and I will oppose those as well.
[21:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:54] <exec> 08└─Here we have intolerant liberals being racist. Of course, they try to redefine that word to exclude their own racist behavior. https://pjmedia.com [pjmedia.com] There is even a reddit group that challenges people to...
[21:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:56] <exec> 08└─> This weird spin of "conservatives are the truly tolerant!" This is what you made of my "the right, that now shows the banners of tradition and personal freedom, comes from the national socialists, the revolutionary progressives of the 1920s destroying local culture". I will restate it, the right c...
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/10/06/hedg-o06.html [wsws.org] The corporate state carefully selects and promotes women, or people of color, to be masks for its cruelty and exploitation.
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, I'd rather hear from an asshole on how to avoid psychologists.
[21:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:51] <exec> 08└─You rang?
[21:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:53] <exec> 08└─Let your check to yours bounce.
[21:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:16] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there! ;) My turn: Lt. Cmdr Iva SUPER Nova.
[21:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:18] <exec> 08└─Just give me a self winding watch with time, day and date and Im happy. Put me in the white pages and im SOMEBODY!
[21:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Review: Japanese Sword Column - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:33] <exec> 08└─Did you even read what I just said? I specifically excluded toughness and yet there you go harping on like I was talking about it. Strawman much?
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disqus Hacked... in 2012 - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─In your opinion and in retrospect would you say that your digital stalking of those with a different opinion to yourself was essentially and stereotypically fascist? Did any such realization play a part in your decision to stop? If the word fascist feels like a misnomer to you then would you instead...
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 2283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:50] <exec> 08└─...only if you don't understand how decisions are made in the typical Capitalist operation. ...and if you concentrate on "capital" when trying to distinguish between Capitalism and Socialism, you're probably the type who would also become fixated on "liberal" when trying to analyze "Neoliberalism"....
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[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─Do these new rules mean I can change my password back to "hunter2"?
[22:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:28] <exec> 08└─We're recommending the upgraded security of "hunter1". It works because the adversary assumes you would move on to "hunter3".
[22:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─I'm totally going for 123456 or qwerty, because no attacker would believe I'm stupid enough to use those in 2017.
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─What really annoys me are the "security questions" that are passwords in all but name. I've been locked out of accounts despite knowing the password, because I couldn't answer the security questions within 3 tries (did I capitalize the first letter of my answer? etc.), and they have this stupid 3 st...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─Now is not the time to talk about how AGW increases the frequency and severity of wildfires.
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─We know how to build houses that won't burn. Building with wood frames and asphalt shingles is dumb. Head over to www.monolithic.com and order a house. Choose the style with recessed windows and pick good materials (triple pane coated glass in an aluminum frame is OK) to avoid that failure path. Add...
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, this was an enormously profitable area, not burdened with loans they could never pay back. There's no Wall Street arms for the President to twist for debt forgiveness. With at least some wineries burned to the ground and vineyards broiled (weeks before harvest) it remains to be seen...
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─The wildfires are God's punishment for NFL players taking the knee. President Donald John Trump was trying to prevent this disaster by appealing to America's sense of morality. Unfortunately, the liberals continued to resist and now have this burnt blood on their hands.
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─It isn't historically unprecedented. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(2003) [wikipedia.org] The fire is typical when the hot inland winds blow seaward thi...
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─Actually lots had to harvest early, but if the fields burned then their storage was probably acrewed as well.
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─Are you sure [sfchronicle.com]?
[22:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, this was an enormously profitable area, not burdened with loans they could never pay back.
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─If you want the outside to remain nice, choose the stucco option or add fire brick
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─Because most houses are old, and making new construction fire proof cists a huge amount.
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─Sanoma and Napa is not the same as California. But I do notice a similarity of party affiliation between California and Puerto Rico.
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:16] <exec> 08└─Pence is a total douchebag. Trump sent him to the game so that he could walk out when any player would "take a knee". The stunt cost the taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars. what [a] useless, dunderheaded clown he is [deadspin.com] What is it with this administration and ultra-expensive...
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─The NFL has signaled that it will cave on this issue. [archive.fo]
[22:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:20] <exec> 08└─So Pence is wasting taxpayer money, is a paid protester AND is protesting at a NFL game. That's the hypocrite trifecta!
[22:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─Billions for disaster recovery, but not a penny for prevention.
[22:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─Well, we'll know for sure in a couple week. It's already larger than 2 out of the 3 you listed, though.
[22:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:27] <exec> 08└─...and if you look at the word (which is not "extinguisher"), you would probably equate that with -prevention-. As such, ALSO putting it on adjacent unburned areas could keep things from getting WORSE should an airborne ember travel outside the already-burning area. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.or...
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─...And Sanoma and Napa counties.
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─Yup. Decades and decades of mismanagement of forests. In nature, fires happen all the time. The undergrowth (kindling) burns away in small chunks and big fires rarely happen. The various forestry services' no-fires-ever policy allowed large amounts of brush to build up, causing a fire hazard. They f...
[22:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:33] <exec> 08└─Your picture shows the result of stone over a wood frame with a wood roof. It seems to have had asphalt shingles; there is no evidence otherwise. I was suggesting to add stucco or fire brick to a www.monolithic.com house, which is a solid concrete dome. The extra layer would be just to protect a lay...
[22:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:14] <exec> 08└─xenon-129 is stable, not radioactive.
[22:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:16] <exec> 08└─[crazy dribbling] thus we can safely assume that the thoery that this isotope increase was perpetuated by sentient beiings residing on earth is plain brain-washing by a system of education.
[22:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:02] <exec> 08└─Other than japanese just being adverse to littering No, that's the main reason right there, not anything about pocket ashtrays. It's not just cigarette butts that are missing from the streets of Japan and other public areas, it's all other trash too. You can even see it at the train/subway station:...
[22:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:04] <exec> 08└─This is a good point, and another big reason why this idea should be dropped, and instead my idea from another post here should be adopted: they need to train the birds to shit on litterbugs, and smokers too while we're at it. If that isn't feasible for some reason, maybe they could train geese to a...
[22:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Exceeds $1 Million in Funding for Librem 5 Linux-Based Smartphone - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:29] <exec> 08└─There's a ton of work that goes into a modern cellphone, even if you're just ripping off last year's state of the art. And getting the parts fabricated would be very expensive too, not to mention doing all the exhaustive testing needed to make your PCBs work (they're a lot more complex than your gar...
[22:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─You selfish bastart, Th' Mightnotly Brigaand! Keeping all this cognitive dissonance to yourself! I really doubt you are being paid enough for the coding you do for us, not to mention not being paid for the trolling! Truly, you are a model humanitarian, almost a liberal progressive!
[22:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─I think you've been reading too much Ayn Rand. Selfishness and selflessness seem to me to be much more culturally based than inherent. Human instinct drives toward survival of the group, not the individual at the expense of the species. Greed is a psychological perversion brought about by the struct...
[22:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─Take Linus Torvalds, he named his OS after himself. Giant EGO.
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─Currently, the US is sending a lot more people to college than the almost 8 million people from the Second World War. Where's the economic boost?
[22:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:55] <exec> 08└─I personally think part of the growth in the open source movement is due to disgust and rebellion at the behaviors of the big tech companies with their short-termism, style over substance No, it is simple, cost. Take something like an Oracle or SQL server or windows server. The license costs are fuc...
[22:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:58] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I can't stand Rand. Not her philosophies, those need some work but they're quite easy to read and understand. Her fiction is fucking painful though.
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─I know, right? I'm gonna demand a 50% raise next time I talk to Deucalion/juggs.
[22:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise of Open Source—and the Decline of Selfishness? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:02] <exec> 08└─You're misunderstanding. GNU tools does not refer to all the crap in /usr/bin/, GNU tools are the people who always bitch about you not saying GNU any time you say Linux.
[22:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─how would Google track what web pages people are visiting?
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─Is the "optimal sequence" really based on distance? I thought it was based on high-to-low attractiveness of female patrons, which solves the order-of-visit question and therefore nullifies the TSP altogether.
[22:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:45] <exec> 08└─So what ya got, TMB? A GED? MSCE? Certificate of Doom? Otherwise, we cannot take your submissions seriously.
[22:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:47] <exec> 08└─How are transpersons not being treated equally? I went to school with someone who was born intersex and recall no issues. Anti-Transgender Legislation Spreads Nationwide, Bills Targeting Transgender Children Surge [hrc.org] Even if you ignore the "bathroom bills" you have bills that allow public emp...
[22:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:49] <exec> 08└─Didn't we have this convo already? Go get the standards for sexual education documents for the EU pdfs, and see whether they are about gendered brain proven by imaging.
[22:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─Well, I got an OMGWTFBBQ in pcre if that helps.
[22:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:45] <exec> 08└─He is so far to the right of me, that I might have to move to a bigger planet soon.
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[23:09:33] <exec> 08└─Oh Dear, Oh Dear, what will one do if they are locked out of facebook for a full hour? I'll call the UNHCR for you.
[23:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─This was news back in June when it came out, and in August [soylentnews.org] when it was first covered in SoylentNews. (in other words: Dup!) Schneier is one of the few that has been stating this long before the NIST decided to get on the bandwagon. The rest of the security parrots have been touting...
[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03davidjohnpaul [5377] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:37] <exec> 08└─Schneier also suggests using a password manager. If you use the long phrase to protect it, with it auto-generating all your other passwords for you, then the lack of long phrases that immediately come to mind is less of a problem.
[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─Oh Dear, Oh Dear, what will one do if they are locked out of facebook for a full hour?
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:41] <exec> 08└─I've got one bank account I manage that wants to ask you a security question for EACH function, and have you remember them. That's bad enough for a personal account, but its a business account. So as account handlers (employees) get swapped out over time, when ever one of these functions is needed,...
[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─But every cracking algorithm still has those at the top of their list. Even though we all know you get exactly 3 tries. None of this cracking stuff is done by the geeky computer girl nerd as seen on EVERY stupid TV show. How come its always a girl? How come she gets it on the third try every time?
[23:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, his point number 3 above. But if you use a long passphrase, then you need to type that long passphrase 100 times a day. That gets old. I use a shore-ish password to get into my password manager. It locks after three failed tries anyway. I have that password tattooed on the bottom of my left foo...
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─There's this thing called life that relied on genuine human interaction, unfortunately facebook have yet to offer this service to their users (AKA: product).
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─That's because she's the only one to check whether he's got a picture of his girlfriend or his kids on his desk. Real geeks don't have the feels it takes for social engineering, you know!
[23:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─It's easier being the guy telling someone they'll get a new home, pinkie promise, than being the guy telling them that the pine tree shading their roof has to go.
[23:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:32] <exec> 08└─In an earthquake zone (like California), wood frame houses are smart. They absorb stresses very well. ...and, as frojack notes, stucco improves things fire-wise (which is 1 reason why you a lot of that in Cali). asphalt shingles Now, that's a valid point. A bunch of places have banned them. Wood shi...
[23:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:35] <exec> 08└─I live east of the mississippi so we have more water than we know what to do with rather than living in a desert tinderbox. The point is we intentionally set wildfires to burn out the brush which helps grow trees because the grass doesn't shade the seedlings and with like 4 feet of rain per year we'...
[23:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:37] <exec> 08└─This happens every goddamn year in California, like 5 huge fires all literally start within a day or two of each other and yet there's still no talk about why that is so goddamn suspicious -- especially since it happens every goddamn year. Firefighters, like the FBI, have to justify their existence...
[23:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:39] <exec> 08└─a similarity of party affiliation between [Sonoma] and Napa counties Bay area counties [wikimedia.org] 2012 election [wikimedia.org] 2016 election [wikimedia.org] Rule of thumb: As you go inland, things get less Blue-ish. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:41] <exec> 08└─Too little, too late. And we have yet to see what the players and teams will actually do if such a rule goes into effect. My prediction is that they will continue to act like babies in some other way, like when mommy tells you to stay out of the candy jar so you go for the cookie jar instead. And I'...
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─Those shitbirds up there can afford it a million times over even without insurance or taxpayer help. Fuck 'em.
[23:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:46] <exec> 08└─You people in California didn't build your nuclear power plants with wood frame construction, did you? Granted, if the alternative is unreinforced masonry, wood might be less awful. These days, you can do better. You can get a steel frame home. You can go the www.monolithic.com route with the concre...
[23:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:48] <exec> 08└─Those winds with the racist name happen every year at about the same time. That might explain one fire. Maybe two. Maybe three if embers blow a loooooong way (which they typically don't). But more than 14 fires ravaged eight counties all started simultaneously in countryside that is relatively dry a...
[23:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 15 Dead Due to Wildfires in Northern California - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─I just listed the high death toll ones. There are many longer ones every single year. And more property damage too. Point is, its not unprecedented, and not the President's job to do anything about it.
[23:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicist Claims Gigantic Nuclear Explosions on Mars - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:33] <exec> 08└─No. You are wrong. And you seem to be very confident of your wrong-ness. His ONLY basis is not based upon meteors. I only skimmed his paper, and the very first paragraph in his "Evidence for Large Thermonuclear Explosions in Mars Past" is quoting in situ measurements by the Curiosity rover. And I kn...
[23:11:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Trading Bird Food for Cigarette Butts - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:42] <exec> 08└─Or just peck the living shit out of anyone smoking in public. Where's Alfred Hitchcock when you actually need him?
[23:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:23] <exec> 08└─Company started by an ex-Google employee is now being bought by Google. Sounds fishy to me.
[23:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:57] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of feminist drivel. Your concern trolling ought to be transparent, but I guess whoever modded you interesting hasn't been exposed to this kind of thing before. We don't really get answers to these questions without science.
[23:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:59] <exec> 08└─Willful denial of brain imaging studies and evidence that gender is present even in the crib should quality as mentally ill. You honestly believe there is no difference between men and women? Come on, don't we have some people who post here who love to say that men and women are different? Back me u...
[23:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:01] <exec> 08└─Well, we already mutilate perfectly healthy babies at birth, so why not?
[23:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:03] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. That's a knock-on effect of your bullcrap and you know it. If we can find a diagnostic test for brain gender, we can prevent that. Well, for trans women at least, but you sound like somebody who doesn't care at all about trans men, so we should be agreed about that, right? Why are you no...
[23:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:05] <exec> 08└─I guess we're going to keep having it, because from over here, it looks like there's a group of trans-feminists who are arguing for inclusivity of trans identities in feminism, and there's a larger feminist movement that sees trans folks as an existential threat. Cut this bullshit out if you don't w...
[23:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:07] <exec> 08└─I think that's the point though - the extremes end up drowning out the majority, however the majority formed their world view at a time when extremes weren't normal, when the people you saw on the nightly news were disagreeable, but not mad. How do people form worldviews today, when what they're exp...
[23:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research' - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:10] <exec> 08└─In the end, gender dysphoria is a mismatch between psychological and physical traits - afaik it's better (in most cases) to work on the psychological side, rather than making irrevocable changes on the physical side.
[23:16:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06A Stanford Psychologist on the Art of Avoiding Assholes - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:21] <exec> 08└─Something has happened to Eth of late. He is making sense. At least two insightful and coherent posts in the last twenty-four hours! The best was The asshole fairy has visited you in your sleep and tapped you on the head with her magic wand, rendering you an asshole. Since you are now an asshole, ev...
[23:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dot-Amazon Spat Latest: Brazil Tells ICANN to Go Fsck Itself, Only 'Govts Control the Internet' - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:33] <exec> 08└─My idea is that it'd be like DNS basically, but all domains have a ~, which I believe is invalid for a DNS name IIRC. Also the order would be reversed. So e.g. http://~us.inc.example [~us.inc.example] Domains would be available for each country code. If the system becomes popular, the control of ea...
[23:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Ends Car Production in Australia - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds pretty capitalist to me. Owners of capital make a collaborative decision on what to do with their capital collectively, on a basis of voluntary cooperation. Now bearing in mind I haven't studied the legal systems of the whole world, but I'm not aware of any place that would be illegal, and I'...
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